ChatGPT横空出世，成为了全世界瞩目的顶流。与ChatGPT一同爆火的，还有它的创始人——Sam Altman（山姆·奥特曼）。
Sam Altman 很喜欢在自己的博客分享对科技发展、创业投资和个人职业发展的想法，语言朴实，干货十足。
这周的双语阅读专栏，我从中选了一篇文章，名为How to be successful，制作了双语版，分享给大家。
How To Be Successful
如何获得成功？
文 / Sam Altman
AnnaI’ve observed thousands of founders and thought a lot about what it takes to make a huge amount of money or to create something important. Usually, people start off wanting the former and end up wanting the latter.我观察过成千上万的创始人，思考了很多如何赚大钱、创造重要事物的方法。通常，人们一开始都想赚大钱，最后却都转向后者。Here are 13 thoughts about how to achieve such outlier success. Everything here is easier to do once you’ve already reached a baseline degree of success (through privilege or effort) and want to put in the work to turn that into outlier success. But much of it applies to anyone.下面是13条关于如何实现卓越成功的建议。如果你已经达到成功基本线（无论是通过资本或努力），这些建议对你来说可能更易实行，但大部分建议对所有人都适用。Compounding is magic. Look for it everywhere. Exponential curves are the key to wealth generation.复合具有魔力，它无处不在。指数曲线是赚大钱的关键。A medium-sized business that grows 50% in value every year becomes huge in a very short amount of time. Few businesses in the world have true network effects and extreme scalability. But with technology, more and more will. It’s worth a lot of effort to find them and create them.一个年均增值50%的中型企业在短期内就会实现巨大扩张。世界上具备真正网络效应和极端可扩展性的企业屈指可数。但是，有了科技的加成，越来越多企业会有。找到它们，创造它们需要花费很多精力。You also want to be an exponential curve yourself—you should aim for your life to follow an ever-increasing up-and-to-the-right trajectory. It’s important to move towards a career that has a compounding effect—most careers progress fairly linearly.你也可以把自己变成一条指数曲线——让你的生活永远朝着正确的向上的轨迹不断发展。复合化自己的职业发展也十分重要——大多数职业发展都是单一线性的。You don't want to be in a career where people who have been doing it for two years can be as effective as people who have been doing it for twenty—your rate of learning should always be high. As your career progresses, each unit of work you do should generate more and more results. There are many ways to get this leverage, such as capital, technology, brand, network effects, and managing people.不要去做那些两年就到“顶”的工作（干两年和干二十年没什么区别）——你应该一直保持高学习率。随着事业的发展，你所做的每一项工作都应该越产越多——这可以通过资本、技术、品牌、网络效应和人员管理等实现。It’s useful to focus on adding another zero to whatever you define as your success metric—money, status, impact on the world, or whatever. I am willing to take as much time as needed between projects to find my next thing. But I always want it to be a project that, if successful, will make the rest of my career look like a footnote.努力在你认为的成功指标——金钱、地位、世界影响力等——上再加一个零是很有用的。在目标与目标之间可以尽可能深思熟虑，但总要在先前成就的基础上，寻找下一个目标，一旦成功，先前职业生涯就是完美的注解。Most people get bogged down in linear opportunities. Be willing to let small opportunities go to focus on potential step changes.大多数人会陷入线性机会的泥潭。要愿意放过小机会，专注于潜在的层级变化。I think the biggest competitive advantage in business—either for a company or for an individual’s career—is long-term thinking with a broad view of how different systems in the world are going to come together. One of the notable aspects of compound growth is that the furthest out years are the most important. In a world where almost no one takes a truly long-term view, the market richly rewards those who do.我认为商业中最大的竞争优势，无论是对公司还是个人，都是在广阔的视野中进行长期思考，审视如何将世界的不同系统有机结合。复合型增长最值得注意的一个方面是，越长久越有利。现在，几乎没有人具备真正的长远眼光。因此，一旦具备，将会获得市场的丰厚回报。Trust the exponential, be patient, and be pleasantly surprised.2. Have almost too much self-beliefSelf-belief is immensely powerful. The most successful people I know believe in themselves almost to the point of delusion.自信是非常强大的。我所认识的最成功的人几乎相信自己到难以理喻的地步。Cultivate this early. As you get more data points that your judgment is good and you can consistently deliver results, trust yourself more.自信要尽早培养。你越相信自己的决定，就能做出更多正确的决定，进而更加自信。If you don’t believe in yourself, it’s hard to let yourself have contrarian ideas about the future. But this is where most value gets created.但如果你不自信，就很难从反向看问题。而这正是价值创造最多的地方。I remember when Elon Musk took me on a tour of the SpaceX factory many years ago. He talked in detail about manufacturing every part of the rocket, but the thing that sticks in memory was the look of absolute certainty on his face when he talked about sending large rockets to Mars. I left thinking “huh, so that’s the benchmark for what conviction looks like.”我记得很多年前埃隆·马斯克带我参观太空探索技术公司（SpaceX）工厂。他对火箭每个部件的制造过程都进行了详细地说明，但让我印象最深刻的是，当他谈到向火星发射大型火箭时，他脸上那坚定的表情。离开的时候，我想，“那可能就是信念的力量吧”。Managing your own morale—and your team’s morale—is one of the greatest challenges of most endeavors. It’s almost impossible without a lot of self-belief. And unfortunately, the more ambitious you are, the more the world will try to tear you down.振奋自己的士气——以及团队的士气——是最大的挑战之一。如果不够自信，这几乎是不可能的。然而，不幸的是，你越有野心，这个世界就越想把你打倒。Most highly successful people have been really right about the future at least once at a time when people thought they were wrong. If not, they would have faced much more competition.大多数超级成功者都有一次以一己之力对抗所有人的经历。否则，他们将面临更大的竞争。Self-belief must be balanced with self-awareness. I used to hate criticism of any sort and actively avoided it. Now I try to always listen to it with the assumption that it’s true, and then decide if I want to act on it or not. Truth-seeking is hard and often painful, but it is what separates self-belief from self-delusion.自信必须与自我认识相协调。我曾经对批评厌恶至极，总会想方设法避免。但现在，我总是试着倾听，假设它是真的，然后决定是否要采取行动。寻求真理是艰难的，常常伴随着痛苦，但只有它能使自信不沦为自我欺骗。This balance also helps you avoid coming across as entitled and out of touch.它也可以帮助你避免给人留下自命不凡和自视清高的印象。3. Learn to think independentlyEntrepreneurship is very difficult to teach because original thinking is very difficult to teach. School is not set up to teach this—in fact, it generally rewards the opposite. So you have to cultivate it on your own.创业很难教，因为原创思维很难教。学校的设立并不是为了这个——事实上，学校反而会禁锢你的思维，所以你必须自己培养。Thinking from first principles and trying to generate new ideas is fun, and finding people to exchange them with is a great way to get better at this. The next step is to find easy, fast ways to test these ideas in the real world.从基本原理出发，展开思考，并尝试提出新的想法，是非常有趣的，找到可以相互交流的人是一个很好的提升方法。接下来，你要做的是找到简单、快速的方法对这些想法进行测试。“I will fail many times, and I will be really right once” is the entrepreneurs’ way. You have to give yourself a lot of chances to get lucky.“我可能会失败很多次，但我会有一次一语中的”，这是创业者的思维。要给自己很多次机会来获得最后的幸运。One of the most powerful lessons to learn is that you can figure out what to do in situations that seem to have no solution. The more times you do this, the more you will believe it. Grit comes from learning you can get back up after you get knocked down.最重要的一课是，在似乎没有解决方案的情况下，你知道该做什么。而且次数越多，你就越会相信它。毅力来自于被打倒后还能重新站起来。Self-belief alone is not sufficient—you also have to be able to convince other people of what you believe.All great careers, to some degree, become sales jobs. You have to evangelize your plans to customers, prospective employees, the press, investors, etc. This requires an inspiring vision, strong communication skills, some degree of charisma, and evidence of execution ability.所有伟大的职业，在某种程度上，都变成了销售工作。你要向客户、潜在员工、媒体、投资者等宣传你的计划，就需要有美好的愿景展望，强大的沟通技巧，一定的个人魅力，以及高效的执行能力。Getting good at communication—particularly written communication—is an investment worth making. My best advice for communicating clearly is to first make sure your thinking is clear and then use plain, concise language.让自己善于沟通——尤其是书面沟通——是一项值得做的投资。对于做到清晰沟通，我最好的建议是，首先确保你的想法清晰，然后使用简单、简洁的语言。The best way to be good at sales is to genuinely believe in what you’re selling. Selling what you truly believe in feels great, and trying to sell snake oil feels awful.做好销售的最好方法是，真诚地相信你所售卖的东西。卖你真正相信的东西，你会感觉很棒，而卖所谓的“万应灵药”，你会感觉很痛苦。Getting good at sales is like improving at any other skill—anyone can get better at it with deliberate practice. But for some reason, perhaps because it feels distasteful, many people treat it as something unlearnable.销售能力和其他技能一样——通过练习，所有人都可以得到提高。但出于某些原因，也许是它不受人“待见”，许多人认为它不可“学”。My other big sales tip is to show up in person whenever it’s important. When I was first starting out, I was always willing to get on a plane. It was frequently unnecessary, but three times it led to career-making turning points for me that otherwise would have gone the other way.在销售方面，我第二个重要建议是，重要时刻，一定亲自到场。在我刚开始工作时，我总是每次必到，虽然有时并不必要，但三次之后，它给我的职业生涯带来了转折点，否则，可能我就不会取得现在的成就。5. Make it easy to take risksMost people overestimate risk and underestimate reward. Taking risks is important because it’s impossible to be right all the time—you have to try many things and adapt quickly as you learn more.大多数人都会高估风险，低估回报。勇于冒险是很重要的，因为你不可能一直都对——你要不断尝试，并随所学而快速适应。It’s often easier to take risks early in your career; you don’t have much to lose, and you potentially have a lot to gain. Once you’ve gotten yourself to a point where you have your basic obligations covered you should try to make it easy to take risks. Look for small bets you can make where you lose 1x if you’re wrong but make 100x if it works. Then make a bigger bet in that direction.在职业生涯的早期，冒险往往更容易；你本身拥有的不多，但冒险可能会让得到很多。当有了基本的保障时，你就要试着勇于冒险。寻找一些这样的小赌注：如果错了，只会损失1倍，但如果成功，会净赚100倍，并继续下更大的赌注。Don’t save up for too long, though. At YC, we’ve often noticed a problem with founders that have spent a lot of time working at Google or Facebook. When people get used to a comfortable life, a predictable job, and a reputation of succeeding at whatever they do, it gets very hard to leave that behind (and people have an incredible ability to always match their lifestyle to next year’s salary). Even if they do leave, the temptation to return is great. It’s easy—and human nature—to prioritize short-term gain and convenience over long-term fulfillment.不过，不要犹豫太久。在创业投资加速（YC），我们注意到，在谷歌或脸书（Facebook）工作了很长时间的创始人们都有一个共同的问题。当人们习惯了舒适的生活，拥有了一份按部就班的工作，以及无论做什么都能成功的名声时，就很难把这些抛在脑后，从新开始(人们的生活水平总能与下一年的薪水相适应，这真令人难以置信)。即使他们真的从头开始了，也很难抵挡住“回归”的诱惑。人们很容易局限于短期的利益和便利，忽略长期成就，这也是人的本性。But when you aren’t on the treadmill, you can follow your hunches and spend time on things that might turn out to be really interesting. Keeping your life cheap and flexible for as long as you can is a powerful way to do this, but obviously comes with tradeoffs.但当你不在这条路上时，你可以跟随你的直觉，把时间花在真正有趣的事情上。尽可能让你的生活保持廉洁和灵活，这是一种很有用的方法，但显然需要牺牲。Focus is a force multiplier on work.Almost everyone I’ve ever met would be well-served by spending more time thinking about what to focus on. It is much more important to work on the right thing than it is to work many hours. Most people waste most of their time on stuff that doesn’t matter.所有我认识的人几乎都认为，我们要多花点时间思考应该专注于什么。做对的事情比只一味延长工作时间要重要得多。但大多数人都把大部分时间浪费在不重要的事情上。Once you have figured out what to do, be unstoppable about getting your small handful of priorities accomplished quickly. I have yet to meet a slow-moving person who is very successful.一旦你弄清楚了要做什么，精准打击，将最重要的几件事情快速完成。我所遇到的成功人士行动都非常迅速。You can get to about the 90th percentile in your field by working either smart or hard, which is still a great accomplishment. But getting to the 99th percentile requires both—you will be competing with other very talented people who will have great ideas and be willing to work a lot.聪明或努力，两者任意一个，都可以让你打败90%的竞争对手，这已经非常了不起了。但要打败99%的竞争对手，需要两者兼得——与你竞争的人都非常有才华，他们想法丰富，并愿意为之辛勤付出。Extreme people get extreme results. Working a lot comes with huge life trade-offs, and it’s perfectly rational to decide not to do it. But it has a lot of advantages. As in most cases, momentum compounds, and success begets success.做到极致就会得到极致。辛勤工作伴随着巨大的生活牺牲，不想去是完全可以理解的，但是它也有很多优点。很多时候，动力会叠加，成功会带来成功。And it’s often really fun. One of the great joys in life is finding your purpose, excelling at it, and discovering that your impact matters to something larger than yourself. A YC founder recently expressed great surprise about how much happier and more fulfilled he was after leaving his job at a big company and working towards his maximum possible impact. Working hard at that should be celebrated.此外，它会很有乐趣。生活中最大的乐趣之一就是找到你的目标，做到最好，然后发现你对别人产生了积极的影响。创业投资加速器的一位创始人最近表示，离开大公司之后，每天夜以继日的工作竟然让他变得更快乐、更充实了。努力工作应当值得庆贺。It’s not entirely clear to me why working hard has become a Bad Thing in certain parts of the US, but this is certainly not the case in other parts of the world—the amount of energy and drive exhibited by entrepreneurs outside of the US is quickly becoming the new benchmark.我不是很清楚为什么在美国的某些地方，努力工作成了一件坏事，但在世界其他地方肯定不是这样——美国以外的企业家所表现出的能力和动力正迅速成为新的标准。You have to figure out how to work hard without burning out. People find their own strategies for this, but one that almost always works is to find work you like doing with people you enjoy spending a lot of time with.你要知道怎样努力工作能不让自己筋疲力尽。人们会自寻其法，但有一个秘诀就是，找你喜欢做的工作，和你喜欢的人一起做。I think people who pretend you can be super successful professionally without working most of the time (for some period of your life) are doing a disservice. In fact, work stamina seems to be one of the biggest predictors of long-term success.有些人宣扬你不用长时间 (在你生命的某段时间)工作就能事业有成，我认为这些人是在害人。事实上，工作耐力是长期成功的最大预测因素之一。One more thought about working hard: do it at the beginning of your career. Hard work compounds like interest, and the earlier you do it, the more time you have for the benefits to pay off. It’s also easier to work hard when you have fewer other responsibilities, which is frequently but not always the case when you’re young.还有一点：在你职业生涯刚开始时就努力工作。它就像利息一样，你开始得越早，你就有越多的时间来获得回报。当你其他事情不多时，你也更容易做到努力工作，年轻就是资本，但也并不是总是这样。I believe that it’s easier to do a hard startup than an easy startup. People want to be part of something exciting and feel that their work matters.我相信困难创业比简单创业更容易。人们想要参与一些令人兴奋的事情，并获得成就感。If you are making progress on an important problem, you will have a constant tailwind of people wanting to help you. Let yourself grow more ambitious, and don’t be afraid to work on what you really want to work on.如果你解决了一个重要问题，就会有源源不断的人想要帮助你。让你自己变得更有野心，不要害怕去做你真正想做的事情。If everyone else is starting meme companies, and you want to start a gene-editing company, then do that and don’t second guess it.如果别人都在创办表情包公司，而你想要开一家基因编辑公司，那就去做吧，不要犹豫。Follow your curiosity. Things that seem exciting to you will often seem exciting to other people too.追随你的好奇心。令你兴奋的事情往往也会令别人兴奋。A big secret is that you can bend the world to your will a surprising percentage of the time—most people don’t even try, and just accept that things are the way that they are.其实，你可以在很大程度上让世界屈从于你的意志——但大多数人从未尝试，只会被动接受。People have an enormous capacity to make things happen. A combination of self-doubt, giving up too early, and not pushing hard enough prevents most people from ever reaching anywhere near their potential.人们有让事情成功的能力。但是自我怀疑、过早放弃、不够努力，这些因素结合在一起，使大多数人无法发挥自己的潜力。Ask for what you want. You usually won’t get it, and often the rejection will be painful. But when this works, it works surprisingly well.说出自己的诉求。通常你不会得到满足，被拒绝也会很痛苦。但一旦得到满足，它的效果出奇地好。Almost always, the people who say “I am going to keep going until this works, and no matter what the challenges are I’m going to figure them out”, and mean it, go on to succeed. They are persistent long enough to give themselves a chance for luck to go their way.成功者总是这样的人，他们会说 “我要坚持下去，直到成功为止，无论遇到什么挑战，我都要把它们解决掉。”并且言出必行，最终获得成功。他们坚持足够长的时间，给自己一个机会，让运气走在路上。Airbnb is my benchmark for this. There are so many stories they tell that I wouldn’t recommend trying to reproduce (keeping maxed-out credit cards in those nine-slot three-ring binder pages kids use for baseball cards, eating dollar store cereal for every meal, battle after battle with powerful entrenched interest, and on and on) but they managed to survive long enough for luck to go their way.爱彼迎（Airbnb）是我在这方面的偶像。他们讲述了太多的故事，我不建议复制(把刷满的信用卡放在孩子们用来装棒球卡的九槽三环活页夹里，每顿饭都吃一元店的麦片，一场又一场与强大的既得利益者的战斗，等等)，但他们设法活了足够长的时间，让运气走到他们的路上。To be willful, you have to be optimistic—hopefully this is a personality trait that can be improved with practice. I have never met a very successful pessimistic person.要想坚持到底，你必须要乐观——希望这种性格特点可以通过实践提高。我遇到的成功人士都是非常乐观的。10. Be hard to compete withMost people understand that companies are more valuable if they are difficult to compete with. This is important, and obviously true.大多数人都知道，难以被打败的公司更有价值。这很重要，而且很对。But this holds true for you as an individual as well. If what you do can be done by someone else, it eventually will be, and for less money.而这也适用于个人。如果你做的事情别人也能做，那么最终就会有人来做，而且费用更低。The best way to become difficult to compete with is to build up leverage. For example, you can do it with personal relationships, by building a strong personal brand, or by getting good at the intersection of multiple different fields. There are many other strategies, but you have to figure out some way to do it.要让自己变得难以被打败，最好的办法就是增加优势。比如，你可以通过人际关系，通过建立强大的个人品牌，或者通过多个不同领域的交叉来实现。除此之外，还有很多，但你必须找到方法来实现。Most people do whatever most people they hang out with do. This mimetic behavior is usually a mistake—if you’re doing the same thing everyone else is doing, you will not be hard to compete with.大多数人都会做和朋友一样的事。这种模仿行为通常是错误的——如果你做的事情其他人都在做，你就很容易被打败。Great work requires teams. Developing a network of talented people to work with—sometimes closely, sometimes loosely—is an essential part of a great career. The size of the network of really talented people you know often becomes the limiter for what you can accomplish.好工作需要好团队。建立一个人际网络，与有才华的人一起工作——有时紧密，有时松散——是伟大事业所必需的。你所认识的真正有才华的人的社交网络的规模往往会限制你所能完成的事情。An effective way to build a network is to help people as much as you can. Doing this, over a long period of time, is what lead to most of my best career opportunities and three of my four best investments. I’m continually surprised how often something good happens to me because of something I did to help a founder ten years ago.其中一个有效方法是尽可能多地帮助别人。我就一直这样做，而这正是我大多数职业机会和三次最佳投资的来源。因为十年前的善举，现在我经常会受到“优待”，这让我很是惊讶。One of the best ways to build a network is to develop a reputation for really taking care of the people who work with you. Be overly generous with sharing the upside; it will come back to you 10x. Also, learn how to evaluate what people are great at, and put them in those roles. (This is the most important thing I have learned about management, and I haven’t read much about it.) You want to have a reputation for pushing people hard enough that they accomplish more than they thought they could, but not so hard they burn out.最好方法之一是让别人知道你非常关心同事。慷慨地分享你的好处；你会得到10倍的回报。同时，学会如何对人们的优势进行评估，并将其划分角色。(这是我学到的管理中最重要的东西，而我对管理还只是略知一二。)你要这样塑造自己：你能让人们足够努力，超额完成工作，且还能留有余力。Everyone is better at some things than others. Define yourself by your strengths, not your weaknesses. Acknowledge your weaknesses and figure out how to work around them, but don’t let them stop you from doing what you want to do. “I can’t do X because I’m not good at Y” is something I hear from entrepreneurs surprisingly often, and almost always reflects a lack of creativity. The best way to make up for your weaknesses is to hire complementary team members instead of just hiring people who are good at the same things you are.每个人都有自己的优势。认清自己的优点，而不是缺点。承认自己的弱点，并想办法克服它们，但不要让它们阻碍你做自己想做的事情。“我不能做X，因为我不擅长Y”是我经常从企业家那里听到的话，这说明他们缺乏创造力。弥补你的弱点的最好方法是找到互补的团队成员，而不是只局限于那些与你优势相同的人。A particularly valuable part of building a network is to get good at discovering undiscovered talent. Quickly spotting intelligence, drive, and creativity gets much easier with practice. The easiest way to learn is just to meet a lot of people, and keep track of who goes on to impress you and who doesn’t. Remember that you are mostly looking for rate of improvement, and don’t overvalue experience or current accomplishment.建立人际网络的一个特别有价值的地方是善于发现未被发掘的人才。通过练习，你能更加地快速发现人的智力、动力和创造力。学习这个最简单的方法就是认识很多人，然后记录下谁给你留下了深刻印象，谁没有。记住，你主要看的是进步的速度，不要高估经验或目前的成就。I try to always ask myself when I meet someone new “is this person a force of nature?” It’s a pretty good heuristic for finding people who are likely to accomplish great things.当我认识新人时，我总是试着问自己:“这个人是精力超群吗?”这是一个很好的启发，能帮你找到那些可能有巨大成就的人。A special case of developing a network is finding someone eminent to take a bet on you, ideally early in your career. The best way to do this, no surprise, is to go out of your way to be helpful. (And remember that you have to pay this forward at some point later!)还有一个特别方法，那就是，找一个杰出的人在你身上押注，最好是在你职业生涯的早期。毫无疑问，做到这一点最好的方法就是尽你所能地提供帮助。(请记住，你以后的必须要回馈对方!)Finally, remember to spend your time with positive people who support your ambitions.最后，记得把时间花在那些支持你雄心壮志的积极的人身上。12. You get rich by owning thingsThe biggest economic misunderstanding of my childhood was that people got rich from high salaries. Though there are some exceptions—entertainers for example —almost no one in the history of the Forbes list has gotten there with a salary.我小时候对经济最大的误解就是，人们靠高薪能致富。尽管也有一些例外，比如演员们，但在福布斯富豪榜的历史上，几乎没有人是靠薪水上榜的。You get truly rich by owning things that increase rapidly in value.只有拥有那些能快速增值的东西，你才能真正变得富有。This can be a piece of a business, real estate, natural resource, intellectual property, or other similar things. But somehow or other, you need to own equity in something, instead of just selling your time. Time only scales linearly.可以是业务、房地产、自然资源、知识产权或其他类似的东西。但无论如何，你需要拥有某些东西的权益，而不仅仅是出卖你的时间。时间只能线性扩张。The best way to make things that increase rapidly in value is by making things people want at scale.让东西快速增值的最好方法是大规模生产人们想要的东西。Most people are primarily externally driven; they do what they do because they want to impress other people. This is bad for many reasons, but here are two important ones.大多数人都是外驱的；他们做事是为了给别人留下印象。这一点是不好的，主要有两个原因。First, you will work on consensus ideas and on consensus career tracks. You will care a lot—much more than you realize—if other people think you’re doing the right thing. This will probably prevent you from doing truly interesting work, and even if you do, someone else would have done it anyway.首先，你们的想法和职业将会是相同的。你会非常在意——比你意识到的要多得多——别人是否认为你在做正确的事。这可能会阻止你做真正有趣的工作，但即使你做了，别人也会做的。Second, you will usually get risk calculations wrong. You’ll be very focused on keeping up with other people and not falling behind in competitive games, even in the short term.其次，风险计算通常会出错。你会非常专注于与他人保持同步，即使在短期内也不想在竞争中落后。Smart people seem to be especially at risk of such externally-driven behavior. Being aware of it helps, but only a little—you will likely have to work super-hard to not fall in the mimetic trap.聪明的人似乎特别容易出现这种外部驱动的行为。你要意识到这一点是有帮助的，但只是一点点——你可能需要超级努力才能不落入模仿陷阱。The most successful people I know are primarily internally driven; they do what they do to impress themselves and because they feel compelled to make something happen in the world. After you’ve made enough money to buy whatever you want and gotten enough social status that it stops being fun to get more, this is the only force I know of that will continue to drive you to higher levels of performance.我认识的最成功的人们都是内在驱动的；他们所做的一切都是为了让自己惊喜，因为他们想让世界发生一些事情。当你赚了足够的钱去买任何你想要的东西，获得了足够的社会地位，再得到更多就不再有趣了，而这是我所知道的唯一能继续推动你达到更高水平的力量。This is why the question of a person’s motivation is so important. It’s the first thing I try to understand about someone. The right motivations are hard to define a set of rules for, but you know it when you see it.这就是为什么一个人的动机如此重要。这是我了解一个人首先关注的事情。你很难给正确的动机下一个定义，但当你看到它时，你就知道它是正确的。Jessica Livingston and Paul Graham are my benchmarks for this. YC was widely mocked for the first few years, and almost no one thought it would be a big success when they first started. But they thought it would be great for the world if it worked, and they love helping people, and they were convinced their new model was better than the existing model.杰西卡·利文斯顿和保罗·格雷厄姆是我在这方面的偶像。创业投资加速器在最初的几年里受到了很多嘲笑，他们刚开始创业时，几乎没有人认为它会取得巨大的成功。但他们认为，如果它能起作用，对世界将是好的，他们喜欢帮助别人，他们相信新模式比现有的模式更好。Eventually, you will define your success by performing excellent work in areas that are important to you. The sooner you can start off in that direction, the further you will be able to go. It is hard to be wildly successful at anything you aren’t obsessed with.最后，衡量成功应该在对你重要的领域里，你的表现是否出色。你越早朝那个方向出发，你就能走得越远。如果你对它不感兴趣，那你很难获得成功。The End
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