你为什么没成功-你害怕成功(9)

 Why are you not reaching the success?

 

你为什么没有成功？

 

You fear success.

 

你害怕成功

 

Forget fear of failure, it’s fear of success that kicks us the hardest. It's the darnedest thing, too — the kind of thing that you don't imagine possible, until one day you realize that you really don't know what to do with yourself if you ever accomplish your goals. On the other side of success is the unknown, and believe it or not, the unknown is often scarier than the known world of struggle and unfulfillment this side of success. When I realized this, one night as I drifted unhappily to sleep, it jerked¹ me straight up in my bed!

 

忘记对失败的恐惧之后，对成功的恐惧最使我们受伤。这也是件最可恨的事。你不太可能会想到这类事，直到有一天，你真正意识到，如果你达到了所有设立的目标，你将无事可做。成功的另一面是未知，不管你相信与否，未知都比现实世界中的斗争和未达到成功更可怕。一天晚上，当我不开心地渐渐入睡时，一想到这些，我就猛地从床上坐了起来！

 

 

 

My father, an avid² collector of seemingly³ random⁴ quotes, is fond of saying that insanity⁵ is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results. (I've never had the heart to ask him why he keeps saying this….) At some point, you have to stop doing whatever you're doing and figure out why you're doing it, especially if it doesn't seem to be getting you where you want to be. When you do, I think you’ll find that at least one of the above applies to you. Whatever your reasons, though, the important thing is to realize that it's in your nature neither to be a failure, nor to be a success, that success is something we make rather than something that happens to us — and when you realize that, you can start to make the changes that move you from "insanity" to success.

 

我的父亲，喜欢收集一些看似随机的格言。他喜欢说的一句话就是，疯狂就是总是重复相同的事却期望有不同的结果。（我从没有用心问过他为什么老是这么说……）某个时候，你得停下任何你在做的事，想一想你为什么要这样做，特别是在你做的事并没有让你达到目标的时候。一旦你这样做了，我想你将会找出至少一条上面说的情况与你相符。不论你的理由是什么，最重要的是你要明白，你的本质并不是要成为一个失败者或成功者，成功是要争取的，它不会自动发生在我们身上。一旦你意识到这些，你就能开始做出改变，这将会促使你从“愚蠢”走向成功。

1 jerked   

猛拉( jerk的过去式和过去分词 )； （使…）猝然一动[颤动]

参考例句：

• He jerked the phone away from her. 他猛然一下从她那儿把电话抢走。
• When she heard the news, she jerked upright in surprise. 当听到这则消息时，她惊讶得跳了起来。

2 avid   

adj.热心的；贪婪的；渴望的；劲头十足的

参考例句：

• He is rich,but he is still avid of more money.他很富有,但他还想贪图更多的钱。
• She was avid for praise from her coach.那女孩渴望得到教练的称赞。

3 seemingly   

adv.从表面上看起来，似乎是

参考例句：

• Seemingly,we can do nothing to prevent this from happening.我们似乎没有什么办法阻止这件事发生。
• For several seemingly interminable seconds no one spoke.有几秒钟没有人讲话，这几秒钟似乎十分漫长。

4 random   

adj.随机的；任意的；n.偶然的(或随便的)行动

参考例句：

• The list is arranged in a random order.名单排列不分先后。
• On random inspection the meat was found to be bad.经抽查，发现肉变质了。

5 insanity   

n.疯狂，精神错乱；极端的愚蠢，荒唐

参考例句：

• In his defense he alleged temporary insanity.他伪称一时精神错乱，为自己辩解。
• He remained in his cell,and this visit only increased the belief in his insanity.他依旧还是住在他的地牢里，这次视察只是更加使人相信他是个疯子了。