It requires desire and commitment-in other words, it takes work.

它需要渴望和承诺——换句话说，它需要辛勤付出。

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But he knows that ataraxia does not come naturally; it takes work.

但他知道，这种平心静气不是天生的，是需要修炼的。

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Whether you’ll be successful at overcoming the fear, and at starting your own business, is another question — it takes work, and time, and an ability to accept failure and learn from it.

不管你是否能成功战胜这种恐惧，或者是否能成功开创你自己的事业，这是另外一个问题——你首先必须用你的努力、时间和能力去接受失败和从失败中学到些什么。

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But,it takes much more work to get them approved and to make them successful.

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It takes work both at the individual level and it takes work at the group level.

不仅个人需要下功夫,群体也要下功夫。

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In order to not act in a stereotyped fashion, we have to consciously push them down, we have to consciously override them, and that's possible, but it takes work.

为了不表现出刻板印象，我们要有意识地压抑它们，我们要有意识地钳制它们，这是有可能的，但需要下功夫。

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It takes work, effort, but it is a way of being that can be just as natural.

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It takes work just like any other important relationship in your life.

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One important note: it takes work to start a group, and once a group has started, it takes work to help keep it going.

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