奢华是理解传承的价值，当你在它面前时，你得向它致敬！

People live in boxes stacked one on top of the other. Trapped without knowing it, with the illusion of freedom just because they’ve been given a key to their own cage. They all come back on their own and lock themselves in their tiny cage.

人们生活在一个叠在另一个上面的盒子里。在不知道的情况下被困在自由的幻觉中，因为他们被赋予了自己笼子的钥匙。他们都自己回来，把自己锁在自己的小笼子里。

Your home is where you spend most of your life. Allow it to inspire you.

你的家是你一生中度过大部分时间的地方。你要让它成为激励你斗志的源泉。

A 3rd of your life is spent in your bed. Invest in a quality mattress, good pillows, high tread linens.

你生命的三分之一是在床上度过的。购买优质床垫、优质枕头和高胎面亚麻布。

Luxury and comfort go hand in hand and comfort allows you to be more than you are.

If you’re busy fixing the same leaking pipe every week, when do you think you’ll have the time be more than you are.

奢华与舒适相伴，舒适让你超越自我。

如果你每周都在忙着修理同一条漏水的管道，你认为你什么时候会有更多的时间享受。

A comfortable home is a clean home. We already talked about simplicity, about optimizing your living space so that when you open up your eyes in the morning, you feel blessed to be in this home. If that’s not the case, you’ve got some work to do!

舒适的家就是洁净的家。我们已经谈到了简洁（简朴），谈到了如何优化你的生活空间。这样当你早上睁开眼睛时，你会觉得在这个家里生活很幸福。如果不是这样，你还有工作要做！

We are social creatures. Anyone who looks up Maslow’s Hierarchy of needs knows that Esteem – the recognition for peers and others – is right up there under self-actualization which is basically what this entire list right here leads to. But let’s break this down apart first.

我们是社会性动物。熟知马斯洛需求层次理论的人都知道，自尊——同龄人和其他人自己的认可——就在自我实现前提之下，这基本上就是马斯洛的理论所叙述的。让我们先将其分开讨论。

Picture this: you finally did it, had some help along the way but it was mostly you. Those who doubted you, who said you’re not good enough, not smart enough, didn’t have what it takes, or that there’s no way you could do it.. Are now furious with envy and biting their tongues. Your parents are proud of the person you’ve become. Your peers look up to you for what guidance and inspiration.

想象一下：你最终获得了成功，一路上得到了一些帮助，但成功的原因主要是你。那些怀疑你的人，那些说你不够好，不够聪明，没有足够的能力，或者说你不可能成功的人，现在嫉妒得怒不可遏，咬牙切齿。你的父母为你的成功感到骄傲。你的同龄人渴求你的指导和激励。
Your partner couldn’t be any prouder to have you as their half and your kids want to be just like you when they grow up!

你的伴侣十分自豪地想你成为她（他）及孩子的另一半， 他们期望长大后成为你一样的人！

This is what true luxury is! It’s this feeling captured and made a part of your life.

他人对你成功的首肯才是真正的奢侈品！正是这种感觉被你捕捉并成为你生活的一部分。

You might be thinking: “Who cares what other people think”, but when you’re all by yourself, you know it’s you who cares. You care what they think. You care what you think about yourself.

你可能会想：“谁在乎别人对自己怎么看”，但当你独自一人时，你知道你是在乎的。你在乎他们怎么看你。你在乎你对自己的看法。

Giving the entire world the finger and screaming from the bottom of your lungs a big whistle to the world doesn’t add real value. But you know what does? Actual success. Putting in the work. Building that new reality.

在整个世界面前伸出一个手指，从你的肺底发出一声尖叫，用力给世界一个巨大的口哨声。这并不会增加你真正的价值。但你知道这是怎么回事吗？摆在你面前的是真真切切的成功，是全身心的投入，是新的现实的构建。

In order to get to the top of the pyramid, you need to climb through all the levels!

There are levels to safety and privacy. Security no longer comes from fearing that a lion will eat you, instead it focuses on how predictable your future is; how well you sleep at night; how much do you worry on a day to day basis, how far away are you from danger.

安全和隐私是有层次的。安全不再来自担心一只狮子会吃掉你，而是关注你的未来有是否可以预测；是你晚上是否睡得安稳；是你每天的忧惧感；是你对危险距离的研判。

Social media has been amazing for society, but in the process we sacrificed something we took for granted: PRIVACY.

社交媒体对社会来说是妙不可言的，但在这个过程中，我们牺牲了一些我们认为理所当然应该得到保护的东西：隐私。

You gave away everything you are to facebook and in exchange they allowed you to keep seeing pictures of your high school crush.

你把你所有的东西都给了facebook，作为交换，他们允许你继续看到你高中迷恋的照片。
You never realize just how much of who you are is already out there. The problem is, you probably can’t ever take it back. Beyonce tried her best to get this picture off the internet and here we are, using it just to prove a point.

你永远不会意识到在社交媒体上的你是谁。问题是，你可能永远无法收回那些传到网上的关于自己的信息。碧昂斯尽了最大努力从互联网上想撤回自己的照片，而我们早已下载保存了，这就可以证明上述的问题。

Fortunately, things are slowly beginning to change for the average person. The rich have known the value of privacy for years, it’s only now normal people are beginning to take notice.

幸运的是，对于普通人来说，情况正在慢慢开始改变。多年前，富人已经知道隐私的价值，只是现在普通人才开始注意到。

Although you’re physically safe, we spend most of our time online these days and the danger is adapting with the times we live in.

虽然你的身体安全，但这些天我们大部分时间都花在网上，危险在于我们已经适应了我们生活的时代。

Every time you use the internet, including right now, these companies are monitoring everything you do, what you watch, what you listen to, what you write in the comments, who your friends are, who are you stalking and more. They package your information and sell it to other companies.

每次你使用互联网时，包括现在，这些公司都在监控你做的一切，你看什么，你听什么，你在评论中写什么，你的朋友是谁，你跟踪谁等等。他们将您的信息打包并出售给其他公司。

What is life like, to go through it nonchalantly knowing that there are no chains holding you down?!

生活是什么样子，当你知道没有束缚你的锁链时，你会逍遥自在地过自己的日子？！

We know rich people who despite their tremendous wealth, are so much in debt that it’s keeping them up at night.

我们知道，富人尽管拥有巨大的财富，但负债太多，他们无法安然入睡。

For many, it takes years before they rid themselves of the chains of debt. Some people go through their entire life consistently in debt: Student loans debt, mortgage debt, surviving-till-next week debt.

对许多人来说，他们需要多年才能摆脱债务链的束缚。有些人一生都在负债：学生贷款债务、抵押贷款债务、为捉襟见肘的生活而背负的债务。

Luxury comes in many forms, not having to worry about debt, about someone else owning a portion of what you make with your own hands, mind and time is another form of freedom and elegance.

奢侈有很多种表现形式。你不必担心债务，也不必担心别人控制你的行为、你的大脑以及时间。这是另一种自由和优雅的奢侈的生活方式。