卷首語
作者：
Take a look at an apple tree. There might be five hundred apple apples on the tree， but each apple has just ten seeds. That’s a lot of seeds.
We might ask， “Why would you need so many seeds just to grow a few more apple trees？”
Nature has something to teach us here. It’s telling us： “Not all seeds grow. In life， most seeds never grow. So if you really want to make something happen， you had better try more than once.
This might mean： You’ll attend twenty interviews to get one job. You’ll interview forty people to sell one house， one car， one vacuum cleaner， one insurance policy， or a business idea. And you might meet a hundred acquaintances just to find one special friend.
When we understand the “Law of the Seed”， we don’t get so disappointed. We stop feeling like victims. We learn how to deal with things that happen to us.
看一看蘋果樹，樹上可能有500個，但每個蘋果就有10粒種子。那可真是有很多種子！
我們可能會問：“為什麼需要那麼多種子才能再長出幾棵蘋果樹？”
自然界教會我們一個道理：並不是所有的種子都能生長。事實上，大部分種子都不會生長。所以，如果你真的想做出點什麼，你最好多試幾次。
這也就是說：你將參加20次麵試才能得到一份工作。你將麵試40個人才能找到一個好的雇員。你將跟50個人談話才能賣掉一座房、一輛汽車、一台真空吸塵器、一份保險單或一個商業計劃。你可能相識100個熟人後才找到一個知心朋友。
當我們懂得“種子法則”後，就不會感到失望，也不會覺得自己是受害者，我們學會了如何處理發生在我們身上的事情。