英語美文朗讀 第399期 If you change your attitude you change your altitude

You could be rich, man. But you cannot erase the work ethic part. There is no getting around, ain't no elevator to the top. You got to take the stairs. The elevator don't go to the top, man. Not in the world of success. You gotta take the stairs. Y'all gotta start getting gritty, man. Somebody taught this to me a long time ago, he said Steve, in order to get to the life of your dreams, you're gonna have to learn how to get comfortable being uncomfortable.

 

朋友，你能變得很富有。但是你不能忽略職業(yè)精神這個東西。你不能逃避困難，你也不能一步登天，你必須腳踏實地地努力。一步登天是不可能的，起碼在成功人的世界里是這樣的。你必須一步一個腳印地努力。朋友，你必須學(xué)會堅強。很久以前，有人教會我一個道理。他說，Steve，為了實現(xiàn)夢想，你必須學(xué)會適應(yīng)不舒適的感覺。

 

When you hear people say all the time, I don't wanna do nothing that I'm not comfortable with. This person's in trouble. Because whatever your comfort zone is, if you stay in your comfort zone, that's where you'll fail. If your comfort zone is this big and you stay in your comfort zone, that's where you'll fail. In order to succeed in life, you have to step outside of your comfort zone. But I wanna tell you something about yourself. All of you are equipped to live outside of your comfort zone.

如果你聽見有人總是在說，我不想做那些令我感到不適的事情，那么，這個人會遇到麻煩。因為，無論你的舒適區(qū)是什么，只要你待在舒適區(qū)里，那么你就會失敗。如果你的舒適區(qū)就這么一點大，你待在里面不出來，那么你輸定了。在人生中，為了取得成功，你必須走出舒適區(qū)。但是，我想告訴你一些跟你有關(guān)的事情。那就是，你們每個人，都有能力在舒適區(qū)外生活。

 

See, a lot of people are afraid to jump. A lot of people are afraid to take chances. A lot of people are afraid to put things up for risk. And you shouldn't be. Now, you can be afraid, but you should learn how to go ahead anyhow. See, because, let me show you something about yourself. For all the bad days you've ever had, for every day that you thought you wasn't gonna get through, for every period in your life you did not see no way you could come out on the other side, your track record for surviving them bad days, is 100%. You have survived every single one of them. Your track record for surviving bad days, y'all, is 100%. And that's pretty good.

你們看，很多人不敢縱身一躍，很多人不敢冒險，很多人不敢賭上自己擁有的東西，但是你不應(yīng)該是這樣的?，F(xiàn)在，你可能會感到害怕，但是無論如何你必須學(xué)會往前走。為什么這樣說呢？那就讓我告訴你一些跟你有關(guān)的事吧。那些最糟糕的日子，每一個你認為你自己熬不過的日子，人生中每一個你認為絕對找不到出路的時期，你全部都熬過來了。全部，都熬過來了，都熬過來了。這是一件很棒的事。

 

You can't name one bad day you ain't got through. I have a life of convenience now, but in order to get the life of convenience, you gotta have a very uncomfortable life. You got to get comfortable being uncomfortable. Stop trying to do everything the short way. Stop trying to figure out the easy way. You got to, you got to get messed up sometimes. You gotta get dirty. You gotta get your feelings hurt. You gotta get disappointed. You gotta get told no. You gotta ask somebody for some money. He gotta tell you no. But show me something that has grown into something beautiful that didn't have no dirt on it.

你根本找不到自己有哪天是沒能熬過去的。現(xiàn)在我擁有很便利的生活，但是為了得到這樣的生活，你必須要有過很令人難受的經(jīng)歷，你必須學(xué)會適應(yīng)不舒適的感覺。不要總是想著走捷徑來做事，不要總想著偷懶。有時候，你會遇到什么都一團糟的狀況，你會把自己搞得很狼狽，你的心靈會受到傷害，你會感到很失望，你會被拒絕，你會被迫向人借錢然后被拒絕。但是，請你告訴我，有沒有這樣一個東西，它從來沒有經(jīng)歷過任何磨難，但是卻變成了最美好的事物？

 

You take a seed and throw it on the concrete. Don't put no dirt on it and watch what happens. See, you get tripped out 'cause you got dirt on you, but you need dirt on you to develop. Because dirt ain't just dirt. Dirt is fertilizer. Dirt is nutrients. Dirt gives you the strength for your seed to push through, so you gotta have dirt on you to push through something. Everything you see is beautiful starts out as a seed, but that seed got to get dirt on it.

你試試，拿一顆種子，然后把它扔到水泥地上，不要往它身上蓋泥土把它弄臟，然后靜觀其變。你看，正是因為身上有泥土，所以它才被困住，但是正因為有了泥土，它才能成長。因為，泥土不僅僅是泥土而已，它還是肥料，是營養(yǎng)。它讓你的種子擁有力量，破土而出。所以，如果你想渡過難關(guān)，那么你必須經(jīng)歷灰頭土臉的時期。你所見的每個美好的事物，最初都只是一顆不起眼的種子，但是那顆種子獲得了泥土。

 

So you get mad when haters come your way. You get mad 'cause you get a setback. You get mad 'cause you get thrown off course. You get mad 'cause you get a detour. That's just dirt. You get mad 'cause they talking about you. That's dirt. You get mad 'cause you lost your momma. That's dirt. I want you to think about all them bad moments you had that looked like you weren’t gonna make it. And then I want you to ask yourself, well why did I make it? Just change your mindset. If you change your attitude you change your altitude.

所以，當恨你的人阻礙你前行的時候，你會生氣。當你遇到挫折的時候，你會生氣。當你走錯路的時候，你會生氣。你不得不繞道而行的時候，你會生氣。這些都是泥土，會把你弄臟。因為有人在談?wù)撃?，所以你生氣，這就是泥土。你失去了母親，你為此感到很生氣，這就是泥土。我想要你回顧一下那些糟糕的時刻，那些看起來你無法度過的難關(guān)。然后，我想要你問自己，為什么你成功做到了？改變你的思維吧。改變態(tài)度，才能改變高度。