英语听力每日五分钟（美文篇）18

018 Master Your Mind 

Ben Sweetland once said, 95% of all human problems stem from a negative mind. If that's true, and you don't want any more problems, it is your job to feed your mind with something better, something positive and transformative.

Ben Sweetland曾经说过，在人们遇到的问题中，有95%来源于消极的心态。如果事实如此，而且你不想遇到更多的问题，那么你就要多想一想好的事，想一想积极的事，想一想那些能帮助我们做出改变的事。

It's your job to reprogram your mind through learning and self-development, so you can find solutions to your problems. And then notice the possibilities and opportunities that have always been lying right in front of your face, but your limited mind had not allowed you to see.

你不断学习，提升自己，让自己的思想得到升华，这样你才能找到问题的解决办法。你也需要留心一下，生活中其实有很多可能性、很多机会摆在你面前，只是你的思维太局限，没能看到它们而已。

Negativity keeps you blind to opportunities. It keeps you blind to the good in the world. It holds you hostage to your true potential. Negative people will always remain in the prison of their self-imposed limits. Sometimes it's a life sentence, because they've convinced themselves there is no way out. They've convinced themselves it's someone else's fault they are in that prison. Other people are holding them there. But they have the key. You have the key.

消极的心态，会让你忽视机会，让你忽视世界上的美好，让你无法施展自己的才华。消极的人，总是在原地打转，限制住自己。有时候，这就像终身监禁一样，因为他们让自己相信，自己永远出不去。他们让自己相信，自己被困在这个牢笼里，是别人造成的，是别人要把他们困在里面。但是，事实上，他们能凭自己的努力走出去，你也可以。