Failure Is Not Trying
失败就是不去尝试
The fear of failure is powerful. Nobody wants to reveal to others, or to themselves, that they were not capable of doing something they tried to do.
This fear can be used as a source of motivation to keep you working hard toward your goals. Yet this same fear offers a convenient escape clause. You can never fail if you don’t bother to try.
Not trying is, of course, the ultimate failure, for it means you can never make progress toward your goals.
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对失败的畏惧是非常巨大的。没有人想让别人知道、而且自己也不想承认,他们尽了力去做的事却没能做成。
这种畏惧可以成为你朝着目标不断奋进的动力源泉,但也同样容易成为你逃避的借口。如果你不努力去尝试,你就永远不会失败。
最彻底的失败当然就是不去尝试,因为这意味着,你永远都不能向你的目标进发。