職場新人:學校沒有教會我們的5件事
You spent a lot of years in school. You learned a lot.
你讀書多年，滿腹學識。
Some of what you learned you need to un-learn as soon as possible. Here are five key attitudes you should adopt instead:
可有些你學到的東西卻應該儘快拋棄，轉而養成以下5個態度：
1. If you only do what you're told, you'll excel.
1. 如果還是循規蹈矩，那你就出局了。
I know. School was hard.
的確，讀書不容易。
But not that hard.
但也還不算難於上青天吧。
If you did what you were told--go to class, do the reading, turn in assignments on time, etc.--you could get As. Initiative was not required and, in fact, was often frowned on.
在學校，如果規規矩矩上課看書或按時提交作業，你會得到全優成績。讀書不要求你有什麼創舉，要是你搞什麼新奇玩意兒，或許還會被責罰。
Now--whether you work for someone else or run your own business--doing what you're told makes you average. Not superior, not excellent... just average.
現在，不論是替別人打工還是自主創業，如果還是別人交待一件，你就只做一件的話，你永遠只能平庸無爲——不拔尖、不出色，就這樣碌碌無爲下去。
To be above average, or to achieve better than average results, you must do two things:
若想擺脫平庸，取得更高成就，你必須做到以下兩點：
Do what others are willing to do, and do it better, and Do what others aren't willing to do
別人樂意做的事情，你要做得更好；別人不願意做的事情，你更要親力親爲。
Otherwise, you're just average.
否則，你只能淪爲芸芸衆生。
2. Being micro-managed is to be expected.
2. 意識到自己會處在“微觀管理”的環境下
Sure, you felt overly-controlled in school: Dates, timelines, rules... not to mention the seemingly arbitrary policies and nonsensical assignments. You saw graduation as the day you would finally have more freedom.
毋庸置疑，學校管理都很嚴格：時間、期限、校規……當然還有一堆“獨裁”政策和讓人無語的安排。你以爲等到畢了業就自由了。
Nope.
做夢！
In school you paid people to criticize, direct, and at times micro-manage you. Now you're the one getting paid... yet you somehow don't feel it's fair that investors, partners, or customers can dictate what you do, sometimes down to the smallest detail?
上學是你花錢請人批評、引導並時常約束你，現在只是換成你拿薪水罷了。就算這樣，你還是覺得不公平：那些投資商、合作商或客戶憑什麼對你指手畫腳，有時甚至連芝麻大的細節都不放過？
Don't expect someone to trust you to perform a task or service–and give you money to perform that service–until you've proven you can be trusted to perform that service.
除非你證明自己有能力完成任務或提供服務，否則別期望別人會憑空信任你，付你報酬去進行任務或服務。
Then, once you've proven your skills, if you still feel micro-managed it's your responsibility to change the situation. Communicate before you are communicated to. Answer questions before questions are asked. Demonstrate your value before you are asked to prove your value.
接下來，如果你已經證明了自己的能力，但還是被人微觀管理，那就該自己站出來改變現狀了。你要趁對方還沒行動前先主動進行溝通，搶在對方提問前就把所有答案擺上檯面，不等對方提出要求就把自己的實力展現出來。
No one wants to micro-manage you. They have better things to do with their time.
沒人喜歡過多幹涉你的事情。大家都不是閒着沒事幹的人。
If you're being micro-managed it's probably because you need to be.
所以，如果你正處在微觀管理的環境，那原因很可能出在你自己身上。
3. Your time off is the highlight of the year.
3. 休息時間是你全年最大的盼頭
You may have forgotten your mom's birthday, but I'll bet you knew the exact day every semester ended and the start and end of Spring Break. And you lived for snow days.
你可能會忘記老媽的生日，但我打賭你絕不會忘了什麼時候學期結束、什麼時候放春假。你可是掰着指頭盼假期呢！
So it only makes sense to see weekends and vacations as the highlight of your working year, right?
所以，工作時的盼頭也只剩下週末和假期了，對不？
Actually, no: If you feel you endure the workweek just to get to the payoff of the weekend, you're in the wrong business. Find work you enjoy; then you won't see time off as a chance to finally do something fun but as a chance to do something else fun.
其實未必：如果你只爲了週末而苦熬上班時間，那就大錯特錯了。找份喜歡的工作吧，這樣你就不至於苦巴巴等待唯一的放鬆時光，週末假期只是你快樂的一部分而已。
While you'll never love everything you do in your professional life, you should enjoy the majority of it.
雖然你無法喜歡工作中的一切，但至少可以享受其中的大部分吧。
Otherwise you're not living–you're just working.
要不然，你只是一臺工作機器——根本就沒有生活。
4. Getting criticized means you failed.
4. 受人批評表示自己很失敗
Here's another pay/paid dichotomy. In college you paid professors to critique your work.
這也是付酬與領薪的區別。在學校，你付錢請教授指正你的學業。
So now that you are the one getting paid, why is it unfair for someone--like a customer, investor, or key partner–to critique your work?
現在你是領取薪水的那個人。那麼，爲什麼當客戶、投資商或重要合作伙伴指正你的工作時，你還會覺得不公平呢？
It's not.
顯然不應該啊。
When you get negative feedback, see it as an opportunity. Think, "Wow, I didn't realize I wasn't doing that right. I didn't realize I wasn't doing that as well as I could."
如果受到批評，那就把它當作一次機會唄。你就想：“哇，我自己都沒發現出了問題，原來我還可以做得更好啊。”
Criticism is a chance to learn--and this time you're getting paid to learn.
批評也是學習的良機——何況你還因此領取報酬呢。
Never complain when someone pays you to learn.
要是別人既付你錢又指正你，那還有什麼可抱怨的！
5. Success is based on toeing the line.
5. 成功來自順從與認同
Say you disagreed with a professor's point of view on a particular point. You may even have been right... but the only way to get an A in the class was to parrot the professor's take on the subject. Except in rare cases, confirming and following the rules was everything.
比方說，你不認同教授對某個問題的觀點，而且有可能你的看法是正確的，但爲了成績得A，你還是會拍教授的馬屁。除非是遇到極少數情況，否則認同並按規則辦事就是王理。
In business, conforming only ensures that you will achieve the same results as other people.
在職場上，認同即意味着你只能取得跟別人一樣的成果。
If you want to achieve different results you'll have to think and act differently. Do your homework, think critically, and don't be afraid to create your own path.
如果你想獲得不同的結果，那就得開動腦筋、特立獨行。多做做功課，批判性思考問題，勇敢開創自己的道路。
But don't be different just for the sake of being different. Be different because it's who you are and what you believe... and because it will get you where you want to go, with your integrity and your sense of self intact.
但也別爲了故意標新立異而顯得格格不入。要與衆不同，是因爲你這個人和你的信念原本就是獨一無二的，而你的所信所向、誠實和自我則會引領你到達渴望的地方。
