这是一本关于如何获得成功的书。如何设立自己和他人的目标，解释设立的目标是如何工作的，什么样的策略可以使我们获得成功，以及追寻的道路上遇到的坑。
这是一本心理学实用书籍，非心灵鸡汤，给大众提供真正可行的方法论。对于践行书中提供的方法的人获得成功，作者是想当有信心的。
大家有兴趣可以拿来读读,《Succeed How We Can reach our goal》。
相信也能给你的人生带来一道耀眼的光，反正我是被它闪瞎了，哈哈。
金句1
And by “willpower,” I mean some innate quality of inner strength
that allows those who have it to successfully avoid temptation.
对于意志力，我指的是一些内部力量的内部素质，可以允许那些拥有它的人抵抗诱惑。
• allow 允许
• allow sb to do sth 允许某人做某事
• avoid 避免
• avoid sth/doing sth 避免做某事
She allows her child to watch tv for a while.
You must be careful,so avoid making mistake.
金句2
Most people believe that it’s fundamentally a character issue. Some people have willpower (the thin, nonsmokers—and we admire them for it). Others don’t, and we judge them accordingly. ”
大多数人相信这根本上就是性格问题。一些人有意志力（那些瘦的，不吸烟的人，我们羡慕他们有意志力）。而那些没有的，我们会相应的批判他。
• a character issue 性格问题
• admire 钦佩
• judge 批评；指责
金句3
Willpower is not what you think it is.
意志力并不是你想的那样。
Willpower 意志力
金句4
Self-control is the ability to guide your actions in pursuit of a goal —to persevere and stay on course, despite temptations, distractions,
and the demands of competing goals.
自控力可以指引你的行为来追求目标--坚持路线、抵抗诱惑，分歧和完成目标的需求。
• guide 引导 guided guided guiding
• persevere 坚持 persevered persevered persevering
金句5
Everyone knows that eating less and exercising more will help you lose weight. But knowing is one thing, and actually doing it is another thing entirely.
每个人都知道吃的少多做运动有助于减肥。但是知道是一回事，做实际上完全是另外一件事。
• exercise 锻炼 exercised exercised exercising
• lose weight 减肥 take off weight ---put on weight
There are sereral ways to lose weight.
金句6
His meteoric rise from community organizer to Harvard Law Review president, state senator, U.S. senator, and finally president of the United States would be worthy of admiration were he the son of well-connected, New England blue bloods.
他快速从社区书记上升到哈佛法律顾问主席，到州参议员到美国参议员到最终的美国总统，如果他是具有贵族血统和富有家庭的话，也就是值得好好羡慕下。
• meteoric rise 迅速上升
• blue blood 贵族
金句7
But he isn’t—he’s the mixed-race child of a broken home and a family of average means, with no particular advantages other than his clearly
extraordinary intelligence and determination.
但是他不是，他是一个单亲家庭的混血孩子，家境寻常，与其他人比也没有特殊的优势，有的也就是他超群的智力和决心了。
• average means 家境寻常 （means 金钱财富）
• intelligence 智力
• determination 决心
金句8
Like a muscle,self-control can vary in its strength-- not only form person to person,but from moment to moment.
vary 变化。
自控力像肌肉一样，是它的力度是可以改变的，不仅是针对个人的，甚至是每个时刻都是变得。
金句9
People who are very succsessful in one or more areas of their life are successful precisely because that's where they devote the bulk of their capacity for self-control.
那些在人生中的一个或者多个领域成功的人确实是成功的，因为，他把所有的自控力专用于此了。
devote 把…专用于
• capacity 最大容量；生产力
She devote the money for her beauty.
金句10
When you tax it too much, the well of self-control will certainly run dry
当你耗费太多的话，那自控力之井就肯定会干涸。
• tax 耗费 taxed taxed taxing
• run 流出 ran run running
tax one's strength
金句11
Depletion is only temporary, and you are most vulnerable immediately
after you’ve used up your self-control reserves.
耗尽只是暂时的，你最多在你自控力资源用光后脆弱一会。
• depletion 耗尽；枯竭
• Temporary 暂时的
• vulnerable 脆弱的
• use up 耗尽
金句12
A lack of self-control strength can sometimes overcomes with well-choosen incentives or rewards.
自控力的缺乏有时候可以通过选择合适的奖励来克服。
• overcome 克服
• incentive 奖励
• reward 奖品；酬金
金句13
Increasing your motivation through better rewards can help you
compensate for a temporary loss of self-control.
通过更好的奖励来增强你的动机,可以帮你补充暂时缺乏的自控力.
• compensate 补偿
• compensate for sth 补偿某事
• loss 减少；下跌
金句14
Another way in which willpower, or self-control, is different than you may
have imagined is that it’s neither innate nor unchangeable. Self-control is
learned, and developed and made stronger (or weaker) over time.
意志力或者自控力的另一种方式，或者与你想象的不同，它既不是天生的，也不是不能改变。自控力可以随着时间学习，发展和变得强壮（或者变弱）。
• innate 天生的
• unchangeable 不变的
• develop 发展
金句15
Succeed is about understanding how goals work, what tends to go
wrong, and what you can do to reach your goals or to help others reach
theirs.
<<成功>>这本书是关于理解目标是如何起作用的，什么倾向于走向错误，可以做什么达到目标或者帮助他人达到目标。