人生必備的5項核心技能：這些你都具備嗎？

Each moment, each situation, each turn of events presents you with an opportunity to build the self you are capable of being. It’s just a matter of accepting opportunities, implementing ideas, taking action, and actively expressing the purpose that is uniquely YOU.
每個瞬間，每個場合，每個轉機所帶來的都是讓你成長的機會。這時候你要做的就是抓住機會，開拓想法，採取行動，積極朝着目標前進，變成獨一無二的你。

You are stronger than any barrier standing in your way, because you have a purpose that cannot be denied. You can be adaptable, innovative, hard working and tenacious. You can imagine the possibilities and then work to make them real.
只要胸懷不可抵擋的目標，那麼你就比沿途的一切障礙都要強大。你可以適當改變，創新努力和頑強。你可以想象所有的可能性，再努力使其成爲現實。

Here are five life skills that will help you do just that – the real fundamentals of being an empowered, self-directed human being:
下面的五項人生技能可以幫你做到這些——這些也是幫你變得強大自主的基礎。

1. Curiosity
好奇心

Joy comes easy to us in our youth because we haven’t become set too firmly in our ways. Our willingness to curiously assess new things and varying perspectives allows us to experience flashes of insight and beauty wherever we go. Those of us who fight the draw of our comfort zones as we age, who sustain our curiosity into our later years, learn a lot more and see far more beauty throughout our lifetime.
年輕的時候，快樂似乎如此簡單，因爲我們不用太固守自己的方式。無論走到哪，好奇心都會給我們帶來新的視野體驗和美的享受。那些隨着年紀增長仍然保持一顆好奇之心的人們，會在人生道路中學到更多，領略到更多的美。

Curiosity, after all, is the foundation of lifelong growth. It allows us to retain a beginner’s mind even as our wisdom expands. In this way, an enduring curiosity permits our hearts and minds to grow younger, not older every day.
好奇心是畢生成長的基礎。即使智慧不斷增長，我們還是保持初學者的頭腦。這樣，恆久的好奇心會讓心境和思想更加年輕，而不是日益衰老。

Always remain curious and teachable. Keep an open mind and do not stop questioning and learning. Look forward, open new doors and experience new things. Do so because you’re curious, and because you know that today’s journey is always just beginning.
永遠保持好奇心和求教心吧，開拓思想，不要停止懷疑和學習。朝前看，打開一扇新門來體驗新事物。因爲這份好奇，每天的旅程都是個新的開始。

2. Creativity
創造力

When it comes to human growth, if curiosity is the engine, creativity is the steering wheel. Creativity is the most powerful instrument of progress – a mindset that endows resources with a new capacity to create possibility and growth.
在人生成長過程中，如果好奇是發動機，創造力就是方向盤。創造力是最有力的進步工具——賦予我們創造無限可能和成長的新能力。

The world is moving so fast these days that those who say something can’t be done are often interrupted by those who are doing it. This is precisely why it’s important to exercise your creative mind on a regular basis. Ultimately, the creative learners inherit the world while the doubters and complacent minds find themselves perfectly suited for a world that no longer exists.
世界日新月異，那些只會說什麼做不了的人會被那些一直在實幹的人取代。所以時不時地訓練你的創造力非常必要。最終，具有創造力的學習者佔領了世界，而那些老頑固也會發現他們不再屬於這個世界。3. Resilience
包容

Except for your own thoughts, there’s nothing that’s absolutely in your power. Knowing and accepting this gives you the ability to cope proficiently with life’s constant little inconveniences – a vital life skill we called resilience.
除了自己的思想，沒有什麼是完全在你的掌控之中的。意識並接受這點就能讓你輕鬆應對生活中時不時出現的小不愉快——這個重要的人生技能我們稱之爲包容。

Resilience is accepting reality, even if it’s less than the fantasy you had in your mind or the reality that was once yours. You can fight it, you can do nothing but complain about what you’re missing, or you can accept what you have and try to put it together to create something good.
包容就是接受現實，即使現實沒有達到你的預期，或是你不幸錯過。你可以抗爭，但除了可以抱怨錯過的你別無他選。抑或你接受目前擁有的，利用這些去創造更好的東西。

As you progress, life will inevitably challenge you on a regular basis. No matter how much falls on you, keep your head up and plow ahead. That’s the only way to keep the road to your dreams clear. It won’t get any more forgiving, but it will get easier and easier to deal with, because over time you will grow stronger and more resilient.
成長過程中，生活總會不可避免的賜予你挑戰。無論挑戰多少，都要昂起頭朝前走。這是唯一確保道路一直朝着夢想前進的唯一方法。即使這些挑戰不會減少，但會越來越容易應對，因爲你一直在成長，越來越強大，越來越包容。

4. Patience
耐心

In the sweetest little voice Winnie-the-Pooh once said, “Rivers know this: there is no hurry. We shall get there some day.” This is the power of patience.
維尼熊曾憨憨的說過：“河流知道，不用急，我們總有一天會到達。”這就是耐心的力量。

Patience is not sitting still. Rather, it’s mastering your time by applying the right principles in the right way to attain a long-term desired result. It’s moving forward steadily for as long as it takes to get where you want to go. Enduring the time between your departure and arrival requires a great deal of will. But no matter how tedious these moments of waiting are, you have to get used to the feeling, knowing that what you’re working toward is coming your way, even though it’s not with you at the moment.
耐心不是讓你坐着不動。而是需要把握時間，在正確的地方使用正確的方法來達到最終的長期目的。你會一步一步的前進直到達到想去的地方。在出發和到達之間的等待需要的是你強大的意志力。無論等待的時間多麼無聊，你都要去適應，知道你正朝着自己的目標前進着，只是時機還沒到而已。

Ultimately the two hardest tests on the road to personal growth are the patience to wait for what you want and the courage not to be disappointed when it doesn’t arrive as soon as you had expected. Patience can be bitter, but the seeds you plant now will bear sweet fruit. These fruits are worth waiting for. There’s no advantage to hurrying through life and never tasting their sweetness.
人生道路上最難的兩個考驗，莫過於那份等待自己想要的東西的耐心，以及期盼沒有到來時不畏懼失望的勇氣。耐心也許很苦澀，但你種下的總有一天會結成甜果實，這些果實值得你去等待。人生如果太過匆忙，反而會讓你品嚐不到其中的甜味。

5. Self-reliance
自我獨立

Self-reliance is the most important of all life skills, because without it you can’t practice any other life skill consistently. It’s honestly a virtue that brings all the rest together.
這是人生技能中最重要的一項，沒有它，你就無法施展其他的技能。不錯，這是一項能把其他幾項整合在一起的技能。

Quite simply, self-reliance is the unswerving willingness to take responsibility for your life from this moment forward, regardless of who had a hand in making it the way it is now. It’s taking control of your life, finding your true self by thinking for yourself, and making a firm choice to live your way. It’s being the hero of your life, not the victim.
簡單的說，自我獨立就是願意無論任何時候都爲自己人生負責，不管此時的道路由誰掌控着。自我獨立能控制你的生活，發現真實的自己，並做出堅定的選擇。你要成爲自己人生的英雄，而不是生活的受害者。

Life constantly invites you to be who you are capable of being. Choosing to be self-reliant is accepting life’s invitation.
人生時不時就會邀請你成爲你能成爲的那種人。獨立起來，接受人生的邀請吧。