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22.施比受更好。给予而不期望得到回报，这将是更纯洁和美好的行为。我们总是常常给予的同时又期望得到相同的回赠，至少是得到一些感激或者对我们给予的肯定。努力放弃这些念头吧，只是去给予。

23. Competition is very rarely as useful as cooperation. Our society is geared toward competition — rip each other’s throats out, survival of the fittest, yada yada. But humans are meant to work together for the survival of the tribe, and cooperation pools our resources and allows everyone to contribute what they can. It requires a whole other set of people skills to work cooperatively, but it’s well worth the effort.

23.竞争很少如合作来的有用。我们的社会由竞争向前推动着——让人们彼此视如仇敌，适者生存，诸如此类的。但人类注定为了生存一起工作，而合作将我们聚集一起并让每个人贡献自己的才智。合作需要另外一套完整的人际关系来完成，但是这是值得的。

24. Gratitude is one of the best ways to find contentment. We are often discontent in our lives, desire more, because we don’t realize how much we have. Instead of focusing on what you don’t have, be grateful for the amazing gifts you’ve been given: of loved ones and simple pleasures, of health and sight and the gift of music and books, of nature and beauty and the ability to create, and everything in between. Be grateful every day.

24.寻求满足最好的方式之一就是心怀感激。我们常常对我们的生活不满，渴望太多，是因为我们没有意识到自己所拥有的。与其关注那些我们没有的，不如对自己已经得到的不平凡的礼物心怀感激，这些礼物包括：爱你的人们，简单的乐事，拥有健康和良好视力，美妙的音乐和书籍，性格和美貌，创造力以及这中一切的事物。对每天都心存感激！

25. Compassion for other living things is more important than pleasure. Many people scoff at vegetarianism because they love the taste of meat and cheese too much, but they are putting the pleasure of their taste buds ahead of the suffering of other living, feeling beings. You can be perfectly healthy on a vegetarian (even vegan) diet, so killing and torturing animals is absolutely unnecessary. Compassion is a much more fulfilling way to live than closing your eyes to suffering.

25.对其他生物的怜悯之心比通过他们取乐更重要。很多嘲笑素食主义者，因为他们热衷于肉类和奶酪味道，但是他们把自己味蕾的享受建立在其他生物的痛苦之上。素食同样可以让你保持健康，所以杀害和虐待动物实在没有必要。同情相对无视（其他生物）痛苦是一种更加充实的生活方式。

26. Taste buds change. I thought I could never give up meat, but by doing it slowly, I never missed it. I thought I could never give up junk food like sweets, fried crap, nachos, all kinds of unhealthy things … and yet today I would rather eat some fresh berries or raw nuts. Weird, but it’s amazing how much our taste buds can change.

26.改变自己味蕾。我曾认为我永远不会不吃肉类，但是慢慢的该变，我会不再想起他们的味道。我曾经也认为自己无法戒掉垃圾食物：甜食，油炸食物，粟米脆饼和所有的不健康食品，但是今天我更情愿吃一些鲜草莓或坚果类食物。不可思议吧，但是我们的口味真的是可以改变的。

27. Create. The world is full of distractions, but very few are as important as creating. In my job as a writer, there is nothing that comes close to being as crucial as creating. In my life, creating is one of the few things that has given me meaning. When it’s time to work, clear away all else and create.

27.创造。这世界充满着干扰，但很少有创造来的重要。在我作者工作，没有什么事情会有创造重要。在我的生命中，创造作为能给我生命意义为数不多的几件事情。当你工作时，忘掉其他纷扰努力的去创造。

28. Get some perspective. Usually when we’re worried or upset, it’s because we’ve lost perspective. In the larger picture, this one problem means almost nothing. This fight we’re having with someone else — it’s over something that matters naught. Let it go, and move on.

28.要有远见。通常我们会变得担心或者焦虑是因为我们没有长远的目标。从较高的层次来思考，唯一的问题就是没有任何意义。这场于他人的战斗中，只是为了一些没有意义的事情。任他去吧，自己继续前行

29. Don’t sit too much. It kills you. Move, dance, run, play.

29.不要坐的太久，这对你不好。出去走走，跳舞，跑步，来场比赛都可以。

30. Use the magic of compound interest. Invest early, and it will grow as if by alchemy. Live on little, don’t get into debt, save all you can, and invest it in mutual funds. Watch your money grow.

30.学会使用神奇的复利。早点投资，它会像点金术一样的增长的。用很少的钱来生活，但不要负债，尽量节约，并用来投资一些互惠基金。关注自己资金的增长情况。

31. All we are taught in schools, and all we see in the media (news, films, books, magazines, Internet) has a worldview that we’re meant to conform to. Figure out what that worldview is, and question it. Ask if there are alternatives, and investigate. Hint: the corporations exert influence over all of our information sources. Another hint: read Chomsky.