自我奋斗的七大黄金原则

自我奋斗的七大黄金原则

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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.

想知道如何改变自己的一生，如何获得非凡的成就，尤其是，如何提升自己的身价吗？介绍一项伟大的“自我奋斗”计划，助你实现自己的梦想。

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.

我做终生学习方面的研究，写这方面的文章，愤笔疾言针砭时弊是常有的事。我承认，对此我是爱恨交加。一方面，时下流行的有关终生学习方面的建议数量不少，却都是陈词滥调，文笔拙劣，照搬起码是数百年前的老观点。

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，人类显然在内心深处有一种需求，想要一次次地去回顾那些有关自我奋斗的论说中无所不在的问题和概念。现在有些作家这方面做得很好，不单是重拾这些问题，而且从全新的视角审视这些问题。我确实觉得，很多人从中学到了东西，并且因此而进步了——或者，至少是付出努力了。正如他们所言，重复是学习之母。

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，我开始思考那些我所熟悉的此类论说中的关键课题。了解这方面的知识，对一般的终生学习者而言无疑是很有用的。

Here are the seven that strike me as most fundamental. It seems to me that most other themes or habits fall into one of these seven buckets.

其中，有七大原则我认为是最基本的，其它课题（或习惯）大都可以归为七大原则之一。

1. Desire 理想

This is almost always #1 in the standard self-help literature. If you want to achieve ―it,‖ you have to really want it. More importantly, with very few exceptions you must be conscious of the fact that you want it and you must be very clear about what it is. When it will happen, what it will look like...you get the picture.

有关自我奋斗的各种论说中，该原则几乎总是位居榜首。欲取之，必先欲之。更重要的是，大多情况下，你必须确信自己有此理想，而且必须清楚是何理想，何时产生，有何特性等，你要能描绘出来。

2. Authenticity 真我

While most self-help literature is about change – changing your life, becoming a different person –it is almost always rooted in the notion that you have to ―know yourself‖ (or know thy self, depending on how far back you go) and be yourself if you want to succeed and be happy in your success. Make sure the ―it‖ that you desire aligns with who you truly are.

虽然大多数有关自我奋斗的论说都在讲改变——改变你的一生，做个全新的人等，但几乎都植根于一个理念：如果你想成功并快乐着，你就要―了解自己‖（或者说了解本我，这要看你对自己了解有多深），并且要坚持做你自己。记住，你的理想和你的真我相辅相成，并行不悖。

3. Drive 动力

As the old saying goes, ―If wishes were horses, beggars could ride.‖ It is one thing to want something; it is another thing entirely to have the will to get it. Motivation plays a starring role in self-help literature, and for good reason: very few of us come equipped with self-sustaining will power. Closely related concepts like being ―pro-active‖ and persistent come into play here.

古谚有云：―理想若是马，乞丐都能骑。‖有理想是一回事，有决心实现理想是另一回事。自我奋斗论中，动力是奋斗成功的主要因素，理由很充分：很少有人有足够的意志力。类似的概念还有积极向上、持之以恒等。

4. Discipline 自律

You can want it and have the will to pursue it, but you still need to cultivate and practice appropriate, consistent habits if you expect to succeed. It is important to remember that ―discipline‖ derives from the Latin ―disciplina,‖ meaning teaching or learning. Desire and drive alone do not add up to discipline. It must be learned.