职场丛林生存指南 拼智力还是拼努力

If you’ve ever done any prototyping, you’ll know that failure is systemic to the model. You get to a place where you’re 70% right, implement your idea, and learn from the data produced by your mistakes. Innovation requires failure, and yet somehow, our schools still teach us to avoid it. What a disservice we do when we tell children with high IQs they shouldn’t be capable of failure, so long as they try. In doing so, we close off their chance for learning. When I hire, I look for the person who failed the first time around and came back a second time with an arsenal. I don’t just want the risk-takers, I want the people who use those risks and failures to learn. Grit is resilience.
假如你用过原型法，你就会明白失败是完善原型系统的必须。当你设计的原型最初有70%成功保证的时候，贯彻你的想法，并从错误中得到资料，用于进一步改进系统。创新需要失败，但是学校却在教导我们规避失败。我们在高智商的孩子们尝试做某件事的时候，不断提醒他们不要犯错，这样做对他们其实是一种伤害。我们这么做是剥夺了他们学习的权利。招聘新员工的时候，我寻找的是经历过第一次的失败，总结经验后再次参加面试的人。我不只需要敢于冒险的员工，我需要能从风险和失败中总结经验的员工。坚韧是一种复原力。

Forget the grade.
忘记个人成绩。

Grit is working hard without the need for recognition. My friend Jane Park, CEO of Julep, told me that the biggest problems she and her peers have with young hires is that they’re working for the A grade and not for the team. You want to be gritty? Put in your time – not for your own betterment, but for the team’s betterment. Be dependable and follow through for your team. Make it your goal to show up for something bigger than you.
坚韧是努力工作，无需认可。聚丽（Julep）首席执行官珍妮o帕克是我的朋友，她曾跟我谈起她和同行们发现的一个问题，就是年轻雇员在工作中存在一个共性，他们工作是为自己能崭露头角，而并不是为了整个团队。你想变成坚韧的人吗？努力让整个团队进步，而不仅仅是为了你个人。依靠你的团队，为你的团队坚持到底。以此为目标，超越一己私利的局限。

Be an owner.
做自己的主人。

A recent study showed that 80% of graduating seniors expect that their future employers will train them at their new jobs, while in reality, less than 50% will receive any such training. Grit means owning your own learning. If you want to learn something, don’t wait. Go after it with everything you’ve got, and when you show someone in an interview how you did x, y and z – you’ll not only showcase your skill but your grit.
最新研究表明，80%的毕业生希望未来雇主能在他们初入职场的时候提供职业培训，但事实上，只有不足50%的毕业生才能接受岗位培训。坚韧的人能自主学习。如果你有学习新知识的想法，就要立刻行动。拼尽全力追逐目标，在面试时向面试官展示你何如做到某件事的时候——你不但展示了技能，还有坚韧的品格。

Throw away your entitlement.
扔掉光环。

Your IQ tells employers nothing. A school name on a diploma and GPA tell employers nothing. Throw those signifiers away, and show us who you really are. Being authentic and present in your own skin and not relying on any name, person or score – that’s grit. That’s what we want to see.
对雇主来说，智商说明不了什么，学位证书上的学校名称说明不了什么，考试的平均分也说明不了什么。把这些乱七八糟的符号都丢掉，告诉我们你到底是什么样的人。不依靠任何名字、人物或分数的包装，展示一个真实、自信的你——这就是坚韧。这就是我们想要看到的。

Live life outside of your comfort zone.
走出安乐窝。

It sounds cliché, but it’s grit at its finest. Become comfortable in the uncomfortable. You won’t regret it. I talk about grit from the standpoint of a CEO. But grit is something applicable everywhere. Grit is what makes you stand out – not just in a company or in school, but in life. At the heart of it, grit means striving for progress and never yielding in pursuit of your passions.
这句话看起来毫无新意，但却是对坚韧最好的诠释。做到随遇而安，你绝对不会后悔。我以CEO的身份谈了我对坚韧的看法。但坚韧适用于所有事情。无论是在公司或是在学校，甚至在生活中，坚韧都能让你出类拔萃。坚韧的含义中最为核心的一点是为进步而奋斗，在追求激情的道路上决不屈服。