英語(yǔ)美文朗讀 第534期 Keep studying at your full potential

You will come into obstacles. You probably already have, whether it's procrastination, friendship problems, family problems, money problems. Whatever it is, it's not going to be easy.

 

你會(huì)遇到阻礙。可能你已經(jīng)遇到了，比如拖延癥，友情問(wèn)題，家庭問(wèn)題，經(jīng)濟(jì)問(wèn)題。無(wú)論這阻礙是什么，它都很難突破。

 

A pain is just a byproduct. If you haven't experienced pain, then you will not have the motivation to become the best version of yourself. The pain is what will fuel you.

痛苦只是一個(gè)副作用而已。如果你沒(méi)有經(jīng)歷過(guò)痛苦，那么你就沒(méi)有動(dòng)力去成為最好的自己。痛苦，會(huì)讓你充滿(mǎn)斗志。

 

The most successful people on the planet have had to overcome catastrophic obstacles, and they came out on the other side stronger and wiser.

在這個(gè)世界上，最成功的人，都經(jīng)歷了巨大的痛苦，他們成功度過(guò)了難關(guān)，變得更加強(qiáng)大，更加睿智。

 

Bill Gates's first business failed miserably. Albert Einstein didn't speak until he was four years old. Oprah Winfrey gave birth at 14 years old to a baby boy who died shortly afterwards. Thomas Edison failed 1,000 times before creating the light bulb. Franklin Roosevelt became partially paralyzed at the age of 39 for the rest of his life. He went on to lead the United States as one of the most respected presidents in history.

比爾蓋茨，他最初做的生意，以慘痛失敗告終。愛(ài)因斯坦，他直到四歲才學(xué)會(huì)說(shuō)話(huà)。歐普拉溫弗莉，她在十四歲的時(shí)候生了一個(gè)男嬰，但孩子沒(méi)多久就夭折了。愛(ài)迪生，他失敗了一千次，才發(fā)明出燈泡。富蘭克林羅斯福，他在39歲的時(shí)候遭遇了部分癱瘓，余生都如此，但他仍然堅(jiān)持領(lǐng)導(dǎo)美國(guó)，他是歷史上最受尊敬的總統(tǒng)之一。

 

So it's not only you that is facing obstacles. It happens to everyone. But how do you deal with them is what will set you apart from everyone else. And as they say after the rain comes the rainbow. There are two sides of pain that a lot of people don't really understand. There's a side of pain than most people can relate to, the difficult side, the uncomfortable side. You always remember what that feels like.

所以，面臨困難的，不只有你，大家都一樣。但是，你處理困難的方式，會(huì)讓你與眾不同。正如人們說(shuō)的，風(fēng)雨后才有彩虹。很多人不明白，痛苦，也是有兩面性的。大多數(shù)人知道痛苦的其中一面，也就是困難的一面，令人不適的一面，你永遠(yuǎn)都會(huì)記得這種感覺(jué)。

 

But then there's the other side of pain. It's called effort. It's called winning. It's called if you can push through the suffering, there's some great things waiting for you on the other side. But you don't get to see them if you give up right now, and that's why a lot of people don't get to see this side of pain, because they give up before they get there.

但是，痛苦還有另一面，它是努力，是勝利。它意味著，如果你能熬過(guò)難關(guān)，你會(huì)收獲很大的驚喜。但是，如果你現(xiàn)在就放棄了，你就無(wú)法看到這一切，所以，很多人沒(méi)見(jiàn)過(guò)痛苦的這一面，因?yàn)樗麄儼胪径鴱U了。

 

It's not easy to continue studying when every part of your body is telling you to give up. It's so easy to give up. But it's at this point you need to give it everything you've got. It's about pushing yourself to the point where you feel out of your comfort zone. Because it's outside your comfort zone where the growth happens.

當(dāng)你的身體想讓你放棄時(shí)還堅(jiān)持學(xué)習(xí)，這是很困難的。放棄是很容易的，但是，到了這個(gè)時(shí)候，你應(yīng)該放手一搏。你要敦促自己，直到你走出舒適區(qū)為止。因?yàn)?，只有走出舒適區(qū)，你才能成長(zhǎng)。

 

No one has become successful while staying within their comfort zone, absolutely no one. The first three seconds that you start studying, that's the hardest part. But if you can push through that, if you can push through the first few seconds of studying, it gets a lot easier. You realize it was the thought of studying that you were more bothered about than the actual studying itself.

獲得成功的人，都是走出舒適區(qū)的人，沒(méi)有人能夠在舒適區(qū)里取得成功。你剛開(kāi)始學(xué)習(xí)的那幾秒鐘，是最困難的。但是，如果你能熬過(guò)去，如果你能熬過(guò)剛開(kāi)始學(xué)習(xí)的那幾秒鐘，事情就會(huì)變得容易很多。你會(huì)意識(shí)到，真正學(xué)起來(lái)，并沒(méi)有那么困難。真正讓你心煩的，是要去學(xué)習(xí)這種想法而已。

 

It's never as bad as you thought it would be. You've got to stop complaining. You've got to stop the negativity. Complaining has zero benefits. It doesn't help anything. It just pulls others down with you. You've got to take action in your life. What are you doing about it? You've got to find a solution to your problem. Don't be the problem.

事情沒(méi)你想的那么糟糕，你必須停止抱怨，你必須停止消極。抱怨對(duì)你沒(méi)有好處，它不會(huì)起任何作用，它只會(huì)拖你的后腿，也拖了別人的后腿。你必須行動(dòng)起來(lái)。你現(xiàn)在有采取什么行動(dòng)嗎？你必須找到解決問(wèn)題的方法，不要讓自己成為問(wèn)題本身。

 

I see it so many times where someone is getting bad grades but they blame everyone else but themselves. Believe me, that person is going nowhere. Nothing's going to happen in their life. And if that's you, if you're the person that is blaming everyone else for the situation they're in and not taking action for their own responsibilities, then this is for you.

有的人，他們沒(méi)能取得好成績(jī)，責(zé)怪所有人，卻不反思自己。這樣的情況，我已經(jīng)見(jiàn)過(guò)太多了。相信我，這種人什么都做不成，好事不會(huì)發(fā)生在他們身上。如果你就是這種人，如果你不滿(mǎn)意現(xiàn)狀卻要埋怨他人，如果你不愿意行動(dòng)起來(lái)，為自己負(fù)責(zé)，那么，這個(gè)演講，就是講給你聽(tīng)的。

 

Take action. Take control. If you keep studying at your full potential, and if you keep reading and keep learning and keep asking questions, you'll see the results for yourself. You'll see your grades increase significantly.

采取行動(dòng)，掌握自己的人生。如果你用盡全力去堅(jiān)持學(xué)習(xí)，如果你堅(jiān)持閱讀，堅(jiān)持學(xué)習(xí)，堅(jiān)持提問(wèn)，那么，你也會(huì)看見(jiàn)這帶來(lái)的結(jié)果。你會(huì)看見(jiàn)，你的成績(jī)有明顯的提升。