名校勵志英語演講 第18期:失敗的額外收益和想象力的重要性
那么我為什么要談?wù)撌〉氖找婺?
[00:05.37]Simply because failure meant a stripping away of the inessential.
很簡單，因為失敗意味著剔除那些無關(guān)緊要的東西。
[00:11.03]I stopped pretending to myself that I was anything other than what I was,
我因此不再偽裝自己，
[00:16.02]and began to direct all my energy into finishing the only work that mattered to me.
我把所有的精力傾注在對我來說很重要的事情上。
[00:21.55]Had I really succeeded at anything else, I might never have found the determination，
如果我真的在其他領(lǐng)域取得了成功，
[00:26.27]to succeed in the one arena I believed I truly belonged.
或許我永遠(yuǎn)不會下定決心在我確信真正屬于我的舞臺上取得成功。
[00:30.59]I was set free, because my greatest fear had been realised,
我得到了解脫，因為雖然我害怕的事情發(fā)生了，
[00:34.31]and I was still alive, and I still had a daughter whom I adored,
但我還活著，我還有一個我深愛的女兒，一臺舊打字機(jī)和
[00:39.53]and I had an old typewriter and a big idea.
一個了不起的想法。
[00:43.48]And so rock bottom became the solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life.
所以人生的低谷是我重新開始生活的堅實(shí)基礎(chǔ)。
[00:50.28]You might never fail on the scale I did, but some failure in life is inevitable.
你們也許不會敗得像我一樣慘，但人生中有些失敗是不可避免的。
[00:57.10]It is impossible to live without failing at something,
人生中不可能沒有失敗，
[01:01.29]unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all—
除非你們活的過于拘謹(jǐn)，這樣倒還不如根本沒在世上活過，
[01:06.21]in which case, you fail by default.
因為在這種情況下，放棄嘗試的權(quán)力就是你們最大的失敗。
[01:11.01]Failure gave me an inner security that I had never attained by passing examinations.
失敗賦予我內(nèi)心一種安全感。這種安全感是我無法從通過考試中獲得的。
[01:15.59]Failure taught me things about myself that I could have learned no other way.
失敗讓我了解了自己，這也是無法通過其他途徑做到的。
[01:20.19]I discovered that I had a strong will, and more discipline than I had suspected;
經(jīng)歷失敗讓我發(fā)現(xiàn)我有堅強(qiáng)的意志力，比我想象的更有自律性。
[01:25.47]I also found out that I had friends whose value was truly above the price of rubies.
我還發(fā)現(xiàn)，我擁有比寶石更加珍貴的朋友。
