After years of research, concludes, it appears that the way people perceive the world is much more important to happiness than objective circumstances.
Now if you think about it, that makes a lot of sense. We know a lot of people who seemingly have everything,
如果你想一下的話,很有道理。我們認(rèn)識(shí)許多看起來(lái)?yè)碛幸磺械娜?/div>
whether it's wealth, whether it's wonderful friends and family, all their dreams have come true,
無(wú)論是財(cái)富,或很好的朋友或家人,他們的夢(mèng)想都已成真
and they are still miserable. While there are people who have very little, who have experienced hardship after hardship and who never cease to celebrate life.
但仍很痛苦。而有些人擁有的很少,經(jīng)歷了一次次困境而從沒停止為生活感到歡慶,
Then there are people who have everything going for them and really appreciate it, don't take it for granted and are happy.
還有些人,他們擁有一切并很感激這一切,不覺得理所當(dāng)然,他們很快樂,有些人
And there are people who don't have much and never cease to complain.
擁有的不多,永遠(yuǎn)都在抱怨

In other words, it's not just the internal or... sorry, it's not just the external that matters, what matters more is the internal.
換句話說,不只是內(nèi)在的……抱歉,重要的不只是外在,更重要的是內(nèi)在
Happiness is not contingent on our status, or the state of our bank account,
幸福不是取決于我們的處境,或我們銀行賬戶里的金額
it's much more dependent on our state of mind, on what we choose to focus on.
更依賴于我們的思想狀態(tài),依賴于我們選擇關(guān)注什么
Because our emotions are determined by external circumstances as well as internal, interpretation matters. For example,
因?yàn)槲覀兊母星橛赏獠亢蛢?nèi)部狀況一起決定,如何去詮釋很重要。比如
look at what Edison did, 5,000 failures to the external observer, for him
看愛迪生如何對(duì)待5000次的失敗,對(duì)他而言
the evaluation was very different. The internal evaluation, the subjective evaluation, it was 5, 000 times where I showed what doesn't work.
評(píng)估和常人不同。內(nèi)部評(píng)估,主觀的評(píng)估,我證明了5000種方法不管用