好的英语是“读”出来的？ 改变人生的100个方法（2） 11. leave high school. in high school we become fearing about what others think of us. our mission in life became not being embarrassed. we were afraid to look bad, so we made a point not to take risks. most people designed their entire lives based on what other people think of them. but we can leave that habit behind. emerson: "why should the way i feel depend on the thought in someone else's head." 12. lose face. you can create a self that doesn't care about what other people think. you can motivate yourself by leaving the painful self consciousness of high school behind. show me a guy who is afraid to look bad and i can show you a guy you can beat every time. 13. sing without feeling. become a performer. act like you feel like you want to feel. "we do not sing because we're happy. we're happy because we sing." if you want to be happy, find the happiest song you know and sing it. it works. 14. kill your television. * if your watching too much television, you might find it useful to ask this question. which side of the glass do you want to live on? when you watching television, you're watching other people do what they love to do for a living. those people are on the best side of the glass because they're having fun and you're passively watching them have fun. they're getting money and you're the one paying. "i find television very educational. every time some turns it on, i go to the other room to read a book." 15. read yourself a story. * abraham lincoln would read the newspaper everyday aloud. he discovered that he remembered twice as much if he read aloud than if he read it silently and he remembered twice as long of a time. 16. get on your death bed. * many of us keep pretending that our game has no end. we plan to do great things someday when we feel like it. confronting our own death doesn't have to wait until we run out of life. in fact being able to vividly imagine our last hours on our death bed creates a paradoxical sensation. the feeling of being born all over again and that's the first step of self motivation. 17. be lazy to begin with. **** "there isn't any job that can't be handled if you break it down into small pieces" - henry ford. when you break a job down, remember to allow yourself some laziness in the beginning. because it isn't important how fast you're doing it, what's important is that you are doing it. the irony is, the slower you start something, the faster you'll finish. when you first think about doing something hard and overwhelming, you're mostly aware of how you don't want to do it at all. in other words, the mental picture you have of doing the activity fast and furiously is not a happy picture so you think of ways to avoid doing the job all together. thinking about starting slowly is easy. and doing it slowly allows you to actually start doing it. therefore it gets finished. 18. leave your friends. stay away from soul call friends who don't support your goals. when you're in a conversion with a pessimists possibilities seems to have a way of disappearing and a sense of cynicism. remember, cynics do not create. everyone knows that enthusiasm is contagious. and being in a conversation with an optimist opens us up to more and more of life's possibilities. 19. plan you game. design your own life game plan. let the game respond to you rather than the other way around. act on the crucial difference between creating verus responding. 20. find your inner einstein. the next time you see a picture of albert einstein, realize that's actually you. every human has the capacity of genius. to experience einstein's creative level of thinking all you have to do is comment to using your imagination. this is sometimes a difficult recommendation for grown ups to follow. grown ups become using their imagination for only one thing, worrying. grown ups visualize worst case scenarios all day long. all their energy for visualization is channeled into colorful pictures of what can go wrong. worrying is a misuse of the imagination. what people don't comprehend is that the human imagination was designed for better things. people who use their imagination to create often achieve things that worriers never dream of achieving. even if the worriers have much higher iq(s). dreaming is the design stage of creating the future. imagine yourself living a motivated life.查看更多
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