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Some people ought to defend the workaholic. These people are unjustly accused, abused, and defamed — often, termed sick
Some people ought to defend the workaholic. These people are unjustly accused, abused, and defamed — often, termed sick
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2010-06-30
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Some people ought to defend the workaholic.
These people are unjustly accused, abused, and defamed — often, termed sick or morbid or on the border of pathology. About 30% of American business and commerce is carried on the shoulders of workaholics. The ratio might exist in art and science too.
Workaholics are the achievers, the excelers. There is a national conspiracy against excellence and undue admiration of commonness and mediocrity. It is as if we are against those who make uncommon sacrifices because they enjoy doing something.
Some famous psychologists say that the workaholic has an inferiority complex which leads to over-compensation. This is certainly not the case. Inferiority, or low esteem, describes laziness more accurately than it describes dedication.
We do not seem to realize that very little excellence is achieved by living a well-balanced life. Edison, Ford, Einstein, Freud all had single-minded devotion to work whereby they sacrificed many things, including family and friendship. The accusation is made that workaholics bear guilt by not being good parents or spouses. But guilt can exist in the balanced life also. Think how many "normal" people and middle-ages who have never done anything well — they are going to settle for less than what they could have become.
According to the author, one can hardly achieve excellence unless one
选项
A、lives an abnormal life.
B、sacrifices friendship and family.
C、has total devotion to work.
D、ignores popular opinions.
答案
C
解析
根据作者意图,一个人要想取得成绩必须全心全意投入工作,这也就是为什么作者赞美工作狂并为其辩解的原因。故应选C。
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