So what is the cure for laziness? The answer is a little greed.
那么，什么能够治疗这种情性呢？答案就是“贪婪”一点。
If they aren’t busy at work or with the kids, they’re often busy watching TV, fishing, playing golf or shopping. Yet, deep down they know they are avoiding something important. That’s the most common form of laziness. Laziness by staying busy.
如果他们并不忙于工作或与孩子在一起，他们常常会忙着看电视、钓鱼、打高尔夫球或者购物。总之，把问题掩盖起来使他们逃避了一些重要的事情。这是最普遍的一种懒惰形式，一种通过忙碌来表现的懒惰。
For many of us, we were raised thinking of greed or desire as bad. “Greedy people are bad people,” my mom use to say. Yet, we all have inside of us this yearning to have nice things, new things or exciting things. So to keep that emotion of desire under control, often parents found ways of suppressing that desire with guilt.
对于我们许多人来说，我们是在把贪婪或欲望看作坏事的环境中成长起来的。“贪婪的人都是坏人，”妈妈常常这样说。然而，我们的心里都在渴望着拥有那些美好、新奇或令人高兴的东西。因此，为了控制这种欲望，父母便常常想办法教导我们用负罪感来抑制这种欲望。
“You only think about yourself. Don’t you know you have brothers and sisters?” was one of my mom’s favorites. Or “You want me to buy you what?” was a favorite of my dad. “Do you think we’re made of money? Do you think money grows on trees? We’re not rich people, you know.”
“你只考虑你自己，你难道不知道还有兄弟姐妹吗？”这是我妈妈常爱说的一句话。 “你还想要我给你买什么？”我爸爸则爱说，“难道你认为我们是摇钱树吗？你认为钱是从树上掉下来的吗？你知道我们不是富人。”
Today, I often meet people who are too busy to take care of their wealth. And there are people too busy to take care of their health. The cause is the same. They’re busy, and they stay busy as a way of avoiding something they do not want to face. Nobody has to tell them. Deep down they know. In fact, if you remind them, they often respond with anger or irritation.
我经常遇到那些过分忙于工作而不顾及到自己身体健康的人，原因是一样的：他们很忙，他们把忙碌工作当作逃避自己不想面对的一些问题的途径。没有人去告诉他们这些，他们把难题掩盖起来。事实上，假如你去提醒他们，他们还常常会感到不快。
Or the reverse guilt-trip was the “I’m sacrificing my life to buy this for you. I’m buying this for you because I never had this advantage when I was a kid.” I have a neighbor who is stone broke, but can’t park his car in his garage. The garage is filled with toys for his kids. Those spoiled brats get everything they ask for. “I don’t want them to know the feeling of want” are his everyday words. He has nothing set aside for their college or his retirement, but his kids have every toy ever made. He recently got a new credit card in the mail and took his kids to visit Las Vegas. “I’m doing it for the kids,” he said with great sacrifice.
还有另外一种父母，他们采取的方式是另一种极端，他们常会这样说：“我牺牲自己的生活去买来这个给你，我给你买这个是因为在我小时候从未得到过这些东西。”我有一个邻居身无分文，但他的车库里却满是他孩子的玩具，以至于不能将车停进车库里。受溺爱的孩子们得到了他们要求的任何东西，“我不想让他们尝到贫困的滋味”是他每天都要说的话。他没有为孩子上大学或自己退休留下任何东西，可他的孩子却拥有市场上出售的每种玩具。他最近刚得到一张信用卡，就带上孩子去拉斯维加斯玩了。“我这么做全是为了孩子。”临走时他带着深深的自我牺牲的神情对我说。 在我看来，以上这两种父母常用的教育方式都不能培养孩子正确的金钱观念和投资意识。
It wasn’t so much the words but the angry guilt-trip that went with the words that got to me.
还有许多这样的话，这些话影响了我和其他和我一样的孩子们。
Rich dad forbade the words “I can’t afford it.”
富爸爸从不使用“我不能支付这个”这类的话。
In my real home, that’s all I heard. Instead, rich dad required his children to say, “How can I afford it?” His reasoning, the words “I can’t afford it” shut down your brain. It didn’t have to think anymore. “How can I afford it'” opened up the brain. Forced it to think and search for answers.
在我自己的家里，这可是我常听到的。但富爸爸要求他的孩子们说：“我怎样才能够支付这个？”。他的理由是：“我不能支付这个”这句话禁锢了你的思想，使你不再去作进一步的思考。“我怎样才能支付这个？”则开启了你的头脑，迫使你去思索并寻求答案。
But most importantly, he felt the words “I can’t afford it” were a lie. And the human spirit knew it. “The human spirit is very, very, powerful,” he would say. “It knows it can do anything.” By having a lazy mind that says, “I can’t afford it,” a war breaks out inside you. Your spirit is angry, and your lazy mind must defend its lie. The spirit is screaming, “Come on. Let’s go to the gym and work out.” And the lazy mind says, “But I’m tired. I worked really hard today.” Or the human spirit says, “I’m sick and tired of being poor. Let’s get out there and get rich.” To which the lazy mind says, “Rich people are greedy. Besides it’s too much bother. It’s not safe. I might lose money. I’m working hard enough as it is. I’ve got too much to do at work anyway. Look at what I have to do tonight. My boss wants it finished by the morning.”
但是最重要的是，他觉得“我不能支付这个”是一句谎言，他坚信人的精神能够做到一切。“人类的精神力量非常非常强大‘，他常说，”你自己知道你能做成任何事情“。然而人的头脑中却总是有两个声音，积极的精神鼓励你去获得你想要的，而那个懒惰的思想却说：“我不能支付这个”，两种思想在你的脑子里交锋，你的精神愤怒了，而你的懒惰思想就会为自己的谎言辩护。你的精神大叫道：“来吧，让我们到健身房锻炼”，而懒惰思想会说，“可我太累了，我今天确实工作很辛苦。”你的精神会说，“我厌倦了贫穷的生活，让我们脱离这劳碌的生活而致富”，对此懒惰思想会说：“富人们很贪婪，此外还很讨厌；这不安全，我可能会有损失；我要尽可能地努力工作，我有许多工作要做；看看我今晚必须做的事情，我的老板希望我明天早上之前干完这些。”
“I can’t afford it” also brings up sadness. A helplessness that leads to ‘ despondency and often depression. “Apathy” is another word. “How can I afford it?” opens up possibilities, excitement and dreams. So rich dad, was not so concerned about what you wanted to buy, but that “How can ‘f j I afford it?” created a stronger mind and a dynamic spirit.
“我不能支付这个”带来的悲哀和无助会导致失望、冷漠以至意志消沉。“我怎样才能支付这个”则打开了充满可能性的快乐和梦想之门。因此，富爸爸并不太关心我实际上想要买的是什么，他只是想通过促使我们不断思索“我怎样才能支付这个”来创造一种更强有力的思想和更有活力的精神。
So how do you beat laziness? The answer is a little greed. It’s that radio station WII-FM, which stands for “What’s In It — For Me?” A person needs to sit down and ask, “What’s in it for me if I’m healthy, sexy and good looking?” Or “What would my life be like if I never had to work again?” Or “What would I do if I had all the money I needed?” Without that little greed, the desire to have something better, progress is not made. Our world progresses because we all desire a better life. New inventions are made because we desire something better. We go to school and study hard because we want something better. So whenever you find yourself avoiding something you know you should be doing, then the only thing to ask yourself is “What’s in it for me?” Be a little greedy. It’s the best cure for laziness.
那么，你怎样克服懒惰心理呢？答案是多一点点“贪婪”，要勇于去追求并得到自己所想要的生活。记得有家调频电台的心理节目里曾经提出“这里有什么是为我准备的”这种说法。在节目中，一个人坐下来需要问：“如果我身体健康、性感、长相英俊，我还要做什么事？”或者“如果我不再工作，我的生活会是什么样？”或者“如果我拥有自己需要的所有的钱，那我将做什么？”用这样的方式来激发人们对美好生活的向往和追求。没有一点点“贪婪”，没有想拥有更好东西的渴望，就不会取得进步。世界之所以进步是因为我们都渴望过上更好的生活，新发明的产生也是因为我们渴望更好的东西，我们努力去学习也是因为我们想要更好的东西。因此，每当你发现自己在逃避你心里清楚应该去做的事情时，那么谁一要自问的是：“这里有什么是我应该得到的？” 稍稍“贪婪”一点，这是治愈懒惰的最好办法。
When I decided to exit the rat race, it was simply a question. “How can I afford to never work again?” And my mind began to kick out answers and solutions. The hardest part was fighting my real parents’ dogma of “We can’t afford that.” Or “Stop thinking only about yourself.” Or “Why don’t you think about others?” and other such words designed to instill guilt to suppress my greed.
当我决定从“老鼠赛跑”这个游戏中走出来，就问这个简单的问题。“我怎么才能永远不工作又有钱花呢？”我的脑子就会开始寻找答案和解决方案。最难的就是别让我父母灌输给我的教条来抑制我的贪婪，比如“我们付不起这个。”“只考虑你自己。”或者“怎么就不为别人想想呢？”等等。
Thus, he rarely gave Mike or me anything. Instead he would ask, “How can you afford it?” and that included college, which we paid for ourselves. It was not the goal but the process of attaining the goal we desired that he wanted us to learn. The problem I sense today is that there are millions of people who feel guilty about their greed. It’s an old conditioning from their childhood. Their desire to have the finer things that life offers. Most have been conditioned subconsciously to say, “You can’t have that,” or. “You’ll never afford that.”
所以，他很少给我和迈克买任何东西，相反，他会问：“你怎样才能买得起这个？”于是包括上大学，都是我们自己挣钱支付的。并不是目标本身，而是达到我们所期望的目标的这一过程，才是他真正希望我们去学习的东西。 我感到今天的问题是成千上万的人对自己的“贪婪”感到罪过，这是他们在少年时代就因袭到的陈旧思想。他们渴望拥有生活所提供的那些更美好的东西，但面对困难，大部分人却下意识地调整自己并借口说：“你不能拥有这个”，或者“你可支付不起这个”。
For guilt robs the body of its soul.” And to me, Eleanor Roosevelt said it best: “Do what you feel in your heart to be right — for you’ll be criticized anyway. You’ll be damned if you do, and damned if you don’t.”
因为负罪感从身体里抢走了灵魂。”而对我来说，埃连娜。罗斯福说的好：“做你心里认为正确的事——因为你不管怎么做总会受到批评。如果你做的话，会受到指责；而你不做的话，还是会受到指责。”
Too much greed, however, as anything in excess can be, is not good. But just remember what Michael Douglas said in the movie Wall Street. “Greed is good.” Rich dad said it differently: “Guilt is worse than greed.
当然，就像任何事情都要有“度”一样，过于贪婪就不好了。但我们必须要改掉长期以来形成的一味压抑个人需要的社会意识，因为个人需要正是形成社会需求从而拉动经济，促进社会发展进步的根源。要记住迈克尔。道格拉斯在电影《华尔街》中所说的：“欲望是好事”。富爸爸以另一种方式说：“负罪感比欲望要糟。
Reason No. 4. Habits. Our lives are a reflection of our habits more than our education. After seeing the movie Conan, starring Arnold Schwarzenegger, a friend said, “I’d love to have a body like Schwarzenegger.” Most of the guys nodded in agreement.
原因之四：习惯。我们的生活更多地反映我们的习惯而不是我们所受到的教育。上学时在看过明星阿诺德。施瓦辛格主演的电影《科南》以后，一位朋友说，“我多想拥有像施瓦辛格那样的身材”，大部分男生都点头表示同意。
“Yeah, I’ll bet he has to.”
“没错，我敢打赌他不得不这样。”
“Yeah, I heard that too,” another one added. “I heard he has a habit of working out almost every day in the gym.”
“是的，我也听说过，”另一位说道。“我听说他几乎每天都泡在健身房里。”
“Nah,” said the group cynic. “I’ll bet he was born that way. Besides, let’s stop talking about Arnold and get some beers.”
“不是的，”那个崇拜者说，“我肯定他天生如此。算了吧，我们不可能练成他那样的体格，咱们别再谈论施瓦辛格了，来喝点啤酒吧。”
“I even heard he was really puny and skinny at one time,” another friend added.
“但我听说他实际上曾经很瘦弱。”另一位朋友补充说。
“Which he usually doesn’t,” I said. “But he has to pay his bills, doesn’t he? You’re saying he shouldn’t pay his bills?”
“可他也不希望这样”，我说，“但他不得不按时支付账单，不是吗？你是说他不应该支付账单吗？”
This is an example of habits controlling behavior. I remember asking my rich dad about the habits of the rich. Instead of answering me outright, he wanted me to learn through example, as usual.
这是习惯控制行为的一个例子。我记得问到富爸爸有关富人的习惯问题，他没有直接回答我，他像往常一样希望我从实例中学习。
“The same,” said rich dad. “I still pay myself first. Even if I’m short of money. My asset column is far more important to me than the government.”
“同样的办法，”富爸爸说，“我仍然首先支付自己，即使我缺钱。因为对我个人来说，我的资产项目比政府重要得多。”
“The first of the month,” I said.
“每月初。”我说。
“When does your dad pay his bills?” rich dad asked.
“你爸爸什么时候支付账单？”富爸爸问道。
“Very little,” I said.
“非常少。”我回答。
“Your dad pays everyone else first. He pays himself last, but only if he has anything left over.”
“你爸爸总是首先支付给其他人，最后才支付给自己，而且这还得看他有无剩余。”
“Does he have anything left over?” he asked.
“那支付完账单后他还有节余的钱吗？”他问。
“But,” I said. “Don’t they come after you?”
“可是，”我说，“他们不会来找你的麻烦吗？”
“That’s the main reason he struggles,” said rich dad. “He has bad habits.”
“这就是他苦苦挣扎的主要原因，”富爸爸说，“他有一些坏习惯。”
“But what happens if you don’t have enough money?” I asked. “What do you do then?”
“但是如果你没有足够的钱，”我问，“你会怎么办呢？”
“Of course not,” said rich dad. “I firmly believe in paying my bills on time. I just pay myself first. Before I pay even the government.”
“当然不是，”富爸爸说，“我坚持应该按时支付账单，不同的只是我会安排好，并且首先支付给我自己。”
“It’s not how. The question is ‘Why,'” rich dad said.
“不是怎样，而是‘为什么’。”富爸爸说。
“But,” I replied. “How do you do that'”
“但是，”我又问，“你是怎样去做的呢？”
“Yes, if you don’t pay,” said rich dad. “Look, I did not say not to pay. I just said I pay myself first, even if I’m short of money.”
“会的，如果你不支付的话，”富爸爸说，“但是你看，我并没有说不支付。我只是说首先支付给我自己，即便是我缺钱。”
“Motivation,” said rich dad “Who do you think will complain louder if I don’t pay them — me or my creditors?”
“动力，孩子，这完全是一个动力问题”富爸爸说，“如果我不支付我自己或者不支付我的贷款人，你认为谁抱怨的声音会更大些？”
“OK, why?”
“那好，为什么？”
“So you see, after paying myself, the pressure to pay my taxes and the other creditors is so great that it forces me to seek other forms of income. The pressure to pay becomes my motivation. I’ve worked extra jobs, started other companies, traded in the stock market, anything just to make sure those guys don’t start yelling at me. That pressure made me work harder, forced me to think, and all in all made me smarter and more active when it comes to money. If I had paid myself last, I would have felt no pressure, but I’d be broke.”
“所以你看，在我把仅有的钱先支付给自己后，要支付税款和其他贷款人的压力就会变得非常大，迫使我去寻求其他形式的收入，支付的压力成为我的动力。我会干额外的工作，开其他公司，在股票市场上买卖多几支股票以及去做任何可以使那些人不再向我叫喊的事。压力迫使我努力工作，迫使我去思考，最重要的是迫使我在钱的问题上更精明、更积极主动。然而如果我像你爸爸一样最后支付给自己，我就不会感到任何压力，但我一定会因此而破产。”
“Your creditors will definitely scream louder than you,” I said, responding to the obvious. “You wouldn’t say anything if you didn’t pay yourself.”
“当然是你的贷款人会比你叫的更响。”一个显而易见的回答，“如果你不支付给自己的话，我想你什么也不会说。”
I nodded. “I see that ad for weightlifting and bodybuilding lessons in the comic books all the time.”
我点了点头。“我总在漫画书上看到举重和健美广告。”
I liked what rich dad was saying. “So if I pay myself first, I get financially stronger, mentally and fiscally.”
我喜欢富爸爸说的话。“所以，如果我也学会先支付我自己，我就会在财务上更强壮，嗅，应该是在精神上和财务上都更加强壮。”
Rich dad nodded.
富爸爸点了点头。
“So it is the fear of the government or other people you owe money I to that motivates you?”
“你是说因为你欠了政府机构或其他人的债，所以你对他们的担心激励了你？”
“That’s right,” said rich dad. “You see, government bill collectors are big bullies. So are bill collectors in general. Most people give into these bullies. They pay them and never pay themselves. You know the story of the 96-pound weakling who gets sand kicked in his face?”
“对，”富爸爸说，“你看，政府的征税者和其他的收账者一样需要面对，大部分人会向这种威势屈服，于是他们先支付这些账单却克服自己的需要。你听说过瘦弱的人被人欺付的故事吧？”
“Well, most people let the bullies kick sand in their faces. I decided to use the fear of the bully to make me stronger. Others get weaker. Forcing myself to think about how to make extra money is like going to the gym and working out with weights. The more I work my mental money muscles out, the stronger I get. Now, I’m not afraid of those bullies.”
“好的，大部分人让那些收账的人把沙子踢到他们脸上，而我决定利用对这种人的恐惧来使我变得更加强壮，这样做会使其他人变得更加虚弱。我迫使自己考虑如何挣到额外的钱就好比去健身房做负重练习，我思想上的‘金钱肌肉’越发达，我就越强大。现在，我不再害怕这些人了。”
“And if I pay myself last, or not at all, I get weaker. So people like bosses, managers, tax collectors, bill collectors and landlords push me around all my life. Just because I don’t have good money habits.”
“而如果我像我爸爸那样最后支付自己，或根本就不支付，我就会变得更加虚弱，那么我一生都会围着老板、经理、税务官员。收账员及地主们转，仅仅因为我没有良好的财务习惯。”
Reason No. 5. Arrogance. Arrogance is ego plus ignorance. I “What I know makes me money. What I don’t know loses me money. Every time I have been arrogant, I have lost money. Because when I’m arrogant, I truly believe that what I don’t know is not important,” rich dad would often tell me.
原因之五：傲慢。傲慢是无知的另一面。“我的知识给我带来金钱，我所不知道的东西使我失去金钱。每次当我自高自大时，我真的相信我所不知道的东西并不重要。“富爸爸经常这样告诉我。
I have found that many peoplewo use arrogance to try to hide their own ignorance. It often happens when I am discussing financial statements with accountants or even other investors.
我发现许多人试图用傲慢来掩饰自己的无知，甚至当我同会计甚至其他投资者讨论财务报告时，这种事情也经常发生。
There are many people in the world of money, finances and investments who have absolutely no idea what they’re talking about. Most people in the money industry are just spouting off sales pitches like used-car salesmen.
在资金、金融和投资领域，有许多人完全不知道自己在谈论什么。财经行业的大部分人喜欢滔滔不绝地夸夸其谈，其实他们并没有什么真才实学。
They try to bluster their way through the discussion. It is clear to me that they don’t know what they’re talking about. They’re not lying, but they are not telling the truth.
他们试图用自吹自擂来赢得争论，而我很清楚，这是因为他们不懂自己在谈论什么。他们并没有撒谎，只是没有谈出真相。
Rich dad nodded. “Just like the 96-pound weakling.”
富爸爸点头称是，“就像体质虚弱的人一样。”
When you know you are ignorant in a subject, start educating yourself by finding an expert in the field or find a book on the subject.
如果你知道自己在某一问题上欠缺知识，不要试图掩饰，因为那是在欺骗你自己，你应该做的是去找一位这一领域的专家或者找一本有关这一问题的书，马上开始教育自己。
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