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11 That may sound like a lot of pressure. But if you're prepared, the pressure is on the other folks -- the ones who haven't done their homework.
聽上去似乎壓力不小。然而，如果你做了準備，壓力就是別人的—那些沒做準備的人.
12 You won't get every job you go after. The best salespeople don't close every sale. Michael Jordan makes barely half of his field-goal attempts. But it takes no longer to prepare well for one interview than to wander in half-prepared for five. And your prospects for success will be many times better.
你不可能得到你想要的每份工作。最好的售貨人員也不可能每次都成交。邁克爾·喬丹投籃命中率勉強過半。但認真準備一次面試的時間不會多于馬馬虎虎準備五次面試的時間，而你成功的可能性要多得多。
13 2. Never stop learning. Recently I played a doubles tennis match paired with a 90-year-old. I wondered how things would work out; I shouldn't have. We hammered our opponents 6-1, 6-1!
2. 永不中斷學習。最近我和一位90高齡的老者搭檔打雙人網球。我琢磨著那會是什么結局；可我的擔心是多余的。我們以兩個6:1擊敗對手。
14 As we were switching sides to play a third set, he said to me, "Do you mind if I play the backhand court? I always like to work on my weaknesses." What a fantastic example of a person who has never stopped learning. Incidentally, we won the third set 6-1.
我們交換場地打第三局時，他對我說：“我打反手擊球你不介意吧？我向來喜歡多練練自己的弱點。”好一個永不中斷學習的精彩實例。順便說一下，我們6:1贏了第三局。
15 As we walked off the court, my 90-year-old partner chuckled and said, "I thought you'd like to know about my number-one ranking in doubles in the United States in my age bracket, 85 and up!" He wasn't thinking 90; he wasn't even thinking 85. He was thinking number one.
走出賽場，我那90高齡的搭檔笑著說：“你也許想知道我在85歲以上年齡段的美國網球雙打排名第一！”他想的不是年屆90，想的甚至也不是85歲高齡。他想的是第一。
16 You can do the same if you work on your weaknesses and develop your strengths. To be able to compete, you've got to keep learning all your life.
如果你努力克服自己的弱點，發揮自己的優勢，你同樣可以做得那么好。要有能力競爭，就得終生學習。
17 3. Believe in yourself, even when no one else does. Do you remember the four-minute mile? Athletes had been trying to do it for hundreds of years and finally decided it was physically impossible for humans. Our bone structure was all wrong, our lung power inadequate.
3. 相信自己，哪怕沒人相信你。還記得那4分鐘跑一英里的往事嗎？幾百年來，運動員們一直試圖實現這一目標，最終人類的身體無法做到。我們的骨結構不適應，我們的肺活量跟不上。
18 Then one human proved the experts wrong. And, miracle of miracles, six weeks after Roger Bannister broke the four-minute mile, John Landy beat Bannister's time by nearly two full seconds. Since then, close to eight hundred runners have broken the four-minute mile!
可是，有一個人證明那些專家錯了。奇跡中的奇跡是，在羅杰·班尼斯特打破4分鐘一英里的紀錄6個星期之后，約翰·蘭迪又以幾乎快出整整2秒的成績打破了班尼斯特的紀錄。此后，有大約800多名運動員打破了4分鐘一英里的記錄。
19 Several years ago my daughter Mimi and I took a crack at running the New York Marathon. At the gun, 23,000 runners started -- and 21,244 finished. First place went to a Kenyan who completed the race in two hours, 11 minutes and one second. The 21,244th runner to finish was a Vietnam veteran. He did it in three days, nine hours and 37 minutes. With no legs, he covered 26.2 miles. After my daughter and I passed him in the first few minutes, we easily found more courage to finish ourselves.
幾年前，我和女兒米米參加了紐約馬拉松比賽。發令槍一響，23,000名運動員沖出起跑線—最后有21,244名運動員到達終點。第一名是一位以2小時11分鐘零1秒跑完全程的肯尼亞人。第21,244名運動員是一位越戰老兵。他用了3天9小時37分鐘跑完全程。沒有雙腿的他堅持跑完了26.2英里。我和女兒在比賽的最初幾分鐘內超過了他，當時頓覺勇氣倍增，一定要跑完全程。
20 Don't ever let anyone tell you that you can't accomplish your goals. Who says you're not tougher, harder working and more able than your competition? You see, a goal is a dream with a deadline: in writing, measurable, identifiable, attainable.
別聽旁人說你不能實現自己的目標。誰說你不比你的競爭對手更堅強、更努力、更能干？要知道，所謂目標就是有最后限期的夢想：寫成文字，可測量，可確認，可實現。
