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第16章 愛上你的工作 (1)

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Love Your Job

定義你的不是你的工作,而是你的工作方式。

你往往不能控製你的處境,但你可以選擇如何去適應。

不再關注錢。

得到報酬隻是你工作的一小部分,

工作完成的意義遠遠超過了一張薪水支票。

花些時間,好好想想你的工作。

你的工作有意義嗎?你看到成果了嗎?

然後問問自己:“我的存在使這項工作有什麽不同?”

盡量選擇那些你肯花時間去做的工作,

才能更好地掌控你的工作。

致加西亞的一封信

A Message to Garcia

阿爾伯特·哈伯德 / Elbert Hubbard

In all this Cuban business there is one man stands out on the horizon of my memory like Mars at perihelion.

When war broke out between Spain and the United States, it was very necessary to communicate quickly with the leader of the insurgents. Garcia was somewhere in the mountain fastnesses of Cuba—no one knew where. No mail or telegraph message could reach him. The President must secure his cooperation, and quickly. What to do!

Some said to the President, “There’s a fellow by the name of Rowan who will find Garcia for you, if anybody can.”

Rowan was sent for and given a letter to be delivered to Garcia. How the “fellow by the name of Rowan” took the letter, sealed it up in an oilskin pouch, strapped it over his heart, in four days landed by night off the coast of Cuba from an open boat, disappeared into the jungle, and in three weeks came out on the other side of the Island, having traversed a hostile country on foot and delivered his letter to Garcia—are things I have no special desire now to tell in detail. The point that I wish to make is this: McKinley gave Rowan a letter to be delivered to Garcia; Rowan took the letter and did not ask, “Where is he at?”

By the Eternal! There is a man whose form should be cast in deathless bronze and the statue placed in every college of the land. It is not book-learning young men need, nor instruction about this and that, but a stiffening of the vertebrae which will cause them to be loyal to a trust, to act promptly, concentrate their energies: do the thing—“Carry a message to Garcia.”