给它一整年

类别：成长

讲述了通过坚持烤面包一整年，作者打破了三分钟热度并收获成长的故事。

时长 67 秒 · 语速 122 wpm

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I have a bad habit. 我有个坏毛病。

I start things. 总是三分钟热度。

Guitar, for two months. 吉他，弹了两个月。

Japanese, for six weeks. 日语，学了六个星期。

Running, for exactly nine days. 跑步，刚好坚持了九天。

Last January, I made one promise instead of ten. 去年一月，我没许一堆愿，就认准了一件事。

I would bake bread. 我要烤面包。

Only bread. 只烤面包。

Every weekend, for one whole year. 每个周末都烤，坚持整整一年。

I expected the hard part to be the bread. 我本以为最难的是烤面包本身。

It wasn't. 其实并不是。

My first loaves were flat and sad, but that was fine. 一开始烤出来的面包又扁又难看，但这倒没什么。

The hard part was everything else. 难的是其他所有的诱惑。

A friend started pottery. 有个朋友开始玩陶艺了。

Every week, something shiny said, "Wouldn't you rather try me?" 每周都有新鲜好玩的事物在勾引我：“不想来试试我吗？”

Staying is much harder than starting. 坚持可比开始难多了。

Nobody tells you that. 但从来没人跟你提过这点。

Around month five, something changed. 大概到了第五个月，事情有了变化。

My hands knew the dough. 我的手开始熟悉面团了。

I could tell by touch when it was ready. 一摸就知道它发酵好了没有。

It's December. 现在是十二月了。

Fifty loaves. 整整烤了五十个面包。

The last one was beautiful. 最后一个烤得特别漂亮。

I never knew what I could do, 我以前从不知道自己能做到什么程度，

because I always left before I found out. 因为每次还没看到结果，我就已经放弃了。