[問題] AI 11_arco範文

[evelight]

11. “When someone achieves greatness in any field — such as the arts, science, politics, or business — that
person's achievements are more important than any of his or her personal faults.”



Perhaps in some instances the personal failings of great achievers are unimportant relative to the achievements. In
many cases, however, the relative significance of personal failings can be very great, depending on two factors:
(1) the extent to which the failing is part of the achievement process itself, and (2) the societal impact of the
achiever's failing apart from his or her own success.

Personal failings and achievement are often symbiotically related. The former test the would-be achiever's mettle;
they pose challenges—necessary resistance that drives one to achieve despite the shortcoming. Personal failings
may also compel one to focus on one's strengths, thereby spawning achievement. For example, poor academic
or job performance may propel a gifted entrepreneur to start his or her own business. In the arts, a personal failing
may be a necessary ingredient or integral part of the process of achieving. Artists and musicians often produce
their most creative works during periods of depression, addiction, or other distress. In business, insensitivity
to the “human” costs of success has bred grand achievements, as with the questionable labor practices of the
great philanthropist Andrew Carnegie.

A second type of personal failing is one that is unrelated to the achievement. Modern politics is replete with
examples: the marital indiscretions of the great leader John F. Kennedy and the paranoia of the great statesman
Richard Nixon, to name just two. Were the personal failings of these two presidents less “important” than their
achievements? In the former example, probably so. In the latter example, probably not since it resulted in the
Watergate scandal—a watershed event in American politics. In cases such as these, therefore, the societal impact of
shortcoming and achievement must be weighed on a case-by-case basis. In sum, history informs us that personal
failings are often part-and-parcel of great achievements; even where they are not, personal shortcomings of great
achievers often make an important societal impact of their own.



第二段重點在於第一句Personal failings and achievement are often symbiotically related.
第二句則闡述symbiotically related的內涵 (failings刺激achievement)。
接下來舉四個例子，學術、工作、藝術、商業。(真是漂亮的結構!)

ok....問題來了，最後的例子(商業)，大概是我對此君不熟
人資問題能刺激有錢人作慈善事業？
總覺得怪怪的...這道理好像不大通

[liwuu]

呵呵...這個問題好幾百年前都問了,evelight也修成正果了
不過,有興趣的可以參考卡內基此人的生平~~就可以了解這邊的意思囉!!