自我奋斗的七大黄金原则

      人的一生是学习的一生，祸兮福兮，起起伏伏。我们从成功中总结经验，从失败中汲取教训，不断奋斗是生活的常态，少走弯路是永恒的盼望。如何少走弯路？炼心乃是根本，一切皆由心出。七大黄金原则助你成就完美一生。

      Want to know how to change your life, achieve pretty much anything, and make yourself rich to boot? There is a huge “self help” industry out there eager to help you do it.

      想知道如何改变自己的一生，如何获得非凡的成就，尤其是，如何提升自己的身价吗？介绍一项伟大的“自我奋斗”计划，助你实现自己的梦想。

      I bump up against this world frequently when researching and writing about lifelong learning, and I have to admit a bit of a love-hate relationship with it. On the one hand, so much of the advice that gets peddled seems hackneyed, poorly written, and derivative of concepts already established hundreds, if not thousands, of years ago.

      我做终生学习方面的研究，写这方面的文章，愤笔疾言针砭时弊是常有的事。我承认，对此我是爱恨交加。一方面，时下流行的有关终生学习方面的建议数量不少，却都是陈词滥调，文笔拙劣，照搬起码是数百年前的老观点。

      On the other hand, there is obviously a deep human need to return again and again to the issues and concepts that pervade self-help literature. Some current writers do a very good job of returning to these issues and examining them in a fresh way. And I have to assume that many people do learn and grow from it – or at least try. Repetition, as they say, is the mother of learning.

      另一方面，人类显然在内心深处有一种需求，想要一次次地去回顾那些有关自我奋斗的论说中无所不在的问题和概念。现在有些作家这方面做得很好，不单是重拾这些问题，而且从全新的视角审视这些问题。我确实觉得，很多人从中学到了东西，并且因此而进步了——或者，至少是付出努力了。正如他们所言，重复是学习之母。

      So, I started thinking about the key themes and lessons that seem to show up in the self-help literature with which I am familiar. Knowledge of them can certainly be of use to the average lifelong learner.

      故此，我开始思考那些我所熟悉的此类论说中的关键课题。了解这方面的知识，对一般的终生学习者而言无疑是很有用的。