The knowledge that I, too, could die young drove me both to try to drain the most out of every moment of life and to get on with the next big challenge.

一想到自己也可能英年早逝，就会驱使我努力尽可能地活在当下，不断准备迎接下一个大的挑战。

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The next time your self-discipline is about to go off track ask yourself, “How can I get myself to do what a part of me doesn't want to do?

当下一次你发现自己快要失去自律的时候，问问你自己：“追求成功的大脑，是否会允许这样做呢？”

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Lord, I was happy—happy for Mother after all shed lived through to get me to that day, happy that Daddy’s last prediction came true, happy for the honor and the promise of the next two years.

我问母亲要是我穿一身英国花呢服装，她会怎么想，我看上去会好看吗。 天哪，我高兴极了——我为母亲高兴，毕竟她活着看到了我这一天；我高兴老爸最后的预言成为了现实；我为未来两年的荣誉和前途感到高兴。

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"I'm trying to get out of the way but people are falling next to me, but I am all right, thinking this is it, " said Rohrs.

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In class, I focused on having lengthy get-to-know-you chats with the person next to me, passed notes to my people three rows over, and penned (ghostwrote) love letters for girlfriends to give to the object of their obsessions.

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Sometimes, two or three of those bits would get me to the action leading to the next cliffhanger.

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