Pavel Durov: Telegram, Freedom, Censorship, Money, Power & Human Nature | Lex Fridman Podcast #482
Pavel Durov
Well, the biggest enemies of freedom are fear and greed, so you make sure that they don’t stand in your way. If you imagine the worst thing that can happen to you and then make yourself be comfortable with it, there is nothing more left to be afraid of. So you stand your ground and you remember that it’s worth living your life according to the principles that you believe in, even though this life can end up being shorter than a longer life, but lived in slavery.
自由最大的敌人是恐惧和贪婪，所以你要确保它们不会阻碍你。如果你想象一下最糟糕的情况，然后让自己坦然接受，那就没什么好怕的了。所以你要坚定立场，记住，即使这种生命可能比在奴役中度过的漫长生命更短暂，但按照你所信仰的原则生活也是值得的。
Pavel Durov
In a way, you have to go against your instinct of self-preservation, and it’s not easy. We are all biological beings, hard-coded to be afraid of death. Nobody wants to die, but when you approach it rationally, you live and then you die. There’s no such thing as your death in your life. You stop experiencing life once you die. So you have to ask yourself this question, is it worth living a life full of fear of death, or it’s much more enjoyable to forget about this and live your life in a way that makes you immune to this fear? At the same time remembering that death exists, so that every day would count.
某种程度上，你必须违背自己的本能去保护自己，这并不容易。我们都是生物，天生就害怕死亡。没有人想死，但当你理性地看待死亡时，你会发现，你活着，然后死去。你的生命中并不存在所谓的“死亡”。一旦你死了，你就停止了体验生命。所以你必须问问自己：活着充满对死亡的恐惧值得吗？还是说，忘记这种恐惧，以一种让你免疫的方式生活，岂不是更有意义？同时，也要记住死亡的存在，这样每一天才更有意义。