As James Pennebaker of the University of Texas notes in his book, The Secret Life of Pronouns, when people are feeling confident, they are focused on the task at hand, not on themselves.

正如德克萨斯大学的詹姆斯·彭尼贝克在他的书《语言风格的秘密》中指出的那样，当人们感到自信的时候，他们关注的是手头的任务，而不是自己。

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His secret was a focused life.

他的秘诀就是过一个专注的人生。

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There is nothing quite as potent as a focused life, one lived on purpose.

专注又有目的的人生是大有能力的。

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Freud's--Freud was very focused on the family life of the people he interacted with, which is rather upper class Europeans, and these sort of questions would have been difficult for Freud to answer.

弗洛伊德非常关注,与他接触之人的家庭生活，也就是一些欧洲的贵族们，对于这类问题,相信弗洛伊德本人也很难作答。

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