晨读英语美文100篇 Passage 61 It’s Never Too Late to Change
 音频下载[点击右键另存为][00:00.34]Passage 61 It’s Never Too Late to Change[00:06.47]Age is no criterion when it comes to changing your life. [00:10.84]In fact, it might be just the opposite. [00:14.56]The older we get, the more we must change. [00:18.39]Change is what keeps us fresh and innovative. [00:22.33]Change is what keeps us from getting stale and stuck in a rut. [00:27.47]Change is what keeps us young. [00:30.65]This is not easy. [00:32.50]When we are young it's easy to change and experiment with different things. [00:37.76]The older we get the more set in our ways we become. [00:41.91]We've found out what our comfort level is, and we all want to stay in it. [00:47.27]We don't want to be risk takers anymore, because risk frightens us, [00:53.18]and simply not changing seems so easy. [00:56.69]We must fight through this. [00:59.20]We must look fear straight in the eye and take it on. [01:03.25]We must tell ourselves that we have too much talent, too much wisdom, [01:09.71]too much value not to change. [01:13.10]I believe that Jim, who is on my staff, [01:16.92]is one of the best assistant coaches in the country. [01:20.64]But I almost didn't hire him three years ago [01:24.59]because I thought that psychologically he was too "old," [01:28.96]that he had lost the drive and passion that an assistant coach needs. [01:34.75]Three years ago he was forty, and I thought [01:38.59]he might have spent too many Saturday afternoons at the country club, [01:42.75]that he wasn't going to get in the trenches anymore, [01:46.02]like the younger assistant coaches do. [01:48.77]But Jim told me that he couldn't wait to get down in the trenches again. [01:53.58]So I hired him, and he's been an integral part of our success. [01:59.37]There is a conventional wisdom in coaching that once you've been a head coach [02:05.39]you can't enthusiastically go back to being an assistant again [02:10.21]and still have the same passion as before. [02:12.61]Jim didn't buy into that. [02:15.57]He didn't let his "old age" get in his way. [02:19.51]He was ready when opportunity came calling. [02:23.22]He reestablished a work ethic second to none with the eagerness of a person right out of college. [02:30.67]And I'm thankful for what he did, [02:32.64]because he played such an essential role in our championship season. [02:36.90]This is what we all must do. [02:39.64]We must realize that it's never too late to begin making changes [02:45.00]that can transform our life. |
