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奥里森·斯威特·马登:向前进·摘录 336

奥里森·斯威特·马登《向前进》· Pushing to the Front · 领导

A man's business does more to make him than anything else. It hardens his muscles, strengthens his body, quickens his blood, sharpens his mind, corrects his judgment, wakes up his inventive genius, puts his wits to work, starts him on the race of life, arouses his ambition, makes him feel that he is a man and must fill a man's shoes, do a man's work, bear a man's part in life, and show himself a man in that part. No man feels himself a man who is not doing a man's business. A man without employment is not a man. He does not prove by his works that he is a man. A hundred and fifty pounds of bone and muscle do not make a man. A good cranium full of brains is not a man. The bone and muscle and brain must know how to do a man's work, think a man's thoughts, mark out a man's path, and bear a man's weight of character and duty before they constitute a man.

出处: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/21291
定位:Excerpt 336 · 核对日期:2026-10-19 · 核验:短摘录

白话

一个人的事业最能塑造他。工作让肌肉结实、身体强健、血液流通、头脑敏锐、判断准确,激发创造力和智慧,让人投入生活的竞赛,唤起雄心,感到自己是个男人,必须承担男人的责任、做男人的工作、在生活中扮演男人的角色。没有工作的人不觉得自己是男人。失业的人不算完整的人,因为他没有用行动证明自己。一百五十磅的骨肉不算男人,满脑子聪明也不算男人;骨肉和头脑必须知道如何做男人的工作、想男人的思想、开辟男人的道路、承担男人的品格和责任,才算真正的人。核心是:工作塑造人,不工作就难以成为完整的人。

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奥里森·斯威特·马登是19世纪末20世纪初美国励志作家,本书《奋力向前》鼓励人通过努力和职业成就自我。

今日一问

你目前的工作或日常劳动,在哪些方面正在塑造你?如果暂时没有工作,你可以用什么行动来保持“做人的担当”?

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