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Live
Your Dreams by Ian Thorpe, Scholastic Australia,
Living Legends Series, Gosford, 2002. |
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Live
Your Dreams by Ian Thorpe is about the secret of
this certainly successful swimmer's success, specifically
written to inspire children to achieve their full potential.
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The
book is an easy-to-read 48 pages in a magazine format.
We find out about Thorpe's very normal childhood, how
he got into swimming almost accidentally, his own personal
philosophy of success, and what a successful lifestyle
is like. We start in The Wading Pool, so to speak,
where we find out what about Ian's power of concentration
with Lego. Onto his First Strokes where Ian imagines
his body is a machine that drives him through the hours
of training. The path to success is The Hard Slog
of Ian's rigorous training program. Butterflies
are not for everyone, for some it is better to relax before
a big race. When you have big goals it is best to create
many little steps to The Finishing Line, then
you can Live Your Dreams. It is not, however,
always easy Living Your Life when you are famous,
especially when all you want to do is to be normal. It
feels good to give to Charity and to always be
Looking Ahead for new and exciting challenges. |
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This
book could provide a child at Primary level with the basic
thinking and productive skills to learn how to become
focused on achieving success. The young reader finds out
that Thorpe was just a normal kid with a normal upbringing
and that, thus, everyone can achieve success on a personal
level. The way to be really successful is, therefore,
to work hard and set goals you can achieve. Most importantly,
success in Live Your Dreams is defined as a personal
achievement, not about winning or being the best. Success
is achieving your personal best and Live Your Dreams
conveys this important message in a tone accessible to
its audience. |
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Live
Your Dreams is Scholastic Australia's inaugural book
in their new Living Legends series. The aim of this series
is to profile high achieving young Australians as a way
of sharing their philosophies and successes with other
young Australians.
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