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Over several months Nige the Ninja managed to show me how to fly a helicopter while doingother things, countless1 other things, and, what was more, to do so with something approachingself-love. These were flying lessons, but I think back on them as life lessons, and gradually therewere more good ones than bad.
Good or bad, however, every ninety-minute session in Nige’s Squirrel Dojo left me hooped2.
Upon landing I’d think: I need a nap.
This was where Nige the Ninja really put me through it, because he sugarcoated nothing. Hespoke bluntly and wounded blithely4. There were things I needed to hear, and he didn’t care abouthis tone when he told me.
He pressed on.
I shot him hate-you-forever stares.
He pressed on.
I said, Yeah, yeah, I get it.
He pressed on.
I stopped listening.
Poor Nige…He pressed on.
He was, I realize now, one of the most truthful6 people I’ve ever known, and he knew a secretabout truth that many people are unwilling7 to accept: it’s usually painful. He wanted me to believein myself, but that belief could never be based on false promises or fake compliments. The royalroad to mastery was paved with facts.
Not that he was categorically opposed to compliments. One day, almost in passing, he said thatI appeared to lack any…fear. You’re not terribly concerned, if I may say, Lieutenant8 Wales, withdying.
That’s true.
I explained that I hadn’t been afraid of death since the age of twelve.
He nodded once. He got it. We moved on.
1 countless | |
adj.无数的,多得不计其数的 | |
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2 hooped | |
adj.以环作装饰的;带横纹的;带有环的 | |
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3 debrief | |
v.向…询问情况,听取汇报 | |
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4 blithely | |
adv.欢乐地,快活地,无挂虑地 | |
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5 defensive | |
adj.防御的;防卫的;防守的 | |
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6 truthful | |
adj.真实的,说实话的,诚实的 | |
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adj.不情愿的 | |
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8 lieutenant | |
n.陆军中尉,海军上尉;代理官员,副职官员 | |
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