Profits of Praise 赞美的妙处 2010-01-04 22:07:26| 分类： 百味人生 | 标签： |字号大中小 订阅 Are we too quick to blame and slow to praise? It seems we are. 我们是不是习惯于埋怨，却不善于赞美呢？好像确实如此。 Profits of Praise 赞美的妙处 It was the end of my exhausting first day as waitress in a busy New York restaurant. My cap had gone away, my apron was stained, my feet ached. The loaded trays I carried felt heavier and heavier. Weary and discouraged, I didn't seem able to do anything right. As I made out a complicated check for a family with several children who had changed their ice-cream order a dozen times, I was ready to quit.这是我在纽约一家繁忙的饭店筋疲力尽的第一天工作快结束的时刻，帽子不见了，围裙弄脏了，脚疼得厉害，手中的托盘变得越来越沉。疲惫，沮丧，我似乎没有做好任何事情。在给一个家庭下那复杂的菜单时，他们的小孩对冰淇淋的要求变了又变，我几乎就打算辞职不干了！ Then the father smiled at me as he handed me my tip. "Well done," he said. "You've looked after us really well." Suddenly my tiredness vanished. I smiled back, and later, when the manager asked me how I'd liked my first day, I said, "Fine!" Those few words of praise had changed everything.这时，他们的父亲笑着将小费递给我，“干得好！”他说，“你照顾得很周到！” 突然间，我的疲倦消失了。我对他报以微笑。后来，经理问我这第一天怎么样的时候，我说：“很好！”那夸赞的几个词语改变了所有的一切。Praise is like sunlight to the human spirit; we cannot flower and grow without it. And yet, while most of us are only too ready to apply to others the cold wind of criticism, we are somehow reluctant to give our fellows the warm sunshine of praise. 赞美如同阳光一样照耀着人的精神，离开了它，我们将无法开花和成长。然而，大多数人只是时刻做着冷言冷语批评别人的准备，却不情愿将赞美的温暖阳光洒向我们的伙伴。Why—when on...
