摘要
就算身无长物,是芸芸众生之一员,也不意味着失败就是你的莫逆之交,与你如影随形。不过,我倒认为有一个人的态度值得提倡。'我从来不说自己有哪些优点和不足,'他说,'我言必称自己有哪些优点和‘次优点’。'我也正是这种观点.优点有不少……但其中大多都是'次优点'。我有一项'次优'本领可能体现在艺术方面。一次,3岁的儿子央求我在他的黑板上画一匹马,虽然有自知之明,我还是同意了。结果看起来不算太糟……事实上,我必须承认,画得不怎么好:看起来不太像一匹马,反而更像一只狗。但从它身上,你准能看到马的影子,儿子似乎也非常满意。
If you’re like most of us,failure is not your best friend.But I like the attitude of one man.“I don’t say I have strengths and weaknesses,”he says.“I say I have strengths and lesser strengths.”That’s me!Lots and lots of strengths...but most of them are lesser strengths.One of my lesser strengths may be in the area of art.But when my three-year-old son asked me to draw a picture of a horse on his chalkboard,I agreed anyway.And it wasn’t too bad...Well,it wasn’t great,I must admit.It may have looked a little more like a dog than a horse.But it was definitely a horse-looking animal of some sort and my young son seemed satisfied.I left the picture on the chalkboard.The next day one of his preschool friends stopped by to play.She spotted the drawing and asked,“Who drew the horse?”I called down the hall,“I did!”I actually felt just a little bit proud.After all,she immediately recognized it as a horse.There was a moment of silence as a look of confusion swept her face.Then she asked,“Did you draw it when you were a baby?”Everyone’s an art critic.
