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Beyond natural. It’s always better to go beyond natural. In your private or professional life, anywhere and anytime, try to push your limits well beyond your comfort zone. Try to not stay comfortable and, with that, reach things you’ve never imagined before.
But what does it mean to “go beyond natural”? Well, I believe that you don’t need to do a huge thing to make something different. In reality, those big things like employing hundreds of people, saving lives somewhere in Africa, or representing your country when you are part of its government, are the result of many little things, hundreds, thousands, little things that you do in all your life.
Of course, you must be ambitious in your life. But, at the same time, you need to be very patient. Because you only reach your most desired goals with a lot of hard work, a few risks and a little bit of luck. And this may take years.
超越自我。超越自我总是更好。在您的私人或职业生活中，无论何时何地，都要尽量超越您的舒适区域。试着不要保持舒适，并且随之而来，达到你以前从未想象过的东西。
但是“超越自我”意味着什么呢？好吧，我相信你不需要做一件大事就可以做出与众不同的事情。事实上，那些大事，比如雇用数百人，在非洲的某个地方拯救生命，或者当你参与政府时代表你的国家，这些都是你做的很多小事，数百，数千，小事的结果。生活。
当然，你必须在生活中雄心勃勃。但是，与此同时，你需要非常耐心。因为你只需要通过大量的努力，一些风险和一点点运气来实现你最想要的目标。这可能需要数年时间。
So, today I’m here to show you that a little thing, in some way different than usual, may lead to something great. The best example that I have for you happened with me last year. It started with a simple challenge: wake up at 4:30 am during 21 consecutive days. A challenge that I gave the name of #21earlydays.
So this is the reason I am here today, and the reason I was featured on Business Insider, also on national TV, newspapers and radio. But why? Well, probably you will agree with me that this is quite unusual but, at the same time, this is something that anyone in the world could do, too. I don’t have any special power to wake up at 4:30 am. But this is something that everyone can do. There are millions of people doing that everyday.
But if we take a better look on it, you see that my challenge wasn’t to wake up so early. What I challenged was a global status quo that says how your life must be, what you must study, why where you must work, what you must watch on TV, and also at what hour you must wake up. I confess: many times I also fall in this chain where you just follow what the others do, without questioning why.
所以，今天我在这里向你展示一件小事，在某种程度上与平时不同、可能会带来一些好处的小事。去年我展示给大家的就是一个最好的例子。它始于一个简单的挑战：连续21天在凌晨4:30醒来。一个挑战，我给了＃21earlydays的名字。
所以这就是我今天来到这里的原因，也是我在Business Insider、国家电视台、报纸和电台上的特色。但为什么？好吧，也许你会同意我的观点，这是非常不寻常的，但与此同时，这也是世界上任何人都能做到的事情。我没有任何特殊的能力使我在凌晨4:30醒来。但这是每个人都能做到的事情。每天有数百万人这样做。
但是，如果我们更好地了解它，你会发现我的挑战不是那么早起床。我挑战的是全球现状，说明你的生活必须如何，你必须学习什么，你必须在哪里工作，你必须在电视上看什么，以及你必须在什么时候醒来。我承认：很多时候我也会陷入这个链条，你只关注其他人所做的事情，而不会质疑为什么。
So, why the hell am I waking up so early? What is the reason behind it? The story behind it is very simple, in fact.
One day, I was thinking about why I was doing my days the way I was doing and what I could improve in my life to be a better person. I remembered reading some articles in the press, about how early some of the most successful CEOs in the world wake up, and so I decided to take a chance on it. I thought it was interesting.
But why 21 days? Well, 21 days, I put a limit of 21 days because there are theories that say that it is the right amount of time you need to form a new habit. I didn’t know if it would work, but for me it was more for the sake of establishing a goal. A thing that I always apply to life is to always establish a goal when you want to reach or change something in your life. Because only in this way will you understand if you succeeded or failed.
So, I started to share a lot of thoughts with my network. The advantages of it, the little pleasures and also my progress. Many people started following what I was doing. And 2 or 3 weeks after, there were already people trying to do the same, waking up so early.
那么，为什么我这么早醒来呢？它背后的原因是什么？事实上，背后的故事非常简单。
有一天，我正在思考为什么我按照自己的方式过我的日子，以及在生活中我可以改善自己做一个更好的人。我记得在新闻界读到一些文章，关于世界上一些最成功的CEO醒来的时间有多早，所以我决定抓住机会。我觉得这很有趣。
但为什么21天？那么，21天，我限制了21天，因为有理论认为你需要养成一个新习惯。我不知道它是否会起作用，但对我而言，更多的是为了建立一个目标。我一直适用于生活的一件事是，当你想要达到或改变生活中的某些东西时，总是要建立一个目标。因为只有这样你才能理解你是成功还是失败。
所以，我开始在网上分享很多想法。它的优点、小乐趣和我的进步。许多人开始关注我的工作。在2或3周后，已经有人试图这样做，这么早起床。
But — This thing about #21earlydays really exploded when I shared a blog post on Medium about the lessons I have learned with that. Thousands of people saw my blog post. My blog post was also republished on Business Insider with more than 1 million views, and the Twitter feed around #21early days is endless, still today.
但是 – 关于＃21earlydays这件事真的爆发了，当时我分享了关于我所学到的课程的关于Medium的博客文章。成千上万的人看到了我的博文。我的博客文章也在Business Insider上重新发布，观看次数超过100万次，推特＃21岁以前的日子已经无穷无尽，至今仍然如此。
So, what did I learn with this? These were my lessons:
那么，我从中学到了什么？这是我的经验：
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One, Find support along the way. It is always better to find these people that will push you forward and will hold you accountable for failing, even if they criticize you. This is my blog post — my Facebook post, the original one, about the challenge, and where I was more exposed to many people.
一，寻求支持。最好找到能够推动你前进的人，即使他们批评你，也会让你对失败负责。这是我的博客帖子 – 我的Facebook帖子，也是原始的帖子，这是一个挑战，也是让我更多地接触到许多人的地方。
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Two, People like to see different things. And come on, a young guy like me, waking up so early, is different. At least it’s not what people see on Facebook and at least people see different pictures on their Instagram feed.
二，人们喜欢看不同的东西。来吧，像我这样的年轻人，这么早醒来，是不同的。至少它不是人们在Facebook上看到的，至少人们在他们的Instagram上看到不同的东西。
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Three, No. You don’t need to sleep less. One thing that happened a lot was a lot of people, horrified, asking me: “So you sleep less. How do you manage to do that?”
And I say: “Okay, I don’t sleep less. I only go to bed earlier.” This is what he is saying. That means: Bed early and rise early. In fact this is simple. I went to sleep a few hours before.
三，不。你不需要少睡。一件发生了很多次的事是，很多人吓坏了，问我：“所以你睡得这么少。你是如何做到那样的？
我说：“好吧，其实我不是睡得少。我只是早点睡觉。“这就是他所说的。这意味着：早睡早起。实际上这很简单。我几个小时前就去睡觉了。
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Four, Get rid of your obstacles. This is really important. When you want to change something in your life, it’s important to eliminate all the obstacles because it becomes much easier to reach your final goal.
四，摆脱你的障碍。这非常重要。当你想改变生活中的某些东西时，消除所有障碍是很重要的，因为它更容易达到你的最终目标。
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Five, A healthy life is really important if you want to sleep properly. So I sleep well, I eat well and I exercise, and it helps a lot with that. I fall asleep really fast, 5 minutes on average. I sleep well and anywhere if needed, and I wake up without any problems, and this helps a lot, of course with my challenge. This is me exercising. So it’s a proof that I exercise.
五，如果你想要正常睡眠，健康的生活是非常重要的。所以我睡得很好，我吃得很好，我运动，这些都很有帮助。我入睡很快，平均5分钟。如果需要的话，我可以在任何地方睡个好觉，而且我没有任何问题就醒了，我有在锻炼，所以这是我锻炼的证据。
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Six, Forget snooze, please. For me this is one of the worst inventions ever on mankind. Come on, it doesn’t help you with anything. You delay for 10 minutes, 20 minutes, 30 minutes of your life. There are studies that say that you get more tired sleeping that time, and you are wasting your time for more interesting things. So forget this. Nothing good comes from snooze.
六，请克服回笼觉。对我来说，这是人类有史以来最糟糕的发明之一。来吧，它对你没有任何帮助。你延迟了10分钟、20分钟、30分钟的生命。有些研究表明，那段时间你睡得更累，而你却在浪费时间去做更多有趣的事情。所以克服这个，睡回笼觉没什么好处。
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Seven, I only need 6 or 7 hours of sleep. This is me waking up a little bit. I swear that I’d like to sleep, but my body only demands this much time of sleeping. So why waste my time with sleep when there are a lot of things that are way more interesting?
七，我只需要6或7个小时的睡眠时间。这时我就会醒来一点点。我发誓我想睡觉，但我的身体只需要这么多的睡眠时间。那么，当有很多事情变得更有趣时，为什么要浪费我的睡眠时间呢？
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Eight, I found that doing this, I have more working time. In fact 2 more hours per day. And in the end I can leave the office earlier and have some drinks with my friends enjoying the beautiful sun of Lisbon.
八，我发现这样做，我有更多的工作时间。实际上平均每天会多出2个小时。最后，我可以提前离开办公室，和我的朋友一起享用饮料，享受里斯本美丽的阳光。
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Nine, I found that it was a better way to get messages out of my way. During the morning no one is working, so I can answer all the emails and messages and I have an Inbox zero and no instant answer for today, and this is a great feeling during the morning.
九，我发现这是一种更好的处理信息的方法。在早上没有人在工作，所以我可以回复所有的电子邮件和消息，我的收件箱是空的，今天没有需要即刻回复的内容了，这会让一整个早上的心情都很好。
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Ten, I found that I have also more time at the gym. So this is the proof that I go to the gym, and I found that waking up earlier, when I go to the gym I am not so tired. As I worked before for 2 hours that’s not an excuse. It helps a lot on those days when you think that you don’t have enough time to exercise.
十，我发现我还有更多的时间去健身房。所以这就是我去健身房的证据，我发现早些时候醒来，当我去健身房时，我并不那么累。因为我之前工作了2个小时，这不是一个借口。当你认为自己没有足够的时间锻炼时，它会很有帮助。
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Eleven, New view on the world. This gave me a few little feeling for pleasures like seeing a sunrise when I was running. This is great.
十一，看世界的新视角。这给了我一些小小的愉悦感，就像我跑步时看日出一样。这很棒。
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Twelve and last. You need the will to do it. But if you have it, no one will stop you. So this challenge was the result of many thoughts and many conversations that I had in the weeks before. This was a personal experience that put people to think and discuss about this subject. Many shared the story.
十二，最后一点。你需要这样做的意志。但如果你拥有它，没有人会阻止你。因此，这一挑战是我在几周之前的许多想法和许多自我抗争的结果。这是一个让人们思考和讨论这个主题的个人经历。许多人分享了这个故事。
#21earlydays is still today, one of the most active hashtags on Twitter, without paying a cent for it. And more important than that, even the best part of it is that still today I continue receiving messages from people all over the world saying that they are waking up earlier, because of me, and that they are happier doing that! That’s great!
So, here’s my point: a small act, but different act, such as waking up at 4:30 am originated a big result such as putting people to think and discuss about their own schedules and how to be more productive.
＃21earlydays仍然是今天，Twitter上最活跃的主题标签之一，没有支付一分钱。更重要的是，即便是最好的部分仍然是今天我继续接收来自世界各地的人们的消息，说他们早些时候醒来，因为我，他们更乐意这样做！那很棒！
所以，这就是我的观点：一个小小的行为，但不同的行为，例如在凌晨4:30醒来，产生了一个很大的结果，例如让人们思考和讨论他们自己的日程安排以及如何提高工作效率。
Nothing of it was planned, and I never imagined that it would reach so big dimension. But I think this is what happens in everyone’s lives if you are willing to take that extra mile. Like in the butterfly effect, where a small change in one stage may lead to large differences in a later stage, anything you do today can result in a big thing tomorrow, for you and for other people.
And this is more likely to happen if you do a lot of little things that you believe that will improve your life.
没有任何计划，我从未想过它会达到如此大的范围。但我认为如果你愿意加倍努力，这就是每个人生活中发生的事情。就像蝴蝶效应一样，一个阶段的微小变化可能会导致后期的巨大差异，你今天所做的任何事情都会在明天，对你和其他人产生重大影响。
如果你做了很多你认为可以改善生活的小事，那么这种情况更有可能发生。
So, please, never forget: go beyond natural and think different; every little thing that you do everyday may lead to a big thing, a surprising thing in the future.
I don’t know where you’re going to be in the future, but I can assure you of one thing, that doing this you will grow, you’ll be a better person, and you’ll be happier.
所以，请永远不要忘记：超越自我，思考不同；你每天做的每件小事都可能导致一件大事，一件令人惊讶的事情。
我不知道你将来会在哪里，但我可以向你保证一件事，你做这件事你会成长，你会成为一个更好的人，你会更快乐。
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