每日外闻33
万花筒里看成功6
万花筒策略1
我们把有效的成功策略比作万花筒-这种简单的机械装置类似于一个长管，里带有一个透镜、一面镜子，管中装有独立的腔室。每个腔室中装有玻璃碎片，玻璃片会随着管子的移动而移动。尽管这些腔室是分开的，但通过眼睛看到的是由不同的腔室组成的独特画面。镜子可反射整个玻璃碎片，增强了图案的复杂性。这种图案的美来自于设计的多样性和对称性。虽然万花筒里的图案本身是不稳定的，会被你自己的移动或外力改变，但它在不同的位置出现的不同的图案都会呈现出一种和谐的美。
现在你可以将自己理想的成功生活想象成一个万花筒，这种万花筒里有四个玻璃腔室-分别是幸福、成就、意义和传承。你可以在你的一生中不断的在玻璃腔中添加这些精美的玻璃片（也就是你追求的目标和那些实现了的目标），使你的人生图景越来越丰富和独特。而成功就像万花筒一样，是关乎于选择、转变、形成种种图案，以及把所有独立的玻璃片和腔室加和在一起的镜筒。而且，就像万花筒一样，你还需把镜筒对着光，这样才能更好的欣赏这些图案的美丽之处。你要定期观察每个玻璃腔里的图案，这样你才可以很快的发现“漏洞”-在你的生活中你觉得需要更多注意力的地方，在合适的时候放下别的工作，去修补它。当然，没有缺口的地方，也不是一劳永逸，你需要在以后的生活中不断打磨或者替换它。
我们研究发现，那些持续成功的人，就是依靠这种万花筒策略来组织他们的目标。他们不仅仅会将新的目标加进四个要素中，更懂得平衡四个方面的需求，使整个万花筒的图案更加的和谐精美。在每个类别中都获得深深的满足感会增强这些成就者在另一个类别需要关注时放弃另一个类别的能力，在不同的类别中自由切换，游刃有余。所以他们敢于说：“这个事，做到这个程度就行了，没必要非到厌烦了的地步再收手。”他们懂得自己做事的“度”，而不是沦为无止境的欲望牺牲品。
Success That Lasts 6
The Kaleidoscope Strategy 1
We compare an effective success strategy to a kaleidoscope—that simple mechanical device with a lens, mirror, and a long tube housing separate chambers. Each chamber holds pieces of glass that constantly shift as the tube is moved. Although the chambers are separate, the eye sees one unique picture made up of the various chambers. Mirrors reflect the entire set of glass chips and enhance the complexity of the pattern. The beauty of that pattern comes from the variety and symmetry of the design. Although the patterns in a kaleidoscope are inherently unstable, changed by your own movements or by outside forces, the pieces provide ongoing satisfaction as they take their places within new patterns.
Now imagine a slightly different kind of kaleidoscope, one that is your own vision of a successful life. This kaleidoscope also has four chambers—happiness, achievement, significance, and legacy—and you can add brilliant glass pieces (goals sought and fulfilled) over a lifetime, making your unique pattern richer and richer. In this metaphor, success is about choice, movement, pattern, and a structure that holds all the separate activities together. And, just like a kaleidoscope, you have to hold this pattern up to the light. By regularly assessing the picture you are creating in all four chambers, you can quickly spot “holes”—places you feel require more attention—in your activities and be assured that you are justified in interrupting other work to attend to them. The rest of the chips will be enough for the moment, but not enough for the rest of your life.
Success is about choice, movement, pattern, and a structure that holds all the separate activities together.
Through our research, we discovered that the people who achieve enduring success rely on a kaleidoscope strategy to structure their aspirations. Not only do they continually create new chips in each of the four categories, but they also choose their actions so that the whole picture will display a pleasing proportionality. Feeling deep satisfaction in each category strengthens these achievers’ ability to turn away from one category when another needs attention. It allows them to say, “I don’t need to work away at this particular thing until I’m satiated and hate the very sight of it. This is just enough.” They recognize the importance of setting their own standards for “enough” and not falling prey to the lure of the infinite “more.”
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