s03e03 敢于梦想 - 诺曼.文森特.皮尔

Dare to Dream --- Norman Vincent Peale

As a boy:

He was born in a rural Ohio town in 1898, then son of a Methodist pastor who was also a physician.

Norman was painfully shy as a young boy and would run and hide in the attic whenever he saw visitors coming to the house so that he wouldn't have to recite poetry for them.

He was also thin for his age and lacked his younger brother's more rugged and athletic build, which made Norman somewhat self-consicious about his physical appearance.

He admired his father a great deal, but being the son of a pastor was not always easy. Sometimes the other kids teased him because he was a "p.k." (preacher's kids), and because he was a "p.k.", his teachers always expected exemplary behavior from him.

It was during his adolescence that he really began to develop a terrible inferiority complex, and he began telling himself that he would never amount to anything.

When he realized that everybody was beginning to agree with his negative self-appraisal, he began to feel even worse. He was tired of being so shy, so filled with self-doubt, and living like a scared rabbit, but he didn't know what to do about the inferiority complex that was making his life so miserable.

During high school he tried to earn some extra money by selling pots and pans and drove to another part of town where attempt to sell something that he got right back into his car and drove back home.

Both his parents were strong, extroverted people who had made so many of his decisions for him that he had difficulty making even small decisions for himself.

His first semester of college he didn't earn a single A or B, and his second semester he did miserably in Greek, got an F in gym, and his only bright spot was an A in oratory.

He left college during his freshman year and returned home to enlist in the army, but his parents refused to let him enlist and sent him right back to college.

At the end of his freshman year, his mother also told him that he would have to improve his grades if he ever wanted to amount to anything.

He still continued to be plagued by agonizing self-consciousness when called upon to recite in class and often became confused tongue-tied,and red-faced from embarrassment.

He described himself as "having the biggest inferiority complex in the state of Ohio." Then one day an event occurred that changed his life.

After class, his economics professor had a no-nonsense talk with him. He told Norman that his self-consciousness was really mostly self-centeredness and that it was time for him to get over his shyness and inferiority complex and become a man.

He also told him that, being a minister's son, he should know where to go for help.

作为一个男孩：

他于1898年出生在俄亥俄州的一个乡村小镇，他的父亲当时是卫理公会的牧师，同时也是一名医生。

诺曼小时候是个害羞到痛苦的小男孩。每当看到客人去他家时，他就会马上跑到阁楼躲起来，这样他就不必为他们背诵诗歌了。

他长还很瘦，没有像他弟弟那样粗犷和运动型的身材，这使得诺曼多少对自己的外貌有点自卑。

他非常钦佩他的父亲，但牧师的儿子并不总是那么容易当。有时其他孩子会取笑他是个“p.k.” （传教士的孩子）。因为他是“p.k.”，所以他的老师总是期待他能做出模范行为。

他逐渐发展起来的可怕的自卑情结是从青春期真正开始的。他开始告诉自己，他永远不会有任何作为。

当意识到每个人都开始认同他的负面自我评价时，他就陷入了更糟糕的境地。他厌倦了自己的害羞，充满了自我怀疑，他像一只受了惊吓的兔子一样生活，但他不知道该如何处理使他生活变得如此悲惨的自卑情结。

在高中期间，他试图通过卖锅碗瓢盆来赚点零花钱，就开车到小镇的另一端没有人认识他的地方。但是他第一次尝试卖东西就大受打击，于是只好径直回到车上开车回家了。

他的父母都是强壮的，性格外向的人，他们替他做出了如此多的决定，以至于他在最小的事情上，都很难自己做出决定。

在大学的第一个学期，他一个A或B都没有得到。第二个学期，他在希腊语中表现得非常惨，体育还拿到了一个F。他唯一的亮点就是在演讲中得了个A。

他在大一的时候离开了学校，回到家中参军，但是他的父母拒绝让他入伍，并且直接把他送回了大学。

在大一结束时，他母亲还告诫他，如果想要有作为，他必须先提高成绩。

他仍然持续地被痛苦的自卑折磨着，尤其是当他被要求在课堂上背诵时，他经常因为舌头打结，脸红而无比尴尬。

他形容自己是“俄亥俄州拥有最大自卑情结”的人。然而有一天，发生了一件改变他生命的事。

他的经济学教授在课后与他进行了一次严肃的谈话。他告诉诺曼，他的自卑实际上主要是以自我为中心的结果，现在到了他克服自己的羞怯和自卑感，成为一个男人的时候了。

教授还告诉他，作为牧师的儿子，他应该知道去哪儿寻求帮助。

As a man:

Norman decided to take his professor's advice and had a long talk with God about his problem. He asked God to help him work it out and, although his shyness never went away completely, it improved a great deal.

He wasn't sure he wanted to be a minister like his father, so following his graduation from college, he decided to try working for a newspaper.

After working for the newspaper for a year, he returned to school, In spite of his intention not to become a minister, he ound he liked theology, and in 1924 he graduated from the School of Theology at Boston University.

He was beginning to gain a reputation not only was an excellent orator but also as a minister who could simplify the Word of God so that everone could understand it.

He decided to try his hand at writing a book but became so discouraged that he threw his manuscript into the wastebasket. His wife, however, rescued the manuscript from the wastebasket and sent it to a publisher. The book was later called A Guide to Confident Living and made the best-seller list. Over the next four years it went through twenty-five printings.

By this time he was becoming much in demand as public speaker and had received numerous honorary degrees from various colleges and universities.

In 1952 his book The Power of Positive Thinking was published, and it was unequaled in sales by any book except the Bible. It remained on the best-seller list for many years and was translated into twenty-three languages.

In the 1960s a motion picture was released, called One Man's Way, based on his biography, and it has been shown in many television reruns across the nation.

He was the minister of the Marble Collegiate Church in New York City where he spoke to three thousand people every Sunday. And he was also the coeditor with his wife of the inspirational monthly magazine Guideposts, which is read by millions of people.

He was the president and cofounder of the American Foundation of Religion and Psychiatry, which combined both religon and psychiatry in the treatment of people's problems, and he established a School of Practical Christianity for pastors to give them the opportunity to be enriched and refreshed spiritually.

On March 26, 1984, he was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom at the White House and told that "few Americans have contributed so much to the personal happiness of their fellow citizens."

By the time he retired  from the ministry in 1984, he had come a long way: fro a young man with a terrible inferiority complex to being one of America's most influential, most popular, and most loved preachers.

作为一个男人：

诺曼决定接受教授的建议。他与上帝就他的问题进行了长时间的谈话。他请求上帝帮助他解决这个问题，尽管他的羞怯从未完全消失，但已经有了很大改进。

他不确定自己是否想成为像他父亲那样的牧师，所以在大学毕业后，他决定先尝试去报社工作。

在报社工作了一年之后，他回到了学校。尽管他不打算成为牧师，但他很喜欢神学。1924年，他毕业于波士顿大学神学院。

他开始赢得声誉，他不仅是一位优秀的演说家，而且还是一位可以把上帝的话简单地表达出来，让人人都能理解的牧师，。

他决定尝试写一本书，但写完后自己很不满意，就把手稿扔进了废纸篓。幸好他的妻子从废纸篓中救出了手稿，并将其发给了出版商。这本书后来被称为“信心生活指南”，并进入了畅销书排行榜。在接下来的四年里，它先后二十五次被再次印刷。

此时，他正在成为一名越来越受欢迎的公众演讲者，获得了各个学院和大学的许多荣誉学位。

1952年，他的著作《积极思考的力量》一书出版了。除了《圣经》之外，当时没有任何一本其他书的销售能与之相比。它多年来一直保持在畅销书排行榜上，并被翻译成二十三种语言。

在20世纪60年代，上映了一部根据他的传记改编的电影，名为”One Man's Way“，后来在全国各地的许多电视上重复播中。

他是纽约大理石学院教会的牧师，每周日他与三千人布道。他和他的妻子也是鼓舞人心的月刊《标杆》的共同编辑，该杂志被数百万人阅读。

他是美国宗教和精神病治疗基金会的校长和联合创始人，他将宗教和心理学结合起来治疗人们的问题，并为牧师建立了实用基督教学院，使他们有机会在精神上得到喂养。

1984年3月26日，他在白宫被授予总统自由勋章，他受到的颁奖词中提到“很少有美国人为他们的同胞的个人幸福做出了很多贡献。”

1984年，当他从牧者职位上退休时，他已经走了很长的路：从一个有着可怕的自卑感的年轻人成为美国最有影响力，最受欢迎和最受喜爱的传教士之一。