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Maybe it's that first cup of coffee in the morning,
也许是你早晨喝的第一杯咖啡
the way it warms you and wakes you up, or taking your dog for a walk, or giving a little child a piggyback ride.
让你感到温暖，睡意全无，或者是带你的狗出去散步，或者是跟孩子玩骑背背
It is a matter of practice of doing it over and over again til it becomes second nature."
培养感激需要经过一次又一次的练习，直到变成第二天性
Til it becomes a habit. Til we take a stake of gratitude and turn it into a gratitude trait.
直到变成习惯，直到我们把一次的感激，变成我们性格的一部分
And it is possible to do it.
这是有可能做到的
One of the ways to do it is to identify everyday just one or two things to do mindfully, to focus on them,
其中一个方法就是每天都找出一两次件，有意地专注于这些事上
whether it's the first cup of coffee in the dinning hall, whether it's the walk to class,
不管是在餐厅喝的第一杯咖啡，还是走向教室的那段路程
whether it's 10 minutes in the afternoon when you just listen to the music in your room, by yourself with your eyes closed and focused, appreciating your favorite piece.
还是你独自在房间里闭着睛神集中精神听十分钟音乐，欣赏你最喜欢的歌曲
Taking our time to not just become wine connoisseurs but also life connoisseurs.
不仅花时间去变成红酒鉴赏家，还要成为生活的鉴赏家
This course is in many ways about life appreciation.
这门课很大程度上就是要教我们感激生活
He continues: "Gratefulness is the measure of our aliveness.
他继续写道，"感激之心能量度我们活得多充实
Are we not dead to whatever we take for granted?
对习以为常的东西，难道我们不是死了一样没感觉吗?"
Surely to be numb is to be dead.” Think about this.
"麻木就如同死亡"，大家想想
So Irvin Yalom, Stanford psychiatrist did a lot of research on terminally ill patients.
斯坦福精神学家Irvin Yalom做过很多研究，研究患不治之症的病人
He went to people who had 3 months, 6 months, up to a year to live, and researched this population. And what he found time and again is that these people,
他找来那些只剩三个月，六个月，最多一年的人，研究这一类人，他同样也发现这些人
time and again were something to the effect of "for the first time in my life, I feel that I am alive."
也有这样的感受，"我这辈子第一次觉得自己活着"
