著名时尚杂志主编安娜·温图尔也在工作9个月后因过于前卫被时尚芭莎解雇。离开后不久,她成为Viva的时尚编辑。“我希望你们都被解雇过。”温特对时装专业的学生说。
4. Hitting rock bottom
4. 跌到人生最困难的境地
Before the wildly successful Harry Potter series came to life, J.K. Rowling was a single mom on welfare. She dreamed of being a writer while working as a secretary for the London office of Amnesty International, and when she got fired, Rowling admits to hitting rock bottom. She was in her 30s, had no job, no money, and a child to raise on her own.
在《哈利波特》系列大获成功前,J.K.罗琳是一个靠社会福利维持生计的单身母亲。当她在伦敦大赦国际的办公室里做秘书时,她梦想成为一名作家,而且罗琳承认当她被解雇时到了人生最低点。她30多岁了,没工作没钱,还要独立养活一个孩子。
In a 2008 commencement speech at Harvard University, Rowling discussed how hitting rock bottom forced her to finish the first Harry Potter book. She says:
在2008年哈佛大学毕业典礼上演讲时,罗琳探讨了跌到人生最低点是如何让她咬牙写完第一部《哈利波特》的。她说:
"I've often met people who are terrified — you know, in a straitjacket of their own making — because they'd rather do anything than fail. They don't want to try for fear of failing," she says. "Hitting rock bottom wasn't fun at all — I'm not romanticizing rock bottom — but it was liberating. What did I have to lose?"
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