有个“自负”是好还是坏？
（英国）马特·贺恩登
陈荣生 译
（图片欣赏——区怡摄/湛江）
“这些都不是那么好。我想我可以做得更好。”
这是我开始写作的原因之一。因为我在阅读其他文章的时候，脑海里会跳出这种想法。
我甚至对书籍也有过这种想法。是对那些著名的书籍，那些杰出的书籍。
我是谁，竟敢这么想？
那是我的自负。
我感谢它。
因为如果没有它，我永远也不会开始写作。如果没有它，我永远也不会找到我喜欢做的事情。如果没有它，我永远也不会放弃我那朝九晚五的工作。
但是……
有时候我太过沉迷于其中了。
我会让他人的成就进入我的内心，从而使得我很难受。我会嫉妒。我会不满。
我会让我自己被骗去认为自己还不够好，或者是做得还不够多，做得还不够好。
这通常是在我的自负不起作用时所发生的。
我并不认为有个自负是好，或者是坏。
我认为自负是既好又坏。
（译自《赫芬顿邮报》）
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'Is Having an Ego Good or Bad?’
By Matt Hearnden
“These aren’t even that good. I think I could do better.”
That’s one of the reasons I started writing. Because I was reading other articles and that thought came to mind.
I’ve even thought that about books. Famous books. Brilliant books.
Who the fuck am I to think that?
That’s my ego.
And I’m grateful for it.
Because I never would’ve started writing without it. I never would’ve found something I love to do without it. I never would’ve been able to quit my 9-5 without it.
But.
Sometimes I get too caught up in it.
I’ll let other people’s accomplishments get inside me and make me feel bad. I become jealous. I become resentful.
I let myself be tricked into think I’m not good enough, or doing enough, or being enough.
That’s when my ego becomes unhelpful.
I don’t think having an ego is good or bad.
I think it’s good and bad.
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