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迈克尔•乔丹用坚持，去守候成功，去证明自己的实力。他的故事告诉我们，等待，有时像一棵古藤，象征着一种柔韧的力量。等待，更像是孕育了万物的土地，是一种成熟。
When watching Michael Jordan playing, people don’t only see a man who gives a new definition to team sports achievement, but also a formidable opponent to anyone who sees each game as a competition of determination. Now recognized as a surprising record scorer, it was failure which spurred Michael to 1)strive for the best. “I know that fear is an obstacle for some people, but for me it is just an illusion. Failure always makes me try harder on the next opportunity.”
Michael came by his competitive spirit naturally. As one of five brothers in a family with discipline and spirit of progress, he was brought up with high standard and great expectations. He loved basketball very much; his spirit and desire to be able to play in competition events was driven even more by the 2)rivalry with his brother Larry. They competed every day in intense one-on-one matches in the back yard, and usually Larry dominated his younger brother. Michael didn’t like to be defeated, either by his brothers or others.
The high school coach came to know Michael through Larry and invited Michael to the basketball summer camp prior to his 3)enrollment in high school. Everyone in the camp admired Michael’s speed and skill, but the coach was discouraged by the possibility that Michael would not reach the minimum height requirement. The coach thought it might be good for Michael to play on the university junior team group for a year to get more training time. So when the list of names for the university team was announced, Michael’s mates—all of them at least 198cm in height—were on the list, but Michael was not.
It was that very moment which so deeply 4)imprinted itself upon Michael’s life. He stared at the 5)alphabetically arranged list of names; read and reread the “J” list several times, feeling sure his coach had mistakenly left his name out. Fortunately his mother gave him some important advice. “She said that the best thing I could do was to prove to the coach that he had made a mistake,” recalled Michael. “And, leaving my disappointment behind, I started to improve my performance.”
Michael reluctantly rejoined the junior university team 6)squadron. But while he was recognized as a dedicated player, he changed his training intensity. Michael’s sport instructor, Ruby Sutton, was the first to notice that change: “Usually I arrive at school between 7:00 am and 7:30 am. Michael was there before me. Each time I came in and opened the door, I heard the sound of ball bouncing, in winter, in summer. Almost every morning I had to ask him to leave the 7)court.” Knowing that his lack of height made him unqualified for the university team, he often tried to get taller by hanging on a 8)horizontal bar.
Although his height was under 183cm, Michael quickly made himself a favorite player on the university junior team. His speed and skill 9)were no match for his team mates. Soon, the university team players started to come earlier to the games just to watch how Michael led JV (university junior team), scoring 25 points and sometimes up to 40 points in one game. At the end of the day, the coach-assistant, Fred Lynch said that Michael was “a resentful loser that keeps insisting everyone play as hard as he does”.
At the beginning of the first year, Michael’s height increased by 10cm. His large hands gave him the advantage of catching and holding the ball better, and now he was able to do 10)slam dunks. His coach was delighted with Michael’s height and they could now no longer ignore his talent.
Behind his competence and spirit lies the secret: to always appreciate failure and take advantage of to create good. In the following years Michael motivated himself by reflecting on his failure: “Whenever I achieve some success but feel so tired, I often come to think to give up and leave everything. But then I close my eyes and see again that list that didn’t include my name. Usually by doing that my spirit is revived.”
He is a man who has become one of the most famous players in the history of basketball, winning the NBA Championship six times, 11)MVP 12)trophy five times, a dozen All-Star games, 13)NCAA titles and two Olympic gold medals. And he is convinced that he achieved his success through his willingness to fail. “I am ready to accept failure. Everyone fails. But I don’t want to see that I don’t try.”
看着迈克尔•乔丹打篮球，人们不但看到一个赋予团体运动成就新定义的人，而且对任何一个把每场比赛看作决心之对垒的人来说，他们还看到一个强大的对手。如今人们眼中的迈克尔•乔丹是一个令人赞叹的得分破纪录者，但是，正是失败激励迈克尔争取做到最好。“我知道对某些人来说，恐惧是一种障碍，但是对我而言，它只是一种假象。失败总是让我更努力地去争取下一次机会。”
迈克尔生来就具有很强的竞争意识。在要求严格、追求上进的家庭中，他还有四个兄弟，在其成长过程中，父母对他寄予很高要求及期望。他非常热爱篮球，与哥哥拉里的竞争愈加激发了他想要参与比赛项目的决心和希望。每天他们两兄弟会在后院一对一比赛，通常拉里会比弟弟略胜一筹。迈克尔不喜欢被人击败，不管那个人是他的兄弟还是其他人。
高中篮球教练通过拉里认识了迈克尔，并在他高中入学之前邀请他参加篮球夏令营。夏令营里的每个人都称赞迈克尔的速度和技术，但是教练却因为迈克尔可能达不到最低身高要求而有所顾虑。教练认为，迈克尔留在大学青年队再接受一年训练可能会更好。因此，大学篮球队的名单公布时，同伴们身高至少达到了198厘米，都上了入选名单，而迈克尔却没有。
这一刻在迈克尔的生命里留下了深深的烙印。他盯着按照字母顺序排列的名单，反复几次看了“J”开头的名单，确信他的教练因为疏忽把他的名字漏掉了。幸好母亲给了他一些重要的建议。“她说我能做的最好的事情就是去证明教练犯了一个错误，”迈克尔回想道，“于是，我把失望抛诸脑后，开始提高自己的表现。”
迈克尔心有不甘地重新加入大学青年队。已被公认勤奋投入的他还进一步提高自己的训练强度。迈克尔的运动指导鲁比•萨顿第一个注意到这个改变：“我通常早上7点到7点30分到达学校，迈克尔比我早到。不管是冬天，还是夏天，每次推开门进去，我都会听到篮球弹地的声音。每天早上几乎都要我叫他走他才肯离开球场。”深知高度的欠缺使他无缘大学队，他经常吊单杠，希望能长高些。
虽然迈克尔的身高在183厘米以下，但是他很快使自己成为大学青年队的宠儿。他的速度和技术都令队友望尘莫及。不久，大学队的队员开始提前到达赛场，为的就是看迈克尔如何带领JV（大学青年队）在一场比赛中取得25分的好成绩，有时候还高达40分。到了最后，教练助理费雷德•林奇形容迈克尔是“一个愤慨的失败者，坚持让每个人都打得像他一样拼命”。
第一年开始时，迈克尔的身高增加了10厘米。他的大手掌使得他能够更好地接球及控球，现在他能够扣篮了。他的教练为他的身高感到很高兴，现在他们再也不能忽视他的才能了。
在其能力及精神的背后，有着这样的秘密：一直对失败怀着感恩之心，充分吸取失败带来的教训。随后的几年里，迈克尔习惯了通过反省失败去激励自己：“每当我取得一些成功但感觉身心俱疲时，我会想放弃，抛开一切。但是，在我闭上眼睛的时候，我再次看到那张没有我名字的名单。通常，这样一想我的精神又振奋起来。”
他是篮球史上公认的最著名的运动员——赢得六次NBA冠军、五次最有价值球员称号以及数十次的全明星赛、美国大学生体育协会冠军及两枚奥运金牌。战绩辉煌如此，他却深信这一切成就是源于自己乐于失败。“我准备好接受失败。每一个人都可能失败。但我不想看到自己不去努力。”
When watching Michael Jordan playing, people don’t only see a man who gives a new definition to team sports achievement, but also a formidable opponent to anyone who sees each game as a competition of determination. Now recognized as a surprising record scorer, it was failure which spurred Michael to 1)strive for the best. “I know that fear is an obstacle for some people, but for me it is just an illusion. Failure always makes me try harder on the next opportunity.”
Michael came by his competitive spirit naturally. As one of five brothers in a family with discipline and spirit of progress, he was brought up with high standard and great expectations. He loved basketball very much; his spirit and desire to be able to play in competition events was driven even more by the 2)rivalry with his brother Larry. They competed every day in intense one-on-one matches in the back yard, and usually Larry dominated his younger brother. Michael didn’t like to be defeated, either by his brothers or others.
The high school coach came to know Michael through Larry and invited Michael to the basketball summer camp prior to his 3)enrollment in high school. Everyone in the camp admired Michael’s speed and skill, but the coach was discouraged by the possibility that Michael would not reach the minimum height requirement. The coach thought it might be good for Michael to play on the university junior team group for a year to get more training time. So when the list of names for the university team was announced, Michael’s mates—all of them at least 198cm in height—were on the list, but Michael was not.
It was that very moment which so deeply 4)imprinted itself upon Michael’s life. He stared at the 5)alphabetically arranged list of names; read and reread the “J” list several times, feeling sure his coach had mistakenly left his name out. Fortunately his mother gave him some important advice. “She said that the best thing I could do was to prove to the coach that he had made a mistake,” recalled Michael. “And, leaving my disappointment behind, I started to improve my performance.”
Michael reluctantly rejoined the junior university team 6)squadron. But while he was recognized as a dedicated player, he changed his training intensity. Michael’s sport instructor, Ruby Sutton, was the first to notice that change: “Usually I arrive at school between 7:00 am and 7:30 am. Michael was there before me. Each time I came in and opened the door, I heard the sound of ball bouncing, in winter, in summer. Almost every morning I had to ask him to leave the 7)court.” Knowing that his lack of height made him unqualified for the university team, he often tried to get taller by hanging on a 8)horizontal bar.
Although his height was under 183cm, Michael quickly made himself a favorite player on the university junior team. His speed and skill 9)were no match for his team mates. Soon, the university team players started to come earlier to the games just to watch how Michael led JV (university junior team), scoring 25 points and sometimes up to 40 points in one game. At the end of the day, the coach-assistant, Fred Lynch said that Michael was “a resentful loser that keeps insisting everyone play as hard as he does”.
At the beginning of the first year, Michael’s height increased by 10cm. His large hands gave him the advantage of catching and holding the ball better, and now he was able to do 10)slam dunks. His coach was delighted with Michael’s height and they could now no longer ignore his talent.
Behind his competence and spirit lies the secret: to always appreciate failure and take advantage of to create good. In the following years Michael motivated himself by reflecting on his failure: “Whenever I achieve some success but feel so tired, I often come to think to give up and leave everything. But then I close my eyes and see again that list that didn’t include my name. Usually by doing that my spirit is revived.”
He is a man who has become one of the most famous players in the history of basketball, winning the NBA Championship six times, 11)MVP 12)trophy five times, a dozen All-Star games, 13)NCAA titles and two Olympic gold medals. And he is convinced that he achieved his success through his willingness to fail. “I am ready to accept failure. Everyone fails. But I don’t want to see that I don’t try.”
看着迈克尔•乔丹打篮球，人们不但看到一个赋予团体运动成就新定义的人，而且对任何一个把每场比赛看作决心之对垒的人来说，他们还看到一个强大的对手。如今人们眼中的迈克尔•乔丹是一个令人赞叹的得分破纪录者，但是，正是失败激励迈克尔争取做到最好。“我知道对某些人来说，恐惧是一种障碍，但是对我而言，它只是一种假象。失败总是让我更努力地去争取下一次机会。”
迈克尔生来就具有很强的竞争意识。在要求严格、追求上进的家庭中，他还有四个兄弟，在其成长过程中，父母对他寄予很高要求及期望。他非常热爱篮球，与哥哥拉里的竞争愈加激发了他想要参与比赛项目的决心和希望。每天他们两兄弟会在后院一对一比赛，通常拉里会比弟弟略胜一筹。迈克尔不喜欢被人击败，不管那个人是他的兄弟还是其他人。
高中篮球教练通过拉里认识了迈克尔，并在他高中入学之前邀请他参加篮球夏令营。夏令营里的每个人都称赞迈克尔的速度和技术，但是教练却因为迈克尔可能达不到最低身高要求而有所顾虑。教练认为，迈克尔留在大学青年队再接受一年训练可能会更好。因此，大学篮球队的名单公布时，同伴们身高至少达到了198厘米，都上了入选名单，而迈克尔却没有。
这一刻在迈克尔的生命里留下了深深的烙印。他盯着按照字母顺序排列的名单，反复几次看了“J”开头的名单，确信他的教练因为疏忽把他的名字漏掉了。幸好母亲给了他一些重要的建议。“她说我能做的最好的事情就是去证明教练犯了一个错误，”迈克尔回想道，“于是，我把失望抛诸脑后，开始提高自己的表现。”
迈克尔心有不甘地重新加入大学青年队。已被公认勤奋投入的他还进一步提高自己的训练强度。迈克尔的运动指导鲁比•萨顿第一个注意到这个改变：“我通常早上7点到7点30分到达学校，迈克尔比我早到。不管是冬天，还是夏天，每次推开门进去，我都会听到篮球弹地的声音。每天早上几乎都要我叫他走他才肯离开球场。”深知高度的欠缺使他无缘大学队，他经常吊单杠，希望能长高些。
虽然迈克尔的身高在183厘米以下，但是他很快使自己成为大学青年队的宠儿。他的速度和技术都令队友望尘莫及。不久，大学队的队员开始提前到达赛场，为的就是看迈克尔如何带领JV（大学青年队）在一场比赛中取得25分的好成绩，有时候还高达40分。到了最后，教练助理费雷德•林奇形容迈克尔是“一个愤慨的失败者，坚持让每个人都打得像他一样拼命”。
第一年开始时，迈克尔的身高增加了10厘米。他的大手掌使得他能够更好地接球及控球，现在他能够扣篮了。他的教练为他的身高感到很高兴，现在他们再也不能忽视他的才能了。
在其能力及精神的背后，有着这样的秘密：一直对失败怀着感恩之心，充分吸取失败带来的教训。随后的几年里，迈克尔习惯了通过反省失败去激励自己：“每当我取得一些成功但感觉身心俱疲时，我会想放弃，抛开一切。但是，在我闭上眼睛的时候，我再次看到那张没有我名字的名单。通常，这样一想我的精神又振奋起来。”
他是篮球史上公认的最著名的运动员——赢得六次NBA冠军、五次最有价值球员称号以及数十次的全明星赛、美国大学生体育协会冠军及两枚奥运金牌。战绩辉煌如此，他却深信这一切成就是源于自己乐于失败。“我准备好接受失败。每一个人都可能失败。但我不想看到自己不去努力。”