我在壓力下保持專注的秘訣

My secret to staying focused under pressure

演講者：Russell Wilson

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June 8, 2010,?Russell Wilson, fourth-round pick to the Colorado Rockies baseball.?I'm fired up,?one of the highest moments of my life.?Every kid's dream to be drafted by a Major League Baseball team.?June 8, 2010.

2010 年 6 月 8 日，?拉塞爾 · 威爾遜（Russell Wilson），?在第四輪中被科羅拉多洛基棒球隊(duì)選中。?我興奮極了， 這是我人生最巔峰的時刻之一。?每個孩子都夢想著入選 美國職業(yè)棒球聯(lián)盟（MLB）的球隊(duì)。?2010 年 6 月 8 日。

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The line goes flat.?My dad passes away.?The highest of the high?to the lowest of the low.?Just like that.?My dad laying in his deathbed,?just tears running down my face,?you know, what do I do next??My mind racing, memories, flashbacks, moments,?early mornings, getting up,?taking grounders and throwing,?speed outs and deep post routes to my brother and my dad,?to early morning car rides to AAU baseball,?to my dad being the third-base coach.

心電圖變成了一條直線，?我的爸爸去世了。?人生的最高潮?和人生的最低谷。?生活就是這樣。?我的爸爸躺在他的靈床上，?淚水從我的臉上劃過，?我下一步應(yīng)該做什么？?我的大腦在飛速運(yùn)轉(zhuǎn) 回憶那些記憶、時光、時刻，?清晨，起床，?做滾球和投擲的練習(xí)，?練習(xí)速度，與我的父親 和兄弟深入探討路線，?到清早駕車前往美國 業(yè)余運(yùn)動聯(lián)盟（AAU）橄欖球隊(duì)，?我的父親當(dāng)時是三壘的教練。

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Fast-forward to the championship high of winning a Super Bowl,?holding up the Lombardi Trophy?and the emotions and the excitement of it all,?blue and green confetti all over the place?and knowing that you just won the Super Bowl,?to a year later, the pressure of the game,?the ball on the one-yard line,?and this is the chance to win the game, and it doesn't work.?And however many millions and millions of people?all over the world watching.?And having to walk to the media,?and what do I say next, what do I do, what do I think?

記憶快進(jìn)到贏得超級碗的總冠軍，?舉起隆巴迪獎杯，?這些時刻的感觸和興奮,?滿地的藍(lán)色和綠色的紙片?意識到你剛拿下了超級碗的冠軍，?再到一年之后，比賽的壓力，?球正好壓在一碼線上，?而這是一個可以贏得 比賽的機(jī)會，但我搞砸了。?然而全世界數(shù)以百萬的人?在觀看這場比賽。?而我將必須面對媒體的采訪，?我將說什么？ 我將做什么，我將想什么？

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Being married at a young age?and just coming out of college and everything else,?to, you know, shortly after, marriage not working out?and realizing, you know what??Life happens.?Life happens, life happens to all of us.?Loss of family members, divorce,?fear, pain, depression, concerns, worries.?When you think about being superpositive --?yes, I'm positive by nature,?but positivity, you know, it doesn't always work,?because when you're down 16-nothing in an NFC championship game,?and people are like,?"Russ, we're not going to be able to win this game, man,?it's not a great situation right now,"?or when you're facing cancer,?or when you have things you have to deal with?or finances and this and that,?like, how do we deal with it??It's hard to be positive in the midst of it all.?And what I definitely knew was this:?that negativity works 100 percent of the time.?Negativity was going to get me nowhere.

年紀(jì)輕輕就結(jié)了婚，?并且才剛剛大學(xué)畢業(yè)， 還有其他所有的事情，?很快，你發(fā)現(xiàn)婚姻并不順利，?然后我才意識到，知道嗎？?這就是生活。?這就是生活， 并且生活對我們每個人都一視同仁。?失去家人，離婚，?恐懼，傷痛，消沉，糾結(jié)，擔(dān)心。?當(dāng)你想保持超級樂觀——?是的，我天生是一個樂觀的人，?但是樂觀，你知道， 事情不可能一直順利，?因?yàn)楫?dāng)你在 NFC 冠軍賽中 落后 16 支隊(duì)伍時，?人們就會說，?"拉塞，我們贏不了這場比賽了，?現(xiàn)在的情況并不樂觀。"?或者當(dāng)時面對癌癥，?或者當(dāng)你必須去面對一些事情，?或者不利的經(jīng)濟(jì)狀況諸如此類，?我們該怎么辦？?當(dāng)你處于所有這些煩惱之中時 是很難保持樂觀的。?而且，我可以肯定的是：?這些時候人總是悲觀的，?而悲觀會讓我無處可藏。

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I started saying to myself, "New are his mercies every morning,"?new beginnings, new starts.?And despite hardship and pain and worries and wanting to get through it?and "How do I do this?",?I started thinking about a car.?You know how when you drive a car, you've got stick shift?and you want to shift to neutral??You go from first gear to second gear, all the way to fifth??You've got to know how to shift to neutral.?And I needed to shift to neutral immediately, before I crashed.

我開始對自己說， "每一天醒來都是新的，"?新的開始。?不去想困難、痛苦、擔(dān)憂， 以及怎樣擺脫它們，?那么，“我該怎么做？”?我開始思考汽車。?你知道當(dāng)你在開車時，需要換擋，?你想換到空擋？?你從一擋換到二擋，一直換到五擋，?但是你必須要知道怎么換到空擋。?我需要在被撞毀之前，換回空擋，

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Sitting there after the Super Bowl,?I had a decision to make:?Will I let this define my career? Will I let it define my life??Hell, no.?What I found out was this: that mindset is a skill.?It can be taught and learned.?I started 10 years ago, training my mind,?with this guy named Trevor Moawad, my mental conditioning coach.?He's been with me for 10 years,?and we've been best friends and partners ever since.?As athletes, we train the body,?we train ourselves to be able to run fast, throw farther, jump higher?and do these different things,?but why don't we train our mind??What do you want your life to look like??Write it out, talk about it, say it.?What's our language, what does it look like,?watch these highlights, Russell, when you're in your best moments.?What does that look like??And be that, live that, sound like that.?The best free throw shooters,?they don't worry about the shot they just missed.?They think about this shot,?this putt, this throw, this first down.

在超級碗賽后，我坐在那里，?我做了一個決定：?我會讓這次失敗定義我的職業(yè)生涯嗎？ 我會讓它定義我的人生嗎？?當(dāng)然不會。?我發(fā)現(xiàn)的是： 那個思維方式是一個技能，?它可以學(xué)習(xí)和訓(xùn)練。?十年之前，我開始訓(xùn)練我的思維方式，?和我的心理教練 特雷弗 · 穆阿瓦德（Trevor Moawad）?他指導(dǎo)我十年了，?我們成為了最好的朋友和搭檔。?作為運(yùn)動員，我們訓(xùn)練我們的身體，?我們通過訓(xùn)練去跑得更快， 投得更遠(yuǎn)，跳得更高?并且能夠做到很多不同的事情，?但是我們?yōu)槭裁床挥?xùn)練我們的大腦呢？?你想讓你的生活看起來是什么樣子的？?寫下來，講出來，說出來。?我們的語言是什么， 它是什么樣子的呢，?看看這些高光的時刻，拉塞爾， 當(dāng)你在你生命中最美好的時刻，?它們是什么樣子的呢？?然后，就像那樣， 那樣去生活，就像那樣。?最好的罰球手，?他們不擔(dān)心已經(jīng)丟掉的球。?他們只關(guān)心當(dāng)下這一球，?這一推，這一投，這一落地。

Then I met this kid Milton Wright, 19 years old,?he had cancer three different times.?This day when I went to see him, he was frustrated,?"Russ, I'm done, I don't want to do this anymore,?it's my time to go."?I started telling him this story about my dad,?how he used to say, "Son, why not you??Why don't you graduate early, play pro football and pro baseball??Why not you, why not you?"?I said, "Milton, why not you??If you tried T-cell therapy,?and you try this and it doesn't work,?you won't remember it."?So Milton got a smile on his face and said,?"You're exactly right.?Yes, I do have cancer, Russ.?But I can either let this kill me,?not just physically,?but I can also let it kill me emotionally and mentally.?And I have a choice right now, in the midst of the problem,?in the midst of the storm,?to decide to overcome."

當(dāng)我見到這個 19 歲的孩子 米爾頓 · 懷特 (Milton Wright) 時，?他經(jīng)歷過三次不同的癌癥。?我去看他的那天，他很煩躁，?"拉塞爾，我完了， 我不想再這么活著了，?我想要離開了。"?我說不，我開始給他講我爸爸的故事，?他過去常說，“兒子，你為什么不？?你為什么不早點(diǎn)畢業(yè)， 為什么不打職業(yè)美式足球或者橄欖球？?你為什么不，你為什么不？”?我說， “米爾頓，你為什么不？?如果你嘗試 T 細(xì)胞治療，?你嘗試了卻失敗了，?你不會記住這件事的?！?然后，米爾頓笑了，他說，?“你說得沒錯。?是的，我是得了癌癥，拉塞爾。?但是我要么讓它結(jié)束我的生命，?并不只是從身體上，?也是從情緒和精神上打敗我。?然而，我現(xiàn)在還有一個選擇， 在這個問題上，?在這場風(fēng)暴的中央，?決定去與之對抗?！?/p>

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One of the questions I always get asked about neutral thinking is this:?"Does that mean I don't have any emotion?"?And I always say, absolutely not.?Yeah, we have emotions,?we have real-life situations,?we have things to deal with.?But what you have to be able to do is to stay focused on the moment?and to not be superemotional.?It's OK to have emotions, but don't be emotional.

人們經(jīng)常問我關(guān)于 “中和思維” 的一個問題是：?"那意味著我沒有情緒嗎？"?然而，我總是說，當(dāng)然不是。?是的，我們有情緒，?我們現(xiàn)實(shí)生活中有種種狀況，?我們都有一些事情要去處理。?但是你要做的就是保持專注，?并且不要過于情緒化。?有情緒沒有關(guān)系， 但是不要情緒化。

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When people look at me,?they see that I'm the highest-paid player in the NFL,?they see that I have the girl and Ciara,?that I have the family and this and that.?But I still have real-life situations.?We all do.?We all have, you know, sadness and loss?and depression and worries and fear.?I didn't just get here.?What's the truth,?and how do I come through this better??And that's really, kind of, how my mind started shifting.?It was not just on the success of it all or the failure of it,?it was on the process, like:?What is the next step, how do I do this right here, right now?

當(dāng)人們都看著我時，?他們認(rèn)為我是個高薪的 NFL 球員，?他們看到我的女孩希亞拉 （Ciara），?我有家人，有這個，有那個，?但是我也有現(xiàn)實(shí)生活的煩惱。?我們都有。?我們都有，傷心和失去，?還有消沉、擔(dān)憂和恐懼。?我不僅僅是到了這里。?而真相是，?我怎樣更好的處理這些煩惱的？?那就是我的思維方式 是怎樣開始轉(zhuǎn)換的。?它并不基于所有的成功， 或者所有的失敗，?而是在于這個過程，比如：?下一步是什么？ 我現(xiàn)在該怎么做？

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We have a choice to make in life.?And for me, when I was young and I didn't have much,?I made a choice.?I made a choice that I was going to believe?that great things were going to happen,?that I was going to have my mindset right,?and I was going to have the right language?and the right things to think about,?which helped prepare me for today.?Because I'm just human.?I just have the ability to throw the ball a long way?and run around and make some cool and fun throws?and make some people smile.?But the reality is that I still have pressure,?I still have worries, I still have fears,?I still have things that happen.?Still have loss.

我們在生活中需要去做一個選擇。?對我而言，當(dāng)我年輕， 我還沒有很多東西的時候，?我做了一個選擇。?我選擇了去相信?美好的事情會如期而至，?相信我擁有正確的心態(tài)，?我會選擇正確的表達(dá)方式，?以及能正確地去思考事情，?正是這些成就了今天的我。?因?yàn)槲抑皇且粋€普通人，?我能做得只是把球扔得遠(yuǎn)遠(yuǎn)的，?奔跑，并且投幾個炫酷的球，?給人們帶去些歡樂。?但真實(shí)的情況是我也有壓力，?我也有擔(dān)心，我也有恐懼，?我也遇到突發(fā)的狀況，?也會有失去。

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Positivity can be dangerous.?But what always works is negativity.?I never wanted to live in negativity,?so I stayed in neutral.?I kept my shift in neutral.?And so that's where I lived,?and that's where I've been living ever since.

樂觀情緒也可能是危險的，?但悲觀情緒卻總是存在的。?我不想活在悲觀之中，?所以我保持中立，?使自己處于中立的狀態(tài)，?所以那就是我現(xiàn)在的生活，?那也是我一直以來生活的狀態(tài)。

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