◎Brian Gosur

Genius only means hard-working all one’s life.

You were born to win, but to be a winner, you must plan to win, prepare to win, and expect to win.

～Zig Ziglar

Ask any child: “What do you want to be when you grow up?” and you will get an array of different answers. There are always the standard answers like, I want to be a fireman, policeman, doctor, or maybe even president. My grand-daughter wants to be a model when she grows up, and I think she will. She loves the camera and is a very beautiful girl. Of course, I’m a little biased in my opinion, but when you look into their eyes, you see this wonder and excitement when they talk of living their dreams. Their eyes are wide as saucers and they talk about them as if there is no doubt in their mind, they are going to happen.

What happens to all those dreams? What happened to your dream? What happened to my dream? Are you living your dreams? Did you have a dream?

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天才只意味着终身不懈的努力。

你生而为赢，但是你必须为之筹划、为之准备、为之期待，方能成为赢家。

——吉格·金克拉

如果你问任何一个孩子：“长大了你想干什么？”你会得到一大堆不同的答案。但总存在一些标准答案，比如，我想成为消防员、警察、医生甚至是总统。我的孙女长大后想成为一名模特，而且我认为她会梦想成真。她很漂亮，喜欢拍照。当然，我的想法有点偏心，但是，当她谈及实现梦想时，你若注视着她的眼睛，你会从她的眼睛中看到奇迹和兴奋。她的眼睛睁得像茶托一样大，当她谈论梦想时，感觉就像她心中毫不怀疑梦想会实现一样。

所有的这些梦想后来怎么样了呢？你的梦想呢？我的梦想呢？你是否还在追逐你的梦想？你又是否还拥有梦想？

I think as we grow older, our dreams may change. Circumstances and maturity set in and alter or change the way we look at life and our circumstances. The wide eyed child has matured into an adult and his dreams have also matured with him.

I always wanted to be a baseball player. I loved sports and played hockey as well, but life’s circumstances changed all that and living my dream as a professional athlete disappeared. As I talked with people that have known me awhile and I reveal to them what my childhood dream always was, they kind of look at me a little funny, and say ... Really? They have that, “I don’t believe you,” look on their face. Have you ever had that happen to you?

People laugh at your dreams. I don’t have to tell you that. If you are a dreamer, and entrepreneurs are dreamers or visionaries, you will have more than one dream and you will have more than one occasion where you receive the looks and laughter at your dreams and visions.

There are tons of dreamers, visionaries, entrepreneurs that come to mind, but I would like to bring just a couple to your attention.

1.Leonardo da Vinci

This man was born on April 15，1452. He was a true dreamer. His drawings included detailed drawings of flight machines. Can you imagine him trying to talk to his friends about putting together a contraption that would take a person into the air?

2.Thomas Edison

Besides giving us light through the incandescent light bulb, Thomas Edison also gave us the phonograph and accumulated 1，093 U.S patents. He is credited with numerous inventions that contributed to mass communications and, in particular telecommunications. This guy was always thinking and dreaming of what could be.

我想，随着我们渐渐成长，我们的梦想也许会改变。不断变化的环境、日渐增加的成熟度，改变了我们看待生活和环境的方式。眼界开阔的孩子已如成人般成熟，他的梦想也会随之成熟。

我一直想成为一名棒球运动员。我热爱运动，也打曲棍球，但是生活环境改变了一切，想成为专业运动员的梦想也消失了。当我和认识我有段时间的人交谈并向他们表露我童年的梦想的时候，他们用那种有点奇怪的眼神看我，然后说：“真的吗？”他们的表情表示“我不相信你”。你是否也遇到过这种情况？

人们嘲笑你的梦想，我不必告诉你这一点。如果你是个梦想家（企业家也是梦想家或理想家），你就不会仅仅只有一个梦想，然而，你也会不止一次地收到别人对你的梦想和憧憬的怪异眼神和嘲笑。

我脑中浮现出很多的梦想家、理想家、企业家，但我只给你们举几个例子。

1.列奥纳多·达·芬奇

他出生于1452年4月15日。他是个真正的梦想家。他的绘画作品包括飞行器的详细图纸。你能想象他试着跟他的朋友谈论搭在一起的精巧装置能把人带上天的场景吗？

2.托马斯·爱迪生

托马斯·爱迪生除了发明白炽灯，给我们带来了光明外，他还发明了留声机，拥有1093项美国专利。他的许多发明对大众通讯具有巨大贡献，尤其是在无线电通信方面。他总是在思考和梦想着一切的可能性。

3.Charles Babbage

Where would we be without computers today? I remember when I was in high school, computers were in their infancy, and the dream that someday a machine would have such abilities as the computer does today was a very laughable idea. Well, thanks to Charles Babbage, the dream is alive today.

He was an English mathematician, philosopher, inventor, and mechanical engineer who originated the concept of a programmable computer. Babbage is credited with inventing the first mechanical computer that eventually led to more complex designs.

What do all these men have in common? They dared to dream. They took the looks, the laughs and the finger pointing, and it didn’t deter them from the visions they had. They weren’t thrown off track by them.

Zig Ziglar says that he has been laughed at and made fun of and been told that he will never make it all of his life. To continue and persevere under those circumstances is definitely a man on a mission. He did not let that deter him from fulfilling his dreams, and it shouldn’t with you or me either.

Every one of these dreamers and visionaries had failures, bumps in the road, and people in the way yelling their sarcasm and negative slurs. That should only make them the more determined to win. Success has to go through some failure doors first.

When I played sports and certain people from the opposing team would do their intimidating talking on the field, or I would hear the jeers and yelling from the people in the stands, that just made me all the more determined to do my best and gain the victory. Failure is not final.

What are your dreams? Want to open and run a successful business? Want to open a school for inner city kids? What is the vision you have? I know you can see it as if it is already alive and happening. If this is you, I would like to tell you to never, ever stop dreaming, and don’t listen to people come up to you and say, “That will never happen,”“You can’t do that.” You can’t stop them from talking at you, but you don’t have to listen to them.

You are different. Only 3% of the world’s population are dreamers and visionaries. The other 97% live in the box. Don’t let the boxers yell their negative talk at you. Don’t let them knock you off the road you are traveling. Stay the course, hold the line, and always continue moving forward toward the goals you have and live now the future that you envision. Never stop living your dreams.

3.查尔斯·巴贝奇

如果没有计算机，我们今天将会怎样？我记得在我高中时，计算机的发展还处于初级阶段。在当时，梦想着计算机某天会像现在一样拥有如此强大功能的想法一定会很可笑。是的，多亏了查尔斯·巴贝奇，在今天，这个梦想实现了。

他是英国数学家、哲学家、发明家兼机械工程师。他是可编程计算机的发明者。他被认为发明了第一台机械计算机，也由此最终带动了更多复杂的设计。

所有这些人的共同点是什么？他们敢于梦想。他们受过别人异样的目光、嘲笑和指指点点，但这些都不足以使他们放弃梦想，偏离追逐梦想的轨道。

吉格·金克拉表示他被取笑过、被嘲弄过，也被告知过他一生都不会成功。在这种情况下还能继续坚持的人，他定是个身负使命的人。他不会因为这些而停止实现梦想，同样，你和我也都不应该这样。

每个梦想家和理想家在追逐梦想的路上都有过失败和挫折，也都遭受过路人的讽刺和诋毁。但这只会使他们更加决心要获得成功。成功必须首先经历一些失败。

当我在运动时，对方的某些队员会在赛场上进行恐吓，或者我会听到看台上的人发出嘲笑声和嘘声，但这只会让我更加下定决心全力以赴取得胜利。失败并不是终点。

你的梦想是什么？想要生意经营成功？想要为市区的孩子开个学校？你有什么愿望？我知道你能看见它，就好像它已经实现了一样。如果你是这样的，我想告诉你，永远不要停止梦想，不要听信别人对你所说的“这永远不会实现”“你做不到”之类的话。你不能阻止别人对你进行评论，但是你也不必听信他们。

你是与众不同的。这世上只有3%的人是梦想家和理想家，其余的97%都住在盒子里。不要让这些住在盒子里的人对你恶语相加。不要让他们使你偏离追逐梦想的轨道。坚持到底，保持不变，继续朝着你的目标和你所憧憬的未来前进。永远不要停止追逐的脚步。 QzHfcX7IntnEKcygd/hQBRXNytRlVqDjJykpDiBRaKXyu+jNyLkwtGcD3nhR3xJd