STEP 2
Run Down The Alley
CHAPTER 4
The Spielberg Game
With my list in hand, I charged straight
to the stroge closet, sat behind my desk, and flipped open my laptop. But as I
stared at the screen, a cold, empty feeling ran through me. My only thought
was…Now that? Only later would I learn how pivotal these moments are for anyone
who sets out to start something new. Many times the hardest past about
achieving a dream isn’t actually achieving it- it’s stepping through your fear
of the unknown when you don’t have a plan. Having a teacher or boss tell you
what to do makes lifes a lot easier. But nobody achieves a dream from the
comfort of certainly. Because I didn't know how to get the interview, I
finished my interview by asking for advice by sending emails to adults I knew.
I also contacted professors, friends, parents or whoever I would meet and would
later be put together together. One of the first people to agree to my advice
was an administrator who worked at USC. When I recalled the previous moments,
it made me feel embarrassed to have made a mistake. Because of that,
nervousness made my body weak. my nervousness made me nervous when I wanted to
say, it felt like my legs were not strong enough to stand up when I saw
Spielberg. However, before I started Spielberg had gone to meet his colleagues.
I felt relieved and immediately headed to the bathroom to relieve my thoughts
and my nervousness.
CHAPTER 5
Crouching in the
Bathroom
When I woke up in the morning, the
dean's voice that kept me in my ears made me feel still very upset. So I
dragged myself to the storage cabinet and looked at the shelves in the closet
for inspiration. I also found a book entitled The 4-Hour Workweek by the Ferris
team. It is a book given by brandon. I took it and read it, and when I read on
the first page, it made me want to read it deeper because of the words that
made me so attractive. Chapter four had a passage so powerfull it felt like Tim
Ferris whacked my “What
do I want to do with my life?” “What do you want?” is too imprecise to produce
a meaningful and actionable answer forget about it. “What are your goals?” is
similary fated for confusion and guesswork. To rephrase the question, we need
to take a step back and look at the bigger picture. What is the opposite of
happiness?Sadness?No. Just as love and hate are two sides of the same coin, so
are happiness and sadness… the opposite of love is indifference, and the
opposite of happiness is here’s the clincher boredom. Excitement is the more
practical synonym for happiness, and it is precisely what you should strive to
chase. It is the cure all. When pople suggest you follow your “passion” or you
“bliss” I propose that they are, in fact, referring to the same singular
concept: excitement.
As I was going through the book a second
time, I noticed something on the dedication page that I hadn’t caught at first.
10% of all author royalties
are donated to educational not for profits, including Donoorschoose.org. I used my price
is right money to bookmy plane ticket. I was so excited I even went to Niketown
and bought a jet-black duffel bag for my travels. I packed it up the morning of
the conference, and as I was running out the door, I grabbed a onorsChoose gift
card from the top of the stack, slipped it in my pocket, and took off.
CHAPTER 6
Qi Time
Steve jobs once said, “ you can’t connect them looking
backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your
future”
Those word couldn’t have applied more to the buseniss conference where I met
cessar. Qi Lu grew up in rural village was so poor that people suffered
deformities from malnutrition. There were hundreds of kids, but only one
schoolteacher. At age twenty-seven dollars a money he’d ever earned seven
dollars a month. Fast forward twenty years : he’s president of online services
at Microsoft.i just threw my hands up and asked “how did you do it?”
Qi smiled humbly and said that when he
was a kid he wanted to be a shipbuilder. He was too scrawny topass the weight
requirement, which forced him to focus on his studies. He got into Fudan
University, a top college in Shanghai, where he majored in computer science and
it was there he had a realization that changed his life. He began thinking
about time, particulary the amount of time he felt hewasted in bed. He was
sleeping eight hours a night, but then he realized that one thing in life
doesn’t change: whether you’re a rice farmer or the president of the United
States, you only get twenty four hours in a day. “In some ways,” Qi said, “You
can say God is fair to everybody. The questions is: Will you use God’s gift the
best you possibly can?” He readabout notable people in history who’d
reengineered their sleep patterns and set out to create his own system. First
he cut one hour of sleep, then another, and another. At one point, he was down
to a single hours a night. He forced himself awake with ice-cold showers, but
he wasn’t able to sustain it. Eventually he found that the least sleep he could
optimally function on was four hours a night. To this day, he hasn’t slept in
since. “It’s like
driving a car,”
Qi told me. “If you
always drive at sixty five miles per hour, it doesn’t wear and tear the car
that much. But if you speed up and slam the brakes often, that wears the engine
down.” “Luck is like a bus,” he told me. “If you miss one, there’s always the next one. But if you’re not
prepared, you won’t be able to jump on.”
CHAPTER 7
The Hidden
Reservoir
Finally, my email was answered by Bill
Gates's office, but the bil gates refused him to be interviewed. I rushed to
send another email to the people I had listed in my notes. and I also got
someone who wanted to be interviewed, he was very happy to receive it and
seemed to be my closest friend. When the autumn days arrived, I felt even more
desperate because of the many rejections I received. But there was one person
who made me change, making me a non-wasteful person and always thanking God for
him, because he might have saved the mission. and if you know the world of
sportsmen, surely you know a Sugar Ray, a world champion boxer who has won 6
times. he is usually called the slippery artist in the fastest punching at the
1976 Olympics. And he also told all the stories, how he could succeed now. He
also told me, "How
many times have people told you, you can't interview these people? How many
times did they say, 'Impossible?" Don't let your dreams become impossible,
when you have a vision, you have to stay on the flight, it will get there, but
you have to keep pushing. You must continue to fight. You must use your Hidden
Reservoir. it will be easy, but it's possible.
