Learn More on Bad Days

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The first thing I want you to take away from today is this: you will have good days, and you will have bad days. But you will always learn something more or something new, and you'll learn more overall on bad days than good days.
You'll learn more about yourself, you'll learn more about relationships, you'll learn about life and principles and you'll build your character.
If you're a person who wants to, let's say, improve on your character of patience, let's say, don't complain when you're waiting in a line. You ain't going to grow in patience until you're put in a place to wait.
It's like you go into a gym and, you know, you walking through the front doors and, you know, you tell your wife or your husband I'm going to the gym. You go into the gym and you come in three feet, you do a U-turn and you ride out, I went to the gym. Ain't getting nothing.
You got to go in and what are you going to do? You're going to pick up the weights and you exercise the muscles that you want to build.
I stand before you without arms and legs, but a very strong man because of the bad days in my life. You know how it is. If you didn't go what you've gone through, you wouldn't be who you are today.
And I'm not belittling your pain and don't worry, I've seen pain in my life, and I've seen it not only in my life, but people's lives and people say well at least I have no arms and legs and then what am I supposed to say?
At least I'm not a African orphan who's dying at four years old and I met that person.
What about the 10-year-old girl that was bought for 700 US dollars in Mamba, kidnapped as a sex slave, to have 350 clients before the age of 13, pregnant at 12, put the baby under the bed while she works on top, abandoned by her family.
After she pays her debt of 700 US dollars after three years with her child she leaves on the streets of Mamba hoping for a new life. No family, no job, no food.
Her baby needs food. She gets raped, beaten up on the street. She comes back to the only way that she knows how to make money. She goes back to the brothels.
She gets pregnant at 15 the second time and then that child dies and then at 20 years old she comes up to me, yes, I have met this woman.
She comes up crying and she says "Nick, I just found I've got HIV AIDS. And I got fired from being a prostitute."
What do you say to that?
You may have arms and legs, but unless you know three things,
No. 1, who are you and what your value is;
No. 2, what is your purpose here in life and
No. 3, what is your destiny when you're done here.
If you don't know the answers of any of those three questions, you're more disabled than I.

演讲人简介

Nick Vujicic（跳转维基百科）

Nick Vujicic

重点单词与讲解（点单词跳转牛津词典）

1.belittle (BrE /bɪˈlɪtl/)

belittle somebody/something to make somebody or the things that somebody does seem unimportant

• She felt her husband constantly belittled her achievements.
• By saying this, I do not mean to belittle the importance of his role.

欧路词典例句

2.Mamba（BrE /ˈmæmbə/）

a black or green poisonous African snake
在本文中的意思为：非洲地名，蒙巴

欧路词典百科

3.brothel（BrE /ˈbrɒθl/）

a house where people pay to have sex with prostitutes

欧路词典例句

4.prostitute（BrE /ˈprɒstɪtjuːt/）

a person who has sex for money

欧路词典例句

重点词组与讲解（例句来自linggle）

1.take away from today

一般用于演讲，表示演讲者希望听众从演讲中获得什么
take away 表示带走，常用词组有

• take away from
• take away your
• take away some
• take away your freedom
• take away all the
• take away the pain
• take away what

2.build your character

形成自己的人格

• Yet other research suggests that giving a child an unusual name might help build character.

3.improve on

提高

• But scientists and farmers have developed ways to improve on tradition.
• He continued to improve on the process.
• The plan also reduces teacher pay if students fail to improve on statewide tests.

4.character of

某人的人格或者哪方面的特质（文章中是后者）

• The character of the Joker is extremely evil.
• He created the character of Walter Mitty.

5.be put in a place to wait

被放在一个地方而不得不等待

6.Ain't getting nothing

什么也没有得到，英语口语里面有双重否定表否定的意思这种用法。

7.pick up the weights

举重

8.exercise the muscles

锻炼肌肉

9.I stand before you

我站在你面前

10.belittle your pain

贬低你的痛苦

11.what am I supposed to say?

我应该说什么呢？

美句笔记

1. The first thing I want you to take away from today is this: you will have good days, and you will have bad days. But you will always learn something more or something new, and you'll learn more overall on bad days than good days.
2. I stand before you without arms and legs, but a very strong man because of the bad days in my life. You know how it is. If you didn't go what you've gone through, you wouldn't be who you are today.
3. No family, no job, no food.
4. You may have arms and legs, but unless you know three things,
   No. 1, who are you and what your value is;
   No. 2, what is your purpose here in life and
   No. 3, what is your destiny when you're done here.
   If you don't know the answers of any of those three questions, you're more disabled than I.

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