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英文学以致用，领略语言之美。有道词典，不只是查单词，还带你看天下。 So many people grow up with what I like to call a “fairy-tale attitude”: They simply think that everything will end up working out for them, as if their life is so much more important than everyone else’s. 许多人都是我所说的带着“童话态度”成长起来：他们单纯认为一切都将围绕自己转，好像他们的生活比其他人更加重要一样。 While they may be the star of their own show, they’re certainly nothing special to the world without ever doing anything to prove their worth. 或许他们是自己人生舞台的主角，但是对整个世界来说却什么都不是，因为这样的人从来没有做过证明自己价值的事情。 If you want to work hard to add something to the world, and increase your chances of success, make sure to avoid practicing any of the following habits. 如果想努力工作为这个世界做些什么，也想提高成功的概率，那么请保证没有以下这些习惯哦。
1. Procrastinating 1. 拖延 Time is a valuable asset that cannot be replenished. So why would you spend time putting off your obligations? 时间是宝贵的财产，无法重新来过。因此，你为什么会花时间推脱你的责任？ The unsuccessful don’t realize that those obligations are only going to pile up higher and higher the more you sweep them into the corner. Avoiding responsibilities only makes it that much harder to face them when push comes to shove. 失败的人没有意识到如果你把这些责任堆到墙角，它们会越堆越高。避免责任只能让我们在紧要关头更加难以面对它们。 2. Placing blame 2. 责备他人 It’s easy for the unsuccessful to blame others for their mistakes, but it doesn’t get them anywhere. 失败的人责备起别人相当容易，但这对他们来说并没有好处。 Owning up to your shortcomings allows you to grow as a person. Realize that it’s totally fine to make a mistake (as long as you only do it once), but it’s never okay to make someone else take the fall when you screw up. 承认自己的缺点让你成长为真正的人。要知道犯错在所难免（只要同样的错误只犯一次），但是当你将事情搞砸找个替罪羊就不对了。 3. Minimizing others’ achievements 3. 将他人的成就最小化 I think everyone at one point has read about someone else’s accomplishments and thought “ I could have done that if I tried hard enough.” But did they? No, they didn’t; otherwise it’d be their face on the cover of TIME magazine, not the other person’s. 我认为每个人都曾经读过有关别人成功的事迹，他们会这么想：如果我努力了，也会像他那样。”但是他们成功了吗？不，并没有；否则时代周刊封面就是他们的照片，而不是其他人的了。 Give credit where credit is due, and you’ll realize that it’s not only talent that gets you ahead; it’s what you do with that talent that really matters. 表扬那样值得表扬的人，你就会意识到让你领先的不仅仅只有天赋；重要的是你用天赋做出的事情。 4. Consuming 4. 消费 Unfortunately, we live in a society that glorifies consumption. TV shows are on whenever you want, stores are open 24 hours a day, and credit cards make it easy to hop on Amazon and buy yet another gadget you’ll use for a few days then toss into your closet. 不幸的是，我们都生活在一个崇尚消费的社会。只要你想看，电视节目一直都在播，商店一天24小时营业，用信用卡在亚马逊网站购买商品很便利，而这些东西你仅仅只会用上几天，然后就会扔进你的衣橱里。 Instead of constantly taking from society, do something to give back. Create something for other people to enjoy; you’ll realize it’s even more rewarding than consuming something created by others. 不要老向社会索取，也要回馈社会。为别人创造些可以享受的东西，你会意识到这更加受益于消费别人创造的东西。 5. Talking too much 5. 说话太多 Again, our society seems to value those who talk a good game, regardless of whether or not they follow through with their words (just watch any political debate to verify this). 此外，我们的社会貌似很看重那些能说会道的人。不论后来他们是否遵循自己的话（看看政治辩论你就懂了）。 Not only do the unsuccessful talk too much and act too seldom, but they also lack proper listening skills. 失败的人不仅说得多，做得少，他们也缺乏合适的聆听技能。 Take the time to actually hear the messages other people’s words are saying, rather than just waiting for your turn to speak. You might actually learn something. 花时间听听别人说的话，不只是一直等着你开口说话。你可能会真正学到一些东西哦。 6. Making assumptions 6. 猜测假想 So many people let their prejudices place a veil over their world. It’s never healthy to assume you know what someone else is thinking or feeling, yet that is the default practice of the unsuccessful. 如此多的人任由偏见蒙蔽自己的世界。猜测别人的想法和感觉很不好，也是失败之人默认的习惯。 Until you’ve walked in another person’s shoes and seen the world from their perspective, you have absolutely no right to assume that they are stupid or wrong just because their viewpoints clash with yours. 知道你设身处地为他人想想，从别人的视角看看这个世界，你就绝不会去评论别人的愚蠢或错误，因为他们的观点会和你的观点发生冲突。 7. Acting negatively 7. 消极行动 Naysayers are the party-poopers of the real world. While others are busy searching for solutions to problems, negative people throw in the towel, thinking “Why bother?” or “That’ll never work.” 在这个真实的世界里，老是唱反调的人总是很扫兴。当别人忙于寻找解决问题的方法时，消极的人总是会认输，他们会说：“何苦呢？”或者“不会成功的”。 Such a defeatist attitude is a self-fulfilling prophecy: If you’re thinking you’re going to success, you almost certainly will. 这种失败主义的态度是自我实现的预言：如果你觉得自己会成功，那么你肯定会成功。 8. Making excuses 8. 找借口 We spoke before about placing blame, but it’s possible to make excuses while not pointing the finger at someone else specifically. 我们之前谈到了责怪他人，但是找不去指责别人的借口还是可能的。 Unsuccessful people always have some reason lined up for why they failed to complete a task: “I had too much else going on,” “It was impossible to do in that amount of time,” and so on. 失败之人总会有他们为什么没能完成任务的理由：“我有太多其他事要处理。”“用那个时间完成任务根本不可能。”诸如此类。 Making an excuse is only an admittance that you couldn’t overcome the difficulty placed upon you. 找借口只是承认你不能克服当下面对的困难。 9. Being fearful 9. 恐惧 Many unsuccessful people are unsuccessful because they’ve simply never put themselves “out there” and tried to accomplish something. 许多人之所以不成功是因为他们从不行动，也不尝试完成任务。 This goes along with their negative attitude: They’re scared of failing, so they don’t even try. Unfortunately, what they don’t realize is that failure can eventually lead to success if they learn from it. But they’ll never succeed if they’re too afraid to try. 这和消极的心态一致：他们害怕失败，因此也不会尝试。不幸的是，他们没有意识到如果吸取经验教训的话，失败最终也会走向成功。但是他们将永远不会成功，如果他们连尝试都不敢的话。 10. Quitting 10. 放弃 Some unsuccessful people try, then fail, then quit. I think many successful people of our time who failed over and over again, only to change the world when they finally got it right. 有些不成功的人尝试后遭遇失败就放弃了。我认为，在我们这个时代，有许多成功的人，他们经历了一次又一次的失败，当最终成功时，他们改变了世界。 Thomas Edison didn’t just one day invent the light bulb, and the Wright Brothers didn’t just one day create the airplane. They worked through trial and error, figuring out what worked and what didn’t, until they perfected their invention — and went from daydreaming hopefuls to successful inventors. 爱迪生不是一天就把灯泡发明出来的，莱特兄弟也不是一天就造出飞机。他们反复试验，得出方法好坏的经验，直到完善发明—从幻想家转变为成功的发明家。 你也有大量合适翻译作品，想发布在有道词典？ 有道词典正招募双语内容合作团队， 详情点→这里 |
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