那些给我勇气的双语美文 (30)少年天才 迈克尔•乔丹

There were already signs that he had a good deal of talent. 迈克尔的天赋早已有所显露。 Harvest Smith, a classmate and close friend who in those days played basketball with him practically every day, 他的一位同班同学和亲密伙伴维斯特·史密斯,当时基本每天都和他一起打篮球, thought he was the best player on their ninth-grade team — he was small, but he was every qui...

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那些给我勇气的双语美文 (41)逃离厌食梦魇

My name is Harriet, and I have hope that all the bad things I’ve been through can be turned into something good. 我叫哈利特。我希望我所经历过的苦难能转化成正能量。 That’s why I want to make this video and tell you my story. 所以我想借这个视频分享我的故事。 I remember having a negative body image for as long as I’ve had memories. 我记得自己从...

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TED演讲之败中求胜 去怀疑的勇气(8)

And yes, there was a lot of conflict and debate and argument, 当然,这其中有很多的矛盾和辩论, but that allowed everyone around the table to be creative, to solve the problem, and to change the device. 不过这使得所有人都变得有创造力,都能去解决问题,去改变这台设备。 Joe was what a lot of people might think of as a whistle-blower, except that like almost all whistle-blowers, ...

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TED演讲之败中求胜 去怀疑的勇气(1)

In Oxford in the 1950s, there was a fantastic doctor, who was very unusual, named Alice Stewart. 在20世纪50年代的牛津,有一位相当优秀而又极不寻常的医生,她叫Alice Stewart Alice。 And Alice was unusual partly because, of course, she was a woman, which was pretty rare in the 1950s. 她很不寻常,因为她是个女医生,这在20世纪50年代很罕见。 And she was brilliant, she w...

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TED演讲之败中求胜 去怀疑的勇气(7)

If we aren’t going to be afraid of conflict, we have to see it as thinking, and then we have to get really good at it. 如果我们不惧怕矛盾的话,我们必须把它当作思考,然后我们必须变得很擅长。 So, recently, I worked with an executive named Joe, and Joe worked for a medical device company. 因此,最近,我在和一个叫Joe的行政人员工作,Joe为一家医疗设备公司工作。 ...

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TED演讲之败中求胜 去怀疑的勇气(3)

It flew in the face of conventional wisdom, which was huge enthusiasm for the cool new technology of that age, which was the X-ray machine. 这对于这一观念是很大的冲击,尤其是对于当时的新科技X光机器的巨大热情。 And it flew in the face of doctors’ idea of themselves, which was as people who helped patients, they didn’t harm them. 而且对于医生对自己的看法...

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TED演讲之败中求胜 去怀疑的勇气(4)

She worked with a statistician named George Kneale, and George was pretty much everything that Alice wasn’t. 她当时与一位名叫George Kneale的统计学家合作,而George刚好与Alice互补。 So, Alice was very outgoing and sociable, and George was a recluse. Alice非常外向和社交化,而George是个隐居者。 Alice was very warm, very empathetic with her patients. Alice很...

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TED演讲之败中求胜 去怀疑的勇气(2)

Now, Alice had trouble getting funding for her research. 当时,Alice很难为她的研究筹备到资金。 In the end, she got just 1,000 pounds from the Lady Tata Memorial prize. 最后,她只得到了1000英镑,从Lady Tata纪念奖得来的。 And that meant she knew she only had one shot at collecting her data. 这意味着她知道她对于收集数据,只有一次机会。 Now, she had no idea wha...

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TED演讲之败中求胜 去怀疑的勇气(5)

So what does that kind of constructive conflict require? 那么这种建设性的矛盾要求什么呢? Well, first of all, it requires that we find people who are very different from ourselves. 首先呢,它需要我们去找到十分不同的人们。 That means we have to resist the neurobiological drive, which means that we really prefer people mostly like ourselves, 这意味着我们必须抗...

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TED演讲之败中求胜 去怀疑的勇气(6)

So how do organizations think? Well, for the most part, they don’t. 那么这些组织是怎么想的呢?其实大多数情况下,他们是不思考的。 And that isn’t because they don’t want to, it’s really because they can’t. 这不是因为他们不想,而是因为他们无法思考。 And they can’t because the people inside of them are too afraid of conflict. ...

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TED演讲之败中求胜 去怀疑的勇气(9)

I think we need to be teaching these skills to kids and adults at every stage of their development, 我认为我们应该向所有小孩和大人都教授这些技巧, if we want to have thinking organizations and a thinking society. 如果我们想要能够思考的组织和社会。 The fact is that most of the biggest catastrophes that we’ve witnessed rarely come from information that is se...

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美文阅读 (436)改变需要勇气

Dealing with changes is challenging 改变需要勇气 Especially in our teen years when it seems like changes are unending. 尤其是当我们青春年少时,改变随时都在发生,似乎无穷无尽。 Sometimes, we fight to hold on to what we were while, 有时,我们拼尽全力坚持自我, at the very same time, we fight to let go of what we were. 同时又努力做出改变。 That said, ch...

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男人必需具备的八种勇气

人人都离不开勇气,拿出勇气也并非难事,但勇气不单单是危机时刻求生的法宝,它更是生活的必需品。有不少勇气,我们平时并没有重视,也未必能做到。 1、敢于说“不”的勇气 我受的教育告诉我,说“不”是不礼貌的,自私的,不受欢迎的。后来我才明白,当我面对着过多的义务、被理解的责任或空洞的客套时,说“不”是我唯一的防御手段。这一声“不”是对自己的肯定,把它说出口不见得就让我落到孤家寡人的地步。它...

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职场男人:必备的八种勇气

人人都离不开勇气,拿出勇气也并非难事,但勇气不单单是危机时刻求生的法宝,它更是生活的必需品。有不少勇气,我们平时并没有重视,也未必能做到。 1、敢于说“不”的勇气 我受的教育告诉我,说“不”是不礼貌的,自私的,不受欢迎的。后来我才明白,当我面对着过多的义务、被理解的责任或空洞的客套时,说“不”是我唯一的防御手段。这一声“不”是对自己的肯定,把它说出口不见得就让我落到孤家寡人的地步。它每...

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敲门的勇气

你站在门外,为找人?为推销?为求职?面对那扇或斑驳、或寻常、或精致、或霸气的陌生的门,你感情很复杂,手一直不敢抬起来,不知道敲过门之后会发生什么。你站在门外设想着几种结果: 其一,被拒之门外,根本没有踏入里面的可能; 其二,进去之后,先是被排斥,继而被一股强大而冷漠的力量推出来,一无所获; 其三,被微笑着请进去后,觉得门里的世界并没有门外的世界精彩,便自觉地走出了门外; 其四,...

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让你终身不发火的 5 个字

一、静:少说话,多倾听。因为爱说话的人,本就失去了一分宁静的美。而且,言多必失。有句话是,三思而后行,三思而后言。 二、平:是平凡,是平淡,是平衡。有棱角的坏处,就是让别人咬起你来很容易下口。 三、忍:面对不公,别气愤,别宣泄。一来气愤伤身体,二来气愤不解决问题。“有肚量去容忍那些不能改变的事,有勇气去改变那些可能改变的事,有智能去区别上述两类事。”这是成功者要具备的三个素质。 ...

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如果你不鼓足勇气尝试,那就永远没有成功的机会

『哲理故事』穷人是赚钱机器,富人有无数个赚钱机器。穷人没有资本。穷人想富有,就必须节省出一部分生活费,同时汇入社会资本的旋涡,以其庞大的集合力,吸附垄断资本以及局部垄断资本的膨胀,发挥出不是资本的资本张力,推动相当一部分穷人,跃迁富有。 亚洲一家穷人,在经过了几年的省吃俭用之后,他们积攒够了购买去往澳大利亚的下等舱船票的钱,他们打算到富足的的澳大利亚去谋求发财的机会。 为了节...

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