你无法欣赏你不理解的东西 --- You can not appreciate what you do not understand

You can not appreciate what you do not understand

你无法欣赏你不理解的东西

People often say, “I don’t know what people see in this,” thinking they are naive. But what if the answer is right there, in the first clause, “I don’t know”?
人们经常说，“我不知道人们从中看到了什么”，认为他们很天真。但是，如果答案就在那里，在第一句中，“我不知道”呢？

When you see a sports car or motorcycle and say it is entirely impractical, uncomfortable, expensive, dangerous, and loud. It’s a sign you don’t understand it. You don’t understand the challenges engineers faced when building such a powerful vehicle. You can’t appreciate the ingenuity of designers who achieved such a superb design. You can not empathise with the feelings it evokes in the driver. The driving experience is as hard to explain as describing sex to a virgin.
当你看到一辆跑车或摩托车，说它完全不切实际、不舒服、昂贵、危险和吵闹。这表明你不理解它。你不了解工程师在制造如此强大的车辆时所面临的挑战。你无法欣赏实现如此精湛设计的设计师的独创性。你无法同情它在驾驶员中唤起的感受。驾驶体验就像向处女描述性爱一样难以解释。

When you read a book that is widely agreed as a masterpiece, and you say it’s crap, then with high probability, you don’t understand it. You do not understand the spirit of the culture and the historical period in which the author lived. You have missed the author’s feelings, hopes, and ideas. There are straightforward books and complex books, this may be the complex one. It may require a lot of knowledge and openness to appreciate it metaphorically. But it is not crap.
当你读一本被广泛认为是杰作的书时，你说它是废话，那么你很有可能不理解它。你不了解文化的精神和作者所处的历史时期。你错过了作者的感受、希望和想法。有直截了当的书，也有复杂的书，这可能是复杂的书。它可能需要大量的知识和开放性才能隐喻地欣赏它。但这不是废话。

When you travel to Egipt, stand at the bottom of pyramids, and say, “I don’t know why people are so amazed by this bunch of stones,” then you don’t understand the context in which these stones were assembled. Building one pyramid involved: two million stone blocks, one hundred thousand workers, and twenty years of work. Five thousand years ago. It is marvellous where did they get these stones from; there is no stone pit in Cario. How did they transport them, organized the constructions, raised eighty tonnes of stone blocks at a high of 140m, and managed such a massive number of people without phones and walkie-talkies? Then, why did they use that workforce to build a tomb, not towns, ships, and conquer lands? Stupid or maybe farsighted?
当你去埃吉普特旅行时，站在金字塔的底部，说，“我不知道为什么人们对这堆石头如此惊讶”，那么你就不明白这些石头组装的背景。建造一座金字塔涉及：200万块石块，十万工人和二十年的工作。五千年前。他们从哪里得到这些石头真是太神奇了;卡里奥没有石坑。他们是如何运输它们，组织建筑，在140米高的地方抬起80吨石块，并在没有电话和对讲机的情况下管理如此多的人？那么，他们为什么要用这些劳动力来建造坟墓，而不是城镇、船只和征服土地呢？愚蠢还是有远见？

If you are a beginner programmer and join some big project, you may think, “What a mess; why have they complicated everything so much?”. It is likely that it’s not a mess but enterprise-grade software, which you need to reason upon from a very abstract point of view. You need to see design patterns like you see the simple for-each loop. Only then you can understand it thoroughly and appreciate the beauty of the machinery as a whole. It’s not a mess; the pieces you look at are the implementation of thoughtful design.
如果你是一个初学者程序员，并加入了一些大项目，你可能会想，“真是一团糟;为什么他们把一切都复杂化了？它可能不是一团糟，而是企业级软件，您需要从非常抽象的角度进行推理。你需要看到设计模式，就像你看到简单的for-each循环一样。只有这样，您才能彻底理解它并欣赏整个机器的美感。这不是一团糟;你所看到的作品是周到设计的实现。

Next time you say, “I don’t know what people see in this,” think about it again, this time with a different attitude, look at it as something extraordinary, try to understand, try to appreciate. With this new attitude, you will be learning something new whatever you do, whomever you meet, wherever you go. It will save you a lot of frustration, misunderstanding, and conflicts with people of different lifestyles.
下次你说，“我不知道人们从中看到了什么”，再想一想，这一次带着不同的态度，把它看作是非凡的东西，试着去理解，试着去欣赏。有了这种新的态度，无论你做什么，无论你遇到谁，无论你走到哪里，你都会学到新的东西。它将为您节省很多挫折、误解和与不同生活方式的人的冲突。

By appreciating more, you can experience the world with higher intensity. Everything and everyone becomes interesting, fascinating, and stimulating. It will become your new healthy stimulant.
通过更多的欣赏，你可以以更高的强度体验世界。每件事和每个人都变得有趣、迷人和刺激。它将成为您新的健康兴奋剂。

The best way to appreciate something is by learning about it. Learn about people to empathize with them. Learn cultures to be above them. Learn about places to appreciate them. Practice until you find a challenge in doing it well. Try painting, playing music, writing, programming, fishing, dancing, working out, meditating, winter swimming, public speaking, etc. Practice until you understand “what people see in this”.
欣赏某物的最好方法是了解它。了解人们以同情他们。学习超越他们的文化。了解欣赏它们的地方。练习，直到你发现做好它的挑战。尝试绘画、演奏音乐、写作、编程、钓鱼、跳舞、锻炼、冥想、冬泳、公开演讲等。练习直到你明白“人们从中看到什么”。

Areas in which I recognize the inability to appreciate are poems, classical music, paintings, cultures, architecture, athletic sports, cooking, and dancing.
我认识到无法欣赏的领域是诗歌、古典音乐、绘画、文化、建筑、体育、烹饪和舞蹈。

What can you appreciate? What can’t you appreciate?
你能欣赏什么？你有什么不能欣赏的？