“你从生活中学到了哪些道理？”被路人们的精彩回答惊呆了！我来到这世间就是为了成长啊！"

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如果有人问你：“你成长到如今，在生活中学到了什么道理？”

你会怎么回答呢？东方君的首先想到的，竟然是那句网络上的热门金句：“人丑就要多读书！”

当然，这只是一句玩笑话。任何人都是在生活的磨砺中不断成长，肯定积攒了不少的生活经验。不要以为格言只是名人的专利；普通人也有着他们自己的“

至理名言”！

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Kenji Christopher Green

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I started a project where I interview 365 people, every day of 2018. I"ve been interviewing people born on every day of the year. Jan 1 to Dec 31. I"ve interviewed 100+ people so far.

Why? I just wanted to listen to people.

我在2018年开始了一个计划。我将每天采访一个人，他们分别出生在一年中的不同日子，从1月1号到12月31号（刚好365人）。到目前为止，我已经采访了100多人。

为什么要这么做？我只是想要聆听而已。

——Kenji Christopher Green

这位名叫 Kenji Christopher Green 的制片人，某一天想到了一个新鲜的点子：他按照生日选择了365个人进行采访，聆听陌生人的思想，

收集普通人的大智慧。

结果是显而易见的：普通人也有优秀的、闪闪发光的思想——这些话都非常通俗易懂，但其中蕴含的却是多年经历总结出来的哲理。

Kenji Christopher Green 细心挑选了数十条非常精彩的格言，快来跟着东方君一起来品品吧！

1. Be happy

"Always try to remember the good things. But make the best of it. Be happy. Especially when you’ve got your parents.

Honor your dad and your mom."

永远记得那些开心的事情，但也要充分利用这些快乐的回忆，要开心。尤其是当你的父母还在身边时，

尊敬你的父母吧。

2. Helping myself

"I think at this point in my life, to use that the airplane analogy, when oxygen masks drop down, and I’m supposed to make sure my oxygen mask is on my face before helping others. But that’s not something that I"m the best at.

Oftentimes I will lean into helping others before helping myself. But I think right now I need to take care of myself, knowing that taking care of myself puts me in a position to help others even more."

就拿飞机失事打个比方吧，当氧气罩掉落下来时，我应该在帮助别人之前，先确保自己戴上了氧气罩。但这不是我擅长的事情。

我之前常常会倾向于先帮助别人，再考虑自己。但现在我发现，要首先照顾好自己，因为这样才能确保有余力帮助他人。

3. Do what they do

“If you want to be a better person, start actually doing the things that that sort of a person would do. And then eventually it will just become the new you. It will be your second nature and then you won"t even have to worry about it anymore.”

如果你想成为一个更好的人，就去做那些优秀的人会做的事情。这些事情会重新塑造你，也会成为你的第二天性，然后你就再也不会为它们而忧虑了。

4. You are lucky

"Everyone has those moments when they think their life is the worst thing ever, but it"s really not. You just have to think of all the amazing things you"ve done in your life. That you"re lucky to be doing what you"re doing."

每个人都会在某一时刻觉得：自己的生活是最糟糕的；但其实并不是这样的。你只需要考虑你做过的精彩之事。你能做你正在做的事，已经很幸运了！

5. Say “Hi”

"We"re all coming from a place of struggle. But we also are all wanting love, and needing love, and so even just to say “Hi" to a stranger, it"s such a beautiful thing when you see it, you know?

When you say “Good morning," and they"re not expecting you to say “Good morning," and then they light up, and say “Good morning." That energy makes a difference to make this world a better place."

我们都在很努力地生活着。但我们都想要爱，需要爱；所以即使只是对陌生人说“嗨”，当你看到时仍然会觉得这是非常棒的事情，你知道吗？

陌生的人们未曾指望你说“早上好”，而

当你向他们说“早上好”的时候，他们就会变得开心，并且回应

说“早上好”。这种快乐的能量使这个世界变得更美好。

6. Grow up

"Something that I need to work on is to not be so negative on myself. Because I"m here to grow. I came here for that reason. To learn and get better."

我现在需要做的事情就是，不要对自己太消极。因为我来到这世间就是为了成长啊。这就是我来到这里的原因。去学习，变得更好。

7. Be bold

You have to be bold enough to say what you really think, and I"m very bold, needless to say. Take life a little more lightly, it"s not that serious.

你必须大胆地说出你的真实想法。我就很大胆，这不用多说了。把生活看得轻松一点，很多事情根本没那么严重。

8. Set goals

"For me personally, I like to set goals, and I like to run after them. So when I find myself accomplishing these goals even if it takes me 4,5,6 years, I get really excited."

就我个人而言，我喜欢设定目标，并且追逐它们。即使我可能要花费4年、5年、6年的时间最终完成它们，我也会非常兴奋。

9. What I want

"I don"t know what I want, but I know what I do not want. "

我不知道我想要什么，但我知道我不想要什么。

10. Prove wrong

"Part of what really drives me is I like to prove people wrong. I’ve had a lot of people in this city over the last 18 years try to tell me that I can’t or that I shouldn’t. I love proving someone wrong, and showing them that yes I can do that, and yes I will, and I will do it better than you ever imagined."

“驱动我生活的一部分动力，是我喜欢证明别人是错的。在过去的18年里，这个城市的很多人试图告诉我：我不能，或者我不应该这样做。但我喜欢证明某些人是错的，并向他们证明我能做到、我会做到；而且我会做得比你想象的还要好。

实际上，我们每个人都对这个世界有感悟，也有根据自身经验而总结出的道理。正所谓“听君一席话，胜读十年书”，聆听他人的人生经验，也是一种非常棒的学习啊！

那么，你对生活有什么感悟呢？

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