2017 has been Jack Antonoff’s year.
2017年是Jack Antonoff占尽风光的一年。

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.
这位多产的音乐制作人兼乐手为自己的音乐作品名录又添加了三张年度最有趣流行音乐唱片：Lorde的Melodrama，St. Vincent的Masseduction，还有Taylor Swift的Reputation。同时，他还发行了自己的第二张专辑。

RULE NO. 1: SCHEDULE TIME TO BE UNSCHEDULED
规则1：为拖延症留足时间

“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.”
“对我来说，高效率的工作就是插科打诨。我喜欢有意识的坐下来对自己说，‘好了，现在我不会打开硬盘上的任何文件。我要好好坐在钢琴前，来点新东西。’这让我回想起我还是个孩子的时候玩音乐的方式。我真的会为自己安排好用来浪费的时间。”

RULE NO. 2: TAKE ADVANTAGE OF THAT POST-SLEEP HAZE
规则2：利用好睡眼惺忪的时刻

“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.'”
“我试着在吃早餐之前开始工作。一旦你开始做任何事，你就会离早上自由轻灵的感觉越来越远。接着你开始适应早上起床后的状态，你的自我认知越来越清晰。你对自己的认知总是伴随着许多规则，比如，‘我不会说这种话的，我不会弹这种和弦的。我是这个样子，而不是那个样子。’”

RULE NO. 3: THERE’S NO ONE RIGHT WAY TO DO SOMETHING
规则3：没有谁时刻准备着完成任何事

“[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是在几个小时之内完成的。有的歌曲需要花费几个月的时间，有的则是无尤来突然出现的。写歌没有固定的模式。你要明白，这就是艺术的生产率有趣的地方。这就是一个诱导你自己完成某样东西的小把戏。想要规划完成某件事情的时间，后者却完全不理会你的计划，这真是一件滑稽的事情。”

RULE NO. 4: LEAN INTO HOW YOU FEEL IN A GIVEN WORKSPACE
倾听自己对现有工作空间的感受


“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，在某个时刻你的双腿会突然不想要走进某个场所。我会跟着他们走。在纽约，我在自己的公寓后面有一个非常好看的工作室。但是最近每次我一回家就会走进厨房，在那里弹吉他，写歌。也许我建的那个大工作室已经不再是我心仪的工作场所了。你会养成这样那样的习惯，接着突然有一天你再也不想这样了。这就像失恋一样，是不可预测的。不过我认为重要的是，你要明白你的工作场所应该是你的双腿想要走进去的地方。”

RULE NO. 5: “IF IT’S TOO BIG, DON’T LOOK AT IT”
“如果任务太庞大，就别盯着它看”

“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.”
“我回顾这一年的时候，突然有种惊吓感。如果在2017年1月1日，有人站在我面前告诉我，我会完成Lorde的唱片，St. Vincent的唱片，Bleachers的专辑，Taylor Swift的专辑，我会说我做不到。但我知道假以时日我能完成它们。你一天只需完成一点点，坚持不懈的干下去。如果任务太过庞大，就不要盯着它看。如果你想做好一样庞杂的工作，不要去看它，因为你只会看到重重阻碍。现实会抹杀你的灵感。”

 

（翻译：小木）