請停下來思考：你要問問自己的25個問題

If the question makes you think, it’s worth asking.

如果一個問題讓你思考，那它就值得一問。

1. What is it like to wake up every morning?

每天早上醒來是什麼感覺？

2. Do you believe in the death penalty? What if someone murdered your mother in cold blood? What if someone murdered a stranger’s mother, but saved your life the month before?

你是否認爲死刑應該執行？如果有人冷血地謀殺了你的母親呢？如果一個對你有救命之恩的人謀殺了一個陌生人的母親呢？

3. If you had a friend who spoke to you in the same way that you sometimes speak to yourself, how long would you allow that person to be your friend?

如果一個朋友經常用你對自己說話的方式來跟你說話，你會允許這個人和你做多久朋友？

4. Would you rather be rich and paralyzed from the waist down or poor and able bodied?

你願意成爲腰部以下癱瘓的富人還是身體健全的窮人？

5. What’s the most expensive gift you have ever received? Is it the best gift you have ever received?

你收到過的最貴的禮物是什麼？這是你收到過的最好的禮物嗎？

6. When was the last time you lied? Is it possible to lie without saying anything at all?

你上次說謊是什麼時候？什麼都不說就能不動聲色的說謊，你覺得這可能嗎？

7. Stealing is immoral, right? But what if stealing was the only way to feed a starving child?

偷東西是不道德的，對嗎？但如果偷東西只是一個孩子求生的唯一方法呢？

8. If I gave you $20, what percentage would you – really – save? If I gave you $200,000, what percentage would you save? Should there be a difference?

如果我給你20元，你會存下來多少？如果給你20萬，你會存下來多少？這有差別嗎？

9. If someone could tell you the exact day and time that you are going to die, would you want them to tell you?

如果有人知道你你死亡的確切日期和時間，你會讓他們告訴你嗎？

10. If you found out you were going to die today, would you have any regrets? Would you be happy with the way you spent the last 24 hours of your life?

如果你發現你今天要死了，你有什麼後悔的嗎？你對自己的人生度過的最後24小時滿意嗎？

11. What’s your single greatest moment of personal failure? Looking back on it now, did it make you weaker or stronger? What did you learn?

你最難忘的個人失敗經歷是什麼？回頭看看它，這樣的經歷讓你變弱還是變強了？你學到了什麼？

12. Do the words ‘freedom’ and ‘liberty’ mean not being persecuted or discriminated against, or do they mean doing whatever you please?

“自由”和“解放” ，這兩個詞的意思是不受迫害或歧視？還是做任何你喜歡做的事？

13. Have you ever discriminated against someone? Imagine that a street gang notorious for wearing purple shirts has robbed and murdered several hundred people in your town. If a man wearing a purple shirt just rang your doorbell, would you answer it?

你有沒有歧視過別人？想象一下：一個街頭幫派因愛穿紫色襯衫而臭名遠揚，他們在你的小鎮搶掠殺害了數百人。這時如果一個穿着紫色襯衫的人按響了你的門鈴，你會開門嗎？

14. Is it crazier to choose to be poor or to spend 40 years of your life hating 40 hours a week?

是一輩子做窮人的選擇更瘋狂，還是40年的人生中每週要花40個小時來怨恨的生活更瘋狂？

15. Do you ever feel like you don’t have enough time? How many hours a week do you spend watching TV, or playing video games, or…?

你是否覺得你沒有足夠的時間？你一週花在看電視、玩電子遊戲和其他娛樂上的時間有多久？

16. Do you ever celebrate the green lights?

你有爲遇上綠燈而高興嗎？

17. If you could be given another talent or ability, what would you want it to be? Have you ever – really – tried to perfect this ability in yourself?

如果你能被給予另一個天賦或者能力，你希望會是什麼？你是否曾真的希望來讓你的這種能力變完美？

18. No matter how bad things get, are you aware that someone always has it worse than you do?

不管事情變得多糟糕，你是否意識到始終有人比你過得差？

19. When you help someone, do you ever think, “What’s in it for me?”

當你幫助別人時，你是否在想“對我來說這有什麼好處”？

20. Joy is found with simple awareness. What does your joy look like today?

簡單的意識才能尋找到快樂。你今天的快樂是怎樣的？

21. What’s the difference between ‘living’ and ‘existing?’

“生活”和“生存”的區別是什麼？

22. Are you willing to sacrifice the life of your child or lover to support a war?

你願意爲了支持一場戰爭，而犧牲你孩子或者愛人的生命嗎？

23. Do you ask enough questions, or do you settle for what you know?

你會問很多問題嗎？你會滿足於你知道的東西嗎？

24. If you could do it all over again, would you change anything?

如果你能重新再來，你會願意改變一切嗎？

25. If your life was a novel, what would be the title and how would your story end?

如果你的生活是一本小說，標題是什麼，你會以什麼結束你的故事？