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来源：英语周报
发布时间：2009-09-02 18:21:00
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内容提要：Is it worth it?Put first things firstThe power of encouragement
Finding a lost masterpiece
（第5期）
Did you know that you’re not one person, but three? The person you think you are, the person other people think you are, and the person you really are.
One day a man was looking in a second-hand art shop. He picked up a painting that looked very cheap, almost worthless. But as he looked closer, he saw another painting that was hidden underneath the cheap one. He knew that many lost masterpieces which were worth thousands even millions of dollars were hidden this way. So he bought it and hurried home to begin taking off the top cheap painting. After many hours of careful work, he could finally see a beautiful masterpiece of art that had been lost for years. But now it was finally restored to its original intended beauty.
You know, all of us are like that masterpiece painting. The original person is hidden by what others think we are, but especially by the person we think we are. So our wrong thinking about ourselves keeps us from becoming the person we can really be. Everything we do comes from the way we see ourselves.
So if we want to change, we must go deeper than just changing our actions and behavior. We must change the way we think and see ourselves in our own mind and heart.
You know, other people usually just see the surface — how we look and act on the outside or how much we’ve achieved in school and career. But that’s just a part of you.