UNIT 3text B success depends on finding the best version of yourself
Unit 3 Text B Success Depends on Finding the Best Version of Yourself Teaching Objectives:
?Using the skill of skinning and scanning to get the main idea of the text
?Understand the meaning of “finding the best version of yourself”
?Grasp the difficult words and p hrases
I. Text-related Background Information
1. Steve Tobak
Steve Tobak is a management consultant(顾问), an executive coach, and a former senior executive (主管) of the technology industry. He's managing partner of Invisor Consulting, a Silicon Valley-based strategy consulting firm.
2. Steve Jobs
Steve Jobs (1955-2011) was the cofounder of Apple Inc. (originally Apple Computer, Inc.). He also was one of two men who started the company. Apple makes personal computers and also develops and publishes computer software. Under his leadership, Apple introduced the iMac computer and iPod music player.
Steven Paul Jobs was born in Los Altos, California, on Feb. 24, 1955. Paul and Clara Jobs of Mountain View, California, adopted Steve that same year. While in high school, Jobs took a summer job at a company where he met Stephen Wozniak, an engineer. In 1975, Jobs and Wozniak started Apple Computer. In 1984, Apple introduced the popular Macintosh personal computer. In the late 1990's and early 2000's, Jobs oversaw the development of many popular Apple devices. These included the iMac, the iPod, and the iPad tablet computer.
Warm-up questions:
What is Self-image?
Self-image is the idea, conception, or mental image one has of oneself. Self-image is how you perceive yourself.
What is your self-image? Think about the following questions:
What do you think you look like physically?
How is your personality?
What kind of person you think you are?
What do you think others think of you?
How much do you like yourself or you think others like you?
What are your hopes and dreams?
What have you done throughout your life and what did you want to do?
II. Global Reading: Finish Exercise A
III. Detailed Reading
Difficult Sentences and Phrases
1. Truly happy and successful people get that way by becoming the best, most genuine version of themselves they can be. (Para 1)
--- Truly happy and successful people gain happiness and achieve success because they try everything possible to become the best, most genuine version of themselves.
2. And you're going to have to break out of your comfort zone and take some chances that will scare the crap out of you. (Para 4)
--- And you’re going to get out of your comfort zone and take some risks that will scare you very much.
take chances --- do something even though it involves risk
Examples:
What you are going to do is too dangerous. It is just not worth taking any chances.
“You might not succeed.”“I know, but I'll take my chances anyway.”
scare the crap/shit out of you --- (taboo, slang) to frighten sb very much
Examples:
The alarm scared the shit out of me.
She scared the crap out of me when she came behind me and shouted in my ear.
?scare the life/living daylights/hell etc out of sb.
3. But you know, I can't think of a better way to spend your life. (Para 5)
--- Well, in my view, this is the best way to spend your life.
you know --- a phrase with little meaning, which you use while you are trying to think of what to say next
Examples: I'm not happy with the situation but, you know, there isn't much I can do about it.
You know, I sometimes feel I don't know him at all.
4. I mean, what's life for if not finding yourself and trying to become the best, most genuine version of you that you can be? (Para 5)
--- I mean, what is the purpose of life if it is not finding yourself and trying to become the best, most genuine version of you that you can be?
5. Don't let the noise of others' opinions drown out your own inner voice. (Para 7)
--- Don’t make yourself unable to hear your own inner voice because you let others make a loud noise with their opinions.
drown out --- cause (something or someone) not to be heard by making a loud noise Examples: The loud music drowned the sound of their conversation.
He talked loudly to try to drown her out.
She turned up the radio to drown (out) the noise of the traffic.
6. You have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. (Para 8)
--- You have to trust that the little things you do today will be linked together and form something big in the future.
7. Insightful as that advice may be, it sounds a little too amorphous and challenging to resonate with today's quick-fix culture. (Para 10)
--- Although that advice may be insightful, it sounds a little too amorphous and challenging to resonate with today's quick-fix culture.
as --- In this context, it is used to say that in spite of sth. being true, what follows is also true.
Examples:
Happy as they were, there was something missing.
Brave as they were, the danger made them afraid.
Strange as it may seem, I never really wanted to be rich.
8. Not only that, but what Jobs was talking about, what I'm talking about, requires focus and discipline, two things that are very hard to come by these days. (Para 11)
--- What I said above is true, and what I am going to say is also true. What Jobs was talking about, what I'm talking about, requires focus and discipline, two things that are very hard to get these days.
come by ---1) get or acquire (sth.)
Examples:
A good job is hard to come by these days.
I asked him how he came by the money, but he wouldn't tell me.
2) How did you come by that scratch on your cheek?
receive sth by chance 偶然获得某事物
9. embark on : start (sth. new or important)
embark on a long journey
他开始从事一新事业.
He embarked on a new career.
10. Getting to know yourself will make you feel more comfortable in your own skin. (Para 13)
--- Getting to know yourself will make you feel more comfortable with who you are.
feel comfortable in your own skin --- feel comfortable and satisfied with yourself Examples:
It's hard to feel comfortable in your own skin when you're young.
What you need is more exercise. Playing sports can help you feel comfortable in your own skin.
11. …how you come across, or what anyone thinks of you. (Para 14)
come across/ over: (a) be understood or communicated 被理解; 被传达
He spoke for a long time but his meaning did not really come across
(b) make an impression of the specified type 使人产生某种印象:
She comes across well/badly in interviews.
He came across as sympathetic/a sympathetic person.
(c ) I came across an old school friend in the Street this morning.
12. engage (sb.) in sth./ in doing sth. : take part in
Eg: At college she engaged in various sports.
He was silent, no matter how hard Sofia tried to engage him in conversation.
13. Everyone else is too busy living his own little mini drama. (Para 15)
--- Everyone else is busy living his life within his own circle and does not have time to care about you.
14. To put it bluntly, your network couldn't care less about you.(Para 15)
--- To say it in a very direct way, your friends or other people you know of do not think they should care about you.
couldn’t care less --- (informal) used to say, often rudely, that you do not think that sb./sth. is important or worth worrying about
Examples:
Quite honestl y, I couldn’t care less what they do.
He says he couldn't care less if he gets fired.
I couldn't care less who wins the match.
15. More important, it will absolutely keep you from focusing on accomplishing whatever great things you might manage to achieve in life if you set your mind to it. --- The more important thing is that, if you decide you are going to do all those great things in your life and make a lot of effort, you might succeed in doing them, but engaging in mindless set your mind to --- decide you want to achieve sth. and give this all your attention Examples:
I think anyone can become the best version of themselves if they set their mind to it.
She could have been a great athlete if she’d put her mind to it.
你只要专心, 很可能成为优秀作家.
You could be a very good writer if you set your mind to it.
16. opportunity cost: (para 17)
Simply stated, an opportunity cost is the cost of a missed opportunity. It is the opposite of the benefit that would have been gained if an action had been taken.
miss out (on sth.) :
Examples:
If I don't go to the party, I shall feel I'm missing out.
Prepare food in advance to ensure you don't miss out on the fun!
17. Revel in sth. / doing sth. (Para 19)
revelling/ reveling in her new-found freedom
She revels in tennis.
I revel in the fresh air in the countryside.
Useful Expressions （可作为线上作业）
1. 跳出你的舒适区break out of your comfort zone
2. 冒险take chances
3. 吓得屁滚尿流scare the crap out of you
4. 毕业典礼发言commencement speech
5. 淹没你内心的声音drown out your inner voice
6. 相信直觉trust in your gut
7. 让我失望let me down
8. 使我的生活变得不同make all the difference in my life
9. 速效文化quick-fix culture
10. 不被理睬fall on deaf ears
11. 得到come by
12. 接受挑战take on the challenge
13. 走上自我发现的道路embark on the road to self-discovery
14. 自我感觉良好feel more comfortable in your own skin
15. 盲目沉浸在使你分心的事情上engage in mindless distraction
16. 决心做某事set one’s mind to
17. 机会成本opportunity cost
18. 错过机会miss out on opportunities
19. 开始一段激动人心的旅程embark on an exciting journey
20. 为自然美景着迷revel in the natural beauty
课文译文
成功取决于找到自己的最佳状态
史蒂夫?托鲍克
真正快乐成功的人士之所以达到那一步是因为他们尽可能地成为最优秀、最真实的自己。
并非在外表----而是在内心。它无关乎品牌、声誉、形象。它关乎现实：你到底是谁。
我知道这听起来简单，是一个简单概念。问题是，做起来就很难了，需努力为之，可能需要一生的时间才弄明白。
生活中值得做的事从不容易。如果你想做大事，就要先做很多艰苦的工作才行。你要跳出你的舒适区，冒一点险，那会把你吓得屁滚尿流。
但是，你知道，除此之外，我想不出更好的方式来度过一生。我的意思是，如果你找不到自我，不去试图尽可能地成为最优秀、最真实的你，生活还有意义吗？
正如史蒂夫·乔布斯在斯坦福大学毕业典礼上所言：
你的时间是有限的，所以不要浪费时间活在别人的生活里。不要让他人意见的噪音淹没你内心的声音。
你必须相信这些点点滴滴会在你的未来以某种方式串连起来。你必须要相信某些东西----你的直觉，命运，生活，因缘，等等。这一做法从来没有让
我失望，它使我的生活变得全然不同。
做大事的唯一方法是爱你所为。如果你还没找到它，继续找。不要固步不前。
现在，让我们暂且现实一点。虽然该建议很有见地，它听上去有点过于难以捉摸，难以企及，与当今讲究速效的文化不合拍。现如今，如果你不能确切地告诉人们做什么，怎么做，那就无人会听。
不仅如此，乔布斯和我所说的事情还需要专注和自律，这是两件如今非常难得的东西。为什么呢？因为专注和自律都不容易做到。相比较而言，人们很会分心和寻求即时满足。那很容易，且会上瘾。
为了给你一点激励去迎接挑战，走上自我发现的道路，这里列出努力成为最优秀、最真实的自己的三大好处。
它会使你快乐。了解自己会使你更加自我感觉良好。它会降低你的压力和焦虑。它会使你成为更好的配偶，更好的父母，更好的朋友。它会使你成为一个更好的人。如果你问我，那都是相当不错的理由。
此外，除非你真正了解自己，你是无法在生活中取得重大成就的。那无关你的品牌，你在邻客音上的个人资料，你给人的印象如何，或者别人怎么看你。那是真实的你。你为什么不应尝试成为非你自己的人呢？原因很简单，那就是你成不了。无论怎样，真实的你必定会显露出来。因此，忘掉你的个人品牌，花些时间搞清楚自己到底是什么人，尝试尽可能地成为最佳的自己。
当你盲目忙于分心之事时，代价巨大。唯一真正关心你的人是你心爱的人，你的朋友和家人。其他每个人都在忙于自己的小日子而自顾不暇。说穿了，你的关系网对你的关心是最少的。
这就是为什么你或其他人不值得花时间盲目去做分心之事的道理。更重要的是，它肯定会让你无法专注于完成你下定决心就可能在一生中设法成就的大事。
有一种商业概念叫机会成本。当你选择一种行动，你就错过了所有其他原本可以选择追求的机会。人们很少停下来考虑这一点，直至为时过晚。
这是一段前所未有的最激动人心的旅程。我们都对冒险着迷。我们喜欢阅读，喜欢看真实的或虚构的有关他人旅程的电影，如《霍比特人》，夺宝奇兵》，《挑战巅峰》。
我们爱度假，爱去各种地方。我们这么做的时候，会陶醉于考艾岛的纳帕利海岸、大峡谷、阿尔卑斯山的自然美景。我们为他人的杰作惊叹：艺术，建筑，金字塔，巨石阵。
然而，冒险的机会就在我们每一个人的面前。在你抓住它之前，你决不可能知道自己可能取得的成就，可能创造的奇迹，可能发现的东西。你所需做的就是启程。
答案部分：
VOCABULARY EXERCISE I 1.somehow
2.culture
3.distractions
4.instant
5.versions
6.profile
7.accomplish
8.opportunity
9.genuine
10.scared
11.benefits
12.stress
13.anxiety
14.significant
15.pursue
16.realistic
VOCABULARY EXERCISESII.
1.let…down
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3.give in
4.figure out
5.take chances
6.trust in
7.fall on deaf ears
8.set your mind to
9.reveled in
10.take on
11.engaged in
12.keeps … from