Review Book "The Third Door" Part 2 ( Chapter 4 - Chapter 7 )

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.