短篇英语美文赏析：尝试不同
When we first read the following story, we had just begun teaching a coursecalled "The Million Dollar Forum," a course designed to teach people to
accelerate their income up to levels of a million dollars a year or more. Early
on we discovered people get locked into a rut of trying harder without trying
smarter. Trying harder doesn't always work. Sometimes we need to do something
radically different to achieve greater levels of success. We need to break out
of our paradigm prisons, our habit patterns and our comfort zones.
I'm sitting in a quiet room at the Milcroft Inn, a peaceful little place
hidden back among the pine trees about an hour out of Toronto. It's just past
noon, late July, and I'm listening to the desperate sounds of a life-or-death
struggle going on a few feet away.
There's a small fly burning out the last of its short life's energies in a
futile attempt to fly through the glass of the windowpane. The whining wings
tell the poignant story of the fly's strategy: Try harder.
But it's not working.
The frenzied effort offers no hope for survival. Ironically, the struggle
is part of the trap. It is impossible for the fly to try hard enough to succeed
at breaking through the glass. Nevertheless, this little insect has staked its
life on reaching its goal through raw effort and determination.
This fly is doomed. It will die there on the windowsill.
Across the room, ten steps away, the door is open. Ten seconds of flying
time and this small creature could reach the outside world it seeks. With only a
fraction of the effort now being wasted, it could be free of this self-imposed
trap. The breakthrough possibility is there. It would be so easy.
Why doesn't the fly another approach, something dramatically different? How
did it get so locked in on the idea that this particular route and determined
effort offer the most promise for success? What logic is there in continuing
until death to seek a breakthrough with more of the same?
No doubt this approach makes sense to the fly. Regrettably, it's an idea
that will kill.
Trying harder isn't necessarily the solution to achieving more. It may not
offer any real promise for getting what you want out of life. Sometimes, in
fact, it's a big part of the problem.
If you stake your hopes for a breakthrough on trying harder than ever, you
may kill your chances for success.
----Price Pritchett
Questions:
1.What does the author want to tell us?
2.What is "The Million Dollar Forum" ?
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