"Peter, I'd like you to stay for a minute after class." Calvin teaches my favorite body conditioning class at the gym.
“彼得，下课后你留一下。”卡尔文是健身房的一位老师，教的是我最喜欢的体能训练课程。
"What'd I do?" I asked him.
“要我做什么？”我问他。
"It's what you didn't do."
“是件你没有做的事。”
"What didn't I do?"
“我没有做什么呢？”
"Fail."
“你没有失败过。”
"You kept me after class for not failing?"
“因为我全都做成了，您就把我留下来？”
"This, " he began to mimic my casual weight lifting style, using weights that were obviously too light, "is not going to get you anywhere. A muscle only grows if you work it till it fails. You need to use more challenging weights. You need to fail."
他开始模仿我悠闲的举重方式，使用的重量显然太轻了。“这样做的话你不会有任何提高的。只有当你不断地锻炼你的肌肉直到它举不动的时候，它才会增长。所以你需要尝试更有挑战性的重量。你需要失败。”
Calvin's onto something.
卡尔文对这事非常熟悉。
Every time I ask a room of executives to list the top five moments their career took a leap forward — not just a step, but a leap — failure is always on the list. For some it was the loss of a job. For others it was a project gone bad. And for others still it was the failure of a larger system, like an economic downturn, that required them to step up.
每次我让一屋子的高管列出他们职业生涯中取得巨大进步——不是一小步，而是一个飞跃——的前五大瞬间，往往失败被列其中。对于有的人来说，是工作丢了的时候。对于其他人来说，是项目黄了的时候。对于另外些人来说，是在一个更大的体系下（如经济低迷）的失败要求他们必须向前进的时候。
Yet most of us spend a tremendous effort trying to avoid even the possibility of failure.
然而我们大多数人却在费着九牛二虎之力试图避免失败。
According to Dr. Carol Dweck, professor at Stanford University, we have a mindset problem. Dweck has done a tremendous amount of research to understand what makes someone give up in the face of adversity versus strive to overcome it.
根据斯坦福大学教授卡罗·德韦克博士所说的，我们的心态存在问题。为了了解人们在面对逆境的时候，到底是什么让他选择了放弃或是坚持，德韦克博士已经做了大量的研究。
It turns out the answer is deceptively simple. It's all in your head.
其答案简单得让人难以置信。结果就是完全取决于你自己的想法。
If you believe that your talents are inborn or fixed, then you will try to avoid failure at all costs because failure is proof of your limitation. People with a fixed mindset like to solve the same problems over and over again. It reinforces their sense of competence.
如果你相信你的天赋是天生的或是固定的，那么你会不惜一切代价去尽量避免失败，因为失败证明了你能力有限。拥有固定心态的人喜欢一遍又一遍地解决相同的问题，这加强了他们的成就感。
Children with fixed mindsets would rather redo an easy jigsaw puzzle than try a harder one. Students with fixed mindsets would rather not learn new languages. CEOs with fixed mindsets will surround themselves with people who agree with them. They feel smart when they get it right.
心态固定的孩子宁愿重做一个简单的拼图而不愿尝试一个更难的拼图。心态固定的学生不愿学习新的语言。心态固定的总裁周围都是与他们观点一致的人。当他们得到认同的时候，他们觉得自己很聪明。
But if you believe your talent grows with persistence and effort, then you seek failure as an opportunity to improve. People with a growth mindset feel smart when they're learning, not when they're flawless.
但是如果你相信你的天赋随着你的毅力和努力而增长，那么你会把失败看作是提高自我的机遇而去寻求失败。拥有成长心态的人们不是觉得自己完美无缺而是觉得自己在学习中的时候，才会感到自己很有智慧。
Michael Jordan, arguably the world's best basketball player, has a growth mindset. Most successful people do. In high school he was cut from the basketball team but that obviously didn't discourage him: "I've missed more than 9, 000 shots in my career, I've lost almost 300 games. Twenty-six times I've been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed."
迈克尔·乔丹可以说是世界上最好的篮球运动员。他拥有成长的心态。大多数成功人士也都如此。在高中的时候，他没有被学校篮球队选上，但是这显然没有使他灰心丧气。“在我的职业生涯中，我有9000多个球没有投进，输的比赛大概有300场。一共有26次我被信任为会投进制胜的一球，然而我却错过了。我的一生中失败了一次又一次，一次再一次。而这就是我为什么会成功的原因。”
If you have a growth mindset, then you use your failures to improve. If you have a fixed mindset, you may never fail, but neither do you learn or grow.
如果你拥有一个成长心态，那么利用你的失败来提高自己吧。如果你的心态一成不变，你可能不会失败，但是你也不会有所收获、有所成长。
In business, we have to be discriminating about when we choose to challenge ourselves. In high risk, high leverage situations, it's better to stay within your current capability. In lower risk situations, where the consequences of failure are less, better to push the envelope. The important point is to know that pushing the envelope, that failing, is how you learn and grow and succeed. It's your opportunity.
在商业上，对于何时我们要选择挑战自己，我们必须有辨别力。在高风险、高杠杆比率的情况下，最好保持你的现状。在低风险的情况下，失败的后果较少，你就可以挑战极限。关键是挑战极限、尝试失败让你知道如何去学习、成长并获得成功。这是你的机遇。
Here's the good news: you can change your success by changing your mindset. When Dweck trained children to view themselves as capable of growing their intelligence, they worked harder, more persistently, and with greater success on math problems they had previously abandoned as unsolvable.
好消息是：你可以通过改变心态来改变成功。德韦克博士训练一些小孩，让他们认为自己有能力提高他们的智力，于是他们更加勤奋努力了，更加坚持不懈了，他们在数学上取得了更大的成功，解决了之前被认为是无法解决而放弃的数学问题。
A growth mindset is the secret to maximizing potential. Want to grow your staff? Give them tasks above their ability. They don't think they could do it? Tell them you expect them to work at it for a while, struggle with it. That it will take more time than the tasks they're used to doing. That you expect they'll make some mistakes along the way. But you know they could do it.
成长心态是使潜力最大化的秘诀。想要让你的员工有所成长吗？给他们力所不及的任务吧。他们认为他们不会做？那么告诉他们：你希望他们在这项任务上努力一段时间，与其进行斗争；这花的时间会比他们做习惯了的事所用的时间长；你也预料到他们会在这过程中犯一些错误；但是你知道他们一定可以做好。
Want to increase your own performance? Set high goals where you have a 50-70% chance of success. According to Psychologist and Harvard researcher the late David McClelland, that's the sweet spot for high achievers. Then, when you fail half the time, figure out what you should do differently and try again. That's practice. And according to recent studies, 10, 000 hours of that kind of practice will make you an expert in anything. No matter where you start.
想要让你表现得更好吗？那么把你的目标制定得高远一些吧，让你只有50%-70%的成功可能性。根据心理学家、哈佛研究院大卫·麦克勒兰德，这是对于高成就者的最有效点。然后，当你一半的时间是失败的时候，想出哪些地方你应该做的不同一点，并再次尝试一回。这就是练习。根据最近研究表明，10000小时这样的练习会使你成为任何事情的专家。不管你的起点在哪里。
The next class I did with Calvin, I doubled the weight I was using. Yeah, that's right. Unfortunately, that gave me tendonitis in my elbow, which I'm nursing with rest and ice. Sometimes you can even fail when you're trying to fail.
接下来与卡尔文一起上的课上，我使用了两倍之前的重量。是啊，这对极了！不幸的是，这给我造成了肘部肌腱炎，我现在还在用冰块敷着，在休息调理中呢。有时候就算你想尝试失败，你也不见得会成功，你还是会失败。
Hey, I'm learning.
嘿，我正在学习哦！
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