You Can Learn Anything
一切皆可学习
——可汗学院宣传片
Nobody’s born smart. We all start at zero. Can’t talk, can’t walk, certainly can’t do algebra. Adding, reading, writing, riding a bike, nobody’s good at anything at first. There was a time when Einstein couldn’t count to 10 and Shakespeare had to learn his ABC’s just like the rest of us. Thankfully, we’re born to learn. Slowly, surly, you stumble, slip, crawl, fall, and fail, and fall. Frustrating, confusing, trying, struggling, until one day you walk, one foot in front of the other, one idea on top of the next, each wrong answer making your brain a little bit stronger. Failing is just another word for growing and you keep going. This is learning, knowing that you’ll get it even if you haven’t gotten it yet. Because the most beautiful, complex concepts in the whole universe are built on basic ideas that anyone can learn, anywhere can understand. Whoever you are, wherever you are, you only have to know one thing: you can learn anything.
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没有人一出生就聪明,我们都是从零开始。你不能说话、走路,更不用说做代数,加法、阅读、写字、骑脚踏车,没有人在一开始就做好每件事。曾经,Einstein也无法数到10,Shakespeare也像我们其他人一样,必须学习英文字母。感恩的是,我们生下来就是要学习,缓慢地、确定地,你绊倒、滑倒、爬行、跌倒、失败、再跌倒,沮丧、困惑、尝试和努力。直到有一天你开始走路,一只脚在另一只脚前面,想法一个接着一个,每个错误的答案都能让头脑更强大。失败是成功的另一个词,你持续前进。这就是学习,知道即使你还没有了解它,在将来你还是能了解,因为世界上最完美、最复杂的观念建立在基本概念上,每个人都能学,任何地方都能了解,不管你是谁,在哪里,你只需知道一件事:你可以学任何事情。