연말에 다시 생각해보면 좋을, 케빈 켈리의 68가지 조언

Wired 창립 편집장 케빈 켈리(KK)가 올해 68세 생일날 블로그에 올린 68가지 조언이라고 한다.

읽다보니 연말에 보길 참 잘했다 싶음.

 

• Learn how to learn from those you disagree with, or even offend you. See if you can find the truth in what they believe.
- 당신에게 동의하지 않는 사람, 심지어 당신을 불쾌하게 만드는 사람에게서도 배우는 방법을 익혀라. 그들이 믿는 것 중 진실을 찾을 수 있는지 보라.

• Being enthusiastic is worth 25 IQ points.
- 열정적인 것은 아이큐가 25 올라가는 수준의 효과가 있다.

• Always demand a deadline. A deadline weeds out the extraneous and the ordinary. It prevents you from trying to make it perfect, so you have to make it different. Different is better.
-  항상 데드라인을 요구하라. 데드라인과 관계없거나 평범한 일들을 쳐낼 수 있다. 데드라인이 ‘완벽하게’ 하지 못하게 방해하기 때문에 ‘다르게’ 만들어야 한다. 다른 것이 더 낫다.

• Don’t be afraid to ask a question that may sound stupid because 99% of the time everyone else is thinking of the same question and is too embarrassed to ask it.
- 멍청한 소리일까 봐 질문할 기회를 놓치지 마라. 99%의 사람들도 모두 같은 질문을 생각하지만, 부끄러워서 질문하지 못하는 중이다.

• Being able to listen well is a superpower. While listening to someone you love keep asking them “Is there more?”, until there is no more.
- 잘 들어주는 것은 초능력이다. 당신이 좋아하는 사람의 말을 들을 때는 그 사람이 더 말할 게 없을 때까지 ‘더 있어?’라고 물어라.

• A worthy goal for a year is to learn enough about a subject so that you can’t believe how ignorant you were a year earlier.
- 가치 있는 1년 목표는 하나의 주제를 충분히 공부해서 1년 전 얼마나 무지했는지 믿을 수 없도록 하는 것이다.

• Gratitude will unlock all other virtues and is something you can get better at.
- 감사함은 다른 모든 미덕을 여는 열쇠이며 당신을 더 나아지도록 한다.

• Treating a person to a meal never fails, and is so easy to do. It’s powerful with old friends and a great way to make new friends.
- 다른 이에게 식사를 대접하는 건 절대 실패하지 않으며, 너무나 쉬운 일이다. 오랜 친구에게도 효과가 좋으며 새 친구를 사귀기에도 굉장히 좋은 수단이다.

• Don’t trust all-purpose glue.
- 다목적 접착제를 믿지 마라.

• Reading to your children regularly will bond you together and kickstart their imaginations.
- 정기적으로 자녀에게 책을 읽어주는 것은 유대감을 늘리고 아이의 상상력을 키워줄 수 있다.

• Never use a credit card for credit. The only kind of credit, or debt, that is acceptable is debt to acquire something whose exchange value is extremely likely to increase, like in a home. The exchange value of most things diminishes or vanishes the moment you purchase them. Don’t be in debt to losers.
- 신용이 있다고 신용카드를 쓰지 마라. 신용, 즉 빚으로 살만한 가치가 있는 것은 집처럼 가치가 증가할 확률이 매우 높은 것뿐이다. 대부분 물건의 가치는 구매하는 즉시 떨어지기 시작한다. 그런 물건에 빚지지 마라.

• Pros are just amateurs who know how to gracefully recover from their mistakes.
- 전문가(Pro)는 단지 실수로부터 우아하게 회복할 줄 아는 아마추어일 뿐이다.

• Extraordinary claims should require extraordinary evidence to be believed.
- 엄청난 주장을 믿게 하려면 엄청난 증거가 필요하다.

• Don’t be the smartest person in the room. Hangout with, and learn from, people smarter than yourself. Even better, find smart people who will disagree with you.
- 지금 있는 자리에서 가장 똑똑한 사람이 되려고 하지 마라. 더 똑똑한 사람들과 어울리고 그들로부터 배워라. 나아가 당신에게 동의하지 않는 똑똑한 사람을 찾으면 더 좋다.

• Rule of 3 in conversation. To get to the real reason, ask a person to go deeper than what they just said. Then again, and once more. The third time’s answer is close to the truth.
- 대화에는 3의 법칙이 있다. 진짜 이유를 알고 싶다면, 상대방이 말한 것보다 더 깊이 들어가야 한다. 그리고 한 번 더 또 한 번 더 물어라. 세 번째 답이 진실에 가깝다.

• Don’t be the best. Be the only.
- 최고가 되지 말아라. 유일한 사람이 돼라.

• Everyone is shy. Other people are waiting for you to introduce yourself to them, they are waiting for you to send them an email, they are waiting for you to ask them on a date. Go ahead.
- 모두가 부끄러워한다. 다른 사람은 당신이 소개해주기를, 이메일을 보내주기를, 데이트를 요청하기를 기다리고 있다. 가라.

• Don’t take it personally when someone turns you down. Assume they are like you: busy, occupied, distracted. Try again later. It’s amazing how often a second try works.
- 누군가 당신을 거절할 때 개인적으로 받아들이지 마라. 그들도 당신과 같다. 바쁘고, 딴 데 정신 팔려 있고, 산만하다. 다음에 다시 시도하라. 두 번째 시도했을 때 성공할 때가 놀라울 정도로 많다.

• The purpose of a habit is to remove that action from self-negotiation. You no longer expend energy deciding whether to do it. You just do it. Good habits can range from telling the truth, to flossing.
- 습관의 목적은 자기 자신과 타협하는 행동을 제거하는 것이다. 할지 말지 결정하는데 에너지를 쏟지 않고 그냥 하는 것이다. 좋은 습관은 진실을 말하는 것부터 치실을 하는 것까지 다양하다.

• Promptness is a sign of respect.
- 신속함은 존경의 표시다.

• When you are young spend at least 6 months to one year living as poor as you can, owning as little as you possibly can, eating beans and rice in a tiny room or tent, to experience what your “worst” lifestyle might be. That way any time you have to risk something in the future you won’t be afraid of the worst case scenario.
- 젊었을 때 적어도 6개월에서 1년 정도 아주 작은 방이나 텐트에서 콩과 쌀만 먹으며 가난하게 살아보며, 최악의 생활이 어떤지 경험해보라. 그러면 미래에 위험을 감수해야 할 때 최악의 시나리오를 두려워하지 않을 것이다.

• Trust me: There is no “them”.
- 나를 믿어라: "그들"은 존재하지 않는다. (역주: 뭔가 내 의견에 반하는 '사람들'이 있는게 아니고 우린 모두 다른 의견을 가진 거라고 생각하고 번역했습니다.)

• The more you are interested in others, the more interesting they find you. To be interesting, be interested.
- 타인에게 관심을 가질수록, 타인도 당신에게 관심을 가진다. 관심을 받고 싶다면, 관심을 가져라.

• Optimize your generosity. No one on their deathbed has ever regretted giving too much away.
- 최대한 관대해져라. 누구도 죽을 때 너무 많이 베풀었다며 후회하지 않았다.

• To make something good, just do it. To make something great, just re-do it, re-do it, re-do it. The secret to making fine things is in remaking them.
- 무언가 좋은 걸 만들고 싶다면, 그냥 해라. 무언가 훌륭한 걸 만들고 싶다면, 그냥 다시 하고, 다시 하고, 다시 해라. 좋은 것을 만드는 비밀은 그것을 다시 만드는 데 있다.

• The Golden Rule will never fail you. It is the foundation of all other virtues.
- 황금률 (The Golden Rule, 다른 사람이 해 주었으면 하는 행위를 하라 [1])은 언제나 옳다. 황금률은 다른 미덕의 기초가 된다.

• If you are looking for something in your house, and you finally find it, when you’re done with it, don’t put it back where you found it. Put it back where you first looked for it.
- 집안에서 무언가를 찾을 때, 마침내 찾아서 쓰고 나면 찾은 곳에 다시 두지 말아라. 처음 찾았던 장소에 둬라.

• Saving money and investing money are both good habits. Small amounts of money invested regularly for many decades without deliberation is one path to wealth.
- 저축과 투자는 둘 다 좋은 습관이다. 깊이 생각하지 말고 수십 년간 소액의 돈을 투자하는 것이 부자가 되는 방법이다.

• To make mistakes is human. To own your mistakes is divine. Nothing elevates a person higher than quickly admitting and taking personal responsibility for the mistakes you make and then fixing them fairly. If you mess up, fess up. It’s astounding how powerful this ownership is.
- 실수를 하는 건 인간적인 일이다. 실수를 인정하는 건 성스러운 일이다. 빠르게 실수를 인정하고 바로 잡는 것보다 사람을 훌륭하게 만들어주는 것은 없다. 망쳤다면, 고백해라. 이렇게 인정하는 것은 놀라울 정도로 강력하다.

- Never get involved in a land war in Asia
- 아시아 영토 전쟁에 절대 개입하지 말라. (분에 넘치는 일은 하지 말라는 뜻)

• You can obsess about serving your customers/audience/clients, or you can obsess about beating the competition. Both work, but of the two, obsessing about your customers will take you further.
-  당신의 손님, 관객, 고객을 만족하는데 집착할 수도 있고, 경쟁에서 이기는데 집착할 수도 있다. 하지만 둘 중 하나를 골라야 한다면 고객에게 집착하는 게 더 멀리 갈 수 있다.

• Show up. Keep showing up. Somebody successful said: 99% of success is just showing up.
- 참석하라. 계속 참석하라. 성공한 사람이 말하길: 성공의 99%는 출석하는 것이다. (show up은 시작하다의 의미도 있다고 한다)

• Separate the processes of creation from improving. You can’t write and edit, or sculpt and polish, or make and analyze at the same time. If you do, the editor stops the creator. While you invent, don’t select. While you sketch, don’t inspect. While you write the first draft, don’t reflect. At the start, the creator mind must be unleashed from judgement.
- 창작의 과정과 개선의 과정을 분리하라. 쓰면서 편집하는 것, 조각하고 다듬는 것, 만들고 분석하는 것을 동시에 할 수는 없다. 만일 동시에 한다면, 편집자가 창작자를 막아서게 된다. 발명하는 동안에는 고르려고 하지 마라. 스케치하는 동안 점검하지 마라. 초안을 쓰는 중이라면 반추하지 마라. 시작할 때 창작자는 판단으로부터 자유로워야 한다.

• If you are not falling down occasionally, you are just coasting.
- 만일 이따금 넘어지지 않는다면, 그냥 설렁설렁하는 것에 불과하다.

• Perhaps the most counter-intuitive truth of the universe is that the more you give to others, the more you’ll get. Understanding this is the beginning of wisdom.
- 아마도 우주에서 가장 반 직관적인 진리가 있다면 ‘더 많이 줄수록, 더 많이 얻을 수 있다’는 사실이다. 이걸 이해하는 게 지혜의 시작이다.

 

• Friends are better than money. Almost anything money can do, friends can do better. In so many ways a friend with a boat is better than owning a boat.
- 친구가 돈보다 낫다. 돈으로 할 수 있는 거의 모든 것은 친구를 친구들이 더 잘한다. 배를 소유하는 것보다 배를 가진 친구를 사귀는 것이 많은 면에서 낫다.

• This is true: It’s hard to cheat an honest man.
- 분명한 사실: 정직한 사람은 속이기 힘들다.

• When an object is lost, 95% of the time it is hiding within arm’s reach of where it was last seen. Search in all possible locations in that radius and you’ll find it.
- 물건을 잃어버렸을 때 95%는 마지막으로 본 곳에서 팔 닿는 근처에 있다. 그 안에서 샅샅이 뒤져보면 찾을 수 있다.

• You are what you do. Not what you say, not what you believe, not how you vote, but what you spend your time on.
- 당신은 당신이 하는 일로 표현된다. 당신의 말도 아니고 당신이 믿는 것도 아니고 당신의 표도 아니고, 당신이 시간을 쓰는 것이 당신이다.

• If you lose or forget to bring a cable, adapter or charger, check with your hotel. Most hotels now have a drawer full of cables, adapters and chargers others have left behind, and probably have the one you are missing. You can often claim it after borrowing it.
- 케이블, 어댑터, 충전기를 깜빡했다면 호텔에 물어봐라. 호텔 대부분은 다른 사람이 두고 간 케이블, 어댑터, 충전기로 가득 찬 서랍을 가지고 있다. 당신이 필요한 물건도 거기 있을 수 있다. 가끔 빌리고 나서 가져갈 수도 있다.

• Hatred is a curse that does not affect the hated. It only poisons the hater. Release a grudge as if it was a poison.
- 증오는 증오의 대상에게는 영향을 주지 않는 저주다. 증오는 오직 증오하는 사람만을 해치는 독이다. 독이라고 생각하고 원한을 놓아주라.

• There is no limit on better. Talent is distributed unfairly, but there is no limit on how much we can improve what we start with.
- 더 나아지는 데에는 한계가 없다. 재능의 분배는 불공평하지만 일단 더 나아지려 시작하면 끝없이 나아질 수 있다.

• Be prepared: When you are 90% done any large project (a house, a film, an event, an app) the rest of the myriad details will take a second 90% to complete.
- 준비하라 : 집이나, 영화나, 행사나, 어플 등 큰 프로젝트를 90% 완성하면, 나머지 자잘한 디테일을 완성하는데 두 번째 90%가 걸린다.

• When you die you take absolutely nothing with you except your reputation.
- 죽을 때 유일하게 가져갈 수 있는 건 평판뿐이다.

• Before you are old, attend as many funerals as you can bear, and listen. Nobody talks about the departed’s achievements. The only thing people will remember is what kind of person you were while you were achieving.
- 늙기 전에 가능한 많은 장례식에 찾아가 경청하라. 누구도 고인의 업적에 대해 말하지 않는다. 사람들이 기억하는 것은 업적을 세우는 동안 그 사람이 어떤 사람이었는가 하는 것뿐이다.

• For every dollar you spend purchasing something substantial, expect to pay a dollar in repairs, maintenance, or disposal by the end of its life.
- 무언가 크게 지를 때는 거기에 들어가는 1달러마다 추가로 1달러만큼 수리, 유지보수, 폐기 처리하는 비용이 들어갈 것을 예상하라.

• Anything real begins with the fiction of what could be. Imagination is therefore the most potent force in the universe, and a skill you can get better at. It’s the one skill in life that benefits from ignoring what everyone else knows.
- 현실은 있을 법한 허구에서 시작한다. 그러므로 상상력은 우주에서 가장 강력한 힘이고 당신이 단련할 수 있는 기술이다. 상상력은 다른 사람이 알고 있는 걸 무시함으로써 도움이 되는 유일한 능력이다.

• When crisis and disaster strike, don’t waste them. No problems, no progress.
- 위기와 재난이 닥쳤을 때, 그걸 낭비하지 마라. 문제가 없다면 진전도 없다.

• On vacation go to the most remote place on your itinerary first, bypassing the cities. You’ll maximize the shock of otherness in the remote, and then later you’ll welcome the familiar comforts of a city on the way back.
- 여행을 갈 때는 도시를 벗어나 가장 멀고 동떨어진 곳으로 먼저 가라. 동떨어진 곳부터 시작하면 낯선 느낌이 주는 충격을 최대화 할 수 있고 도시로 돌아올 때 친숙한 편안함을 환영하게 된다.

• When you get an invitation to do something in the future, ask yourself: would you accept this if it was scheduled for tomorrow? Not too many promises will pass that immediacy filter.
- 미래에 뭔가 해달라는 초대를 받으면 자신에게 물어보라. 이 일이 바로 내일 생겨도 수락할 것인가? 지금 바로 할 것이냐는 질문에 그렇다고 할만한 약속은 그리 많지 않다.

• Don’t say anything about someone in email you would not be comfortable saying to them directly, because eventually they will read it.
- 제3자에게 직접 말하기 불편한 내용은 이메일에서도 쓰지 마라. 그 사람이 결국 그걸 읽게 될 것이다.

• If you desperately need a job, you are just another problem for a boss; if you can solve many of the problems the boss has right now, you are hired. To be hired, think like your boss.
- 당신이 절박하게 일자리가 필요하다면, 보스에게 당신은 그저 귀찮은 문제일 뿐이다. 보스가 당면한 문제를 해결해 줄 수 있어야 당신을 뽑을 것이다. 채용되려면 보스처럼 생각하라.

• Art is in what you leave out.
- 예술은 생략하는 것에 있다.

• Acquiring things will rarely bring you deep satisfaction. But acquiring experiences will.
- 물건을 얻는 것으로 깊이 만족하는 경우는 거의 없다. 하지만 경험으로는 가능하다.

• Rule of 7 in research. You can find out anything if you are willing to go seven levels. If the first source you ask doesn’t know, ask them who you should ask next, and so on down the line. If you are willing to go to the 7th source, you’ll almost always get your answer.
- 조사에는 7의 법칙이 있다. 7 단계를 거칠 수 있다면 무엇이든 찾을 수 있다. 첫 번째로 물어본 사람이 모른다면, 다음으로 어디에 물으면 되겠냐고 질문하고, 이 과정을 반복하라. 이걸 7번 반복하면 거의 매번 답을 찾을 수 있다.

• How to apologize: Quickly, specifically, sincerely.
- 사과 하는법 : 신속하게, 구체적으로, 진심을 담아.

• Don’t ever respond to a solicitation or a proposal on the phone. The urgency is a disguise.
- 전화로 오는 요청이나 제안에 응하지 마라. 긴급함은 위장이다.

• When someone is nasty, rude, hateful, or mean with you, pretend they have a disease. That makes it easier to have empathy toward them which can soften the conflict.
- 누군가 당신에게 무례하고 못되게 군다면 그들이 병에 걸렸다고 생각해라. 상대방을 이해하기 쉬워져 다툼을 줄일 수 있다.

• Eliminating clutter makes room for your true treasures.
- 잡동사니를 치우면 진짜 보물을 위한 공간을 만들 수 있다.

• You really don’t want to be famous. Read the biography of any famous person.
- 당신은 진짜로 유명해지고 싶지 않을 것이다. 누가 됐든 유명한 사람의 자서전을 읽어보라.

• Experience is overrated. When hiring, hire for aptitude, train for skills. Most really amazing or great things are done by people doing them for the first time.
- 경험은 과대평가되어있다. 누군가를 고용할 때 적성을 보고 뽑고 기술은 가르쳐라. 놀랍고 훌륭한 많은 일들이 그 일을 처음 하는 사람들에게서 나온다.

• A vacation + a disaster = an adventure.
- 휴가 + 재난 = 모험

• Buying tools: Start by buying the absolute cheapest tools you can find. Upgrade the ones you use a lot. If you wind up using some tool for a job, buy the very best you can afford.
- 도구를 살 때 : 가장 싼 도구부터 시작해서 많이 쓰는 도구를 업그레이드하라. 만약 직업을 위한 도구를 찾는다면, 가장 좋은 걸 사라.

• Learn how to take a 20-minute power nap without embarrassment.
- 부끄러워하지 않고 20분 동안 파워 낮잠을 잘 방법을 익혀라.

• Following your bliss is a recipe for paralysis if you don’t know what you are passionate about. A better motto for most youth is “master something, anything”. Through mastery of one thing, you can drift towards extensions of that mastery that bring you more joy, and eventually discover where your bliss is.
- 무엇에 열정을 갖고 있는지 모른 채 행복만을 좇으면 정체될 수밖에 없다. 젊은이들을 위한 더 좋은 모토는 ‘무언이 되었든 일단 마스터하라’이다. 하나를 마스터하면 다른 것으로 확장해 갈 수 있고, 결국 당신만의 행복을 찾게 될 것이다.

• I’m positive that in 100 years much of what I take to be true today will be proved to be wrong, maybe even embarrassingly wrong, and I try really hard to identify what it is that I am wrong about today.
- 나는 100년 뒤에 내가 오늘날 알고 있는 많은 것들이 틀렸다고, 창피할 정도로 무지했던 것으로 드러날 거라고 믿는다. 그래서 나는 오늘 틀린 것이 무엇인지 알아내기 위해 정말 많이 노력한다.

• Over the long term, the future is decided by optimists. To be an optimist you don’t have to ignore all the many problems we create; you just have to imagine improving our capacity to solve problems.
- 장기적으로 미래는 낙관론자들이 결정한다. 낙관론자가 되기 위해 많은 우리가 만드는 많은 문제를 무시할 필요는 없다. 그저 문제를 해결하는 역량을 키워낼 수 있다고 상상하면 된다.

• The universe is conspiring behind your back to make you a success. This will be much easier to do if you embrace this pronoia.
- 우주는 당신을 성공시키기 위해 뒤에서 계획을 꾸미고 있다. 이 낙관적 믿음을 받아들이면 인생은 훨씬 쉬워진다.