*Summary*

If you want to become an expert in one field, you had better learn it as early as possible. Hence, the possibility to succeed will be higher. Although some adults may also develop the skill, they will face more difficulties.

In the process of becoming an expert, you will experience three stages to succeed as close as you can.

In the first stage, your parents will guide you to have an interest on it and encourage you to get basic understanding of it.

In the second stage, you will find a teacher or coach who is not superior experts but skilled at teaching students. Students will get encouragement and support from teachers and parents so that they will have a further interest and basic discipline in honing the skill.

In the third stage, students need to find a more advanced teacher who is an expert itself or has taught others to be an expert. Parents will afford more on it. Students will mainly focus on sharpening their skills to highest level and competing with others to be more experienced.

Certain humans are always engaging in new fields to find possible approaches and techniques, which will leave valuable experience for other followers.

*熟读深思*

Parents emphasize the importance of academic success in general and to make clear their expectations that their children would continue their schooling beyond high school and even beyond college.

在进行专业训练的同时，不能抛弃学术学习，这是一个敲门砖，或者说是一个底牌。看到书中的很多例子都会往成功人士想，我也不例外。同时我又在想，不成功，该如何呢？电视剧《未生》讲的就是一个有天赋，肯用功，花费近15年的时间研究围棋而最终没有获得应有的名气，只能打零散工度日的青年-张可莱的成长。因为没有钱，他不能考级，长期专注于围棋，他同社会脱轨，只有高中学历。因为曾经的老师介绍，他来到有名的外贸公司上班。但是，他真的什么都不会。没有及时的好心人帮忙，也没有温暖的鼓励，倒不是职场冷血，是因为他真的太差劲。那咋办呢？用围棋的思维和格局，分析自己遇到的问题，用曾经磨练出来的坚持，去克服现在的种种困难。他辛苦吗？当然辛苦，同学习围棋时的辛苦相比，有过之无不及。但是他已经明白抓住机会，把握当下，用曾经的知识，尽可能好的解决现在的问题。他活在当下。

所以每个学习专业技能的孩子，不一定会阳光大道，但是这一路上他所学到的坚持，韧劲，心态，等等良好的磨练，足以支撑他进入一个新的行业。相比较职业技能，能够坚持持续学习是更加宝贵的财富。技能会淘汰或者退后，一个永远向上的心和坚持的学习，总不会让你过分落后。

*字词篇*

*springboard*

[释义] something which provides you either with the opportunity to follow a particular plan of action, or the encouragement that is needed to make it successful. （提供动力的）跳板；（有助于开展某事的）出发点，开端。

[原句] Many children will find some initial motivation to explore or to try something because of their natural curiosity or playfulness, and parents have an opportunity to use this initial interest as a springboard to an activity, but that initial curiosity-driven motivation needs to be supplemented.

[例句] The film's director is confident that the new project will act as a springboard for/to further contacts.

[造句] We have always found numerous excuses to delay actions, which we cheat ourselves to find a suitable springboard. What you have done and have been doing is the best springboard for your next opportunity.

*garner*

[释义] to collect something, usually after much work or with difficulty （通常指做大量工作或经历很多困难而）收集，积累，获得

[原句] A child who sees an another sibling performing an activity and getting attention and praise from a parent will naturally what to join in and garner some attention and praise as well.

[造句] Every great writer has garnered a great deal of materials to write.

*vest*

[释义] if something is vested in you, or if you are vested with it, it is given to you as a right or responsibility 授予，赋予，给予（权利）

[原句] These students became vested in the process, and their self-image started to include those abilities that were setting them apart from their peers.

[例句] He has been vested with the power to implement whatever changes he sees fit.

[造句] If you are vested with the power to manage foreign affairs, you are the symbol of our country and are responsible to introduce our nation to foreigners correctly.