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9. David L. Calhoun大衛(wèi)·卡爾霍恩

Businessman  商人

Virginia Tech  弗吉尼亞理工大學(xué)

May 13, 2005  2005年5月13日

I worked for a guy named Jack Welch for twenty years at GE. He was, and is, a great mentor as much as a great leader. If I had to isolate the subject he spoke most passionately to me about, over all those years, it is that SELF CONFIDENCE is the most important, the indispensable characteristic of success, the common characteristic shared by great leaders whose talents may have varied widely in most other respects.

So, how do you get it? What is the secret to developing your own brand of self-confidence?

First, you must resolve to grow intellectually, morally, technically, and professionally every day through your entire work and family life. You need to ask yourself every day: Am I really up to speed or falling behind? Am I still learning? Or am I just doing the same stuff on a different day or as Otis Redding sings, “Sitting on the dock of the bay... watching the tide roll away?”

The lust for learning is age-independent.

Another important way to build your confidence is to seek out the toughest jobs, the most daunting scientific, engineering or management challenges.

如何能像演講者一樣說得一口流利英語？  

我在通用公司為一個(gè)名叫杰克·韋爾奇的家伙工作了20年。他既是一位偉大的領(lǐng)導(dǎo)者，也是一位偉大的導(dǎo)師，過去是，現(xiàn)在也是。如果我必須找出那些年里他充滿激情地對我說的最主要的話，那就是：自信是最重要的，它是成功必不可少的，是所有在其他多數(shù)方面才能也許大相徑庭的偉大領(lǐng)導(dǎo)者的共同特征。

如何獲得自信？培養(yǎng)你特有的自信的秘訣是什么？

首先，你必須下決心每天都通過你的工作和家庭生活去獲得智力、道德、技術(shù)與專業(yè)上的提高。你需要每天問自己：我是在加速前進(jìn)還是在后退？我還在學(xué)習(xí)嗎？我是在每天重復(fù)做同樣的事情或就像奧蒂斯·瑞汀所唱的那樣，“坐在海灣的碼頭上，看潮起潮落”？

對學(xué)習(xí)的渴望是不受年齡限制的。

培養(yǎng)自信的另一個(gè)重要途徑是尋找最難做的工作，最棘手的科學(xué)、工程或管理方面的難題。

10. Marc S. Lewis馬克·劉易斯

Clinical psychology professor  臨床心理學(xué)教授

University of Texas at Austin  得克薩斯大學(xué)奧斯汀分校

May 19, 2000    2000年5月19日

There are times when you are going to do well, and times when you're going to fail. But neither the doing well, nor the failure is the measure of success. The measure of success is what you think about what you've done. Let me put that another way: The way to be happy is to like yourself and the way to like yourself is to do only things that make you proud.

There's that old joke, not very funny, that goes, “No matter where you go, there you are.” That's true. The person who you're with most in life is yourself and if you don't like yourself you're always with somebody you don't like.

有時(shí)候你會干得很漂亮，有時(shí)候你會失敗，但二者都不是衡量成功的標(biāo)準(zhǔn)。衡量成功的標(biāo)準(zhǔn)是你自己對你的所為怎么看。讓我換一句話說：讓自己幸福的辦法是喜歡你自己，喜歡自己的辦法是只做讓你自己感到驕傲的事情。

有一個(gè)老笑話，不是很好笑，它是這么說的：“無論你走到哪里，你都在那里。”這是真的。你一生中跟你在一起最多的人是你自己，如果你不喜歡你自己，那你就會總是跟你不喜歡的人在一起。

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