4. Accumulate Small Wins

　　4. 积累点滴的成功

　　Some Olympic athletes train in a way that is designed to build confidence.

　　有些奥林匹克运动员的训练过程也是设计成培养自信的模式。

　　Rather than focusing on the gold medal, they set smaller achievable goals and build from there.

　　他们不把目标集中在金牌上，而是设定更小的能够达成的目标，从小目标开始努力。

　　By seeing themselves accumulate these little wins, their confidence grows and grows until they feel unstoppable.

　　看着自己一点一滴地积累达成小目标的成功，他们会越来越自信，直到有了无可抵挡的感觉。

　　Via Springboard: Launching Your Personal Search for Success:

　　以下来自于《跳板：启动你的个人成功搜索》：

　　In one of the best articles on Olympic training I have ever read, Daniel Chambliss tracked the techniques used by USA Swimming to get its athletes ready to compete in the Olympic games. One of the common threads in this training was to focus on a series of “small wins” in training rather than on the larger goal of winning a medal. As Chambliss summarized it, the swimmers “found their challenges in small things: working on a better start this week, polishing up their backstroke technique next week, planning how to pace their swim.” As a result, they got the satisfaction of “very definable, minor achievements,” which in turn gave them the confidence to attempt more small wins each and every day.

　　在我读过的关于奥运训练最好的文章之一中，丹尼尔·钱布利斯对美国奥运游泳项目的训练方式进行了追踪。其中一个常见的训练要素就是集中注意在一系列“点滴的成功”，而不是赢得金牌的大目标。如钱布利斯所总结的，游泳运动员们“在细小的事情上发现挑战：这周有一个更好的开始，下周完善自己的仰泳技巧，计划着怎样有条不紊地游。”这样一来，他们在“非常明确的，点滴的成就”中感到满足，从而让他们每天都自信地去尝试积累更多点滴的成功。

　　5. It’s Rational To Do The Irrational

　　5. 即使看似毫无理性，也放手去做

　　This is a very rational blog. You, however, are not a very rational creature. So do what works, even if it seems irrational.

　　这是一个理性说理的博客。而人本身，却不是非常理性的生物。所以，尽管看似毫无理性，但只要有用，就放手去做。

　　Research shows good luck charms do inspire confidence. And this improves performance on a variety of tasks.

　　研究表明幸运符的确可以激发自信，且在很多不同的活动中都能提升表现。

　　Via The Courage Quotient: How Science Can Make You Braver:

　　以下来自于《胆商：科学如何让你更勇敢》：

　　The researchers found that by activating good luck beliefs, these objects were consistently able to boost people’s self-confidence and that this up-tick in self-assurance in turn affected a wide range of performance. Lucky thinking, it turned out in this study, positively affected people’s ability to solve puzzles and to remember the pictures depicted on thirty-six different cards, and it improved their putting performance in golf! In fact, people with a lucky charm performed significantly better than did the people who had none. That’s right, having a lucky charm will make you a better golfer, should you care about such things, and improve your cognitive performance on tasks such as memory games.

　　研究人员发现，一旦激发人们对幸运符带来好运的信念，这些幸运符便能够长久地激发人的自信，而这种对积极的自我肯定反过来也能影响很多方面的表现。研究表明，这种基于幸运的思维方式，能够积极地影响人们在猜谜，记忆36个不同图片的卡片，以及打高尔夫球时推杆的能力。实际上，有幸运符的人们比没有任何幸运符的人们表现明显更棒。就是这样噢，如果你在意幸运符一类的东西的话，它确实会让你高尔夫打得更好，还能提升你在诸如记忆游戏等活动中的认知表现。

　　6. Get To Work

　　6. 努力去建立自信

　　Yes, some people are naturally superconfident. Others fake it.

　　是的，有些人生来超级自信，其他人则需要假装。

　　And you can, with some work, build confidence.

　　而且，做些努力，你可以建立自信。

　　What did Alfred Binet, the inventor of the IQ test, say about intelligence?

　　智商测试的发明者阿尔弗雷德·比奈，对于智力讲过什么呢?

　　Via Springboard: Launching Your Personal Search for Success:

　　以下来自于《跳板：启动你的个人成功搜索》：

　　It is not always the people who start out the smartest who end up the smartest.

　　最后智力超群的人，并不总是开始时候的那些聪明人。

　　The same is true of confidence.

　　自信也是如此。

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