Ways to Kill Your Dreams

They say that dreams are only for children or for people who have the means to reach it. In reality, dreams are lifelong goals that we can achieve through discipline, hardwork, and believing in ourselves.

Brazillian entrepreneur Bel Pesce enumerate the ways of discouraging thoughts when we try to achieve our dreams and on how to keep ourselves going.

Watch the video below and learn more.

Discussion Questions:

  1. Discuss the five ways how not to follow your dreams?
  2. What does overnight success mean? Share a related story.
  3. What are your first thoughts about the video?
  4. What are your childhood dreams that came true?
  5. In the video, what is meant by “believe the fault is someone else’s?”
  6. From the five tips mentioned in the video, what is one tip that can be most helpful to you?
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2 replies on “Ways to Kill Your Dreams”

Answer 1. Five ways:
1. Believe in your overnight success. 2. Believe someone has the answer for you. 3 decide the settle when the growth is guaranteed. Believe the fault is someone else’s. 5. Believe that the only things that matter are the dreams themselves.
Answer 2. Overnight success meaning: behind a success usually be a hard work to achieve it. Work that people don’t see. For example: my role profile is thanks to hard work during last five years.
Answer 3. My first thoughts were surprise and curiosity because I thought it is imposible to make a video to how not follow your dreams. What people expect is tips to reach your dreams, not how kill them!
Answer 4. When I was a child i dreamt to live in a big city, has a good job and find love and fortunately I can tell that I have got them!
Answer 5. The meaning about fault is someone else’s is look for excuses to not follow your dreams. It is about try to hide your fears in external situations to explain your inactivity.
Answer 6. Believe that only the goals themselves matter. The success is a journey and not a goal. If you want to have success you must enjoy in each singular goal, celebrate it and learn during the way.

It is indeed an interesting video. Not what you expect in a motivational video, for sure. Thank you for your answers to our questions.

Please look at how you can write these expressions properly:

my role profile is thanks to hard work during last five years.
My current position (at work) is thanks to hard work these last five years.

When I was a child i dreamt to live in a big city,
When I was a child, I dreamed of living in a big city,

Until your next entries!

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