It’s probably no surprise that most people who have attained some sort of success experience failure at some point in their lives. It’s a painful but often necessary path to growth, and if you take its lessons and pointers seriously, you might just find that it allows you to operate at a level that you didn’t think was possible.
大多数获得某种成功的人在人生的某个阶段都会经历失败这并不奇怪。这是一条痛苦但往往是必要的成长之路，如果你认真对待它的教训和指示，你可能会发现，它让你在你认为不可能的水平上运作。
Of course, it’s up to you to act on those lessons, but you don’t need to look too far to see the possible payoffs. As Michael Grothaus previously reported for Fast Company, many businesses we know today wouldn’t have existed if it wasn’t for failure. We wouldn’t have KFC had Colonel Sanders stopped trying after failing 1,000 times to perfect his fried chicken recipe. The Disney Company might not have existed if Walt Disney hadn’t been fired from a newspaper in Missouri “for not being creative enough.”The iPhone might not have existed if Steve Jobs wasn’t forced out of Apple in 1985.
当然，你可以根据这些经验教训采取行动，但你不需要看得太远就能看到可能的回报。正如Michael Grothaus之前为Fast Company所报道的那样，如果没有失败，我们今天所知的许多企业都不会存在。如果桑德斯上校在1000次失败后停止尝试完善他的炸鸡配方，我们就不会有肯德基。如果沃尔特·迪斯尼没有因为“不够有创意”而被密苏里州的一家报纸解雇，这家迪斯尼公司可能就不会存在。如果不是1985年史蒂夫·乔布斯(Steve Jobs)被迫离开苹果，iPhone可能就不存在了。
But bouncing back from failure isn’t always a tidy process. You often need to allow yourself to process the unpleasant feelings that come with failure, before you can rationally assess what you can do better next time, or as Berger told us,“Figure out how to turn the no’s into a yes.”
但从失败中恢复并不总是一个整齐的过程。你经常需要让自己去处理失败带来的不愉快的感觉，然后才能理性地评估下一次你能做得更好，或者就像伯杰告诉我们的那样，“弄清楚如何把‘不’变成‘是’。”
Here are some ways you can learn to train your brain to be resilient to failure.
这里有一些方法，你可以学习训练你的大脑对失败的恢复能力。
1. Write out your feelings and thoughts. While you’re processing your emotions, it can be helpful to write it down. This way, you’ll learn to identify what triggers those things and experiment with ways to manage them when they do come up. Being resilient to failure isn’t necessarily about not letting it affect you, but figuring out coping strategies so you can bounce back from it effectively.
1.写下你的感受和想法。当你处理你的情绪时，把它写下来是有帮助的。通过这种方式，你将学会识别是什么触发了这些事情，并尝试在它们出现时管理它们的方法。对失败保持弹性并不一定意味着不让它影响你，而是找出应对策略，让你能有效地从失败中恢复过来。
2. Challenge yourself on a daily basis. Training yourself to be resilient to failure is very similar to training yourself to be comfortable with discomfort. One of the best ways to do this is to look for small challenges you can take on so that the stakes for failures are low. The more you do this, the more you’ll be able to see failure as just another process to go through in life. In turn, you’ll be more resilient.
2.每天挑战自己。训练自己对失败的适应能力与训练自己对不舒服的适应能力非常相似。最好的方法之一就是寻找你能承担的小挑战，这样失败的风险就会降低。你做的越多，你就越能把失败看作是人生中要经历的另一个过程。反过来，你会更有弹性。
3.Build a community. When things are going wrong, it’s easy to feel alone and think that no one else is going through what you’re going through. But this is far from the truth. Chances are, there’s someone going through exactly what you went through, and came out of it on the other side. Talking to those people can help you put things in perspective.
3.建立一个社区。当事情出错时，你很容易感到孤独，认为没有人会经历你正在经历的事情。但事实远非如此。很有可能，有人经历了和你一样的事情，然后又从另一边走了出来。和这些人交谈可以帮助你正确看待事情。
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pointer n.指针；指示器；教鞭；暗示
payoff adj.支付的；决定性的；产生结果的 n.报酬；结果；发工资；结算
recipe n.食谱；[临床] 处方；秘诀；烹饪法
rationally adv.理性地；讲道理地
resilient adj.弹回的，有弹力的；能复原的；可迅速恢复的
triggers n. [电子] 触发器；触发物（trigger的复数） v.引起（trigger的单三形式）；引爆
stake n.桩，棍子；赌注；火刑；奖金 vt.资助，支持；系…于桩上；把…押下打赌 vi.打赌
perspective n.观点；远景；透视图 adj.透视的
bounce back from 从……反弹回
cope strategies 应对策略
daily basis 每天
But this is far from the truth 但事实远非如此
chances are 有可能
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