As a baby， we learn to walk not by walking， but by falling. We try to push ourselves up， and then we fall down.

作为一个婴儿的时候，我们不是靠走，而是靠跌倒学会了走路。我们试着爬起来，然而却又摔倒了。

Some might say we fail， over and over again. But a parent looks at their baby trying to walk and thinks， “Look at her trying to walk！Shes doing so well. Look， she made it three steps further this time.”

有些人可能会说我们一次又一次失败了。但是做父母的看到他们的孩子正尝试着走路，会想：“看她试着走了！她做得很好。看，她这一次又多走了三步。”

No matter what you call it， learning something new involves taking risks of failure. Not just once， but over and over again.

不管你怎么称呼它，学习一些新的东西，总要冒着失败的风险。不只是一次，而是一次又一次。

Of course some of us learn more easily than others. But for most of us， its a hard， sometimes trying process. It may result in failure time and time again， just like a little baby learning to walk. But unlike the baby， we often criticize our failures as adults—were stupid， were not good enough.

当然，我们中的一些人学起来比其他人更容易。但对我们大多数人来说，这是一个艰难的，不断尝试的过程。这可能会导致一次又一次的失败，就像一个婴儿蹒跚学步一样。但和蹒跚学步的孩子不同的是，作为成年人，我们经常批评我们的失败——我们太笨，我们做得还不够好。

Babies dont think that. They think， “Hey， this walking thing is kind of cool. Its what grownups do and Im doing it！Oh， I fell again.

Well， Ill just get back up and try again.”

幼儿不这么认为。他们认为，“嘿，走路这事儿有点酷。这就是大人做的事儿，我也正在这么做！哎呀，我又摔倒了。好吧，我要重新再来一次。”

They dont criticize themselves （they dont even know what criticism is）. They take the risk， time and time again， falling over and over again. And all they know is to get up and try again.

他们不会批评自己（他们甚至不知道什么是批评）。他们一次又一次地冒险，一次又一次地摔倒。他们只知道要站起来再试一次。

They see the joy on other peoples faces when they try again. They hear the excitement in their voices and feel that no matter what， someone will be there to make sure they dont get hurt too badly when they fall.

当他们再次尝试的时候，他们看到的是别人脸上的喜悦。他们听到他们的声音里的兴奋，并认为，无论怎样，都会有某个人在，以保证他们跌倒时不会受到太严重的伤害。

As adults， we dont always have someone to rely on to watch out for our hurts when we fail or fall. We have to learn to rely on ourselves. Nobody can be our safety net all the time in our lives — only we can act as our own safety nets.

作为成年人，当我们失败或跌倒时，并不总是有人能让我们依靠并关注我们受到的伤害。我们必须学会依靠自己。在我们的人生中，没有人能一直做我们的安全网

——除了我们自己。

We need to fail—failure is how we learn. If we never fail at anything， we probably havent learned all that life has to teach us. So to me， its not a question of failing， but how I can fail more quickly and take something away from the experience.

我们需要失败——失败是我们学习的方式。……