A life without a goal, doomed to failure.
没目的的生活，注定失败。
In the 1950s, a female swimming athlete set a goal for herself.
二十世纪五十年代，一位女游泳运动员给自己定了一个目的。
She decided to swim across the English Channel before she retired.
她要在退役之前横渡英吉利海峡。
If she could make it, she would be the first person in the world who did it.
假如她成功做到的话，那她将是世界上的第一人。
On that day, she jumped into the sea without any hesitation and swam towards the oppostie bank.
到了那一天，她毅然决然地跳进了大海，向海峡对然游去。
In the journey, she faced heavy fog, heavy rain and heavy waves. Though she was tired, she still carried on swimming.
在途中，她遇上了大雾，遇上了大雨，还遇上了汹涌的大浪，虽然非常累，但她依旧坚持向前游。
But in the end, she gave up.
然而，最后，她还是舍弃了。
And what she didn't know at the moment she gave up was that the opposite bank was only 1 mile away.
而在她舍弃的时候，她所不了解的是：她离对岸只有一英里了。
Later people had asked her about the reason. And she said: "The reason why I gave up is that I could not see the destination which I was so closed to reach."
事后有人问她舍弃是什么原因，她说：" 我之所以舍弃，是由于我看不到马上到达的目的。"
Too many success stories have been lecturing us about courage and persistence. But they never told us where to find courage and persistence.
有太多成功的故事都在强调勇气和坚持，然而，它们却从不对你说勇气和坚持从哪儿来。
You can only have courage when you know where your goal is. You can only manage to persist when you know where your goal is.
只有当你了解目的在哪的时候，你才能真的有勇气，才能真的做到坚持。
And that's because only when you know where your goal is can you prepare yourself well mentally.
由于只有当你了解目的在哪的时候你才能做好心理筹备。
Courage and persistence never fall from the sky.
坚持和勇气一直都不是天上掉下来的美好品质。
They come from weighing between input and output.
它们来自你对投入和产出的权衡。
A life without goals is like a ship without a compass. It goes nowhere.
没目的的生活，就像没罗盘的船，哪也去不了。
There is no courage or persistence in a life without goals.
在一个没目的的生活里，根本没所谓的勇气与坚持。
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