英语学习阅读材料A4打印版180730.docx

1、英语学习阅读材料A4打印版 180730有声双语美文：花点时间和值得的人在一起Nurture your relationships. Its reallyprominent.维护你的人际关系，这真的非常重要。Your family and friends matter.你的家人和朋友都是很重要的人。They appear in your life for reasons.他们出现在你的生命中是有原因的。Cherish them. Let them know no matter how busy you are, you always have them in mind.珍惜他们。让他们知道：无

2、论你有多忙，你总会记着他们。Spending time with people you look up to.与那些你欣赏的人呆在一起。There must be someone who is living the kind you life you envision.肯定有人过着你梦想中的那种生活。Spend time with them.花些时间和他们呆在一起。Spending time with these people need not be two-way all the time.这种“呆在一起”并不一定得是双向的。You can also spend time with them

3、 via reading or actively learning from theirYouTubevideos.你也可以通过阅读他们的著作或者观看他们的YouTube视频来和他们“呆在一起”=LeadershipWhat Makes A Good Leader?What makes a good leader is the use of effective management skills such as spending 50 percent or more of their time listening carefully.Great leaders understand that

4、some of the best leadership qualities entail listening to others with undivided attention. Great leaders with excellent management skills to encourage input and change, Also who encouraged a dialogue with the team came out on top. and the best way to measure them is based on feedback they get from t

5、heir best people. People usually give the best scores to leaders you trust and to leaders who listen.The Most Essential Leadership Qualities:Integrity is perhaps the most valued and respected quality of leadership and one of the most important management skills you need to attain. By saying what you

6、ll do and then be doing what you say, you will build trust around your team.To be successful as a leader, you need a combination of two ingredients: character and competence. You need to be a person of integrity. Someone people trust and are willing to follow.To be trusted in business, you must be t

7、rustworthy. You must believe in yourself, your company, the essential goodness of your products and services, and in your people.Out of all the existing leadership qualities, the most fascinating and distinguishing characteristic of level 5 is an often misunderstood trait: humility.As it happens, hu

8、mility doesnt actually mean being humble . . .“Humility simply means you have a burning, driving, relentless ambition to serve and to win,”“Without the arrogance to delude yourself into believing that you are knowing everything or always right.”As a Level 5 Leader, you dont believe you are perfect.

9、You must, however, believe in yourself, and be convinced that you have what it takes to succeed and that you can get better. You are always looking for new ways to develop your leadership qualities and take your thoughts to the next level.And most of all a successful leader shouldnt build a wall bet

10、ween him and his employee, in contrast, he should earn the trust of his employ.A Summery of Brian Tracy answers the question What makes a good leader? by discussing the management skills and leadership qualities essential for an effective leader.Maram Al-khazmary=9 Signs Youre a Highly Sensitive Per

11、sonSensitive people get a bad rap. Research suggests that genes are responsible for the 1520% of people who qualify as “highly sensitive.” Psychologist Elain Aron has studied this phenomenon extensively, and using MRI scans of highly sensitive peoples brains, shes found that they experience sounds,

12、feelings, and even the presence of other people much more intensely than the average person.Sensitivity and Emotional IntelligenceEmotional intelligence (EQ) is your ability to recognize and understand emotions in yourself and others and your ability to use this awareness to manage your behavior and

13、 relationships. The good news is that highly sensitive people arent more or less emotionally intelligent than others.Highly sensitive people experience things more intensely. Their strong emotions are easier to identify (and potentially use to their benefit) than the average person. This also helps

14、them to communicate effectively because they dont just hear the words coming out of other peoples mouths, but they also catch on to subtleties in gesture and tone.There are trade-offs, however, as strong emotions that are left unchecked can have disastrous consequences. Highly sensitive people can u

15、se EQ to their benefit only once they understand that they are highly sensitive. This awareness ensures they reap the benefits of their heightened emotional awareness while spotting and defeating their negative tendencies.The Highly Sensitive PersonYoure likely wondering if you or someone you know a

16、re highly sensitive. The following are the most common qualities that highly sensitive people possess. See how many apply.You think deeply.When life throws you a curveball, you retreat deep into your shell, thinking through every aspect of what transpired before taking any action. Small things (in y

17、our own life and other peoples lives) can have a big impact on you.Youre detail-oriented.Youre as sensitive to details as you are to feelings. You see details that others miss, and you arent content until youve dotted all the is and crossed the ts. This is a strength that is highly valuable in the r

18、ight profession.You take longer to reach decisions.Since youre prone to dig deep beneath the surface, you tend to drag out decisions. You cant help but try to run every possible outcome through your head, and this is often at the expense of the ticking clock.Youre crushed by bad decisions.When you f

19、inally make a decision, and it turns out to be a poor choice, you take it much harder than most. This can create a vicious cycle that slows down your decision-making process even more, as fear of making a bad decision is part of what slows you down in the first place.Youre emotionally reactive.When

20、left to your own devices, you have a knee-jerk reaction to your feelings. You also have strong reactions to what other people are going through. When your emotions come on strong, its easy to let them hijack your behavior. The hard part is channeling your feelings into producing the behavior that yo

21、u want.You take criticism harshly.Your strong feelings and intense emotional reactions can make criticism hard to take. Though you may overreact to criticism initially, you also have the tendency to think hard about things and explore them deeply. This exploration of criticism can play out well for

22、you in the long run, as your inability to “shrug it off” helps you make the appropriate changes.You work well in teams.Your unique ability to take other peoples feelings into account, weigh different aspects of multifaceted decisions, and pay attention to the smaller details makes you extremely valu

23、able in a team environment. Of course, this can backfire if youre the one that is tasked with making final decisions, as youre better suited to offering input and analysis than you are to deciding whether or not to push the red button.You have great manners.Your heightened awareness of the emotions

24、of other people makes you highly conscientious. You pay close attention to how your behavior affects other people and have the good manners to show for it. You also get particularly irked when other people are rude.Open offices drive you crazy.Your sensitivity to other people, loud noises, and other

25、 stimuli makes it practically impossible for you to work effectively in an open-office environment. Youre better off in a cube or working from home.Bringing It All TogetherLike many things in life, being a highly sensitive person is both a blessing and a curse. It all comes down to what you make of

26、it.Are you or someone you know highly sensitive? Please share your thoughts in the comments section below as I learn just as much from you as you do from me.ABOUT THE AUTHOR:Dr. Travis Bradberryis the award-winning co-author of the #1 bestselling book,Emotional Intelligence 2.0,and the cofounder ofT

27、alentSmart, the worlds leading provider ofemotional intelligence testsandtraining, serving more than 75% of Fortune 500 companies. His bestselling books have been translated into 25 languages and are available in more than 150 countries. Dr. Bradberry has written for, or been covered by,Newsweek, TI

28、ME, BusinessWeek, Fortune, Forbes, Fast Company, Inc., USA Today, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, andThe Harvard Business Review.=我是年过40,没有孩子的单身女人,我过得很开心A few months before my 42nd birthday, I was out to dinner with friends and found myself seated next to a well-known older male writer

29、.42岁生日的前几个月，我和一些朋友外出吃饭，发现邻座是一位知名且年长的男作家。I happened to be in the final stages of finishing a proposal for a memoir about being a single woman over 40 without children, and was inwardly marveling at the timing of our encounter. I was a fan of his. Perhaps he might offer some wisdom? Words of encourage

30、ment?当时我正在给一本书的创作计划收尾，那是一本关于一个年过四十还没有孩子的单身女人的自传。我暗地里对我们相遇的时机感到惊讶。我是他的粉丝。或许他能给我提供一些建议，或是鼓励的话？As drinks were delivered I sketched the outline of the story: No one had prepared me for how exhilarating life could be on my own. I was traveling all the time, doing what I wanted, when I wanted, released fr

31、om the fear of the clock that had dogged me through my 30s. Conversely, no one had warned me of the ways in which it would actually be difficult; my mother had been very ill, for instance, and part of the book was about caring for her.当饮料被端上来的时候，我向他简述我的故事梗概：没有人告诉过我，独居生活可以如此兴奋刺激。只要我愿意，就可以在任何时候去旅游，做一切

32、我想做的事，而且不再像30多岁时那样，对紧紧相逼的时光感到恐惧。但是，也没有人告诫过我这样的生活可能真正面临的困难。比如我妈妈病得很严重，书中有一部分内容就是关于照料她。No sooner had I finished than the famous writer placed his glass firmly on the white tablecloth, leaned back and declared: “Glynnis MacNicol, you have a terrible life!”我一讲完，这位有名的作家就把眼镜重重摔在白色桌布上，身体向后一靠，说：“葛林妮丝?梅克尼可(Glynnis MacNicol)，你的生活可真糟糕！”Not exactly the feedback I was hoping for.这完全不是我所期待的回应。He continued: “Youre all alone in the world, and have no one to help you.” He turned to my friends, dramatically