Day 33: On Things You Can’t Rush
第33天：关于不能操之过急
The bearing of a child takes nine months, no matter how many women are assigned.
—Fred Brooks
无论指派多少名妇女，生孩子都需要九个月的时间。
—Fred Brooks
Patience and self-discipline are close cousins. If you want to reject instant gratification for the sake of accomplishing your long-term goals, it might take months or years before you receive your big compensation. Without patience, you’ll get nowhere.
耐心和自律是一对近亲。
如果你想拒绝急功近利，以实现你的长期目标，那么你可能需要几个月或几年的时间才能获得丰厚的报酬。
没有耐心，你将一事无成。
While sometimes you can force results to come more quickly — by pushing yourself harder and being as diligent as you can during the process— oftentimes things take time and there’s no way to rush them, no matter how many resources you apply.
虽然有时你可以通过在过程中更加努力和勤奋来使结果更快到来，但很多时候，事情完成需要的时间，无论你投入多少资源，都无法急于求成。
Like pregnancy, some things follow a natural schedule you can’t control. If you fail to identify which things cannot be rushed, you might misapply the power of self-discipline and instead of achieving them more quickly, fail to achieve them at all.
就像*一样，有些事情只能遵循自然规律，这是你无法控制的。
如果你不能确定哪些事情不能操之过急，你就可能会滥用自律的力量，非但不能更快地实现这些目标，反而根本无法实现。
For example, a body has a natural limit of how much body fat it can burn during a week without breaking down your muscle. If you try to rush the process by starving yourself, the most likely end result is an unplanned cheat week that will not only take you back to square one, but most likely add some additional body fat to your frame .
例如，在不破坏肌肉的情况下，人体一周能燃烧多少体脂是有自然限制的。
如果你试图通过让自己挨饿来催促这一过程，最有可能的结果就是计划外的 "作弊周"，这不仅会让你回到原点，还很有可能让你的身体增加一些额外的脂肪。
Even with things that are difficult to measure, such as learning to control your mind so that you can eventually radiate optimism, you can’t force yourself to change overnight. Rewiring your brain takes time, and it doesn’t matter how much time you spend meditating or reading books about emotional control; a process that is so profound takes time.
即使是那些难以衡量的事情，比如学会控制自己的思想，让自己能够散发出乐观的情绪，你也不能强迫自己在一夜之间就能改变。
重塑你的大脑需要时间，无论你花多少时间去冥想或阅读有关情绪控制的书籍，一个如此深刻的过程都需要时间。
Generally speaking, if it has taken you years or decades to develop a negative trait, don’t expect that you can reverse it within weeks or months. Approach such undertakings with the belief that you’ll do your best, but that you won’t get discouraged or frustrated if the process is slow. It would be as futile as a woman complaining that pregnancy lasts nine months.
一般来说，如果你花了数年或数十年的时间才养成的一种消极的性格，那么就不要指望你能在几周或几个月内扭转它。
在做这些事情时，你要相信自己会尽最大努力，但如果过程缓慢，也不要气馁或沮丧。
这就像一个女人抱怨*持续了九个月一样徒劳。
