Name: 成功就是取得財富、贏得尊重或聲望？成功的定義跟你想的不一樣 (What is 'success'?)
Uploaded: 2022-04-30T21:01:20.000Z
Duration: 1 min 51 s

In our societies we use the word "success" a lot.

社會上，我們常常使用「成功」這個詞。

程度副詞

And we think we know just what it means: money, status, fame, and power.

我們印象中的成功代表：金錢、地位、名聲、權利。

情態副詞

But take a look in the dictionary and things start to look, thankfully, a lot more complicated.

但是如果查一下字典，你會發現這個詞比想像中複雜許多。

Because success is, in truth, rather more neutral and less value-laden than we tend to assume.

因為成功的意義其實很中立，沒有太多個人情感。

It just means doing anything well, excelling at something, and that might encompass a lot of different activities.

其實成功的意思只是將某件事情做得很好，可以套用在各種不同的領域。

Running 100 meters, for sure, selling your app for a lot of money, okay.

例如，在短跑百米跑出卓越成績，或是設計出很賺錢的程式。

But also stranger, less-heralded things like listening a lot, very attentively, to a child,

也有一些比較特別，少人關注的成功。例如，經常仔細聆聽孩子的心聲、

or being extremely kind to strangers, or filling your mind with interesting ideas and associations,

對陌生人很友善、讓自己充滿不同有趣的想法。

or knowing just when to put an arm around someone when it's too much for them.

或是能察覺某人生活遇到困難，並即時伸出援手。

People who triumph here are also big success stories.

在這些領域中傑出的人們，也都是成功的代表。

No one can be successful at everything, whatever they tell us, it's almost impossible to succeed with a career and with a family,

不管你聽到了什麼故事，世上沒人可以每個領域都成功，我們很難工作、家庭兩全其美，

or with popularity and integrity, there are always sacrifices.

It's even better to make sure you followed your own distinctive and, not necessarily, always obvious path to the success that can truly fulfill you.

但更棒的是確保自己遵從直覺，還有不一定顯著，卻使你感到滿足的道路。