摘要：今天要跟大家分享的雅思閱讀素材叫做“Is life miserable without passion?”，“沒有激情的生活是痛苦的嗎？”對我來說，生活必須充滿激情啊！但是本文作者的觀點好像有點分歧呢，到底他覺得生活該不該充滿激情呢，一起來看今天的雅思閱讀文章吧！

When his doctor suggested that he “embrace the shake,” Hansen decided to develop a new approach to art that relied on his handicap. The result was a new genre of creative work. Hansen made portraits out of matches, grease and food. He still used his hands to draw, but instead of creating images from perfect dots, he drew pictures composed entirely of squiggles.

In the American sense of the word, art is Hansen’s passion. But it’s more accurate to describe his life with cierpienie. He still experiences joint pain and he still can’t draw straight, so he has no choice but to endure his limitation. Despite his glowing TED Talk, the outcome is usually negative, as is the case with all creative work. The final product invariably results from dozens of failed ones.

Although it’s important to value work that is intrinsically fulfilling, let’s stop advertising the myopic(短視的)idea that life without passion—whether it is something to be found or created—is not worth living. Working adults aren’t either passionate and fulfilled or lifeless and miserable. That’s an overly simplified worldview, in which the dreary desk workers of the world are constantly pitted against the Elon Musks. (工作中的成年人并非只有“要么充滿激情和成就，要么沒有生機和痛苦”兩種選擇。那種世界觀過于簡單，這種觀點長期讓世界上那些枯燥的案頭工作人員與Elon Musk們處于對立狀態。)

Instead, we should recast our own American concept of passion to include other definitions that embrace a broader sense of what a meaningful life could look like. “Having too few constructs or insufficiently validated ones can create problems, particularly when life is moving quickly and you are trying to make sense of it,” Cambridge University psychologist Brian Little writes in his book Me, Myself and Us. “Your constructs can cage you in.” (“建構太少，或者你的建構得不到充分證實，這都會帶來問題，尤其是當生命匆匆，你想從中找到意義的時候，”劍橋大學心理學家Brian Little在其《我，我自己和我們》中寫道。“你的種種建構可能將你自己困住。”)

Vocabulary

Entrepreneur 企業家

Unwavering 不動搖的

Zeal 熱情

Eccentricity 怪異性

Mercurial 水性楊花的;易變的

Prerequisite 前提

Commencement 畢業典禮;開始

Post hoc 事后的

Cliché 陳詞濫調

Mantra 頌歌

Intrinsically 內在地

Paradigm 模式

Proclivity 傾向

Malleable 可以鍛造的;可以改變的

Endorse 同意;簽署

Grueling 痛苦的

Adversity 不利情況;敵人

Counterpart 對等物

Myopic 短視的