defined as a powerful attraction to perfection shorn of any mature or sufficient understanding of what is required to attain it.
被完美深深地吸引,但是又缺少對如何獲得完美成熟和充分的理解。
It isn’t primarily our fault.
這并不全是我們的錯。
Without in any way revealing this, or even perhaps being aware of it,
沒有任何手段可以揭露這些,我們根本意識不到。
our media edits out billions of unremarkable lives and years of failure, rejection and frustration even in those who do achieve
然而媒體有意剪掉那些其余千千萬萬平凡的人生和失敗,被拒絕,沮喪,這些黑暗面也存在于那些成功的人身上。
in order to serve us up a daily curated selection of peak career moments, which thereby end up seeming not like the violent exceptions they actually are,
媒體的行為是為了選出那些頂尖生涯的時刻,于是它們看起來便不像過高的期望,
but a norm and baseline of achievement.
而是成了一種成就的法則和底線。

It starts to appear as though "everyone" is successful because all those who we happen to hear about really are successes
看起來好像每個人都成功了,因為我們聽到的只是成功的故事,
and we have forgotten to imagine the oceans of tears and despair that necessarily surround them.
然而我們忘記了那些圍繞著成功的可以積成大海的眼淚和失望。
Our perspective is imbalanced because we know our own struggles so well from the inside,
我們的看法非常失衡,因為我們內心清楚地知道我們的掙扎,
and yet are exposed to apparently pain-free narratives of achievement on the outside.
但是我們每天都在聽到那些“無痛”成功的事例。
We cannot forgive ourselves the horrors of our early drafts – largely because we have not seen the early drafts of those we admire.
我們不能坦然對待自己在早期面對的恐懼,這很大程度上是因為我們沒有看見那些大師早期承受的痛苦。