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《五个毁灭梦想的办法》中英文演讲稿
I
dedicated the past two years to understanding how
people achieve their
dreams. When we
think about the dreams we have, and the dent we
want
to leave in the universe, it is
striking to see how big of an overlap there is
between the dreams that we have and
projects that never happen.
我花了两年的时间去理解
：
人们如何实现他们的梦想。
说到我们的梦想、
我
们想要在这个宇宙留下的痕迹，
让人吃惊的是：我们的梦想常常只是梦。
So
I’m
here to
talk to you today about five ways how not to
follow your
dreams.
今天我在这里要讲的就是
5
个如何毁灭梦想的办法：
One: Believe in overnight
success.
1
、
相信一夜成名
You know
the story,
right? The tech guy
built a mobile app and sold it
very fast for a lot of money. You know
the story may seem real, but I bet
it
’
s incomplete.
If you go investigate further, the guy has done 30
apps
before
and
he
has
done
a
master
’
s
on
the
topic,
a
Ph.D.
He
has
been
working
on the topic for 20 years.
你肯定听过这样的故事：
一个技术男
开发了一个移动应用，并迅速转卖赚
了很多钱。
这个故事可能是
真的，
但是很可能是不完整的。
如果你深入研究就发
现，这个人在之前已经开发了
30
个应用，他有相
关的硕士和博士学历，他研究
这个领域已经
20
年了。
This is really
interesting. I myself have a story in Brazil that
people think
is
an
overnight
success.
I
come
from
a
humble
family,
and
two
weeks
before the deadline to apply to MIT, I
started the application process. And,
voila! I got may think
it
’
s an overnight success,
but that only
worked
because
for
the
17
years
prior
to
that
I
took
life
and
education
seriously.
You
overnight
success
story
is
always
a
result
of
everything
you
’
ve done in
your life through that moment.
这很有意思。我自
己本身在巴西也是一个“一夜成名”的故事。我来自一个
普通家庭，
麻省理工大学
（
MIT
）
申请截止日期两个星期前，
我开始申请。
哇啦，
我被录取了！
人们可能认为这是
“一夜
成名”
，
但是这背后是我
17
年来对生活和
教育的执着努力。
“一夜成名”总是你之前所有努力加起来的结果。
Two: Believe someone else
has the answers for you.
2
、相信别人有你需要的答案
Constantly,
people
want
to
help
out,
right?
All
sorts
of
people:
your
family,
your
friends,
your
business
partners,
they
all
have
opinions
on
which
path you should take.
“
And
let me tell you, go through this
pipe.
”
But
whenever
you
go
inside,
there
are
other
ways
you
have
to
pick
as
well. And you need to
make those decisions yourself.
人们总是很乐意帮助，对吗？各种各样的人。你的家人、朋友、商业伙伴，
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/p>
他们都觉得你应该这样或那样做。
“听我说，走这个管道。”
但是你进到里边，
你还需做出其他的选择
，
而你需要自己做出这些选择。
No one else has the perfect answers for
your life. And you need to keep
picking
those decisions, right? The pipes are infinite and
you
’
re going to
bump your head, and
it
’
s a part of process.
没有
人能给你的人生提供完美的答案，
你自己需要做出决定，
对吗？
管道无
穷无尽，你可能会磕到头，这是这个过程的一部分。
Three: and
it
’
s very subtle but very
important.
Decide to settle when growth
is guaranteed. So when your life is going
great, you have put together a great
team, and you have growing revenue
and
everything is set. Time to settle.
第三点不太明显但是很重要。
你的生活很不错，
你组建的团队很棒。
你们的收入
持续增长，一切都很好――<
/p>
可以休息了。
When
I
launched
my
first
book,
I
worked
really
hard
to
distribute
it
everywhere in Brazil. With that over
three million people downloaded it,
over 50000 people bought physical
copies. When I wrote a sequel, some
impact was guaranteed. Even if I did
little, sales would be okay. But okay
is never okay. When
you
’
re growing towards a
peak, you need to work
harder than ever
and find yourself another peak. Maybe if I did
little, a
couple hundred thousand
people would read it, and
that
’
s great already.
But
if
I
work
harder
than
ever,
I
can
bring
this
number
up
to
millions.
That
’
s why I
decided, with my new book to go to every single
state of
Brazil.
And
I
can
already
see
a
higher
peak.
There
’
s
no
time
to
settle
down.
在我出版了我的第一本书之后，
我非
常努力在巴西到处宣传。
伴随我的努力，
超过
< br>300
万人下载了这本书，
超
过
5
万人买了印刷版。当我写续集的时候，影
< br>响力已经得到保障，
即使我只付出一点点，
销售量也应该
还可以。
但是
“还可以”
，
是永远不够的。
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/p>
当你朝着一个顶峰前进的时候，
你需要更加努力来找到另一个顶峰
。
也许如
果我只付出一点点，
几十万人
会读续集，
这固然很棒，
但是如果我付出前所未有
的努力，
我可以把这个数字推到几百万。
这就是为什
么我决定把我的新书介绍到
巴西的每一个州，我已经能够看到一个更高的顶峰。没有时间
止步。