Live with confidence

I want to talk to you today about living with confidence, too many people go through life intimidated, insecure, they think everyone is smarter and brighter and more talented, more beautiful.

今天，我想跟大家聊一下自信的話題。很多人惴惴不安地生活，他們覺得別人比他們更加聰明、靚麗、有天賦。

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They put others on a pedestal and look down on themselves, and yes it's good to celebrate people, it's good to be happy for their accomplishments, but can I tell you, you are someone to be celebrated, you are talented, you are smart, you are attractive, there's something great about you. You're not supposed to always be celebrating others, you need to learn to celebrate yourself.

他們把別人供在高臺，并且妄自菲薄。 盡管稱頌他人并且為別人的成就而高興無可厚非，但是我想告訴你，你也是值得歌頌的人，你天賦異稟，你天資聰穎，你魅力四射。你有些方面是很棒的。

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I hear people say, you should see how beautiful my sister is, my coworker is so talented, my classmate is an awesome football player, and that's fine but you can't get so caught up in how great they are that you lose sight of how great you are.

你不應該總是稱頌他人，你需要學會悅納自己。 我聽到有人說，你不知道我閨蜜是多么的漂亮，我同事簡直是天才，我同學是超棒的足球運動員。那真是不錯，但你也不能陷入對他們偉大的崇拜而輕視自己。

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You're good at something that they're not, don't make the mistake of idolizing people, to where you put them on such a pedestal and think they are so much smarter and more talented and more beautiful, that you feel intimidated like you don't quite measure up, and of course they may have more natural strength or talent or ability, but the truth is they have faults and weaknesses just like we all do.

你有一些獨特的優(yōu)點，別犯盲目崇拜他人的錯誤。你奉他們高高在上，并認為他們聰明、靚麗、有天賦，以致于感覺自己低人一等。 當然，他們確實有一些天生的優(yōu)勢、稟賦和能力，但事實上，他們跟我們所有人一樣會犯錯。

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It's fine to celebrate them, say wow aren't they great, as long as you can follow it up by saying you know what, I'm great too, I'm smart too, I'm talented too, don't be intimidated by other people's gifts be confident in who you are.

贊賞別人并沒有錯，只要在你說完“哇，他們好棒！”之后，能夠繼續(xù)說“你不知道，其實我也很棒，我也很聰明，我也同樣有天賦”就可以。 不要因為別人的天賦而惴惴不安，要對自己保持信心。

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【重點詞匯&表達】

1.intimidated 害怕的；

2.insecure 不安全的；

3.pedestal 高臺；

4.look down 看輕；

5.get caught up in 陷入；

6.idolize 極端崇拜；

7.measure up 符合標準；

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