成功的代價(jià) The Cost of Success

　　Have you ever thought why there are very few great people? I think there is probably only one great person out of 10,000 at best, and most probably much less than that. But why? Most people want to be great, right? Why are there only very few of them? Here is the reason:

　　你有沒(méi)有想過(guò)為什么成功的人那么少？我想，大概在一萬(wàn)個(gè)人里有一個(gè)人能獲得成功就很好了。但是為什么會(huì )這樣呢？我們大多數人都渴望成功，不是嗎？那為什么成功的人還是屈指可數呢？原因如下：

　　Most people do not pay the price of greatness。

　　大多數人沒(méi)有為成功付出代價(jià)。

　　I think this one is quite obvious. Now, the next question is: why not? If there are so many people who want to be great, why only very few of them actually pay the price? The answer to these questions explains the difference between the almost 100% people who want to be great and the much less than 0.01% who actually be so。

　　這個(gè)答案顯而易見(jiàn)。那么，就引出了下一個(gè)問(wèn)題：為什么有那么多人想要成功，而只有很少數的人愿意為成功付出代價(jià)呢？這個(gè)問(wèn)題的答案就能把0.01%真正獲得成功的人和幾乎是100%想要獲得成功的人給區分開(kāi)來(lái)。

　　The reason why very few people actually pay the price is this: The road to greatness is continuously painful for long time。

　　極少數人愿意為成功付出代價(jià)的真正原因在于：成功之路須要長(cháng)期痛苦的堅持。

　　Greatness requires sacrifices and there is no sacrifice without pain. The kind of sacrifices required for greatness is the ones that make the process continuously painful for long time. If you want to be good it will be painful only every now and then, and many people can still handle it. But being great is a totally different level. The pain is much deeper and it is continuous. Very few people can endure this kind of pain and that’s why there are very few great people. Most people naturally choose things that bring pleasures to them. It’s unnatural to choose pain over pleasure, let alone doing it continuously for long time。

　　成功須要犧牲，而所有的犧牲都伴隨著(zhù)痛苦。獲得成功所需要的犧牲是長(cháng)期的、痛苦的。如果你的目標是優(yōu)秀，那可能只是“短痛”而已，很多人還是可以承受得住的。但是，想要成功，那么所需要承受得就是“長(cháng)痛”了。大多數人會(huì )選擇能給自己帶來(lái)快樂(lè )的事物，這是自然的選擇。很少有人會(huì )拋開(kāi)快樂(lè )去選擇痛苦，更不用說(shuō)是長(cháng)期的痛苦了。

　　But that’s what I believe is the secret to greatness: The secret to greatness is choosing pain over pleasures continuously for long time。

　　但是正是上述原因讓我相信，成功的秘密就在于：選擇痛苦而不是快樂(lè )，并能夠長(cháng)期堅持承受痛苦。

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