232 Intelligent People
232 聪明人
Taking charge of yourself involves putting to rest some very prevalent myths. At the top of the list is the notion that intelligence is measured by your ability to solve complex problems; to read, write and compute at certain levels; and to resolve abstract equations quickly. This vision of intelligence asserts formal education and bookish excellence as the true measures of self-fulfillment. It encourages a kind of intellectual prejudice that has brought with it some discouraging results. We have come to believe that someone who has more educational meritbadges, who is very good at some form of school discipline is "intelligent". Yet mental hospitals are filled with patients who have all of the properly lettered certificates. A truer indicator of intelligence is an effective, happy life lived each day and each present moment of every day.
想要照管好自己就要摈弃某些很流行的说法，其中最普遍的观点就是聪明是依据你解决复杂问题的能力，读写能力，一定水平的计算能力和快速分析抽象等式的能力来衡量的。这种看待聪明的观点认为正式的教育和对书本知识的透彻了解才是自我实现的真正的衡量标准。它引发了一种智力偏见，导致了一些不良后果。我们开始相信那些教育上取得较高成就的人，那些能很好地遵守学校规则的人就是“聪明人”。然而，精神病医院却随处可见拥有高学历的病人。聪明人的真正表现是_每天每时每刻都能够过着卓有成效的，快乐的生活。
If you are happy, if you live each moment for everything it's worth, then you are an intelligent person. Problem solving is a useful help to your happiness, but if you know that given your inability to resolve a particular concern you can still choose happiness for yourself, or at a minimum refuse to choose unhappiness, then you are intelligent. You are intelligent because you have the ultimate weapon against the big N.B.D.---Nervous Break Down.
如果你感到快乐，如果你每时每刻都傲着有价值的事情，那么你就是一个聪明的人。解决问题能令你快乐，但是当你无法解决你特别关注的问题时，如果你还是能为自己选择快乐，或者至少你不会选择不快乐，那么你是一个聪明的人。你聪明是因为你拥有对付精神崩溃的终极武器。
"Intelligent" people do not have N.B.D.'s because they are in charge of themselves. They know how to choose happiness over depression, because they know how to deal with the problems of their lives.
“聪明的”人不会精神崩溃，因为他们能很好地照管好自己。他们知道在消沉的时候如何去选择快乐，因为他们知道如何去处理生活中遇到的问题。
You can begin to think of yourself as truly intelligent on the basis of how you choose to feel in the face of trying circumstances. The life struggles are pretty much the same for each of us. Everyone who is involved with other human beings in any social context has similar difficulties. Disagreements, conflicts and compromises are a part of what it means to be human. Similarly, money,growing old, sickness, deaths, natural disasters and accidents are all events which present problems to virtually all human beings.But some people are able to make it, to avoid immobilizing depression and unhappiness despite such occurrences, while others collapse or have an N.B.D. Those who recognize problems as a human condition and don't measure happiness by an absence of problems are the most intelligent kind of humans we know; also,the most rare.
当你在选择如何面对艰苦的处境时，你可以尝试着把自己想像成是一个聪明人。对我们每一个人来说，生活中都会遇到相似的斗争。每一个身处不同社会的人都有着相似的困难。争执，冲突和妥协都是人类社会的组成部分。同样，金钱，衰老，疾病，死亡，自然灾难和突发事故实际上是整个人类都会遭遇到的问题。但是遇到这样的问题时，有些人能成功地越过去，即使当那些不幸发生的时候还是能设法避免沮丧和忧虑情绪，而另一些人则会被压垮或是精神崩溃。那些认识到问题普遍存在于人类生活中，不以没有问题作为衡量快乐标准的人是我们所知道的最聪明的人，但这样的人是寥寥无几的。