You're going to take this meta-level or higher level standpoint, look down at the pleasure and wonder, " "Is this all that there is to life?"

我们会更上一层楼,站在更高的立场上，审视这种快感并想，“难道生命仅此而已？

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So, a part of you wants to become the greatest whatever it is that you want to become and you wouldn't be here if you weren't very competitive and very eager to come out first, devoted to arete and your own version of that kind of thing.

所以 你的一部分意识想变成最伟大的人,不论你想要在哪个领域变得伟大,而且如果你没有竞争力,或不是一直争取第一,那你也不会坐在这里,力图更上一层楼,以穷千里目

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