by Chris Hadfield

Every single day youre the result of what you did on the days 1）prior. So， if you turn that around， you can start turning yourself into who you want to be based on what you decide to do today. What food do you put in your mouth？ What book do you read？ What movie do you watch？ What do you do with your spare time？ Do you study？ Do you learn something？ But， if you just， sort of， make 2）deliberate choices with your life， its amazing after a week or a month or a year the changes that you can effect. And you， 3）literally， turn yourself into the person that youre going to become.

Life very seldom goes as planned. （laughs） Mine…mine sure didnt. I couldnt count the number of 4）dead ends I ran into， 5）setbacks， serious problems， 6）minor problems， 7）opportunities that looked like a sure thing that didnt 8）pan out. The key is to accept them.

I decided a long time ago that I wanted to be an astronaut， but I realized the 9）odds were terrible. So I thought， well， lets head in the direction that I like. Lets do things on the way， but if…if I dont make it all the way to the very impossible end of the 10）ultimate job that I might love to do someday， that each of the things that Im doing on the way are things that I like doing， and that I would be happy to stay at. So I did that. I went to university and studied engineering. I loved engineering. It was interesting and challenging. I became a 11）military pilot. Flying a CF-18 is a 12）tremendous 13）privilege and 14）responsibility. I went to test-pilot school. And at each one of those stages of life， that kind of built on each other， I would have been happy to stop and say this is my profession， this is who Chris Hadfield is.

Dont measure the success of your life by one thing at the end. Measure the success of your life by each of the small victories along the way.

你的每一天都是你前幾天所造成的結(jié)果。所以，如果倒推回去，根據(jù)你今天決定要做的事，你就可以把自己塑造成你想成為的人。你放進(jìn)嘴里的是什么食物？你讀的是什么書？你看的是什么電影？你在業(yè)余時(shí)間都做些什么事情？你學(xué)習(xí)了嗎？你學(xué)到什么了嗎？你只需或多或少地對(duì)你的生活做一些有意識(shí)的選擇，那么一個(gè)星期、一個(gè)月或者一年以后，你能得到的變化將是十分驚人的。這樣，你就把自己變成你想成為的人了。

生活很少按人們的計(jì)劃進(jìn)行。（笑）我的……我的生活當(dāng)然也是如此。我數(shù)不清曾經(jīng)撞進(jìn)過多少條死胡同，碰到過多少挫折和各種大大小小的問題；一些看上去十拿九穩(wěn)的機(jī)會(huì)，最后卻沒有成功。關(guān)鍵在于：接受它們。

很久以前，我就決定成為一名宇航員，但我知道困難重重，希望渺茫。所以我想，無論如何，還是朝著我喜歡的方向前進(jìn)吧，先做做在這個(gè)過程中可以做的事情。但如果……即使我堅(jiān)持走下去，但最終沒能成功做到我所熱愛從事的工作，那么一路上我所做的事都是我喜歡的，而且樂于一直做下去。所以我就這樣做了。我進(jìn)入大學(xué)學(xué)習(xí)工程學(xué)。我很喜歡工程學(xué)，它既有趣，又有挑戰(zhàn)性。后來我成為了一名飛行員。駕駛CF-18戰(zhàn)斗機(jī)是一項(xiàng)責(zé)任重大的殊榮。我還去過試飛員學(xué)校。這些人生階段環(huán)環(huán)相扣，無論處于其中哪個(gè)階段，我都樂于坦承：“這就是我的職業(yè)，這就是克里斯·哈德菲爾德。”

不要只以最終的結(jié)果去衡量你的生活是否成功，而要以過程中每個(gè)細(xì)小的勝利去衡量。