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0'Mental toughness is the secret to success' | BBC Ideas
Some people say you have to be broken to be fixed again. My name is Asha Philip and I run. Athletics for me was just a bit of fun. It was something different and it was something new. Trampolining was my main sport and I loved it, and then I fell into double mini trampolining and then I became a world junior champion at it.
有些人说，你必须被打碎，才能被重塑。我叫阿莎 · 菲利普，我是一名田径运动员。运动对我来说只是一种乐趣。这是不同的东西，这是新的东西。蹦床是我的主要运动项目，我喜欢它，然后我喜欢上双迷你蹦床，并成为该项目的世界青年冠军。
I was at the World Championships in Quebec. I bounced up, but when I came down I didn't land right. I could just hear the crunch. I could just see my leg pointing in a different direction. Then I just remember grabbing my leg, and then just screaming and screaming. There was nothing holding my legs together. In a heartbeat, everything was just gone. Everything I worked hard for, had vanished.
我参加了魁北克的世界锦标赛。我蹦了起来，但当我下来时，我没有正确落地。我只能听到嘎吱的声音。我只能看到我的腿指向不同的方向。然后我只记得抓住我的腿，然后尖叫着，尖叫着。没有任何东西能把我的双腿并拢。一瞬间，一切都消失了。我为之奋斗的一切，都消失了。
Everyone told me I was a write-off. So how does a child, of age of seventeen, get back up? It felt like I had lost something. I had lost a part of me. I wanted to give up. And when you're at that point of just giving up, that's when you're meant to really turn your life around, and change.
每个人都说我没戏了。那么，一个十七岁的孩子如何重新站起来呢？感觉好像失去了什么。我失去了自己的一部分。我想放弃。当你到了要放弃的时候，你就应该改变自己的生活，改变自己。
It was my Mum who believed in me, and for that I believed in her. I really do question how I made it out. It was little by little. Coming in to do the rehab. Step by step you started to see improvement. The crutches went away, then I could walk, I was able to jog and then run. But then I had loads of injuries along the way.
是我妈妈相信我，因此我也相信她。我真的怀疑我是怎么做到的。这是一点一点的。进来做康复治疗。一步一步地，你开始看到改进。拐杖消失了，然后我就可以走路了，我可以慢跑，然后跑步。但后来我一路上受了很多伤。
The only thing standing between success and failure, is mental toughness. It's about being resilient. Being an athlete isn't like a normal job. The gym. Strengthening. The mind work. The fitness. For one shot. For eleven seconds. There are a lot of knockbacks. A lot. It's how you handle it. But it's also the most amazing release. I let out all my stresses, all my bad energy.
在成功和失败之间唯一的障碍就是精神上的坚韧。这是关于有弹性。做运动员不像一份正常的工作。健身房。加强。脑力工作。健身。只有一次机会。持续11秒。有很多挫折。很多。这就是你如何处理它。但这也是最令人惊叹的释放方式。我释放了所有的压力，所有的坏能量。
Every time I show up to train, I have the opportunity to learn more about myself, and how to run correctly. Some people train brilliantly, but in a race, they don't win. You need focus. You're in an arena of thousands of people, and you're on the start line with seven other women then you have a man holding a gun, and you have to learn to channel all this, and not panic. But there's so much going on.
每次我参加训练，我都有机会更多地了解自己，以及如何正确跑步。有些人训练得很出色，但在比赛中，他们并没有获胜。你需要集中注意力。你在一个有成千上万人的竞技场上，你和其他七个女人站在起跑线上，然后你有一个男人拿着枪，你必须学会引导这一切，不要恐慌。但事情太多了。
You've got your family in the crowd, everyone screaming, wanting you to do well, and obviously they're screaming for the girl alongside you. How do you put that all aside, and say, OK. I have to focus on myself, focus on my lane, focus on me.
你的家人在人群中，每个人都在尖叫，希望你做得好，显然他们也在为你旁边的女孩尖叫。你怎么能把这些都放在一边，然后说，好吧。我必须专注于自己，专注于我的赛道，专注于我自己。
There are sacrifices. There are lots of ways to have fun. Go after your goals, and balance it out the right way. In the end, it's about knowing what's important to you, and what makes you thrive. That's not just athletics. That's life.
会有牺牲。有很多种玩乐的方式。追求你的目标，并以正确的方式平衡它。归根结底，这是关于知道什么对你来说是重要的，什么让你茁壮成长。这不仅仅是体育运动。这就是生活。
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