Give up your illusions. Go forward with your values, your strength, and with objective truth. 放弃你的幻想。带着你的价值观、你的力量和客观真理前进。

It’s easy to pretend to yourself, and to go along with the pretenses of others. But that doesn’t take you anywhere worth going. 对自己假装很容易，对别人的假装也很容易沿着。但这并不意味着你值得去任何地方。

Step away from what’s merely easy, from what just looks good on the surface. Go with what’s truly good at the deepest level, what’s useful, enduring, and real. 远离那些简单的东西，远离那些表面上看起来很好的东西。选择最深层的真正好的东西，有用的、持久的、真实的。

Refuse to buy in to assertions that cannot stand rigorous scrutiny. Insist on reality, because when all is said and done, reality is what remains. 拒绝接受经不起严格审查的断言。坚持现实，因为当一切都说了，做了，现实是什么。

Put your assumptions to the test, and discard those that fail. Seek to learn from every interaction, from every experience, what works and what doesn’t, what is true and what isn’t. 把你的假设放在测试中，抛弃那些失败的假设。寻求从每一次互动中学习，从每一次经历中学习，什么有效，什么无效，什么是真的，什么不是。

Looks can be deceiving, as can narratives, expertise, feelings and impressions. Take it all into consideration, then do the difficult work to determine and to go with what is true, with what is real. 外表可能具有欺骗性，叙述、专业知识、感觉和印象也是如此。把这一切都考虑进去，然后做困难的工作来确定什么是真实的，什么是真实的。

— Ralph Marston - 拉尔夫·马斯顿