失败并不可怕 Failure is Not Scary

在一般情况下，“失败”这两个字是消极的。
In a normal situation, the word "failure" is negative.

有太多的人都害怕失败，把失败看成是不光彩的事情。
我们也经常会因为那些自己称为失败的事情而深深地感到孤独与无奈。
People are afraid of failure and perceives it as something they are ashamed of.
We often feel lonely and helpless because of the failures we think we've made.


失败真得那么可怕吗？
相信在很多人的心中对失败已冠上了“生人勿近”的牌子。
Is failure that scary?
I believe many people branded failure as a matter to be avoided of.

今天想和大家谈一谈失败。你认为失败可怕吗？
Today I would like to talk to everyone about failure. Do you think failure is scary?

根据调查，在这个世上名例人最害怕的事物前三名，害怕失败占第三名。
According to a research about the top 3 things that people fear the most, the fear failure is positioned at the third.

我记得我以前是一个非常害怕失败的一个人。因为在我的求学生涯当中，我重来没有拿过一张的奖状，没有得到过任何人的认同，包括我的父母，我的老师和同学。
I remember I used to be someone who is afraid of failure because I have never gotten any certificate during my schooling years, neither did I get any assurance from anyone, including my parents, teachers and classmates.

我唯一上台拿嘉许的经历就是校长在一千多为的学生面前颁给我“最烂巡察员奖”the worst prefect.但在我之前，他才刚颁发了“最佳巡察员奖”the best prefect给我的朋友。
The only time I got up to the stage was when my principal gave me the title of being "the worst prefect" in front of more than a thousand students. But before this, he just gave my friend a title of being "the best prefect".

我认为我是一个没有任何才干的人。我什么都不会！我什么都不会！我总是认为我是一个拖油瓶，扯人家的后腿，成事不足，败事有余的人。因此我对人交代我的事情，从来没有好好的完成过！
I thought I do not have any talents at all. I couldn't do anything! Nothing at all! I always thought that I could only do what others have started, never get anything done well. Thus the thing that I've done for others were never completed too.

我对我的将来根本没有任何的瞳憬。所以，我总是自我逃避，漫无目的的生活。我非常讨厌人问我将来想怎么样，我想做什么。。等等！！
I couldn't imagine my future. Therefore I tended to run away from myself, leading a purposeless life. I hated it when people ask about my future or what am I going to do in the future etc.

好了！我想在你们当中也和我一样，生命里充满了太多的失败！
Ok! I think some of you might the same with me, having too many failures in life!

好！重点来了，我们是否可以不再失败呢？我们是否可以为成功找到捷径呢？
And here comes the main point, is it possible that we never fail again? Can we find a shortcut to success?

好消息是，我们不可能永远逃避失败，而是要勇敢面对失败，因为要成功并没有任何的捷径。如果你想挤进成功的行例，你必需可以克服每一次的失败，从中学习，并确保下一次不再犯同样的错误。
The good news is, we can't run away from failure forever, but we have to face it with courage because there's no shortcut to success. If you want to squeeze into the que of success, then you have to overcome every failure, learn from it and make sure not to make the same mistake again.

若你对害怕继续抱着近而远之的态度，失败将不断的靠近你。换句话说，你越害怕失败，你就越会失败。所以在这里，我觉得我们有必要重新来认识失败。
If you are still trying to avoid failure, then failure itself will go near to you. In other words, the more you are afraid of failure, the higher the tendency of you to fail.

首先，我们必需先理解“失败”与“暂时挫折”之间的差别。
First, we need to understand the difference between "failure" and "temporarily defeated".

我们要经常问问自己，那些看似“失败”的事是否在实际上只不过是“暂时挫折”而已。
We got to ask ourselves, those things that seem seemingly "failure" are in fact only your "temporary defeat".

失败只是一系列特定行为的结果，它永远都不能决定你是什么样的人，
当且仅当你因为“暂时挫折”而停止了努力，或者不再尝试追求成功时，失败才变得事关重大。
Failure is the result of a combination of actions, it doesn't determine what kind of person you are all the time. Only when you stopped moving forward and continue to strive for success then the failure comes in.

如果你为自己定了目标——每天读1篇英语作文阅读，但一周过去了，他并没有读到7篇，他算是失败了吗？
If you've set a target for yourself of reading a piece of English article everyday, but after a week, you do not read a total of 7 articles, does it mean that you have failed?

没有，实际上发生的事情不过是他做的努力没有及时奏效，他没有达到想要的效果。
No. The fact here is the effort you put in does not bring any effectiveness and you not reach the goal that you set earlier.


如果他再做一次尝试，重新分配时间，做出日程安排，再看看是否达到了目的？
如果还没有的话，再换个方法尝试。
If you are willing to try again, reallocating your time, plan a schedule, and see if you could achieve the target?
If no, then try another solution.

他并没有失败，这些只是暂时的挫折。他不过是通过这些经历学会如何达到自己的目的而已。
这和科学家在实验室中的经历一样，他们从来不会因为一次实验的失败而失去信心，
因为这不过是教会了他们在下次实验中该做什么，不该做什么。
You do not fail, these are only temporary obstacle. You are learning the ways to reach your goal through these experiences.
This is the same with the experiments of the scientist in a laboratory. They do not lose confidence after a one time failure. But they learn what to do and what not to do in their next experience.

实际上，在人生考验的过程中，每个考验人最好成功的办法就是学会欣然接受失败。因为，每一次的失败将使我们与成功的距离越来越近。
In fact, the best way to test a person in life is via the acceptance of failure. Because every time that we failed, we stepped a little closer to success.


当然我们也许还会失败，但新的努力将成为我们整个人生中又一个里程碑。
We might fail again but the new hard work is another whole new process in our life.

当人把失败看作是一个暂时的过程，就会明白自己现在做的任何事情都不是最终的结果。
When we view failure as a transition process, we would understand that whatever we are doing now is not the end result of it.

暂时的挫折决不会在人的意识中成为失败，只要我们把挫折当作是一种教训。
事实上，每一个挫折中都存在一个大教训，
而这种教训是无法通过挫折以外的其他方式获得的。
A temporary defeat would not turn into a failure under consciousness if one decided to take it as a lesson. In fact, there is a lesson in every defeat, and we can only learn it through defeat.

爱迪生在获得“活动电影放映机”专利权后一直在创作“有声活动电影”这条道路上坚持不懈地奋勇前进着。但1914年的一个晚上，影片试验室突然起火，火借风势，还有各种化学药品作为助燃剂，等爱迪生驱车赶到时，这里已是一片火海。
After Thomas Edison got the copyright of kinetoscope, he was then trying to invent an animation. But on an unfortunate night in 1941, his film laboratory caught in a fierce fire. When Edison made it to the laboratory with his car, all of his apparatus are already swallowed by the fire.


爱迪生指挥人们救火时，不时从衣兜里掏出小本子记点什么。大家都觉得有点奇怪，以为这场突如其来的大火燃毁了爱迪生健康的神经——有点不正常。后来才知道，爱迪生正在写着再建胶片车间的方案草图。事实上，大火几小时扑灭后爱迪生的重建计划蓝图已经完成，并立即在第二天上班时付诸实施。
When Edison was instructing the people to put off the fire, he kept taking something that looked like a notebook out from his pocket. People find it strange and thought that this sudden fire had also swallowed Edison's healthy mind and had turned him insane. But later then they found out that Edison was writing his plans and blueprint to rebuild his laboratory. In fact, Edison had got all his plans ready after a few hours of the fire accident and put them into actions right the next day of it.

爱迪生的乐观风趣在这场大火面前表现得更加突出。他一边指挥消防队员灭火，一边对着儿子喊：“喂，小伙子，快去喊你妈来，这么大的焰火千载难逢，以后可没这样的机会看这么大的焰火了。”
Edison had fully shown his positiveness and humour through this fire accident. While directing the firefighters to put the fire off, he told them "Hey, go tell your mothers to come, this huge fire accident are hard to come by, we might not see such a large scale of fire in the future."

谁也没有想到，第二天爱迪生不但开始动工建造新车间，而且又开始他的另一项发明——消防队员所使用的便携式探照灯。因为在灭火过程中，爱迪生看到消防队员在黑暗中举步艰难。
Nobody would ever thought that on the next day of the fire, Edison did not only start rebuilding his laboratory, he also started to invent another invention - a torch light for the firefighters. He realised it was hard for the firefighters to put off the fire in the dark the previous day.

这场火灾使爱迪生损失了花在厂房和机器上的钱，尤其是他建造的一些机器不能被人们购买。他的妻子伤心地说：“多少年的心血，叫一场大火烧了个精光。如今年老力衰，要重修这么座实验室，可不容易啊。”爱迪生反倒安慰她说：“不要紧，别看我已经67岁了，可是我并不老。从明天早晨起，一切都将重新开始，我相信没有一个人会老得不能重新开始工作的。”
This fire had caused Edison to lose the money he spent on factory and apparatus. His wife was sad and said that after many years of efforts, all were gone in a fire. And now that they were young and weak, how were they going to rebuild the laboratory, it was a tough job. But Edison comforted her and said "It's ok. I might be 67 years old but I'm not old. Everything still start afresh from tomorrow morning. I believe nobody would be too old to restart a work."

第二天，爱迪生的实验和研究又开始了，他全然像没有经过这场灾难似的，重整旗鼓，比以往更加勤奋，他又在有声电影的研制道路上奔跑了。一场大火不过是一支小小的插曲而已。
Edison started his new laboratory and experiments the next day like there wasn't any fire accident at all. He was full of strength and work even harder than he had ever been. He continued his works to invent an animation. The fire was just a part of the process.

「失敗的人找藉口，成功的人找方法。」
"A failure thinks of an excuse, but a successful person thinks of a solution!"

请问你还在害怕失败吗？不要担心，我会为你祷告。
Are you still afraid of failure? Don't worry, I will pray for you.

THE SIGNIFICANCE OF FAILURE

Robert H. Schuller

Failure doesn’t mean you are a failure,

It does mean you haven’t succeeded yet.

Failure doesn’t mean you have accomplished nothing,

It does mean you have learned something.

Failure doesn’t mean you have been a fool,

It does mean you had a lot of faith.

Failure doesn’t mean you’ve been disgraced,

It does mean you were willing to try.

Failure doesn’t mean you don’t have it,

It does mean you have to do something in a different way.

Failure doesn’t mean you are inferior,

It does mean you are not perfect.

Failure doesn’t mean you’ve wasted your life,

It does mean you have a reason to start afresh.

Failure doesn’t mean you should give up,

It does mean you must try harder.

Failure doesn’t mean you’ll never make it,

It does mean it will take a little longer.

Failure doesn’t mean God has abandoned you,

It does mean God has a better idea.

　　

　　失败的意义

　　罗伯特·H·舒勒

　　

　　失败并不代表你是个失败者，

　　它只表明你尚未成功。

　　失败并不代表你一无所获，

　　它只表明你吸取了一次教训。

　　失败并不代表你很愚蠢，它只表明你信心百倍。

　　失败并不代表你无脸见人，

　　它只表明你百折不饶。

　　失败并不代表你功夫白费，

　　它只表明你的做事方法尚待改进。

　　失败并不代表你低人一等。

　　它只表明你并非完人。

　　失败并不代表你浪费生命，

　　它只表明你有理由重新开始。

　　失败并不代表你应该放弃，

　　它只表明你要加倍努力。

　　失败并不代表成功永不属于你，

　　它只表明你要付出更多的时间。

　　失败并不代表上帝已经抛弃你，

　　它只表明上帝还有更好的主意。

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