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So what exactly is a successful life? How do you define it? Does being successful require you to amass material possessions or to wield great power? Must you be famous, or even become a celebrity? Perhaps it's more about being devoted to serving others less fortunate than you or enjoying a life with family and friends, or living sustainably and leaving a legacy, such as world peace.
那么，成功的人生究竟是什么樣的？該如何定義成功？成功的人生是否意味著積累物質(zhì)財(cái)富或是能夠行使大權(quán)？是否意味著你要非常出色，甚至成為名人？也許成功的人生更意味著幫助比你不幸的人，和家人及朋友一起享受生活、和睦相處，或是為子孫后代留下遺產(chǎn)，比如世界和平。
Trying to answer this question drew me to the innovative TED website earlier this year. TED (standing for technology, entertainment and design) is a small non-profit organization devoted to ideas worth spreading. They do this through their website and annual US and UK conferences where they bring together the world's most fascinating thinkers and doers.
在尋覓何謂成功人生時(shí)，我想到了年初見到的創(chuàng)新型網(wǎng)站TED。TED（指technology, entertainment, design在英語中的縮寫，即技術(shù)、娛樂、設(shè)計(jì)）是一家小型非盈利機(jī)構(gòu)，該機(jī)構(gòu)通過他們的網(wǎng)站和美英年度會(huì)議致力于有價(jià)值的思想的傳播。美英年度會(huì)議，即TED大會(huì)，會(huì)議云集世界上最杰出的思想家和實(shí)干家。
This is where I found a very appealing definition of success, which was used by a well known American basketball coach called John Wooden. He defines true success as peace of mind through knowing that you have made the effort to do the best of which you are capable. This is appealing because it means that anyone from anywhere can live a successful life with a bit of hard work and self-belief. He also argues that you should never let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do. And that is a great piece of advice.
有一位著名的美國籃球教練約翰·伍頓曾給成功下了一個(gè)很有感染力的定義。他認(rèn)為，真正的成功是竭盡全力做好自己力所能及的事情從而達(dá)到內(nèi)心的平和。這個(gè)定義很有感染力，因?yàn)檫@意味著，無論任何人，不管來自哪里，只要努力并且充滿自信，就能擁有成功的人生。他還說，永遠(yuǎn)不要讓無法做成的事情影響到你能做到的事情。這可是一個(gè)很好的建議。
