罗永浩三大名言:直面问题，追逐梦想

Where is your focus as you work towards your goals?

向着目标努力工作的你，重心在哪里？

Do you know someone that seems to always be fighting with a certain issue? Does it seem like they can never quite get past it, no matter how hard they try. They have attacked the issue from five different directions and yet, they never seem to get beyond that issue.

你是否认识一些人，他们似乎一直为解决不了某个问题而困扰？似乎不论如何努力，他们都无法解决这个问题。他们尝试了各种不同的方法，但始终不能攻克它。

It could be because their focus is on the issue.

这可能是因为他们过于关注问题本身。

Have you ever looked through binoculars? How about turning them around and looking through them backwards?

你曾仔细观察过双筒望远镜吗？如果将它转一下，从尾部观看外面的世界，又会怎么样呢？

Your personal focus can be a lot like this. If you have a particular goal in mind, if you are moving towards something you are focused on, then that one thing grows bigger in your vision. It pushes out the things around it that would distract you from achieving your goal.

你个人的关注点很可能与上述情况类似。如果你心中有明确的目标，并正为之不懈努力，那它就会逐渐占据你的视野，并将阻碍你实现目标的一切障碍铲除。

However, if you are focused on getting away from something, if you are not moving towards a goal, but rather running from some thing, then where you really want to be can get lost in the surroundings. Where you want to be seems small and insignificant.

但是，如果你心中没有努力的目标，而是尝试着逃离某些事情，那你可能会迷失在周围的环境中，到不了内心真正想去的地方。你内心所向的地方似乎是那么微小并且不重要。

The difference is subtle but critical.

两者的区别十分微妙却至关重要。

If you want to achieve a goal, you must focus on that goal, not on what you don’t want! If your focus remains on what you are moving away from then you will easily loose sight of your goal.

如果你想达成某个目标，你必须专注于这个目标，而不是其他不相干的事。如果你仍旧关注那些不相干的事，你将很容易偏离你的目标。

If it is cold and snowing and you go to the nearest airport and your only goal is to get out of the town you are in, you have many options, but don’t really know where you may end up. On the other had if you go to that same airport and find a flight to Maui that leaves in the next couple of hours and has available seating, well then you will end up right where you wanted to be.

假使在某个下着雪的寒冷冬日，你抵达最近的机场，心里唯一的念头就是离开这座城市，你有很多航班可以选择，可是你并不知道你想去哪里。但是，如果你来到同样的机场，恰巧发现有一架开往茂伊岛的航班，几个小时后即将起飞并且还有空座，那乘坐这个航班你就能立刻飞往你想去的地方。

When you teach a child how to ride a bicycle for the first time without training-wheels, you tell them to look up, at the horizon. Not down at the ground. Where they look is where they will go. Just watch Americas Funniest Videos and you’ll see what I’m talking about. When someone on a bike focuses their vision on a pole or car or wall, that is exactly where they end up.

当你第一次教小孩骑没有辅助车轮的自行车时，你告诉他们要抬头看向地平线，不要低头看地面。他们向什么方向看就决定他们将向什么方向行进。你只要看看美国的最滑稽视频就知道我在说什么了。当骑自行车的人紧盯着柱子，车子或者墙壁看时，就很有可能撞上去。

A personal example of this is when I was working as a programmer and had a manager that had zero technical skills, and marginal managerial skills. I was trapped in a dead-end position and would have taken anything that the company offered to get out of that position. In fact, I did apply for another position that opened up just so I could get out from under that manager.

我有一个亲身经历的例子。当我还是一名程序员时，我有一位经理不仅毫无专业技术，管理能力还很低下。我陷于这样一种窘迫的处境，迫切地想利用公司的一切机会离开。事实上，当时我已申请了另一个对我开放的职位，以期不再受那位经理的管理。

After my first interview I realized that I was running from a position and not to a specific goal. If I had continued to pursue that position I would have ended up in another job that I didn’t really want because I was running from my current situation.

第一次面试之后，我意识到我在逃避这一处境，没有特定的努力目标。如果我继续追逐，最终只能得到一份自己并不期望的工作，因为我只是在逃避当下的处境。

Instead I decided to tough it out a little longer and really decide what I wanted. In doing so, I now have a specific goal that I am working towards and when I achieve that goal, I will be exactly where I want to be. Not just in a different kind of bad.

于是，我决定继续忍受一段时间并真正发现自己想要做什么。得益于这一过程，现在我明确了自己的工作目标，实现它是我所期盼的，而不是到达另一种不良的处境。

When you want change, first ask yourself if you are moving towards a specific goal, or if you are running from something. Forward progress is good. Progress from a bad place is a good start. Progress in this manner though will not lead you to where you really want to be. In order to do that, you must have a very specific goal to focus on. Only then will your effort, energy and momentum take you to your desired destination.

当你想要改变时，首先你得问问自己，你是不是正向一个确定的目标而努力，还是你只是在逃避一些烦心事。想要进步是好事情。身处不良处境，想要改变是一个好的开始。但是，这种情况下做出的决定不会引领你到自己真正渴望的地方去。因此，为了实现自己的梦想，你必须有一个确定的目标去关注。只有这样，你的尝试，精力和付出才能引你至自己真正想要到达的终点。

So, how is your focus right now? Is your focus pointing at a specific goal, or is it spreading out from something you are moving away from?

那么，你现在的焦点如何呢？你有一个确定的目标，还是只是借此逃避你的困境？

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