INTRODUCTION
The Age of Perpetual Learning
序言
终身学习时代
FOR MANY OF US, living as we do in this fast-paced high-tech era, life is like trying to change a tire on a car while the car is still moving. It is a bizarre image, like something from a recurring dream—you can’t possibly do what is expected, but you know your life depends on it. This is no dream. This is twenty-first-century reality. The only constant is change. Our only hope is perpetual learning.
生活在快节奏的高科技时代，对我们很多人来说，生活像尝试给极速行驶的车换轮胎。很怪诞，就像一场不断再现的梦，你可能无法做你期待的事情，但你知道你的生活取决于它。 这不是梦，这是21世纪的现实。唯一不变的是变化。我们唯一的希望就是要终身学习。
Everyone today is either trying to get ahead, catch up, or keep from falling behind. Many people are trying to learn something just to survive—but learning is not fundamentally about survival, even though it often helps us to get through tough situations. Learning is the key to flourishing and prospering in this new era. Learning awakens our sensibilities, enables us to actualize our aspirations, and takes us places we never dreamed of going.
今天的每个人要么都在努力赶超，要么就不落后。许多人为了生存而努力学习一些东西-但学习并不是从根本上讲生存，尽管它常常帮助我们度过艰难的处境。学习是这个新时代兴旺发达的关键。学习唤醒了我们的情感，使我们能够实现我们的愿望，并将我们带到我们从未梦想过的地方。
This book is for people who would like to improve the way they manage their learning. The key to doing that is learning more about learning so that you can get the most out of any learning you undertake. The goal is to become proficient at the process of learning itself.
这本书是为那些想要改善他们的学习管理方式的人而写的。做到这一点的关键是学习更多的知识，这样你就能从你所从事的任何学习中得到最大的收获。目标是精通学习过程本身。
Managing Your Own Learning is a book for a broad audience of learners:
“管理你自己的学习”是一本面向广大学习者的书：
• Workforce learners who have opportunities to participate in training and development programs in business, government, or not-for-profit organizations
有机会参加商业、政府或非营利性组织的培训和发展项目的劳动力学习者；
• Formal learners enrolled in graduate or professional degree programs in colleges and universities or in continuing education programs
在大学或大学的研究生或专业学位课程或继续教育课程中注册的正规学习者；
• Part-time learners in certificate or occupational programs in community colleges, proprietary trade schools, or the armed services
社区学院、自营职业学校的证书或职业课程的兼职学员，或者是武装部队
• Independent learners who are moving ahead on their own to learn what they want or need to know
·独立的学习者，他们正在自主学习他们想要或需要知道的东西。
• Emerging learners who may not even think of themselves as learners at this moment, but who have tremendous potential for learning
新兴的学习者，他们可能在此刻甚至不认为自己是学习者，但他们有巨大的学习潜力。
• Awakening learners who thought they had learned all they needed to know until they got that middle-of-the-night wakeup call
觉醒者，那些认为自己已经学到了所有需要知道的东西的学习者，直到他们得到半夜的觉醒呼唤·
• Recovering learners who are trying to get beyond their previous bad experiences with learning so they can prosper in the new era.
自我提升学习者，他们正试图摆脱以前的不良学习经验，这样他们才能在新时代与时俱进。
Not Just a New Millennium
The year 2000! We knew Y2K was coming. We read about it, heard about it, and got sick of hearing about it. Then it came. Is anything different? A lot of things are different, but they started being different long before the year 2000.
The cultural artifacts of a new era are now familiar and everywhere present: computers, lasers, robots, scanners, jet planes, bullet trains, color xerography, digital cameras, the Net, the Web. We are surrounded by high-order-of-magnitude change. Technological innovation drives much of the change, but we also experience other kinds of change: new organizational structures and management techniques, new means of production and service delivery, and a new global economy and communications network.
不只是一个新的千年-
2000年！我们知道千年虫要来了。我们读到了它，听说了它，并且厌倦了听到它。然后它就来了。有什么不同吗？很多事情是不同的，但它们在2000年之前就开始不同了。一个新时代的文化产物现在已经为人们所熟知，随处可见：计算机、激光、机器人、扫描仪、喷气式飞机、子弹列车、彩色照相、数码相机、网络。我们被高度数量级的变化所包围。技术创新推动了大部分变革，但我们也经历了其他类型的变革：新的组织结构和管理技术、新的生产和服务提供手段以及新的全球经济和通信网络。
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I'm going to translate this book from now on.
good luck to myself.
your concerns will encourage me to move on.
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