双语背诵美文：你不知道的五个成功因素

摘录：人们总是看到你的成功。他们可能永远不会知道你的牺牲。

You might be expecting me to write something basic about patience, integrity, humility, honesty, discipline, and other qualities that might make up a successful person. If you’re looking for an article like that, you’ll find them everywhere. This article is different. It’s not meant to talk about one word or one quality of successful people in a generic sense and re-define what those things mean for you. This articles purpose is to help you re-define what your personal success is and how you define yourself.

There are elements of success people seldom mention, and sometimes those things have nothing to do with the present or the individual. Below, feel free to read about those five elements.

这里写的是成功的人很少提及的因素,有你可能会希望我写一些基本的可能会使一些人成功的关于耐心,诚信、谦逊、诚实、纪律和其他品质的因素。如果你正在寻找这样的一篇文章,你就会发现他们无处不在。这篇文章是不同的。这不是为了谈论一个词或一个成功的人在一般意义上的质量和重新定义这些东西对你来说意味着什么。这篇文章的目的是帮助你定义你的个人成功是什么,你如何定义自己。时候这些事情与现在或个人无关。下面,请阅读这五个因素。

1. Your job isn’t your success.

You are your success, and what you’re successful in will vary. It doesn’t have to be your job. It could be your family, it could be your volunteer work, or your community service. Success is multi-faceted. In addition, your job may not be a direct reflection of you, your greatest strengths, or the best use of your time. Your job might not enable you to contribute to the world in a way you would like, yet so many people define themselves by their jobs, or their next big promotion. Success is a lifestyle and an attitude.

你的工作不是你的成功。

你是你的成功,你的成功将会有所不同。它不需要你的工作。可能是你的家人,这可能是你的志愿工作,或者你的社区服务。成功是多方面的。此外,你的工作可能不是直接反映出你最大的优势,或最好的利用你的时间。你的工作不会让你向世界贡献你想贡献的东西,然而很多人定义通过自己的工作,或者他们的下一个大的提升来定义成功。成功是一种生活方式和态度。

2. Failure is going to happen to you. Just because you fail at something, doesn’t mean you are a failure.

失败是会发生在你身上的。因为你失败的时候,并不意味着你是一个失败者。

I’ve only failed one class in my life: geometry. I did my best, and I tried hard, enrolling in tutoring and after school classes to help boost my grade. Failing, I thought, would be unacceptable and earth-shattering. I thought I’d be too embarrassed to ever be able to discuss it, l and yet here I am. Do you know what I learned? I learned it wasn’t the end of the world. I learned what I wasn’t good at. I learned where I was weak and I used those insights to make myself stronger and better educated about myself.

在我的生活中我只失败过一们学科:几何学。我做我最好的,我努力,参加辅导和放学后的各辅导类来帮助提高我的成绩。没有,我想,是无法接受的,惊天动地的。我想是羞于讨论，但我在这里。你知道我学到了什么?我知道这并不是世界末日。我学会了我不擅长什么。我学会了,我很软弱,我用这些见解使自己更加强大,受教育程度也更高。

3. People will always see your successes. They may never know about your sacrifices.

人们总是看到你的成功。他们可能永远不会知道你的牺牲。

There will always be people who think you had it easy. There were always be people who identify with you and think you had it rough. They are both wrong, and the answer is usually somewhere in the middle and defined by the individual. The truth of the matter is, no one else is going to really know how much you had to give up or overcome to get to where you are. It’s easy to think being successful is easy when the version of you people are seeing is the person who made it through the storm.

总是会有那些认为你很容易的人。还有的人认同你,认为你粗糙的。他们都是错的,答案通常是在中间的某个地方和定义的个人。事情的真相是,没有人会知道你有多不得不放弃或克服你在哪里。很容易认为成功很容易当你的版本的人看到的是暴风雨的人通过。

4. There are people who aren’t going to think you’re successful, no matter what you think of yourself or how you feel.

有些人不会认为你是成功的,不管你怎么认为你自己或你的感觉。

Ignore people like this. They are usually miserable themselves. There will always be people who like to gossip or speak poorly of someone else trying to get by and follow their dreams. People will tell you your goals are stupid, your dreams are unrealistic, and the money won’t follow. Sometimes they are right, and sometimes they are wrong. The only thing that matters is that you don’t base your final choices off of them.

忽略这类人。他们自己通常是痛苦了。总是会有那些喜欢八卦或说别人想的差,追随自己的梦想。是愚蠢的人会告诉你你的目标,你的梦想是不现实的,钱不会效仿。有时他们是对的,有时他们是错误的。唯一重要的是你不要觉得你的最终选择是错误的。

5. Sometimes it’s about who you know.

有时是你认识谁。

In some respects, certain types of success have to do more with who you know as opposed to how hard you work, hustle, or study. Many people will tell you so long as you work hard, anything is possible, and while anything being possible is true, it isn’t always probable. Sometimes people have a better time, or easier time because they have good mentors or they knew the right people or joined the right clubs or had the right connections. Sometimes success is a collaborative effort, not just something we become on our own.

在某些方面,某些类型的成功必须做更多你认识谁,而不是你如何努力地工作,喧嚣、或研究。很多人会告诉你,只要你努力,一切皆有可能,任何事情都是可能是真的,这并不总是可能的。有时人们有一个更好的时间,或者更容易,因为他们有良好的导师或者他们知道正确的人加入正确的俱乐部或正确的连接。有时成功是一种合作,而不仅仅是我们成为我们自己的东西。