5 steps to success
It seems to me that the personal evolutionary process—the looping I described in the last chapter—takes place in five distinct steps. If you can do those five things well, you will almost certainly be successful. Here they are in a nutshell:
在 我看来,个人进化过程(即我在上一条描述 的循环)通过5个不同的步骤发生。如果你能把 那5件事都做好,你几乎肯定可以成功。这五步 大概是:
1.Have clear goals.
2.Identify and don’t tolerate the problems that stand in the way of your achieving those goals.
3.Accurately diagnose the problems to get at their root causes.
4.Design plans that will get you around them.
5.Do what’s necessary to push these designs through to results.
1.有明确的目标。
2.找到阻碍你实现这些目标的问题,并 且不容忍问题。
3.准确诊断问题,找到问题的根源。
4.规划可以解决问题的方案。
5.做一切必要的事来践行这些方案,实 现成果。
To help you stay centered and effective, pretend that your life is a martial art or a game, the object of which is to get around a challenge and reach a goal. Once you accept its rules, you’ll get used to the discomfort that comes with the constant frustration. You will never handle everything perfectly: Mistakes are inevitable and it’s important to recognize and accept this fact of life. The good news is that every mistake you make can teach you something, so there’s no end to learning. You’ll soon realize that excuses like “that’s not easy” or “it doesn’t seem fair” or even “I can’t do that” are of no value and that it pays to push through.
为了帮助自己保持专注和高效,你可以假设 自己的人生是一场武术比赛或一场游戏,目标是 克服一个挑战,达成一个目标。一旦你接受了游 戏规则,对于不断出现的挫折导致的不舒服,你 就会感到习惯。你永远都无法把所有的事情都做 得完美:错误是不可避免的,是生活的一部分, 你需要认识和接受这一点。好消息是你犯的每个 错误都能教给你一些东西,所以学无止境。你将 很快认识到,各种各样的借口,如“这太难”“这看 起来不公平”,甚至“我不可能做到”,都是没有价 值的,而你坚持下去就会有收获