DIRECTION
方向篇

TRUE NORTH 初心

You need a vision of yourself 10 years from now, a purpose that wraps everything you do, what you would do and how you would do it if you knew you could not fail. How you would like to see yourself in a decade? If you cannot picture it, start by knowing what you do not want, state the nos, then start to review potential favorable scenarios. Make it as vivid as possible, visualize yourself there: the colors, the people around you, the location. Listen to the sounds, smell the smells, listen to the conversations you are having… Do it often. Be intentional about yourself. It's a super power.

你需要想象自己十年后的模樣，想清楚一個能囊括你所做一切的目標。想象一下，如果你知道自己不會失敗，你會做什么，以及你將如何去做。你希望自己在各個方面都達到什么樣的狀態？如果你無法描繪出來，那就從了解你不想要的東西開始，列出你的“不想”，然后開始回顧可能想要的場景。盡可能生動地想象，想象你自己就處在那個場景中，想象那里的色彩、你周圍的人、你所處的位置，聆聽那里的聲音，聞一聞那里的氣味，傾聽你正在進行的對話……要常常這樣做，有意識地去做，這是一種超能力。

Direction is far more important than speed. Many people are going very fast but to nowhere. Be like a train. Know your final destination. If it is not precise, it is ok as long as your are heading intentionally somewhere.

方向遠比速度重要得多，許多人飛速前進，卻漫無目的。要像坐火車一樣，明確你的最終目的地。即使目的地并不精確也沒關系，只要你是有意識地向某個方向前進就可以。

Make sure your vision is bold enough. You need to dream big–that's the secret. The problem is that nobody teaches you, not the school, neither university, nor family or friends. Everyone is afraid of failing. We should not put limits on ourselves, but somehow we tend to do it. Dreaming is about imagining new possibilities to existing problems. A super power that you can obtain with training.

確保你的愿景足夠大膽。你需要有遠大的夢想，這就是秘訣。問題在于，沒有人教你這些，中小學不教，大學不教，家人和朋友也不教。每個人都害怕失敗。我們本不應對自己設限，但不知怎么回事，我們往往還是會這么做。夢想就是對現有問題想象新的可能解決方案。這是你可以通過訓練獲得的一種超能力。

Choose your battles. Say “No” often. Be selective. Focus on a few. Focus on “your” few. Overcommitment can be a big obstacle.

經常說“不”，有選擇地出擊。專注于少數事情，特別是“你的”少數事情。過度承諾可能會成為一個大的障礙。

The art of strategy is saying “No” more than “Yes”. Same for the art of living, by saying “yes” to everything or everyone, you are effectively saying “no”. You cannot do everything.

策略的藝術在于多說“不”，少說“好”。生活的藝術也是如此。如果你對每件事或每個人都說“好”，那你其實是在說“不”。你不可能面面俱到。

“停下奔跑腳步的那天，

就是你贏得比賽的那天。”

——鮑勃·馬利

“The day you stop racing, is the day you win the race.”

– Bob Marley –

Build your Dream Wall. Put a board on a wall for all yours dreams, attainable or not, big or small, by displaying a picture or something that represents that dream, regardless of whether it is an object, an experience, an encounter with someone, or a place to go. Put it in a visible place that you will see every day. Look at it every day and let life work its magic.

筑起你的夢想之墻。把你所有的夢想都寫到一塊板上，并把板粘到墻上。無論那些夢想，或觸手可及，或遙不可及，或大，或小，用一幅畫或其他什么東西來代表它們。那些夢想，可能是一件物品、一段經歷、遇見某個人或抵達某個遠方。把板放在一個你每天都能看到的顯眼的地方，每天看著它，讓生活發揮其魔力。

Be intentional; things don't happen “just because”, but “because of”.

要目標明確，事情的發生不是“無緣無故”，而是“事出有因”。

If you hit the target too many consecutive times, it is probably too reachable or too close. Don't be afraid of dreaming bigger. Failing is part of success.

如果你連續多次輕松達成目標，那它可能太容易或離你太近了。不要害怕有更大的夢想，失敗是成功的一部分。

Nothing goes as planned. Winning is messy. There is never a clear black-and-white path, but rather a greyish landscape ahead that you will have to navigate through by trying. No perfect plan exists. You will inevitably encounter many back and-forth, uncertainties, mistakes and doubts. Always allow space for buffers.

萬事難遂愿。成功之路總是曲折復雜的，從來沒有一條清晰的黑白分明的道路；前方只有一片灰暗景象，而你只能在摸索中前進。世上沒有完美的計劃，你將不可避免地遇到許多反復無常、不確定性、錯誤和疑慮。要始終為迎接意外留有余地。

Make tactics your friend. Strategy is many times made up of an accumulation of daily tactics. You may not know what is 1, 000 meters ahead, but knowing what is just 2 meters away can be enough to solve the whole puzzle at a later stage. Bold leaders come across as if they know the whole roadmap ahead, but in reality, they do not.

以戰術為友。戰略往往由日常戰術積累而成。你可能不知道前方1000米是什么，但知道前方2米有什么，這可能就足以讓你在后續階段解開整個謎團。大膽的領導者給人的印象是，他們似乎早已洞悉整個路線圖，而實際上他們并不知道。

Think bold, think big. It can happen if you can imagine it.If you do not set your goals on an impossible standard, truly impossible, it means you are setting them from your existing subconscious cognitive assumptions, based on what you have learnt so far and what you believe is achievable as of now.You need to break those by setting crazy targets to create new paths. You need to innovate pathways that will suddenly set you on a different level. Don't be linear!

大膽想象，放大格局。只要你能想到，就有可能實現。如果你沒有將目標設定在一個看似不可能的標準上，我是說真的不可能的那種，那意味著你是在根據自己現有的潛意識認知設定目標，它們基于你迄今為止所學到的知識，以及是你目前認為可實現的。你需要通過設定瘋狂的目標來打破這些束縛。你需要開創新的路徑，這會讓你突然躍升到一個不同的層次。不要墨守陳規！

“Which road do I take?” Alice asked.

“Where do you want to go?” responded the Cheshire Cat.

“I don't know.” Alice answered.

“Then it doesn't matter.” said the cat.

– Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland –

“我該走哪條路呢？”愛麗絲問。

“你想去哪里？”柴郡貓回答道。

“我不知道。”愛麗絲回答。

“那無所謂。”貓說。

——劉易斯·卡羅爾，《愛麗絲夢游仙境》

“I was ashamed of myself when I realized life was a costume party and I attended with my real face.”

– Kafka –

“當我意識到生活就像一場化裝舞會，而我卻以真面目出席時，我為自己感到羞愧。”

——卡夫卡

Some people keep hitting the wall in an endless loop. Others, after a few bruises, find a way to surpass it. Very few think about what is behind it before attempting to climb it. Do not follow anyone else's dream, professionally or personally.

有些人在無休止的循環中碰壁，而另一些人在經歷一些挫折后找到了翻越它的方法。在攀登壁壘之前，很少有人會去想它的背后是什么。無論是職業生涯還是個人生活，都不要追隨任何其他人的夢想。