Name: 如何面對人生抉擇？► 查理·戴 Charlie Day 演講（中英字幕）
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But my lesson is this: I don't give a shit.

Modal verbs - A2

I don't think you should do just what makes you happy, I think you should do what makes you great.

Past simple

When I left this school, I was presented with two options.

I could move to New York City and begin my acting career, a city where I knew next to no one.

Or I could take the entry-level position that had been offered to me by Fidelity Investments.

And this this threw me for a loop, should I take this job? Is this my destiny? Am I the next great financial genius?

Should I come up with a plan B? Should I work in Boston for a few years and make enough money to have a cozy transition to New York?

Well I have always had a half-baked philosophy that having a plan B can muddy up your plan A.

I moved to the city, I bussed tables, I lived in a basement apartment next to a garbage chute that was filled with cockroaches.

And I could not have made a better decision.

Had I worked at at Fidelity, I am sure they would have fired me eventually.

But I didn't want to fail at Fidelity and I did not want to fail in Boston.

If I was going to run the risk of failure, I wanted it to be in the place where I would be proud to fail, doing what I wanted to do.

And let me tell you something, I did fail, over and over again.

I was too short for this or too weird for that.

I had one casting agents say, "This man will never work in comedy."

But I was in the fight, I was taking my punches, but I was in the fight.

Don't wait for your break, make your break.

Now listen up, you cannot let a fear of failure or a fear of comparison or a fear of judgment stop you from doing what's going to make you great.

You cannot succeed without this risk of failure.

You cannot have a voice without the risk of criticism.

And you cannot love without the risk of lost.

You must go out and you must take these risks.

Everything I'm truly proud of in this life has been a terrifying prospect to me.

From my first play to hosting Saturday Night Live, to getting married, to being a father, to speaking to you today.

And people will tell you to do what makes you happy, but a lot of this has been hard work. And I'm not always happy.

And I don't think you should do just what makes you happy.

I think you should do what makes you great.

Do what's uncomfortable, and scary, and hard but pays off in the long run.

Fail in the way, in the place where you would want to fail.

Because without this struggle, what is your success anyway?

Look as best we know what we have one life.

In it, you have to trust your own voice, your own ideas, your honesty, your vulnerability, and through this, you will find your way.

You do not have to be fearless, just don't let fear stop you.

Live like this as best you can and I guarantee you will look back on a life well-lived.