如何3个月0基础过四级（03天才是怎样养成的）

One goes deep underwater and starves his brain of oxygen. Another works with a blindfold on, unable to see what he is doing. Another forced himself to sleep only three hours a night.

一个人潜入深水中，让大脑缺氧；一个人戴上眼罩，不让自己看到自己在做什么；还有一个人强迫自己每晚只睡3个小时。

These are the bizarre techniques, which some geniuses use to get ideas and be productive.

这些都是一些天才用来获得灵感或者创造性的怪癖。

Of course, it is not essential (and certainly not recommended) to go to such extreme lengths to have a successful career.However, for all those who struggle to be creative and want to know the secrets of famous scientists, writers and artists, here is a short guide to achieving dreams, the hard way.

当然，要获得事业的成功并不需要（当然也不建议）采取这些极端的做法。

但是，对于那些努力变得想要有创造性、想要知道那些著名科学家、作家和艺术家秘密的人来说，以下是一个指引你实现梦想的道路（困难版本）。

The Japanese inventor Yoshiro Nakamatsu, holder of 3,300 patents, father of the karaoke machine and the digital watch, forces himself to dive without oxygen, allowing the pressure from the water to starve his brain of blood. Then, he says, "zero-point-five seconds before death, I visualize an invention."

日本发明家中松义郎拥有3300项专利，还发明了卡拉OK和电子手表。他强迫自己不带氧气罐去潜入，让水压使自己大脑供血不足，然后他说："在死亡前0.5秒，我想出了一个新发明。"

If this technique seems too insanely dangerous (and it does), a much safer option is to shut out all sensory stimuli from the surrounding environment. The author Jonathan Franzen, winner of the US National Book Award, puts on earplugs, earmuffs and a blindfold to improve concentration.

How does Franzen know what he is writing? He uses the little bumps on his keyboard's home keys to guide his fingers.

如果这个方法太危险（的确是），另外一个安全一点的作法是封闭自己所有的外界感官刺激。美国国家图书奖得主乔纳森·弗兰岑会戴上耳塞、耳罩和眼罩来提高集中力。

弗兰岑怎么知道他在写些什么？他利用home键上的小突起来指引自己的手指。

Continuing the theme of self-denial, Thomas Edison, the inventor of the phonograph and the alkaline battery, robbed himself not of oxygen or light, but of sleep.He is said to have worked for 72 hours straight when inspiredby a project before putting his head down to rest.

留声机和碱性电池的发明者托马斯·爱迪生也会自我否定，不过他不会让自己缺氧或者蒙上自己的眼睛，但是他会让自己不睡觉。

据说他曾经在一个项目鼓舞下连续工作了72个小时，然后头一低便睡着了。

This, however, may have worked for Edison, but is not medically recommended for mere mortals, who are likely to suffer hallucinations and emotional breakdowns due to sleep deprivation.

但是这可能只对爱迪生有用，不推荐普通人这样做，因为睡眠不足可能会导致出现幻觉和情绪崩溃。

Beethoven, the famous composer, had a somewhat more agreeable method for getting his creative juices flowing. He would pour large pitchers of water over his hands while humming and singing to himself.

Using this strategy, Beethoven wrote nine symphonies, 16 string quartets and 32 piano sonatas, so there must have been something to it. Apparently, however, his neighbors complained about all the noise.

要让创造的思绪涌流，著名作曲家贝多芬有一个更令人愉快的方法。他会一边哼着歌曲，一边把大壶的水浇在自己手上。

通过使用这一方法，贝多芬创作了9部交响曲、16首弦乐四重奏和32首钢琴奏鸣曲，因此这种方法肯定有其用处。但是，显然，他的邻居们会抱怨这些噪音。

Charles Dickens, the nineteenth-century author, swore by the benefits of walking. He is said to have routinely walked up to 30 kilometers per day to get inspiration for his novels.

19世纪作家查尔斯·狄更斯对步行的好处非常肯定。据说他每天都要步行30多公里来寻找灵感。

Another odd technique, which is said to be common among highly successful individuals, is talking to themselves. The current world number one tennis player, Andy Murray, directs shouted obscenities at himself between points as a motivational aid.

Of course, if you do this you are risking being thought mentally ill. On the other hand, since everybody is constantly mumbling nonsense into his or her phones in public these days, you could probably get away with it.

还有另外一种奇怪的方法——据说在成功人士中比较常见，那就是自言自语。目前排名世界第一的网球选手安迪·穆雷会在比赛的时候通过痛骂自己来激励自己。

当然如果你这样做的话，有被视为精神病的风险。另一方面，因为最近许多人都在公共场合对着自己的手机喃喃自语，所以如果你也自言自语的话可能也没什么大问题。

One thing most successful people do is get up very early. Rising at 4 am, they say, gives them time to get all the day's mundane tasks out of the way before getting down to the real business.

多数成功人士都会做的一件事就是早起。他们说，早上4点就起床可以把一整天的杂事都处理完毕，从而全身心扑在真正的事业上。

Therefore, there are many things one can do, some of them very weird, others less so, in a drive to achieve greatness. The question is, how far would you go to be successful?

可见，有许多方法可以此时自己成功，其中一些非常怪异，其他则不然。但问题是，多久你才会成功？

昨天刚谈论了舒适感，今天就提起对立面——以极端方式追求成功，甚至不乏近乎毁灭自己的方式。

就当是奇闻异志来看吧，能让我们众人借鉴的，也就只有早起了。

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