My secret to staying focused under pressure | Russell Wilson

翻译人员: Su Wang 校对人员: Yanyan Hong

June 8, 2010,

2010 年 6 月 8 日，

Russell Wilson, fourth-round pick to the Colorado Rockies baseball.

拉塞尔 · 威尔逊（Russell Wilson），

在第四轮中被科罗拉多洛基棒球队选中。

I'm fired up,

我兴奋极了， 这是我人生最巅峰的时刻之一。

one of the highest moments of my life.

Every kid's dream to be drafted by a Major League Baseball team.

每个孩子都梦想着入选 美国职业棒球联盟（MLB）的球队。

June 8, 2010.

2010 年 6 月 8 日。

June 9, 2010 --

2010 年 6 月 9 日——

(Imitating flatline sound)

（模仿心电图声）

The line goes flat.

心电图变成了一条直线，

My dad passes away.

我的爸爸去世了。

The highest of the high

人生的最高潮

to the lowest of the low.

和人生的最低谷。

Just like that.

生活就是这样。

My dad laying in his deathbed,

我的爸爸躺在他的灵床上，

just tears running down my face,

泪水从我的脸上划过，

you know, what do I do next?

我下一步应该做什么？

My mind racing, memories, flashbacks, moments,

我的大脑在飞速运转 回忆那些记忆、时光、时刻，

early mornings, getting up,

清晨，起床，

taking grounders and throwing,

做滚球和投掷的练习，

speed outs and deep post routes to my brother and my dad,

练习速度，与我的父亲 和兄弟深入探讨路线，

to early morning car rides to AAU baseball,

到清早驾车前往美国 业余运动联盟（AAU）橄榄球队，

to my dad being the third-base coach.

我的父亲当时是三垒的教练。

Fast-forward to the championship high of winning a Super Bowl,

记忆快进到赢得超级碗的总冠军，

holding up the Lombardi Trophy

举起隆巴迪奖杯，

and the emotions and the excitement of it all,

这些时刻的感触和兴奋,

blue and green confetti all over the place

满地的蓝色和绿色的纸片

and knowing that you just won the Super Bowl,

意识到你刚拿下了超级碗的冠军，

to a year later, the pressure of the game,

再到一年之后，比赛的压力，

the ball on the one-yard line,

球正好压在一码线上，

and this is the chance to win the game, and it doesn't work.

而这是一个可以赢得 比赛的机会，但我搞砸了。

And however many millions and millions of people

然而全世界数以百万的人

all over the world watching.

在观看这场比赛。

And having to walk to the media,

而我将必须面对媒体的采访，

and what do I say next, what do I do, what do I think?

我将说什么？ 我将做什么，我将想什么？

Being married at a young age

年纪轻轻就结了婚，

and just coming out of college and everything else,

并且才刚刚大学毕业， 还有其他所有的事情，

to, you know, shortly after, marriage not working out

很快，你发现婚姻并不顺利，

and realizing, you know what?

然后我才意识到，知道吗？

Life happens.

这就是生活。

Life happens, life happens to all of us.

这就是生活， 并且生活对我们每个人都一视同仁。

Loss of family members, divorce,

失去家人，离婚，

fear, pain, depression, concerns, worries.

恐惧，伤痛，消沉，纠结，担心。

When you think about being superpositive --

当你想保持超级乐观——

yes, I'm positive by nature,

是的，我天生是一个乐观的人，

but positivity, you know, it doesn't always work,

但是乐观，你知道， 事情不可能一直顺利，

because when you're down 16-nothing in an NFC championship game,

因为当你在 NFC 冠军赛中 落后 16 支队伍时，

and people are like,

人们就会说，

"Russ, we're not going to be able to win this game, man,

"拉塞，我们赢不了这场比赛了，

现在的情况并不乐观。"

it's not a great situation right now,"

or when you're facing cancer,

或者当时面对癌症，

or when you have things you have to deal with

或者当你必须去面对一些事情，

or finances and this and that,

或者不利的经济状况诸如此类，

like, how do we deal with it?

我们该怎么办？

It's hard to be positive in the midst of it all.

当你处于所有这些烦恼之中时 是很难保持乐观的。

And what I definitely knew was this:

而且，我可以肯定的是：

that negativity works 100 percent of the time.

这些时候人总是悲观的，

Negativity was going to get me nowhere.

而悲观会让我无处可藏。

I started saying to myself, "New are his mercies every morning,"

我开始对自己说， "每一天醒来都是新的，"

new beginnings, new starts.

新的开始。

And despite hardship and pain and worries and wanting to get through it

不去想困难、痛苦、担忧， 以及怎样摆脱它们，

and "How do I do this?",

那么，“我该怎么做？”

我开始思考汽车。

I started thinking about a car.

You know how when you drive a car, you've got stick shift

你知道当你在开车时，需要换挡，

and you want to shift to neutral?

你想换到空挡？

You go from first gear to second gear, all the way to fifth?

你从一挡换到二挡，一直换到五挡，

但是你必须要知道怎么换到空挡。

You've got to know how to shift to neutral.

And I needed to shift to neutral immediately, before I crashed.

我需要在被撞毁之前，换回空挡，

Sitting there after the Super Bowl,

在超级碗赛后，我坐在那里，

I had a decision to make:

我做了一个决定：

Will I let this define my career? Will I let it define my life?

我会让这次失败定义我的职业生涯吗？ 我会让它定义我的人生吗？

Hell, no.

当然不会。

我发现的是： 那个思维方式是一个技能，

What I found out was this: that mindset is a skill.

It can be taught and learned.

它可以学习和训练。

I started 10 years ago, training my mind,

十年之前，我开始训练我的思维方式，

with this guy named Trevor Moawad, my mental conditioning coach.

和我的心理教练 特雷弗 · 穆阿瓦德（Trevor Moawad）

He's been with me for 10 years,

他指导我十年了，

我们成为了最好的朋友和搭档。

and we've been best friends and partners ever since.

As athletes, we train the body,

作为运动员，我们训练我们的身体，

我们通过训练去跑得更快， 投得更远，跳得更高

we train ourselves to be able to run fast, throw farther, jump higher

并且能够做到很多不同的事情，

and do these different things,

但是我们为什么不训练我们的大脑呢？

but why don't we train our mind?

你想让你的生活看起来是什么样子的？

What do you want your life to look like?

写下来，讲出来，说出来。

Write it out, talk about it, say it.

我们的语言是什么， 它是什么样子的呢，

What's our language, what does it look like,

看看这些高光的时刻，拉塞尔， 当你在你生命中最美好的时刻，

watch these highlights, Russell, when you're in your best moments.

What does that look like?

它们是什么样子的呢？

And be that, live that, sound like that.

然后，就像那样， 那样去生活，就像那样。

The best free throw shooters,

最好的罚球手，

他们不担心已经丢掉的球。

they don't worry about the shot they just missed.

他们只关心当下这一球，

They think about this shot,

this putt, this throw, this first down.

这一推，这一投，这一落地。

Then I met this kid Milton Wright, 19 years old,

当我见到这个 19 岁的孩子 米尔顿 · 怀特 (Milton Wright) 时，

he had cancer three different times.

他经历过三次不同的癌症。

This day when I went to see him, he was frustrated,

我去看他的那天，他很烦躁，

"Russ, I'm done, I don't want to do this anymore,

"拉塞尔，我完了， 我不想再这么活着了，

我想要离开了。"

it's my time to go."

I started telling him this story about my dad,

我说不，我开始给他讲我爸爸的故事，

他过去常说，“儿子，你为什么不？

how he used to say, "Son, why not you?

Why don't you graduate early, play pro football and pro baseball?

你为什么不早点毕业， 为什么不打职业美式足球或者橄榄球？

你为什么不，你为什么不？”

Why not you, why not you?"

I said, "Milton, why not you?

我说， “米尔顿，你为什么不？

If you tried T-cell therapy,

如果你尝试 T 细胞治疗，

and you try this and it doesn't work,

你尝试了却失败了，

you won't remember it."

你不会记住这件事的。”

So Milton got a smile on his face and said,

然后，米尔顿笑了，他说，

"You're exactly right.

“你说得没错。

Yes, I do have cancer, Russ.

是的，我是得了癌症，拉塞尔。

But I can either let this kill me,

但是我要么让它结束我的生命，

not just physically,

并不只是从身体上，

but I can also let it kill me emotionally and mentally.

也是从情绪和精神上打败我。

And I have a choice right now, in the midst of the problem,

然而，我现在还有一个选择， 在这个问题上，

in the midst of the storm,

在这场风暴的中央，

to decide to overcome."

决定去与之对抗。”

One of the questions I always get asked about neutral thinking is this:

人们经常问我关于 “中和思维” 的一个问题是：

"Does that mean I don't have any emotion?"

"那意味着我没有情绪吗？"

And I always say, absolutely not.

然而，我总是说，当然不是。

Yeah, we have emotions,

是的，我们有情绪，

we have real-life situations,

我们现实生活中有种种状况，

we have things to deal with.

我们都有一些事情要去处理。

But what you have to be able to do is to stay focused on the moment

但是你要做的就是保持专注，

and to not be superemotional.

并且不要过于情绪化。

It's OK to have emotions, but don't be emotional.

有情绪没有关系， 但是不要情绪化。

When people look at me,

当人们都看着我时，

they see that I'm the highest-paid player in the NFL,

他们认为我是个高薪的 NFL 球员，

they see that I have the girl and Ciara,

他们看到我的女孩希亚拉 （Ciara），

that I have the family and this and that.

我有家人，有这个，有那个，

But I still have real-life situations.

但是我也有现实生活的烦恼。

We all do.

我们都有。

We all have, you know, sadness and loss

我们都有，伤心和失去，

and depression and worries and fear.

还有消沉、担忧和恐惧。

I didn't just get here.

我不仅仅是到了这里。

What's the truth,

而真相是，

and how do I come through this better?

我怎样更好的处理这些烦恼的？

And that's really, kind of, how my mind started shifting.

那就是我的思维方式 是怎样开始转换的。

It was not just on the success of it all or the failure of it,

它并不基于所有的成功， 或者所有的失败，

it was on the process, like:

而是在于这个过程，比如：

What is the next step, how do I do this right here, right now?

下一步是什么？ 我现在该怎么做？

We have a choice to make in life.

我们在生活中需要去做一个选择。

And for me, when I was young and I didn't have much,

对我而言，当我年轻， 我还没有很多东西的时候，

I made a choice.

我做了一个选择。

I made a choice that I was going to believe

我选择了去相信

that great things were going to happen,

美好的事情会如期而至，

that I was going to have my mindset right,

相信我拥有正确的心态，

and I was going to have the right language

我会选择正确的表达方式，

and the right things to think about,

以及能正确地去思考事情，

which helped prepare me for today.

正是这些成就了今天的我。

Because I'm just human.

因为我只是一个普通人，

I just have the ability to throw the ball a long way

我能做得只是把球扔得远远的，

奔跑，并且投几个炫酷的球，

and run around and make some cool and fun throws

and make some people smile.

给人们带去些欢乐。

But the reality is that I still have pressure,

但真实的情况是我也有压力，

I still have worries, I still have fears,

我也有担心，我也有恐惧，

I still have things that happen.

我也遇到突发的状况，

Still have loss.

也会有失去。

Positivity can be dangerous.

乐观情绪也可能是危险的，

But what always works is negativity.

但悲观情绪却总是存在的。

I never wanted to live in negativity,

我不想活在悲观之中，

so I stayed in neutral.

所以我保持中立，

I kept my shift in neutral.

使自己处于中立的状态，

And so that's where I lived,

所以那就是我现在的生活，

and that's where I've been living ever since.

那也是我一直以来生活的状态。