如何才能成功/How To Be Successful

如何才能成功（关于职业生涯的Twitter长发言版）

How To Be Successful (At Your Career, Twitter Edition) 

最为成功的人（根据历史评价，而不是富有程度来判断）终其一生都在寻找他们能够从事的，最为重要的事情，这其实就是他们最主要的工作。他们不断的突破自己，跳出舒适区。如果发现更重要的事业值得去做，即使很辛苦，也不会欺骗自己安守现状。

The most successful people (judged by history, not money) continually look for the most important thing they are able to work on, and that’s what they do. They do not get trapped in local maxima, and they do not deceive themselves if they find something more important. 

但是，即使众人风言风语，他们也丝毫不会动摇。 “重要”并不表示“受欢迎”。

However, they are willing to work on something for a long time even if other people don’t get it. "Important" does not mean "popular". 

重要的是，您要做的事情能影响到什么，而不是你在那上面花了多少时间。有时有必要进行优化，以达到极佳的效果，而多数时候低风险则是对事业没有帮助的。

The best work you ever do is what matters, not the time you worked on alchemy. Optimize for being spectacularly right some of the time, and low-stakes wrong a lot of the time.

你可以试着将事业规模扩大到总师比你想象的大一些，并且这样做的好处总是比您想像的明显，更令人惊喜。这适用于从技术系统到公司的所有内容。

You can almost always scale things up more than you think, and the benefits to doing so are almost always bigger and more surprising than you think. This goes from everything from technical systems to companies. 

规模收益，网络效应和指数效应是如此强大，以至于人们常常不敢相信自己，转而去想其他办法。这通常是使他人难以与你竞争。

Scale benefits, network effects, and the power law are so powerful that people usually delude themselves into thinking otherwise. They are often the best way to make it hard for others to compete with you. 

如果只有一个成功的关键，那就是能够使世界上任何目标达成的特性——意志，决心，执行力，遇到障碍时不放弃，自己独特的解决问题的能力和自我信仰。

If there is a single key to success, it is the trait of being able to make things happen in the world—willfulness, determination, execution focus, not giving up when you hit a roadblock, the ability to solve any problem that comes your way, and self-belief. 

在几乎每种情况下，几乎每个人都低估了高速推动者巨大的能量。与他们一起工作。并且自己也做这样的人。

Almost everyone underestimates the value of fast movers, in almost every context. Work with them. Be one yourself. 

经常与那些不断提出新想法的人共事。

Spend a lot of time with the kind of people who are constantly producing new ideas.

低风险的东西应该是低不确定性的，而高风险的东西必须是高不确定性的。明白这两点很重要。使用重点预算来重点用于最重要的事情。

Low-stakes things should be low-drama, and high-stakes things can be high-drama if they have to be. It’s important to get both of these right. Use your stress budget to really focus on the few things that matter. 

陷入无关紧要的工作是一个危险的陷阱，出于某种原因，很多人会陷入其中。让其他人花时间玩政治游戏，并尽量离他们远一点。

Getting caught up in the parts of a job that don’t matter is a dangerous trap and for some reason one that a lot of people fall into. Let other people play political games and avoid them as much as you can. 

真实的，具有高度信念的愿景是稀有且宝贵的。请加倍重视他们，或找到有这样宝贵信念的人。

Authentic, high-conviction vision is rare and valuable. Double down when you find it or find people who have it. 

在您的职业生涯初期，请某人在你身上投资（雇用您，晋升您，对公司投资，等等）确实很有帮助。做到这一点的最好方法是首先尽一切可能帮助他们。

It’s really helpful to get someone to take a bet on you (hire you, promote you, invest in your company, whatever) early in your career. The best way to do this is to first do whatever you can to help them.

最大的价值来自于以别人难以复制的方式，做别人没有的事情或者别人没有想到的事情。如果您只是复刻别人的方法，那么您可能会不犯错，但肯定不出彩。

The most value comes from doing something no one else can do, or no one else has thought of, in a way that is hard for other people to copy. If you try to be just like everyone else, and do just what they’re doing, you will maybe do ok but certainly not great. 

遵循自己的好奇心，遵从内心寻找答案。对自己的技能发展，激情和世界观有客观的认识。

Follow your own curiosity, and start looking internally instead of externally for the answers. Be honest with yourself about the intersection of your skills, your passions, and what the world values. 

提出有价值观点的最好方法是了解一个领域的整体情况，并提出前所未有的想法。

The best way to have valuable ideas is to understand the entire landscape of a field and figure out what can emerge now that couldn’t before. 

请记住，想要致富最好的方法是通过股权而不是工资。

If you want to get rich, remember that the way to do it is via equity, not salary. 

无论如何，复利都是非常强大的力量。长期展望和长期承诺是超越他人的最简单方法。

Compounding, in all ways, is a very powerful force. Long-term outlooks and long-term commitments are the easiest way to outperform other people. 

尽早远离满腹仇恨的偏激之人。避免成为其中一员，或结交这样的人。短期内你会感到很爽，但是除了社交媒体的风光之外，他们几乎永一无是处。

The sooner you can learn to ignore the haters, the better. Avoid the temptation to become one or surround yourself with them—it’s fun in the short term, but they are almost never successful at anything other than social media. 

没有乐观、毅力和理性的好奇心，是很难做好工作的。

It is very hard to do good work without being optimistic, exceptionally determined, and intellectually curious.

只有很少情况下，理想化的目标能够达成。过于难以实现的目标又容易让人陷入沮丧——多数人只是想加入到成功的团队里来，但是你想要的可能是你自己的人生目标。把你专业化且独特的人生目标写下来吧。

Ideal goals are ones that you hit, but just barely. Setting goals that are always a bit too much of a stretch is demoralizing—people want to be on the winning team, and you want to be winning at life. Write your goals down, professionally and personally.

制定并维护严苛的标准。如果您必须对人严格，那就用心采取措施，并真诚地希望他们能从中受益。当人们达到标准时，不吝惜自己的赞美。

Set and maintain high standards. If you have to be hard on people, do it with love and a genuine wish for them to improve. Praise people when they hit the standard. 

实力最强的团队是思想丰富的团队，但价值观或目标却并不繁多。

The strongest teams have a lot of diversity of thought but do not have much diversity of values or goals.

不过也有例外，但是几乎所有优秀的人都在尽量实现上面的目标。对于那些否认此项的人保持一定的怀疑态度，除非你能确定他们真的很成功。

There are exceptions, but the people at the top of almost any field worked very hard to get there. Be skeptical of people who tell you that you don’t have to work hard if you want to have an exceptional career unless they have exceptional careers. 

让人们帮助您的最好方法是首先提供帮助。第二好的方法是做一些吸引人的事情。

The best way to get people to help you is to first help them. The second-best way is to be working on something interesting. 

员工集体会议可以适当延长，但是与员工单独见面尽量简短。这对信息流构建和个人关系都是有好处的。

Have long staff meetings and short 1:1s. It’s much better for information flow and alignment.

不要把自己的工作安排的太满。除了非常重要的主题外，不要开长会议。尽量不要举行大型会议，如果需要，可以尝试以下发文件的形式进行通告。

Don’t overschedule yourself. Don’t have long meetings except for really important topics, and then have very long ones. Try not to have large meetings, but if you have to, try having large meetings be partially in writing.

早期成长需要解决的最主要问题基本是内部问题，尤其是很难解决的内部矛盾。

Compounding success (which means “growth” in the case of an early-stage start-up) solves almost all internal problems, particularly hard ones. 

一周的最后一天可以安排得饱满一些，以起到承上启下的作用。

Try committing to one day per week (for me it only works on a weekend, but some people do it on Fridays) where you work in a long uninterrupted block to catch up on the previous week and prepare for the next. 

专注于重要的事情，屏蔽所有的流言蜚语。

Focus on what matters. Cut all the BS.