Why you will fail to have a great career
爲什麼你幹不成一番大事業
I want to discuss with you this afternoon why you're going to fail to have a great career. (Laughter)
今天下午我想和你們討論一下 你爲什麼不會成就偉業。(笑聲)
I'm an economist. I do dismal. End of the day, it's ready for dismal remarks. I only want to talk to those of you who want a great career. I know some of you have already decided you want a good career. You're going to fail, too — (Laughter) — because — Goodness, you're all cheery about failing. (Laughter) Canadian group, undoubtedly. (Laughter) Those trying to have good careers are going to fail, because, really, good jobs are now disappearing. There are great jobs and great careers, and then there are the high-workload, high-stress, bloodsucking, soul-destroying kinds of jobs, and practically nothing in between.
我是個經濟學家。我讓人心情低落。 一天過完了，準備好聽聽讓人心情低落的評論。 我只想和你們想要成就偉業的那些人談。 我知道你們有些人已經決定了 你們想要一個成功的事業。 你們也會失敗的-(笑聲)- 因爲-天吶，你們聽到失敗都這麼高興。(笑聲) 無疑是加拿大人。(笑聲) 想事業有成的人會失敗， 因爲，真的，現在好工作都在消失。 有好工作，和好事業， 也有工作量大，壓力大， 吸食血液，侵蝕靈魂的那種工作， 而且幾乎沒有工作能好點的。
So the people looking for good jobs are going to fail. I'm going to talk about those looking for great jobs, great careers, and why you're going to, why you're going to fail. First reason is that no matter how many times people tell you, "If you want a great career, you have to pursue your passion, you have to pursue your dreams, you have to pursue, the greatest fascination in your life," you hear it again and again and then you decide not to do it. It doesn't matter how many times you download Steven J.'s Stanford commencement address, you still look at it and decide not to do it.
所以想找好工作的人會失敗。 我談談那些尋找偉業的人， 你們爲什麼要尋找，爲什麼會失敗。 第一個原因是不管多少次別人告訴你， “如果你想成就偉業，你就必須追隨你的熱忱， 你必須追隨你的夢想，你必須追隨 你人生中最大的吸引，“ 你聽過這句話一遍又一遍，然後你決定 不去這樣做。不管你下載多少次 Steven J在斯坦福大學的開學演講， 你還是看看然後決定不去做。
I'm not quite sure why you decide not to do it. You're too lazy to do it. It's too hard. You're afraid if you look for your passion and don't find it, you'll feel like you're an idiot, so then you make excuses about why you're not going to look for your passion. And they are excuses, ladies and gentlemen. We're going to go through a whole long list, your creativity, and thinking of excuses not to do what you really need to do if you want to have a great career.
我不太確定你爲什麼決定不去做。 你太懶了。這事太難。 你害怕如果你去尋找夢想然後找不到， 你會覺得你像個白癡，所以你給自己找藉口， 爲什麼你不去追尋你的夢想。 這些都是藉口，女士們先生們。 我們要列一個長單子，你的創造力， 想想你不去做成就偉業該做的事情 的藉口。
So, for example, one of your great excuses is, "Well, great careers are really and truly, for most people, just a matter of luck, so I'm going to stand around, I'm going to try to be lucky, and if I'm lucky, I'll have a great career. If not, I'll have a good career." But a good career is an impossibility, so that's not going to work.
所以，舉例來說，你衆多借口之一是， “嗯，偉業實際上對於大多數人來說 只是運氣問題，所以我就在這待着， 我就試試做那個幸運的人，然後如果我真幸運的話， 我就能成就偉業。如果不能，我就找個還不錯的事業。” 但是沒有還不錯的事業，所以這個行不通。
Then, your other excuse is, "Yes, there are special people who pursue their passions, but they are geniuses. They are Steven J. I'm not a genius. When I was five, I thought I was a genius, but my professors have beaten that idea out of my head long since." (Laughter) Mm? "And now I know I am completely competent." Now, you see, if this was , being completely competent, that would have given you a great career. But guess what? This is almost , and saying to the world, "I am totally, completely competent," is damning yourself with the faintest of praise.
然後，你還有其他藉口：“是的，有那些與衆不同的人 追尋自己的夢想，但是他們是天才。 他們是Steven J. 我不是天才。 我五歲的時候以爲自己是天才， 但是我的'教授們早就把這個念頭 打消了。“(笑聲)嗯? ”然後現在我知道自己完全有能力。“ 現在你看，如果這是在年， 完全有能力， 就能讓你成就偉業。 但是你知道麼?現在幾乎是年了， 對世界說”我完全，絕對，有能力，“ 就是用最無力的稱讚譴責你自己。
And then, of course, another excuse: "Well, I would do this, I would do this, but, but, well, after all, I'm not weird. Everybody knows that people who pursue their passions are somewhat obsessive. A little strange? Mm? Mm? Okay? You know, a fine line between madness and genius. I'm not weird. I've read Steven J.'s biography. Oh my goodness. I am not that person. I am nice. I am normal. I'm a nice, normal person, and nice, normal people don't have passion. Ah. But I still want a great career. I'm not prepared to pursue my passion, so I know what I'm going to do, because I have, I have a solution, I have a strategy. It's the one Mommy and Daddy told me about. Mommy and Daddy told me that if I worked hard, I'd have a good career. So, if you work hard and have a good career, if you work really, really, really hard, you'll have a great career. Doesn't that, like, mathematically make sense?" Hmm. Not. (Laughter) But you've managed to talk yourself into that.