Name: 一位老人的忠告 (A old man's advice)
Uploaded: 2025-05-09T03:20:29.000Z
Duration: 10 min 20 s

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I made a video not too long ago called An Old Man's Advice.

不久前，我製作了一個視頻，名為 "老人的建議"。

Looking at me, it looks like I need to trim my beard a little bit.

看我的樣子，似乎需要修剪一下鬍子了。

But I received several requests to continue on with that and so I've decided to share a little bit about myself and my life and my hardships and my successes with you.

但我收到了一些要求，希望我繼續寫下去，所以我決定與大家分享一下我自己、我的生活、我的艱辛和我的成功。

It's tough for people that for years have had jobs and security and made good money and been able to take care of their families.

這對於多年來一直有工作、有保障、能賺大錢並能照顧家庭的人來說是很艱難的。

And some time ago, as you know, jobs were shipped overseas to improve the bottom line of big companies.

正如你們所知，不久前，工作崗位被運往海外，以提高大公司的底線。

And I thought I'd tell you a little bit about myself.

我想我應該向你們介紹一下我自己。

I quit school when I was in the 10th grade.

My mother and father left me standing on a street corner.

And I had a job working at a shell filling station.

我還在貝殼加油站找到了一份工作。

And I went to the owner and I told him my situation.

我去找店主，告訴他我的情況。

And I was making a dollar an hour and I asked him if I could work more hours.

我當時的工資是一小時一美元，我問他我能不能多工作幾個小時。

於是，我開始每週工作 90 個小時。

And during that time, as I've said before, my home was the back of an old car.

在那段時間裡，正如我之前說過的，我的家就是一輛舊車的後座。

And I took my baths in a filling station restroom.

And I washed my clothes, my private clothes, in the sink.

我在水槽裡洗我的衣服，我的私人衣物。

And once in a while when I was really hungry, I would go to the grocery store and snitch an apple or an orange.

偶爾我真的餓了，就會去雜貨店買個蘋果或橘子。

Things were a lot different than they are now.

And I'm convinced that the owner of the grocery store knew what I was doing.

我相信雜貨店老闆知道我在做什麼。

Because it was about a half a block away from where I worked and he knew me.

因為那裡離我工作的地方只有半個街區，而且他認識我。

Now I've said before that good things nor bad things last forever.

我以前說過，好事和壞事都不會長久。

I knew in my soul that if I had nothing to offer, I was as far as I was going to go.

我從心底裡知道，如果我一無所有，我就只能走這麼遠了。

Now unemployment at that time was very high.

On the other hand, in the 50s, you could go into a corporation and ask for a job and get it.

另一方面，在 50 年代，你可以走進一家公司，要求一份工作並得到它。

And after I'd worked 90 hours a week for a long time, I went into the service.

在我每週工作 90 個小時的漫長歲月後，我進入了軍隊。

In the service, I taught myself to read and write.

在服役期間，我自學了閱讀和寫作。

The first book I picked up was a book written by Louis Slimore.

我拿起的第一本書是路易斯-斯利摩爾寫的一本書。

這是一個牛仔故事，一個西部故事。

And there were words in there that I didn't know.

So I got a dictionary from the service library.

於是我從服務圖書館借了本字典。

And as I would read, if there was a word that I didn't understand, I would look it up.

在閱讀過程中，如果有不懂的單詞，我就會去查。

And I will tell you now, it took me almost three weeks to read 196 pages.

我現在告訴你，我花了近三個星期才讀完 196 頁。

And in several months, I was reading two and three books at a time.

幾個月下來，我一次能讀兩三本書。

And I knew where I was in every single one of them.

As a young person, regardless of what's happening in the world today, you have opportunity.

作為年輕人，無論當今世界發生了什麼，你們都有機會。

And don't you believe for one single minute what they say in the media.

Because if you aren't getting ahead and you need to get ahead, position yourself to learn.

因為如果你沒有出人頭地，而你又需要出人頭地，那就定位自己去學習。

Young people, without you, this world is nothing.

年輕人，沒有你們，這個世界什麼都不是。

You are the future leaders of this world.

你們是這個世界未來的領導者。

You are the ones that see the greed of the people that are running it now.

是你們看到了現在掌權者的貪婪。

You're the ones that see the waste of the people that are running it now.

是你們看到了現在管理者的浪費。

Oh, I see young people stepping on the flag and throwing rocks and rioting.

哦，我看到年輕人踩踏國旗、投擲石塊和騷亂。

But anyway, as I went on and I got out of the service, I had begun to write and educate myself.

但無論如何，當我退役後，我開始寫作和自學。

And I continued on through my life with that.

You don't have to have a doctorate or a PhD or a master's degree.

你不必擁有博士、博士學位或碩士學位。

You have to have an inner will to get things done.

你必須有完成任務的內在意志。

Because as I said before, without your brains, without your ambition, without your drive, this world will be nothing.

因為正如我之前所說，沒有你們的頭腦，沒有你們的雄心，沒有你們的動力，這個世界將一無是處。

Nothing because old people like me die off.

什麼都沒有，因為像我這樣的老人都死光了。

我和我可愛的妻子住在亞利桑那州。

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