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好的工作，好收入，好名声？我们的导师David K.的身边围绕了大家眼中的“成功人士"。但是这些人真的觉得自己成功么？你的激情所在才是最重要的！PS 国王君对成功的定义就是吃很多也不胖，年纪大还很美，然后每天跟神经病似的开开心心！

David K.

佛吉尼亚理工学院（本科）/佛吉尼亚理工Carillon医学院

简介

David将于2014年秋季开始他在佛吉尼亚理工医学院的学医生涯。他在年幼运动时就已经展现出竞争天性，而后充分将其竞争性发挥在学业和专业追求中。在佛吉尼亚理工学习生物学和西班牙语时，他决定独立为哥斯达黎加的一所乡村医院服务。David利用暑期两个月时间学习全球医学，并且熟练掌握西班牙语。出色完成本科学习和研究之后，他就职于华盛顿特区郊区的一所急诊室，辅助内科医生。他业余时间喜欢辅导学生，辅导专业包括但不仅限于西班牙语、数学、标准化考试技巧、阅读&写作等等。

Success

成功

Written by David Kruchko

The word success can create a tremendous amount of anxiety for ambitious students. Your parents talk about how successful their son or daughter has been thus far in his or her academic career. You receive a grade on an important test and that grade determines how successful you are in that particular subject. If you have a lot of friends and a boyfriend/girlfriend, you are considered to be socially successful. One day, after college/graduate school, you will be asked, “What do you do?” How you answer this question will provide the person who asked with an idea of how successful you are. After all, success is defined by having a well-respected career and being paid handsomely, right?

“成功”这个词，能给雄心勃勃的学生造成巨大的焦虑。你的父母会谈论他们的儿子或女儿迄今为止在他们的学业中如何的成功。你得到一个重要考试的成绩，这个成绩决定了你在这个特别的学科上的成就。如果你有许多的朋友和男朋友或者女朋友，你会被认为在社交上很成功。有一天，在你大学或者研究生毕业的时候，你会被问及：“你是做什么的？” 你怎么回答这个问题可以让提问的人了解你是不是一个成功的人，毕竟，成功通常被定义为拥有一份受人尊敬的职业，并有丰厚的收入，对么？

In life, the word success seems to suffocate us. You should not let it. The word that should most motivate you is passion. Passion will be the driving force when you are up late in the library studying Advanced Astrophysics. Passion will be the force that will allow you to continue trying to understand a subject after 10 failed attempts. Trust me, everyone has and everyone will fail to understand a difficult concept at some point. The brain is designed to fail every so often. The student who understands that failure is critical for learning will thrive and find a way to understand a difficult concept. Such perseverance will be difficult to have if the student simply has a desire to be successful. If the student is truly passionate about the topic, he or she will develop the resilience to learn the concept.

在生活中，成功这个词似乎能使我们窒息。你不应该让他这么做。能激励的这个词，应该是“激情”。激情应该是你在图书馆熬夜学习高级天体物理学的驱动力。激情能推动你在10次失败的尝试后仍然不断努力去理解一门学科。相信我，所有的人都曾经或将会在某一时间无法理解一个难懂的概念。大脑的结构决定了我们时不时会失败。能够理解失败是学习的很重要的部分的同学能够成长，并找到理解这个概念的方法。如果仅仅是为了追求成功，那么这非常难得到这样的毅力。如果这个学生是真的对个话题非常地感兴趣，他们就会产生学习这个概念的耐力。

My passion is medicine. That passion is what allowed me to spend 25+ hours/week studying and memorizing dozens of biochemical pathways. I am passionate about the functioning of the human body. I am passionate about using this knowledge to treat patients appropriately so that they overcome their specific ailment. If I was simply searching for a career that would deem me successful, I would be unhappy with my career choice. Furthermore, I would certainly be unhappy that I have to undertake massive debt for the next four years in order to pursue a career in medicine.

我的激情所在就是医学。这个激情能让我每周花至少25小时以上学习和背诵大量的生物化学途径。我热衷于了解人体的运动。我热衷于用这些

知识来适当地治疗病人，使他们战胜他们的疾病。如果我只是为了寻找那些被看作是成功的职业生涯，那么我会因为我的职业选择而感到不高兴。此外，我一定不会开心为了要从医，我在未来的4年要承担的巨额助学贷款。（美国的一学生都身负重债！）

I knew too many students in my pre-medical program that simply wanted to be successful and have the public notoriety of being a physician. A large majority of these students either dropped out of the program or are unhappy as medical students/working as physicians. I also work with physicians who either never had or have lost the passion for medicine and have admitted that they chose the career because of the public notoriety. These people are unhappy, despite being successful. These physicians are not among the best physicians with whom I have worked, and are ironically unsuccessful based on their own definition of success.

我知道在我的医学预科项目有太多的学生只是想获得成功和拥有一个“医生”的名声。但是很大部分的这些学生不是辍学了就是不喜欢当医学生或者做医学相关的工作。我也曾经很多这样的人共事，他们不是已经对医学失去了兴趣的医生，就是承认自己因为医学的名声才选了这个职业。这些人通常都很不开心，尽管他们很成功。这些医生并不是我所碰到过的最好的一声，讽刺的是，根据他们自己对成功的定义，他们属于自己定义中不成功的人群。

Although I do not like the word success, I want to be clear that success and passion are not mutually exclusive. In other words, if you follow your passion, you can still have a well-respected career and be paid handsomely. If you want to call that successful, then that is your decision. I just believe the word success is too superficial. Success does not incorporate the necessary passion that one needs to attain a particular goal. Moreover, pursuing a passion that does not traditionally lead to a lucrative job does not mean that you will not be paid well or receive public notoriety. It just means that you have to apply your passion and be creative to attain those two things.

虽然我不喜欢成功这个词，但是我想明确的成功和激情并不是相互排斥的。换句话说，如果追求自己的激情所在，你仍然可以拥有一个受人尊敬的职业，并获得可观的薪酬。如果这是你对成功的定义，那么这就是你的决定。我只认为这个词的成功是太肤浅了。成功并不包含你需要达到某个目标的激情。并且，追求你的激情所在，这个激情不一定是传统意义上能让你赚大钱的工作，但是这并不意味着你一定不会拥有优厚的薪酬或成名。它只是意味着你必须用你的激情去创造这两样东西。

Don’t simply be successful. Be passionate and let all else follow.

不要为了成功而去追求。只要你有了激情，让其它的一切随之而来。

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