Many people said the problem with general levels of happiness or unhappiness rather, the cause is people have too high expectations.

很多人说,一般的快乐或不快乐水平，是由于人们有过高的期望。

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And I was pretty good. I was pretty good. I wasn't like the low league level.

我打得很好，很不错。不像是低级联队的水平。

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It would not be possible to make excess returns in finance.

获取超过金融业平均水平的收益,同样是不可能的

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The answer is that the majority of people with autism have severe problems, and will not, and at this stage, with this level of therapy, will not lead a normal life.

答案便是,大多数孤独症患者会遇到很多严重的问题,而在现阶段的心理治疗水平下,是不能够过上正常生活的

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Second reason we don't want over-qualified students in the class, it sounds a little nasty, but the second reason is, an over-qualified student, somebody who's, I don't know, programmed for Google for the last five years, is going to have an easy time in this course, but we don't want such a student accidentally intimidating the rest of you.

我们不希望高水平的学生来听课,还有一个原因，虽然听起来，有一点儿令人不快，但是第二个原因是，我们不希望，某位我不知道的高手，在为谷歌编写了五年的程序之后，很轻松地上这门课，从而使得周围同学,感到威胁。

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But focusing on things that are sustainable and scalable so that when we launch more schools or go into the next market or whatever we do, we're going to set ourselves up to have the same success that we've had without hurting our self in the current position.

还要关注可持续发展的事物,以及规模容易扩大的事物,当我们向新的学校扩展时,或是进军新市场时，目标就是获得,跟以前一样的成功,并且不破坏现有的水平。

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Maybe on average institutions lose thirty basis points, but it's kind of Lake Wobegon, where we all believe that we're better than average, so we're going to overcome that thirty basis points -that's not such a big hurdle.

可能平均每个机构都会落后30个基点,这就有点像沃比冈湖效应,大家都觉得自己能高过市场平均水平,30个基点会赶上的,不算什么大的差距

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