办公室超人的心态

Have a "trusting mindset "-- trust your skills

培养自信心——相信自己的能力

Main idea

要点

High performers don't question their basic ability to do what's required. Instead, they concentrate on the task at hand completely because they don't even have to think about the mechanics of what they're attempting to do well. This is the essence of the "trusting mindset".

优秀的人不怀疑自己的能力,只是全身心地做手头的工作,他们甚至不考虑如何才能做好.这是自信心的本质。

Supporting Ideas

要点阐释

A trusting mindset is the cumulative result of many result of many years of education , training and experience. All of that background is ingrained into your instincts so that when it comes time to perform, you do the right thing without having to deliberately and consciously think about it .

自信心是经过多年培育、训练和经验累积的结果。这些基础会彻底融入你的直觉里。所以，时机一到，“该是出手时就出手”——你准能把事干好。

 

 

At times, humans complicate things too much. Instead of simply doing the task at hand as well as possible ,we sometimes start thinking about the many background issues and flow-on results further down the road .We get to busy thinking about all the peripheral issues that we ignore the need to execute the task at hand as well as possible ,and end up choking because we worry too much.

我们常会把简单的事情复杂化，其实只需尽力把眼前的事做好就行了。但我们往往多虑了无数的琐事和后果，一天到晚忙着“假设”，以至忽略了“实施”，终落得“憔悴损”、“一场空”……

In some ways the trusting mindset is what a person is in before they know any better. It's the opposite of the training mindset where people stop and evaluate deliberately what they're doing. The trusting mindset means to use all the expertise which you have instinctively rather than deliberately.

就某些方面而言，自信心往往不是“油然而生”的。与刻意停下来思考行动方案、始终停留在反复推敲的心态相比，所谓自信心就是，你可以不假思索、凭自觉“随意”施展自己的专长。

High performers don't get too bogged down in detail. Instead, they divide their time intelligently between working on their Game and actually playing it. A good analogy for performing in the trusting mindset is to think about how squirrels run across a wire or try to find food .Squirrels don 't sit there and think about what is the best thing to do. Instead , they react instinctively to the stimuli that comes through their senses. Overachievers do something similar in that they concentrate exclusively on performing well when it's time to get out and perform.

卓越者不沉溺于细节，他们会聪明地把时间分配给策划和实施两种行为，并行不悖。有自信心的工作者就好比四处找食的松鼠，它们不会停下来想最好的做法，而是直接对感官刺激做出反应。办公室超人也一样，一有表现的机会，他们便专心致志地创造出优异的表现。

Key Thoughts

核心思想

"How do great performers in every field switch on their trusting mode at will? Some do it intuitively, and that is why we call them 'natural talents' ，Others, however , have learned to trust their abilities and their experience by gradually spending more and more time at work in the Trusting Mindset .You can learn it ,too, but you have to be willing to be uncomfortable at first .If you're skilled at using your Training Mindset ,just letting yourself trust will feel quite foreign. Often when I describe the Trusting Mindset to my clients, they immediately ask ,'What do I have to do to make it happen?' I tell them to do nothing - and then repeat it again and again. They look at me as if I'm crazy. But that's exactly how the best perform; they practice thinking of nothing when the pressure is on. Success depends on emptying your head rather than filling it .You can do that too - if you're willing to retrain your mind. It will take some work. To join the ranks of overachievers will require you to make some perhaps uncomfortable and often misunderstood choices about how you think when you're performing."

--John Eliot

“各个领域的优秀人物为什么能随意激活他们的自信心呢？”有些人完全是凭自觉的，我们称他们为‘天生的’。但其他人则是靠积累，逐步增加信心，学会相信自己的……你也可以通过学习建立自信心。但必须“扛得住”刚开始时的不适应。如果你靠自我锻炼去寻求信心，恐怕那个信心会让你感到陌生。当我向客户描述自信心以后，他们一般立刻会追问：‘我怎样才能有呢？’当我告诉他们什么都不必做——然后再重申一次时，他们都以为我疯了。然而那就是出类拔萃的人的做法：一旦压力来了，他们就什么都不想。要想成功就必须放下思想包袱，而不是由各种噪声装满它。只要有意，你也可以做到。这需要一点儿努力。要成为办公室超人，有时必须要选择一些令人不舒服甚至遭人误解的思考方式。”

——艾略特

Welcome pressure and harness stress to perform

欣然接受压力,以压力促表现

Main Idea

要点

Contrary to popular opinion, butterfly is a good thing .The great performers and superstars welcome pressure because they know it will bring out the best from them .In many ways, pressure is the overachiever’s energy bar.

和一般人的看法不一样,卓越人士和超级巨星认为困难是好事——他们会欣然接受压力。因为他们知道，压力能使他们超水平发挥。很多时候，压力是办公室超人的能量来源。

Supporting Ideas

要点阐释

Overachievers realize they only feel pressure when something significant is at stake ,and they feed off that stress to put an edge on their own performance .The last thing they want to do is relax .Instead ,they harness pressure as a catalyst or doorway to success, and make it work to their advantage .

办公室超人了解，惟有攸关紧要的事才会令他们有压力，而他们会将其转化为个人表现的动力。他们最不想要的就是放松。和一般人不同的是，他们能把压力当作成功的媒介、化压力为优势。

The simple fact is humans are genetically hardwired to respond favorably and to the best of our ability when we feel anxiety .At those moments, our bodies actually take over and increase blood flow so that we have greater visual acuity, increased mental capacity and more oxygen and fuel for our muscles to use. These are good things to have going for you, so it makes good sense to harness anxiety deliberately and proactively.

事实上，人类天生就有在焦虑时做出最佳反应和发挥最大潜力的本能。在那些时刻，其实是我们的身体掌握了主导权，血液加速我们的视觉更敏锐、脑力更强、提供给肌肉更多的氧气恶化能量。这对你而言都是好事，因此有意识、积极地利用焦虑是合理的。

This is why:

理由如下：

 Professional golfers play for money, even during their practice rounds.

   职业高尔夫球手打球就是为了赚钱，在热身赛期间也不例外。

 Campaign managers put their candidates through very tough practice press conferences before they face the real thing.

   在候选人去见媒体前，竞选总干事会对他们进行严格的“见记者”训练。

 Astronauts spend months in simulators practicing over and over the procedures they will be carrying out in space.

   宇航员要花好几个月，不断重复在太空中的仿真训练。

 The president of the United States practices his press conferences and major addresses in front of an audience of aides and other staffers.

美国总统会在助理和其他内阁成员面前练习他的记者招待会和重要演说。

In fact, if you’re smart, you’ll go to great lengths to not only generate that kind of pressures to perform for yourself but you’ll also ratchet things up as much as possible .NASA’s flight directors intentionally have malfunctions crop up in these stimulations .Tiger Wood’s father used to yell at his son just as he was about to swing to try and distract him. You should encourage audience members in mock-ups to heckle you and ask the toughest, meanest questions imaginable .Not only will this pressure you to perform but you can go into a situation knowing that real life can’t possibly be as bad as what you’ve already practiced responding to.

事实上，如果你明智的话，不但会煞费苦心地营造那种激发表现力的压力，甚至会尽可能地自找麻烦。美国太空总署的主任故意在仿真期间加入意外故障，老虎伍兹的父亲喜欢在他要挥杆的时候喊叫，试图扰乱他。在“演习”时，你应该鼓励听众刁难你，提出最艰涩、残酷的问题。这种压力不单能激发你的表现，还能让你了解到，实际状况不可能比你练习时的情境更糟。

Key Thoughts

核心思想

“The only time top performers get worried is when their heart is not racing .Unless you learn to love pressure –to perceive stress as an advantage –you are unlikely to enter the ranks of exceptional performers .”

____John Eliot

“顶尖人物，惟担心自己的心跳不再加速。除非你学会爱上压力，视压力为一项优越条件，你不可能加入卓越人士行列。”

“In summary, practice, practice, practice .Learning to love pressure is essential to becoming the kind of exceptional thinker for whom overachievement is a way of life.”

____John Eliot

“简单地说，就是练习、练习、再练习。学会热爱压力，是成为卓越思考者的基本条件。”

Create your own reality by ignoring the experts

别管专家意见,创造自身条件

Main Idea

要点

To stand out from the crowd, you have to be prepared to think differently from everyone else .It’s impossible to be an overachiever with conventional thinking. You have to stand out by living in your own world and generating your own realities rather than accepting the realities dictated by society (and blindly followed by most people).Do your own thing.

要出类拔萃,你必须有“不同凡响”的想法。传统的思考方式不可能让你成为办公室超人，你必须活在自己的世界里，创造符合自身的条件，而拒绝接受现实环境（多数人都盲从），才能活出自我、出类拔萃。

Supporting Ideas

要点阐释

Exceptional thinkers view the world through their own lens. If they don’t like the lens they currently have, they get active about inventing another one better suited to the task at hand .They never get sidetracked by worrying about whether others think they have what it takes to succeed. Nor do they worry about the odd early failure along the way. Overachievers are busy doing their own thing to worry about such superficial issues.

卓越的思考者从自己的镜头看世界，如果他们不喜欢眼前的景象，就会主动创造一个更适用于眼前需求的镜头。他们不因别人的非议而犹豫，也不怕失败。办公室超人埋头于自己的事，无暇为琐事担忧。

For overachievers, being described as “weird, “arrogant”, or “a maverick” is a badge of honor. They realize that to do something noteworthy or even to solve a big problem, they won’t get there by thinking the way everyone else does. Instead, they have to be original, even if that involves upsetting a few apple carts and putting a few noses out of joint.

对办公室超人而言，被描绘为“怪异”、“高傲”或“叛逆”是一种光荣。他们知道，要做大事、解决大问题，很少有循规蹈矩的——他们一定要有创意，哪怕是引起轩然大波。

The paradox is most people give lip service to the idea of originality but then proceed to live a life chained to convention, popular opinion and following whatever is the trend of the moment. Overachievers are deaf to their critics. They focus on doing things that impress themselves, even if those ideas seem strange or outrageous to everyone else. And above all, exceptional performers ignore what the best performers in every field consistently force the experts to end up seeing the world their way rather than the other way around.

遗憾的是，在创造性面前，多数人都是叶公好龙。他们终究还是会墨守成规、随波逐流的。办公室超人专心于自己的兴趣，对批评充耳不闻。即使他们的想法被怪异、甚至可憎。重要的是，卓越者常备不懈无视“专家”的“公理”。在历史上，不同领域的佼佼者们，创造了众多不可思议的成就，他们不断地迫使“专家”改用他们的眼光看世界。

If you walk around constantly thinking about your strategy and ignore the immediate tasks in front of you, you’re falling into the trap of allowing external events to control how you think and feel .When you need to perform under pressure, you need to ignore your inner conversation or external circumstances and concentrate on performing well. Exceptional people get very good at switching off all the day-to-day annoyances and focusing on the business at hand. You need to do the same. This will mean the difference between being a victim of your thoughts and taking positive control over the fabric of your life.

如果你放下眼前的工作，只是不断地思考各种方略，就会陷入在环境的陷阱里，让事物控制住你。要在压力下表现，你必须忘乎所以，志在发挥。卓越者必须懂得杜绝鸡毛蒜皮的事，全身心的投入工作。你只有这么做，才能控制住生活，让生活有条理，否则就成为焦虑的受害者。

Key Thoughts

核心思想

“The top guns in every field do not leave how they think to chance. And neither should you.”

_____John Eliot

“每个领域的顶尖人物都不会由别人决定他们该怎么想，你也要如此。”

——艾略特

Embrace incredible dreams and talk about them all the time

常抱惊人的梦想，并告诉他人

Main Idea

要点

You won’t achieve anything exceptional or do incredible things unless and until you embrace an incredible dream. This dream has to excite you, propel you forward and give meaning to your life if it is to have the power to drive exceptional performance. As long as the dream is possible in your own mind, and you’re willing to commit yourself to it, that’s all that counts.

除非你有惊人的梦想，否则你就无法实现惊人的成就。这个梦想要激励你、鞭策着你向前，并赋予你生命的意义，才能爆发出超群表现力的力量。只要你相信梦想成真，你就会不断的追寻，那才是最重要的。

Supporting Ideas

要点阐释

Overachievers are prepared to talk about their dreams. They break one of society’s taboos without embarrassment .The more people tell them to stop having their heads in the clouds and be “realistic” or “act responsibly” , the better they like it .And the more committed they become to working hard until dream becomes a reality.

办公室超人乐意与别人分享他们的梦想，他们不怕流言蛮语越是有人规劝他们要“脚踏实地”或“切合实际”，他们越是喜欢，并更努力的追寻，直到梦想成真。

 

 

The key points to remember about dreams are:

梦想的本质

 Dreams are not goals-------they’re feelings.

   梦想不是目标——是感觉。

 Dreams have stick ability------they will endure while you put in all the effort required to make them happen.

   梦想必须坚持——梦想要坚持动底，直到你付出所有的努力。

 Dreams are highly motivational------they’re the first thing you think about each morning and the last thought on your mind as you fall asleep at the end of the day.

   梦想激励人生——梦想是你每天醒来最先浮现在脑海，每晚睡觉前又最后想到的事情。

 Dreams are resilient and enduring.

   梦想充满活力、又恒久不变。

 Dreams are all embracing------so much so that people caught up in the pursuit of their dreams don’t even notice the stops and starts along the way.

   梦想包罗万象——因此，一心追梦的人，不会在沿途停歇。

 Dreams epitomize the way you want to live your life ------Goals, on the other hand, are simply a device to get you from Point A to Point B.

   梦想是理想生活的影像——换句话说，梦想是一个把你从A带到B点的装置。

 Dreams are very personal------they only have to excite you and not anyone else on the planet. And one person’s dream can easily be another person’s worst nightmare.

   梦想是非常个人的——梦想只激励你一个人，而不考虑地球上其他的人。一个人的好梦能是另一个人的恶梦。

 The best dreams are always unrealistic to the majority of people.

   最精彩的梦想在多数人眼里总是不切实际的。

Exceptional performers dream big, and aren’t embarrassed about talking about their dreams in public.

卓越者敢于大胆梦想，且不羞于把他们的梦想公诸于众。

Key Thoughts

核心思想

“What idea is ratting around in your head that never seems to go away ?What do you really want to be when you grow up-or, better , what did you want to be before you grew up and learned to ‘know better’? If your dream strikes you as too improbable, don’t worry. If it’s possible in your head, it qualifies as a good dream.”

______John Eliot

“什么念头在你脑中反复激荡、挥之不去？长大后你真正想做的是什么——或更好的是，在你长大‘懂事’前，你想做什么？别担心你的梦想不太实际，只要你觉得可能实现，就是个好梦想。”

——— 艾略特