名人演讲英语视频：8个成功秘笈关键词

成功学分析家Richard St. John将两个多小时的演讲浓缩成3分钟，用8个关键词揭秘成功人士的特质：激情Passion，刻苦Work，专注Focus，动力Push，点子Ideas，精通Good，服务Serve，坚持Persist¹。距离成功，你还有多远?

　　Richard在开头讲了一个小故事，说7年前在飞机上有个小女孩问他怎么才能成功，他答不上来，于是他用了7年时间，采访了500位成功人士，得出了如下结论：

　　1.PASSION热情

　　Do it for love,Not Money 爱上这事情，而不是为了钱。

　　2.Work努力工作

　　It’s all hard work.Nothing come easily.But I have a lot of Fun.——Rupert Murdoch, big cheese CEO

　　3.Good把它做好

　　To be successful,put your nose down in something and get damn² good at it.——Alex Garden, game developer

　　4.Focus专注

　　I think it all has to do with focusing yourself to one thing——Norman Jewison,filmmaker

　　5.Push推动/敦促

　　Push yourself,Physically³ mentally,you gotta PUSH PUSH PUSH——David Gallo,marine scientist

　　6.Serve服务

　　It was aprivelege to serve ad a doctor.—–Sherwin nuland ,profassor of surgery Yale

　　7.IDEAS创意

　　Listen/be curous/observe/ask questions/problem/solve/make connetions

　　8.Persist坚持

　　Persistence⁴ is the number one reason for our success—–Joe Kraus ,co-founder,Excite

This is really a two-hour presentation I give to high school students, cut down to three minutes. And it all started one day on a plane, on my way to TED⁵, seven years ago. And in the seat next to me was a high school student, a teenager, and she came from a really poor family. And she wanted to make something of her life, and she asked me a simple little question. She said, "What leads to success?"

　　And I felt really badly, because I couldn't give her a good answer. So I get off the plane, and I come to TED. And I think, jeez, I'm in the middle of a room of successful people! So why don't I ask them what helped them succeed, and pass it on to kids? So here we are, seven years, 500 interviews later, and I'm gonna tell you what really leads to success and makes TED-sters tick.

　　And the first thing is passion. Freeman Thomas says, "I'm driven by my passion." TED-sters do it for love; they don't do it for money. Carol Coletta says, "I would pay someone to do what I do." And the interesting thing is: if you do it for love, the money comes anyway.

　　Work! Rupert Murdoch said to me, "It's all hard work. Nothing comes easily. But I have a lot of fun." Did he say fun? Rupert? Yes! TED-sters do have fun working. And they work hard. I figured, they're not workaholics. They're workafrolics.

　　Good! Alex Garden says, "To be successful put your nose down in something and get damn good at it." There's no magic; it's practice, practice, practice.

　　And it's focus. Norman Jewison said to me, "I think it all has to do with focusing yourself on one thing."

　　And push! David Gallo says, "Push yourself. Physically, mentally, you've gotta push, push, push." You gotta push through shyness and self-doubt. Goldie Hawn says, "I always had self-doubts. I wasn't good enough; I wasn't smart enough. I didn't think I'd make it." Now it's not always easy to push yourself, and that's why they invented mothers. (Laughter) Frank Gehry -- Frank Gehry said to me, "My mother pushed me."

　　Serve! Sherwin Nuland says, "It was a privilege to serve as a doctor." Now a lot of kids tell me they want to be millionaires. And the first thing I say to them is: "OK, well you can't serve yourself; you gotta serve others something of value. Because that's the way people really get rich."

　　Ideas! TED-ster Bill Gates says, "I had an idea: founding the first micro-computer software company." I'd say it was a pretty good idea. And there's no magic to creativity in coming up with ideas -- it's just doing some very simple things. And I give lots of evidence.

　　Persist! Joe Kraus says, "Persistence is the number one reason for our success." You gotta persist through failure. You gotta persist through crap! Which of course means "Criticism, Rejection⁶, Assholes and Pressure." (Laughter) So, the big -- the answer to this question is simple: Pay 4,000 bucks⁷ and come to TED. Or failing that, do the eight things -- and trust me, these are the big eight things that lead to success.

　　Thank you TED-sters for all your interviews!

1 persist   

v.持续，存留；坚持不懈，执意

参考例句：

• The bad weather will persist all over the country.这种坏天气将在全国各地持续下去。
• His strength of will enabled him to persist.他的意志力使他能坚持下去。

2 damn   

int.该死，他妈的；vt.指责，贬斥，诅咒

参考例句：

• Damn this useless typewriter!这台破打字机真该死！
• I knew damn well what he was going to say.我非常清楚他要说什么。

3 physically   

adj.物质上，体格上，身体上，按自然规律

参考例句：

• He was out of sorts physically,as well as disordered mentally.他浑身不舒服，心绪也很乱。
• Every time I think about it I feel physically sick.一想起那件事我就感到极恶心。

4 persistence   

n.坚持，持续，存留

参考例句：

• The persistence of a cough in his daughter puzzled him.他女儿持续的咳嗽把他难住了。
• He achieved success through dogged persistence.他靠着坚持不懈取得了成功。

5 ted   

vt.翻晒，撒，撒开

参考例句：

• The invaders gut ted the village.侵略者把村中财物洗劫一空。
• She often teds the corn when it's sunny.天好的时候她就翻晒玉米。

6 rejection   

n.拒绝，被拒，抛弃，被弃

参考例句：

• He decided not to approach her for fear of rejection.他因怕遭拒绝决定不再去找她。
• The rejection plunged her into the dark depths of despair.遭到拒绝使她陷入了绝望的深渊。

7 bucks   

n.雄鹿( buck的名词复数 )；钱；（英国十九世纪初的）花花公子；（用于某些表达方式）责任v.（马等）猛然弓背跃起( buck的第三人称单数 )；抵制；猛然震荡；马等尥起后蹄跳跃

参考例句：

• They cost ten bucks. 这些值十元钱。
• They are hunting for bucks. 他们正在猎雄兔。 来自《简明英汉词典》