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Try something new for 30 days 用30天尝试新事物 A few years ago, I felt like I was stuck in a rut, so I decided to follow in the footsteps of the great American philosopher, Morgan Spurlock, and try something new for 30 days. The idea is actually pretty simple. Think about something youve always wanted to add to your life and try it for the next 30 days. It turns out, 30 days is just about the right amount of time to add a new habit or subtract a habit -- like watching the news -- from your life. 几年前 Be stuck in 困于，陷于 千篇一律；枯燥乏味 决定 追随 脚步 哲学家 很简单 结果 不多不少，适量 习惯 Theres a few things I learned while doing these 30-day challenges. The first was, instead of the months flying by, forgotten, the time was much more memorable. This was part of a challenge I did to take a picture every day for a month. And I remember exactly where I was and what I was doing that day. I also noticed that as I started to do more and harder 30-day challenges, my self-confidence grew. I went from desk-dwelling computer nerd to the kind of guy who bikes to work -- for fun. Even last year, I ended up hiking up Mt. Kilimanjaro, the highest mountain in Africa. I would never have been that adventurous before I started my 30-day challenges. 请一位同学来帮我们大概翻译一下，不懂的词没有关系，只需要大意就好 I also figured out that if you really want something badly enough, you can do anything for 30 days. Have you ever wanted to write a novel? Every November, tens of thousands of people try to write their own 50,000-word novel from scratch in 30 days. It turns out, all you have to do is write 1,667 words a day for a month. So I did. By the way, the secret is not to go to sleep until youve written your words for the day. You might be sleep-deprived, but youll finish your novel. Now is my book the next great American novel? No. I wrote it in a month. Its awful. But for the rest of my life, if I meet John Hodgman at a TED party, I dont have to say, Im a computer scientist. No, no, if I want to, I can say, Im a novelist. So heres one last thi