When we first read the following story, we had just begun teaching a course called "The Million Dollar Forum," a course designed to teach people to accelerate their income up to levels of a million dollars a year or more. Early on we discovered people get locked into a rut of trying harder without trying smarter. Trying harder doesn't always work. Sometimes we need to do something radically different to achieve greater levels of success. We need to break out of our paradigm prisons, our habit patterns and our comfort zones.
I'm sitting in a quiet room at the Milcroft Inn, a peaceful little place hidden back among the pine trees
There's a small fly burning out the last of its short life's energies in a futile attempt to fly through the glass of the windowpane. The whining wings tell the poignant story of the fly's strategy: Try harder.
But it's not working.
The frenzied effort offers no hope for survival. Ironically, the struggle is part of the trap. It is impossible for the fly to try hard enough to succeed at breaking through the glass. Nevertheless, this little insect has staked its life on reaching its goal through raw effort and determination.
This fly is doomed. It will die there on the windowsill.
Across the room, ten steps away, the door is open. Ten seconds of flying time and this small creature could reach the outside world it seeks. With only a fraction of the effort now being wasted, it could be free of this self-imposed trap. The breakthrough possibility is there. It would be so easy.
Why doesn't the fly another approach, something dramatically different? How did it get so locked in on the idea that this particular route and determined effort offer the most promise for success? What logic is there in continuing until death to seek a breakthrough with more of the same?
No doubt this approach makes sense to the fly. Regrettably, it's an idea that will kill.
Trying harder isn't necessarily the solution to achieving more. It may not offer any real promise for getting what you want out of life. Sometimes, in fact, it's a big part of the problem.
If you stake your hopes for a breakthrough on trying harder than ever, you may kill your chances for success.
----Price Pritchett
Questions:
1.What does the author want to tell us?
2.What is "The Million Dollar Forum" ?
相关单词：forum
forum解释：n.论坛，讨论会
forum例句：
They're holding a forum on new ways of teaching history.他们正在举行历史教学讨论会。
The organisation would provide a forum where problems could be discussed.这个组织将提供一个可以讨论问题的平台。
相关单词：radically
radically解释：ad.根本地，本质地
radically例句：
I think we may have to rethink our policies fairly radically. 我认为我们可能要对我们的政策进行根本的反思。
The health service must be radically reformed. 公共医疗卫生服务必须进行彻底改革。
相关单词：paradigm
paradigm解释：n.例子，模范，词形变化表
paradigm例句：
He had become the paradigm of the successful man. 他已经成为成功人士的典范。
Moreover,the results of this research can be the new learning paradigm for digital design studios.除此之外，本研究的研究成果也可以为数位设计课程建立一个新的学习范例。
相关单词：futile
futile解释：adj.无效的，无用的，无希望的
futile例句：
They were killed,to the last man,in a futile attack.因为进攻失败，他们全部被杀，无一幸免。
Their efforts to revive him were futile.他们对他抢救无效。
相关单词：whining
whining解释：n. 抱怨，牢骚 v. 哭诉，发牢骚
whining例句：
That's the way with you whining, puny, pitiful players. 你们这种又爱哭、又软弱、又可怜的赌棍就是这样。
The dog sat outside the door whining (to be let in). 那条狗坐在门外狺狺叫着（要进来）。
相关单词：poignant
poignant解释：adj.令人痛苦的，辛酸的，惨痛的
poignant例句：
His lyrics are as acerbic and poignant as they ever have been.他的歌词一如既往的犀利辛辣。
It is especially poignant that he died on the day before his wedding.他在婚礼前一天去世了，这尤其令人悲恸。
相关单词：frenzied
frenzied解释：a.激怒的；疯狂的
frenzied例句：
Will this push him too far and lead to a frenzied attack? 这会不会逼他太甚，导致他进行疯狂的进攻？
Two teenagers carried out a frenzied attack on a local shopkeeper. 两名十几岁的少年对当地的一个店主进行了疯狂的袭击。
相关单词：doomed
doomed解释：命定的
doomed例句：
The court doomed the accused to a long term of imprisonment. 法庭判处被告长期监禁。
A country ruled by an iron hand is doomed to suffer. 被铁腕人物统治的国家定会遭受不幸的。
相关单词：determined
determined解释：adj.坚定的；有决心的
determined例句：
I have determined on going to Tibet after graduation.我已决定毕业后去西藏。
He determined to view the rooms behind the office.他决定查看一下办公室后面的房间。
相关单词：logic
logic解释：n.逻辑(学)；逻辑性
logic例句：
What sort of logic is that?这是什么逻辑？
I don't follow the logic of your argument.我不明白你的论点逻辑性何在。
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