Born to Win 生为成功【DOC精选】.doc

Born to Win It would be convenient if a “good birth” meant that a person was born to win. In fact, rather than being born to win, most successful people have been educated or trained to win. Winning requires adequate skills, opportunity to use these skills productively (有成果的), and most of all, an attitude which guarantees that the winning individual will work hard and stay with a task until it is completed. There are countless examples which could be given: Winston Churchill, Abraham Lincoln, Thomas Edison, Mahatma Ghandi, etc. For each of these winners it is clear that good habits and a good attitude were at least as important as good inherited (通过继承得到的，遗传的) skills. The fact is that a good set of inherited skills is as likely to occur in a person born into poverty as it is in a person born into wealth. Comfort has often been the curse of the wealthy, and there is little support for the idea that a life of ease will lead to a life as a winner. In nearly every field of work or profession there are winners who have come from humble beginnings. In the United States, this was so evident to many people that there have been many books written in praise of the individual who struggles early in life to become a winner or a person widely known as successful. In the early part of the last century, one of the favorite series of books for young people was written by the author, Horatio Alger (霍拉肖? 阿尔杰：1832~1899 美国作家，其作品多为鼓舞人心的历险小说，如《衣衫褴褛的狄克》1867年，描述了贫穷的孩子如何通过努力工作和正直善良而获得巨大财富和尊敬). The titles of the books tell you the theme of most of them: Rags to Riches, Risen from the Ranks, Facing the World, The Young Explorer, etc. In each of these books the hero figure comes from a humble beginning, but through hard work, serious study, attention to the rules, and good virtue, he becomes a winner in life. Indeed, these books became the introduction for many young Americans to the concept that “When the going gets tough, the tough get going (艰难之路，唯勇者行).” It may be true that virtue is not