The first goes along the lines of: thinking about your life as a whole, how do you feel?

第一类的问题一般为：总体说来，你对生活有何感受？

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You want to live according to what you want, otherwise, sooner or later, you will be thinking about your life!

你要按你所想的生活，否则，你迟早会按你生活的去想！

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Sometimes thinking about your life and sorting out what you have learned is just as important as tackling a new venture.

有时思考你的人生及归纳你的所学同挑战新的冒险一样重要。

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But if you contemplate your own way of thinking about what you're supposed to be doing with your life.

如果你以自己的思维方式沉思,为了生活你应该去做什么

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Now, in thinking about these points, ... in effect I'm suggesting that the value of your life-- so ,we previously were talking about different theories of well-being ? and what makes for the best kind of life.

考虑这些观点的时候，实际上我建议你的生命价值-,我们之前谈到了,幸福的各种理论,即最美好的生活是怎样的。

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Thinking about death clarifies your life.

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"If you think about stuff in your life and you start thinking about it again, and again, and again, and you kind of spiral away in this continuous rumination about what's happening to you and to the world -- people who do that are at risk for depression, " he said.

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Maybe you spend the best years of your life thinking about how to provide excellent customer service at Walmart, maybe you spend them manipulating derivatives on Wall Street.

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