It takes time to build a career or a business, prep work, time to learn and fail, time to build a network and a team of mentors and supporters.

干事业，做生意都需要时间的积累和积淀，需要做准备工作，需要时间学习、碰壁；建立网络，拓展人脉，建立团队，结交良师益友，赢得支持者，无不需要时间。

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This time, he must not fail.

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We don't know what it's like to be dead, because every time we try to imagine it, we fail.

我们不知道死亡是什么样的，因为每次我们想象死亡，都无果而终。

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And five weeks less one day later I decided you know what this might actually be for me and I switched from pass-fail to letter graded status at that point in time.

而第五周的最后一天,我从上及格-不及格制的课程转为上数字学分制的课程,你们可能知道这对我来说意味着什么。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

How did I fail time after time?

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But it by no means follows that they will fail this time (see box on next page).

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If they fail this time, tales of impoverished children will quickly pour forth.

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