【晨读美文四级篇】不要担心失败 (2/3)

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一份精美的英语早餐
融时尚与经典一体
一杯香醇的文化美酒
集生活与艺术于一身
经典美文，听写——让心情舒畅！
今日名言：Perseverance is falling nineteen times and succeeding the twentieth. 只要坚韧不拔，成功会从第19次失败开始。
Hints:
Karl Wallenda
San Juan
Puerto RicoKarl Wallenda, the great tightrope walker, usually walked without a net below him.  He fell 23 metres to his death in 1978, during a midday walk in downtown San Juan, Puerto Rico.  His wife recalled: "All Karl thought about for a period of three straight months was falling. It was the first time he'd ever thought about that, and it seemed to me that he put all his energy into not falling rather than walking the tightrope." Wallenda also carefully watched the workers put up the tightrope, "something he had never even thought of doing before."
From what we learned from interviews with successful leaders, it became clear that when Karl Wallenda poured his energy into not falling rather than walking the tightrope, he was almost certain to fail.卡尔·沃伦德是一位优秀的走钢丝者。通常他走钢丝时,下面不设保护网。 1978年的一个中午，他在波多黎各的圣胡安闹市区走钢丝时，从23米的高度掉下来摔死了。 他的妻子回忆说：“卡尔接连三个月所想到的就是生怕从钢丝上摔下来。 这是他生平第一次这样担心，在我看来，他与其说是在全力以赴地走钢丝，倒不如说是全力以赴地不让自己摔下来。 沃伦德还仔细观察了工人固定钢丝的情形，这是他以前甚至连想也没想过的事情。”
从我们采访成功的领导者所获得的教益来看，当卡尔?沃伦德全力以赴地防止摔下来而不是在全力以赴地走钢丝时，显然，他十之八九会失败。
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