晨讀英語美文100篇六級Failure Is a Good Thing

[ti:] [ar:] [al:] [by:] [00:02.33]Passage 69 Failure Is a Good Thing [00:08.34]Last week, my granddaughter started kindergarten, and I wished her success. [00:14.69]I was lying. [00:15.76]What I actually wish for her is failure. [00:19.92]I believe in the power of failure. [00:22.76]Success is boring. [00:25.06]Success is proving that you can do something that you already know you can do, [00:31.52]or doing something correctly the first time, which can often be a problematic victory. [00:38.41]First-time success is usually a fluke. [00:42.57]First-time failure, by contrast, is expected; it is the natural order of things. [00:50.45]Failure is how we learn. [00:53.18]I have been told of an African phrase describing a good cook as "she who has broken many pots." [01:02.15]If you've spent enough time in the kitchen to have broken a lot of pots, [01:07.73]probably you know a lot about cooking. [01:11.23]I once had a dinner with a group of chefs, [01:15.28]and they spent time comparing knife wounds and burn scars. [01:19.99]They knew how much credibility their failures gave them. [01:24.58]I earn my living by writing a daily newspaper column. [01:29.28]Each week I am aware that one column is going to be the worst column. [01:34.97]I don't set out to write it; I try my best every day. [01:39.68]I have learned to cherish that column. [01:43.73]A successful column usually means that I am treading on familiar ground, [01:49.42]going with the tricks that work or dressing up popular sentiments in fancy words. [01:55.87]Often in my inferior columns, I am trying to pull off something I've never done before, [02:03.53]something I'm not even sure can be done. [02:07.03]My younger daughter is a trapeze artist. [02:10.86]She spent three years putting together an act. [02:14.36]She did it successfully for years. [02:17.54]There was no reason for her to change the act- but she did anyway. [02:22.68]She said she was no longer learning anything new and she was bored. [02:27.81]So she changed the act. [02:30.33]She risked failure and profound public embarrassment in order to feed her soul. [02:36.68]My granddaughter is a perfectionist. [02:40.18]She will feel her failures, and I will want to comfort her. [02:45.00]But I will also, I hope, remind her of what she learned, [02:50.68]and how she can do whatever it is better next time. [02:55.61]I hope I can tell her, though, that it's not the end of the world. [03:00.43]Indeed, with luck, it is the beginning.

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