The Biggest Traps That Hurt Your Potential
伤害你潜能的最大陷阱
1. Procrastination
1.拖延症
Procrastinating on a deadline can feel like a tug of war in your head between your sensible, adult voice, and your inner child who wants to go outside and play. The desire us humans all have for instant gratification, the voice that tells us to have an ice cream before dinner, is a natural part of who we are. And I think it would be a shame to loose that fun-loving spontaneity entirely.
在截止日期上拖延，感觉就像是在脑海中与你的理性在拔河一样，成年人的声音以及你内心想要出去玩耍的孩童性格在做斗争。即时满足的欲望使我们所有人类都有的天性，在晚饭前想吃冰激凌的声音，也是我们天性的一部分。而且我认为完全失去这种喜欢有趣的天性是一种遗憾。
Thankfully, we have an adult voice in our head too. She is the one who manages the bills and plans for the future. When you are procrastinating on a boring task, ask yourself these two things. Firstly, is this just my desire for instant gratification, or is it self-sabotage? If it is the latter, we will get into that shortly.
很感谢我们的脑海中也有成人的声音。她是为未来控制账单和计划的那个声音。当你在无聊的任务上面拖延的时候，问一问自己这两件事。首先，这是为了我即时享乐的欲望，还是一种自我践踏？如果是后者的话，我们应该立刻完成任务。
Secondly, if it is the desire for instant gratification, then could you parent your inner child a bit? Use a reward as a goal to aim for. For example, when I have filed my tax return I can… and then choose something you really love doing.
其次，如果是为了即时享乐的欲望，那么你能照顾一点你内心的孩童天性吗？用一个奖励作为你完成的目标。例如，当我填好了我的纳税申报单，我就可以……然后选择其他你真正想做的事情。
2. Self-sabotage
2.自我践踏
Okay, here is where things get a little more serious. There is a deeper level to procrastination too, and it is wrapped up in a bizarre co-dependent relationship with your ego. It goes a little something like this.
好了，下面来看一点比较严肃的事情，这也是更深层次的一种拖延，是一种隐藏在与你的自我之间的一种奇怪相互依赖的关系。它的作用有点像这样。
When we have spent our formative years in the presence of negative people, we have allowed their beliefs to shape our own. Parents, teachers, or extended family have passed on their beliefs that the world is a dangerous place, good things happen to bad people, and work is not supposed to be fun.
当我们在性格形成期与消极的人在一起的时候，我们让他们的信仰塑造了我们自己的信仰。家长，老师或者大家庭，给我们灌输了一种他们的信仰，那就是世界是一个危险的地方，好事总是发生在坏人身上，工作不应该是有趣的。
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1.a tug of war拔河
There's a tug of war between resources and the amount of work that needs to be done.
资源和需要完成的工作量之间存在着激烈的竞争。
2.spontaneity自发性；自然发生
If you desire a one-night-stand from a woman, she will need a self-image packed with a sense of adventure and spontaneity to follow through.
如果你想要一个和你一夜情的女人，她的自我形象就需要是放荡风流，自发自愿的，这样才能和你 “坚持到底”。
3.be wrapped up in埋头于；与…有关系；被包藏于
Three mysteries of modern cosmology could be wrapped up in one ghostly presence.
现代宇宙学的三个未解之谜，“暴涨”、“暗能量”和“暗物质”，在这个理论中就都归结到新的幽灵物质了。
4.pass on传递；继续；去世
If you want to pass on values to your team, start by defining what those values mean to you.
如果你需要在你的团队传递价值观，你需要从定义那些价值观对你来说意味着什么开始 。
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