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No. 6: "Don't leave crumbs" and the beauty of delayed gratification.
第六點：“不要留下麻煩”，以及延遲享樂的好處。
So what are crumbs?
那么什么是麻煩呢？
The crumbs I'm talking about are the choices that we make that make us have to look over our shoulder in the future.
我所說的麻煩就是那些讓我們在將來不得不擔驚受怕的選擇。
You didn't pay that guy back the money that you owed him and tonight you just saw him three rows behind you: shit.
你欠某個人的錢沒有還，而今晚你卻看見他就坐在你后面三排的地方：見鬼。
You slept around on your spouse,
你背著配偶與別人廝混，
and you just found out that tomorrow she and the lady you're having an affair with are gonna be at the same PTA meeting. Shit again.
卻發現第二天她將與那個和你發生風流韻事的女人參加同一個家教會的會議。真是見鬼。
You drank too much last night; you're too hangover to drive your son to his 8 a.m. Saturday morning baseball practice.
昨晚你喝得太醉了，沒法開車送孩子去參加周六早上八點鐘的棒球訓練。
These are the crumbs! They come in the form of regret, guilt, and remorse.
這些就是麻煩！它們以遺憾、愧疚和悔恨的形式出現。
You leave crumbs today. They will cause you more stress tomorrow,
今天你留下麻煩，明天它們就會給你帶來更多的困擾，
and they disallow you from creating a customized future in which you do not have to look over your shoulder.
它們將會使你無法創造一個你想要的無憂的未來。
So let's flip the script. Instead of creating outcomes that take from us,
那讓我們擺明立場吧。在未來的大部分時間里，不要制造會讓你付出代價的后果，
let's create more outcomes that pay us back, fill us up, keep your fire lit, turn you on, for the most amount of time in your future.
而是要創造出更多能給你以回報、令你感到充實、讓你激情不減、使你身心愉快的結果。
