Day 194: On Pain and Quitting
第194天：關于痛苦和放棄
Pain is temporary. Quitting lasts forever.
痛苦是暫時的。放棄是永恒的。
—Lance Armstrong
Pain, particularly during strenuous exercise, is often so overpowering that you can barely think straight. However, it’s through this pain that we grow, and it’s a necessary part of the process, just like embracing discomfort in general is essential for rejecting instant gratification in order to accomplish your long-term goals.
疼痛，尤其是劇烈運動時的疼痛，往往讓人難以忍受，幾乎無法思考。
然而，我們正是在這種痛苦中成長的，這是成長過程中必要的一部分，就像擁抱不适感對于拒絕急功近利以實作長期目标至關重要一樣。
Whenever you feel tempted to give up because of momentary pain, do your best to remind yourself that pain passes, but the disappointment you’ll feel upon quitting will accompany you for a long time. Giving up will give you some relief right now, but the price you’ll have to pay will be ultimately more painful than bearing the pain a little while longer.
每當你因為一時的痛苦而想放棄時，請盡力提醒自己，痛苦會過去，但放棄後的失望會伴随你很長時間。
放棄會讓你現在得到一些解脫，但你必須付出的代價最終會比再忍受一段時間的痛苦更痛苦。
If you think that there’s no way you can handle the pain — something that will probably happen to you during the first several weeks of exercising, for example — tell yourself to only bear it for three seconds longer and then give up. Often, pain is a fleeting high-intensity burst at the moment you first feel it, and then it quickly recedes as your body adapts to it — something I experienced in numerous workouts, as well as when I took cold showers. Waiting for three seconds before you give up can be enough time to enable you to withstand the pain and keep going .
如果你認為自己無法承受疼痛。
例如，在運動的最初幾周，你可能會遇到這種情況——告訴自己隻能再多忍受三秒鐘，然後放棄。
通常情況下，疼痛在你剛感覺到它的那一刻是短暫的高強度爆發，然後它會随着你的身體适應它而迅速消退——這是我在無數次鍛煉和洗冷水浴時都經曆過的。
在你放棄之前再等待三秒鐘的時間，足以讓你承受住疼痛并繼續堅持下去。
As a quick disclaimer, please don’t mistake the kind of pain that’s safe, signaling you’re pushing yourself, with the kind of pain that’s the signal of an injury. Whenever you are pushing your limits, always prioritize safety over everything else.
作為一個簡短的免責聲明，請不要把那種安全的、表示你在挑戰自我的疼痛，與那種表示受傷的疼痛相混淆。
無論何時，當你在挑戰自己的極限時，一定要把安全放在第一位。