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晚点遇见你,余生都是你|五大理由告诉你大器晚成也值得骄傲

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大器晚成其实是一件非常令人恼火的事情,因为当朋友和同事事业人生蓬勃发展走上成功巅峰之时而你却还在艰苦奋斗寻找自己的立足点。


但是大器晚成也有显而易见的好处。因为过早的到达事业和人生巅峰可能会带来许多你无法承受的压力。如果说你一定要强迫自己尽早到达了人生的巅峰,那么在成功到来以后你会开始变得懈怠。因为只有那些利用足够多的时间和精力去尝试和不断探索挑战的人最终才会获得持续的成功。在生活中有很多此类的例子,比如朱莉娅·查尔德,托妮·莫里森,摩根·弗里曼。这些作家、演员和艺术家大都是大器晚成,而且他们的事业在晚年仍然保持着持续的发展和成功。


这五大理由就很好的证明了大器晚成也是一件值得你骄傲的事情,我们一起来看看吧!


1

 You understand that life is a marathon, not a sprint.

人生是一场马拉松长跑,而不是短跑比赛


就像伊索说过的那句名言一样,只有一步一个脚印才能赢得胜利。




Just look at Helen Mirren. Mirren began acting at the age of 18 with the National Youth Theatre in London, but she didn’t find mainstream success until her mid-forties with her breakout role in Prime Suspect. Since then, she’s nabbed four Oscar nominations and one win for The Queen.

著名的奥斯卡影后海伦.米伦就是这样攀升了自己的人生巅峰。米伦18岁开始在伦敦国家青年剧院演戏,直到她在影片《头号嫌犯》中初露锋芒后才开始获得主流媒体和观众的认可。自此以后,海伦.米伦的事业开始大放异彩。她获得了四项奥斯卡将提名,最终凭借《女王》中的精彩表演将奥斯卡小金人收入囊中。


“There are the privileged few who just seem to waft through life without having to ever meet any adversity or difficulty, which is really annoying,” Mirren told Gloucestershire Live. “The rest of us, we have to struggle and fight. We get knocked back and we have to come forward again.”

后来海伦.米伦在媒体专访中表示,这个世界上总有些人含着金汤匙出生,他们不用经历任何风险和磨难就可以获得成功的人生,这的确是令人讨厌。但是我们这些普通人必须为自己的人生去苦苦奋斗。因为我们没有这些天生的特权或者帮助,所以我们必须一次一次的为自己战斗,我们必须为了自己站出来。


2


 You fully appreciate your achievements once you’ve earned them.

一旦你获得了成功,你才真正懂得珍惜和其中的来之不易。




Reed Birney, of House of Cards fame, won a Tony Award this year for his performance in ‘The Humans.’ In his acceptance speech, Birney acknowledged the years of hard work and disappointment he put in before his incredible big breaks.

在《纸牌屋》有过精彩表现的里德.伯尼凭借在《真实的人类》中的表演赢得了今年的托尼奖。在他的获奖感言中,他表示自己今年能够取得如此的成就都得归功于多年以来默默无闻的努力以及无数次的失望和坚持。


“The last thing I want to say is I’ve been an actor for almost 42 years,” Birney told the audience. “35 of them were pretty bad...and that’s a lot of them, and I just couldn’t get anything going. So the last eight have been great.”

他对观众说道,自己已经演了四十二年的戏,但是其中的三十五年都过得非常糟糕。在这三十五年里自己看不到任何希望,也曾经以为自己的演艺事业不会有什么大飞跃了。然而接下来的八年他的事业逐渐有了起色,最终迎来了成功。


Unlike the people who find success early on in life, Birney understands exactly how long it’s taken to reach each new milestone. His road to success was littered with detours, but those can be the most valuable, instructive periods of the journey.

在演艺圈人们常说的一句话是“成名要趁早”,然而里德.伯尼并不像那些很早就成名的人们一样,他更加明白作为演员要达到一个事业的里程碑究竟需要付出多少时间和努力。他的成功之路中的确有不少挫折和弯路,但是这些却往往是最有价值最宝贵的东西,因为这些经验和教训会指导他以后的表演。而恰好是这些宝贵的经验会给以后的人生注入持续发展的动力和养分。


3


 You know there’s no shame in failure. 

失败也并不可耻


人生就是如此神奇,当你跌落到人生的最低谷,看似一无所有失去一切时,成功在这时就悄然而至了。




In her mid-twenties, J.K. Rowling was a single mother struggling to support her daughter and get her work published. Rowling said she received “loads” of rejections before Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone was published. But by 34, Rowling was a literary sensation.

在二十五岁左右时, J·K·罗琳还是一个独自抚养女儿的单身妈妈,而且她同时还在努力出版她的小说作品。在《哈利.波特》和《魔法石》两本小说出版前她还面临着各种出版商的拒绝以及许多生活负担,但是在三十四时她逐渐找到了文学上的触感。


“Some failure in life is inevitable,” Rowling said in her 2008 Harvard Commencement Address. “It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all—in which case, you fail by default.”

J·K·罗琳在2008年哈佛大学毕业典礼演讲中说道:人生路上失败在所难免。在成长的过程中没经历过失败几乎是不可能的,除非你活的万分谨慎。有时失败的确令人难以接受,我们甚至会去逃避。


It’s not the failures that define you - it’s the moments you got back up and tried again.

其实失败并没有什么大不了,因为并不是失败定义了你,而是面对失失败时你的决心以及一次次重新挑战的勇气才造就了最终你的成功。


4


You don’t torture yourself with an unrealistic timeline.

你不会用一个不切实际的时间表来折磨自己




Julia Child is one of the world’s most renowned chefs and television personalities. But did you know that Child didn’t start cooking until her late 30s? She didn’t publish Mastering the Art of French Cooking until her late 40s and didn’t become a cooking sensation until her 50s. Her late blooming success means that Child reminds us again and again that success doesn’t come overnight, and that you don’t need to have it all figured out right now.

茱莉亚.查尔德是世界著名的美食主厨及电视名人。但是令人无法置信的是她三十多岁才开始学习做饭,然而在四十多岁时才出版了那本《掌握烹饪法国菜的艺术》,直到五十多岁她才真正找到了烹饪艺术的灵感。茱莉亚.查尔德的大器晚成再次提醒我们成功不是一蹴而就的,而且真的不必急着立刻就要把这些所谓的成功秘诀搞得一清二楚。


Like Julia, you don’t bother setting expectations on an arbitrary timeline. You’ll reach life’s milestones on your own time, and you won’t agonize over how long it takes you. In doing so, you’ll avoid rushing headlong into jobs and relationships that don’t feel right, just because the timing aligns with your schedule. You also won’t close yourself off to opportunities that come late in life, when most people stop expanding their horizons.

就像茱莉亚一样你不必给自己的人生设置一个实现期待和成功的时间表。你的人生会自然形成一个有序到达里程碑的步骤,而你不要为这究竟需要多少时间而苦恼,只需要跟着这个步骤走就好了。如果你这样做了,就会发现你无需将自己的时间浪费在那些不合适的工作以及感情上面,因为它们完全违背了你自己的人生步骤。当人们开始随着年龄增长就固步自封时,而你则会敞开胸怀去迎接那些机会和挑战。正是这一点更有可能造就你的成功。


5


You don’t settle until you’ve found your true passion.

你所谓的稳定不过是在浪费生命


在他辉煌的演艺生涯开始之前摩根.弗里曼一直在为美国空军服役。




“I had this very clear epiphany,” Freeman told AARP Magazine. “You are not in love with this; you are in love with the idea of this.”

他曾经在 AARP 杂志专访中说道:“我对于自己未来的演员生涯有着一种强烈的预感。因为说真的其实我当时并不热爱自己正在做的事情,我清晰的知道我就是热爱表演,相信会有一天真正的踏上演艺生涯 ”。




Even after Freeman began acting full time, it took years to break into movies. He didn’t become a true movie star until the age of 50, after his Oscar-nominated turn in Street Smart. Two years later, Freeman won a Golden Globe and earned a second Oscar nomination for Driving Miss Daisy.

即使后来他成为了全职演员,他仍然花了很长一段时间才进入大银幕开始演电影。在凭借影片《花街传奇》获得奥斯卡提名后,五十岁的摩根.弗里曼才真正成为了一位电影明星。两年后,他凭借《为黛西小姐开车》中忠厚诚实、善良勇敢的老司机形象又一次获得了奥斯卡提名,而且也为他赢得了金球奖。


Follow Freeman’s lead: don’t rest until you’ve found your calling. You know that a job or relationship shouldn’t just be a means of passing time; you should love every second of it. 

从弗里曼的故事告诉我们一个道理,在找到自己的激情和热爱的使命之前绝对不要停下来。无论是一份短期内看起来可以让你稳定的工作或者感情,这些不过是你浪费自己人生的理由和借口。也就是说你所谓的稳定不过是在浪费你的生命,而你最应该珍惜和热爱的正是你大好的生命和时光。


因此就像最近非常流行的那句话,晚点遇见你,余生都是你。有些事情晚点带来也并不是一件坏事。只要辛辛苦苦经历了人生的所有,在终点有爱人和大器晚成的事业在等待着你,晚点成功又有何不可?有句话说好饭不怕晚,大器晚成同样也是一件值得骄傲的事情。


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