内容简介

《你没有那么优秀（但别人也没有）》是一部由是美国著名的演员、导演、编剧伊蓝.盖勒的一部优秀励志图书。本书在其内容上与其它励志图书不同，不是一味地吹捧、夸大你的优点，而是直击你人性中的弱点，直面自己的不堪。

本次翻译实践选译部分是全书的第九章。本章内容叙述了你其实没有那么优秀的事实，从自身实际出发，找到我们生活中不可避免的糟糕的部分而不是一味地逃避它们。只有打破传统的思维方式，直面自己的负面情绪和惨淡的人生，人生才可能改变现状，继续前进。本章内容由五部分组成：第一部分，只有经历过彻底的失败,才能体会到了失败带来的悲伤。一旦学会让失败去完成它的工作，你就可以从悲伤中摆脱出来，在失败完成它的使命后你终于成功了。第二部分，耻辱-你新的挚友。作者讲述了自己从刚开始逃避自己的肥胖到面对自己的肥胖，最后他利用耻辱来改变了自己。第三部分，焦虑世界上最大的混蛋。一方面焦虑让自己和周围的人感觉不舒服，另一方面焦虑让我们保持警觉，保持警醒直到我们拥有了自己想要的东西。第四部分，绝望-你需要的只是一无所有。作者在经历了自己的人生谷底和彻底的绝望，他正确地做出了自己想要继续活下去的决定。第五部分，作者从乔恩.克莱尔的观点得出焦虑是我们的一部分，它促使我们成为更好的自己。

同时，本篇论文还讨论了翻译的过程，在翻译时遇到的问题和解决方法以及在翻译过程中所学到的感悟。

翻译实践原文

Chapter Nine

Building a life that is less disappointing than the one you already have

I wake up every single day confident in the knowledge that I will never write another good song. I tend to internalize a lot of things I’m upset about and put them into songs. That’s how I get it out of my head. When I was growing up, if I was mad or sad I would listen to music. So now, when I get mad, I try to use it in my music.

—Mark Hoppus (singer-songwriter, Blink-182

At this point, I’m just going to assume that you’re not afraid anymore. If you’ve gotten this far, it’s because you see the value in coming to terms with the fact that you’re not that great. But philosophy can only take you so far. What you need now is a plan of action. You need actual ways to start accomplishing all the shit you want to accomplish.

And this is where all the other self-help books have failed you. And everyone else. All the other self-help books basically tell you to do the same thing. They tell you that you’re great and that you’re important, and then they just leave you hanging out to dry, like a sex-soiled rag on the edge of the tub, telling you that you can just go about your life as you were before, but now with your new mentality, everything is suddenly going to go swimmingly. If you notice, this advice has done very little for anyone other than the authors, who have become fucking billionaires while you all just smile and laugh and smile and shit money into their bank accounts.

Okay, but enough about them. Let’s talk about you. Let’s talk about how we’re going to make you less not great.