晨读英语美文100篇 Passage 61 It’s Never Too Late to Change
日期:2009-05-23
[00:00.34]Passage 61 It’s Never Too Late to Change
[00:06.47]Age is no criterion when it comes to changing your life.
[00:10.84]In fact, it might be just the opposite.
[00:14.56]The older we get, the more we must change.
[00:18.39]Change is what keeps us fresh and innovative.
[00:22.33]Change is what keeps us from getting stale and stuck in a rut.
[00:27.47]Change is what keeps us young.
[00:30.65]This is not easy.
[00:32.50]When we are young it's easy to change and experiment with different things.
[00:37.76]The older we get the more set in our ways we become.
[00:41.91]We've found out what our comfort level is, and we all want to stay in it.
[00:47.27]We don't want to be risk takers anymore, because risk frightens us,
[00:53.18]and simply not changing seems so easy.
[00:56.69]We must fight through this.
[00:59.20]We must look fear straight in the eye and take it on.
[01:03.25]We must tell ourselves that we have too much talent, too much wisdom,
[01:09.71]too much value not to change.
[01:13.10]I believe that Jim, who is on my staff,
[01:16.92]is one of the best assistant coaches in the country.
[01:20.64]But I almost didn't hire him three years ago
[01:24.59]because I thought that psychologically he was too "old,"
[01:28.96]that he had lost the drive and passion that an assistant coach needs.
[01:34.75]Three years ago he was forty, and I thought
[01:38.59]he might have spent too many Saturday afternoons at the country club,
[01:42.75]that he wasn't going to get in the trenches anymore,
[01:46.02]like the younger assistant coaches do.
[01:48.77]But Jim told me that he couldn't wait to get down in the trenches again.
[01:53.58]So I hired him, and he's been an integral part of our success.
[01:59.37]There is a conventional wisdom in coaching that once you've been a head coach
[02:05.39]you can't enthusiastically go back to being an assistant again
[02:10.21]and still have the same passion as before.
[02:12.61]Jim didn't buy into that.
[02:15.57]He didn't let his "old age" get in his way.
[02:19.51]He was ready when opportunity came calling.
[02:23.22]He reestablished a work ethic second to none with the eagerness of a person right out of college.
[02:30.67]And I'm thankful for what he did,
[02:32.64]because he played such an essential role in our championship season.
[02:36.90]This is what we all must do.
[02:39.64]We must realize that it's never too late to begin making changes
[02:45.00]that can transform our life.
[00:06.47]Age is no criterion when it comes to changing your life.
[00:10.84]In fact, it might be just the opposite.
[00:14.56]The older we get, the more we must change.
[00:18.39]Change is what keeps us fresh and innovative.
[00:22.33]Change is what keeps us from getting stale and stuck in a rut.
[00:27.47]Change is what keeps us young.
[00:30.65]This is not easy.
[00:32.50]When we are young it's easy to change and experiment with different things.
[00:37.76]The older we get the more set in our ways we become.
[00:41.91]We've found out what our comfort level is, and we all want to stay in it.
[00:47.27]We don't want to be risk takers anymore, because risk frightens us,
[00:53.18]and simply not changing seems so easy.
[00:56.69]We must fight through this.
[00:59.20]We must look fear straight in the eye and take it on.
[01:03.25]We must tell ourselves that we have too much talent, too much wisdom,
[01:09.71]too much value not to change.
[01:13.10]I believe that Jim, who is on my staff,
[01:16.92]is one of the best assistant coaches in the country.
[01:20.64]But I almost didn't hire him three years ago
[01:24.59]because I thought that psychologically he was too "old,"
[01:28.96]that he had lost the drive and passion that an assistant coach needs.
[01:34.75]Three years ago he was forty, and I thought
[01:38.59]he might have spent too many Saturday afternoons at the country club,
[01:42.75]that he wasn't going to get in the trenches anymore,
[01:46.02]like the younger assistant coaches do.
[01:48.77]But Jim told me that he couldn't wait to get down in the trenches again.
[01:53.58]So I hired him, and he's been an integral part of our success.
[01:59.37]There is a conventional wisdom in coaching that once you've been a head coach
[02:05.39]you can't enthusiastically go back to being an assistant again
[02:10.21]and still have the same passion as before.
[02:12.61]Jim didn't buy into that.
[02:15.57]He didn't let his "old age" get in his way.
[02:19.51]He was ready when opportunity came calling.
[02:23.22]He reestablished a work ethic second to none with the eagerness of a person right out of college.
[02:30.67]And I'm thankful for what he did,
[02:32.64]because he played such an essential role in our championship season.
[02:36.90]This is what we all must do.
[02:39.64]We must realize that it's never too late to begin making changes
[02:45.00]that can transform our life.