很多年前，我对老一套一成不变的枯燥生活感到十分乏味，所以我想跟随美国伟大的哲学家摩根.斯普尔洛克脚步：尝试做一些新的事情并坚持三十天。
这个想法其实十分简单，仔细考虑下，你常常想在生命中实现的一些事情，接下来以30天为周期一个一个地尝试把你想做的事情当做挑战去完成，其实，30天，刚好是个合适的时间周期，去养成一个新的习惯，或者去掉一个坏习惯，比如观看你日常生活中出现的新闻。
当我在做这些30天挑战事情的时候，我学到以下这些:
第一：取代“飞逝而过”“易被遗忘”的时间，让时间过得让人难以忘怀，这是从我的30天每日拍照计划的挑战项目中得到的感慨，我清楚地记得那些天里，每一天我处的位置及当天我所做的事情。
我还注意到，随着更多的三十天挑战计划的实施，我的自信心也增长了。我从一个计算机宅男极客变成了一个骑自行车去上班的人。甚至在去年的时候，我完成了攀登非洲最高峰---乞力马扎罗山.在做这些30天挑战事情之前，我从来没有这么爱冒险过。
另外我还发现，如果你真的非常想要什么事情，你在30天内完全可以把它完成。
你曾经想要写一个小说吗？每年十一月，数以万计的人们从零开始尝试开始写属于他们自己的五万字小说，平摊到每天，你只需要写1667个字，这样连续一个月，然而我做到了，偷偷讲一下个人总结的顺利完成小说的秘密：不写完当天的字数你不能去睡觉，这样一来，你可能被剥夺睡觉的权利，但你将顺利完成一部小说。
那么，我的小说是不是美国接下来伟大的小说之一呢？我在一个月内写完的小说，它看上去糟糕极了。哈哈...但接下来的日子里，倘若在TED聚会上遇到约翰时，我介绍自己我可以说我是一个计算机科学家，当然，如果我愿意，我也可以说，我是一个小说家。
最后有件事情我想提一下，当我不停地做到一些小的持续性的改变时，看似艰难的事情慢慢地更容易坚持下来，那跟宏达疯狂的挑战目标毫不相干，实际上他们充满无穷乐趣，只是不容易坚持下来。当我选择不吃糖坚持30天的时候，第31天我的面前全是糖果，我看了毫无兴致我并没有想再去吃它的欲望。
最后，想问你们一个问题，你们还在等什么呢？我可以保证接下来30天不管你愿意不愿意，你都要去经历这些过程，那么为何不好好想想，那些你一直想做的事情，并把它们列进你的30天计划里呢。
非常感谢。
A few years ago,I felt like I was stuck in a rut, so I decided to follow in the footsteps of the great American philosopher,Morgen Spurlock,and try something new for 30 days.
This ideal is actually pretty sample.Think about something you've always wanted to add to your life and try it for the next 30days.It turns out,30 days is just about the right amount of time to add a new habit or subtract a habit like watching the news from your life。
There‘s a few things I learned while doing these 30-day challenges.
The first was instead of the months flying by, forgotten the time was much more memorable，this was part of a challenge I did to take a picture everyday for a month. And I remembered exactly where I was and what I was doing that day.
I also noticed that as I started to do more and harder 30-day challenges,my self-cofidence grew. I went from desk-dwelling computer nerd to the kind of guy who bikes to work for fun.Even last year, I ended up hiking up Mt.Kilimanjaro the highest mountain in Africa. I would never have been that adventurous before I started my 30-day challenges.
I also figure out that if you really want something badly enough, you can do anything for 30 days. Have you ever wanted to write a novel? Every November, tens of thousands of people try to write their own novel 50000-word novel from scrach in 30 days. It turns out, all you have to do is to write 1667 words a day for a month.So I did.
By the way, the secret is not to go to sleep until you have written your words for the day. you might be sleep-deprived, but you will finish your novel.
Now，Is my book the next great American novel? No, I wrote it in a month,it's awful. But for the rest of my life, if I meet John Hodgman at a TED party,I don't have to say, "I am a computer scientist",No,no, If I want to , I can say "I am a novelist."
So, here's one last thing I'd like to mention, I learned that when I made small, sustainable changes,things I could keep doing ,They were more likely to stick. There nothing wrong with big, crazy challenges. In fact, they are in a ton of fun. but they are less likely to stick. When I give up sugar for 30 days,day 31looked like this,(full of candy) ...
So here's my question to you: what are you waiting for? I guarantee you the next 30 days are going to pass,whether you like it or not. So why not think about something you have always want to try and give it a shot for the next 30 days.
Thanks.
原文来自网易公开课TED演讲，点击观看视频：
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