TED演讲：成功者敢于冒险！
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| 0:04 | There's a lot of pressure around what it takes to build a great career. | 围绕建设伟大事业需要多少压力. |
| 0:09 | And it all comes back to this idea | 这一切都回到这个想法 |
| 0:12 | that you're supposed to know what you want to do. | 你应该知道 你想做什么。 |
| 0:15 | It's an idea that I like to call the stairs. | 这个主意我喜欢叫楼梯 |
| 0:20 | Here's how the stairs go. | 这里的楼梯怎么走。 |
| 0:22 | You show up in college, | 你在大学里出现 |
| 0:24 | and you're supposed to know what you want to major in. | 你应该知道你想学什么 |
| 0:27 | That major is supposed to lead you to your first job. | 那个少校应该让你找到第一份工作 |
| 0:31 | And then you get another job, | 然后你得到另一个工作, |
| 0:32 | and you get promoted and promoted and promoted forever. | 你得到晋升和晋升 永远。 |
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| 1 | There's a lot of pressure around what it takes to build a great career. | 围绕建设伟大事业需要多少压力. |
| 2 | And it all comes back to this idea | 这一切都回到这个想法 |
| 3 | that you're supposed to know what you want to do. | 你应该知道 你想做什么。 |
| 4 | It's an idea that I like to call the stairs. | 这个主意我喜欢叫楼梯 |
| 5 | Here's how the stairs go. | 这里的楼梯怎么走。 |
| 6 | You show up in college, | 你在大学里出现 |
| 7 | and you're supposed to know what you want to major in. | 你应该知道你想学什么 |
| 8 | That major is supposed to lead you to your first job. | 那个少校应该让你找到第一份工作 |
| 9 | And then you get another job, | 然后你得到另一个工作, |
| 10 | and you get promoted and promoted and promoted forever. | 你得到晋升和晋升 永远。 |
| 11 | The best part about the stairs is safety and security. | 关于楼梯的最好部分是安全保障. |
| 12 | It feels like you know what you need to do to get ahead. | 感觉你知道该怎么做才能领先 |
| 13 | The worst part of the stairs is that it's like a weird video game | 楼梯最糟糕的部分是 它就像一个奇怪的电子游戏 |
| 14 | that you can get stuck inside of for years. | 你可以被困在多年内。 |
| 15 | The stairs will make you feel like your self-worth is tied to your title | 楼梯会让你觉得自己的价值 与你的头衔有关 |
| 16 | or your last performance rating or your next promotion. | 或者你最后的表现评级 或者下次晋升 |
| 17 | But the truth is that the stairs are an illusion. | 但事实是楼梯是一种幻觉. |
| 18 | These days, excellent careers are not built by excellent stair climbers. | 这些天,优秀的事业不是由优秀的楼梯攀登者建造的. |
| 19 | Said differently, one of the most important things you can get good at | 换句话说,你最擅长的一件事 |
| 20 | in your career is taking risks. | 在你的职业生涯中 冒险。 |
| 21 | Or, as I like to call it, jumping off cliffs. | 或者,我喜欢叫它,跳下悬崖。 |
| 22 | Let me explain what I mean with a story. | 让我来解释我讲的故事是什么意思 |
| 23 | When I was 25, I got offered a crazy job. | 25岁时,我得到了一份疯狂的工作。 |
| 24 | I had spent a couple of years climbing the stairs in human resources at Facebook | 我花了几年时间在Facebook人力资源上爬楼梯 |
| 25 | when the leader of another department came to me | 当另一个部门的领导人来找我的时候, |
| 26 | and asked me to help him start a new project, | 并让我帮他启动一个新项目, |
| 27 | doing something that I knew nothing about. | 做一些我一无所知的事 |
| 28 | It was a long-term project, it was risky, | 这是一个长期的项目, 这是危险的, |
| 29 | and a lot of people told me it would probably fail. | 很多人告诉我,它可能会失败。 |
| 30 | I was intrigued, but I was also scared. | 我很感兴趣,但我也很害怕。 |
| 31 | So I talked to a bunch of different people, | 所以我和一群不同的人谈过 |
| 32 | and I have to admit, a lot of them told me not to take it. | 我必须承认,很多人告诉我不要接受 |
| 33 | But there was this little voice inside me that just kept saying, | 但我内心有个小声音 不停地说 |
| 34 | I wonder. | 不知为何? |
| 35 | I wonder if I can be capable in this completely new environment. | 我不知道我是否有能力 在这个全新的环境中。 |
| 36 | So I took a risk, and I took the job. | 于是我冒了险,我接受了这份工作。 |
| 37 | Now, I'd like to say that what happened next was | 现在,我想说,接下来发生的事情是 |
| 38 | that it was obviously a great decision, and I was immediately successful. | 这显然是一个伟大的决定, 我立刻成功。 |
| 39 | But actually, the first nine months on this project | 但实际上 这个项目的前九个月 |
| 40 | felt a lot more like falling off of a very steep cliff. | 感觉更像是从陡峭的悬崖上掉下来 |
| 41 | I had gone from feeling competent and capable in HR | 我从能干能干到能干 |
| 42 | to feeling like an absolute idiot all the time. | 总是觉得自己是个白痴 |
| 43 | I was sitting in rooms with brilliant people asking very dumb questions. | 我和聪明人坐在房间里 问了一些很蠢的问题 |
| 44 | Six months into this job, | 6个月后 |
| 45 | I got the lowest performance rating of my entire life. | 我得到了我一生最低的成绩评价。 |
| 46 | I had so many moments when all I wanted to do | 我有很多时刻,我想做的一切 |
| 47 | was run back to the safety and security of the stairs. | 跑回楼梯的安全和安保。 |
| 48 | But about nine months in, something interesting happened. | 但大约九个月后,发生了一件有趣的事情。 |
| 49 | I had to lead a meeting. | 我不得不领导一个会议。 |
| 50 | It sounds simple, but it was a big meeting. | 这听起来很简单,但这是一个很大的会议。 |
| 51 | It was a complicated debate about a nuanced part of this project. | 这场辩论对于这个项目的一个细微差别部分是复杂的。 |
| 52 | I was successful, and I so vividly remember walking out of that meeting | 我非常成功,而且我非常生动地记得 走出那次会议 |
| 53 | feeling like myself again. | 感觉又像我自己了 |
| 54 | I had gone from feeling like a beginner in this new environment | 我不再觉得自己是新环境中的初学者 |
| 55 | to feeling confident and capable. | 感到自信和有能力。 |
| 56 | I spent another three years on this project learning and growing, | 我在这个项目上又花了三年 学习和成长 |
| 57 | and on the other side of it, I was a completely different person. | 而在另一边, 我是一个完全不同的人。 |
| 58 | I was offered jobs that no one would have offered me if I had stayed in HR. | 如果我留在HR里 没人会给我工作 |
| 59 | That's the thing about jumping off cliffs. | 这就是跳崖的问题。 |
| 60 | It doesn't just take you a couple flights up on the stairs. | 它不只是带你 几个航班上楼梯。 |
| 61 | It's like a weird elevator that takes you to a whole new place. | 这就像一个奇怪的电梯 带你到一个全新的地方。 |
| 62 | Cliff jumps teach you who you are | 克里夫跳跃教你自己是谁 |
| 63 | and what you are capable of in ways that the stairs can never. | 以及你的能力 以方式,楼梯永远无法。 |
| 64 | To get good at jumping off cliffs, you have to get good at three things. | 要善于跳崖,必须善于三事. |
| 65 | The first is actually jumping off the cliff. | 第一个是跳下悬崖 |
| 66 | After many years of coaching people through career decisions, | 经过多年的辅导 通过职业决定, |
| 67 | I know that sometimes it is just not the right time to take a risk. | 我知道,有时,冒险时机不合适。 |
| 68 | But I can also tell you that most people do not stay stuck on the stairs | 但我也可以告诉你 大多数人不会被困在楼梯上 |
| 69 | out of necessity. | 出于必要 |
| 70 | They stay there out of fear. | 他们因为恐惧而呆在那里。 |
| 71 | The trick is to learn to tell the difference between the kind of fear | 诀窍是学会区分恐惧 |
| 72 | that says, I'm scared I might run out of money, | 也就是说 我害怕我的钱会用光 |
| 73 | which you should actually listen to, | 你们应当倾听, |
| 74 | and the kind of fear that says, I'm scared I might fail, | 那种恐惧说, 我害怕我会失败, |
| 75 | which you should take as a giant green flashing light to jump. | 你应该把它当作巨大的绿色闪光灯来跳。 |
| 76 | Cliff jumps teach you what you are capable of in spite of fear. | 克里夫跳跃会教你你的能力 尽管恐惧。 |
| 77 | The second thing you have to get good at in order to get good | 第二件事,你必须得学好才能学好 |
| 78 | at jumping off cliffs is surviving the fall. | 在跳下悬崖时 秋天会幸存下来 |
| 79 | Jumping off a cliff is taking a giant step backwards | 跳下悬崖是向前迈出一大步 |
| 80 | into the land of being a beginner again. | 进入了再次成为初学者的国度。 |
| 81 | That means it's a very big learning process, | 这意味着这是一个很大的学习过程, |
| 82 | and with that comes a huge emotional roller coaster, | 随之而来的是 巨大的情绪过山车, |
| 83 | daily, weekly, sometimes hourly. | 每天,每周,有时每小时。 |
| 84 | All of my jumps have involved vacillating wildly | 我所有的跳跃 都涉及疯狂的挥舞 |
| 85 | between feeling like, oh, maybe I'm going to be good at this, | 在那种感觉之间,哦, 也许我会很擅长这个, |
| 86 | and then immediately feeling like, | 然后立刻觉得 |
| 87 | who the hell even gave me this job in the first place? | 谁会给我这份工作呢? |
| 88 | All of that is normal, | 所有这一切都是正常的, |
| 89 | and it doesn't actually mean that anything is wrong. | 这并不意味着什么是错的。 |
| 90 | You have to learn to expect the roller coaster | 你要学会期待过山车 |
| 91 | and ignore it at the same time. | 并同时忽略它。 |
| 92 | The most valuable mantra for me in this phase | 这个阶段我最珍贵的漫画 |
| 93 | has been give it two weeks. | 已经给了它两周。 |
| 94 | A lot of people will tell you to sleep on it. | 很多人会告诉你睡在上面 |
| 95 | I can tell you most of these emotions don't go away overnight. | 我可以告诉你这些情绪 大部分不会一夜之间消失。 |
| 96 | Two weeks is a great barometer | 两周是伟大的气压计 |
| 97 | for things that you should actually pay attention to. | 对于你应该真正注意的事情。 |
| 98 | The third thing you have to get good at | 第三件事你必须学会 |
| 99 | in order to get good at jumping off cliffs | 为了能跳下悬崖 |
| 100 | is becoming a professional idiot. | 正在成为一个职业白痴。 |
| 101 | I can tell you that this is one of my greatest strengths. | 我可以告诉你,这是我最大的优势之一。 |
| 102 | I am comfortable sounding like a moron. | 我听起来像个白痴 |
| 103 | I am great at sitting in rooms with brilliant people | 我非常擅长和聪明人坐在房间里 |
| 104 | asking very dumb questions. | 问了一些很愚蠢的问题。 |
| 105 | But what that actually means | 但实际上这意味着什么 |
| 106 | is that I have become an extraordinary learner. | 我成为了一个非凡的学习者。 |
| 107 | My favorite phrase is, | 我最喜欢的一句话是, |
| 108 | sorry if this is a stupid question, but... | 抱歉,如果这是一个愚蠢的问题,但是... |
| 109 | When you ask it that way, | 当你这样问的时候, |
| 110 | everybody wants to make you feel better. | 每个人都想让你感觉好点 |
| 111 | They're like, no, no, that's not a dumb question. | 他们就像,不,不,这不是一个愚蠢的问题。 |
| 112 | And then they would love to teach you what they know. | 然后他们想教你他们知道的一切 |
| 113 | People love being teachers. | 人们喜欢当老师 |
| 114 | It makes them feel smart. | 这让他们觉得很聪明。 |
| 115 | The other thing you discover | 你发现的另一件事 |
| 116 | is that most stupid questions aren't actually stupid. | 最愚蠢的问题其实并不愚蠢 |
| 117 | So many people are afraid of sounding dumb | 这么多人怕听傻话 |
| 118 | that the world is littered with important questions | 世界充满了重要的问题 |
| 119 | that never got asked. | 从来没有被问过。 |
| 120 | Questions like, can you define that word for me? | 诸如此类的问题 你能为我定义这个词吗? |
| 121 | Why are we doing this? | 我们为什么要这么做? |
| 122 | Why are we having this meeting? | 我们为什么要开会? |
| 123 | Embracing being a professional idiot | 装成一个职业白痴 |
| 124 | often actually makes you | 经常让你 |
| 125 | the most valuable person in the room. | 房间里最有价值的人 |
| 126 | There's a last thing, | 还有最后一件事 |
| 127 | part of the illusion of the stairs | 楼梯上的幻觉 |
| 128 | that becomes really obvious | 变得非常明显 |
| 129 | the more cliffs that you jump off of. | 你跳下来的悬崖越多 |
| 130 | And that is the idea that there is one set of stairs, | 这就是有一套楼梯的想法, |
| 131 | one definition of success. | 成功的一个定义。 |
| 132 | I have a lot of friends | 我有许多朋友 |
| 133 | that have climbed up the stairs | 已经爬上楼梯 |
| 134 | to some version of the top. | 到某个版本的顶部。 |
| 135 | A fancy title, a lot of money, fame. | 一个高贵的头衔,很多钱,名声。 |
| 136 | And then they've realized that they're miserable. | 然后他们意识到自己很悲惨 |
| 137 | One friend described becoming CEO of her company | 有个朋友说成为公司总裁 |
| 138 | and immediately thinking, | 并立即思考, |
| 139 | is this all there is? | 这就是一切吗? |
| 140 | You know what she did next? | 你知道她接下来做了什么吗? |
| 141 | She jumped off a professional cliff. | 她跳下职业悬崖 |
| 142 | She went from being the CEO of a marketing agency | 她从一个营销机构的首席执行官开始 |
| 143 | to helping people who were dying in hospice. | 帮助那些在临终期死去的人 |
| 144 | Success is not the same for everyone. | 成功对每个人都不一样。 |
| 145 | I know that what I'm talking about isn't easy. | 吾知其言不轻. |
| 146 | It takes bravery to trade the known for the unknown. | 要用勇敢来交换已知的未知人物 |
| 147 | It takes courage to do something | 做点什么需要勇气 |
| 148 | that might seem like a step sideways | 可能像一个阶梯边 |
| 149 | or backwards to someone else. | 或者倒向别人 |
| 150 | But you will never really know who you are | 但你永远不会真正知道你是谁 |
| 151 | or what you are capable of | 或你有能力 |
| 152 | until you learn how to try. | 直到你学会如何尝试。 |
| 153 | Thank you. | 谢谢 |
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