介绍:
Life is a maze, not a marathon
Imagine if life were a marathon.
There’s a start, a finish, and the faster you run, the further you go:
The secret to winning a marathon is to knuckle down and keep going.
Most of us live like this, but reality isn’t so two dimensional. Real life has no signs, and no straight lines. There’s just a maze of infinite options:
Some paths, like some careers, take five times longer to get where you want. Some paths, like some relationships, are dead ends.
If you were teaching a robot to navigate a maze, you wouldn’t tell it to always run forward. You’d teach it to remember where it’s going, and when it gets stuck, to go back and try a different path.
As people, we’re really good at the running forward part. With a clear stretch, we can soar ahead for miles. But we hate – we’re literally fearful – of backtracking.
To go back suggests we’ve failed, that our judgment was flawed, that our time was wasted. And the painful thing is – that’s usually true. But it doesn’t matter. The maze just is. You can back up and get on with it, or you can stay stuck in the wrong place.
No-one knows whether the turn they take next is the right one. We should expect to get lost and backtrack all the time. In fact, everybody does – it’s just by looking up at people who are way over here:
We’re blinded to the real, confused route that they took:
There are only two ways to advance your life: move forward when you can, or step backwards and try something else when you can’t.
The greatest mistake to make is standing still.
（原文：Oliver Emberton
人生走迷宫，不是跑马拉松
想像一下：假如人生是一场马拉松。
有起点，也有终点，你跑得越快，也就跑得越远：
马拉松比赛获胜的秘诀是沉下气来，一直往前跑。
我们大多数人就像这样生活，但现实并非两维的。真实的生活没有路标，没有直路，只有一座由无数个选择组成的迷宫。
有些路需要多花五倍以上时间才能达到，例如我们的职业。有些路则是死胡同，如某些感情。
如果你要教一台机器人走迷宫，你不会让它一直往前走。你会教它记住所走的路线，遇到障碍就往回走，尝试别的路。
我们人类确实擅长往前跑。只需明确目标，我们便能飞奔向前跑上几英里。但我们厌恶（其实是惧怕）走回头路。
后退意味着我们失败了、判断有误、时间被浪费掉。令人痛苦的是，这些结论通常是对的。但这没有关系。因为这就是迷宫。你可以后退然后继续走，要么就在错误的地方驻足不前。
没有人知道下个拐弯是否正确。我们应该时刻准备着迷路和后退。实际上每个人都是这样做的：抬头仰望早就到达的人就知道了。
我们看不到他们走过的真实而混乱的路线。
人生前进只有两种方式：能向前行时往前行；不能向前就后退，换条路走。
人生最大的错误是驻足不前。
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