第318期:命運一直掌握在你手中
如果你的新年願望是賺到一個百萬，但又不知道如何開始，聽聽這個故事，你可能會茅塞頓開。故事的主角是著名的哲學家，教育家岡索勒斯。在他上大學的時候，發現一些大學教育制度的弊端。當他給校長提出這些建議的時候，並沒有被採納。於是他決定自己辦一所大學。故事就由此開始了...
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How to Have One Million Dollars
A young man pursued studies at the University.
One day he proposed to the president some suggestions about how to improve the university
education system malpractice. His opinion was not accepted by the president. So he decided to run a university independently and eliminate these drawbacks.
To run the school would require at least one million dollars. Where would he find so much money?
Every day he was in the bedroom thinking hard how to get one million dollars. His classmates though he was crazy, dreaming the money would fall from the sky. But the young man didn't think so, firmly believing that he could raise the money.
Finally, one day he thought out a way. He called the newspaper that tomorrow he would hold a lecture titled If I Have One Million Dollars. The next day the speech attracted many business people, In presence of the audience and many successful people, he spoke out his idea. At last. after the speech, a businessman called Philip Armer stood up and said, "Young man you spoke so well. I decide to invest one million dollars as you said. "Thus, with the money the young man ran Armer Polytechnic Institute, which is now the predecessor of famous Illinois Polytechnic Institute. This young man was the philosopher and educator Gunsaulus widely loved and esteemed later.
一位年輕人在大學讀書。有一天,他向校長提出了改進大學教育制度弊端的若干建議。他的意見沒被校長接受。於是,他決定自己辦一所大學,來消除這些弊端。
辦學校至少需要100萬美元。上哪兒去找這麼多錢呢?他每天都在寢室內苦思冥想如何能有100萬美元。同學們都認爲他有神經病,夢想天上掉錢來。但年輕人不以爲然,堅信自己可以籌到這筆錢。
終於有一天,他想到了一個辦法。他打電話到報社說,他準備明天舉行一個演講會,題目叫《如果我有100萬美元》。第二天的演講吸引了許多商界人士。面對臺下諸多成功人士,他在臺上全心全意發自內心地說出了自己的構想。最後演講完畢,一個叫菲利普·亞
默的商人站了起來,說:“小夥子,你講得非常好。我決定投資100萬,就照你說的辦。”就這樣,年輕人用這筆錢辦了亞默理工學院,也就是現在著名的伊利諾理工學院的前身。這個年輕人就是後來備受人們愛戴的哲學家、教育家岡索勒斯。
故事結束了，當年如果岡索勒斯在被校長拒絕後，回到寢室慢慢接受了室友們的想法自暴自棄，也就沒有後來的伊利諾理工學院，也沒有以後的哲學家、教育家岡索勒斯。
夢想就是在你吃飯睡覺都應爲之奮鬥和努力的目標，而不應該在一次次挫折中消磨了鬥志，或許大多數人碌碌不爲的原因也就在此。
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