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　　Always under-promise and over-deliver. When you make a promise, you’re adding responsibility to your plate that, despite all your best intentions, you may not be able to deliver on. More often than not, your promise is an absolute (i.e “I promise I’ll always love you”)，and only Sith deal in absolutes. Instead of making a promise with your words, simply be there when people need you, and exceed their expectations with your actions。总是做出承诺，却总是做不到。当你每次做出承诺的时候，不仅给自己增添了责任，无论你的出发点有多好，你都不可能完成所有的事情。很多时候，你的承诺都太过绝对(比如“我发誓我永远爱你”)，也只能在绝对的条件下才能实现。与其许下承诺，还不如在别人需要你的时候出现，然后用行动达到他们的期望。

　　11 – Stop Being a Pushover

　　11 –不要再做老好人

　　We live in a capitalistic

　　society in which everyone’s trying to sell us something. Everyone’s looking out for themselves in one way or another, and you need to do the same. Stop putting yourself out because you’re too shy to say no。我们都生活在一个资本主义社会里，每个人都试图向我们推销什么。每个人再以这样或那样的方式找寻着自己，你也需要那样做。别因为你太害羞而不能拒绝却让害了自己。

　　12 – Stop Listening to Haters

　　12 – 别听那些嫉妒你的人的话

　　No matter what you want to do in life, there’s always someone around to tell you why it can’t and won’t work. I can come up with millions of reasons Twitter won’t work, and yet it’s one of the most popular social media sites on the web. My opinion didn’t stop Twitter’s success any more than it convinced Kobe Bryant to quit the NBA or Josh Hartnett to stop acting. Why would you let someone’s opinion stop you?无论你想干什么，总会有人告诉你为什么不要这么做，那没有用。我可以想出成百万条推特不实用的理由，但它仍旧是互联网上最流行的社交网站之一。我的想法不会影响推特的成功，就像你无法劝科比退出NBA或乔什·哈奈特不要当演员了一样，都毫无意义。那么为什么要让别人的想法来牵绊你呢？

　　13 – Stop Being Wasteful

　　13 –别再浪费 

　　You don’t finish your meals, and away food instead. You leave the faucet running when you brush your teeth, pouring precious water down the drain. You drive places you could easily walk, burning gasoline (a non-renewable resource)。You are wasteful, and it needs to stop。你还没把饭吃完，就把食物扔掉了；刷牙的时候，水龙头还开着，宝贵的水就那样哗哗的流走；明明可以走到的地方你偏要开车，浪费汽油(无法再生资源)。如果你浪费了，那就赶紧停止这一恶习。

　　14– Stop Littering

　　14–不要乱扔垃圾

　　The only thing I hate more than wasteful people are litterbugs. Litterbugs are my least favorite bug, and there are more than you’d think. If you’ve ever thrown even one piece of gum, paper, candy wrapper, cigarette butt, etc on the ground, you’re a disgusting litterbug, and you should be ashamed of yourself. There are over 7 billion people in the world if each person only throws one “innocent”piece of garbage on the ground, that’s 7 billion pieces of garbage littering a world in which nobody “did it”。唯一让我觉得比浪费的人更可恶的就是乱丢垃圾的人。我最厌恶这种人，而且这种人永远多得让你数不清。如果你曾扔过一块口香糖，一张纸、糖果包装、烟蒂，那么你就是恶心的乱丢垃圾的人。你应该为你自己感到耻辱。世界上有超过70亿的人——如果每个人都无意识的往地上扔垃圾，那么全世界就会变成一个有70亿垃圾的垃圾场，还找不到罪魁祸首。

　　Your one decision makes a HUGE difference, and I will not allow you to blow it off and walk around with your head held high. You’re a litterbug, and it needs to stop immediately. You don’t get a lifehack for this one, you filthy animal. Just stop – you already know how。你的一个决定会改变很多，我不会让你去大马路大声高呼。如果你是那种人，那么就需要马上停止了。你要是不这么做的话，那就跟肮脏的动物一样了。停止这一举动吧，你已经知道该怎么做了。

　　15 – Stop Taking Everything Personally

　　15 – 别把每件事太往心里去

　　People get offended about the strangest things. Take Kendrick Lamar’s now-infamous verse on “Control”this summer: he called out a list of a dozen rappers he thinks he’s better than (and he’s right).The internet went crazy, and rappers

　　all over the industry rushed to their mics to record a response. The thing is, all K-Dot said is he’s the best rapper. Everyone took it personally, and that’s exactly what he was going for. The lesson to learn from this is that not everything is about you, and if you’re easily upset, someone will use that to their advantage。人们会因为一些奇怪的事情感到被侵犯了。就拿Kendrick Lamar这个夏天备受争议的歌曲《Control》为例：他在歌词中挑衅了一些他认为比他弱的说唱歌手(的确是这样)，一时激起千层浪，整个说唱界的歌手都蜂拥录歌作为回击。重点在于，所有的人都认为自己是最好的说唱者。每个人都把这件事太往心里去，这就是他的目的所在。这件事教给我们的无非就是不是所有的事都要围着你转，如果你太在意，总会被别人利用以此来达到他的目的。

　　16 – Stop Talking

　　16 –不要再乱说话

　　Sometimes it’s best to just STFU –especially in relationships. I can’t even count how many times I created an issue that didn’t need to be an issue simply because I opened my mouth. Even if what you want to say is important, just shut up and ride it out. You can say more with your actions than words, and you can’t listen when you’re talking。有时候沉默是金——特别在人际关系里。我都记不清有多少次因为说错话引发了本可以避免的争端。即使你想说的非常重要，那也闭嘴，自行消化。你可以用行动证明一切，毕竟你自己说话的时候是听不见的。

　　(沪江英语)

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