【转载】如何用失败的经历吸引招生官-新东方前途出国

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如何用失败的经历吸引招生官

A Formula for turning Failure into Success in your PS

个人陈述写作秘诀：如何用失败的经历吸引阅读者

The most important part about writing about disappointment and failures is about illustrating the success afterwards, not the negativity of both disappoint and failure. While writing about disappointment and failures is a very popular topic that many applicants touch on with their personal statements, this topic can still be very tricky to handle. Many applicants don’t do a good job of measuring just how much disappointment that they would want to put into their personal statements.

在个人陈述中描写失落和失败的最重要的一部分就是为了引出后面的成功，而不是单纯地表达消极情绪。很多申请者在写个人陈述的时候会写到失落和失败，但是这样的话题也会很难处理。相当多的申请者就做不好，不知道在个人陈述中要加入多少对于失落和失败的描述。

"If you want to increase your success rate, double your failure rate"- Thomas Watson, IBM

“如果你想增加你的成功率，那么就加倍你的失败率”-托马斯·华生，IBM

The reason why people write about disappointment/failure is usually that they want to illustrate a change in their personal histories for others to see. They want others to see how they have changed from disappointments/failures into successful figures. Therefore, it is very important that the applicant illustrate that type of change in her statement.

人们喜欢写失败经历的原因通常是他们想要让别人看到他们的改变。他们想要别人看到他们是如何从失败走向成功的。因此，在陈述中表明此人经历了什么样的变化就非常重要了。

A common mistake that applicants make while writing about disappointment/failures is that they get caught up in developing and writing too much about how much of a disappointment/failure they used to be. This is not necessarily the write way to write because others are more interested of what kind of person the applicant is now as opposed of who she was before.

在写失败经历的时候申请者常犯的一个错误是过分强调他们经历的失落/失败。这并不是写作的正确方法，因为别人更关心的是申请者现在是怎么样的一个人而不是他的过去。

A good formula to go by when one decide to write about disappointment/failure is to split the total content of failure and success into three parts. The applicant should spend:

当你决定描写失落/失败经历的时候有一个巧妙的公式可以用上：将所有的失败和成功的内容划分为3个部分。申请者可以这样做：

as much as around 1/3 of her essay talking about her past (disappoints/failures…)

大约三分之一用来讨论过去（失落/失败经历等等。。。）

the majority, or 2/3 of the rest of her essay talking about both the change and who she was after experiencing the disappointment/failure.

其余大部分，大约三分之二用来讨论发生的改变以及经历了失败之后是什么样。

Again, do not get too caught up with talking about the disappointment/failure in the essay such that one starts rambling on with negativity. Focus on the change and positivity that were brought about as a direct result of the disappointment/failures.

再说一遍，在文章中不要太纠结于讨论那些失落/失败的经历，这会让人感觉很消极。关注于改变以及由失败经历带来的积极面。

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