Tom’s teacher Dwyer liked helping others and he had done that for many years. Tom wanted to follow his example, but he found it was too tiring. One day, Tom went to see Dwyer. They sat quietly in Dwyer’s old house, cutting wood with their knives in front of the fireplace. Tom finally spoke up.
“I don't know how you do it,” he said.
“Do what?” asked Dwyer.
“I don’t know how you stay motivated (积极的) to help people after so many years. I feel like giving up and I’ve hardly started.”
Dwyer smiled and replied, “Can you blow out that candle for me?” Tom did as he was asked.
“Now can you blow out this fire?” Dwyer asked.
“Don’t be silly,” Tom replied. “Of course I can’t.”
Dwyer put down his knife and his piece of wood and looked in the eye of Tom. He said , “When your motivation is as small as the candle’s flame (火焰), it’s easy to be extinguished, but when it is a fire you see before you, nothing can blow it out.”
After hearing that, Tom decided to try harder.
My challenge to you is to find a big reason for doing what you want to do. Then you won’t give up when you meet with difficulties and when you feel tired. If you don’t have a big reason to press on, it’s easy for you to give up.
So let me ask you, is your motivation like a candle or a fire? And what are you going to do to keep it from dying down?
【小题1】When Tom tried to help others, he ________ .A.felt greatly motivated | B.found it hard to keep on |
C.found he was very happy | D.wanted to visit his teacher |
A.He didn’t need the fire. | B.He had little wood in the house. |
C.He wanted to play a trick on him | D.He wanted to teach him a lesson. |
A.recognized | B.controlled | C.put out | D.given up |
A.help others | B.learn from others |
C.face difficulties bravely | D.stay strongly motivated |
A.How Big Dreams Die |
B.Family and Friends |
C.They simply fail until they succeed. |
D.Does a big dream show one’s future? |
E.Most people are influenced by the inside voice. |
F.It is the last and the most terrible barrier. |
G.And their big dream is to be a rock star or a famous artist. |
You may have come across the picture that has a number drawn on the floor with two people standing on either side of the number. One person sees a 6, and the other sees a 9.
They could either stay there arguing and holding on to their ideas, or they could move around and see the difference in their thoughts. This is perspective (视角).
Just like the example, life perspective is the way we see life, including the way we approach life and all that are in our personal experience.
A.There are more than 7 billion people in the world. |
B.In our life, few things are absolutely right or wrong. |
C.It seems difficult to decide which perspective is wrong. |
D.Simply make a switch and see from a different perspective. |
E.A perspective on life can be shaped, changed, or explained. |
F.They are both right, yet they are wrong in the eyes of the other person. |
G.And they usually make us believe that we are the one who s holding the truth. |
Life is full of ups and downs. You must understand that you will sometimes fail at things, and it is okay when that happens. Almost all of our lives, we have been taught that failure is really bad, and when we fail, we must drown (沉浸) ourselves in sorrow. This is an entirely wrong approach.
From a kid to an adult, you will fail at many things in life but that will only tell you about yourself. You will learn about your true capabilities, what you are good at, and what you are bad at. We must learn to accept the process rather than run from it. Only then will we be able to achieve our goals in life.
Let me tell you something about myself and how I faced failures in life. In my early years a school, I had trouble with some subjects. I used to get really bad grades. Sometimes, I would get an F, which would make me really scared. I used to think: What will I show my parents? So what I used to do was to cover those grades up. I would turn the F into a B just to please my parents. The short version is that it didn’t work out, and eventually, I was caught doing that. I learned a lot after that. I knew that I had to accept that failure and learn from it, and something good actually came from it. I started doing better with my grades. That F turned into a B naturally, and that B turned into an A.
Whenever you face a failure, never think that you are never going to recover from this. You must think of ways to better yourself. Did you know that it took Thomas Edison 10,000 attempts to perfect the light bulb? Bill Gates failed many times; even his first company was a complete failure. These prove that we must learn from our failures, not run from them!
【小题1】What does the author think of failures?A.They bring us great pressure and wrong ideas. | B.They can be avoided if we take things seriously. |
C.They sadden us and make us lose faith gradually. | D.They can lead to success if we learn from them. |
A.He told his parents the truth but got a scolding. |
B.He made up his mind to learn as much as he could. |
C.He secretly changed his grades to please his parents. |
D.He paid no attention to them and kept studying hard. |
A.To present their outstanding achievements. | B.To stress the necessity to learn from failures. |
C.To explain the great significance of hard work. | D.To show their approaches to starting a business. |
A.Rome Is Not Built in a Day | B.There Is No End to Learning |
C.Failure Is the Mother of Success | D.A Good Beginning Is Half Done |
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