Choose Optimism（演讲稿删改版）

Choose Optimism 选择乐观

Hello，everybody.Have you ever had experiences like this? When you expect something to turn out bad, it probably will. But when you expect good things to happen, they usually do!

Amazing! Right? There seems to be a natural cause-and-effect relationship between optimism and success.

大家好。你们是否有过这样的经验?

假如你预料某事结局不妙，结果可能真会如此。悲假如你觉得会有好事发生，通常就会交上好运！

是不是很神奇呢？乐观与成功之间似乎有一种天然的因果关系。 Optimism and pessimism are with powerful forces, and each of us must choose which we want, so as to shape our outlook and our expectations. There is enough good and bad stuff in everyone's life to find a rational basis for either optimism or pessimism. We can choose to laugh or cry, bless or curse. It's our decision: From which perspective do we want to view life? Will we look up in hope or down in despair?

乐观和悲观都具有强大的力量，我们每个人必须选择其一，来塑造自己的前途和理想。每个人的生命中都有足够的幸运与不幸令我们找到或乐观或悲观的理由。我们可以选择哭或是笑、祝福或是诅咒。这完全

取决于我们自己：用什么样的眼光去看待生活？是积极向上，还是垂头丧气？

I believe in the upward look. I choose to highlight the positive and slip right over the negative. I am an optimist by choice as much as by nature. Sure, I know that sorrow exists. I've lived through more than one crisis. But when all is done, I find that the good in life is far greater and more important than the bad.

我信守积极向上的态度。对积极的东西我浓墨重彩，对消极的东西则一笔带过。我是乐天派，既是天生如此，也因后天选择所致。诚然，我知道生命中会有伤痛。我已经经历过不止一次的危机。但是，当一切尘埃落定，我发现生命中的美好远比丑恶多。

Some may say:“It’s easier said than done.”Is it? No! An optimistic attitude is not a luxury; it's a necessity. The way you look at life will determine how you feel, how you perform, and how well you will get along with other people. Conversely, negative thoughts, attitudes, and expectations feed on themselves; they become a

self-fulfilling prophecy. Pessimism creates a sad and hopeless place where no one wants to live in.

或许有人说，说得容易做起来难。是这样吗？不！乐观的态度不是奢侈品，它是我们生活的必需品。你看待生活的方式将决定你的感受、

你的表现，以及你与他人相处得怎样。反过来，悲观的想法、态度和期待也会自成因果：它们是能自我实现的预言。悲观会制造出无人愿往的黑暗之地。

The only thing more powerful than negativism is a positiveaffirmation. One of the things I am mostthankful for is the fact that I have grown up in a nation with a grandtradition of optimism. When a whole culture adopts an upward look,incredible things can be accomplished. When the world is seen as ahopeful, positive place, people are given the power to attempt and to achieve.

唯一比否定态度更有力量的是积极的肯定。最让我心存感激的一件事情，就是我生长的这个国度有着伟大的乐观主义传统。如果一种文化从整体上采取积极向上的态度，不可思议的事情也能变成现实。人们若把世界看作光明与希望之地，他们将被赋予努力进取和成就功业的力量。

Optimism draws our attention away from negativism andchannels it into positive, constructive thinking. When you're anoptimist, you're more concerned with problem-solving than withuseless fault-finding. In fact, without optimism, issues as big as Chinese Dream have no hope of achieving. It takes dreamers with optimistic ideas, great persistence, andunlimited confidenceto tackle a problem that big. It's your choice.It’s our choice.

Thanks！

乐观精神使我们的注意力从消极的否定态度转向积极的、建设性的思考。乐观主义者更关心如何解决问题，而不是毫无意义地怨天尤人。事实上，如果没有乐观精神，像中国梦这样的伟大事业是无望达成的。解决这样的问题需要一个拥有九死不悔的乐观、矢志不移的坚韧和无限信心的梦想家们。何去何从，由你们决定,由我们决定。

感谢倾听。

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