it’s_never_too_late_for_success.doc

你和你的父母可以别在担忧了-巴斯德，爱迪生，达尔文还要许多其他人在他们年少时远非天才。 You and your parents can stop worrying ─ Pasture, Edison, Darwin and lots of more were far from being geniuses in their teens. 历史书籍很少提到这些，但事实是：我们的许多伟人在他们的青少年时代是“垮掉的一代.他们被认为爱空想，优柔寡断，迟钝（十足的愚蠢），而且他们没有显现出当医生，律师，印第安酋长的前途。 History books seldom mention it, but the truth is that many of our greatest figures were practically “beatniks” when they were teenagers. They were given to daydreaming, indecision, and they showed no promise of being doctor, lawyer, or Indian chief. 所以年前的男女们，如果你们出现了同样的状况，不用绝望。世界是由男人和女人创建的。尽管他们的双亲担心他们永远一钱不值，你们没有太多的听过这些伟人早年失败的经历，一位父母亲往往喜欢例举更鼓舞人心的事例。 　　So, young men and women, if you suffer from the same symptoms, don’t despair. The world was built by men and women whose parents worried that they would “never amount to a hill of beans”. You don’t hear too much about their early failure because parents prefer to cite more inspiring examples. 　　A Man They Don’t Tell You About他们不愿向你谈起的一个人 　　If you take piano lessons and your attitude towards practicing is marked by laziness, your parents might justly complain and flaunt before you the famous picture of little Mozart in his ruffled nightshirt, playing the piano at midnight in the attic. But the point is, your parents would not show you a picture of a certain party who never showed a bit of interest in music during his formative years. In fact he never showed talent in any direction whatever. Finally put to studying law, he barely passed his final exams. It was not until he was 22 that he suddenly became fired with a great passion for music, and his name was Peter Iluitch Tschaikowsky. 　　In the science, there have been hundreds of geniuses who aimed straight at the goal from earliest years, and hundreds who showed no aptitude at all. There were the teen-age Mayo brothers, who actually assisted their father in his crude country operating room. On the other hand, Harvey Cushing, one of the world’s greatest brain surgeons, might have become a professional ballplayer i