雙語財經新聞 第84期:相信自己就能成功(2)
Psychologists say that by the age of two, 50 percent of what we ever believe about ourselves has been formed; by age six, 60 percent, and at eight years, 80 percent. Wouldn’t you love to have the energy and optimism of a little kid? There is nothing you couldn’t do or learn or be.
Believing in yourself comes from knowing what you are really capable of doing. When it’s your turn to step up to the plate, realise that you won’t hit a homerun every time. Baseball superstar Mickey Mantle struck out more than 1,700 times, but it didn’t stop him from excelling at baseball. He believed in himself, and he knew his fans believed in him.
自信源於你能正確地認知自己的能力。要知道，當輪到你走向本壘板時，並不是每次你都能打出本壘打的。棒球超級明星米奇?曼特在成名前曾失敗過1700多 次，但這絲毫沒有妨礙他對成功的追求。他相信自己，同時他也知道他的球迷也相 信他。Surround3 yourself with positive people — they know the importance of confidence and will help you keep focused on what you can do instead of what you can’t. Who you surround yourself with is who you become.
和樂觀的人相處一因爲他們懂得自信的重要，並且能幫助你集中精力做你力所能及的事。近朱者赤，近墨者黑。
Never stop learning! I would work this advice into every column if I could; it’ s that important. Don’t limit yourself only to work-related classes, either. Learn everything about every subject that you can. When you know what you’re talking about, it shows.
永遠不要停止學習！只要我能，我都會不停地學習，因爲這對培養信心尤其重要。要儘可能多地吸取各種知識。從你的談吐中就能體現出你的學識。Be very careful not to confuse confidence with a big ego. if you want people to believe in you, you also have to believe in them. Understand well that those around you also have much to contribute, and they deserve your support. Without faith in yourself and others, success is impossible.
一定要注意不要混淆自負和自信。如果你想讓別人相信你，你也要相信別人。 理解別人也是必不可少的，並且他們也需要你的支持。如果你既不相信自己也不相信別人，那麼你永遠也不可能成功。At the end of a particularly frustrating practice one-day, a football coach dismissed his players by yelling, “Now all you idiots, go take a shower! ” All but one player headed toward the locker room. The coach glared at him and asked why he was still there.
在一次令人十分沮喪的足球比賽結束後，教練宣佈解散時,對球員大喊:“你們這些笨蛋，去洗澡吧！ ”所有人都朝衣帽間走去，只有一個人站在原地沒動。教練怒視着問他，爲什麼還站着不動。“You told all the idiots to go, Sir,” the player replied, “and there sure seems to be a lot of them. But I am not an idiot.”
“你是讓所有的笨蛋去，教練。”這個球員回答說，“去那兒的人才是笨蛋，但我不是。”Confident? You bet. And smart enough to coach that team some day.
這個球員很自信嗎？當然。因爲他一直表現很出色,後來竟成爲這支球隊的教練。Moral: Believe in yourself, even when no one else does.
這個故事告訴我們:相信你自己，即使在別人不相信你時。
