The advantages are real but impossible to predict, and doubly impossible if you're asking this question in the abstract, without the context of a specific activity. The payoff of doing ... stuff ... is stuff.

　　这个好处是真实存在的但是很难预测，而且你这么抽象的提问而没有具体的事件内容显得更加不好说这样做的好处。做这些事情的回报就是自身资源的积累。

　　What you do by "giving it your all" is create opportunities for yourself. People notice your hard work and perfectionism, get impressed, and make you offers. Or, by really delving into a subject or activity, you learn surprising things about it and gain skills you never expected to gain. Of course, this stuff might not happen in every case, but since we can't accurately predict the future, we must take our chances.

　　你尽全力付出的事情会为你创造机会。有人会注意到你的勤奋，追求完美，对你印象深刻，然后给你机会。或者，通过全身心的投入一个课程或者一个活动，你学到了你意想不到的事情并获得了未曾期待获得的技能。当然这些收获不可能在每件事情中都能学到，但是由于我们无法预测未来，就必须把握现在的机会。

　　One of my first jobs when I moved to NYC was teaching computer classes. I could have devoted just a small amount of energy to it, as some of my co-workers did, and paid my rent. I knew that if I put in extra time, there would be no obvious pay-off. I wouldn't get raises or promotions (it wasn't that kind of job), and I'd use up some of my free time "pointlessly."

　　我去了纽约的第一份工作室教计算机课。我本来可以像我的其他同事那样只要花一小部分精力去备课，付了房租就够了。我也知道即使我付出全部的时间去做也不会有很明显的回报，我不会因此加薪或晋升(那份工作就不是那样性质的)，但是我还是用尽了其他时间去做这看似无意义的事情。

　　But I obsessed with it and researched teaching on evenings and weekends. I lay awake at night, worrying over how to be a better teacher. After a couple of years of this, someone noticed I was good at my job and invited me to speak at some national conferences. When I was doing that, a publisher attended, liked my talk, and offered me a book contract. I never could have predicted any of that happening, but none of it would have happened had I not worked hard.

　　我全身心地投入了这份工作，并利用晚上和周末全部时间研究教学。晚上躺下睡不着，想着怎样能成为一名更好的老师。几年之后，有人注意到我工作做得好，邀请我去参加一些国家会议。当我参加会议的时候，有个出版商找到了我，喜欢我的演讲，提供了一个书稿合约。我从来想过会有这样的好事，但是如果没有我之前的努力工作的话这一切都是不可能的。

　　I put a lot of sweat into writing answers on Quora. As a result, I was awarded Top Writer status, made an admin, and have had my answers posted on Huffpo, Slate, and Forbes. I didn't work hard in order to get any of that stuff. I didn't even know it was possible. When I started on this site, there was no Top Writer award, no affiliate sites, and no volunteer admins.

　　我花了很大的精力在quora上回复问题。结果就是，我获得了quora优秀作家奖，成了quora管理员，我的一些回复被推送到 Huffpo, Slate和Forbes网站上。我努力工作并不是为了获得这些，我甚至没想过勤奋可以换来这一切。我开始玩quora的时候，还没有优秀作家奖，没有附属网站，没有志愿管理员呢。

　　I have spent 30 years directing plays. I spend hours and hour researching, and I've spent a lot of money on books about theartre, acting, directing, and Shakespeare. My plays lose money, and so I partly finance them myself. Which means I lose money--thousands of dollars every year. I put a major chunk of my salary and time into this, have done so for decades, and, as a result, I finally got offered a contract, directing plays on Broadway!

　　我导演了30多年戏剧。我花了很多时间去研究，也花了很多钱买各种戏剧，表演，导演和莎士比亚等的书。我拍的戏赔了钱，我不得不自掏腰包，也就是说每年我都损失数千美元。我这几十年，花了很多时间和钱在导演上，最终，有人要我去执导百老汇的戏!

　　Just kidding, I didn't. And I almost certainly won't. Instead, I will continue to lose money and free time. Or I won't. Maybe something else will happen, something I can't predict. Meanwhile, I am learning. I have learned so much by devoting myself to this and other projects. That, to me, stops it from being pointless.

　　哈哈开个玩笑，我没去执导百老汇的戏，可能以后也不会去。相反，我会继续花费钱和自由的时间去努力做这些事情。可能会有其他的无法预测的事情发生，同时我会继续学习。全身心地投入一些事情让我学到了很多东西，对我而言，这样可以不让事情变得毫无意义。

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