10 Lies You'll Hear Before Pursuing Your Dreams
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Read an article today on pursuing your dreams. As a student, you have dreams of what you will achieve career-wise and/or want to do. Along the way you may encounter some of the advice listed.
Excerpt: Unfortunately, just before you take your first step on the righteous journey to pursue your dreams, people around you, even the ones who deeply care for you, will give you awful advice. It’s not because they have evil intentions. It’s because they don’t understand the big picture—what your dreams, passions, and life goals mean to you. They don’t understand that, to you, the reward is worth the risk.
So they try to protect you by shielding you from the possibility of failure, which, in effect, also shields you from the possibility of making your dreams a reality.
As our friend Steve Jobs says:
“Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma, which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice, heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.”
Here are ten ill-advised tips (lies) people will likely tell you when you decide to pursue your dreams and the reasons why they are dreadfully mistaken...
See all 10 listed here: http://www.mint.com/blog/trends/lies-10292010/
What are some things you've been told either by friends, family, professors, or mentors that that either helped guide you towards your dream, and/or been something you've ignored knowing it wasn't true? |
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11-01-2010 at 11:07 AM
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It's amazing how these thoughts can actually be our own a lot of times, not necessarily hearing them from someone else. I love it! Very encouraging  . Thanks for posting, Chad! I have officially bookmarked it for future reference =]
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Great stuff!
All action begins with a thought!
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Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma, which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice, heart and intuition.
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HAHAHAAHHAHAHAHA
exactly. So don't believe iPad is some brilliant magical device. My inner voice says my Android phone is much Much MUCH better than an iPhone.
But yeah, this is quite true.
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Hm...great article. After reading this I realize I should really try to make more time in my day to do stuff.
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I liked it, very motivating!  |
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