愛默生7篇必修成功之課
1. Thoughts Become Things
1.思行合一
“A man is what he thinks about all day long.” Anyone who has successfully changed a bad habit knows that right thinking is the foundation for change. This person knows that to the degree their thinking has changed is to the degree their desires have changed. Desires are birth from thoughts. What are you thinking about? Whatever it is, it is creating your life.
"你整日思考的，即是你所成為的。”
任何曾經(jīng)成功戒除壞習(xí)慣的人都知道，正確的思維方式是改變的基石。思維改變的程度即是欲望改變的程度。欲望產(chǎn)生于思想。你在思考什么呢？不管是什么，思考都將創(chuàng)造你的生活。
What you ponder you become! Thoughts of success will produce success, and thoughts of failure will perpetuate failure. To change your life you must change your thinking. Thoughts are the root of all change.
如何思考決定你將成為什么樣的人。想象成功即可產(chǎn)生成功；預(yù)想失敗即可造成失敗。改變生活須先改變思想。思想是所有改變發(fā)生的根基。2. The Compensation Principle
2. 補(bǔ)償原則
“It is one of the most beautiful compensations of this life that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.”
"生活最美好的補(bǔ)償即是，助人如助己。"
To help yourself you must help others. The quickest way to succeed is to genuinely help as many people as you can. Bill Gates has helped billions, which explains why he has billions.
為了幫助自己你須先幫助他人。最便捷的方法就是真誠地幫助盡可能多的人。比爾.蓋茨幫助了幾十億人，這也是為什么他身家數(shù)億的原因。
How many people are you helping? You will only be compensated in this lifetime for helping others.
你在幫助多少人？只有幫助他人才可得到補(bǔ)償。
3. Action Trumps Theorizing
3. 行勝于言
“An ounce of action is worth a ton of theory.”
“一分的行動可比一萬個理論。”
It’s easy to sit around and theorize, but the reward is in the action. It’s imperative that you’re in action! Don’t just discuss your theories, test them, and test them today.
翹起二郎腿拍腦瓜子創(chuàng)造理論是在容易不過的事兒了，但理論只有通過行動才可得到回報。立即行動起來！不要再紙上談兵了，實驗它，而且今天就實驗。
Action always trumps inaction, get in motion, have some failures, and it time, success will be yours.
行勝于言。行動起來，體驗失敗，假以時日，成功終將屬于你。
4. Build Something Better
4. 建立更好的。
“Build a better mousetrap and the world will beat a path to your door.”
“放置一個更具吸引力的誘餌，世界的機(jī)遇將紛至沓來。”
To succeed you must build something better.
要成功你需建立更好的事物。
You must first use your difference to perceive something better, and then you must use your existing resources to build it. If you build well, you will be rewarded. Emerson said, “Doing well is the result of doing good. That's what capitalism is all about.”
首先利用你的獨特之處感知更好的事物的存在，之后利用已有的資源建立它。如果你做得出色，你將得到獎賞。愛默生說：“為善者諸事皆順。這就是資本主義的真理。”
5. Keep Good Friends
“It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.”
5. 良友為伴
“老友的好處之一就是你可與之耍瘋扮癡。”
A large part of success is having good friends. A good friend is someone who you can be yourself with.
有一大部分成功都?xì)w因于好的朋友。一個良友能讓你輕松自在、如沐春風(fēng)。
You don’t have to put on a show, and you don’t have to be smart for a good friend. In the words of Emerson, “you can afford to be stupid with them.” Recognize your good friends, mark them, they are a part of your success.
你無須帶上面具，無須假裝聰明。愛默生告訴我們，“好友面前盡可耍瘋扮癡。”識別你的好友，認(rèn)出他們，他們會是你成功的一部分。
6. Raise the Bar
6. 提高標(biāo)準(zhǔn)
“Unless you try to do something beyond what you have already mastered, you will never grow.”If you’ve ever done any serious weight training you know that your muscles won’t grow if you keep on doing the same thing. They will max out! As in the gym, so it is in life. If you don’t stretch yourself, if you don’t get out of your comfort zone and do what you haven’t done before, you will never grow. So commit to raise the bar today, stretch your horizons, and you will stretch your life.
“若不超越你現(xiàn)有的能力進(jìn)行嘗試，你將停滯不前。"
如果你明知之前所做的任何體重訓(xùn)練都無助于鍛煉肌肉卻依然不思改變， 你最終將長滿贅肉！健身房如此，生活同樣如此。如果你不拓展你自己，如果不走出舒適的溫房嘗試從未做過的事，你永遠(yuǎn)不會成長。從今天開始著力于抬高標(biāo)準(zhǔn)，拓展視野，你的生命廣度也將得到提升。
7. Start Small
7. 從小事做起
“The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn.”
“大林成于小木。”
It’s okay to start small. What’s small today will one day be enormous, if you stay consistent. Don’t be concerned with your current size; be concerned with the direction that you’re traveling in. If you’re going in the right direction, you will eventually get to your goal. You will eventually become, what you were destined to become. At last your greatness will be revealed.
從小做起。如果持之以恒，今日之小將成明日之大。不要在乎眼前的大小，關(guān)注你行走的方向。如果方向正確，總有一日會達(dá)成成功。你將成為你所決心成為的人。你的偉大將會最終顯現(xiàn)。
