25 Apr 2009

你需要激情！— To Myself @ New Oriental

无论你做任何事你都需要激情，音乐也好其他东西也罢。可能你还没有意识到这一点，其实激情是非常重要的，它甚至等同于我们的爱与恨等情感因素。如果你没有激情，你永远不会为你的目标全力以赴。所谓的天才不过就是忠于自己的目标再加上激情。事实上所有的作曲家、艺术家、科学家等等每一个为世界做出贡献的人都是如此。众所周知的莱特兄弟，他们没有得到任何人的支持，甚至自己的父亲。但是他们仍然努力的工作、坚持自己的想法，恪守自己的信念——他们相信人类能够飞起来！当整个世界都认为他们不能的时候，他们仍然坚持，不断的失败，不断的坚持…当然今天我们知道人类是可以飞起来的，而且比任何一种鸟类飞的更远、更高、更快。

当我们在练习某一项事物时，通常会反复的不见成效、甚至下降，失败…这是非常正常的一个过程。如果没有激情这个过程我们就无法坚持到最后。激情会让我们专注并坚持自己的目标。天才其实就是一个把技能变成了习惯的人。不信你可以问问任何一个奥运金牌得主或者国际钢琴比赛冠军。现在，你准备好把你的技能变成习惯了吗？你准备好把你的技能完全融入你的血液了吗？你准备好反复的努力直到技能成为你的身体的本能了吗？

Jason @ SuccessFul! 翻译，转载请注明出处：/2009/04/u-need-passionu-need-passion.html
原文地址：http://kinderjazz.blogspot.com/2007/02/you-need-passion.html

附原文：
To do anything well be it music or not, one needs passion. You may not realise it but passion has equal parts love and hate. Without this you will never continue your focus with your chosen instrument. Genius is nothing but focus. All the great composers, artists, scientists……in fact everyone who has changed the world and made it a better place used their mind to focus on their one passion. Orwell and Wilbur Wright, inspite of the lack of support even from their own father, continued working on their idea that humans could fly. While the whole world thought they knewthey couldn’t, they kept falling daily until they made it and now of course we all take it for granted that humans can fly higher, faster and longer than any bird.

When we practice, we need to fall daily and fail daily until we learn something properly. It’s the most natural way. We can not do this and keep going unless there is passion. Passion gives us focus. Talent and skill is nothing but habit. Ask anyone who has won an Olympic Gold Medal, or an international piano competition. So, are you prepared to keep practicing to form that habit, to download your skill into your brain, to install the programme completely so that your practice is automatic?

Til next time,
Jason at 00:00