英語美文朗讀 第572期 If I don't like where I am，I'll work harder

You can pass your exams. You can be great at whatever it is that you choose to be great at.

 

你有能力通過考試，你有能力做好你選擇做的事情。

 

But you have to put in the work. You have to want it bad. You have to want it so bad that you're willing to lose sleep for it.

但是，你必須付出努力。你必須對這個事情有足夠的渴望。你必須渴望得到它，就算廢寢忘食也想得到它。

 

You have to want it so bad that you're willing to lose friends over it. You have to want it so bad that you never ever give up.

你必須渴望得到它，就算因此失去朋友也在所不惜。你必須渴望得到它，永遠不放棄對它的追求。

 

As Steve Jobs says I'm here to make a dent in the universe. You will never hear me complain that it's someone else's fault. Why I'm not getting the grades I have the potential of achieving? If I don't like where I am, I'll work harder.

喬布斯曾經說過，我來到這個世界上，是為了留下我的痕跡。你絕對不會聽見我抱怨，說這是別人的錯。為什么我拿不到我本能得到的成績？如果我對現(xiàn)狀不滿意，我就會加倍努力。

 

My current situation is a perfect reflection of the hard work or lack of work I put in. When you look at the all-time greats, there's one thing in common among them all. They all have relentless, sickening work ethic.

我的現(xiàn)狀，反映了我是否投入了足夠的努力。你看看那些偉人們，他們有一些共同點，那就是，他們都有堅韌的，可怕的工作勁頭。

 

To get to the top, you have to skip watching TV, going to every party, scrolling through social media, and wasting your time on unproductive things. Because while the average student is sleeping, you are hustling.

為了出人頭地，你必須放棄看電視，放棄去排隊，放棄刷社交媒體，不要再把時間浪費在無意義的事情上。因為，普通學生正在睡覺的時候，你正在努力。

 

If you're doing well at school or university, if you're doing more than the group of friends you hang around with, if you're getting better grades than them, if you're doing more to move yourself forward than they are, then it's easy to fool yourself into thinking that you're working to your full potential.

如果你學業(yè)不錯，如果你比你身邊的朋友付出更多的努力，如果你的成績比他們更好，如果你為了改善自我而付出更多，那么，你很可能會自欺欺人，以為自己已經盡了全力。

 

But it depends. It depends where your group of friends have set the bar.

但是，這也要看情況。這取決于你的朋友們有什么樣的追求。

 

Let me explain. If you run the 100-meter sprint with a group of people that can't run as fast as you, of course you'll win, quite easily. It wouldn't take much effort.

我解釋一下吧。如果你參加一百米短跑，對手本來就跑得比你慢，那么你當然會勝出，這是輕而易舉、毫不費力的事情。

 

But if you run against people that are much faster than you, you might come sixth or seventh place, or even last.

但是，如果你和那些跑得比你快的人賽跑，你可能會排到第六位，第七位，或者甚至倒數第一。

 

But it would push you and inspire you to run faster. It would make you push that little bit more.

然而，這會鞭策你，激勵你，讓你跑得更快，讓你付出更多的努力。

 

Instead of training three days a week, you might start training five days a week. And it doesn't matter that you came in last place. Your time is faster. And that's why you need to surround yourself with people that are better than you.

你可能會開始每周訓練五天，而不是僅僅訓練三天。就算你曾經是倒數第一，那也沒關系。你的時間比別人更有限，所以你需要多和那些比你優(yōu)秀的人相處。

 

It's these people that will push you up and encourage you and motivate you. There's a quote. You become the average of the five people you spend the most time with. Because their characteristics and habits and ways of doing things will rub off on you.

這些人，會鞭策你，會鼓勵你，會給你動力。有句話說得好，和你相處時間最長的五個人的平均情況，就是你的情況。因為，他們的特點，他們的習慣，他們做事的方式，會對你產生影響。

 

If your friends are all letting life pass them by, and they don't prioritize their studying, then it's likely that that behavior will rub off on you, too. It's one of the single biggest improvements you can make to your life.

如果你的朋友們都是無所事事的人，他們不重視學習，那么他們的這種行為也會對你有影響。在這方面做出改變吧，這將會是你對你的人生做出的最大的改變之一。

 

To evaluate, and if necessary, upgrade, the people you spend the most time with.

重新審視、并且去改善（如果有必要的話）你的人際圈子。

 

As Will Smith once said, as a child, my parents always told me you can be whatever you want to be. You could do whatever you want to do. But I didn't totally believe it.

正如威爾史密斯說過，在我小時候，父母總是告訴我，你能成為自己想成為的人，你能做到你想做的事情，但是我不太相信。

 

Yet I went out into the world and I carried myself, and I held my head high, and I stood there, and I looked people in their eyes, and I talked to people, as if I was deserving of all the things that this planet has to offer.

然而，我來到了這個世界上，我不斷前進，自信滿滿。我站得筆直，注視著人們的眼睛，和人們交流，好像我配得上這世間所有的美好一樣。