My secret to staying focused under pressure | Russell Wilson

譯者: Lilian Chiu 審譯者: Amanda Chu

June 8, 2010,

2010 年 6 月 8 日，

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

羅素威爾遜，在第四輪 選進了科羅拉多洛磯棒球隊。

I'm fired up,

我好激動，這是我人生中 最興奮的時刻之一。

one of the highest moments of my life.

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

每個孩子的夢想就是 被大聯盟球隊給相中。

June 8, 2010.

2010 年 6 月 8 日。

June 9, 2010 --

2010 年 6 月 9 日——

(Imitating flatline sound)

（模仿心電圖成直線的聲音）

The line goes flat.

那條線變成了水平線。

My dad passes away.

我爸爸過世了。

The highest of the high

從興奮之最

to the lowest of the low.

掉到了低潮之最。

Just like that.

只在轉眼間。

My dad laying in his deathbed,

我爸爸躺在他臨終的床上，

just tears running down my face,

我潸然淚下，

you know, what do I do next?

接下來要怎麼辦？

My mind racing, memories, flashbacks, moments,

我的大腦轉個不停、記憶、 往事重現、各種時刻、

early mornings, getting up,

一大早、起床、

taking grounders and throwing,

接滾地球和傳球、

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

美式足球跑位長傳給我兄弟和爸爸、

to early morning car rides to AAU baseball,

一大早搭車到業餘運動聯盟棒球場，

to my dad being the third-base coach.

到我爸爸當三壘教練。

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

快轉到贏得超級盃冠軍的興奮，

holding up the Lombardi Trophy

把蘭巴迪獎座高高舉起， 還有滿滿的情緒和激動，

and the emotions and the excitement of it all,

到處都是藍色和綠色的碎紙片， 知道你剛贏得了超級盃，

blue and green confetti all over the place

and knowing that you just won the Super Bowl,

to a year later, the pressure of the game,

到一年後，比賽的壓力，

the ball on the one-yard line,

一碼線上的球，

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

這是贏得比賽的機會，結果還是輸了。

And however many millions and millions of people

全世界有數百萬人在觀看。

all over the world watching.

And having to walk to the media,

我得走向媒體，

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

我接下來要說什麼、 要做什麼、要想什麼？

Being married at a young age

很年輕時就結婚，

and just coming out of college and everything else,

才剛從大學畢業等等，

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

沒多久，婚姻走不下去了，

and realizing, you know what?

知道我接著了解到什麼嗎？

Life happens.

這就是人生。

Life happens, life happens to all of us.

這就是人生，每個人都會經歷的。

Loss of family members, divorce,

失去家人、離婚、

fear, pain, depression, concerns, worries.

恐懼、痛苦、沮喪、擔憂、操心。

When you think about being superpositive --

若要說超級正面—— 是，我天生很正面，

yes, I'm positive by nature,

但，要知道，正面不見得一定都有用，

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

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

因為，在國家聯會冠軍賽中 比數是十六比零時，

and people are like,

大家都在說：「羅素， 我們贏不了這場比賽，

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

老兄，現在的情況真的不妙。」

it's not a great situation right now,"

or when you're facing cancer,

或者，當你面臨癌症，

或者你得要處理某些事情，

or when you have things you have to deal with

或者財務上，還有其他種種， 我們要怎麼處理？

or finances and this and that,

like, how do we deal with it?

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

在這些情況下很難保持正面。

And what I definitely knew was this:

我能很肯定知道的是： 任何情況下，負面都有影響力。

that negativity works 100 percent of the time.

負面對我完全沒幫助。

Negativity was going to get me nowhere.

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

我開始告訴自己： 「神的慈悲每晨都會更新。」

new beginnings, new starts.

新的開端，新的開始。

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

儘管有辛苦、痛苦、 擔心、想要撐過這一切，

and "How do I do this?",

我該怎麼做？我開始想開車的情況。

I started thinking about a car.

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

我知道開手排車時，怎麼排到空檔？

and you want to shift to neutral?

你知道怎麼從一檔到二檔， 一直換到五檔？

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

你必須要知道如何換到空檔。

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

我需要在撞車之前馬上換到空檔。

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

Sitting there after the Super Bowl,

超級盃結束之後，我得做一個決定：

I had a decision to make:

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

我要讓它定義我的職涯和人生嗎？

當然不要。

Hell, no.

我發現的是：心態是一種技能，

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

It can be taught and learned.

是可以教導和習得的。

I started 10 years ago, training my mind,

十年前我開始訓練我的心智，

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

心智訓練教練是崔佛莫瓦， 十年來一直在協助我。

He's been with me for 10 years,

從那時起我們就一直是好友和夥伴。

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

我們運動員會訓練身體，

As athletes, we train the body,

訓練自己跑得更快、 丟得更遠、跳得更高，

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

做到各種不同的事，

and do these different things,

但何不訓練我們的心智？

but why don't we train our mind?

你想要怎樣的人生？

What do you want your life to look like?

寫出來、講出來、說出來。

Write it out, talk about it, say it.

我們會怎麼表達？怎麼描繪？

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

羅素，看看你假想人生中 最美好時刻的精彩片段。

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

What does that look like?

看起來是什麼樣子？

就照那樣做、那樣生活、那樣說話。

And be that, live that, sound like that.

The best free throw shooters,

最棒的罰球手失手了不會再去多想。

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

他們只想著這次射門、 這次推桿、這次投球、這次進攻。

They think about this shot,

this putt, this throw, this first down.

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

接著我遇到了十九歲的米爾頓萊特，

他得了癌症三次。

he had cancer three different times.

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

我去看他的那天，他很挫折：

「羅素，到此為止， 我不想繼續了，我該走了。」

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

it's my time to go."

我開始告訴他我爸爸的故事，

I started telling him this story about my dad,

他以前會說：「兒子，你也可以呀！

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

你為什麼不能提早畢業， 去打職業美式足球和籃球？

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

你也可以呀！你也可以呀！」

Why not you, why not you?"

我說：「米爾頓，你也可以呀！

I said, "Milton, why not you?

If you tried T-cell therapy,

如果你試過 T 細胞治療，

and you try this and it doesn't work,

結果行不通，你也不會記得。」

you won't remember it."

So Milton got a smile on his face and said,

米爾頓微笑著說：「你說的沒錯。

"You're exactly right.

Yes, I do have cancer, Russ.

是的，我確實有癌症，羅素。

But I can either let this kill me,

但我可以讓它擊敗我，

not just physically,

不只是身體上，

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

我也可以讓它在情緒上 和心理上擊敗我。

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

現在我得做選擇，

身在這個問題、這場風暴當中，

in the midst of the storm,

to decide to overcome."

我得決定要去克服。」

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

我常常會被問到打空檔思考的問題：

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

那是否表示我不會有任何情緒？

And I always say, absolutely not.

我總是回答：絕非如此。 我們會有情緒。

Yeah, we have emotions,

we have real-life situations,

我們要面對、處理真實人生，

we have things to deal with.

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

但你可以持續專注在當下，

and to not be superemotional.

不要過度情緒化。

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

可以有情緒沒關係，但不要情緒化。

When people look at me,

別人看我時，

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

看到是國家美式足球聯盟 最高薪的球員，

they see that I have the girl and Ciara,

看到我有女兒、有席亞拉、 我有家庭等等。

that I have the family and this and that.

But I still have real-life situations.

但我仍然要面對真實人生的狀況。

We all do.

大家都一樣；

We all have, you know, sadness and loss

我們都會有悲傷、失去、 沮喪、擔憂、恐懼。

and depression and worries and fear.

I didn't just get here.

我不是一步登天。

What's the truth,

真相是什麼？

and how do I come through this better?

我要怎麼用較好的方式度過它？

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

某種程度我是因此開始轉念的。

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

並不是在成功的時刻或失敗的時刻，

it was on the process, like:

而是在過程中，比如：

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

下一步是什麼？

此時此刻我要怎麼做這件事？

We have a choice to make in life.

在人生中我們要做選擇。

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

對我來說，當我很年輕 且尚未擁有很多時，

I made a choice.

I made a choice that I was going to believe

我做了個選擇， 要去相信會有好事發生，

that great things were going to happen,

that I was going to have my mindset right,

相信我會找到對的心態，

and I was going to have the right language

我會說出對的話，去想對的事，

and the right things to think about,

which helped prepare me for today.

這些協助了我成就今日。

Because I'm just human.

因為我是凡人。

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

只是有能力可以把球丟得很遠，

跑來跑去做一些很酷的傳球，

and run around and make some cool and fun throws

and make some people smile.

讓一些人微笑。

But the reality is that I still have pressure,

但，現實是，我仍然有壓力，

I still have worries, I still have fears,

我仍然有憂慮，我仍然有恐懼， 我仍然有狀況會發生。

I still have things that happen.

Still have loss.

我仍然會失去。

Positivity can be dangerous.

正面思考可能會很危險，

But what always works is negativity.

而負面總是會有不好的影響。

I never wanted to live in negativity,

我從來就不想活在負面中，

so I stayed in neutral.

所以我保持在空檔。

I kept my shift in neutral.

我把我的排檔放在空檔。

And so that's where I lived,

那就是我所處的位置，

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

我從此也就一直處在那個位置。