PerfaceThis book is the culmination of 15 years of research, teaching, and personal experience on the subject of self-made millionaires. These pages contain the key ideas and strategies I have discovered in reading hundreds of books and thousands of articles on the subject of wealth accumulation. The ideas and strategies are presented in a simple, tested, proven, easy-touse format so that you can learn and apply them immediately.，我来为大家科普一下关于适合入门者读的英文原版书?下面希望有你要的答案，我们一起来看看吧!
适合入门者读的英文原版书
嗨，朋友们，我来了。前几天写文章有提到语言学习，然后我想着，择日不如撞日，不如就趁此机会重新开始用英语吧。关于听英语这件事，一直觉得自己应该听不懂，所以一直没有去尝试。后来我想，没试过怎么知道，而且，就算真的听不懂，就当是培养对英语的敏锐度好了。于是，开始倒腾听书这件事，最开始是准备用讯飞类的软件读的，但后来觉得机器读的没有什么感情，发音也有一点点怪怪的，也不存在一些连读、音调起伏，强弱变化之类的。所以，还是准备找人类读的版本来听。自然而然地选择了autible，这个亚马逊的有声书平台，相对来说，这里面的版权是最丰富的。但是它在国区是不开放的，我注册了美区的账号，美区的会员实在是不便宜，一个月100多人民币。去淘宝上买美区的会员礼品卡能便宜不少，省钱小妙招。我听的第一本书是《THE 21 SUCCESS SECRETS OF SELF-MADE MILLIONAIRE》（白手起家的百万富翁的21个成功秘诀）。这是笑来老师推荐的一本书，用来作为读英文原版书的第一步真的很合适。这本书真挺薄的，没有几页，整本有声书也只有1个小时多一点点的时间。而且，也比较好懂，我发现我如果注意力集中力去听的话，还是可以听懂大部分的。相比于听中文肯定是有很大落差的，我听中文的东西至少都开2倍速，我都感觉原速说话太慢了，甚至可以一边听一边干别的。但听英语别说2倍速了，原速都不可以走神，走一下神再回来就是听天书了。显然这个事情不能太贪心，一直抱着听英语太浪费时间的心情，这块能力就一直提高不了了。所以，我不光准备听，我还准备读，两两相辅相成，一本一本书地吃透，慢就是快。于是接下来准备翻译翻译我读的书，也算是发挥一些余热。今天就先开始这本书的前言和介绍吧。Perface
This book is the culmination of 15 years of research, teaching, and personal experience on the subject of self-made millionaires. These pages contain the key ideas and strategies I have discovered in reading hundreds of books and thousands of articles on the subject of wealth accumulation. The ideas and strategies are presented in a simple, tested, proven, easy-touse format so that you can learn and apply them immediately.
When I was a teenager growing up in Pomona,California, in a home where we never had very much money, my dream, my fantasy, was to be a millionaire by the time I was 30. Lots of people have the same dream, I’m sure.
However, when I reached the age of 30, I was still just as broke as when I was 20. Then I did something that changed my life. I began asking, Why are some people more successful than others? I especially wanted to know, How is it that some people start off with nothing and eventually become millionaires?
This question set me off on a search for the answers,which has led to this book.
I chose self-made millionaires as my focal point because these people had demonstrated special qualities and behaviors that were both observable and measurable. They had started with nothing and passed the magic million-dollar mark as the result of doing certain things in a certain way, over and over.
What I learned was that in order to achieve great success in life, you must become a special kind of person. To rise above the majority, you must develop qualities and disciplines that the average person lacks.
The most important factor in achieving great financial success is not the money. It is the kind of person you have to become to earn that money and then hold on to it.
These 21 “success secrets” are the keys to great success in every area of life,whether or not you make a lot of money. The good news is that these principles are so powerful that you can apply them to accomplish almost anything you really want. Many of these methods and techniques will seem familiar to you.
This is because they have been discovered and rediscovered for hundreds of years. I see myself more as a student of success—a reader, a researcher, a synthesizer, and a teacher of great ideas—than as an originator or creator of brand new concepts. I believe, as it says in Ecclesiastes, “There is nothing new under the sun.”
Since you are reading this book, I know that one of your great goals in life is to become an extraordinary person, to realize more and more of your true potential. Each of these success secrets will help you to move ahead more rapidly toward the wonderful life that is possible for you. Enjoy the journey!
BRIAN TRACY August 2000
本书是我15年来对白手起家百万富翁这一主题的研究、教学和个人经验的结晶。这些书页包含了我在阅读数百本书籍和数千篇关于财富积累的文章中发现的关键想法和策略。这些想法和策略以简单的、经过测试的、经过验证的、易于使用的形式呈现，以便你可以立即学习和应用它们。
当我还是一个在加利福尼亚波莫纳长大的少年时，在一个我们从来没有多少钱的家里，我的梦想，我的幻想，是在我30岁时成为一个百万富翁。我相信很多人都有同样的梦想。
然而，当我到达30岁时，我仍然像20岁时一样一贫如洗。然后我做了一件事，改变了我的生活。我开始问，为什么有些人比其他人更成功？我特别想知道，为什么有些人从一无所有开始，最终成为百万富翁？
这个问题让我开始寻找答案，这导致了这本书的诞生。
我选择白手起家的百万富翁作为我的焦点，因为这些人表现出的特殊品质和行为是可以观察和衡量的。他们白手起家，并通过神奇的百万美元大关，因为他们一次又一次地以特定的方式做某些事情。
我学到的是，为了在生活中取得巨大成功，你必须成为一种特殊的人。要超越大多数人，你必须培养普通人所缺乏的品质和纪律。
普通人所缺乏的品质和纪律。
取得巨大财务成功的最重要因素不是钱。而是你必须成为什么样的人，才能赚到这些钱，然后坚持下去。
这21条 "成功秘诀 "是在生活的各个领域取得巨大成功的关键，无论你是否能赚到很多钱。好消息是，这些原则非常强大，你可以应用它们来完成你真正想要的几乎任何事情。
这些方法和技巧中有许多对你来说似乎很熟悉。这是因为它们在近几百年间无数次地被发现。我更多地把自己看作是一个成功的学生--一个读者、一个研究者、一个综合者和一个伟大思想的老师，而不是一个全新概念的提出者或创造者。我相信，正如《传道书》（《圣经·旧约》）中所说，"太阳底下没有新鲜事"。
既然你在读这本书，我知道你的伟大人生目标之一是成为一个非凡的人，发挥你尽可能多的潜能。这些成功秘诀中的每一条都将帮助你更快地朝着你可能的美好生活前进。享受这段旅程吧!
博恩·崔西 2000年8月
Introduction:The Law of Cause and Effect
What you are about to learn can change your life.These ideas, insights, and strategies have been the springboards to financial success for millions of men and women, young and old, rich and poor. These principles are simple, effective, and fairly easy to apply. They have been tested and proven over and over again,and they will work for you if you will take them and apply them in your own life.
We are living at the greatest time in all of human history. More people are becoming wealthy today,starting from nothing, than ever before imagined.There are more than seven million millionaires in America, most of them self-made, and the number is growing by 15 to 20 percent each year. We even have self-made ten millionaires, hundred millionaires, and more than two hundred billionaires. We have never seen this type of rapid wealth creation in all of human history.
Here’s the best news of all. Virtually everyone starts with nothing. More than 90 percent of all financially successful people today started off broke or nearly broke. The average self-made millionaire has been bankrupt or nearly bankrupt 3.2 times. Most wealthy people failed many times before they finally found the right opportunity that they were able to leverage into financial success. And what hundreds of thousands and millions of other people have done,you can do as well.
The iron law of human destiny is the Law of Cause and Effect. This law is simple yet very powerful. It says that there is a specific effect for every cause. For every action, there is a reaction. This law says that success is not an accident. Financial success is the result of doing certain, specific things over and over again until you achieve the financial independence that you desire.
Nature is neutral. The natural world, the marketplace, or our society does not care who you are or what you are. The Law of Cause and Effect says that if you do what other successful people do, you will eventually get the results that other successful people get.
And if you don’t, you won’t. This law says that when you learn the success secrets of self-made millionaires and apply them in your own life, you will experience results and rewards far beyond anything you have accomplished up until now.
Here is an important point for you to remember.Nobody is better than you and nobody is smarter than you. Let me repeat that. Nobody is better than you and nobody is smarter than you. Get those thoughts out of your mind. One of the primary reasons for selling yourself short, for underachievement and lack of financial success, is the conviction that people who are doing better than you are better than you.This is simply not the case.
The fact is that most self-made millionaires are ordinary people with average educations working at average jobs and living in average neighborhoods in average houses driving average cars. But they have found out what other financially successful people do and they have done those same things over and over again until they achieved the same results. It is no miracle and it is no accident. And when you think the same thoughts and do the same things that self-made millionaires do, you will begin to get the same results and benefits they do. It is simply a matter of cause and effect.
There are 21 success secrets of self-made millionaires. Each of these is indispensable to your becoming financially independent. The failure to apply any one of these principles can, by itself, undermine and even destroy your chances for health, happiness, and great prosperity.
The good news is that you can learn every one of these principles by practice and repetition, over and over again, until they become as natural to you as breathing in and breathing out. Just as you learned to ride a bicycle or drive a car, you can learn the success secrets of self-made millionaires and apply them in your life. And there are no limits except the limits you place on yourself by your own thinking. Now, let us begin.
介绍：因果律
你将要学习的东西可以改变你的生活。这些想法、见解和策略已经成为数百万男女、年轻人和老年人、富人和穷人获得财务成功的跳板。这些原则简单、有效，而且相当容易应用。它们已经被反复测试和证明，如果你愿意接受并在自己的生活中应用它们，它们将对你有效。
我们正生活在人类历史上最伟大的时代。如今，白手起家的人比以前想象的要多。在美国有超过700万的百万富翁，其中大部分是白手起家的，而且这个数字每年以15%到20%的速度增长。我们甚至有白手起家的千万富翁，上亿富翁，以及超过200个亿万富翁。在整个人类历史上，我们从未见过这种类型的快速财富创造。
最好的消息是，几乎每个人都是白手起家。今天90%以上的财务成功人士在开始时都是破产或几乎破产的。白手起家的百万富翁们平均都破产或几乎破产了3.2次。大多数富人都失败过很多次后，才找到正确的机会撬动财务成功。大多数富人在最终找到合适的机会之前都失败过很多次，他们能够利用这些机会获得财务上的成功。成千上万、数以百万计的人所做的事，你也可以做到。
人类命运的铁律是 "因果律"。这条定律很简单，却非常强大。它说，每一个原因都有一个具体的结果。每一个行动，都有一个反应。这条定律说，成功不是一个意外。财务上的成功是反复做某些特定事情的结果，直到你实现你所期望的财务独立。
自然界是中立的。自然界、市场或我们的社会并不关心你是谁。如因果律所说，如果你做其他成功人士做的事，你最终会得到其他成功人士得到的结果。
而如果你不这样做，你就不会得到。这个定律说，当你学习白手起家的百万富翁的成功秘诀，并将其应用于你自己的生活，你将体验到远远超过你到目前为止所取得的任何成就的结果和回报。
这里有一点很重要，你要记住。没有人比你更好，没有人比你更聪明。让我再重复一遍。没有人比你更好，没有人比你更聪明。把这些想法从你的脑海中剔除。你一直无法获得财务上的成功的一个主要原因就是你看轻你自己，你相信那些比你做得更好的人，比你更好。事实根本不是这样的。
事实是，大多数白手起家的百万富翁都是受过普通教育的普通人，从事普通的工作，住在普通的社区，开着普通的汽车。但他们发现了其他经济上的成功人士所做的事情，并且他们也一遍又一遍地做着同样的事情直到他们取得同样的结果。这并不是奇迹，也不是偶然。而当你和白手起家的百万富翁一样拥有同样的想法，做同样的事情，你就会开始获得与他们同样的结果和好处。这就是因果律。
这本书里讲了21个白手起家的百万富翁的成功秘诀。每一个都是你财务独立不可或缺的因素。不应用这些原则中的任何一条，可能会损害甚至破坏你获得健康、幸福和巨大繁荣的机会。
好消息是，你可以通过一遍又一遍地练习和重复来学习这些原则中的每一条，直到它们对你来说变得像呼吸一样自然。就像你学会骑自行车或驾驶汽车一样，你也可以学习白手起家的百万富翁的成功秘诀，并将其应用于你的生活。并且没有任何限制，除非你自己的思想给自己设限。现在，让我们开始吧。
总的来说，这部分的作用，就是打鸡血，要相信自己可以，一直做正确的事，就能得到正确的结果。笑来老师说，把时间当作朋友的方式，就是用正确的方法做正确的事。这本书也是为了这个目的而来的，我们一起期待一下后面的内容吧。字数：不统计
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