巧遇智慧英文—我的前程近在咫尺(常速) 一個人何時變老

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[00:04]When Is a Man Old [00:08]“I dread to come to the end of the year”, said a friend to me recently, [00:12]“it makes me realize I am growing old.” [00:16]William James, the great psychologist, [00:18]said that most men are old fogies at twenty-five.He was right. [00:23]Most men at twenty-five are satisfied with their jobs. [00:26]They have accumulated the little stock of prejudices that they call their “Principles”, [00:31]and closed their minds to all new ideas; they have ceased to grow. [00:35]The minute a man ceases to grow—no matter what his years— [00:40]that minute he begins to be old. [00:42]On the other hand, the really great man never grows old. [00:47]Goethe passed out at eighty-three, and finished his Faust only a few years earlier; [00:53]Gladstone took up a new language when he was seventy. [00:57]Laplace, the astronomer, was still at work when death caught up with him at seventy-eight. [01:02]He died crying, “What we know is nothing; what we do not know is immense.” [01:09]And there you have the real answer to the question, “When is a man old?” [01:14]Laplace at seventy-eight died young. [01:17]He was still unsatisfied, still sure that he had a lot to learn. [01:22]As long as a man can keep himself in that attitude of mind, [01:26]as long as he can look back on every year and say, “I grew”, he is still young. [01:31]The minute he ceases to grow, the minute he says to himself, [01:36]“I know all that I need to know,”—that day youth stops. [01:40]He may be twenty-five or seventy-five, it makes no difference. [01:44]On that day he begins to be old.

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When Is a Man Old

"I dread to come to the end of the year,said a friend to me recently, "it makes me realize I am growing old.”

William James, the great psychologist, said that most men are "old fogies at twenty-fiveHe was right. Most men at twenty-five are satisfied with their jobs. They have accumulated the little stock of prejudices that they call their "Principles, " and closed their minds to all new ideas; they have ceased to grow.

The minutea man ceases to grow-no matter what his years-that minute he begins to be old. On the other hand, the really great man never grows old.

Goethe passed out at eighty-three, and finished his Faust only a few years earlier; Gladstone took up a new language when he was seventy. Laplace, the astronomer, was still at work when death caught up with him at seventy-eight. He died crying, "What we know is nothing; what we do not know is immense."

And there you have the real answer to the question, "When is a man old?"

Laplace at seventy-eight died young. He was still unsatisfied, still sure that he had a lot to learn.

As long as a man can keep himself in that attitude of mind, as long as he can look back on every year and say , "I grew," he is still young.

The minute he ceases to grow, the minute he says to himself, "I know all that I need to know,"--that day youth stops. He may be twenty-five or seventy-five, it makes no difference. On that day he begins to be old.

一個人何時變老

“我懼怕臨近歲末年尾”，一位朋友最近對我說：“它使我意識到我正在變老。”

偉大的心理學家威廉·詹姆斯就曾說過，大多數(shù)人“25歲時就成了守舊落伍者”。他的話是對的。大多數(shù)人25歲時就滿足于他們的工作。他們已經(jīng)積累了一些他們稱之為“原則”的偏見，對所有新的思想關(guān)閉心靈之門；他們已經(jīng)停止成長。

一個人一旦停止成長--不管他年齡多大--他就開始衰老。反之，真正的偉人從來不會衰老。

歌德享年83歲，逝世前幾年才完成《浮士德》；格萊斯頓70歲時又開始學習一門外國語；法國天文學家拉普拉斯78歲死時還在工作著。臨死前，他大聲喊道：“我們所知的太少太少，我們所不知的太多太多。”

“一個人何時變老？”，從這類事例中對這個問題你已經(jīng)有了真正的答案。

拉普拉斯78歲逝世時依然年輕。他依舊不滿足，依舊感到許多東西要學。

一個人，只要他能夠保持這種心態(tài)，只要他在回首過去的一年時能夠說“我在成長”，他就依然年輕。

他一旦停止成長，他一旦對自己說“我該懂的都懂了”，這個時候他的青春也就完了。他可能在25歲時死去，也可能在75歲時死去，這都沒有區(qū)別。就在那一天，他開始變老。