just want to share this with you.# Translation - 译林
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-One of the reasons mature people are apt to learn less than young people is
that thy are willing to risk less. Learning is a risky business, and (
mature people) do not like failure.
In infancy, when children are learning at a phenomenal rate - a rate they
will never again achieve - they are also experiencing a great many failures.
Watch them. See the innumerable times they try and fail. See how little the
failures discourage them. With each year that passes they will be less
blithe about failure.
By adolescence the willingness of young people to risk failure has
diminished greatly. And all too often parents push them further along that
road by instilling fear, by punishing failure or by making success seem too
precious.
by middle age most of us carry in our heads a tremendous catalogue of things
we have no intention of trying again because we tried them once and failed
- or tried them once and did less well than our self-esteem demanded.
We pay a heavy price for our fear of failure. It is a powerful obstacle to
growth. It assures the progressive narrowing of the personality and prevents
exploration and experimentation. There is no learning without some
difficulty and fumbling.
If you want to keep on learning, you must keep on risking failure - all your
life. It's as simple as that.
that thy are willing to risk less. Learning is a risky business, and (
mature people) do not like failure.
In infancy, when children are learning at a phenomenal rate - a rate they
will never again achieve - they are also experiencing a great many failures.
Watch them. See the innumerable times they try and fail. See how little the
failures discourage them. With each year that passes they will be less
blithe about failure.
By adolescence the willingness of young people to risk failure has
diminished greatly. And all too often parents push them further along that
road by instilling fear, by punishing failure or by making success seem too
precious.
by middle age most of us carry in our heads a tremendous catalogue of things
we have no intention of trying again because we tried them once and failed
- or tried them once and did less well than our self-esteem demanded.
We pay a heavy price for our fear of failure. It is a powerful obstacle to
growth. It assures the progressive narrowing of the personality and prevents
exploration and experimentation. There is no learning without some
difficulty and fumbling.
If you want to keep on learning, you must keep on risking failure - all your
life. It's as simple as that.
