I found the secret in an unexpected place--an eight-month old Product Hunt

我找到答案的地方是始料未及的——對一個出品八個月的產品的考察。

When I was younger, I had some bad habits. I was jealous--more than I would have liked to admit. I had a good life, but I wanted more. I envied those around me who seemed to make it happen.

年輕的時候，我確是有些壞習慣的。我有嫉妒心——盡管我不想承認這個事實。生活過得如意，而我偏偏更是貪婪;我嫉妒周圍能取得成功的人。

That's why this short exchange in an eight-month-old thread on Product Hunt really caught my eye. It's about what to do when you've had success--and when you realize others are starting to feel frustrated as a result.

如是原因，我對這個項目充滿了興趣——取得了成功以及心里清楚自己的成功對于別人來說可能也是帶來了挫敗感時，下一步動向該是如何。

"I was working on that..."

“我最近忙著做.....”

If you're not familiar with ProductHunt, you should be. It's a place to discover cool new products just about every day. Earlier this year, the guys who founded the livestreaming service Meerkat took to the site to announce their launch.

對producthunt有所認知還是必要的——年初，Meerkat的創(chuàng)建者正式啟動了這個項目。在這里，探尋新產品幾乎是每天都要做的事情。

It was a very popular thread, with all kinds of positive comments. One member of the community however, a programmer named Pierre Goutheraud (who goes by the screen name @httpete) found the whole thing to be horrible timing. He commented:"I was working on the same exact app... kinda depressed right now. "Man, did I ever feel for Pete--or Pierre, I guess. I've been there.

有趣的嘗試。反響也來得積極——除了一個程序猿Pierre Goutheraud(網名@httpete)的人覺得這事兒實在是個噩耗吧。他這樣說道：“我還在開發(fā)我的app，然而meerkat就像他的雙胞胎兄弟一樣。”伙計，我懂你，這種事兒我經歷過。

Encouragement

打賞

What was great was the response that Meerkat cofounder Ben Rubin gave. I can't help but quote it in full:

Meerkat合伙人Ben Rubin的回應我要點贊，好想好想全部引用他說的這段話：

“PETE! What makes you think you are not capable of doing something better/different? It would be a very sad world if people just give up on ideas. I can tell you that live video space is still broken in terms of distribution mechanism, and that obviously Meerkat is not perfect. there's a very good chance that anyone in the world would come up with a better product / perspective. Please, go back to code. that's how we all build better things together, even when we work separately. --we learn from each other.”

PETE!是什么讓你覺得自己不足以做出更好或是有所不同的產品呢?若是人人都將靈光一現視為不可取，那么這個世界是可悲的吧。我直言，Meerkat確實還有缺陷，例如現場部分在機械分銷上面仍有漏洞，而且我敢說總還有人會做得比我更好。所以求你了，回來摞碼吧，和我在一起——雖然我們分開工作，但是我們總能互相學到很多。

I might be overstating to say Pierre was jealous--maybe a little bit frustrated. But Ben handled it perfectly--and admirably. The point is, when people look at your success and wish they could achieve it, the most highest response you can give is to encourage them to do so, even if it might mean ultimately outshining you.

我真不夸張地說，Pierre起妒忌心了——挫敗感可能也是有的。但是Ben處理地很完美，令人稱贊。不難看出，重點在于當有人看見你的成功正是自己孜孜以求而不得之時，最好的答復便是也鼓勵他們這樣嘗試吧，雖然這樣做的結果可能是最終他們真的超越了你。

Meerkat, of course, the irony here is that Meerkat is facing a tough battle, since Twitter acquired its competitor Periscope not long after this Product Hunt thread. (I admit I came to the party late, and have only started checking out both apps fairly recently--so I'm not sure at all what the future holds for Meerkat.)

必須說，Meerkat現在也是不好過的——twitter在這項考察開始不久就把對手Periscope納入了囊中(我承認自己加入這個考察晚了點兒，這兩個app的審視才剛剛起步——所以我不能完全看清Meerkat的未來。)

However, as one of the commenters who saw Rubin's remark put told him: "Whether or nor Meerkat succeeds (and it seems to be going really well!), you have already succeeded at life with an attitude like that."

然而作為看到Rubin回應的評論者之一，我要說：“不管Meerkat未來如何(雖然事實上一切進展的都很棒!)，你有這樣的態(tài)度就已經是贏家了!”