There is no other way to learn, in terms of how to work,
學習如何工作別無他法
and there is no other way to learn in terms of learning how to succeed as scientist, or as a politician, or as an artist.
要學習如何在科學,政治或藝術界取得成功,別無他法
The artists, as Dean Simonton showed, who had the most dubs, the most failed attempts
正如迪安·西蒙頓指出的那樣,縱觀歷史,那些有過最多次挫折,最多次失敗嘗試的藝術家
through out history were also the artists who were the most successful in the long run.
也是最終看來最成功的藝術家
No short cuts. It's not enough to just sit down and think, and conceive and believe.
成功沒有捷徑。只是坐下來思考、構想和相信是不夠的
We need to do much more than that.
我們要做的比這多得多
Martin Seligman, considered father of positive psychology, has done a lot of work on optimism and pessimism. And here is what he found.
馬丁·塞利格曼,他被認為是積極心理學之父做了一些有關樂觀主義和悲觀主義的研究,他發現

What he found was that when it comes to goal setting,
他發現,就目標設定而言
pessimists are realistic in terms of their short term goals as well as in terms of their long term goals.
悲觀主義者不論在他們的短期目標,還是長期目標上都很現實
That's good thing to be a realistic.
現實是好事
Short term goal as well as long term goal realistic.
短期目標和長期目標都很現實
Where as optimists are realistic, sorry, optimists on the other hand, are unrealistic when it comes to their short term goals,
而樂觀主義者很現實,抱歉,樂觀主義者與之相反,在他們的短期目標設定上并不現實
but are realistic when it comes to their long term goals.
但對于他們的長期目標就很現實
Why is that? Well, let's look at the model again.
這是怎么回事?讓我們再來看這個模型