It's true. And how do you know when you're doing something right? How do you know that? It feels so. What I know is that feelings are really your GPS system for life. When you're supposed to do something or not supposed to do something, your emotional guidance system lets you know. The trick is to learn to check your ego at the door and start checking your gut instead. Every right decision I've made--every right decision I've ever made--has come from my gut. And every wrong dicision I've ever made was a resulf of me not listening to the greater voice of myself.
这是真的。但是你怎么知道你所做的是适合你的呢?你怎么知道呢?跟着感觉走。我现在所知道的就是你的内心是你人生的导航系统。你是应该做某事还是不应该做,你内心的引导系统会让你知道。关键是去面对自己,面对自己的内心。我做过的所有正确的选择——我做的所有正确的选择——都是源自内心的。而我所做的所有错误选择都是因为没有听取内心的声音。
If it doesn't feel right, don't do it. That's the lesson. And that lesson alone will save you, my friends, a lot of grief. Even doubt means don't. This is what I've learned. There are many times when you don't know what to do. When you don't know what to do, get still, get very still, until you do know what to do.
如果感觉不对劲,就不要去做。这就是我的经验。朋友们,这个经验会让你免遭很多痛苦。甚至内心有些许的怀疑都意味着不要去做。这就是我所学到的。也许有很多次你都不知道该做什么,那就静下心来,保持冷静,直到你确实明白该做什么为止。
And when you do get still and let your internal motivation be the driver, not only will your personal life improve, but you will gain a competitive edge in the working world as well. Because, as Daniel Pink writes in his best-seller, A Whole New Mind, he says, "We're entering a whole new age." And he calls it the "Conceptual Age", where traits that set people apart today are going to come from our hearts--right brain--as well as our heads. "It's no longer just the logical, linear, rules-based thinking that matters," he says. "It's also empathy and joyfulness and purpose, inner traits that have transcendent worth." These qualities bloom when we're doing what we love, so, when we're involving the wholeness of ourselves in our work, both our expertise and our emotion.
当你静下心来,让内心的动机成为驱动力时,不仅你的个人生活会提高,你在工作中也会获得竞争优势。因为,正如丹尼尔·皮恩科在他的畅销书《全新思维》中所说的那样,“我们进入了一个新的时代”,他称之为“概念时代”。使人与人之间产生差异的是人们的内心和头脑。他的书中说到,“重要的不仅仅是逻辑上的、线性的、基于规则的思维方式。移情、快乐、目标和内部特质同样也有卓越的价值。”当我们做自己喜欢的事时,当我们全身心的投入到工作中时,这些特质就会焕发生机。