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But whatever you resolve to do, I want you to commit to it. I want you to really work at it.
但無論你決定做什么，我希望你保證去做。我希望你腳踏實地去做。
I know that sometimes you get that sense from TV that you can be rich and successful without any hard work—that your ticket to success is through rapping or basketball or being a reality TV star. Chances are you're not going to be any of those things.
我知道有時候你會從電視上得到這樣的印象：你不用做任何刻苦的努力就能發財致富并取得成功——唱小調、打籃球或成為真人秀電視明星是走向成功的途徑。但實際情況是：你可能不會干成任何一件事。
The truth is, being successful is hard. You won't love every subject that you study. You won't click with every teacher that you have. Not every homework assignment will seem completely relevant to your life right at this minute. And you won't necessarily succeed at everything the first time you try.
事實上，取得成功不是輕而易舉的事情。你不會喜歡你學習的每一門課目。你不會與你的每一位老師都很投契。不是所有的家庭作業看起來都與你眼前的生活完全有關。你第一次嘗試做每件事的時候，不一定成功。
That's okay. Some of the most successful people in the world are the ones who've had the most failures. J.K. Rowling's—who wrote Harry Potter—her first Harry Potter book was rejected 12 times before it was finally published. Michael Jordan was cut from his high school basketball team. He lost hundreds of games and missed thousands of shots during his career. But he once said, "I have failed over and over and over again in my life. And that's why I succeed."
這都沒關系。世界上最成功的人士中有一些是遭遇失敗最多的人。JK羅琳——《哈利·波特》第一部在出版之前被退稿12次。邁克爾·喬丹曾被他高中學校的籃球隊除名。在他的籃球職業生涯中，他輸過數百場比賽，有數千個球沒有投中。但他曾經說過：“在我的一生中，我失敗了一次又一次、一次又一次。這就是我成功的原因。”
