不論你的理由是什麽，最重要的是你要明白，你的本質並不是要成為一個失敗者或成功者，成功是要爭取的，它不會自動發生在我們身上。
Helen Keller海倫·凱勒
1. In 1882, a baby girl caught a fever that was so fierce she nearly died. She survived but the fever left its mark—she could no longer see or hear. Because she could not hear she also found it very difficult to speak.
2. So how did this child, blinded and deafened at 19 months old, grow up to become a world-famous author and public speaker?
3. The fever cut her off from the outside world, depriving her of sight and sound. It was as if she had been thrown into a dark prison cell from which there could be no release.
4. Luckily Helen was not someone who gave up easily. Soon she began to explore the world by using her other senses. She followed her mother wherever she went, hanging onto her skirts. She touched and smelled everything she came across. She copied their actions and was soon able to do certain jobs herself, like milking the cows or kneading dough. She even learnt to recognize people by feeling their faces or their clothes. She could also tell where she was in the garden by the smell of the different plants and the feel of the ground under her feet.
5. By the age of seven she had invented over 60 different signs by which she could talk to her family. If she wanted bread for example, she would pretend to cut a loaf and butter the slices. If she wanted ice cream she wrapped her arms around herself and pretended to shiver.
6. Helen was unusual in that she was extremely intelligent and also remarkably sensitive.
By her own efforts she had managed to make some sense of an alien and confusing world. But even so she had limitations.
7. At the age of five Helen began to realize she was different from other people. She noticed that her family did not use signs like she did but talked with their mouths.
Sometimes she stood between two people and touched their lips. She could not understand what they said and she could not make any meaningful sounds herself. She wanted to talk but no matter how she tried she could not make herself understood. This made her so angry that she used to hurl herself around the room, kicking and screaming in frustration.
8. As she got older her frustration grew and her rages became worse and worse. She became wild and unruly. If she didn’t get what she wanted she would throw tantrums until her family gave in. Her favourite tricks included grabbing other people’s food from their plates and hurling fragile objects to the floor. Once she even managed to lock her mother into the pantry. Eventually it became clear that something had to be done. So,just before her seventh birthday, the family hired a private tutor—Anne Sullivan.
9. Anne was careful to teach Helen especially those subjects in which she was interested.
As a result, Helen became gentler and she soon learnt to read and write in Braille. She also learnt to read people’s lips by pressing her finger-tips against them and feeling the movement and vibrations. This method is called Tadoma and it is a skill that very, very few people manage to acquire. She also learnt to speak, a major achievement for someone who could not hear at all.
10. Helen proved to be a remarkable scholar, graduating with honors from Radcliffe College in 1904. She had phenomenal powers of concentration and memory, as well as a dogged determination to succeed. While she was still at college she wrote “The Story of My Life”. This was an immediate success and earned her enough money to buy her own house.
11. She toured the country, giving lecture after lecture. Many books were written about her and several plays and films were made about her life. Eventually she became so famous that she was invited abroad and received many honors from foreign universities and monarchs. In 1932 she became a vice-president of the Royal National Institute for the Blind in the United Kingdom.
12. After her death in 1968, an organization was set up in her name to combat blindness in the developing world. Today that agency, Helen Keller International, is one of the biggest organizations working with blind people overseas.
1. 1882 年，一名女嬰因高發燒差點喪命。她雖幸免於難，但發燒給她留下了後遺症——她再也看不見、聽不見。因為聽不見，她想講話也變得很困難。
2. 那麽這樣一個在19 個月時就既盲又聾的孩子，是如何成長為享譽世界的作家和演說家的呢？
3. 高燒將她與外界隔開，使她失去了視力和聲音。她仿佛置身在黑暗的牢籠中無法擺脫。
4. 萬幸的是海倫並不是個輕易認輸的人。不久她就開始利用其他的感官來探查這個世界了。她跟著母親，拉著母親的衣角，形影不離。她去觸摸，去嗅各種她碰到的物品。她模仿別人的動作且很快就能自己做一些事情，例如擠牛奶或揉麵。她甚至學會摸別人的臉或衣服來識別對方。她還能聞不同的植物和觸摸地麵來辨別自己在花園的位置。
5. 七歲的時候她發明了60 多種不同的手勢，此得以和家裏人交流。比如她若想要麵包，就會做出切麵包和塗黃油的動作。想要冰淇淋時她會用手裹住自己裝出發抖的樣子。
6. 海倫在這方麵非比一般，她絕頂的聰明又相當敏感。通過努力她對這個陌生且迷惑的世界有了一些知識。但她仍有一些有足。
7. 海倫五歲時開始意識到她與別人不同。她發現家裏的其他人不用像她那樣做手勢而是用嘴交談。有時她站在兩人中間觸摸他們的嘴唇。她不知道他們在說什麽，而她自己不能發出帶有含義的聲音。她想講話，可無論費多大的勁兒也無法使別人明白自己。這使她異常懊惱以至於常常在屋子裏亂跑亂撞，灰心地又踢又喊。
8. 隨著年齡的增長她的怒氣越來越大。她變得狂野不馴。倘若她得不到想要的東西就會大發脾氣直到家人順從。她慣用的手段包括抓別人盤裏的食物以及將易碎的東西猛扔在地。有一次她甚至將母親鎖在廚房裏。這樣一來就得想個辦法了。於是，在她快到七歲生日時，家裏便雇了一名家庭教師——安尼·沙利文。
9. 安尼悉心地教授海倫，特別是她感興趣的東西。這樣海倫變得溫和了而且很快學會了用布萊葉盲文朗讀和寫作。用手指接觸說話人的嘴唇去感受運動和震動，她又學會了觸唇意識。這種方法被稱作泰德馬，是一種很少有人掌握的技能。她也學會了講話，這對失聰的人來說是個巨大的成就。
10. 海倫證明了自己是個出色的學者，1904 年她以優異的成績從拉德克利夫學院畢業。
她有驚人的注意力和記憶力，同時她還具有不達目的誓不罷休的毅力。上大學時她就寫了《我的生命》。這使她取得了巨大的成功從而有能力為自己購買一套住房。
11. 她周遊全國，不斷地舉行講座。她的事跡為許多人著書立說而且還上演了關於她的生平的戲劇和電影。最終她聲名顯赫，應邀出國並受到外國大學和國王授予的榮譽。
1932 年，她成為英國皇家國立盲人學院的副校長。
12. 1968 年她去世後，一個以她的名字命名的組織建立起來，該組織旨在與發展中國家存在的失明缺陷做鬥爭。如今這所機構，“國際海倫·凱勒”，是海外向盲人提供幫助的最大組織之一。
The Things That Keep Us From Succeeding通往成功之路的障礙
1. A couple of months ago, I asked you not to fear failure, saying that embracing failure—or at least the possibility of failure—was essential to success. But, of course, in the end the goal is to succeed, and fear of failing isn’t the only thing that keeps us from succeeding.
2. I speak from experience here. Six or seven years ago, I was the picture of success—an excellent graduate student, top of my class, a job I loved, a relationship that I was happy in, the whole enchilada. And then, those successes started slipping away. Nothing obvious at first, but gradually I found myself stuck in a rut academically, my relationship dissolved, things just weren’t going my way. I wasn’t failing, per se, just losing my grip on the successes I had won.
3. In the last couple of years, I’ve been reassessing some aspects of my life, trying to figure out what had happened so I could rebuild. To some extent this has worked well—I have a job I love (although I need to develop it into a career, not just a job), I have a book coming out in my academic field, I’m writing quite a bit, and most importantly I have a new relationship that is going strong. To get here, I’ve had to figure out what I was doing wrong in the years in between, where I had lost my footing, and I think I’ve figured out a thing or two in doing so.
4. If you’re not reaching the kind of success you imagine in the areas that area important to you, one or more of the following things might well be true of you, too:5. NO.1: You don’t have a goal. A lot of time we find ourselves “spinning our wheels”,struggling through a day-to-day routine that isn’t getting us anywhere because we don’t know where we want to go. Sometimes we had goals when we set ourselves on a particular path, but we’ve changed along the way and those goals are no longer that important. Sometimes we simply did what was expected of us without ever stopping to think about what we eventually wanted to accomplish for ourselves. Whatever the case,figuring out what your goals are and, just as importantly, whether your current actions are helping to achieve them, is important.
6. NO.2: You don’t have a vision. Setting goals is important but isn’t enough to drive you to the finish line; it’s important, too, to be able to imagine yourself as the achiever of your goals. How will you feel, what’s the payoff, why is it worthwhile to follow these goals and not some other ones? If goals are the end result of a journey, your vision is the fuel to get you there.
7. NO.3: You don’t have a plan. If goals are your destination and a vision is your fuel, your plan is the map to get you there; without a plan, you have no idea what immediate steps to take to achieve your goals. Planning means taking stock of the resources you have,the resources you need, and the steps you have to take to put those resources into action.
The world is full of people with goals they have never accomplished because they didn’t have a plan—don’t you be one of them.
8. NO.4: You’re too certain. Too much certainty creates inflexibility. If you’re sure that your plan is correct, and refuse to accept the possibility of error, you may well find yourself stuck when an unexpected change comes about, or when your plan takes you in an unexpected direction. However strong your plan and however sure you are of your goals, make room for periodic reassessment.
9. NO.5: You’re not certain enough. At the same time, too little certainty will paralyze you.
If you refuse to take a step because you aren’t positive it will move you towards success,you won’t make any better progress than if you had no goals at all. Keep your eyes open and be willing to change, but have faith in yourself, too.
10. NO.6: You don’t learn from your mistakes. A lot of people take their mistakes as signs of their unworthiness. They take setbacks as proof that they were never meant to achieve anything in the first place, and that they were stupid to even try. Mistakes are crucial to success—if we take the time to analyze them and learn from them. Even when they bar us irrevocably from attaining a goal, the lessons we learn from our mistakes help us to make new and better goals.
11. NO.7: You reject outside influences. A lot of people see the influence of others as a weakness, or worse, a restriction or even “pollution” of their innate creativity. This is, in a word, hogwash. We are first and foremost social beings, none of whom has ever accomplished anything without the help of others. Welcome and accept other perspectives on your strengths and weaknesses, your successes and failures. Accept help graciously when it’s offered. This doesn’t mean you should take every piece of advice offered you, but you should listen seriously and openly and weigh carefully the input of others. And learn from their mistakes, when you can.
12. NO.8: You worry about being copied. Often we close ourselves off from other people not because we’re afraid that they will influence us but that we will influence them, that our brilliant ideas will be taken up by someone else and no longer be solely ours. So we avoid sharing our passions, and spend our energy jealously guarding our “secret” rather than simply moving forward. In the end, we turn our passions into burdens that become difficult to carry instead of a joy.
13. NO.9: You use up your reserves. When I’ve found myself at my lowest points, it’s always been for lack of a reserve—whether of money, of time, or most crucially of energy. In part this was the fault of inadequate planning and over-certainty—I should have reassessed my situation more realistically before exhausting my resources—but whatever the cause, it’s a dangerous place to be. A mistake that could be easily recovered from under normal circumstances becomes overwhelming when you’re too broke or too exhausted to respond adequately. Keep track of where you are financially,materially, and emotionally before you find yourself too worn down to continue.
14. NO.10: You fear success. Forget fear of failure, it’s fear of success that kicks us the hardest. It’s the darnedest thing, too—the kind of thing that you don’t imagine possible,until one day you realize that you really don’t know what to do with yourself if you ever accomplish your goals. On the other side of success is the unknown, and believe it or not,the unknown is often scarier than the known world of struggle and failure this side of success. When I realized this, one night as I drifted unhappily to sleep, it jerked me straight up in my bed!
15. My father, an avid collector of seemingly random quotes, is fond of saying that insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results. (I’ve never had the heart to ask him why he keeps saying this….) At some point, you have to stop doing whatever you’re doing and figure out why you’re doing it, especially if it doesn’t seem to be getting you where you want to be. When you do, I think you’ll find that at least one of the above applies to you. Whatever your reasons, though, the important thing is to realize that it’s in your nature neither to be a failure, nor to be a success, that success is something we make rather than something that happens to us — and when you realize that, you can start to make the changes that move you from “insanity” to success.
1. 幾個月前，我讓你不要害怕失敗，告訴你要擁抱失敗——或者至少擁抱失敗的可能性——對成功來說，這是必要的。但是，當然了，我們最終的目標是要取得成功，而害怕失敗也不是阻止我們成功的唯一障礙。
2. 現在我來說說自己的經曆。大概六七年前，我是很成功的——我是全優畢業生，班裏的第一名，有一份自己喜歡的工作，有一段令人愉悅的愛情，就是一整個安琪拉達（意指很幸福）。然後，情況開始下滑。最初一切並不明顯，但我漸漸發現自己在學術上停滯不前，我的親密關係破裂，所有的事情都不由我掌控。就其本身而言，我並不是失敗，隻是在已擁有的成功上失去了掌控權。
3. 此後的幾年，我一直在反思自己生活的方方麵麵，試著找出哪裏出了問題，好讓自己能重新來過。從某種程度上來說，它很有效——我擁有一份自己喜歡的工作（雖然我得把它發展成為一個職業，而不僅僅是一份工作），我即將出版一本自己學術領域的書，已經寫了不少了，最重要的是我有了一份趨向穩定的感情。說到這，我得指出自己在那兩段時間中做錯的事，那使我失去了成功地位，我想我已經提到過了其中的一件了。
4. 如果你還沒有在你認為重要的領域中取得成功，那麽你至少符合下麵的一種情況：5. 第一：你沒有一個目標。很多時候，我們發現自己“轉動輪子”，終日和時間賽跑，卻沒有去到任何地方，這是因為我們不知道自己想去哪。有時候，我們已經在前進的道路上設立了自己的目標，但一旦我們改變了自己的方向，那些目標就不再重要了。有時候，我們隻是簡單地去做那些自認為渴望的事，卻沒有停下來考慮自己真正想要的是什麽。不論在哪種情況下，也不論你現在的行動對實現目標是否起作用，指出你的目標是很重要的。
6. 第二：你沒有一個遠景。設定目標是很重要，但這還不足以使你去達到它。設想你已經在目標上取得成功同樣重要。你的感覺怎麽樣？回報是什麽？為什麽值得跟隨這些目標而不是其它的？如果目標是一場旅行的最終結果，你的遠景就是讓你達到那的燃料。
7. 第三：你沒有一個計劃。如果目標是你的終點，遠景是你的燃料，你的計劃就是讓你到那的地圖。沒有計劃，你就不知道眼下要做什麽去達到你的目標。計劃意味著儲存你所擁有的和所需要的資源，以及那些把這些資源轉化為行動的步驟。這個世上有太多有目標卻從未實現的人，是因為他們不曾有一個計劃——別讓你自己成為他們中的一員。
8. 第四：你太固執。太多的肯定會造成僵化。如果你肯定你的計劃是正確的，並且拒絕接受錯誤的可能性，當預期以外的情況發生時，或當你的計劃把你帶到一個你不期望的方向時，你會發現自己陷入了困境。不論你的計劃多麽強，也不論你對自己的目標有多肯定，都要為重新考慮預留餘地。
9. 第五：你不夠肯定。同樣，太少肯定會讓你氣餒。如果你因為不確定是否能成功就拒絕向前邁一步，那你就不會比完全沒有目標更有進展。保持你的雙眼睜開，並且願意改變，但同時也要對自己有信心。
10. 第六：你沒有從錯誤中吸取教訓。許多人都認為錯誤是毫無價值的跡象。他們用挫折證明自己一開始就不打算取得成功，同時也證明他們愚蠢到要去嚐試。錯誤是成功的關鍵——如果我們花些時間去分析它們並從中學習的話。即便當錯誤不可避免地禁止我們達到目標，我們從錯誤中吸取的教訓也能幫助我們設定一個新的更好的目標。
11. 第七：你拒絕外部的影響。許多人把其他人的影響看作是一個弱點，一種錯誤，一種限製，甚至是一種對他們與生俱來的創造力的一種“汙染”。總之就是一派胡言。
我們首先是社會人，沒有一個人可以完全不要他人的幫助就能獲得成功。歡迎並接受他人對你優缺點和成功失敗的評述。優雅地接受他人的幫助。這並不代表你要接受所有的建議，但是你要認真而公開地傾聽，並仔細斟酌。可以的話，從他人的錯誤中學習。
12. 第八：你擔心被複製。經常，我們會讓自己和他人保持距離，並不是因為擔心他人會影響自己，而是擔心自己會影響他人。我們害怕自己出色的點子被他人占有，不再僅僅屬於我們。因此，我們避免分享自己的**，並且花精力謹慎地保守我們的“秘密”，而不是簡單地往前走。最後，我們把自己的**變成一種很難被歡樂所代替的負擔。
13. 第九，你耗盡了儲備。當我發現自己處在最低穀時，這總表示缺乏儲備——無論是金錢還是時間，或者是最關鍵的能源。在某種程度上來說，這是計劃不足和過度肯定的後果——在耗盡我的儲備以前，我要對現狀重新做一次更實際的評估——無論如何，這都是危險的情況。一個在正常情況下可以很容易被糾正的錯誤會在你精疲力盡不能對它作出適當反應的時候變得勢不可擋。在你覺得情況太壞而不能繼續以前，要在財務上、物質上和情感上保持跟蹤。
14. 第十：你害怕成功。忘記對失敗的恐懼之後，對成功的恐懼最使我們受傷。這也是件最可恨的事。你不太可能會想到這類事，直到有一天，你真正意識到，如果你達到了所有設立的目標，你將無事可做。成功的另一麵是未知，不管你相信與否，未知都比現實世界中的鬥爭和未達到成功更可怕。一天晚上，當我不開心地漸漸入睡時，一想到這些，我就猛地從**坐了起來！
15. 我的父親，喜歡收集一些看似隨機的格言。他喜歡說的一句話就是，瘋狂就是總是重複相同的事卻期望有不同的結果。（我從沒有用心問過他為什麽老是這麽說……）某個時候，你得停下任何你在做的事，想一想你為什麽要這樣做，特別是在你做的事並沒有讓你達到目標的時候。一旦你這樣做了，我想你將會找出至少一條上麵說的情況與你相符。不論你的理由是什麽，最重要的是你要明白，你的本質並不是要成為一個失敗者或成功者，成功是要爭取的，它不會自動發生在我們身上。一旦你意識到這些，你就能開始做出改變，這將會促使你從“愚蠢”走向成功。
Words ofWisdom for the Modern Age年輕一代現代生活單句睿語
1. IN This ARTICLE: Wisdom today means something different for the young, modem Western generation.
2. Wisdom of the ancients always served civilisation well. In the age of the TV sitcom,witty New York repartee and the instant one-liner, Western wisdom in the modern sense can mean something more like the dialogue from an American sitcom. Here’s sampling of the some of the wittier one-lines circulating through Western society circles these days:
3. I can only please one person per day. Today is not your day. Tomorrow is not looking good either.
4. I love deadlines. I especially like the whooshing sound they make as they go flying by.
5. Tell me what you need, and I’ll tell you how to get along without it.
6. Accept that some days you are the pigeon and some days the statue.
7. Needing someone is like needing a parachute. If they aren’t there the first time, chances are you won’t be needing them again.
8. On the keyboard of life, always keep one finger on the escape key.
9. You are slower than a herd of turtles stampeding through peanut butter.
10. Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, because you are crunchy and taste good with ketchup.
11. Everybody is somebody else’s weirdo.
12. Never argue with an idiot. They drag you down to their level and beat you with experience.
13. Don’t be irreplaceable—if you can’t be replaced, you can’t be promoted.
14. Eat one live frog the first thing in the morning and nothing worse will happen to you for the rest of the day.
15. Everything can be filed under miscellaneous.
16. You are always doing something marginal when the boss drops by your desk.
17. When confronted by a difficult problem you can solve it more easily by reducing it to the question “how would adventure star Indiana Jones handle this?”
18. I don’t have an attitude problem but you have a perception problem.
1. 本文簡介：對今天西方的年輕一代來說，智慧別有一番含義。
2. 古人的智慧對文明總是大有裨益。在電視情景喜劇、紐約式的機智問答和即興的單句俏皮話大行其道的時代，現代意義上的西方智慧更像是一出美國情景喜劇裏對白之類的東西。以下是近來在西方社會流傳的一些具有代表性的單句睿語：3. 我每天隻能取悅一個人。今天輪不到你。明天看上去也不太妙。
4. 我喜歡最後期限。我尤其喜歡它們飛馳而過時發出的嗖嗖聲。
5. 告訴我你需要什麽，然後我會告訴你沒有它怎麽過。
6. 接受這一事實——有時你是在雕像上隨意排泄的鴿子，有時你是那倒黴的雕像。
7. 需要某個人就像需要一頂降落傘。如果他們第一時間不在場，你就可能再也沒有需要他們的機會了。
8. 在生活的鍵盤上，始終要把一個手指按在“退出”鍵上。
9. 你比一群在花生醬中亂竄的海龜還要慢。
10. 不要插手凶龍惡獸的事，因為你是鬆脆的，而被塗上番茄醬後味道好極了。
11. 每個人在別人眼中都是怪物。
12. 千萬別和白癡爭論。他們會把你拉低到和他們同等的水平，再用經驗擊敗你。
13. 切勿成為不可替代的人——如果沒人能取代你，你便無法得到提升。
14. 如果早晨第一件事就是吃一隻活青蛙，那麽餘下的一天便不會有更糟的事發生了。
15. 每件東西都可歸入雜項。
16. 老板偶然來到你的辦公桌時，你總是在做一些無關緊要的事。
17. 碰到難題時，把它簡化成這樣一個問題——“驚險片明星印第安那·瓊斯會怎樣處理？”——你就能比較容易地解決它了。
18. 不是我的態度有問題，而是你的感覺有問題。
Weakness or Strength將弱項變為強項1. Sometimes our biggest weakness can become your biggest strength. Take, for example,the story t of one 10-year-old boy who decided to study judo despite the fact that he had lost his left arm in a devastating car accident.
2. The boy began lesson with an old Japanese judo master. The boy was dong well, so he couldn’t understand why, after three months of training, the master had taught him only one move.
3. “Mister,” the boy finally said, “shouldn’t I be learning more moves?”
4. “This is the only move you know, but this is the only move you’ll ever need to know,”
the master replied.
5. Not quite understanding, but believing in his teacher, the boy kept training.
6. Several months later, the master took the boy to his first tournament.
7. To his surprise, the boy easily won his first two matches. The third match proved to be more difficult, but after some time, his opponent became impatient and charged; the boy deftly used his one move to win the match. Still amazed by his success, the boy was now in the finals.
8. This time, his opponent was bigger, stronger, and more experienced. For a while, the boy appeared to be overmatched.
9. Concerned that the boy might get hurt, the referee called a time-out. He was about to stop the match when the master intervened.
10. “No,” his master insisted, “let him continue.”
11. Soon after the match resumed, his opponent made a critical mistake: he dropped his guard. Instantly, the boy used his move to pin him. The boy had won the match and the tournament. He was the champion.
12. On the way home, the boy and his master reviewed every move in each and every match.
Then the boy summoned the courage to ask what was really in his min.
13. “Mister, how did I win the tournament with only one move?”
14. “You won for two reasons,” the master answered. “First, you’ve almost mastered one of the most difficult throws in all of judo. Second, the only known defense for that move is for your opponent to grab your left arm.”
15. The boy’s biggest weakness had become his biggest strength.
1. 有的時候，你的弱項可以變成你的強項。
2. 給你講一個10 歲男孩的故事做例子。這個男孩在一次慘烈的車禍中失去了左臂，但他仍然決定學習柔道。
3. 男孩師從一位年長的日本柔道大師。孩子練得很好，但他不明白為什麽師傅在三個月的訓練中，始終隻讓他重複同一個動作。
4. “師傅，”男孩終於忍不住問道，“我是不是可以學點兒別的動作了？”
5. 師傅回答說：“這是你惟一知道的動作，但也是你惟一需要知道的動作。”
6. 男孩雖然不理解，但他非常信任自己的師傅，於是繼續練著。
7. 幾個月後，師傅帶這個男孩子去參加他的第一次比賽。
8. 令這個男孩不可思議的是，他輕易贏了頭兩場比賽。第三場比賽似乎更難，但他的對手在比賽中開始失去耐心，向他衝過來，而這個孩子立即用他學過的惟一一招擊敗了對手。就這樣稀裏糊塗地，他進入了決賽。
9. 這一次，他的對手更壯、更強，也更有經驗。有那麽一陣，男孩似乎低檔不住了。
考慮到男孩可能會受傷，裁判叫了暫停。他正準備停止比賽的時候，男孩的師傅阻止了他。
10. “不能停，”他說，“讓他繼續比。”
11. 比賽繼續進行之後不久，男孩的對手就犯了一個致命的錯誤：防漏（柔道術語）。
男孩迅速用他那惟一的一招絆倒了對手，贏了這場比賽，並最終取得了冠軍。
12. 回家的路上，當男孩和他師傅重溫著每一場比賽裏的每一個動作時，他鼓起勇氣道出了心中的困惑。
13. “師傅，我怎麽會用一個動作就贏得了所有的比賽呢？”
14. “你獲勝有兩個原因，”師傅回答道：“第一，你已經基本掌握了柔道當中最難學的一個動作。第二，要對付這個動作，你的對手惟一可以做的就是去抓你的左臂。”
15. 就這樣，男孩的最大弱點變成了他的最強項。