Unfortunately, just before you take your first step on the righteous journey to pursue your dreams, people around you, even the ones who deeply care for you, will give you awful advice. It’s not because they have evil intentions. It’s because they don’t understand the big picture—what your dreams, passions, and life goals mean to you. They don’t understand that, to you, the reward is worth the risk.
不幸的是,有些時候正當你要邁出你追逐夢想的第一步的時候,你身邊的人,甚至是一位十分在乎你的人也許會給你一些糟糕的意見。其實不是因為他們對你有惡意,是因為他們不了解你的宏圖——你的夢想,激情,人生目標對你來說的意義。他們不了解,對你來說,最好的獎勵就是值得冒險的經(jīng)歷。
So they try to protect you by shielding you from the possibility of failure, which, in effect, also shields you from the possibility of making your dreams a reality.
所以他們試圖想要保護你而減少你失敗的可能性,實際上,他們也在減少你使夢想成真的可能性。
As our friend Steve Jobs says:
“Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma, which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice, heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.”
就像我們的朋友Steve Jobs(蘋果公司CEO)說的:
你的時間是有限的,不要浪費在別人身上,不要被教條主義束縛,也就是不要活在別人的思想下,不要讓別人的意見影響你自己內(nèi)心的聲音,心靈,和直覺。他們怎么可能知道你本身在想什么,除了自己以外,其他的一切都是次要的。
Here are ten ill-advised tips (lies) people will likely tell you when you decide to pursue your dreams and the reasons why they are dreadfully mistaken:
這里有十條沒腦筋的建議(謊話)和他們被誤解的原因,這些都是當你決定要追逐你夢想的時候,人們最可能告訴你的。
1. You can follow your dreams someday, but right now you need to buckle down and be responsible.
你可以以后再去追逐你的夢想,但是現(xiàn)在你必須鉚足勁并且負責任。
Someday? When is ”someday”? “Someday” is not a day at all. It’s a foggy generalization of a time that will likely never come. Today is the only day guaranteed to you. Today is the only day you can begin to make a difference in your life. And pursuing your dreams is what life is all about. So don’t be irresponsible. Don’t wait until “someday.” Make today the first day of the rest of your new life.
以后?以后是什么時候?“以后”根本就不是一天。它是一種籠統(tǒng)的時間概念,而且可能永遠都不會出現(xiàn)。對你來說,今天才是你唯一需要保證的一天。今天是唯一一天能讓你的生活開始不一樣。并且追逐夢想就像你的生活一樣,所以不要對你的生活不負責任。不要等“以后”的到來。讓今天成為你以后新生活的第一天。