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奥里森·斯威特·马登:向前进·摘录 441
奥里森·斯威特·马登《向前进》· Pushing to the Front · 领导
Rare consecration to a great enterprise is found in the work of the late Francis Parkman. While a student at Harvard he determined to write the history of the French and English in North America. With a steadiness and devotion seldom equaled he gave his life, his fortune, his all to this one great object. Although he had, while among the Dakota Indians, collecting material for his history, ruined his health and could not use his eyes more than five minutes at a time for fifty years, he did not swerve a hair's breadth from the high purpose formed in his youth, until he gave to the world the best history upon this subject ever written.
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定位:Excerpt 441 · 核对日期:2026-10-19 · 核验:短摘录
白话
帕克曼在哈佛读书时就立志写一部北美法英史,此后把一生、财富和全部精力都投入这个目标。他因收集资料损害健康,五十年里每次只能用眼五分钟,却从未偏离少年时的志向,最终写出该领域最好的历史著作。这告诉我们:选定一个真正值得的大目标,然后像激光一样聚焦,不被困难和诱惑带偏。哪怕身体受限、进展缓慢,只要方向不变,持续积累,就能做出传世之作。
上下文
出自马登《奋力向前》,讲述历史学家帕克曼以惊人毅力完成巨著的故事。
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你愿意用五年甚至更久去死磕的一件大事是什么?今天能为它做哪件小事?
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