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奥里森·斯威特·马登:向前进·摘录 155
奥里森·斯威特·马登《向前进》· Pushing to the Front · 领导
Who can tell what the consequences would have been had Lincoln been born in New York and educated at Harvard? If he had been reared in the midst of great libraries, brought up in an atmosphere of books, of only a small fraction of which he could get even a superficial knowledge, would he have had that insatiable hunger which prompted him to walk twenty miles in order to borrow Blackstone's "Commentaries" and to read one hundred pages on the way home?
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定位:Excerpt 155 · 核对日期:2026-10-19 · 核验:短摘录
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作者用林肯的例子说明:太优越的环境反而可能消磨人的求知欲。如果林肯生在纽约、上哈佛,身边堆满图书馆,他可能不会产生那种如饥似渴的劲头——走二十英里只为借一本《布莱克斯通评注》,还在路上读了一百页。因为资源太容易得到,人容易浅尝辄止,不会拼命去争取。这提醒我们:匮乏有时是动力,但关键不是故意制造匮乏,而是珍惜手头资源,把“想要”变成“非得到不可”的渴望。
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奥里森·斯威特·马登在励志书《奋力向前》中,以林肯的贫寒出身论证逆境如何激发潜能。
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你身边有哪些唾手可得的资源,反而被你忽视了?
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