读完了《Pour Your Heart Into It》英文版第一章，只能看懂90%，还有10%的生词、句式，依靠再读一遍中文版来弄清楚。阅读英文书是提高英语的好方法，熟能生巧，只有多读多听，才能积累和进步。
After reading Chapter 1 of the English edition Pour Your Heart Into It, it's found that I understood only 90% of the content, but 10% left contains words and expressions which are new to me. Reading the Chinese edition of the book once more helped me to go through the difficult left 10%. Studying English books is an effective way to improve the standard of English. Practices make perfect. The only way to master the English language is to read, write, listen and speak more.
星巴克创始人和CEO霍华德·舒尔茨出生于贫困的蓝领工人阶层，从小被人看不起，靠打工贴补家用。但他从小热爱运动，在高中时是学校有名的橄榄球四分卫。他生命的转机来自于一所大学的工作人员来到他就读的名不见经传的高中物色大学橄榄球队的运动员，在霍华德·舒尔茨不知情的情况下暗中观察他的橄榄球技巧。过了几天之后，霍华德·舒尔茨突然收到了来自密歇根大学的录取通知书，这对于从小在贫民区长大的孩子来说真是天上掉馅饼和莫大的惊喜。机遇偏爱有准备的人，如果霍华德·舒尔茨的橄榄球不出色，他也得不到密歇根大学的垂青；另一方面也说明，人的成长路上是需要遇到贵人的，能量是守恒的，有输入才会有输出。
Howard Schultz, the founder and CEO of Starbucks, was born in poor blue-collar worker class. He felt looked down since childhood, and helped out the family expenses by doing many part-time jobs. But he loved sports very much and was famous as a quarterback in the football team of his high school. What changed his life was that a college staff got to his unknown high school to choose an excellent athlete for his college football team, and observed Howard's performance in the football team but Howard knew nothing about that. After a few days, Howard received an admission letter from University of Michigan, which was a big surprise to him. As the saying opportunities always favors the prepared minds goes, Howard couldn't obtain the offer from UMich if he was not remarkable in football. On the other hand, one needs to get the help from nice people in his life, so as to jump to a higher energy state, in accordance with the law of conservation of energy.
霍华德·舒尔茨在大学四年的学费是依靠助学金、助学贷款、打工甚至卖血来维持的。当读到霍华德·舒尔茨通过卖血来赚钱的时候，我不禁想到人都是被逼出来的，被逼到去卖血，可见贫困的压力有多大，可见一个人对金钱的渴求是多么的强烈。当我们设身处地的去想假如我们自己因为缺钱而被逼去卖血，该是何种体验，人要经常有清零的概念，假如突然我一无所有，我该怎么办。霍华德·舒尔茨在大学毕业六年后，事业就已经非常成功了，28岁就成为瑞典厨具企业在美国分公司的副总裁，因为他的目标非常明确：赚钱。从他上高中就开始打工贴补家用，从上大学后就没有拿过家里一分钱，全是靠自己赚钱还清助学贷款、完成大学学业、在纽约购买高档住宅。
Howard Schultz maintained his four-year university life by fellowship, student loan, and doing part-time jobs. Howard earned money even by selling blood under the stress of poverty, which indicates that everybody's success is forced out. If we put ourselves in Howard's position forced to selling blood, what is the experience like? We shall have the concept of zero clearing that what we would do if suddenly having nothing at all. Howard succeeded well in his career six years after graduation, because he had a specific goal to make money.
为什么我喜欢看美国的书和影视剧呢，因为地球是圆的，中西合璧才完整。人要有逆向思维，换个视角，想法就会不一样。也许你今天很看不起的，明天却视为珍宝。
The reason why I like to watch American movies and TV series and read American books, consists in that it is integrated to combine Chinese and Western elements, as the earth is round. We shall possess reverse thinking that we see things differently from another angle. We may treasure something of which we took no notice at one time.
人的思维空间是无限的，像曲别针一样，至少有亿万种可能的变化。也许我们正在被困在一个看似走投无路的境地，也许我们正囿于一种两难选择之间，这时一定要明白，这种境遇只是因为我们固执的定势思维所致，只在勇于重新考虑，一定能够找到不止一条跳出困境的出路。
读万卷书，不如行万里路，行万里路不如阅人无数，阅人无数不如名师指路，名师指路不如与名师为伍。年轻人最大幸运，就是在你正值年少轻狂时，能够碰到一个能给你指点迷津且让你信服的导师。少走太多弯路。
