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第三册Unit 12 Regret
I'm forty. I left school 22 years ago. I don't regret many things about my school days but there are a few things I wish I'd known then that I know now. So here's my list of five things I wish I'd learned at school.
As a young child you try many new things. If you fail you try again and again until you learn. Then you start school where you are usually only rewarded for doing things correctly. So what happens? You stop trying new things in case you get it wrong. I always remind myself: if I hadn't got back on the first time I fell off, I would never have learned to ride a bike.
I hated losing when I was younger. Of course it's nice to win sometimes and to be the best at something. But we can't all be winners all of the time. Learning to lose is one of life's most important lessons and there's no point having a tantrum if you lose. If you try your hardest, then you should never be angry with yourself.
I always wanted to be the best and one way of feeling good about myself was to see how much better I was than others. There was only one problem with this. When I saw they were better than me, I felt terrible. Now I compare me with myself. I ask myself if I do things as well as I could.
How much time do you spend worrying about the future? l used to worry a lot. Now I know most things you fear will usually never happen. They're just monsters in your own mind. And if they happen then they will most often not be as bad as you expected. Keep your cool — most of the things you worry about now you probably won't remember in six months.
When I was young I often didn't do things because I thought they'd take too long to finish. I always wanted to write a book, for example. But when I thought it might take me more than a year, I lost the enthusiasm. It seemed such a long time. Now I know a year is nothing. If I'd started that book when I was 16, I might have written ten more by now. I'm cross with myself for not even trying.
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