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图By Daydream Cafe为什么这么多人不能获得持续的成功？

Why do so many people reach success and then fail? One of the big reasons is, we think success is a one-way street. So we do everything that leads up to success, but then we get there. We figure we've made it, we sit back in our comfort zone, and we actually stop doing everything that made us successful.And it doesn't take long to go downhill. And I can tell you this happens, because it happened to me.



Pt的补充：

1. 非常赞的开头！我们的托福独立写作中也可以用这样的方式来开头——设问句。通过自问自答的方式，来引出我的观点。“为什么这么多人在成功之后又失败了？”“一个最重要的原因是：我们都以为成功是一条单行路。”
2. 请注意：one of意思是“……之一”，肯定是从不止一件事物中选出来，故后边接可数名词复数；又因为是“之一”，所以谓语动词用单数动词。Pt发现写作小分队中的同学经常犯这个错误，故特别在此给大家做一个提示。

为了成功我们做了什么？成功后又做了什么？

Reaching success, I worked hard, I pushed myself. But then I stopped, because I figured, "Oh, you know, I made it. I can just sit back and relax."

Reaching success, I always tried to improve and do good work. But then I stopped because I figured, "Hey, I'm good enough. I don't need to improve any more."



Pt的补充：

1. 这一部分演讲者多次使用到了【正反对比论证】的方式，正反对比人们在抵达成功的路上和实现了成功之后行为上的不同。通过这样的方式，来让人们意识到自己在成功前后发生的变化，从而解释成功难以持续的原因。
2. “我曾经努力工作，不断鞭策自己；但现在，我却停下了。”“我曾经总是试图做到最好，甚至不断超越自己；但如今，我不再这样做了” 这大概是我们每一个人都会面临的问题：不论曾经自己有多么努力和用功，一旦目标实现，就完全没有任何动力了。所以，要怎么办？所以要不断给自己设定下一个新的目标呀！比如：最近减肥还算成功，瘦了不少。于是，又开始吃吃喝喝——得，4月还未来到，你的体重却倒回去了。怎么办？一定要不断给自己制定新的目标，激励自己继续前行！【我不仅要变瘦，还要变得有肌肉、身材好、气质佳！】如何才能让自己有练腹肌和马甲线的动力？来亦鸥小分队呀！每次犯错都会被罚做俯卧撑/平板支撑，多做几次，拼写语法错误没有了，腹肌和马甲线就有啦！

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成功，有时反而是对于我们的一种桎梏

Reaching success, I was pretty good at coming up with good ideas. Because I did all these simple things that led to ideas. But then I stopped, because I figured I was this hot-shot guy and I shouldn't have to work at ideas, they should just come like magic. And the only thing that came was creative block. I couldn't come up with any ideas.

Reaching success, I always focused on clients and projects, and ignored the money. Then all this money started pouring in. And I got distracted by it. And suddenly I was on the phone to my stockbroker and my real estate agent, when I should have been talking to my clients.



Pt的补充：

1. be pretty good at coming up with good ideas 非常擅长想到好点子
2. hot-shot guy 大腕~ “I shouldn't have to work at ideas, they should just come like magic” Pt想要让大家记住一个真理：如果一件事情轻而易举，那它要么不持久，要么根本就不是什么好事情。
3. Then all this money started pouring in. 【说money是在pouring in，可见数量之巨哦~不经意间还炫了个富~】And I got distracted by it. 【get distracted by sth. 被某事分心】

当我们成功了，我们可能需要做自己不擅长的事

And reaching success, I always did what I loved. But then I got into stuff that I didn't love, like management. I am the world's worst manager, but I figured I should be doing it, because I was, after all,the president of the company.

Well, soon a black cloud formed over my head and here I was, outwardly very successful, but inwardly very depressed. But I'm a guy; I knew how to fix it. I bought a fast car. (Laughter) It didn't help. I was faster but just as depressed.

So I went to my doctor. I said, "Doc, I can buy anything I want. But I'm not happy. I'm depressed. It's true what they say, and I didn't believe it until it happened to me. But money can't buy happiness." He said, "No. But it can buy Prozac." And he put me on anti-depressants. And yeah, the black cloud faded a little bit, but so did all the work, because I was just floating along. I couldn't care less if clients ever called.(Laughter)

And clients didn't call. (Laughter) Because they could see I was no longer serving them, I was only serving myself. So they took their money and their projects to others who would serve them better.



Pt的补充：

1. 很多人虽在专业领域很成功，但却未必是一个好的管理者。当ta成功将自己的startup发展成了company，自己做了公司的最高管理者，可能会发现：突然出现了自己根本就不擅长做的事。所以，在风险投资者那里，VC虽然残忍，但还是在会坚持在公司做大之后撤换CEO，这是对于投资者利益最大限度的保护。
2. “ a black cloud formed over my head”  我们也可以用这个表达来形容自己感到很消沉的时候，来替代we are depressed/ unhappy 不过Pt当然是希望每一个同学都能天天开心啦！Cheer up! If you can't, you can simply join Pt's 小分队！
3. “money can't buy happiness”“But it can buy Prozac." “ And yeah, the black cloud faded a little bit, but so did all the work, because I was just floating along. I couldn't care less if clients ever called.” 噗，这位Lecturer的幽默真的曼妙的，很喜欢哈哈~
4. 演讲者自嘲，吃了Prozac确实不烦恼了，因为根本就不在乎客户还打不打电话了。而事实上，客户也确实没有打电话。因为，他们已经放弃了我，去找真正可以为他们服务的人了。Pt自己作为服务行业的一份子，也认为这句话说得特别在理。如果我们不在乎客户，那么客户必然也不会在乎我们。这世界上的替代产品这么多，亦鸥能做的只有：做得越来越好，决不能让大家失望！

成功，其实是一个轮回

Well, it didn't take long for business to drop like a rock. My partner and I, Thom, we had to let all our employees go. It was down to just the two of us, and we were about to go under. And that was great.Because with no employees, there was nobody for me to manage.

So I went back to doing the projects I loved. I had fun again, I worked harder and, to cut a long story short, did all the things that took me back up to success. But it wasn't a quick trip. It took seven years.

But in the end, business grew bigger than ever. And when I went back to following these eight principles,the black cloud over my head disappeared altogether. And I woke up one day and I said, "I don't need Prozac anymore." And I threw it away and haven't needed it since.

I learned that success isn't a one-way street. It doesn't look like this; it really looks more like this. It's a continuous journey. And if we want to avoid "success-to-failure-syndrome," we just keep following these eight principles, because that is not only how we achieve success, it's how we sustain it. So here is to your continued success. Thank you very much. (Applause)



Pt的补充：这两句话与君共勉：Success isn't a quit trip. Success isn't a one-way street. 希望今日推送，你收获的不只是鸡汤，还有：一个奋斗的方向。爱大家哦~公众号ID：亦鸥托福

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