晨讀英語美文100篇六級Success Is a Choice

[ti:] [ar:] [al:] [by:] [00:04.67]Passage 80. Success Is a Choice [00:10.14]All of us ought to be able to brace ourselves for the predictable challenges and setbacks [00:17.90]that crop up every day. [00:19.98]If we expect that life won’t be perfect, [00:22.28]we’ll be able to avoid that impulse to quit. [00:24.69]But even if you are strong enough to persist through the obstacle course of life and work, [00:30.27]sometimes you will encounter an adverse event that will completely knock you on your back. [00:35.52]Whether it’s financial loss, the loss of respect of your peers or loved ones, [00:40.55]or some other traumatic event in your life, [00:43.40]these major setbacks leave you doubting yourself [00:46.02]and wondering if things can ever change for the better again. [00:48.98]Adversity happens to all of us, and it happens all the time. [00:53.79]Some form of major adversity is either going to be there or it’s lying in wait just around the corner. [01:00.58]To ignore adversity is to succumb to the ultimate self-delusion. [01:04.95]But you must recognize that history full of examples of men and women [01:09.44]who achieved greatness despite facing hurdles so steep that [01:12.72]they easily could have crushed their spirit and left them lying in the dust. [01:16.33]Moses was a stutterer, yet he was called on to be the voice of God. [01:21.03]Abraham Lincoln overcame a difficult childhood,depression, the death of two sons, [01:26.62]and constant ridicule during the Civil War to become arguably our greatest president ever. [01:31.62]Helen Keller made an impact on the world despite being deaf, dumb, and blind from an early age. [01:37.20]Franklin Roosevelt had polio. [01:39.83]There are endless examples. [01:41.91]These were people who not only looked adversity in the face [01:45.51]but learned valuable lessons about overcoming difficult circumstances [01:49.78]and were able to move ahead.

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