Authority is the principle devised from truth and power.
权威是根据真理和能力设计出的原则。
Truth without power accomplishes nothing.
没有权力的真理一无所获。
Power without truth generates wasted action.
没有真理的权力产生无用的行动。
When you live without authority, your default behavior is to squander your time.
当你生活没有权威，你自然而然的行为就是虚掷光阴。
You may acquire some knowledge, but you won’t apply it well.
你可以获得一些知识，但却不能很好地应用。
You may take some action, but your movements will be chaotic and unfocused.
你可以采取一些行动，但步骤混乱，毫无重点。
You have the potential to live a powerful self-directed life of your choosing, but until you step into your true authority, this potential remains a fantasy.
你有潜能活出你所选择的自我引导的强有力的生活，但除非你踏进自己真正的权威，否则，这种潜能只不过是幻想。
With authority, you not only assume responsibility for your life, you take complete command of it.
有了权威，你不仅为自己的生活承担责任，而且完全把握着自己的生活。
There’s only one true authority in your life, and it’s you. You make the decisions.
在你生活中，只能有一个权威，那就是你。由你决策。
There’s no higher authority in this life than you.
此生中，没有比你更高的权威。
If you fail to claim authority over your own life, someone else will surely claim it for you. Many people allow their spouse, parents, or boss to practically run their lives. You become increasingly helpless as you distance yourself from your true nature. You are meant to be free.
如果你不能对自己的生活拥有权威，别人肯定会对你的生活有权威。很多人让他们的配偶、父母或老板来经营他们的生活。当你离自己的真实本性越来越远时，你会愈加无助。而你本该自由自在。
Look around you and notice the results you’re currently getting. Life is simply obeying your commands. If you want different results, you must issue different orders.
看看自己，然后留心当前得到的结果。生活不过是遵守你的命令。如果你想要不同的结果，你必须发出不同的指令。
Effectiveness is the true measure of authority.
有效性是对权威的真正衡量。
Consider two questions:
考虑两个问题：
1. Am I making the correct decisions?
1. 我的决策对吗？
2. Am I taking the correct actions?
2. 我采取的行动对吗？
Notice how elegantly the principles of truth and power work together to improve your personal effectiveness over time:
请你留心，真理和权力原则完美配合，随着时间推移，如何改善你的个人有效性：
First, you identify one of your desires and make a decision to move toward it.
首先，你认识自己的欲望，然后下决心朝着它努力。
Then you use your predictive abilities to select a reasonable course of action.
然后，你利用自己的预测能力，选择合理的行动计划。
As you progress toward your goal, you need only identify the next action you predict will move you in the correct direction.
当你朝着自己的目标迈进时，你只需要识别你预测将使你朝着正确方向进步的下一行动。
You use your power to move yourself forward, one step at a time.
你用自己的能力让自己迈向前，一次一步。
Even as you take these microsteps, your predictive mind is always looking ahead, continually refining its selections and evaluating the results of the decisions you’ve already implemented.
即使你采取了这些小步骤，你那爱预测的大脑总是向前看，不断优化它的选择，评价你已经执行的决策之结果。
Maybe you reach your goal; maybe you don’t. Either way you experience a powerful gain.
也许你达到了自己的目标；也许没有。不论如何，你都经历了巨大的收获。
When you succeed, your successful predictions, decisions, and behaviors are reinforced.
当你成功时，你成功的预测、决策和行为都会被强化。
When you fail, your mind learns that its predictions were inaccurate, and it updates your model of reality to help prevent you from repeating the same mistakes.
当你失败时，你的大脑认识到自己的预测不准确，就会更新你的现实模型，以免你重蹈覆辙。
Failure is your friend. While it’s often disappointing to miss the goal you aimed for, there’s always a consolation prize. When you fail, you become smarter. You teach your mind to become better at prediction. This is an immensely powerful result.
失败是你的朋友。虽然错过既定的目标总让人失望，但总会有安慰奖。当你失败时，你会变得更聪明。你教自己预测得更成功。这是一个极其强大有力的结果。
After thousands of cycles of identifying and fixing mistakes, I became a very good programmer.
在成千上万次识别纠正错误的循环中，我成了优秀的编程师。
You can’t expect to be competent when you tackle something new, but you can expect that you’ll improve over time.
你不能指望解决了新问题就能合格，但你可以预期你会随着时间进步。
All you have to do is set a goal, make decisions that you think will lead you in the right direction, and keep taking action.
你所要做的就是设定目标，作出你认为会带领你走上正确方向的决策。
Either you’ll succeed, or you’ll learn from your failures.
要么你会成功，要么你会从失败中学到东西。
If you fail a great deal, it just means you have more to learn before you’re ready to succeed.
如果你不断失败，这只意味着在你成功之前，还有很多东西需要学习。
Be willing to make decisions that may fail. Even though failure may have negative consequences, it also yields important positive results. It ultimately teaches you to succeed. You can’t be a true authority unless you commit to being a lifelong student.
你要愿意做出可能失败的决策。虽然失败会有负面后果，它也会产生重要的正面结果。它最终教会你成功。除非你愿意终身学习，否则你不可能成为真正的权威。
If you quit too early, you’ll never complete the shift from novice to expert. The expert level is where most of the rewards are found.
如果你放弃得太早，你永远也完不成从新手到专家的转变。而专家级才是找到大部分回报的地方。
Understand that failure and success are not opposites. Failure is an unavoidable part of success. When you fail, it means you’re taking action, so you’re making mistakes and educating yourself. Success happens naturally once you finally learn how to take the correct actions.
要理解，失败和成功不是反义词。失败是成功不可避免的一部分。当你失败时，意味着你采取了行动，所以你在犯错误，教育自己。一旦你最终掌握了如何纠正，成功乃水到渠成。
Don’t pressure yourself to achieve massive success the first time out. Just do the best you can. At first, your best may be barely above idiot. Eventually you’ll gain some basic competency, and farther down the road, people will call you an expert. An expert being a person who’s failed enough to succeed.
不要第一次就给自己压力要取得很大成功。尽自己最大力量就好。开始时，你的最大能力可能就比白痴稍微强一点。最后，你会获得一些基本能力，随着你进步，人们会称你为专家。专家就是失败次数足够多然后成功的人。
Eventually they learn what they need to learn. They successfully adapt their predictions to fit reality, and finally their actions begin producing the intended results.
他们学习了自己需要学习的东西。他们成功地改变了自己的预测来适应现实，最终他们的行动会产生预期的结果。
If you’re clear about what you want, settle for nothing less. Accept that success will take time, perhaps much longer than you’d like. Rid yourself of the fast and easy, something-for-nothing mindset. Keep your head down, work hard, and know that your efforts will eventually pay off, as long as you keep learning and growing.
如果你很清楚自己想要什么，那就不要在别的事情上浪费时间。要承认成功需要时间，而且可能比你希望的要长得多。让自己放弃多快好省，不劳而获的心态。虚心、勤奋，相信只要你不断学习，不断成长，天道酬勤。
As you perceive reality with increasing accuracy, your decisions will improve, and in turn so will your actions and thereby your results.
随着你对现实的领悟日渐精准，你的决策会改善，进而你的行动和结果都会改善。
Accurate beliefs lead to effective results, and confidence is the emotional residue of effectiveness. You feel confident when you can expect positive results from your actions with a high degree of certainty.
精确的信念产生有效的结果，信心是有效性的情感沉淀。当你期待并且确信你的行为会带来积极结果时，你会感到自信。
Power can be applied to meaningless pursuits, or it can be channeled toward significant achievements.
能力既可以用于无意义的追求，也可以用于意义重大的成就。
What’s important to you in life?
你生活中重要的东西是什么？
What’s a relative waste of your time?
什么是浪费时间?
TRIAGE can help you focus your attention on the most significant actions. Divide between:
1. projects that will fail to have a significant impact, whether you do them or not
2. projects that will succeed anyway, whether you do them or not
3. projects that will have a significant impact only if you complete them in a timely manner
筛余法可以帮助你聚焦在最重要的行动上。行动项目可以分为：
1. 不论你做不做，都不能产生重要影响的项目
2. 不论你做不做，都会成功的项目
3. 只有你及时完成才能对产生重要影响的项目
Ask yourself, “Is this the most important thing for me to be doing right now?”
问自己，“这是我立即就要做的最重要的事情吗？”
What are the group-3 projects that are dying in the trenches, but can still be saved if you reach them in time?
哪些是奄奄一息但如果你行动及时尚可挽救的第三组项目？
Your health?
你的健康？
Your relationship?
你的关系？
Your career?
你的职业？
In order to make time to save them, which group-1-and-2 are you willing to pass up?
为了腾出时间挽救它们，第一组和第二组中的哪些项目是你愿意放弃的？
Don’t blindly follow the advice of experts.
不要盲目地遵从专家的意见。
Find out what works best for you by conducting personal experiments.
亲自试验，找到最适合你的方法。
Don’t dismiss any ideas until you’ve actually tried them.
在没有真正尝试任何想法之前，不要放弃。
Get in touch with what’s most important to you in life. If you felt responsible for the entire world, what would you want to change first?
与你生命中最重要的东西接触。如果你觉得你对全世界有责任，你会最先改变什么？
