I’m sitting in a quiet room at the Millcroft Hotel,a peaceful place hidden back among pine trees about an hour out of Toronto. It’s just past noon,late July,and I’m__1__the desperate sounds of a lifeordeath__2__going on a few feet away.
There’s a small__3__burning out the last of its short life’s energies in a(an)__4__to fly through the glass of the window.__5__,it’s not working. The great effort offers no hope for survival. Ironically (讽刺地),the struggle is part of the trap. It is__6__for the fly to try hard enough to succeed in__7__through the glass. This fly is doomed (注定失败).It will__8__there on the windowsill.
Across the room,ten steps__9__,the door is open. Ten seconds of flying time and this small creature could reach the outside world it__10__.With only a small effort now being__11__,it could be free of this selfset__12__.The breakthrough possibility is there. It would be so__13__.
Why doesn’t the fly try another approach,__14__dramatically different?How did it get so locked in on the idea__15__this particular route and determined effort offer the most promise for success?
No doubt this way makes__16__to the fly.Regrettably,it’s an idea that will kill it.
Trying harder isn’t necessarily the solution__17__achieving more. It may not offer any real__18__for getting what you want out of life. Sometimes,in fact,it’s a big part of the problem.
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