三. 转变2：环境的力量
Shift 2: The Power of Context
"Synergy is what happens when one plus one equals ten or a hundred or even a thousand! It’s the profound result when two or more respectful human beings determine to go beyond their preconceived ideas to meet a great challenge.”— Stephen R. Covey
协同作用是当一加一相当于十、一百或者一千时发生的。它是一个伟大的结果，当两个或者更多的尊敬别人的人决定超越他们思维的限制，来一起实现伟大的目标是发生的结果。
In the book,Ego is the Enemy,Ryan Holidayexplains that many successful people “stop being a student.”
在书里《Ego is the Enemy》，Ryan Holiday描述了许多成功的人停止了学习。
When you’re a student, you activelyseek to have your paradigm shattered, You want to be wrong and you want feedback. You care more about learning than what other people think about you.
在学生阶段，你积极地打破范例。你想犯错也想要反馈。比起别人的看法，你更关注的是学习。
Moreover, once you’ve developed the confidence and skills to do incredible work via the first shift, you may realize you can only get so far by yourself. The “lone ranger” mentality is played-out and overrated.
更多的是，一旦你通过第一次转变培养你的自信和能力，这种自信和能力让你能完成艰难的工作，你可能会发现你能走这么元靠的都是自己。“独立突击队员”思维过时了、被高估了。
You may be able to rock life by yourself. But you could rock life far more with the help of the right people. Naturally, this is the very ascent Stephen R. Covey explains inThe 7 Habits of Highly Effective People.The first several habits are to help you experience the first mental shift, or what Covey calls the “Private Victory.”
你可能通过自己快乐生活。但是在正确的人的让帮助下，你能生活的更快乐。本质上，这便是 Stephen R. Covey 在高效能人士的七个习惯里解释的。前几个习惯帮助你经历第一个思维转变，被Covey成为”自私的胜利“。
The habits Covey outlines to experience this private victory are:
Be proactive
Begin with the end in mind
Put first things first
Covey描述的经历这种“自私的胜利”的习惯是：
控制环境
开始时，大脑里要想到结果
把最重要的事情放在第一
Once you master these habits, you will go from dependence on others to a high state of independence — the first mental shift.
一旦你拥有了这些习惯，你将从依赖他人转为高度的自立—-第一个思维转变。
However, three additional habits of Covey’s book are intended to take you beyond independence to a state of interdependence, where you experience synergistic relationships inall areas of your life.What I’m calling the second mental shift Covey calls “Public Victory.”
然而，Covey书里另外三个习惯希望将从高度自立的状态转为依赖他人的状态，那种状态里，在你生活的所有领域，你都能经历协作关系。我把这称为第二次思维转变，而Covey成为“共同的胜利”。
The habits Covey outlines to experience this public victory are:
Think win-win
Seek first to understand… then to be understood
Synergize
Covey描述的经历“共同的胜利”的习惯有：
双赢思维
首先理解别人，在寻求别理解
协同作用
I know several “successful” people who donotdemonstrate these three habits. Rather than seeking to understand, they only seek to be understood. Rather than synergizing, they only do things “their way,” seeing others as inferior. They aren’t team-players. They aren’t teachable. They don’t set up relationships that are mutually beneficial. Indeed, they care very little about other people.
我知道一些“成功”人士没有这三个习惯。相比努力理解别人，他们只努力被理解。相比协同合作，他们只用他们自己的方式做事，把其他人看作下级。他们不是队友，他们不能被指导。他们不与人建立相互受益的关系。事实上，他们几乎不关心其他人。
It’s been said that the 21st century is thetime of the woman, because naturally, women demonstrate many of the characteristics needed to thrive in today’s global and team-driven economy. On average, women are far better team players and collaborators. Men, on the other hand, are prone to ego and self-absorption. Men more often want the glory while women simply want to contribute and grow.
据说21世纪是女性的时代，因为在这个全球化及团队驱动的时代，她们展示出了这个时代兴旺所需的品质。一般，女性是更好的团队运动员以及合作者。而男性，在另一个方面，更容易自负以及自我欣赏。当女性想要贡献和成长的时候，男性则更想要荣耀。
The following are the core components of your mental model after you’ve experienced the second shift:
以下是在经历了第而思维个转变后，你价值观里的核心元素。
10x thinking
10倍思维
“When 10x is your measuring stick, you immediately see how you can bypass what everyone else is doing.”— Dan Sullivan
“当十倍是你的测试标尺的时候，你可以迅速看到如何超越别人正在做的事”——Dan Sullivan
Becoming “successful” requires taking personal responsibility for your life and choices. By nature, it’s beyond average, since, to be average is tonot take responsibility.
成功需要你为自己的生活及选择负责任。本质上，它是超越普通，因为，作为普通不用承担责任。
Thinking 10x is much different, though, than simply taking responsibility. It involves a grand vision wherein others must also be responsible. Moreover, 10x thinking involves far more boldness and creativity than simply “being proactive.”
10倍思维和简单的承担责任是不一样的。它涉及大视野，需要其他人也承担起责任。此外，10倍思维要涉及到比简单地积极主动更多的勇敢和创造力。
10x thinking takes you from the goal of earning $100,000 a year to earning $1,000,000. Or, from helping 100 people to helping 1,000. Or, from getting 10,000 page views to getting 100,000.
10倍思维让你把目标年利润10万美元调整到100万美元。或者从帮助100个人到帮助1000个人，或者从看到1万页书到看到10万页书。
When you do this, your strategyimmediately shifts.
当你这样想的时候，你的策略立马就变了。
In his book,Tools of Titans,Tim Ferrissexplains that 10x thinking can come from asking “absurd” questions, such as the question billionaire Peter Thiel asks himself:If you have a 10-year plan of how to get [somewhere], you should ask: Why can’t I do this in 6 months?
这《Tools of Titans》一书里，Tim Ferriss解释道，10倍思维可以来与提出“荒唐“的问题，例如亿万富翁Peter Thiel向自己提出的问题”如果你有一个达到某个目标的10年计划，你应该这样问：我问什么不在6个月实现这个目标呢？”
Of this type of questioning, Ferriss continues:有关这个问题，Ferriss继续道:
“For purposes of illustration here, I might reword [Thiel’s question] to:‘What might you do to accomplish your 10-year goals in the next 6 months, if you had a gun against you head?’Now, let’s pause. Do I expect you to take 10 seconds to ponder this and then magically accomplish 10 years’ worth of dreams in the next few months? No, I don’t. But I do expect that the question will productivity break your mind, like a butterfly shattering a chrysalis to emerge with new capabilities. The ‘normal’ systems you have in place, the social rules you’ve forced upon yourself, the standard frameworks — they don’t work when asking a question like this. You are forced to shed artificial constraints, like shedding a skin, to realize that you had the ability to renegotiate your reality all along.”
“为了证明，我在这里将[Thiel的问题]修改为：‘如果有一把枪顶着你的头，你如何在6个月内实现原来预定10年实现的目标？’现在，我们暂停下，我有希望你用10秒钟仔细思考，然后用接下来几个月的时间神奇地实现要10年才能完成的事情吗？不，我没有。但是我希望这个问题可以是你突破大脑的生产力，如蝴蝶破茧而出般获得新的能力。你拥有的“正常”的操作系统，你面对的社会规则，标准结构框架，当面对这样的问题时，它们都无用武之力。你被迫冲破人力的限制，就如冲破一层屏障，才发现你拥有改变现状的能力。
If you want to think bigger, ask better (and more absurd) questions.
如果你想想得更远，提出更好及更荒唐的问题。
I once asked myself how I could write a blog post that would get one million social shares. The product was a 10,000 word listunlike anything I’d ever seen to that point.
我曾经问我自己如何写出一篇能被转载100万次的日志。结果是一篇和那个话题相关的10000字的清单，这个清单和我之前的任何观点都不像。
These types of questions lead to creative breakthroughs and different avenues of thought. They also organically facilitate a very different strategic approach.
这些类型的问题产生了创新性突破以及思想的不同收益。它们也促进产生一种完全不同策略的方法。
What absurd question will break you out of your limiting and traditional ways of thinking?
什么样荒唐的问题才能打破你局限的传统的思考方法呢？
Delegate
授权
“Delegate everything but genius.”—Dan Sullivan
“授权任何事除了智慧。” —Dan Sullivan
When you begin thinking 10x, you realize you can’t do it all on your own. You need to be far morefocused.
当你开始10倍思维时，你会发现你不能自己完成所有的事情。你需要的不止是集中精神。
Thus, it becomes essential to build a team around you immediately. Your network is your networth.
因此，立马建立一个团队至关重要。你的工作网就是你的价值网。
The sooner you build a team around you, the faster, wider, and deeper will be your results. In almost every case, you won’t feel ready to build this team.
你越快围绕你建立一个团队，你的成果就越快、越广泛、越有深度。大多数情况下，你没有准备好建立一个团队。
Don’t get caught-up with any preconceived notions of what “building a team” means. It doesn’t necessarily mean you need to “hire” people in the traditional sense. It could mean that you exchange favors. Or that you have win-win relationships — such as the one I have with my literary agent, my editor, and friends who help.
不要被任何“建立团队”的概念困住。它不意味着传统意义上的你去“雇”一些人。它可以是你们交换爱好。或者你们拥有双赢的关系——例如那些我的经纪人、编辑，以及那些帮助我的朋友。
These are mutually beneficial relationships wherein you focus on your superpower and have those around you who focus on theirs’.
这些都是互惠的关系，这样的关系里，你可以专心于你的超级权利，你身边的人专注于他们的。
Collaboration and synergy in all areas of life
生活中所有领域的合作
“Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.”—Helen Keller
“独自一个人，我们什么都不能做，一起，我们可以做很多事情。“—Helen Keller
Take a minute to examine your life.
花上一分钟来反思一下你的生活。
When you go to the gym, do you have a workout partner?Surveys show that most people prefer working out alone. However, if you’ve experienced the growth available by pushing yourself with someone else, the idea of working out alone seems somewhat comical.
当你去健身房时，你有健身搭档吗？调查显示大多数人喜欢独自健身。然而，如果你经历过和其他人一起成长，单独解决问题的想法看起来是滑稽的。
As Michael Jordan explains,“Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence wins championships.”
正如 Michael Jordan 说的那样：“天赋赢得比赛，但是团队合作和天赋赢得冠军。”
In a Darwinian sense, most people compete with others on their own level. Those seeking rapid growth compete with others who are far advanced,what Josh Waitzkin calls“investing in failure.” An even higher order principle is collaborating with others who are far advanced of your current level.
达尔文认为，大多数人同级别的人竞争。那些渴求迅速成长的人与那些更加高端的人竞争， Josh Waitzkin成为投资失败。一个更加厉害的原则是与那些比你水平更高的人合作。
For instance, if you want to get stronger or faster really fast, exercise with people in far better shape. If you want to do incredible work, work with more talented people than you. If you want to become a better person, date or marry someone “up.”
例如，如果你想更加强壮、更快，和那些身材更好的人锻炼。如果你想做高端的工作，和那些比你更优秀的人工作。如果你想成为一个更好的人，那那个更好的人约会或者结婚。
Of course, if it is a true collaboration, you’ll need to bring much to the table yourself. This isn’t aboutsocial loafing. It’s about intensive growth, and must therefore, be both win-win and synergistic.
当然，如果是真正的合作，你要让自己被明白。这不是社交放松。它是快速的成长，因此必须是双印以及协同合作。
As Andrew Carnegie, among the richest Americans of all time, has explained,“Teamwork
appears most effective if each individual helps others to succeed,
increasing the synergy of that team; ideally, every person will
contribute different skills to increase the efficiency of the team and
develop its unity.”Another billionaire, Richard Branson, similarly stated,“Build your own business team. Survival in business requires a synergy of skills.”
正如生活在最富裕的美国人中的 Andrew Carnegie所说：“当团队里每个人都帮助其他人成功，增加团队的共同协作，团队工作将是最高效的；理想状况下，每个人都会贡献他们的技能来增加团队的效率，发展团队的整体性。”另一个亿万富翁也说出了同样的话：“打造你自己的商业团队，在商业里幸存下来的人需要有协同合作的能力。”
In everything you do, there should be collaborative and synergistic elements. Of course, there is work which isyour work. However, that work should be embedded within a group of others and toward something much bigger.
你所做的所有事情，都有需要合作和协同工作的地方。当然，也有你自己的工作。然而，为了更高的目标，那工作也是团队里其他人的责任。
Again, a huge difference from the first shift to the second is thatyou are responsible for more than just yourself. Because others depend on you to show up and do what you do best, you are responsible to your team.
所以，与第一个转变巨大的区别是，你为不止你自己负责。因为其他人依赖你的出现，做好你做的事，你要为你的团队负责。
These others could be customers, fans, family, a workout partner. Whatever. The point is, you are responsible forother people’s success. Moreover, in many ways, their successis your success.Their growth and development is just as satisfying as your own — sometimes more.
这些其他人可以是顾客、支持者、家庭、健身伙伴。无论如何，关键是，你要为其他人的成功负责。更甚者，他们的成功便是你的成功。他们的成长和发展就像自己的一样令人满意——有时甚至比自己的还开心。
Rest and recovery
休息及恢复
“Working with a 10x goal and game-plan requires that your brain is relaxed, rested, and rejuvenated.”— Dan Sullivan
“以10倍的目标及计划工作，需要你的大脑是放松的、充满活力的。”— Dan Sullivan
Deep, creative, and strategic thinking and work is exhausting. An essential component of the second shift is doing “less, but better.” Where the first shift is often about quantity of work, the second shift is all about quality.
深入的、创造性的、策略的思考和工作是令人精疲力尽的。第二个转换的关键因素是做的少，但要做更好。第一个转变关于工作的数量，第二个转变则是工作质量。
To experience the first shift, you often just need to throw a bunch of darts at a board. Simply throwing a dart is seen as a huge win, initially. Eventually, some of those darts start hitting the board and getting some attention. However, once you make the second shift, you are among the world-class. It’s not just about hitting the board. It’s about hitting the bulls-eye, consistently.
要经历第一个转变，你需要一次扔出大把的飞镖。扔出一个飞镖便是巨大的胜利。最后，一些飞镖击中了标靶，引起了注意。然而，一旦你完成第二个转变，你是世界级选手，不止要集中标靶，还要每次集中靶心。
Precision.精度
Quality.质量
Conservation, rest, and recovery, then, becoming increasinglyessential. This is true at all elite levels. For example, professional athletes spend an enormous time resting.Roger Federer and LeBron James have said they sleep an average of 12 hours per day.
保存体力、休息、恢复变至关重要了。这才所有精英层面都是真理。例如，职业运动员花大量的时间休息。 罗杰 费德勒和勒布朗 詹姆斯曾说过他们每天休息12小时。
Similarly, to build mass and strength,many people need to workoutless,and give their body more time for recovery and sleep. Yet, during their workouts, they need to push themselves harder and heavier. Less, but better. The same is true of mental and strategic work.
同样的，为了增加体重和力量，很多人需要锻炼更少，让身体有更多时间休息。但是，在锻炼期间，他们要努力突破身体极限。更少但是更好。对于智力和策略工作也一样的道理。
Recovery is more than just physically resting. It’s also being completely unplugged from “connection.” For instance, a recent study found that constant smartphone use stops people fromproperly recovering from work(and life). In a sense, people are always “on” to distraction and connection. They never disconnect. People keep their smartphones on them constantly.
恢复不只是身体上的休息，它也是完全断电，切断连接。例如，最近一项研究发现持续的使用智能手机阻碍了人们工作后的恢复。在某种意义上，人们始终是受干扰，始终连接着。他们从不断开连接。智能手机从不离手。
In the study, the experimental group, who became more conscious of their smartphone use, and took adequate breaks from it, were able to experience psychological detachment from work (which is essential for recovery and engagement), relaxation, and mastery.
在研究里，实验组，对于智能机的更加有意识，足够的时间远离智能机后，能够经历心理上的切断和工作的练习。这对于恢复、投入、放松和掌握是至关重要的。
Take away: Set healthy boundaries on your smartphone and internet use. When possible, keep your smartphone away from your person. If it’s in physical proximity, you will unconsciously use it. Keep it in your car when you get home from work. Or keep it in a drawer in a separate room. Allow yourself to actually rest and recovery so you canengage in life and work!This is absolutely essential if you want to truly make the second shift.
小贴士：在智能机和网络使用上建立健康的边界。可能的话，让智能机远离自己。如果它离你触手可及，你会无意识的使用它。当你在工作的时候，把它放在车里或者放在另外房间的抽屉里。让你能真正的休息和恢复，这样你才投入到生活和工作中。如果你想完成第二个转换，这是相当重要的。
四. 结论
Conclusion
These mental shifts are incredible.
这两个思维转换是不可思议的。
Wherever you are on your own journey, you can intensify and deepen your understanding of the principles at these various levels.
无论你在哪里，你都可以加深对这些原则有不同层次的理解。
Never stop being a student. Never stop learning.
绝不要停止作为一个学生的角色，绝不要停止学习。
Shatter whatever paradigm you have and get a new one. When you change the way you see things, the things you see change.
打破任何你学到的范例，并创造一个新的。当你改变了看事物的方式，你看到的事物也改变了。
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