Success is a choice/成功是一种选择
All of us ought to be ableto brace ourselves for the predictable challenges and setbacks that crop upeveryday.
If we expect that life won'tbe perfect, we'll be able to avoid that impulse to quit.
But even if you are strongenough to persist the obstacle course of life and work, sometimes you willencounter an adverse event that will completely knock you on your back.
Whether it's a financialloss, the loss of respect of your peers or loved ones, or some other traumaticevent in your life these major setbacks leave you doubting yourself andwondering if things can ever change for the better again.
Adversity happens to all ofus, and it happens all the time.
Some form of major adversityis either going to be there or it's lying in wait just around the corner.
To ignore adversity is tosuccumb to the ultimate self-delusion.
But you must recognize thathistory is full of examples of men and women who achieved greatness despitefacing hurdles so steep that easily could have crashed their spirit and leftthem lying in the dust.
Moses was a stutterer, yethe was called on to be the voice of God.
Abraham Lincoln overcomes adifficult childhood, depression, the death of two sons, and constant ridiculeduring the Civil War to become arguably our greatest president ever.
Helen Keller made an impacton the world despite being deaf, dumb, and blind from an early age.
Franklin Roosevelt hadpolio.
There are endless examples.
These were people who notonly looked adversity in the face but learned valuable lessons about overcomingdifficult circumstances and were able to move ahead.
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