生活教會我們成長的10種方式

Lessons are not limited to our academic studies. We are learning from life constantly, as long as we recognise and accept those lessons.
課堂並不侷限於校園學習。只要我們留意並吸收，總能不斷從生活課堂中學到東西。

Learning shouldn’t stop once you graduate from school. Graduating from college doesn’t mean you can no longer be a student. Life offers More lessons than school ever could. As an individual, you must constantly seek for more ways to grow. To be stagnant should never be an option for someone who has so much potential. There are always new things to learn and adventures left to be discovered.
畢業後不該停止學習。大學畢業並不意味着你不再是學生。生活的課堂要遠比學校課堂豐富得多。作爲獨立個體，你必須不斷想方設法尋求成長。停滯不前絕不是擁有無限潛能的人該走的路。生活中，可學習的新技能很多，有待探求的冒險也很多。

When you choose to be a student of life, you open yourself to limitless opportunities.
當你選擇做生活的學徒時，你便給自己創造了無限機遇。

1. Explore the world
探索世界

Don’t limit yourself to your hometown or to the city you got your first job. Go beyond the place you consider home, because home can be many places. It doesn’t have to be just one town or one apartment complex. Backpacking may not be for everyone, but it’s not the only way you can see the world. Travelling doesn’t just have to be going overseas but also dropping by many states. Culture exists not just in a country but even in small communities.
不要把自己困在家鄉或第一次工作的城市。跨越那個你視爲家的地方，因爲家無處不在。家不只是一個鎮子或一幢公寓。揹包遊或許並不適合所有人，但它也不是你看世界的唯一方式呵。旅行並一定非得周遊海外，在國內體驗也行。文化不只存在於某個國度，也存在於小小的社區之中。

2. Acquire new life skills
掌握新的生活技能

Maybe it’s time that you finally learn how to fix a broken faucet or even fix the faulty light in your bathroom. You can finally cross out your bucket list items that have been there forever. Learn how to drive a car or ride a bike. There are definitely things you don’t know how to do, and you have a lifetime ahead of you to learn. It’s never too late to start learning something new.
或許現在你該學會怎麼修理壞掉的水龍頭或者是浴室的壞燈泡了。你可以完成清單上存在已久的任務。學會騎自行車或開車。肯定有很多事情是你不知道的，而你可以用一輩子去琢磨。任何時候學習新事物都不晚。

3. Widen your circle
擴大交際圈子

For some individuals, to grow older means to keep your circle of friends down to a few, but that shouldn’t stop you from meeting new people. Widen your circle by allowing people into your life and letting them get to know you. When you meet so many people and try to learn about them, you don’t merely understand the person but their circumstances as well. Widening your circle to people from all walks of life gives you a bigger and better perspective of the world. It doesn’t mean you have to treat every stranger as a potential friend, but there’s nothing wrong with that, too.
對有些人而言，越長大至交就越少，但你不必因此而停止認識新朋友。接納他人進入你的生活，讓他們瞭解你，從而擴大交際圈子。當你認識和了解的人越多，你對他們本人以及他們的背景也就知道得越多。結交各行各業朋友能開闊你的眼界。當然，這不是要求你把每個陌生人都當作潛在朋友，不過這麼做也無可厚非。

4. Support a cause
支持一項事業

Why not try to turn your passion for animals into a good cause? Learning more about animal welfare can tell you which cosmetic brands support testing on animals. Making your love for books into an advocacy can tell you that many areas lack a library and they need your support. You don’t have to force yourself to support something you don’t believe in. You only need to look at your interests and see which ones need you take some drastic actions.
爲什麼不把你對動物的喜愛發展成一項事業呢？瞭解動物福利能讓你知道什麼化妝品牌支持動物試驗。將你對書籍的熱愛加以推廣，你會知道很多地方沒有圖書館，而你恰好能幫得上忙。你不一定要強迫自己支持自己不相信的事情，而只需關注自己感興趣的，然後看看哪些需要你大力投入。

5 risks
承擔風險

The first step to learning is accepting that you’re prone to make mistakes. Once you’ve accepted that, you’ll have an easier time taking in things and risking everything in favor of your passion. Keeping your 9-to-5 job may keep you secure, but if you’re bored and no longer happy, is it really happy? Submitting an article to your favorite publication in the world may mean rejection, but it can also mean getting published! Stop hesitating because that’s no way to live.
學習的第一步就是承認自己將會犯錯。一旦接受這點，你會更容易趁着熱情接受並嘗試一切。保住朝九晚五的工作或許能給你安全感，但如果你厭倦了、不再開心了，又有什麼意思？向你最喜歡的世界刊物投稿，或許會被退稿，但說不定也會被刊登出來呢！別再猶豫了，因爲生活不等人。6. Enroll in online or night classes
參加網校或夜校

How about learning a new language you can use whenever you travel? Or taking free online classes about Management or Finance on websites such as The Open University? Yes, studying doesn’t also have to restricted in the four corners of a classroom. You won’t get an A for your efforts, and you definitely won’t be on the honors list for writing a good essay in French. But you learn something you like and something you consider useful.
學一門外語以備旅行之用怎麼樣？抑或在The Open University等網站上免費學習管理或金融類課程呢？沒錯，學習並不侷限在四角方方的教室裏。或許你努力之後得不到優評，用法語寫篇好文章也不會榜上有名，但你卻能學到自己喜歡而又實用的東西。

7. Be cultured
提高修養

Watch as many movies and read as many books as possible. And it doesn’t mean that you only watch the ones with high ratings from critics. Absorb as many forms of entertainment as you want without having to concern yourself whether it’s something that can enrich your life. But you see, there’s a reason why so many people devote their entire lives producing movies and writing novels. Just think of it as memoirs by the people who created them. It’s the fruit of their life experiences and understanding of their surroundings. Movies and books are a good look into how people interpret the world.
儘可能多讀書多看電影。這不是說你只需看受到好評的電影。儘可能多接納各種娛樂方式，而不必糾結是否能讓生活變得豐富。要知道，這麼多人窮盡畢生去搞電影搞創作，肯定是有緣由的。所以，你只需把它看成作者的紀錄就行。那是他們生活經歷及對境遇體悟的成果。書籍電影是瞭解他人詮釋世界的好方式。

8. Do many first’s
多嘗試第一次

When was the last time you did something for the first time? If you can’t think of the answer, maybe you need to go out and try something new. It can be as simple as watching a movie alone or as big as trying bungee jumping. Doing something for the first time doesn’t need to have a life-changing effect. It can be a simple realization that apparently, going to a film screening by yourself isn’t so bad. You don’t need always need a profound realization for everything you do.
上回你第一次嘗試新事物是什麼時候？如果想不起來，或許你該走出去試一試了。這既可以小到一個人看電影，也可以大到嘗試蹦極跳。第一次嘗試某件事並不要求驚心動魄的效果。這只是一個簡單念頭：顯然一個人看電影並沒有多麼可怕。你不必每件事情都考慮周全了纔去做。

9. Learn to adapt
學會適應

You can’t stop change from happening in your life. What you can do is accept that it’s inevitable and you just have to adapt. This is why you can’t stop learning, and you can’t stop growing. When you learn to adapt, you pick up something you haven’t encountered before. You can’t try the same methods over and over again, because no matter how similar a situation may be, it’ll need a different solution and treatment of the problem.
你無法阻止生活發生改變。你能做的是接受這個無法避免的事實並去適應它。這也是你爲什麼不能停止學習和成長的原因。當你學習適應時，可以選擇以前不曾遇過的情形。你也不可能反覆運用同一個方法，因爲不管情況多麼相似，也得實事求是解決問題。

10. Initiate
主動

Sometimes, you can’t wait for someone to do things for you. If you feel like something has to be done about something, then it’s probably time that you step up. Be the instigator of the change you want to see. Yes, you can’t be alone when you want to make a difference. But who said that little differences don’t matter?
有時你不能等別人替你把事情做好。如果你覺得某件事必須搞定，那就自己動手。主動去做你想要的改變。的確，你不可能單槍匹馬作出改變，但誰能說小變化沒有意義呢？

There are so much more to learn, especially now that we’re virtually connected to everyone in the world. As a student of life, it’s really up to you to use all your resources and make it into something enriching.
要學的東西實在太多了——尤其是處在這個人與人緊密聯繫的社會。作爲生活的學徒，能否利用身邊資源並創造豐富生活，主動權完全在於你自己。