《Succeed》翻译作业(10)
Well, the answer is that there is actually plenty of hope for you, because it turns out that willpower is not what you think it is. And it might be helpful to use a less lofty term for it, because what we are really talking about here is plain old self-control.Self-control is the ability to guide your actions in pursuit of a goal——to persevere and stay on course, despite temptations, distractions, and the demands of competing goals. It'sreally, really import——one of the critical elements necessary for achieving you goals that I'll be talking a lot about in this book. But it dosen't work the way you think it dose.
好了,答案是事实上你是有很多希望的,原因是意志力并不是你想象的那个样子,可能不用那么高大上的名字能对你有帮助,因为我们谈论的是老的概念——自控力而已。自控力是一种能力,可以指导我们的行动以达成目标,坚持不懈,抵制诱惑,排除干扰,完成目标。这是真的真的很重要——这是我这本书所谈论的达成目标所必备的原则之一。但是它不是你原来认为的那样。