Reach the goals –山姆沃尔顿

My life has been a trade-off

If I wanted to reach the goals I set for myself, I had to get at it and stay at it everyday

I had to think about it all the time .

I had to get up everyday with my mind set on improving something.

I was driven by a desire to always be on the top of the heap.

Mean Something–威尔史密斯

I want to do good .

I want the world to be better because I was here

I want my life ,my work ,and my family to mean something

If you are not making someone else’s life better then you are wasting your time .

Your life will become better by making other lives better

I want to represent an idea

I want to represent possibilities

I want to represent an idea that you really can make what you want.

Protect your dream –《当幸福来敲门》

Don’t ever let someone tell you that you can’t do something

Not even me

You got a dream ,you gotta protect it

When people can’t do something themselves, they are gonna tell you that you can’t do it.

You want something ,go get it

Period.

注释：明确你自己想要的到底是什么， 然后去得到它。这就是你所需要做的事情。

优秀者模仿，伟大者剽窃–乔布斯

How do you know what is the right direction

Ultimately it comes down to taste

It comes down to taste

It is a matter of trying to expose yourself to the best things that humans have done

And then try to bring those things into what you are doing .

Picasso had a saying : ” Good artists copy ,great artists steal”

We have always been shameless about stealing great ideas.

注释：蒙头瞎干只会越干越差，只有不断接触牛人，避过他们走过的坑，让自己每天都能进步，这才是核心所在

一次又一次的失败—乔丹

I’ve missed more than 9000 shots in my career

I’ve lost almost 300 games

26 times I’ve been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed

I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life

And that is why I succeed

注释：在错误中成长，否则，一味的犯错却又麻木没有进步。

Pushing through the pain–大卫布莱恩

As a magician , I try to create images that make people stop and think

I also try to challenge myself to do things that doctors say are not possible

As a magician ,I try to show things to people that seem impossible

And I think magic ,whether I am holding my breath or shuffling a deck of cards, is pretty simple

It’s practice, it’s training.

And it’ s practice, it’ s training and experimenting ,while pushing through the pain to be the best that I can be

And that’s what magic is to me, so ,thank you. (Applause)

注释：除了行动之外，没有别的希望，你只有去亲身实践，才能打破脑中的幻想，开始做事。

要想达到效果，必然要经历痛苦，你需要做的就是承受住这些痛苦，并且在痛苦中不断改进，做到自己所能做到的最好，只有这样你才有可能达成目的.

Nasty place–《洛奇6》

Then the time come for you to be your own man and take on the world and you did

But somewhere along the line you changed

You stopped being you ,

You let people stick a finger in your face and tell you you are no good

And when things got hard ,you started looking for something to blame like a big shadow.

Let me tell you something you already know

The world ain’t all sunshine and rainbows

It’ s a very mean and nasty place ,and I don’ t care how tough you are

It will beat you to your knees and keep you there permanently if you let it

Hit–《洛奇》

You, me, or nobody is gonna hit as hard as life

But it ain’ t about how hard you hit

It’s about how hard you can get hit and keep moving forward

How much you can take and keep moving forward

That’s how winning is done

If you know what you are worth ,go and get what you are worth

But you gotta be willing to take the hits ,and not pointing fingers saying you ain’t where you wanna be because of him or her or anybody .

Coward do that ,and that ain’t you

You are better than that

注释：这里又提到了，成功的关键在于你能承受多大的打击，并且依然奋力前行。就事论事，不断改进，不断进步。你如果知道你值得获得什么，那么就去得到你想要的东西，但要想得到东西，就必须付出相应的代价，承受相应的痛苦，否则一切免谈。

Fight or Flee?–《勇敢的心》

I am William Wallace

And I see a whole army of my countrymen here in defiance of tyranny

You’ve come to fight as free men

And free men you are

What will you do with that freedom

Will you fight?

Fight ,and you may die ,

Run ,and you”ll live at least a while

And dying in your beds many years from now.

Would you be willing to trade all the days from this day to that

For one chance ,just for one chance

To come back here and tell our enemies that they may take our lives

But they’ll never take our freedom

注释：敢于跳出舒适区的人，尽管有可能会摔的很惨，但是总好过当个活死人

Never-surrender–丘吉尔

We shall not flag or fail

We shall go on to the end

We shall fight in France

We shall fight on the seas and oceans

We shall fight with growing confidence and growing strength in the air

We shall defend our island whatever the cost may be

We shall fight on the beaches

We shall fight on the landing grounds

We shall fight in the fields and in the streets

We shall fight in the hills

We shall never surrender

注释：在你面对战争的时候，你必须用尽你可以用到的一切途径，无所不用其极地去得到胜利。正如丘吉尔所说的在各个可以战斗的地方作战，永不投降一样，我们在生活中能够战斗的地方多了去了，有许多我们能把握住的事情，所以我们要做的就是把这些能把握住的事竭尽全力变成百分之百的把握住就好了。

Without victory,there is no survival–丘吉尔

I would say to the House as I said to those who have joined this government, I have nothing to offer but blood ,toil ,tears and sweat

We have before us an ordeal of the most grievous kind

We have before many, many long months of struggle and of suffering ,

You ask ,what is our policy

I will say ,it is to wage war, by sea ,land and air, with all our might ,with all the strength that god has given us, to wage war against a monstrous tyranny, never surpassed in the dark ,and lamentable catalogue of human crime

That is our policy

You ask what is our aim?

I can answer in one word ,victory

Victory at all costs , victory in spite of all terror, victory ,however long and hard the road may be

For without victory there is no survival

注释：完成目标的路程必然是有许多痛苦的，只能迎难而上，边做边学，又是无所不用其极的将目标完成。

强者自救，圣者渡人–《肖申克的救赎》

These walls are funny

First you hate them ,then you get used to them ,

Enough time passes ,you depend on them

That is institutionalized

I guess it comes down to a simple choice , get busy living or get busy dying

In 1966, Andy Dufresne escaped from Shawshank Prison .

All they found of him was a muddy set of prison clothes, a bar of soap ,and an old rock-hammer damn near worn down to the nub.

I remember thinking it would take a man six hundred years to tunnel through the wall

Old Andy did it in less than twenty.

注释：被体制化了，就是没有进步，没有进步的人生不就等同于白活了么所以才说，人生只有两种选择，要么忙着生，要么忙着死，你每天都在进步，就是在生，你每天都在保持原样，甚至退步，就是死。如果一个人只剩下了动物的吃喝拉撒，那人活着还有什么意义

Lay this brick perfectly–威尔史密斯

One summer his dad tore down a brick wall in the front of his business and told 12-year-old Will and his 9-year-old brother to rebuild it

A job they said was impossible

It took them a year and a half, but they did it

And he said :” now don’t you ever tell me there’s something that you can’t do

You don’t set out to build a wall

You don’t say:” I am going to build the biggest ,baddest greatest wall that’s ever been built

You don’t start there

You say I’m going to lay this brick as perfectly as a brick can be laid

You do that every single day

And soon you have a wall

注释：图难于其易，为大于其细，天下难事必作于易，天下大事必作于细。只有将一点一滴都做到所能达到的最好，才能得到累积起来后的结果。否则，万丈高楼从何处平地而起呢？这是自然规律，你要做的就是按照自然规律去行动。

威尔史密斯

I have a great time with my life and I want to share it

I love living

I think that’s infectious , it’s something you can’t fake

Greatness is not this wonderful ,esoteric elusive God-like features that only special people possesses .

It’s something that truly exists within all of us .

It’s very simple

This is what I believe , and I am willing to die for it

Period

It’s that simple .

I know who I am ,I know what I believe ,and that is all I need to know.

From there you do what you need to do .

You know.

I think what happens is we make the situation more complex.

注释：知道自己是谁，知道自己相信什么就足够了，你要做的就是去做你需要做的事情，脑子里别老想着乱七八糟不确定的事情，先把你应该做的，能做的事情，做到位了再说，把握住你能把握住的点滴。

还是威尔史密斯

The separation of talent and skill is one of the greatest misunderstood concepts for people who are trying to excel ,who have dreams ,who want to do things

Talent you have naturally

Skill is only developed by hours and hours and hours of beating on your craft

I’ve never really viewed myself as particularly talented

And where I excel is ridiculous, sickening ,work ethic

You know, while the other guy’s sleeping ,I’m working

While the other guy’s eating ,I’m working

There is no easy way around it

No matter how talented you are ,your talent is going to fail you if you are not skilled

If you don’t study ,work really hard and dedicate yourself to getting better every single day .

You’ll never be able to communicate your artistry to people the way that you want.

The only thing that I see that is distinctly different about me is that I am not afraid to die on a treadmill

You might have more talent than me , you might be smarter than me, but if we get on a treadmill together , there are two things

You are getting off first or I am gonna die

It’s really that simple

注释：这里跟大为布莱恩以及其它牛人所说的一样，获得技能的途径就是通过无所不用其极的去进行符合自然规律的训练，并且在忍受住在达成目标的过程中的种种痛苦的同时，继续前行，不断检验迭代，不断改进。直到做成的那一刻。

又是威尔史密斯

Our thoughts, feelings , dreams and ideas are physical in the universe .

If we dream something ,if we picture something ,and if we commit ourselves to it , that is a physical thrust towards realization that we send out into the universe .

The universe is not a thing that is going to push us around

The world ,people ,and situations are not going to push us around

We are going to bend the universe

We are going to command and DEMAND that the universe become what we want it to be .

I studied that patterns of the universe

There’s a redemptive power that making a choice has

Rather than feeling like you are just affected by all the things happening ,make a choice .

Just decide what you are gonna be ,who you are gonna be ,and how you are gonna do it ,

Just decide

From that point on ,the universe is gonna get out your way .

注释：搞清楚你真的想要什么，你真的在做什么，你真的想要达成什么，比什么都重要。

Super Hard–埃隆马斯克

The first is you need to work ,if you ,depending on how well you want to do it .

Particularly if you are starting a company ,you need to work super hard

So what does super hard mean

Well ,when my brother and I was starting up our first company ,instead of getting an apartment ,we just rented a small office

And we slept on the couch

And we showered at the YMCA

We are so hard up

We had just one computer

The website was up during the day ,and I was coding at night, seven days a week ,all the time .

And I briefly had a girlfriend at that period

And in order to be with me ,she had to sleep in the office

So I work hard like at every waking hour ,

That’s the thing I would say particularly if you are starting a company .

And if you do simple math, say like ,is somebody else is working 50 hours ,and you are working 100 , you”ll get twice as much done in the course of a year as the other company

Think Different–乔布斯

Here’s to the crazy ones ,

The misfits

The rebels

The troublemakers

The round pegs in the square hole

The ones who see things differently

They’re not fond of rules

And they have no respect for the status quo

You can quote them ,disagree with them ,glorify or vilify them

About the only thing you can’t do is ignore them

Because they change things

They push the human race forward

And while some may see them as the crazy ones ,we see genius

Because the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world are the ones who do .

沃伦巴菲特

I always knew I was going to be rich

I don’t think I ever doubted it for a while

Einstein is reputed to have said that compound interest is the eighth wonder of the world

Or something like that

And it goes back to that story ,you probably learned when you were in grade school

Where somebody did something for the king

And the king said ,what can I do for you

And he said :”well let’s take a chessboard, and put one kernel of wheat on the first square ,and then double it on the second ,and double it on the third,

And the king readily agreed to it ,and by the time he figured out what two to the 64th amounted to ,he was giving away the entire kingdom

So it’s a pretty simple concept, but over time , it accomplishes extraordinary things.

复利法则–巴菲特

And very early ,probably when I was seven or so , I took this book out of the Bensen Library ,called a thousand ways to make a $1000

And one of the ways in this book was having penny weighing machines .

I sat and calculated how much it would cost to buy the first weighing machine, and then how long it would take for the profit from that one to buy another one .

And I would sit there and create these compound interest tables to figure out how long it would take me to have a weighing machine for every person in the world ,

I had everybody in the country weighing themselves ten time a day ,and me just sitting there like John D Rockefeller of weighing machines .

That allowance when I was a little boy was a nickel a week

But I liked the idea of having a little more than a nickel a week to work with

And I went into business very early

I started sell Coca-Cola door to door

I sold gum door to door

I sold Saturday Evening Post, Liberty Magazine, Ladies Home Journal, you name it.

And I think I enjoyed the game almost right from the start

But I like being my own boss

And that’s one thing I liked about delivering papers

I could arrange the route I wanted

Nobody was bothering me at 5:00 or 6:00 in the morning

I was delivering 500 papers a day

And I made a penny a paper ,but in terms of compounding, that penny has turned into something else

Method of learning–查理-芒格

Alfred North Whitehead said it one time that the rapid advance of civilization came only when man invented the method of invention.

And of course he was referring to the huge growth of GDP per capita and all the other good things that we now take for granted which started a few hundred years ago and before that all was stasis .

So if civilization can progress only when it invents the method of invention , you can progress only when you learn the method of learning .

I was very lucky

I came to law school having learned the method of learning and nothing has served me better in my long life than continuous learning

And if you take Warren Buffett and watched him with a time clock ,I would say half of all the time he spends is sitting on his ass and reading ;

And a big chunk of the rest of the time is spent talking one to one ,either on the telephone or personally ., with highly gifted people whom he trusts and who trust him

In other words , it looks quite academically , all his worldly success.

成长性思维–卡罗尔.德韦克

Just the words “yet” or not “yet”, we are finding, give kids greater confidence ,give them a path into the future that creates greater persistence

And we can actually change students mindsets

In one study , we taught them that every time they push out of their comfort zone to learn something new and difficult, the neurons in their brains can form new ,stronger connections, and over time ,they can get smarter

Look what happened

In this study ,students who were not taught this growth mindset continue to show declining grades over this difficult school transition, but those who were taught this lesson showed a sharp rebound in their grades

We have shown this now ,this kind of improvement ,with thousands and thousands of kids ,especially struggling students

注释：你的能力是经历过痛苦完成超越舒适区的目标后一点点增长的。这是你生物本能，所以对事不对人，不要给自己贴标签，就事论事，突破舒适区， 把事情做好。专注做事的过程

Grit–安杰拉•达克沃思 (《坚毅》的作者)

So I left the classroom ,and I went to graduate school to become a psychologist

I started studying kids and adults in all kinds of super challenging settings, and in every study my question was ,who is successful here and why

My research team and I went to West Point Military Academy

We tried to predict which cadets would stay in military training and which would drop out

We went to the National Spelling Bee and tried to predict which children would advance farthest in competition

We studied rookie teachers working in really tough neighborhoods , asking which teachers are still going to be here in teaching by the end of the school year, and of those, who will be the most effective at improving the learning outcomes for their students .

We partnered with private companies ,asking ,which of these salespeople is going to keep their jobs

And who is going to earn the most money

In all those very different contexts., one characteristic emerged as a significant predictor of success

And it wasn’t social intelligence

It wasn’t good looks ,physical health ,and it wasn’t IQ

It was grit

Grit is passion and perseverance for very long-term goals

Grit is having stamina

Grit is sticking with your future ,day in ,day out, not just for the week ,not just for the month ,but for years ,and working really hard to make that future a reality.

Grit is living life like it’s a marathon ,not a sprint

注释：毅力就是能在忍受极端痛苦的同时保持继续前行的能力

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