人生是一次漫长而刺激的旅行,它把我带到许多地方。我进过法律学校,在白宫制作演讲稿,在华尔街筹划股份企业计划书。在过去的十八年里,我在加利福尼亚好莱坞写作和演戏。我观察了那些在工作和表演方面努力到了顶点并获得成功的人们。然而我也知道许多人不能成功。我大学时代的一些同学在出售着衬衣,甚至有些当时的电脑能手在端煎饼,当时的数学天才在清理公寓楼肮脏的污水管道。像他们,所有许许多多的颇有才智似能成功的人,恰恰没能成功。当然,机遇起着作用,但是人们通常是自己在制造坏运气,在态度和行为上自己击败自己,常常自置陷阱。这里是一些最坏的陷阱,我称它们为真正不成功者的八种习性。一、欺骗思想不成功的人经常在生活中自己欺骗自己。我曾认为那些习惯性地不诚实的人是不会成功的。可悲的是:这种人似乎很多。在金融投机上,一个人完全不诚实地对待别人,他可能取得成功。然而人们对自己不诚实却是绝对不可以的。他们在生活中不可能把自己当作傻瓜, Life is a long and stimulating journey that takes me to many places. I went to law school, made a speech at the White House, and planned a shareholding business plan on Wall Street. In the past eighteen years, I have been writing and acting in Hollywood, California. I looked at those who worked hard and reached the top in their work and performance and achieved success. However, I also know that many people can not succeed. Some of my college-age students were selling shirts and even some of the then computerized pancakes at the time, when math genius was cleaning the dirty sewers in apartment blocks. Like them, all of a great many who are capable of success, just failed. Of course, opportunities play a role, but people often trap themselves by making bad luck, defeating themselves in attitudes and actions, and often setting themselves up. Here are some of the worst pitfalls, and I call them eight habits that are truly unsuccessful. First, cheating people who do not succeed often deceive themselves in life. I used to think that those habitually dishonest would not succeed. Sadly: There seems to be a lot of such people. In the financial speculation, a person may be completely dishonestly treated, he may succeed. However, people are dishonest to themselves is absolutely not possible. They can not think of themselves as fools in their lives,