By relentlessly trying not to do something, we end up thinking about it so much that we subconsciously provoke ourselves to cheat – to do the exact thing we are trying not to do.

残酷地尝试着不去做某事，我们往往禁不住去想它，以致于我们下意识地会去欺骗自己——做出我们努力想要克制不去做的事情。

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I reasoned that the sole attempt of trying to avoid any kind of failure by any means would lead to the irrevocable mistake of not trying at all, which isn't a promising option.

我的理由是那些试图用各种各样的方法避开失败会直接导致根本不敢去尝试的无法挽回的错误，这真的不是一个好的选择。

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So the key is to get started, and you do that not by trying to go from 0 to 60 in 5 seconds, but by trying to go from 0 to 5mph in a day or two. That's doable.

所以关键在于着手开始干，这并不是说你在五分钟内重复60次，而是说要努力在一两天内重复5次。

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This means you should not risk losing something you have by trying to get more of something you do not have.

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So, really I'm pretty happy with what I've gotten to do, and I just want to say we're not trying to convert all of them you pre-med people, by any means.

事实上，我很对我所做的事情很高兴,我想说我并不是想。

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Or perhaps, you could be trying to explain that you don't know whether you can do something or not by a certain date.

又或者，你正在试图解释你没法确定你是否能在一个指定日期前做完某件事。

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But the way you keep the dollar sound is by maintaining a steady monetary policy, not by trying to manipulate the economy itself.

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And margin calls are going to be met by selling the liquid stocks (or bonds, or other investments), not by trying to spend time getting out of illiquid investments.

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And they are doing this by not trying to compete with iOS and Android for in-app revenue.

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