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人的一生是學習的一生，禍兮福兮，起起伏伏。我們從成功中總結經驗，從失敗中汲取教訓，不斷奮斗是生活的常態，少走彎路是永恒的盼望。如何少走彎路？煉心乃是根本，一切皆由心出。七大黃金原則助你成就完美一生。
Want to know how to change your life, achieve pretty much anything, and make yourself rich to boot? There is a huge “self help” industry out there eager to help you do it.
想知道如何改變自己的一生，如何獲得非凡的成就，尤其是，如何提升自己的身價嗎？介紹一項偉大的“自我奮斗”計劃，助你實現自己的夢想。
I bump up against this world frequently when researching and writing about lifelong learning, and I have to admit a bit of a love-hate relationship with it. On the one hand, so much of the advice that gets peddled seems hackneyed, poorly written, and derivative of concepts already established hundreds, if not thousands, of years ago.
我做終生學習方面的研究，寫這方面的文章，憤筆疾言針砭時弊是常有的事。我承認，對此我是愛恨交加。一方面，時下流行的有關終生學習方面的建議數量不少，卻都是陳詞濫調，文筆拙劣，照搬起碼是數百年前的老觀點。
On the other hand, there is obviously a deep human need to return again and again to the issues and concepts that pervade self-help literature. Some current writers do a very good job of returning to these issues and examining them in a fresh way. And I have to assume that many people do learn and grow from it – or at least try. Repetition, as they say, is the mother of learning.
另一方面，人類顯然在內心深處有一種需求，想要一次次地去回顧那些有關自我奮斗的論說中無所不在的問題和概念。現在有些作家這方面做得很好，不單是重拾這些問題，而且從全新的視角審視這些問題。我確實覺得，很多人從中學到了東西，并且因此而進步了——或者，至少是付出努力了。正如他們所言，重復是學習之母。
So, I started thinking about the key themes and lessons that seem to show up in the self-help literature with which I am familiar. Knowledge of them can certainly be of use to the average lifelong learner.
故此，我開始思考那些我所熟悉的此類論說中的關鍵課題。了解這方面的知識，對一般的終生學習者而言無疑是很有用的。
