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安德鲁·卡内基:安德鲁·卡内基自传·补录 131
安德鲁·卡内基《安德鲁·卡内基自传》· Autobiography of Andrew Carnegie · 领导
Miss Addison became an ideal friend because she undertook to improve the rough diamond, if it were indeed a diamond at all. She was my best friend, because my severest critic. I began to pay strict attention to my language, and to the English classics, which I now read with great avidity. I began also to notice how much better it was to be gentle in tone and manner, polite and courteous to all--in short, better behaved. Up to this time I had been, perhaps, careless in dress and rather affected it. Great heavy boots, loose collar, and general roughness of attire were then peculiar to the West and in our circle considered manly. Anything that could be labeled foppish was looked upon with contempt. I remember the first gentleman I ever saw in the service of the railway company who wore kid gloves. He was the object of derision among us who aspired to be manly men. I was a great deal the better in all these respects after we moved to Homewood, owing to the Addisons.
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艾迪生小姐成了卡内基的理想朋友,因为她主动要打磨这块“粗钻石”。她是他最好的朋友,也是最严厉的批评者。卡内基开始注意语言,贪婪地阅读英国经典,也意识到待人温和、礼貌周到更好,总之要举止得体。此前他穿着随意甚至刻意不修边幅:厚重靴子、松垮衣领、粗犷打扮,当时西部圈子里认为这才有男子气概,任何“浮华”都被鄙视。他记得第一个戴小山羊皮手套的铁路公司绅士,被他们这些自诩男子汉的人嘲笑。搬到霍姆伍德后,受艾迪生家影响,他在这些方面大有改进。
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卡内基在艾迪生小姐的批评和引导下,开始注重语言、阅读和举止,改变了过去粗犷的西部风格。
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你身边有没有敢于直言批评你的朋友?你如何对待他们的逆耳忠言?
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