雙語背誦美文：你不知道的五個成功因素
摘錄：人們總是看到你的成功。他們可能永遠不會知道你的犧牲。
You might be expecting me to write something basic about patience, integrity, humility, honesty, discipline, and other qualities that might make up a successful person. If you’re looking for an article like that, you’ll find them everywhere. This article is different. It’s not meant to talk about one word or one quality of successful people in a generic sense and re-define what those things mean for you. This articles purpose is to help you re-define what your personal success is and how you define yourself.
There are elements of success people seldom mention, and sometimes those things have nothing to do with the present or the individual. Below, feel free to read about those five elements.
這裏寫的是成功的人很少提及的因素,有你可能會希望我寫一些基本的可能會使一些人成功的關於耐心,誠信、謙遜、誠實、紀律和其他品質的因素。如果你正在尋找這樣的一篇文章,你就會發現他們無處不在。這篇文章是不同的。這不是爲了談論一個詞或一個成功的人在一般意義上的質量和重新定義這些東西對你來說意味着什麼。這篇文章的目的是幫助你定義你的個人成功是什麼,你如何定義自己。時候這些事情與現在或個人無關。下面,請閱讀這五個因素。
1. Your job isn’t your success.
You are your success, and what you’re successful in will vary. It doesn’t have to be your job. It could be your family, it could be your volunteer work, or your community service. Success is multi-faceted. In addition, your job may not be a direct reflection of you, your greatest strengths, or the best use of your time. Your job might not enable you to contribute to the world in a way you would like, yet so many people define themselves by their jobs, or their next big promotion. Success is a lifestyle and an attitude.
你的工作不是你的成功。
你是你的成功,你的成功將會有所不同。它不需要你的工作。可能是你的家人,這可能是你的志願工作,或者你的社區服務。成功是多方面的。此外,你的工作可能不是直接反映出你最大的優勢,或最好的利用你的時間。你的工作不會讓你向世界貢獻你想貢獻的東西,然而很多人定義通過自己的工作,或者他們的下一個大的提升來定義成功。成功是一種生活方式和態度。
2. Failure is going to happen to you. Just because you fail at something, doesn’t mean you are a failure.
失敗是會發生在你身上的。因爲你失敗的時候,並不意味着你是一個失敗者。
I’ve only failed one class in my life: geometry. I did my best, and I tried hard, enrolling in tutoring and after school classes to help boost my grade. Failing, I thought, would be unacceptable and earth-shattering. I thought I’d be too embarrassed to ever be able to discuss it, l and yet here I am. Do you know what I learned? I learned it wasn’t the end of the world. I learned what I wasn’t good at. I learned where I was weak and I used those insights to make myself stronger and better educated about myself.
在我的生活中我只失敗過一們學科:幾何學。我做我最好的,我努力,參加輔導和放學後的各輔導類來幫助提高我的成績。沒有,我想,是無法接受的,驚天動地的。我想是羞於討論，但我在這裏。你知道我學到了什麼?我知道這並不是世界末日。我學會了我不擅長什麼。我學會了,我很軟弱,我用這些見解使自己更加強大,受教育程度也更高。
3. People will always see your successes. They may never know about your sacrifices.
人們總是看到你的成功。他們可能永遠不會知道你的犧牲。
There will always be people who think you had it easy. There were always be people who identify with you and think you had it rough. They are both wrong, and the answer is usually somewhere in the middle and defined by the individual. The truth of the matter is, no one else is going to really know how much you had to give up or overcome to get to where you are. It’s easy to think being successful is easy when the version of you people are seeing is the person who made it through the storm.
總是會有那些認爲你很容易的人。還有的人認同你,認爲你粗糙的。他們都是錯的,答案通常是在中間的某個地方和定義的個人。事情的真相是,沒有人會知道你有多不得不放棄或克服你在哪裏。很容易認爲成功很容易當你的版本的人看到的是暴風雨的人通過。
4. There are people who aren’t going to think you’re successful, no matter what you think of yourself or how you feel.
有些人不會認爲你是成功的,不管你怎麼認爲你自己或你的感覺。
Ignore people like this. They are usually miserable themselves. There will always be people who like to gossip or speak poorly of someone else trying to get by and follow their dreams. People will tell you your goals are stupid, your dreams are unrealistic, and the money won’t follow. Sometimes they are right, and sometimes they are wrong. The only thing that matters is that you don’t base your final choices off of them.
忽略這類人。他們自己通常是痛苦了。總是會有那些喜歡八卦或說別人想的差,追隨自己的夢想。是愚蠢的人會告訴你你的目標,你的夢想是不現實的,錢不會效仿。有時他們是對的,有時他們是錯誤的。唯一重要的是你不要覺得你的最終選擇是錯誤的。
5. Sometimes it’s about who you know.
有時是你認識誰。
In some respects, certain types of success have to do more with who you know as opposed to how hard you work, hustle, or study. Many people will tell you so long as you work hard, anything is possible, and while anything being possible is true, it isn’t always probable. Sometimes people have a better time, or easier time because they have good mentors or they knew the right people or joined the right clubs or had the right connections. Sometimes success is a collaborative effort, not just something we become on our own.
在某些方面,某些類型的成功必須做更多你認識誰,而不是你如何努力地工作,喧囂、或研究。很多人會告訴你,只要你努力,一切皆有可能,任何事情都是可能是真的,這並不總是可能的。有時人們有一個更好的時間,或者更容易,因爲他們有良好的導師或者他們知道正確的人加入正確的俱樂部或正確的連接。有時成功是一種合作,而不僅僅是我們成爲我們自己的東西。
