昨天我们分享了美国诗人罗伯特·弗罗斯特（Robert Frost）的名诗 The Road Not Taken《未选之路》及一个版本的中文翻译。
编者还特意提到了末段——
I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood,and I—
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.
这段话的最后两句非常有名：
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.
一旦选择了少有人走的路，人生将彻底改变。
这让我立刻联想到一本经典励志书——《少有人走的路》（The Road Less Traveled）
这本书的作者M·斯科特·派克（M. Scott Peck）是美国的一名医学博士，也是杰出的心理医生和作家。他曾被美国媒体称为“我们这个时代最杰出的心理医生”，而他的杰出不仅在其智慧，更在于他的真诚和勇气。
百科上有一段对他的介绍比较能说明问题：
【儿童时，他就以“童言无忌”远近闻名；少年时，他又勇敢地放弃了父母为他安排的辉煌前程，毅然选择了自己的人生道路，最终当上了一名心理医生。他曾在美军日本冲绳基地担任心理医生，为美军军官做心理医生。在近二十年的职业生涯中，他治愈了成千上万个病人，他以从业经验为基础写作的《少有人走的路》，出版后虽未作任何宣传，但经人们口耳相传，迅速畅销起来，并被翻译成二十三种以上的语言，它曾在美国最著名的《纽约时报》畅销书排行榜上连续上榜近二十年，创造了出版史上的一大奇迹。】
在这本书的最开头，作者这样向自己的父母致敬：
To my parents,
Elizabeth and David,
whose discipline and love
gave me the eyes
to see grace
短短几行字，就可以看出本书的两个核心理念：Discipline & Love，而这两个单词也分别是本书前两个大章节的标题。在第一部分Discipline的开头，作者就让我们就直面生活的艰难：
Life is difficult.
This is a great truth, one of the greatest truths. It is a great truth because once we truly see this truth, we transcend it.
这本书之所以畅销，绝不仅仅因为它是一碗好鸡汤，还是有些深层次的东西
感兴趣的朋友可以找来看看，我们来看看书中的精彩片段。
在第一章 Problems and Pain 中，有几段话专门探讨了如何面对人生的困难，摘录如下：
Life is a series of problems. Do we want to moan about them or solve them? Do we want to teach our children to solve them?
Discipline is the basic set of tools we require to solve life’s problems. Without discipline we can solve nothing. With only some discipline we can solve only some problems. With total discipline we can solve all problems.
What makes life difficult is that the process of confronting and solving problems is a painful one. Problems, depending upon their nature, evoke in us frustration or grief or sadness or loneliness or guilt or regret or anger or fear or anxiety or anguish or despair. These are uncomfortable feelings, often very uncomfortable, often as painful as any kind of physical pain, sometimes equaling the very worst kind of physical pain. Indeed, it is because of the pain that events or conflicts engender in us all that we call them problems. And since life poses an endless series of problems, life is always difficult and is full of pain as well as joy.
我非常喜欢最后一段的第二句话，作者连续用10个or接了一串名词，足以引发读者的感知和思考：
Problems, depending upon their nature, evoke in us frustration or grief or sadness or loneliness or guilt or regret or anger or fear or anxiety or anguish or despair.
我下载了这本书的电子版，可以分享给大家，仅供学习使用。
