2017 has been Jack Antonoff’s year.
2017年是Jack Antonoff占盡風(fēng)光的一年。

The prolific producer and musician added to his production discography three of the most interesting pop records of the year: Lorde’s?Melodrama, St. Vincent’s?Masseduction, and Taylor Swift’s?Reputation. Meanwhile, he released his second album.
這位多產(chǎn)的音樂(lè)制作人兼樂(lè)手為自己的音樂(lè)作品名錄又添加了三張年度最有趣流行音樂(lè)唱片：Lorde的Melodrama，St. Vincent的Masseduction，還有Taylor Swift的Reputation。同時(shí)，他還發(fā)行了自己的第二張專輯。

RULE NO. 1: SCHEDULE TIME TO BE UNSCHEDULED
規(guī)則1：為拖延癥留足時(shí)間

“For me, being productive is really about messing around. I like to consciously sit down and say, ‘Okay, right now I’m not going to open anything on the hard drive. I’m just going to sit at the piano and try new things.’ It reminds me of how I did things when I was a kid. I actually schedule time to fuck around.”
“對(duì)我來(lái)說(shuō)，高效率的工作就是插科打諢。我喜歡有意識(shí)的坐下來(lái)對(duì)自己說(shuō)，‘好了，現(xiàn)在我不會(huì)打開(kāi)硬盤(pán)上的任何文件。我要好好坐在鋼琴前，來(lái)點(diǎn)新東西?！@讓我回想起我還是個(gè)孩子的時(shí)候玩音樂(lè)的方式。我真的會(huì)為自己安排好用來(lái)浪費(fèi)的時(shí)間?！?/div>

RULE NO. 2: TAKE ADVANTAGE OF THAT POST-SLEEP HAZE
規(guī)則2：利用好睡眼惺忪的時(shí)刻

“I try to work before I eat [breakfast]. Once you do anything, you’re just a little bit further away from the freedom and the weightlessness of waking up. As you start to acclimate to being awake, you become more and more reminded of who you are. And there are a lot of rules about who you are, like, ‘Oh, I don’t say these kinds of things, I don’t play these kinds of chords. I’m this way and not that way.'”
“我試著在吃早餐之前開(kāi)始工作。一旦你開(kāi)始做任何事，你就會(huì)離早上自由輕靈的感覺(jué)越來(lái)越遠(yuǎn)。接著你開(kāi)始適應(yīng)早上起床后的狀態(tài)，你的自我認(rèn)知越來(lái)越清晰。你對(duì)自己的認(rèn)知總是伴隨著許多規(guī)則，比如，‘我不會(huì)說(shuō)這種話的，我不會(huì)彈這種和弦的。我是這個(gè)樣子，而不是那個(gè)樣子。’”

RULE NO. 3: THERE’S NO ONE RIGHT WAY TO DO SOMETHING
規(guī)則3：沒(méi)有誰(shuí)時(shí)刻準(zhǔn)備著完成任何事

“[Taylor Swift’s] ‘Look What You Made Me Do’ happened within a few hours. Some songs take months and months, and some songs come out of nowhere. There’s no right way to do it. That’s the funny thing of trying to understand productivity with art because I think everything is just a trick to try to trick yourself into getting something done. It’s funny to schedule something that doesn’t care about your schedule.“
“Taylor Swift的Look What You Made Me Do是在幾個(gè)小時(shí)之內(nèi)完成的。有的歌曲需要花費(fèi)幾個(gè)月的時(shí)間，有的則是無(wú)尤來(lái)突然出現(xiàn)的。寫(xiě)歌沒(méi)有固定的模式。你要明白，這就是藝術(shù)的生產(chǎn)率有趣的地方。這就是一個(gè)誘導(dǎo)你自己完成某樣?xùn)|西的小把戲。想要規(guī)劃完成某件事情的時(shí)間，后者卻完全不理會(huì)你的計(jì)劃，這真是一件滑稽的事情?！?/div>

RULE NO. 4: LEAN INTO HOW YOU FEEL IN A GIVEN WORKSPACE
傾聽(tīng)自己對(duì)現(xiàn)有工作空間的感受


“The point I’m making is that your body at some point doesn’t want to enter a space anymore or it does. I follow my body. In New York, I built this really nice studio in the back of my apartment. But lately when I’m home I’ve just sort of been going in the kitchen and playing guitar and writing that way. Maybe that big studio I built isn’t really the place for me anymore. You get these routines, and then one day you just never want to go back. It’s like falling out of love, you can’t predict it. But I think it’s important to recognize that the space you work in has to be one your body is excited to enter.”
“我的意思是，在某個(gè)時(shí)刻你的雙腿會(huì)突然不想要走進(jìn)某個(gè)場(chǎng)所。我會(huì)跟著他們走。在紐約，我在自己的公寓后面有一個(gè)非常好看的工作室。但是最近每次我一回家就會(huì)走進(jìn)廚房，在那里彈吉他，寫(xiě)歌。也許我建的那個(gè)大工作室已經(jīng)不再是我心儀的工作場(chǎng)所了。你會(huì)養(yǎng)成這樣那樣的習(xí)慣，接著突然有一天你再也不想這樣了。這就像失戀一樣，是不可預(yù)測(cè)的。不過(guò)我認(rèn)為重要的是，你要明白你的工作場(chǎng)所應(yīng)該是你的雙腿想要走進(jìn)去的地方?！?/div>

RULE NO. 5: “IF IT’S TOO BIG, DON’T LOOK AT IT”
“如果任務(wù)太龐大，就別盯著它看”

“I look back on the year I had and it gives me a panic attack. If, on January 1, 2017, someone laid out in front of me that I was going to make the Lorde record and the St. Vincent record and the Bleachers album and the stuff with Taylor Swift, I’d say I couldn’t do it. But I knew they were going to get done. You slowly chip away at it one day at a time and keep your head down. If it’s too big, don’t look at it. If you want to do something massive , don’t look at it, because all you’re going to see is why it won’t work. The killer of productivity is reality.”
“我回顧這一年的時(shí)候，突然有種驚嚇感。如果在2017年1月1日，有人站在我面前告訴我，我會(huì)完成Lorde的唱片，St. Vincent的唱片，Bleachers的專輯，Taylor Swift的專輯，我會(huì)說(shuō)我做不到。但我知道假以時(shí)日我能完成它們。你一天只需完成一點(diǎn)點(diǎn)，堅(jiān)持不懈的干下去。如果任務(wù)太過(guò)龐大，就不要盯著它看。如果你想做好一樣龐雜的工作，不要去看它，因?yàn)槟阒粫?huì)看到重重阻礙?，F(xiàn)實(shí)會(huì)抹殺你的靈感。”

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（翻譯：小木）