異類之不一樣的成功啟示錄 第187期:并不是只有最聰明的人才會(huì)成功
而這種條件互換在什么情況下會(huì)失敗呢？
Everything we have learned in Outliers says that success follows a predictable course.
在這本書(shū)中，所有我們看到的成功都是有跡可循，
It's not the brightest to succeed. If it were, Chris Langan would be up there with Einstein.
并不是只有最聰明的人才會(huì)成功。否則，克里斯·蘭根將會(huì)和愛(ài)因斯坦齊名。
Nor success simply the sum of the decisions and efforts we make on our own behalf. It is, rather, a gift.
但是，成功也不僅僅是由于我們努力的累積，相反，它更像一件禮物。
The successful are those who have been given opportunities and who have had the strength and presence of mind to seize them.
成功的人都是在機(jī)會(huì)出現(xiàn)時(shí)，有能力抓住它們的人。
For hocky and soccer players born in January, it's a better shot at making the all-star team. For the beetles, it was Hamburg.
對(duì)于曲棍球和足球運(yùn)動(dòng)員來(lái)說(shuō)，出生在1月是成為全明星隊(duì)員的好機(jī)會(huì)。
For Bill Gates, the lucky break was being born at the right time and getting the gift of a computer terminal in junior high.
對(duì)于比爾·蓋茨，幸運(yùn)的機(jī)會(huì)是他出生的年代及他在初中時(shí)得到的計(jì)算機(jī)禮物。對(duì)于甲殼蟲(chóng)樂(lè)隊(duì)，是漢堡。
Joe Flom and the founders of Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen and Katz got multiple breaks.
喬·弗洛姆和Wachtell的創(chuàng)始人利普頓、羅森、卡茲都得到很多這樣的機(jī)會(huì)。
They were born at the right time with the right parents and the right ethnicity
恰到好處的出生時(shí)代、恰當(dāng)?shù)母改讣扒‘?dāng)?shù)拿褡鍎澐郑?/p>
which allowed them to practice takeover law for twenty years before the rest of the legal world caught on.
這些因素都使他們?cè)谄渌尚袠I(yè)盛行的前20年就開(kāi)始從事法律。
And what Korean Air did, when it finally turned its operation around, was to give its pilots the opportunity to escape the constraints of their cultural legacy.
大韓航空是怎么做的呢？是讓飛行員有機(jī)會(huì)擺脫限制他們的文化傳統(tǒng)。
The lesson here is very simple. But it is striking how often it is overlooked.
道理很簡(jiǎn)單，但令人驚訝的是，它常常被忽視。
The myth of the best and the brightest and the self-made men suggest that in order to bring out the most inhumane potential, we need only identify those with promise and our work is done.
最優(yōu)秀的人，最聰明的人和自己通過(guò)努力獲得成功的人的故事告訴我們，為了發(fā)揮最大的潛力，我們只要用承諾來(lái)實(shí)現(xiàn)他們，這就是我們的工作。
We look at Bill Gates and say, in a spirit of self-congratulation, our world allowed that thirteen-year-old to become a fabulously successful entrepreneur.
我們?cè)诳吹奖葼?middot;蓋茨的成功時(shí)，會(huì)自我慶賀地說(shuō)，我們的國(guó)家讓一個(gè)13歲的孩子成難以置信地成為一個(gè)成功的企業(yè)家。
But that's the wrong lesson. Our world allowed only one thirteen-year-old unlimited access to a time sharing terminal in 1968.
這是錯(cuò)誤的，我們的國(guó)家不過(guò)是在1968年給一個(gè)13歲的孩子提供了一個(gè)分時(shí)終端。
If a million teenagers had been given the same opportunity, how many more Microsofts would we have today?
如果100萬(wàn)青少年得到同樣的機(jī)會(huì)，那我們今天會(huì)多出多少微軟公司呢？
When we misunderstand or ignore the real lessons of success, we squander talent.
當(dāng)我們誤解或忽略了成功的真正道理時(shí)，我們就是在浪費(fèi)才干。
