Once we understand the adaptability of the brain and the body in this way, we start to think about human potential in an entirely different light, and it points us to an entirely different approach to learning.
一旦我們理解了大腦和身體的這種能力凹蜂，我們會(huì)以完全不同的眼光思考人的潛能，這又會(huì)引導(dǎo)我們以完全不同的方式去學(xué)習(xí)仪召。
Consider this: Most people live lives that are not particularly physically challenging.
They sit at a desk, or if they move around, it’s not a lot.
They aren’t running and jumping, they aren’t lifting heavy objects or throwing things long distances, and they aren’t performing maneuvers that require tremendous balance and coordination.
Thus they settle into a low level of physical capabilities—enough for day-to-day activities and maybe even hiking or biking or playing golf or tennis on the weekends, but far from the level of physical capabilities that a highly trained athlete possesses.
These “normal” people cannot run a mile in under five minutes or ten miles in under an hour; they cannot throw a baseball three hundred feet or hit a golf ball three hundred yards; they cannot do triple gainers off the high board or triple axels on ice skates or triple backflips in a gymnastics floor routine. These are the sorts of things that require far more practice than most people are willing to devote, but—and this is important—they are also the sorts of abilities that can be developed because the human body is so adaptable and responsive to training.
The reason that most people don’t possess these extraordinary physical capabilities isn’t because they don’t have the capacity for them, but rather because they’re satisfied to live in the comfortable rut of homeostasis and never do the work that is required to get out of it. They live in the world of “good enough.”
詞匯
1）maneuver? v./n. 機(jī)動(dòng)握恳，移動(dòng)
2）tremendous? adj. 巨大的
3）possess? v. 占有板祝，擁有
4）triple? adj. 三部的献起，三個(gè)的
5）gainer? 反射翻騰
6）high board? 跳板
7）axel? （滑冰）一周跳
8）ice skate? 溜冰
9）backflip? n. 后空翻
10）gymnastics? n. 體操口蝠，體育
11）devote? v. 奉獻(xiàn)，把…奉獻(xiàn)（給）
12）responsive? adj. 響應(yīng)的摊鸡，反應(yīng)靈敏的
13）rut? n. 一成不變绽媒，老一套
14）homeostasis? n. 動(dòng)態(tài)平衡蚕冬，自我穩(wěn)定
