The Best Advice for Young People

Author: Arthur Gordon (USA), translated by Zhang Shaohan
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Publish Date: 2005-01-01
Features: A friend looked at me seriously and then wrote down ten large characters on a piece of paper. It was a very simple sentence, but it was the best piece of advice I had ever received: "Be bold, and great strength will help you." It made me realize clearly: most of the things I had done in the past didn’t succeed not because I didn’t try my best, but often because the fear of failure hindered my efforts. Fear is the most demoralizing emotion, it makes people lose their will and determination. Therefore, whenever I find myself in a difficult situation, I always strive to do my best to break free from a passive position and change the outcome of the entire matter. "Be bold" doesn’t mean being reckless or acting recklessly. Boldness means making careful decisions and constantly setting higher goals for what you can achieve. Remind yourself: in this competitive era, you not only can succeed but must become a successful person, otherwise, you are an eternal failure. We cannot race against time because we will never catch up with it, but we can definitely take one step faster than our original pace. Even if this is just a very small step, its significance is very great. If we want to change the world we see, the first thing we need to do is change ourselves.