【夜读】不做这五件事，你就成功了！今天

How to Follow Your Dreams

Today we are going to talk about how to follow your dreams.

Do not do the following five things. That"s simple.

今天，我们来说说怎样实现梦想。只要不做下面这五件事，你就能成功。就这么简单。

Believe in overnight success.

相信一夜成名。

Most of us may have heard this story: a tech guy built a mobile app and sold it very fast for a lot of money. The story may seem real, but it"s incomplete.

很多人都听过这样的故事：一个技术男开发了一个app，卖了，赚了很多钱。这个故事或许是真实的，但是还不完整。

If you go investigate further, he 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.

如果你再深入调查，你会发现：他以前曾开发过30个app，在这方面获得过硕士、博士学位。他在该领域工作了有20年。

Bel Pesce, a famous Brazilian writer, once said her story: “I come from a humble family, and two weeks before the deadline to apply to MIT, I started the application process. I got in. People may think it’s an overnight success, but that not worked because for the years prior to that, I took life and education seriously”.

巴西的著名作家Bel Pesce曾讲述过她自己的故事：“我来自一个很普通的家庭。在MIT的入学申请日期截止的前两个礼拜，我才开始了准备申请材料。然后，我被录取了。人们可能会认为我是一夜成名，但并不是这样。在申请MIT之前，我一直非常努力地生活、学习。”

Your overnight success story is always a result of everything you’ve done in your life before that moment.

你的一夜成名，一定是你在这之前所有努力的结果。

Believe someone else has the answers for you.

相信别人能够给你答案。

Constantly, people want to help out. All sorts of people: your family, your friends, your business partners, they all have opinions on which road you should take.

人们总是想帮助别人。你的家人、朋友、合作伙伴…… 他们对你应该选择哪条路都有自己的建议。

But whatever you choice, there are other ways you have to pick as well. And

you need to make these decisions by yourself. No one else has the perfect answer for your own life.

但是，不论你选择的是什么，还有其他的选择等着你。你需要自己做决定。没有人能够给你的人生提供一个完美的答案。

Whichever road you go, you would face obstacles, while, it is a part of the process, isn"t it?

不论你走哪条路都会遇到困难，但是，这也是成功的一部分，不是吗？

Decide to settle when growth is guaranteed.

有所成就时，决定不再前进。

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.

当你的生活前途光明，你有一个很棒的团队，有一份不错的收入…… 所有事都挺好，那就停下来吧？

When you are growing towards a peak, you need to work harder than ever before and find yourself another peak.

当你正走向一个巅峰时，你应该比之前更加努力，继续寻找下一个人生巅峰。

Believe the fault is someone else"s.

错都在别人。

“I had a great idea, but no investor had the vision to invest”, “I created this great product, but the market is so bad, the sales didn’t go well”, “I can’t find good talent, my team is so below expectations”…… We constantly see people saying such words.

But please remember, if you have dream, it’s your responsibility to make them happen.

“我有一个很棒的想法，可是没有投资者愿意投资”，“我生产了一个很赞的产品，但是市场不景气”，“我找不到人才，我的团队太low了”…… 我们总是听到有人这么说。

Yes, it may be hard to find talent; the market may be bad. But if no one invested in your idea, if no one bought your product, for sure, there is something there that is your fault.

是的，找一个优秀的团队或许是不容易、市场也可能不景气。但是，如果没有人愿意给你投资，没有人买你的产品，那一定是你自己这里哪儿出了问题。

Be responsible for your dreams.

请对你自己的梦想负责。

Believe that the only things that matter are dreams themselves.

认为只有梦想本身才是重要的。

Once I saw an ad, and it was a lot of friends. They were going up a mountain. It was a very high mountain, and it was a lot of work. You could see that they were sweating and this was tough. Finally, they made it to the peak. Of course, they decided to celebrate. “Yes! We made it, we are at the top!” Two seconds later, one looks at the other and says: “Okay, let’s go down.”

我曾经看到过一个广告，里面有一群朋友。他们准备去爬山。那是一座非常高的山，要花很大气力才能登上山顶。你能看到他们汗流浃背，非常辛苦。终于，他们登上了山顶。当然了，他们要庆祝一下。“是的！我们做到了，我们登顶了！”。两秒钟后，其中一个人朝另一个说道：“好了，我们下山吧。”

Life is never about the goals themselves， it is about the journey.

You should enjoy goals themselves, but achieving a dream is a momentary sensation, and your life is not. The only way to really achieve all your dreams is to fully enjoy every step of your journey. That’s the best way.

人生的意义不是目标本身，而是实现目标的过程。你的确应该为梦想本身欢呼，但是实现梦想时的快乐只是暂时的，而你的生活却不是。真正实现梦想的唯一方法就是尽情享受旅程中的每一步。

Five tips: believe in overnight success; believe that when growing is guaranteed, you should settle down; believe that fault is someone else"s and believe that only dreams themselves matter.

五点：相信一夜成名；相信别人能够给你答案；有所成就时，便不再前进；认为错都在别人；认为只有梦想本身才是重要的。

If you do that, you will destroy your dreams！

不要做这五件事，你就能梦想成真！

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