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英语美文欣赏：去经历去体验
做最好最真
实的自己
摘要
:
你要
相信，生活中的偶然冥冥中也能指引未来。你要心怀
信念
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相信你的直觉、命运、生活抑或因缘。这个方法一直给我力量，
促
使我过得卓然不同。
Truly
happy
and
successful
people
get
that
way
bybecoming
the
best,
most
genuine
version
ofthemselves
they
can
be.
Not
on
the
outside--
on
theinside.
It's
not
about a brand, a
reputation, apersona. It's about reality.
Who you really are.
真正快乐成功的人
会长成最好最真实的自己
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从内心而非外表
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Sounds simple, I know. It is a simple
concept. Theproblem
is, it's very
hard to do, it takes a lot of work, and it can
take a lifetime to figure it out.
道理很简单，讲出来也很容易。但问题是，做起来就不简单了：
这需要付诸
很多努力，甚或一辈子才能实现。
Nothing
worth doing in life is ever easy. If you want to
do
great work, it's going to take a
lot ofhard work to do it.
And
you're going to have to break out of your
comfort
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zone
and take somechances that will scare the crap out
of you.
需要穷尽毕生精力的事情必定不容易。成大事者必先苦其心志。
因此，你必须走出舒适区，去经历、去体验那些会让你害怕的机会。
But you know, I can't think of a
better way to spend
your life. I mean,
what's life for if notfinding yourself and
trying to become the best, most genuine
version of you that
you can be?
况且，人这一辈子，若到头来都认不清自己、未能长成最好最真
实的自己，还有
什么意义呢
?
That's what Steve
Jobs meant when he said this at a
Stanford University commencementspeech:
正如史蒂夫
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乔布斯在斯坦福大学的毕
业典礼上所言：
Your time is
limited, so don't waste it living someone
else's
life.
Don't
let
the
noise
of
others'opinions drown out your own
inner voice.
时间宝贵，
不要虚掷光阴过着他人
的生活。
不要让周遭的聒噪言
论蒙蔽你内心的声音。
You have to trust that the dots
will somehow connect in
your future.
You have to trust insomething--your gut, destiny,
life,
karma,
whatever.
This
approach
has
never
let
me
down,and it has made all the difference
in my life.
你要相信，生活中的偶然冥冥中也能指引未来。你要心怀信念
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相
信你的直觉、命运、生活抑或因缘。这个方法一直给我力量，促使
我过得卓然不同。
The only way to do great work
is to love what you do. If
you
haven't found it yet, keep 't settle.
成大事的唯一途径就是做自己喜欢的事情。
若你还没找到，
那就
继续追寻吧，不要停下来。
Now,
let's
for
a
moment
be
realistic
about
this.
Insightful
as
that
advice
may
be,
it
sounds
alittle
too
amorphous
and
challenging
to
resonate
with
today's
quick-fix
culture.
These
days,
ifyou
can't
tell
people
exactly what to do
and how to do it, it falls on deaf ears.
现在我们来实际一点：
建议或许很深刻，
但听完却让人无从
着手，
难以运用到当今的快节奏文化中。
现如今，
如果一个建议讲不清具体
做什么、该怎么做的话，那么说了也等于白说。
Not
only
that,
but
what
Jobs
was
talking
about,
what
I'm
talking
about,
requires
focus
anddiscipline,
two
things that are very
hard to come by these days. Why? Because,
focus anddiscipline are hard. It's
so much easier to give
in to
distraction and instant gratification. Easyand
addictive.
不仅如此，乔布斯的讲话和我要说的话都需要集中和自制
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这两
个品质在当今社会非常难能可贵。何
以见得
?
因为集中和自制都不容
易做到
。人们很容易分散注意力、寻求即时快感
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舒服且容易上瘾。
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