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Last Lecture Series: How to Live your Life at Full Power — Graham Weaver

节目发布 2024-07-22 · Stanford Graduate School of Business
格雷厄姆·韦弗
EDITED TRANSCRIPT · 依据现场录音编译整理,可划线生成便签
编者按:本文整理自 Alpine Investors 创始人兼首席执行官 Graham Weaver 在斯坦福商学院「最后一课」系列(Last Lecture Series)上为 2024 届毕业生所作的演讲《如何全力以赴地活》。Weaver 在斯坦福商学院任教二十二年,一九九〇年代末曾在校园宿舍里靠举债与信用卡收购公司起家。全文依据现场录音编译整理,仅删去口语枝节、寒暄与重复,论证、例证与关键细节悉数保留。

纳帕逃跑记

我从斯坦福商学院毕业后,选了一份安稳的工作,一份公司里的差事。我对它谈不上多兴奋,做得也不算好,但我硬撑着,咬牙熬着。入职大约一年后,公司在纳帕办了一场外地集训。我们连续三天坐在会议室里听报告,那是老派的 PowerPoint,一页幻灯片塞着八十七个字,演讲的人以零点五倍速把每个字念给你听。真是折磨。

集训进行到一天半的时候,我策划了逃跑方案。我坐在会议室里,穿上西装外套,把笔记本塞进外套里面,确保不留痕迹。早上十点四十五分中场休息,大家鱼贯而出,我特意做最后一个走进洗手间的人,躲进隔间。我等了大约三分钟,让所有人离开,然后为了保险起见,又等了五分钟。有那么一刻我忽然意识到:我是个二十七岁的副总裁,此刻正躲在男厕所隔间里,躲自己的公司。

不管怎样,我冲了出去,没撞见任何人。我走后楼梯上楼回房间,脱掉西装,摘下领带,换上跑步的衣服,穿上跑鞋和跑步短裤,头上系一条红色头巾(我锻炼时一向戴红头巾)。接着我从后楼梯下去,绕出去上了银泉道(Silverado Trail)。上衣找不到了,不确定有没有带,反正气温二十四度,无所谓。

跑起来简直畅快极了。我的歌单太棒了,整个人都在享受。跑着跑着,那种跑者的兴奋感(runner's high)来了,有些人可能体验过。这时候有一个声音响起。那个声音说:Graham,你不必这样,这不是你,你不必做这个,这不是你该做的事。这个声音我以前也隐约听到过,但这一次特别有力。我意识到,这个声音是在对我说话,而它说的是我的真心话。一种平静和安宁涌上来,我跑完全程时已经明白,我要听从这个声音。

那次跑步有两件事让我记到今天。第一件发生在跑步的尾声。我跑出去,跑得很痛快,折返,还沉浸在那种兴奋里。快到终点时,歌单里放到了我最爱的一首歌,Survivor 乐队的《Eye of the Tiger》,就是《洛奇 3》的主题曲。没看过的话,那部片子里有一段极尽渲染的训练戏,洛奇先被打趴,然后回来苦练。歌一响,我整个人都点燃了,跑得飞起。步道旁边有一栋长长的玻璃楼,我跑过去,瞥见玻璃里的自己,阳光打得恰到好处:头巾系着,汗水淌下来,赤着上身。我心想,我现在活脱脱就是洛奇。于是我对着镜子开始比划,先来几下这个,再来几下那个,又添一点这个。我想,对,对,就是这个感觉。

然后我看到玻璃窗里有东西在动。我摘下墨镜,往里一看,全身的力气瞬间被抽空。我明白发生了什么:我这一跑跑了两个小时,我逃出来的那场会议已经结束,大家去吃午饭了。午饭在另一个房间,是一家餐厅,落地窗正对着葡萄园。我原本打算悄无声息地溜回会场,结果变成了赤着上身在全公司面前打拳击。这就是那次跑步让我难忘的第一个原因,真事。

第二个原因是,我意识到自己听见了那个声音,那是我的内在真我。那天我对自己许下承诺:我会继续听这个声音,继续跟着它走,第一步就是允许自己离开那份工作。

两种声音

我在这里教了二十二年书,这些年见过太多学生。我意识到,你们每个人,我们所有人,内心随时都有一场冲突在进行,两股力量在角力。

第一股力量是求生本能。它跟着人类几千年甚至几万年了,就是听见灌木丛里有动静、担心里面有东西会要你命的那个东西。它想往你身体里注入恐惧、怀疑、担忧和焦虑,它要你战斗或逃跑。这可以说是你的恐惧之声,你的内在批评者(inner critic)。它非常响亮,时时刻刻在你脑子里。

然后还有第二个声音。几千年来哲学家们一直在写它、谈它,给它起过许多名字:直觉、本源、上帝、宇宙、灵魂、真我、内在智慧。这个声音要安静一些,而且它不在你的头脑里,很多时候它出现在你的身体里,出现在你的心口、你的肚子、你的胸腔。你是感觉到它的。

不幸的是,第一个声音常常把它淹没。问题在于,恐惧之声会把你引向一种太小的人生。你知道这一点,你早就知道。你之所以知道,是因为你感觉得到:当你处在那个位置上,做着一件太小的事时,你能感觉到那种冲突、那种不协调和紧绷。

如果你想在这唯一的一生里活出全部力量,答案在第二个声音里,在那个真正的你里。那里装着你的梦想,你的道路,你的能量。当你不再否认自己究竟是谁,你能成就的事就没有尽头。

所以今天我想和你们谈的,是如何接通这个声音。我想邀请你们,在毕业之际,对自己许下三个承诺。可以吗?三个承诺。第一个承诺帮你脱困,第二个帮你找到那个声音,第三个帮你跟随它。这样你就能接入这股能量源,不是偶然地、零星地在某次跑步中碰上,而是有意识地、经常性地接入它,感受你在这一生里能做到什么的全部分量。开始吧。

承诺一:拔掉头上的钉子

第一个承诺是:把头上的钉子拔出来。这是脱困的承诺。

多年前有一段视频,一个女人在跟男友说话。她说:我感到压力好大,我头疼,我睡不着。她看上去几乎绝望了。男友有点困惑地看着她,说:你可以把头上的钉子拔掉啊。镜头一转,你看到她头上真的插着一根钉子。这看起来再明显不过。可她说:这不是钉子的问题。她什么都愿意谈,唯独不谈那个真正能让她脱困的东西。

不幸的是,我们很多人也是这样。我们大部分时间都顶着一根钉子在走路。有时候我们的钉子就像视频里那样一目了然,我们知道它是什么,只是不去处理。有时候没那么明显。但钉子就是把我们困住的那个东西,不拔掉它,我们就到不了全力。

钉子大致分四类。第一类是坏习惯,阻碍我们发挥全部潜能的习惯。第二类是未了结的过往经历,可能是很久以前的事,我们把它封存起来,从没处理过。第三类是规则或假设:你的人生必须这样走,你得先做这个,你父母希望你做那个,我们用自己的规矩给自己套上种种限制。第四类是恐惧,是恐惧把你困住。我的情况是,一份我不喜欢的工作,但我害怕离开,于是留下来。你可能处在一段不该继续的关系里,害怕离开,于是留下来。也可能是任何一个你想做的决定,但你害怕,于是就那样瘫着不动。

就像你看视频时想的:那女孩为什么不直接把它拔出来?这有什么复杂的?钉子难拔,有两个原因。

第一个原因是,我们还没承认自己头上有钉子。所以拔钉子的第一步,是说出你的真话。

举个例子。我有一位很亲近的朋友,她有失眠症,失眠支配着她的生活。她每晚只能睡几个小时,整天疲惫。她去看医生,医生让她填一堆表:吃什么,喝什么,几点睡,诸如此类。然后医生对她说:好消息,我知道怎么治你的失眠。她说:太好了,快说。医生说:你可以别在睡前一小时喝四五杯葡萄酒,这对失眠有帮助。她说:这主意糟透了。

她又去看了四个医生,最后柜子里堆满了各种药。然后她做的事,是在钉子外面造一顶头盔。她吃着一堆药,固定时间上床,晚上不能在外面待太晚,白天需要小睡,一直都很累。她的能量全花在保护头上那根钉子上,而不是拔掉它。

我们不拔钉子的第一个原因,就是还没向自己承认问题的存在。我们没有大声说出来:我有酗酒的问题,或者我处在一段不该继续的关系里,或者这份工作给不了我能量。所以要拔掉钉子,第一件事是说出真话,这一步就是成功的一半。

先变糟,再变好

我们不拔钉子的第二个原因是:生活会先变糟。

你可以把人生想成这样一种模式:在任何时刻,你都会到达一个平台期。而通往下一个平台的路,必然经过一段先往下走的路。钉子就卡在这里。拔钉子的方法几乎总是意味着一开始会不舒服,因为改变从来如此。辞掉一份工作,结束一段关系,试着对付一个真正糟糕的习惯,事情会先变糟。但要攀上下一个高度,你就得先走过那段下坡路,然后你会到达另一个平台,那里又会有下一根钉子。这是人生的一大部分。

所以要明白:你想要的一切,都在「先变糟」的另一边;你想要的一切,往往就在你此刻所恐惧的那件事的另一边。想想你害怕的那件事,那正是你该冲上去的方向,那就是你现在的功课所在。

原则一:如果你想全力以赴地活,我今晚请你对自己许下的承诺是,把头上的钉子拔出来,去做这份功课。好,这是不那么愉快的一条,它是关于脱困的。

承诺二:追随能量而非热情

接下来是找到你的能量。我们要接通那个内在的声音,首先得脱困,然后得听见它。承诺二是:追随你的能量。我说的是能量,而不是热情。

为什么我不说热情?因为我在商学院读书时,几乎每一位站在这里的演讲者,都会在演讲的某个时刻说一句「追随你的热情」之类的话。有人听过吗?你看的每一场毕业演讲里都塞着这句。

我先解释一下这是怎么回事,毕竟我现在站在这儿给你们提建议。为什么演讲者都想告诉你这个?我只说我自己。我人生的很大一部分,花在了一件我几乎没有能量的事情上。那很难熬,像在磨,它吸走大量的能量。我可以靠意志力硬撑一阵子。而我人生的另一大块时间,花在一个给我巨大能量的领域里。这两者没法比。所以演讲者是想说:嘿,过来这边,去做那件给你能量的事。顺带说一句,他们之所以能站在台上,正是因为他们做了那个决定,这就是他们跟你分享这条建议的原因。

但「追随你的热情」可能是一条非常有害的建议。原因在于,它暗示你只有一种热情,暗示你二十八岁时就该知道它是什么,然后接下来四十年都去做它,而且你应该知道怎么追随它。我认为这些都不成立。我的公司 Alpine 投资过五百多位创业者,他们都建起了成功的企业,没有一个人是走这条路来的。就连那些站在台上跟你讲这条建议的人,自己也不是这么走过来的。

所以我要提供的不是让你去追那个模糊的、唯一的、令人生畏的热情,而是只追随你的能量,追随此刻正在给你能量的东西。

九种人生练习与不会失败之问

今天我想和你们做一个练习,叫「九种人生」(Nine Lives)。做法是这样的:想象你有九个平行宇宙可以参与。第一种人生是你现在正在过的。以我为例,那就是:我在公司里上班,我要住在湾区,我要还掉一些债。这是第一种人生。

然后是第二到第九种人生。有两条规则。第一条:它们都必须从今天开始,不能回到过去。你剩下的八种人生都从你此刻所在的位置起步。第二条:你要找的是让你极度兴奋的事。其余每一种人生都得是那种让你一跃而起、迫不及待去做的事。

以我为例,第一种人生说过了。第二种:我想有朝一日创办自己的公司,当创始人,当 CEO。第三种:我想有一天在斯坦福商学院当教授。第四种:我想做个僧人,求得开悟。第五种:我想在拉斯维加斯当 DJ。第六种:我想做作家,或者社交媒体上的意见领袖,随便什么。你列出这些让自己兴奋的事,做完之后,你就找到了自己有能量的事。

能量是灵魂的语言。我那天在跑步中接通的第二个声音,它跟你说话的方式,就是通过你的能量。它不用词语,它用你的整个身体,把你有能量的事指给你看,这就是它说话的方式。所以当你为一件事兴奋,为一个人兴奋,当某样东西点燃了你,那就是你的灵魂在跟你说话,那是它的声音。你刚刚用这九种人生,创造出了九件让你极度兴奋的事,这就是你倾听灵魂的方法。

这个练习有两种用法。第一种:当你走在第一条路上,埋头苦干的时候,从其他人生里拉一样能给你巨大能量的东西进来。可以是弹吉他,可以是一项运动,可以是写一本书、写博客,也可以是在斯坦福教一门课,诸如此类。当你把这样东西拉进来,你的能量会变得有感染力。你点燃一颗火星,划着一根火柴,它会让你生活的其余部分也燃起兴奋。这是这个练习的第一种用法。

第二种用法,我认为更有力量。问自己这个问题:在这九种人生里,如果我知道自己不会失败,我会做哪一件?我会选哪一个?这个问题,从定义上说,就是让恐惧之声闭嘴,真正触碰到你最珍视的那个梦想。2024 届的同学们,我要说,在你人生的某个时刻,那就是你想走上的路:如果你知道自己不会失败,你会去做的那件事。我认为你最丰盛的梦想就在那里。人的灵魂需要有所盼望,这就是为什么你要不断给它注入能量。

如果你想在这珍贵的一生里活出全部力量:承诺一,把头上的钉子拔出来;承诺二,朝着给你能量的东西走去。

承诺三:不再两头下注

第三个承诺是:现在就全力投入。

我们最大的陷阱之一,是两头下注(hedged),一只脚在里面,一只脚在外面。我该不该呢?我不确定。我算是在做,我不知道这份工作要不要继续,这段关系我也说不好。我还在等,总有一天会清楚的。我不太确定什么时候,等那件事发生我就去做,等我把手头这个弄完就行。歌德说过:一个人在下定决心之前,总有迟疑,总有退缩的余地,总是徒劳无功。可悲的是,大多数人一辈子大部分时间都待在这个状态里,从未真正全身心投入任何事。这是对能量的巨大浪费。半进半出,你到不了你想去的地方。

搞砸的案例课与「不是现在」

我开始教书的故事要从二十二年前说起。Irv Grousbeck 和 Janet Feldstein 写了一个关于我的案例。当时我二十五岁,在斯坦福商学院的宿舍里收购公司,用了很多债,还刷了一些信用卡。案例里有很多事情出了岔子,可以说大部分事情都出了岔子。能当案例嘉宾,我兴奋极了,那是我梦寐以求的事,我以为那会是最酷的经历。

结果我走进教室,彻底砸了。我糟透了。我的内在批评者一直在捶我:Graham,你才二十九岁(我讲那堂课时二十九岁),你还没真正做成什么,你没什么可教这些学生的。看看之前来的那些嘉宾,他们的成就比你高多了。我表现得很差,整堂课都陷在自己脑子里。这不是假谦虚。我当时二十九岁,班上有我的朋友。讲完两天后,教授对案例做了总结,Graham Weaver 案例的收获之一是:创业不需要有魅力,也不需要口才好。真事。至少我有这一点,至少我们教了学生这个,而且这话没错。

但我垮了。我的内在批评者说:Graham,三十年后等你真正做成点什么、真有话可说了再回来吧。这是内在批评者常说的话。它有很多把戏,其中之一,就是对你说出你将听到的、也将说出的最危险的两个字。

我当了二十二年案例嘉宾和讲师,从没有一个学生对我说:Graham,我有一个特别兴奋的梦想,但我放弃了,我不打算做了。没有学生这么说过。他们说的是:不是现在(not now)。我的内在批评者说的也是这个。它没有说你永远别想教书,它说的是:去积累二十年经验,去把一切都弄明白,等到一切完美、你准备好了、万事俱备了,再去做。这就是我的内在批评者说的话。这只是恐惧的另一种形态,仅此而已。

Sarah 的故事:把恐惧写下来

本来事情到此为止,内在批评者就赢了。但有一个学生,我叫她 Sarah。她给我打电话说:嘿,Graham,我很喜欢你的案例。我说,你是唯一一个喜欢的,谢谢你。她说,我想跟你聊的不是怎么建公司,怎么招人、开人,怎么投资,这些都不是。她说:我想知道,你是怎么克服对失败的恐惧的?你二十五岁就开始干这件事,你到底是从哪儿来的信心?

这个问题我倒真有很多话可说,因为我确实必须克服对失败的恐惧。我说:好,Sarah,我们这样做,你把你害怕的所有东西都写下来。因为恐惧在你潜意识的深处时,对你的支配力最强。那时候恐惧最危险,那是它控制你的地方。我们在课上做「限制性信念」练习也是这个道理:得把它从脑子里、从潜意识里弄出来,落到纸上。我和 Sarah 就这么做了。我们看了所有的恐惧,一条一条过,把它们的力量剥掉。她感觉好多了,也自信多了。

然后我说:Sarah,跟我讲讲你想做的那件事吧,你为之兴奋的那个东西。她一下子亮了起来,说:我太兴奋了,我要全力投入,我要用灵魂的每一分去做这件事。

我们大多数人说的是:等到什么时候,我就开始活。等我还清贷款,等我经验更多,等我有信心了,等我准备好了,等我确定会成功,等我父母同意,等我搬到纽约,等我结了婚,等我拿到签证,等我成了 Arjay Miller 学者,等我还清房贷,等我有了孩子,等孩子大一点,等孩子长大成人。每一条我都听过(Arjay Miller 那条除外),其余的每一条都听过。我在辅导课上真的听人说过:这就是我要开始的时机,等其中一件事发生了我就动手。然后你知道吗,总会冒出一件新的事,你永远到不了那一天。于是他们说,以后吧,将来某个时候,不是现在。而「不是现在」终将变成「永远不」。这就是我们走的路。

回到 Sarah。她说:我太兴奋了,我要做这件事,我对它有巨大的能量,我全力投入,需要多久就干多久。这是她的原话。我说:Sarah,让我捋一捋。你充满干劲,你有能量,全力投入,需要多久就干多久。那还有什么可决定的?我不明白,问题在哪儿?大约一个月后,她给我写信说,她决定创业了,刚刚完成种子轮融资。

在我的教学生涯里,这样的事一再发生:我给学生建议时,才意识到其实是在给自己建议。这对我和教书这件事同样成立。于是我决定全力投入,需要多久就干多久,把全部能量投进去。

下一次斯坦福再讲 Graham Weaver 的案例时,课的最后有五分钟,教授会问嘉宾对学生有没有什么建议。我打算写一篇关于克服失败恐惧的东西。毫不夸张地说,为了这课末五分钟、其实没人真正在意的小环节,我花了六十个小时。但我就是全力投入了。果然,很多学生开始联系我,我开始辅导他们克服对失败的恐惧。这个案例从一年讲一次,变成三次、五次、七次。然后我开始做讲座、参加圆桌,学生越来越多。最终,我第一次登台就搞砸的那门课,成了我现在教的课。

倦怠来自失调,能量越用越多

所以,你,加上能量,加上全力投入,加上需要多久就干多久,这就够了。你不需要别的任何东西,没有其他必需的成分,就是这些。而对于让你兴奋的事,这些你已经具备了。

全力投入之后会发生什么?我全力投入之后,我的身份认同变了。我忽然不再骑墙,不再纠结该不该教书,我此时此刻就是一个教师。我两个声音之间的冲突就此消散,因为一旦你全力投入,恐惧之声就输掉了这场战斗,它放下剑,跪下了。你与第二个声音和谐共处,冲突就少得多。这不是说你再也听不到第一个声音的怀疑的刺痛,但那种「你不该做这个」「不该是现在」的大的争斗,消失了。全力投入之后,你不再把能量花在跟自己打仗上。

如果你上过我的课或听过我的讲座就知道,我现在教书的能量比二十二年前还要足。人们在这一点上常常搞混,以为倦怠(burnout)来自长期做一件事。不是这样。倦怠来自摩擦、压力和紧张,来自你处于失调的状态。如果我在第一份工作里再待哪怕三年,我早就倦怠了。而二十二年做着心之所向的事,我的能量反而更多。能量不像意志力、耐力或化石燃料,它不是一种会耗尽的资源。能量是丰盈的,它像爱:你越是接入它,你拥有的就越多;你越是给出去,回到你身上的就越多。能量是丰盈的。

回到你们身上。我要说,你就是那个凭自己赢得这个座位的人。这就是开启任何一段旅程的公式。你的驱动力,你的动机,你的坚持,你的意志力,你的品格,这些就够了,你可以把它们带到下一段旅程里去。你有时会忘记:这是一段新的旅程,但你可以把你自己带上。你,为一件事兴奋,全力投入,需要多久就干多久,这不仅仅是够用,这是世上最强大的力量。我二十五岁创办公司时,除了这个没有任何别的本事;我二十九岁开始教书时,除了这个也没有任何别的本事。这不只是够用,这是世上最强大的力量。这就是你踏上前路所需的全部,你只需要这个。

要全力以赴地活,三个承诺。承诺你会在旅途中一旦被困住,就拔掉头上的钉子。承诺你会朝能量走去,当你开始感觉到那股能量,你就向它靠近,尤其是那件你知道不会失败就会去做的事。承诺你不会说出「不是现在」这几个字,你会朝梦想的方向出发,全力投入,不留退路,而且从现在开始。这就是三个承诺。

空巢、寻意与人生意义

两年前,我的儿子 Chase 去上大学了,他今天也在场。那一刻,就像有人伸手进来把我的心掏走了。我记得 Chase 出生时我第一次抱着他。我们在 Chase 会说话之前教他手语,他会打「还要」的手势:还要苹果片,还要麦圈,还要书,什么都还要,他兴奋得不得了,一直比划这个手势。我记得他第一次走路时脸上的喜悦,记得教他骑自行车,和他一起扔橄榄球,后来教他开车。然后我记得那天他转身走向大学宿舍,我开车回家,他的房间第一次空了。他不再是我日常生活里的一部分了。今年我的儿子 Blake 也毕业了,也要走了,这事一点也不会变得更容易。

这在我心里引发了一场存在危机。一件对我极其重要的事结束了,却没有新的开始,而人生的有限性摆在面前,我想每个人都会走到这一步。也许这就是所谓中年危机,我不确定。于是我做了你们每个人都会做的事:踏上寻找人生意义的旅程。其实我一辈子都在找,只是这次更用力了。我去了墨西哥的乡村小城,去了哥斯达黎加的丛林,参加冥想静修,请了冥想老师。你们知道,我有很多位高管教练,做了大量的功课,读了大量的书。我最喜欢的一些哲人,耶稣、亚里士多德、佛陀、苏格拉底、Alan Watts,我读了很多他们对人生意义的答案,都很好:爱邻如己,侍奉上帝,活在当下,在苦难中安住,追寻真理,都是很好的意义。显然,人生的意义不止一种。

我得出的答案是:人生的意义,就是让你找到你自己的人生意义。而我为自己找到的答案是:全力以赴地活。我相信这股力量此刻就在你身体里,而接通它的途径,就是你的第二个声音。第二个声音不只是通向这股力量的路,它还会告诉你把力量投向何处,让你在这个世界上产生最大的影响。

当有什么东西把你困住时,那个声音会反复咀嚼这个问题,不断把它提起来,你会日复一日地想着它。那是一个信号:你头上有钉子,你的第二个声音想让你拔掉它。所以请承诺,当这种情况发生时,你会把头上的钉子拔出来。

那个声音用能量的语言跟你说话,你就是这样听懂它的。所以朝着能量走去,请承诺你会不断朝给你能量的东西移动,尤其是那件你知道不会失败就会去做的事。

最后,比什么都重要的是,那个声音希望你全力投入,希望你体验到自己的全部力量。所以请承诺你不会等待,不会说出「不是现在」,而是从你此刻所在的位置全力投入。

唯一的决定:听哪个声音

我过去以为,人生要做成千上万个决定,人生非常复杂。但在这个世界上活了五十二年之后,我认为我明白了:如果你想全力以赴地活,想感受你在这唯一的一生里能做到什么的全部分量,其实只有一个决定。2024 届的同学们,你会听哪一个声音?谢谢大家。

本期讲者
格雷厄姆·韦弗私募股权公司 Alpine Investors 创始人兼 CEO,1990 年代末在斯坦福商学院宿舍以负债起家收购公司;自 2002 年起在斯坦福 GSB 任教,2024 年被毕业生选为 Last Lecture 演讲者。
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0:03 纳帕逃跑记:厕所隔间与赤膊跑步 ▶ 正在看
4:47 两种声音:恐惧本能与内在真我 ▶ 正在看
7:13 承诺一:拔掉头上的钉子 ▶ 正在看
9:37 说出真话,先变糟再变好 ▶ 正在看
12:45 承诺二:追随能量而非热情 ▶ 正在看
14:46 九种人生练习与不会失败之问 ▶ 正在看
18:02 承诺三:不再两头下注 ▶ 正在看
19:18 搞砸的案例课与「不是现在」 ▶ 正在看
21:46 Sarah 的故事:把恐惧写下来 ▶ 正在看
25:15 倦怠来自失调,能量越用越多 ▶ 正在看
28:30 空巢、寻意与人生意义 ▶ 正在看
32:16 唯一的决定:听哪个声音 ▶ 正在看
本期论点
本期回应
2:42
反复出现的内心声音,就是一个人自身的真相 值得听从直觉可以当作判断的依据吗?
13:59
「追随你的热情」是有害的建议,它暗示人只有一种热情且该在二十八岁前就知道 跟着被点燃的感觉走该凭什么决定把一生投入哪件事?
14:41
与其追随那个模糊而唯一的热情,不如追随当下任何能给你能量的东西 跟着被点燃的感觉走该凭什么决定把一生投入哪件事?
17:45
人一生中该走的路,是那件确知不会失败就会去做的事 跟着被点燃的感觉走该凭什么决定把一生投入哪件事?
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人生看似有千头万绪的决定,真正要紧的只有一个:你选择听从哪一个声音 跟着被点燃的感觉走该凭什么决定把一生投入哪件事?
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只要投入全部能量、全力以赴、不给自己设期限,就足以做成一件事 靠年数熬做事该给自己设期限吗?
26:25
职业倦怠不来自长时间做一件事,而来自你和自己不在同一条线上的摩擦 越用越多人的精力会越用越少吗?
26:41
精力不是像意志力那样会被耗尽的资源,越去调用它拥有的越多 越用越多人的精力会越用越少吗?
18:23
一只脚踏进去一只脚留在外面的两头下注,是人生最大的陷阱之一 不留退路该不该给自己留退路?
其他论点
4:47
恐惧的声音太响,把人引向过小的人生;停滞是因为不肯拔掉那根自己早知道的钉子
8:46
让人停滞不前的根源可归为四类:坏习惯、未处理的过往、自设的规则与假设、恐惧
9:51
要解决困住自己的问题,第一步是把真相说出口,光这一步就成功了一半 做法
10:48
人往往把精力用来保护自己的问题、绕着它搭防护,而不是把问题解决掉 观察
12:11
你想要的一切都在「先变糟」的另一边,也就是你最恐惧那件事的另一边
20:43
「现在还不是时候」是恐惧的另一种伪装,而不是理性的时机判断
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恐惧藏在潜意识里时对人的控制力最强,写到纸上就会削弱它的力量
01纳帕逃跑记:厕所隔间与赤膊跑步
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[FOREIGN] >> Change wise. >> Change your organization. >> Change the world. >> Class of 2024, it's an honor to present to you the one and only, the goat, the legend, Graham Weaver. >> [APPLAUSE] >> [LAUGH] I graduated from Stanford, GSB, and I took the safe job, a corporate job that I wasn't that excited about, wasn't that good at, but I grinded it out. I toughed it out. And about a year into that job, we had this offsite in Napa. And, we're sitting in these conference teams for three days listening to these presentations and this is like PowerPoint old school where there's 87 words on the slide.
[外语] >> 明智地改变。>> 改变你的组织。>> 改变世界。>> 2024 届的同学们,非常荣幸为大家介绍这位独一无二的、最伟大的、传奇般的人物——Graham Weaver。>> [掌声] >> [笑声] 我从斯坦福商学院毕业后,选择了一份稳妥的工作,一份我并不那么兴奋、也并不那么擅长的公司工作,但我还是硬扛了下来。我咬牙坚持住了。在那份工作干了大概一年的时候,我们在纳帕开了一次外出务虚会。我们在会议室里坐了三天,听那些演讲,就是那种老派的 PowerPoint,一张幻灯片上有 87 个字。
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0:59
And the the person who's speaking reads every single word to you in 0.5x speed. And it's brutal. So, but a day and a half into this off site, I hatched my escape plan. So I'm sitting in the room and I put my suit coat on. I tuck my notebook under the suit code just to make sure there's no trace. And then as we take a break at 10.45 in the morning and I file out and I'm be make sure I'm the last one to go in the bathroom and I hide out in the stall. And so I wait like three minutes for everyone to leave.
然后讲的那个人以 0.5 倍速把每一个字都念给你听。真是折磨。所以,在这个务虚会进行到一天半的时候,我策划了我的逃跑计划。我坐在会议室里,把西装外套穿上。我把笔记本塞进西装外套里,就是为了确保不留下任何痕迹。然后上午 10 点 45 分我们休息的时候,我跟着人流出去,我确保自己是最后一个进洗手间的,然后我躲在隔间里。我等了大概三分钟,等所有人都离开。
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1:33
And then I wait like, just to be safe, I wait another five minutes. And then at one point, it does occur to me, I'm like, I'm a 27 year old vice president. I'm in the men's room in the stall hiding from my own company. [LAUGH] All right, nonetheless, I bust out, I don't see anyone. I go up the back staircase, go to my room, take my suit off, take off my tie, and I put on my running clothes because I'm going to go for a run and I put on my running shoes, my running shorts. I tie this red bandana around my head, which I always work out with a red bandana.
然后我又等了,就是为了保险起见,我又多等了五分钟。然后有那么一刻我突然意识到,我心想,我是个 27 岁的副总裁。我却在男厕所的隔间里,躲着我自己的公司。[笑声] 好吧,不管怎样,我冲了出去,没看见任何人。我从后楼梯上去,回到房间,脱掉西装,解开领带,换上跑步的衣服,因为我要去跑步,我穿上跑鞋、跑步短裤。我在头上系了条红色头巾,我健身的时候总是戴红色头巾。
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1:59
And then I go down the back staircase, and I go around and get on the Silverado Trail. I couldn't find my shirt, I'm not sure if I packed one. It's 75 degrees, it doesn't matter. So I start on this run and it is just glorious. My playlist is amazing, and I'm having this great time. And on this run, I start to have this runner's high, which some of you may have experienced. And there's this voice. This voice says, Graham, you don't have to, this isn't you. You don't have to do this, this isn't what you're meant to do.
然后我从后楼梯下去,绕出去,上了 Silverado Trail。我找不到我的上衣,我也不确定我到底有没有带。当时 75 华氏度,无所谓了。
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2:36
And it was this voice that I'd heard me other times but this time it was like really powerful. And I realized that this voice was speaking to me and it was my truth. And this wave of calm and peace just kind of came over me as I finished this run, realizing that I was going to listen to that voice. There were two memorable things about that run that have stayed with me to this day. The first one is the end of the run. So, I go out, I'm just having a great run, I turn around, again, having runners high.
那是我以前也听到过的一个声音,但这一次它格外强烈。我意识到这个声音是在对我说话,它就是我内心的真相。跑完那趟步的时候,一股平静和安宁的感觉涌上心头,我知道自己要听从那个声音了。那次跑步有两件事让我记到今天。第一件是发生在跑步的最后。我出门去跑,跑得特别爽,掉头往回跑,还是那种跑者的兴奋感。
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3:10
And at the very end of the run, one of my favorite song comes on my playlist, which is Ida Tiger by Survivor. And it's the theme song of Rocky III, if you haven't seen that, the gratuitous training scene where he gets beat, and then he has to come back and train. They're playing on that song and it's like. So then I'm like, okay, I'm feeling it, I'm running. And then there's this long glass building that is on this trail. And I'm like running and I catch a glimpse of myself in the thing that sun's hitting me just right.
跑到最后,我的歌单里放到了我最爱的一首歌之一,Survivor 乐队的《Eye of the Tiger》。如果你没看过《洛奇3》的话,那是它的主题曲,就是那段被打败之后重新回来训练的经典训练片段的配乐。那首歌一响起来,感觉就是那味儿。我心想,好,状态来了,我在跑。然后这条步道旁边有一栋很长的玻璃建筑。我一边跑,一边瞥见了玻璃里的自己,阳光打得刚刚好。
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3:41
I got my bandana, sweats pouring down. I'm shirtless, I'm like, I look like Rocky right now. [LAUGH] I started just looking in the mirror start doing some of these >> [LAUGH] >> And then I start doing some of these, a little bit of that, start doing a little bit of this. And then I'm like, yeah, yeah, feeling this. And then I see something kind of moving in the window, take off my sunglasses, take my sunglasses down, I look and all the energy drains out of my body because I realized what's happened.
我头上绑着头巾,汗一个劲儿往下淌,光着上身,我心想,我现在简直就是洛奇。(笑)我就开始对着那面「镜子」摆起姿势来 >>(笑)>> 然后再来几个动作,来一点这个,再来一点那个。我心想,对,就是这感觉。然后我看见窗户里好像有什么东西在动,我把墨镜摘下来,往下一拉,仔细一看,浑身的劲儿一下子全没了,因为我明白发生什么了。
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4:12
I've been on this run for two hours. The meeting I was in ended, they broke for lunch. They go to lunch in a different room, and it's a restaurant with a window overlooking the vineyards. So me sneaking stealthily back into the meeting actually became me shadow back in shirtless in front of my entire company. So that was the first reason that run was memorable. >> [LAUGH] >> That happened. The second reason it was memorable was that I realized that I had heard this voice, which was my inner truth.
我已经跑了两个小时。我参加的那个会议结束了,他们休会吃午饭。他们换到另一个房间吃饭,那是一间能俯瞰葡萄园的餐厅,有一整面窗。所以我本来打算悄悄溜回会场,结果变成了我光着上身在全公司面前摆造型。这就是那次跑步让我难忘的第一个原因。>>(笑)>> 就这么发生了。第二个难忘的原因是,我意识到我听到了那个声音,那就是我内心的真相。
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02两种声音:恐惧本能与内在真我
4:47
And I made a promise to myself that day that I was going to continue to listen to that voice and I was going to continue to follow it starting with allowing myself to leave that job. So I've been teaching here now for 22 years, I've met with so many students over that time and what I realized is that, you all have this and all of us have this conflict going on at all times inside of us, and it's between two forces. And the first force is your survival instinct that's been with us for 1000s, if not 10s of 1000s of years.
那天我对自己许下承诺,我要继续听从那个声音,继续追随它,第一步就是允许自己辞掉那份工作。我在这里教书已经22年了,这些年见过太多学生,我发现,你们每个人、我们所有人内心时时刻刻都有一场冲突,冲突发生在两股力量之间。第一股力量是你的生存本能,它伴随人类几千年、甚至几万年了。
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5:22
And this is the thing that that noise in the bushes that could possibly kill you. It wants this inject into you fear and doubt and worry and anxiety. It wants you fight or flight, and that's kind of your voice of fear and your inner critic. And that's really loud. That voice is in your mind all the time and then there's another voice, the second voice. And that voice has been written about and talked about by philosophers thousands of years and that voice has been called many names. It's been called your intuition, it's been called source, God, the universe, your soul, your true self, your inner wisdom.
它关注的是灌木丛里那个可能会要你命的响动。它想往你身体里注入恐惧、怀疑、忧虑和焦虑,它想让你要么战斗要么逃跑,这基本上就是你恐惧的声音、你内心的批评者。它非常吵。那个声音无时无刻不在你脑子里。然后还有另一个声音,第二个声音。几千年来,哲学家们一直在书写和谈论这个声音,它有很多名字。有人叫它直觉,有人叫它源头、上帝、宇宙、你的灵魂、你真实的自我、你内在的智慧。
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5:58
Lots of voice names for that. That voice is a little quieter and that voice isn't in your head. A lot of times it shows up in your body. It shows up in your heart, your gut, your your chest. You feel that. And unfortunately, that first voice really drowns us out a lot of times. And the thing is that the voice of fear will lead you to a life that's too small. And you know this. You already know this. And the way that you know this is you feel this. You feel this conflict, this dissidence and tension when you're in that position, when you're doing something that's too small.
它的名字有很多。这个声音要安静一些,而且它不在你的脑子里。很多时候它出现在你的身体里,出现在你的心里、你的直觉里、你的胸口。你能感觉到它。可惜的是,第一个声音常常把它盖过去。问题在于,恐惧的声音会把你带向一种过于狭小的人生。这一点你是知道的,你早就知道。你之所以知道,是因为你能感觉到——当你处在那种境地、做着那些配不上你的事情时,你会感受到这种冲突、这种不协调和紧绷。
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If you want to reach full power in this one life of yours, it's in the second voice. It's in the voice that's the real you. This contains your dreams, your path, it contains your energy. And when you stop denying who you really are, there's really no end to what you can accomplish. So today what I want to do is I want to talk to you about how to access this voice. And I'm going to invite you today to make three promises to yourselves as you get ready to graduate. You good with that? Three promises, so the first one is a promise that's going to help you get unstuck.
如果你想在这仅有的一生中活出全部的力量,答案在第二个声音里,在那个真正的你的声音里。它装着你的梦想、你的道路,它装着你的能量。当你不再否认真实的自己,你能成就的事情就没有尽头。所以今天我想跟你们聊聊,怎样才能接通这个声音。今天我想邀请你们,在即将毕业之际,对自己许下三个承诺。可以吗?三个承诺。第一个承诺,是帮你摆脱困住你的状态。
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03承诺一:拔掉头上的钉子
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The second one is a promise that's going to help you find that voice. And the third one is a promise that's going to help you follow it. And then you can tap into this energy source, not episodically or randomly on a run sometime, but actually intentionally and regularly. And you can feel the full magnitude of what you can do in this life. So let's do it. So the first promise is take the nail out of your head. [LAUGH] This is the unstuck promise. So number of years ago there was a video of a woman and she's talking to her boyfriend and she says, I feel all this pressure, I have headaches, I can't sleep, and she's just, she seems like she's hopeless, and her But her boyfriend looks at her he looks a little confused.
第二个承诺,是帮你找到那个声音。第三个承诺,是帮你追随它。这样你就能接通这股能量源泉——不是偶尔一次、不是某次跑步时随机撞上,而是有意识地、经常性地接通。你就能感受到自己这一生所能做到的事情的全部量级。那我们开始吧。第一个承诺是:把头上那颗钉子拔出来。(笑)这是「解困」的承诺。几年前有一个视频,一个女人在跟她男朋友说话,她说,我感觉压力好大,头疼,睡不着,她看上去很绝望。可她男朋友看着她,一脸困惑。
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And he says, well you could take the nail out of your head. And then you see that she turns and you realize she stick as a nail sticking out of her head. And it seems pretty obvious. And then she said, [LAUGH] and then she says it's not about the nail, and she wants to talk about anything and everything except the thing that's actually going to make Kurt unstuck. Unfortunately, this is also true with a lot of us. We are walking around most of the time with a nail in our head. Sometimes our nail is just as obvious as it is in this video.
他说,那你可以把头上那颗钉子拔掉啊。然后镜头一转,你才发现她头上确实插着一颗钉子。这看起来再明显不过了。然后她说(笑),她说,这跟钉子没关系,她什么都想聊,就是不聊那个真正能让她解脱的东西。可惜的是,我们很多人也是这样。我们大多数时候都顶着头上的一颗钉子在生活。有时候我们的钉子跟视频里一样明显。
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We know what it is we're just not dealing with it. Sometimes it's a little less obvious, but our nail is the thing that's keeping us stuck and until we remove it, we're not going to reach our full power. So nails can kind of fall into four buckets. The first one is bad habits that we have that are keeping us from reaching our full potential. The second one is unresolved past experiences that we might have had a long time ago that we just have compartmentalize and we haven't dealt with them. The third one is rules or assumptions.
我们知道那是什么,只是我们不去处理它。有时候它没那么明显,但我们的钉子就是那个让我们卡住的东西,不把它拔掉,我们就活不出全部的力量。钉子大致可以分成四类。第一类是我们身上那些坏习惯,让我们发挥不出全部潜力。第二类是没有化解的过往经历,可能是很久以前的事,我们把它封存起来,一直没有面对。第三类是各种规则或假设。
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9:05
This is the way your life needs to go. You have to do this first your parents want you to do that, all these constraints we put on ourselves with our own rules. And and the fourth one is fear. And it's fear that's keeping you stuck. So in my case, it was a job that I didn't like, but I was afraid to leave, so I stayed in the job. You could be in a relationship that you shouldn't be in, and you're afraid to leave, so you stay in the relationship. Or it could be really any decision that you want to make, but you're afraid, and so you just, you stay paralyzed.
比如你的人生「必须」这么走,你得先做这个,你父母想让你做那个,这些我们用自己的规则给自己套上的种种限制。第四类是恐惧。是恐惧把你卡在原地。就我而言,我的钉子是一份我不喜欢的工作,但我不敢离开,所以就一直待着。你可能处在一段本不该待着的关系里,你不敢离开,于是就待着。或者可能是任何一个你想做的决定,但你害怕,于是就僵在那里动不了。
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04说出真话,先变糟再变好
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And these males, just like you're thinking in that video, why doesn't the girl just? Just pull the thing out, right? Why is this complicated? There's two reasons that it's hard to pull these nails out of our head. The first one is we haven't admitted that we have one. And so the first way to pull your nail out of your head is to speak your truth. So let me just give you an example of this nail. So I have a close friend of mine and she has insomnia, and it controls her life. She can only sleep a few hours a night, she's tired all day.
这些钉子,就像你看那个视频时想的一样:这姑娘怎么不直接把它拔出来呢?这有什么难的?把这些钉子从头上拔出来之所以难,有两个原因。第一个原因是,我们还没有承认自己头上有一颗。所以拔钉子的第一步,是说出你心里的真话。我举个例子。我有个好朋友,她有失眠症,这件事支配了她的生活。她一晚上只能睡几个小时,整天都很疲惫。
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10:11
It absolutely controls her life. So she goes to the doctor and doctor has her fill out all the stuff what are you eating, what are you drinking, what time you're going to bed, all these different things. And the doctor says to her, hey, I have good news for you, or I know how you can secure your insomnia. She says, great, I'm super excited to hear that he and the doctor says to her, you could stop drinking four to five glasses of wine with an hour of you going to bed. That'll help your insomnia. And she says, that's a horrible idea.
在你上床睡觉前一小时内。那样能改善你的失眠。她说,这主意糟透了。
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10:42
She goes and sees four more doctors and then she ends up with a plethora of medicine she keeps in her cabinet. And then what she does is she proceeds to build a helmet around her nail. So she basically has all these drugs she takes. She goes to bed at a certain time. She can't be out late. During the day, she needs naps, she's tired all the time. So her energy goes into protecting this nail that's in her head, rather than pulling it out. The reason we don't pull it out, as I said, first is we haven't admitted to ourselves that we have the problem.
于是她又去看了四个医生,最后柜子里堆满了各种各样的药。然后她做的事,是围着那颗钉子给自己造了个头盔。所以她基本上就是天天吃着这一大堆药。她必须在固定的时间上床睡觉。她不能在外面待到很晚。白天她需要打盹,她一直都很累。于是她所有的精力都花在保护脑袋里那颗钉子上,而不是把它拔出来。我们不去拔掉它的原因,就像我说的,首先是我们还没向自己承认我们有问题。
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11:11
So we haven't said out loud, I have a problem with alcohol or I'm in a relationship that I shouldn't be in or a job that's not giving me energy. So to remove the nail, the first thing is to start by speaking your truth and this is half of the battle right here. The second reason that we don't pull the nail out is life is going to get worse first. So when we trade so if you think of this as the pattern of your life, where at any given time you're going to reach a plateau. And the path to get to the next plateau involves something that's going to get worse first, and these nails go on.
我们没有大声说出来:我酗酒有问题,或者我处在一段不该待着的关系里,或者我做着一份消耗我能量的工作。所以要拔掉这颗钉子,第一步是先说出你的真话,光是这一步就已经成功了一半。我们不拔钉子的第二个原因是,生活会先变得更糟。所以当我们做出取舍时,如果你把这看作你人生的规律,在任何一个时间点,你都会到达一个平台期。而通往下一个平台的路,必然要经过一段先变糟的过程,这些钉子还在继续。
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11:44
And the way to pull them out is going to almost always involve something that's going to be uncomfortable at first because change always is. So if you leave a job, if you end a relationship, if you try to address one of your really bad habits, things are going to get worse first. But the path to reaching the next height is really to you. You're going to have to deal with that downward path first, and then you're going to reach another plateau and you'll have another one. And this is a big part of your life.
而拔掉它们的方式,几乎总是要经历一开始很不舒服的东西,因为改变永远如此。所以如果你辞掉一份工作,结束一段关系,或者试图去处理你某个很糟糕的习惯,情况会先变糟。但通往下一个高度的路,真的取决于你自己。你必须先熬过那段向下的路,然后你才会到达另一个平台,接着又会遇到下一个。而这是你人生中很重要的一部分。
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12:11
So just to realize that everything that you want is on the other side of worse, first, everything that you want is often. On the other side of the thing that you fear right now. Think about the thing that you fear, and that's the thing you should be going at. That's where your work is right now. So if principle one, if you want to live your life at full power, the promise I would ask you tonight or today to make to yourself is to take the nail out of your head and do that work. Okay, that's the not fun one.
所以要意识到,你想要的一切都在“先变糟”的另一边,你想要的一切,往往就在——就在你此刻所恐惧的那件事的另一边。想想你害怕的那件事,那就是你该去面对的事。那就是你现在真正该做的功课。所以第一条原则,如果你想活出全力以赴的人生,我今晚、或者今天想请你对自己许下的承诺,就是把脑袋里的钉子拔出来,去做这份功课。好,这是不那么有趣的一条。
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05承诺二:追随能量而非热情
12:45
That's the getting unstuck. So, next is to try to find your energy. So, we're tapping in that inner voice. First we've got to get unstuck. Now we've got to listen to that voice. So promise two is follow your energy and I say, not your passion. Here's why I say, not your passion. Because when I was at the GSB, and probably every speaker who stood up here had a moment in their speech where they said, some version of follow your passion. Right, has anyone heard that before? And every graduation speech you watch will have that injected in there.
这是关于走出困境。接下来,是去找到你的能量。我们要去接通那个内在的声音。首先我们得先走出困境。现在我们要去倾听那个声音。所以第二个承诺是,追随你的能量——而我说的不是追随你的热情。我来说说为什么我不说“热情”。因为当我在 GSB(斯坦福商学院)读书时,几乎每一位站在这里的演讲者,都会在演讲中的某个时刻说出某个版本的——追随你的热情。对吧,有人听过这句话吗?你看过的每一场毕业演讲里都会塞进这句话。
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13:18
So let me tell you why that happens first of all, because now I'm up here giving advice and I'll explain to you why. Why is that whatever the speaker wants to tell you. The reason is that I'll speak for myself. I have spent a large portion of my life doing something for which I had very little energy and it was tough and it felt like a grind and it was it just absorbed a lot of energy. I could fight through it with willpower for a little bit of time, and I've spent a lot of my time in an area that gave me a tremendous amount of energy, and there's no comparison.
那我先告诉你为什么会这样,因为现在我也站在这里给建议,我来解释一下原因。为什么演讲者总想告诉你这句话。原因是——我就说我自己吧。我人生中有很长一段时间在做一件几乎不给我任何能量的事,那很辛苦,感觉就像在硬扛,它只是不断消耗我的能量。我可以靠意志力硬撑一小段时间,而我也花了很多时间待在一个能给我巨大能量的领域里,这两者根本没法比。
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13:49
And so the speakers are trying to say, hey, come up over on this side. Go into the thing that gives you energy. By the way, the reason that they're on the stage in the first place is that they made that decision. So that's why they're sharing this advice with you but it can be very harmful advice to go follow your passion and here's why because it implies that you have only one passion. It implies that you're supposed to know what it is when you're 28 that you're supposed to go do it for the next 40 years and you're supposed to know how to follow it.
所以演讲者们其实是想说,嘿,快到这一边来。去做那件能给你能量的事。顺便说一句,他们之所以能站在台上,本身就是因为他们做了那个决定。所以他们才会跟你分享这个建议,但“追随你的热情”也可能是非常有害的建议,原因是,它暗示你只有一种热情。它暗示你在二十八岁的时候就该知道那是什么,然后接下来四十年都去做它,而且你还应该知道该怎么去追随它。
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14:16
And I don't think any of those things are true and my firm, Alpine, we've invested in over 500 entrepreneurs who've built successful companies, and not one of them followed that path. Even the people who will stand up and tell you that advice didn't follow that path. So instead, what I'm going to offer is for you to not follow necessarily this nebulous passion of which there's one and it's intimidating. But instead to follow your, just your energy, whatever's giving you energy at the current time.
我不认为这些说法有哪一条是真的。在我的公司 Alpine,我们投资过五百多位创办出成功公司的创业者,没有一个人是按那条路走过来的。就连那些会站起来给你这个建议的人,自己也没走那条路。所以我想给你的建议是,不要非得去追随那个模糊的、仿佛只有一个、又让人望而生畏的“热情”。而是去追随你的能量,追随当下任何能给你能量的东西。
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06九种人生练习与不会失败之问
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So there's this exercise that I want to do with you today, which is called Nine Lives. And the way it works is imagine that you had nine parallel universes that you could partake in. The first life is going to be a thing that you're doing right now. So for me, that was, I'm in the corporate job, I'm going to live in the Bay Area. I'm going to pay off some debtm, that's kind of life number one. And then life's two through nine, life's two through nine. You have two rules. The first rule is, that you, they all have to start from today.
所以今天我想和你们做一个练习,叫做“九种人生”。做法是,想象你有九个可以同时体验的平行宇宙。第一种人生,就是你现在正在做的事。对我来说,那就是:我在大公司上班,我要住在湾区,我要把一些债还清——这大概就是第一种人生。然后是第二到第九种人生,第二到第九种。有两条规则。第一条规则是,它们都必须从今天开始。
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So you can't go back in time. All your remaining eight lives start with where you are right now. The second rule is you want to find the things that you're super excited about. Every one of those other lives should be something that you're so excited that you jump out of bed to do. So for me, it might have been, okay, I shared life one. Life two would be, hey, I want to start my own company someday and be a founder, be a CEO. Life three, I'd love to be a professor someday at Stanford Business School.
所以你不能回到过去。你剩下的八种人生,都要从你此刻所在的地方开始。第二条规则是,你要找到那些让你无比兴奋的事。其他每一种人生,都应该是让你兴奋到会从床上一跃而起去做的事。对我来说可能是这样,好,第一种人生我说过了。第二种人生是:嘿,我想有一天创办自己的公司,成为创始人,成为 CEO。第三种人生:我希望有一天能在斯坦福商学院当教授。
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Life four, I'd love to be a monk and become enlightened. Life five, I'd love to be a DJ in Vegas. Life six, I'd be a writer, social media, influencer whatever. You come up with these things that are exciting for you and then what you've done when you do this is you've. Found things that you have energy for, energy is the language of your soul. That second voice that I accessed that day on the run, the way that it talks to you, is through your energy. It doesn't use words, it uses your whole body and shows you things for which you have energy, and that's how it's talking to you.
第四种人生:我想当一个僧侣,然后开悟。第五种人生:我想在拉斯维加斯当 DJ。第六种人生:我想当作家,做社交媒体,当网红,什么都行。你想出这些让你兴奋的事情,而当你做完这个练习,你其实已经——找到了那些能给你能量的东西,而能量就是你灵魂的语言。那天跑步时我接通的第二个声音,它跟你对话的方式,就是通过你的能量。它不用语言,它用你的整个身体,向你展示那些让你有能量的事,这就是它在跟你说话的方式。
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So when you're excited about something, when you're excited about someone, when something is firing you up it's your soul talking to you. That's its voice, so you've just created with these nine lives nine things that you're super excited about. So that's how you're going to listen to your soul, there's two things you can do with this exercise. The first is, as you're on path 1, and you're cranking away on path 1, pull something in from one of those other lives that gives you a tremendous amount of energy.
所以当你对某件事感到兴奋,当你对某个人感到兴奋,当某样东西点燃你的时候,那就是你的灵魂在跟你说话。那就是它的声音。所以你刚刚用这九种人生,创造出了九件让你无比兴奋的事。这就是你倾听灵魂的方式。这个练习有两种用法。第一种是,当你正走在第一条路上,正在第一条路上拼命努力时,从其他那些人生里,拉一件能给你巨大能量的事进来。
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So, you could pull in playing the guitar, or playing a sport, or writing a book, or writing a blog, or teaching in class. At Stanford or, all these things and what happens when you pull something in that, is your energy will become infectious. You'll light a spark, you'll light a match, and that'll that'll actually inflame the rest of your life with excitement, so that's the first way that you can use that exercise. The second way which I think is even more powerful is, ask yourself this question, and of all nine of those lives, what would I do if I knew I wouldn't fail?
比如你可以把弹吉他拉进来,或者做某项运动,或者写一本书,或者写博客,或者去上课教书。在斯坦福教书之类的,所有这些事。而当你把这样一件事拉进来时,你的能量会变得有感染力。你会擦出一点火花,点燃一根火柴,而这真的会让你人生的其他部分也燃起兴奋,这就是这个练习的第一种用法。第二种用法,我觉得更有力量:问自己这个问题——在这九种人生里,如果我知道自己不会失败,我会去做哪一个?
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Which one of those would I choose? That is by definition silencing that voice of fear and really getting in touch with that thing that is your most dear dream. In class of 2024 I would argue, at some point in your life that's the path that you want to to be on, the thing you would do if you knew you wouldn't fail. And I think that's what you that's where you'll find your richest dream. The human soul needs something to hope for, and that's why you want to to continue to inject it with your energy.
我会选择其中的哪一个?这在本质上就是让恐惧的声音安静下来,真正接通那个你最珍视的梦想。2024 届的同学们,我认为在你人生的某个阶段,那就是你想要走的路——那件如果你知道自己不会失败就会去做的事。我认为那就是你会找到你最丰盛的梦想的地方。人的灵魂需要有所盼望,所以你要不断用你的能量去滋养它。
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07承诺三:不再两头下注
18:02
If you want to live at full power in this one precious life of yours, promise one, take the nail out of your head, second promise is go toward the things that give you energy. Third promise is, to go all in now. So, one of the biggest traps that we have is we're hedged, we have one foot in, we have one foot out. Well, should I, shouldn't I? I'm not sure, I'm kind of in, I don't know if I'm in this job, I don't know about this relationship. I don't know, I'm kind of still waiting, it'll become clear at some point.
如果你想在这独一无二、无比宝贵的一生中活出全力,第一个承诺,把脑袋里的钉子拔出来;第二个承诺,走向那些给你能量的事。第三个承诺是,现在就全力投入。我们最大的陷阱之一,就是我们总在两头下注,一只脚踏进去,一只脚留在外面。到底该不该呢?我不确定,我算是投入了吧,我不知道这份工作行不行,我不知道这段关系怎么样。我不知道,我还在等等看,某个时候自然就清楚了。
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18:41
I'm not really sure when this happens, then I'll do it, it's on the other side of this thing as soon as they get done with this. And, Goethe said until one is committed there's always hesitancy, the chance to draw back, always ineffectiveness. Sadly, most people spend most of their lives here, never really fully committing to things. And this is a huge waste of energy, and you're not going to to get where you want to to go, half in half out. My story of how I started teaching started 22 years ago, Irv Grosbeck and Janet Feldstein wrote a case about me.
我也说不好,等这件事发生了我就去做,等他们把这事忙完了,我就在这之后去做。歌德说过:在一个人真正投入之前,总会有犹豫,总有退缩的余地,总是收效甚微。可惜的是,大多数人一生中的大部分时间都停在这里,从来没有真正全然投入过任何事。这是对能量的巨大浪费,而且你也到不了你想去的地方,半推半就是走不到的。
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08搞砸的案例课与「不是现在」
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Was 25 years old and I was buying companies, in my dorm room, at Stanford Business School, using a lot of debt, and some credit cards. And it was, and the case had a lot of things go wrong, most things went wrong. So I was so excited to be a case guest, I mean it was something that I dreamed of I thought it was going to be the coolest experience ever. And, so I go in the class, and absolutely bomb [LAUGH] I am horrible. My inner critic is just pounding me, Graham you're 29 I was 29 when I taught it, you haven't really done anything.
当时我25岁,在斯坦福商学院的宿舍里收购公司,用了很多债务,还刷了信用卡。那个案例里出问题的地方非常多,几乎什么都出了问题。所以能成为案例嘉宾我特别兴奋,那是我梦寐以求的事,我以为那会是我经历过最酷的事情。结果我走进教室,彻底搞砸了(笑),我表现得糟透了。我内心的批评者疯狂敲打我:格雷厄姆,你才29岁——我上那门课时29岁——你其实什么都还没做出来。
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19:48
You don't really have anything to teach these students, look at the guests who came before you. They're way more accomplished than you and I was horrible, I was in my head the whole time. And just so this isn't false humility, I was 29 and I had friends of mine that were in the class. And so the two days after I teach, the professor does a recap of the case, and one of the takeaways from the Graham Weaver case was, you don't need to have charisma or be articulate to start a couple. >> [LAUGH] >> True story, so I got that going for me., at least we taught the students that so, which is true, by the way.
你根本没什么可以教这些学生的,你看看在你之前来过的那些嘉宾,他们比你有成就多了。我表现得很糟,全程都困在自己脑子里。为了证明这不是假谦虚:我29岁,班上有几个我的朋友。我讲完两天后,教授会带大家复盘这个案例,而从「格雷厄姆·韦弗案例」里总结出的要点之一是:你不需要有魅力、也不需要口齿伶俐,也能创业。>>(笑)>> 真事儿。所以我起码还有这一点可取之处,至少我们教会了学生这个——顺便说一句,这话确实是真的。
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But I was devastated, I mean my inner critic was Graham, come back in 30 years when you've actually done something. When you have something to say, and this is a really common thing that our inner critic says. It has many tricks it uses and one of those is to utter to you the two most dangerous words that you're going to to hear that you're going to to say. In 22 years of being a case guest or lecturer, no student has ever said to me, Graham, you know what? I have this dream I'm really excited about but I just give up, I'm not going to to do it.
但我当时很崩溃。我内心的批评者说:格雷厄姆,等你30年后真做出点什么了再回来吧,等你真有话可说了再来。而这是我们内心批评者非常常说的一句话。它有很多套路,其中之一就是对你说出那两个最危险的字,那是你会听到、也会自己说出口的两个字。在我当案例嘉宾和讲师的22年里,从来没有学生对我说过:格雷厄姆,你知道吗?我有一个特别兴奋的梦想,但我放弃了,我不打算去做了。
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21:12
No students ever said that, instead, they say, not now, and that's what my inner critic said. It didn't say you're never going to to teach, it said go get 20 years of experience. Go figure it all out, go make sure until everything's perfect, and you're ready and everything's going to to be just right, and then you go do it. That's what my inner critic said, this is just fear in another form, that's all that is so. So that would have been the end of it for me, the inner critic would have won, but for, a student named Sarah, I'll call her Sarah.
从来没有学生这么说过。他们说的是「现在还不行」。我内心的批评者当时说的也是这个。它没说你永远都别想教书,它说的是:去积累20年经验吧。去把一切都想明白,等到万事俱备、你准备好了、所有条件都刚刚好,再去做。这就是我内心批评者说的话。这不过是恐惧换了个形式,仅此而已。所以本来这事就该到此为止了,内心的批评者赢了——如果不是因为一个学生的话,她叫萨拉,就叫她萨拉吧。
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09Sarah 的故事:把恐惧写下来
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She called me and she said hey Graham I, enjoyed your case, I was well, you were the one person that did. So thanks for, and she said but, the thing I wanted to talk to you she didn't want to to talk about how to build a business or hire, or fire, or investing, or anything like that. She said, I want to to hear, how did you overcome your fear of failure? You started this thing when you're 25, how did you actually get the confidence to do that? So I actually had a lot to tell her on that because, I did have to overcome my fear of failure, so I said ok Sarah let's do this.
她打电话给我说:嘿,格雷厄姆,我很喜欢你那个案例。我心想,好吧,你是唯一一个喜欢的人,那谢谢了。她说,但我想跟你聊的是——她不想聊怎么做生意、怎么招人、怎么裁人、怎么投资之类的。她说,我想听的是,你是怎么克服你对失败的恐惧的?你25岁就开始做这件事,你到底是怎么建立起那份信心的?这个我还真有很多可以跟她讲的,因为我确实必须克服对失败的恐惧。所以我说,好,萨拉,我们这么办。
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Why don't you write down everything you fear? Because your fears have the most power over you, when they're in the recesses of your subconscious mind. That's when your fears are most dangerous, that's where they can control you. So the reason we do limiting beliefs in classes we got to get that out, of our head out of our subconscious and put it down on paper. So we did that, with Sarah, we looked at all the fears we walk through each one. And we just made we stripped those fears of their power, and she felt a lot better and she felt a lot more confident.
你把你所有害怕的事情都写下来好不好?因为当你的恐惧藏在潜意识的角落里时,它对你的控制力是最强的。那才是恐惧最危险的时候,那时候它能操控你。所以我们在课上做「限制性信念」这个练习,就是要把它从脑子里、从潜意识里拽出来,写到纸上。我们就跟萨拉这么做了,我们把所有恐惧列出来,一条一条过。我们就这样剥掉了这些恐惧的力量,她感觉好多了,也自信多了。
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And then I said well Sarah, tell me a little bit about your thing you're trying to do. You're excited about this whatever and then she just lit up, and she said, I'm so excited about this. I'm going to go all in, I'm going to do this with every ounce of my my soul. And, so most of us say I'll start living when, and we say, when I'll start living when I pay off my loans I get more experienced. I have confidence I'm ready, I know I'll succeed, my parents are having bosses me I moved to New City, my plan my way to get married.
然后我说,萨拉,跟我讲讲你想做的事情吧。你对这件事很兴奋对吧。然后她整个人一下子就亮起来了,她说,我对这件事太兴奋了,我要全力以赴,我要用我灵魂的每一分力气去做这件事。而我们大多数人会说:等到某某时候我再开始好好生活。我们说,等我还完贷款、等我经验更足一点、等我有了信心、等我准备好了、等我确定自己会成功、等我父母不再管我、等我搬到新城市、等我按计划结了婚。
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23:13
I have a visa, I'm an RJ Miller scholar, I pay off my mortgage. I have kids, my kids are older my kids are grown up, I've heard every single one, well not the RJ one, but every other one of these. I've actually heard people say in my coaching classes, this is what I'm going to to start. This is when I'm going to to get going when one of these things happens, and you know what? Then there's always a new thing, right? It never you never really get there, it's and then they say, sometime in the future later, not now, which will turn into never.
等我拿到签证、等我拿到某某奖学金、等我还完房贷、等我有了孩子、等我孩子大一点、等我孩子长大成人。这些说法我全都听过——好吧,某某奖学金那个没听过,但其他的每一条我都听过。我在教练课上真的听人这么说:这就是我打算开始的时机,等这些事情当中的某一件发生了,我就动起来。可你知道吗?然后总会冒出新的一件事,对吧?永远到不了那一天。然后他们就说,以后吧、晚点吧、现在还不行——而这最终会变成永远不做。
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That's the path that we take, so anyway going back to Sarah, I said, Sarah said, I am so excited about this. I'm going to to do this, I have tremendous energy this, I'm all in, I'm going to to go as long as this takes. This is what she said, and I said so Sarah let me get this straight. Fired up, you have energy all in as long as it takes. I said, what's the decision then? I don't understand, what's the problem? And about a month later, she sent me a note saying she decided to start a company, she just raised her seed round.
这就是我们大多数人走的路。回到萨拉这边。我说——她说,我对这件事太兴奋了,我要去做,我为它有着巨大的能量,我要全力以赴,需要多久我就做多久。这是她的原话。我说,萨拉,让我理一理:你充满干劲,你有能量,你全力以赴,需要多久做多久。那我说,还有什么可决定的呢?我不明白,问题在哪儿?大约一个月后,她给我发来消息,说她决定创业了,而且刚刚拿到了种子轮融资。
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24:15
As would happen many, many times throughout my teaching, as I gave advice to a student, I realized I was really giving advice to myself. And so I said, this was also true for me about teaching. And so I decided I was going to go all in as long as it took and throw all my energy into this. So, the next time that there was a case about Graham Weaver [LAUGH] at Stanford, there's this five minute part at the end of the class where the professor asked the guests if you have any advice for the students?
就像我教书生涯中一次又一次发生的那样,当我在给学生提建议的时候,我意识到我其实是在给自己提建议。所以我说,这对我自己在教书这件事上同样成立。于是我决定全力以赴,需要多久我就做多久,把我全部的能量投进去。所以下一次斯坦福再讲到关于格雷厄姆·韦弗的案例时(笑)——课程最后有大概五分钟,教授会问嘉宾有没有什么建议想给学生。
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And I was going to write this thing on overcoming your fear of failure. Without hyperbole, I spent 60 hours on this little five minute thing at the end of the case, which no one really pays attention to. But I was like, all in, and then sure enough, a lot of students started reaching out. I started coaching them to help them overcome their fear of failure, the case then got taught one time a year then three, then five, then seven. Then I started doing some lectures and panels and more students and then I eventually, the very class that I bombed when I first started is the class that I now teach.
我打算讲一讲怎么克服对失败的恐惧。毫不夸张地说,为了课堂最后那短短五分钟——一个其实没人怎么在意的环节——我准备了60个小时。但我就是全力以赴。然后果然,很多学生开始来找我。我开始辅导他们,帮他们克服对失败的恐惧。这个案例从一年讲一次,变成三次、五次、七次。后来我开始做一些讲座和圆桌,学生越来越多,最后,当年我第一次上台就搞砸的那门课,正是我现在教的这门课。
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10倦怠来自失调,能量越用越多
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So, you with energy all in as long as it takes is enough. You don't need anything else. There's no other ingredients required, this is it. And you have these already for the things that you're excited about. What happens when you go all in, when I went all in, is my identity shifted. All of a sudden, I'm not on the fence, I'm not wondering if If I should teach, I am a teacher at this point. And this conflict that I'm having between my two voices, it just dissipates because the voice of fear has lost that battle when you're all in and it lays down his sword and kneels.
所以,你带着能量、全力以赴、需要多久就做多久,这就够了。你不需要别的东西。没有其他必要的配料,就这些。而对于那些让你兴奋的事情,这些你本来就已经具备了。当你全力以赴时——当我全力以赴时——发生的事情是,我的身份认同变了。突然之间,我不再骑墙观望,不再纠结自己该不该去教书,我就是一个老师。而我内心两个声音之间的那场冲突,就这么消散了,因为当你全力以赴时,恐惧的声音就输掉了那场战争,它放下剑,跪了下来。
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25:55
And because you're living in harmony with your second voice, there's just there's just a lot less calm conflict, doesn't mean you won't hear pangs of doubt from your first voice. But the big thing about you're not supposed to do this Is not supposed to be now, that goes away. And so you're not spending energy fighting yourself when you're all in. If you've taken a class from me or been in a lecture, I have more energy teaching now than I even did 22 years ago. People get get this confused, they think that burnout comes from doing something for a long time, that's not true.
因为你活得和你的第二个声音相协调,冲突就少了很多。这不代表你再也听不到第一个声音传来的怀疑刺痛。但那种「你不该做这个」「现在还不该做」的巨大声音,会消失。所以当你全力以赴时,你不会再把能量耗在跟自己较劲上。如果你上过我的课或听过我的讲座你会发现,我现在教书的能量比22年前还要足。人们常常搞混,他们以为倦怠来自于把一件事做了很久,其实不是。
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26:25
Burnout comes from friction, stress and tension, it comes from you being out of alignment. If I stayed in that first job for even three more years I would have been burned out. 22 years of doing the thing that your heart once and I have more energy, energy is not an exhaustible resource like willpower, or endurance or fossil fuels. Energy is abundant, it's like love. The more that you tap into it, the more you have and the more you give it away the more you get back. And so energy is abundant. Going back to you, I would say, you are the person, this is the formula for starting any journey that you want to start.
倦怠来自摩擦、压力和紧绷,来自你和自己不对齐。如果我在第一份工作里再多待三年,我早就倦怠了。做了22年你内心真正渴望的事情,我的能量反而更足了。能量不像意志力、耐力或者化石燃料那样是会耗尽的资源。能量是充沛的,它像爱一样:你越是去汲取它,你拥有的就越多;你越是把它给出去,回到你身上的就越多。所以能量是充沛的。回到你们身上,我想说,你就是那个人——这就是开启任何你想开启的旅程的公式。
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27:08
You're the person who earned the seat that you're sitting in. Your drive, your motivation, your persistence, your willpower, and your character is enough that you get to transport that on the next journey that you go on. And you forget that sometimes it's a new journey, but you get to bring you and you excited about something going all in as long as it takes is not just enough but this is the most powerful force that there is. I started my firm when I was 25. I had no other skills other than this and when I started teaching at 29, I had no other skills other than this.
你是凭自己挣得现在这个座位的人。你的驱动力、你的动机、你的坚持、你的意志力和你的品格,这些已经足够了,而且你可以把它们带上你接下来要走的旅程。有时候你会忘记这一点,因为那是一段新的旅程,但你可以把「你」带过去。而「你」加上「你对某件事充满热情」加上「全力以赴、需要多久做多久」,这不只是够用,这是世上最强大的力量。我25岁创办了自己的公司,除了这些我没有别的本事;29岁开始教书时,除了这些我也没有别的本事。
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27:43
And this is not just enough, it's the most powerful force there is. And this is all that you need to go on the journey that you're going to go on, it's all you need.
这不只是够用,这是世上最强大的力量。这就是你踏上你即将开启的那段旅程所需要的全部,你需要的就这些。
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27:56
If you want to live at full power, three promises. Promise you'll take the nail out of your head along the journey as you get stuck. Promise you'll go toward the energy as you start to feel that energy, you'll move toward it, particularly the thing you would do if you knew you wouldn't fail. And promise you will not utter the words not now that you'll start heading in the direction of your dreams and that you'll go all in and you'll stay unhedged and you'll start that now. Those are the three promises.
如果你想活出全部的力量,请许下三个承诺。承诺你会在旅途中被卡住的时候,把头上那颗钉子拔出来。承诺你会朝着能量走去——当你开始感受到那股能量时,你会朝它靠近,尤其是那件「如果你知道自己不会失败你就会去做」的事。还有,承诺你不会说出「现在还不行」这几个字,承诺你会朝着梦想的方向迈出脚步,会全力以赴、不留后手,而且现在就开始。这就是那三个承诺。
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11空巢、寻意与人生意义
28:30
So, two years ago, my son Chase who's here, [COUGH] he went off to college. And it was like, someone had reached in and ripped my heart out when that happened. I remembered the very first time when Chase was born, I remembered holding him, and I remembered we taught Chase sign language because before he could speak, and he would do this for more. And he wanted, more apple slices, more Cheerios, more books, more everything, and he would just get so excited he'd do this. I remember his very first walk and the joy he had on his face, and I remember teaching him how to ride a bike, throwing a football with him.
那件事发生的时候,就好像有人伸手进来,把我的心生生地扯了出去。我想起 Chase 刚出生的时候,我抱着他的样子,我还记得我们教 Chase 手语,因为在他会说话之前,他想要更多东西时就会做这个动作。他想要更多的苹果片、更多的麦圈、更多的书,更多的一切,他会兴奋得不停地做这个动作。我记得他第一次走路,脸上的那种喜悦,我还记得教他骑自行车、和他一起扔橄榄球。
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29:14
And eventually teaching him how to drive a car, and then I remember him walking away that day and going to his dorm in college and then driving home and his room was empty for the first time ever. And because he no longer, was part of my dear life on a daily basis. And then my son Blake graduated this year, so he's going up and it doesn't get any easier. And so this kind of set in me this extestential crisis, of like, I had this ending of something that was really important to me without a new beginning, and there was this finite nature of life that I think everyone reaches.
后来还教他开车,然后我记得那天他转身离开,去了大学宿舍,我开车回到家,他的房间第一次空了下来。因为他不再是我日常生活中的一部分了。接着我的儿子 Blake 今年也毕业了,他也要走了,这种感觉一点都没变得更容易。于是这在我心里引发了一种存在主义式的危机,就是说,我生命中某件非常重要的事情结束了,却没有一个新的开始,而且还有那种人生有限的感觉,我想每个人都会走到这一步。
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Maybe that's a midlife crisis, I'm not sure. So I went on, I did what all of you would do, I went on a quest for the meaning of life, [LAUGH] which I've been on my whole life, but I intensified it. And I went to the rural cities in Mexico, I went to the jungles of Costa Rica, and I went on meditation retreats. I had a meditation teacher. As you know, I have lots of executive coaches and just did a lot of work. I did a lot of reading and was searching for this, some of my favorite philosophers Jesus, Aristotle, Buddha, Socrates, Alan Watts, read.
也许这就是中年危机吧,我也说不好。所以我就去做了你们所有人都会做的事,我踏上了寻找人生意义的旅程,[笑] 其实我这辈子一直在找,只不过这次我加大了力度。我去了墨西哥的乡村小城,去了哥斯达黎加的丛林,还参加了冥想静修。我有一位冥想老师。你们知道的,我还有很多高管教练,做了很多这方面的功课。我读了很多书,一直在寻找答案,我最喜欢的一些哲人——耶稣、亚里士多德、佛陀、苏格拉底、Alan Watts,我都读过。
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30:25
Did a lot of reading on what they came up with, for the meaning of life which were great, love thy neighbor, serve God, be present and suffering. Seek truth, all these great meanings, so there's clearly not one meaning of life. The meaning of life that I came up with, is that the meaning of life is for you to find your meaning of life, and what I came up with, my answer for the meaning of life is to live your life at full power. And I believe that that power is already inside you right now, and that the way to access that power is through your second voice.
我读了很多,看他们对人生意义给出的答案,都很精彩:爱你的邻人、侍奉上帝、活在当下并接纳苦难。追寻真理,这些伟大的意义,所以显然人生的意义并不只有一个。我想出的人生意义是,人生的意义就是让你自己去找到属于你的人生意义,而我想出的,我对人生意义的答案,就是全力以赴地活出你的人生。我相信那份力量此刻就已经在你体内,而通往那份力量的途径,就是你的第二个声音。
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31:12
And your second voice is not just the path to accessing that power, but it will also show you where to direct it, to have the biggest Impact that you're going to have in this world. That voice will start ruminating on a problem, and it'll start bringing this up, and you'll think about it day in day in and day out, when you have something that's keeping you stuck. That's a sign that you have your nail in your head, and your voice once your second voice wants you to remove that, so make a promise that when that happens, you'll take the nail out of your head.
你的第二个声音不只是通往那份力量的路径,它还会告诉你该把力量用在哪里,让你在这个世界上产生最大的影响力。那个声音会开始反复琢磨某个问题,它会不断把它提出来,你会日日夜夜地想着它,当有什么事让你卡住的时候,就是这样。那就是一个信号,说明你头上扎着一根钉子,而你的第二个声音希望你把它拔掉,所以请你做个承诺,当这种情况发生时,你会把头上的那根钉子拔出来。
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31:43
That voice speaks to you in the language of energy. That's how you know what it's saying. So, go toward that energy and make a promise that you will constantly move in the direction of the thing that gives you energy, particularly the thing you knew you would do if you knew you wouldn't fail. And finally, more than anything, that voice wants you to go all in and wants you to experience yourself at full power. So make a promise that you will not wait, that you will not utter the words not now, but you'll go all in with wherever you are in your life right now.
那个声音用能量的语言跟你说话。你就是这样知道它在说什么的。所以,朝着那份能量走去,并做个承诺:你会不断朝着那件给你能量的事情前进,尤其是那件你明知道如果不会失败就一定会去做的事。最后,最重要的是,那个声音希望你全力投入,希望你体验到全力以赴状态下的自己。所以请做个承诺:你不会等待,你不会说出“现在还不行”这句话,而是从你人生此刻所在的位置全力投入。
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12唯一的决定:听哪个声音
32:16
I used to think that there were millions of decisions that we would make, and that life was really complicated. But now that I've been on this earth for 52 years, I think that I've realized if you want to live at full power and feel the full magnitude of what you can do in this one life that you have. But there's really only one decision, class of 2024 which voice will you listen to? Thank you. >> [APPLAUSE] >> Thank you. >> [APPLAUSE]
我以前以为我们要做的决定有千千万万,人生真的非常复杂。但如今我在这个世上活了52年,我想我已经明白:如果你想活在全力以赴的状态,感受你在这仅有的一生中所能做到的事情的全部分量。其实真正只有一个决定,2024届毕业生们——你要听哪一个声音?谢谢大家。>> [掌声] >> 谢谢。>> [掌声]
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视频总结 · 一句话概括与核心要点

一句话概括

Graham Weaver 在斯坦福商学院 2024 届"最后一课"中提出:人生只有一个真正的决定——听从"恐惧之声"还是"内在真我之声",并给出三个承诺(拔掉头上的钉子、追随能量、现在就全力以赴)作为以"全功率"活出人生的方法。

核心要点

  • 人内心永远存在两种声音的冲突:第一种是数万年进化而来的生存本能——恐惧、怀疑、焦虑、内在批评者,声音很大且住在头脑里;第二种被哲学家称为直觉、灵魂、真我,声音较小,往往通过身体(心口、胸腔、直觉)而非语言显现。恐惧之声会把人引向"过小"的人生,而人能通过内心的失调和张力感觉到这一点。
  • Weaver 的转折点来自一次"逃会跑步":毕业后他选了一份不擅长也不热爱的安稳企业工作,一年后在纳帕的三天公司务虚会上躲进厕所隔间、换上跑步装溜出去跑了两小时;跑步中内在声音清晰告诉他"这不是你该做的",他当场承诺此后要听从这个声音,并以离职开始(附带尴尬结局:赤膊经过公司午餐所在的玻璃餐厅,被全公司围观)。
  • 承诺一:拔掉头上的钉子(解除卡住):源自"It's not about the nail"短片——女主头上插着钉子却拒绝讨论拔钉子本身。钉子分四类:坏习惯、未处理的过往经历、自设的规则/假设、恐惧。举例:一位朋友失眠严重,医生指出她睡前一小时喝 4~5 杯酒是病因,她却称这是"糟糕的主意",转而看了四个医生、囤了一柜子药——把精力用于给钉子"造头盔"而非拔除。
  • 拔钉子难的两个原因:一是没有承认钉子存在,所以第一步是"说出真相"(如"我有酒精问题""我在不该待的关系里"),这已是成功的一半;二是"生活会先变糟"——离职、分手、戒习惯都先经历一段下坡才到达下一个平台。他的结论:你想要的一切都在"先变糟"的另一侧,你此刻最害怕的事正是你该去做的功课。
  • 承诺二:追随能量,而非追随激情:他反对毕业演讲标配的"follow your passion",因为它暗示只有一种激情、28 岁就该知道并干 40 年——Alpine 投资过 500 多位成功创业者,没有一个人走的是这条路。替代方案是追随当下让你有能量的事,因为"能量是灵魂的语言",第二种声音不用文字,而是用兴奋感和全身的反应来表达。
  • "九条命"练习(Nine Lives):想象九个平行人生,第一条是现状(对他而言是企业职位、住湾区、还债),其余八条须满足两条规则——都从今天出发、都是让你早上跳下床的事(他的例子:创始人/CEO、斯坦福教授、出家开悟、拉斯维加斯 DJ、作家/网红)。用法有二:一是从其他人生中把某件事(吉他、运动、写博客、授课)拉进现有人生,点燃整体的火花;二是问"如果确定不会失败,我会选哪一条"——这个问题本身就是让恐惧之声闭嘴,从而找到最珍视的梦想。
  • 承诺三:现在就全力投入,别对冲:引用歌德"未做承诺前,永远有犹豫、退路和无效"。他 29 岁首次作为案例嘉宾讲课惨败(教授两天后总结的收获竟是"创业不需要魅力或口才"),内在批评者说"30 年后有成就再来"。他指出学生从不说"我放弃",而说"不是现在"(not now)——这是恐惧的另一种形态,"以后"最终变成"永远不"。他列举听过的各种"等……我就开始":还清贷款、有经验、有信心、搬城市、拿签证、还清房贷、孩子长大等,永远有下一个条件。
  • Sarah 的案例与"全力投入"的配方:一位学生问他如何克服失败恐惧,他让她写下所有恐惧——恐惧在潜意识里时最有力量,写到纸上就被剥夺了力量。她随后表示"我超级兴奋、要全力以赴、要干多久都行",他反问"那还有什么可决定的?"一个月后她创业并完成种子轮。他意识到这也是对自己的建议,于是为案例课末尾五分钟的"给学生的建议"投入 60 小时准备,此后案例从每年讲 1 次增至 3、5、7 次,最终他成为当年惨败的那门课的授课教授。公式就是:兴奋 + 全力投入 + 干多久都行,不需要其他任何要素。
  • 全力投入会改变身份认同并消除内耗:一旦全力投入,"我是不是该当老师"变成"我就是老师",恐惧之声"放下剑跪下",不再花能量与自己作战。倦怠不来自长期做一件事,而来自摩擦、张力和"不对齐"——他在第一份工作再待三年就会倦怠,而教了 22 年书反而比当初更有能量。能量不像意志力、耐力或化石燃料那样会耗尽,它像爱,越用越多、越给越有。

结论与值得注意的细节

  • 结尾的个人背景:两年前长子 Chase 离家上大学、今年次子 Blake 高中毕业,让 52 岁的他陷入"旧事物结束却无新开始"的存在危机,于是去墨西哥乡村、哥斯达黎加丛林、冥想营,并研读耶稣、亚里士多德、佛陀、苏格拉底、Alan Watts 等对人生意义的回答。他的结论是:人生的意义在于找到你自己的人生意义,而他的答案是"以全功率活出人生"——这份力量已在你体内,入口就是第二种声音,它不仅给你力量,还会指明该把力量投向何处。
  • 三个承诺的对应关系:卡住时(某个问题日夜在脑中盘旋)→拔钉子;感到能量时→朝它走去,尤其是"确定不会失败就会做的事";面对梦想时→不说"不是现在",不对冲,立刻全力投入。
  • 他反复强调"你已经足够":能坐在这个座位上所依靠的驱动力、毅力、意志和品格可以原样带到下一段旅程;他 25 岁创办 Alpine、29 岁开始教书时,除了这些别无技能。
  • 最后的收束:他曾以为人生由几百万个决定构成、极其复杂,活了 52 年后认为其实只有一个决定——你听哪个声音。
核心句型 · 8
1. Everything you want is on the other side of …
“Everything that you want is on the other side of worse, first”
「你想要的一切都在……的另一边」,把障碍重新框定为必经之路。适合论述型演讲或劝勉语境,可替换 fear / discomfort / that hard conversation。
2. It implies that … It implies that …
“It implies that you have only one passion. It implies that you're supposed to know what it is when you're 28”
用连续 implies 句拆解一个流行说法的隐含前提,是反驳老生常谈的利器。仿写时先引出观点,再逐条列出其暗含假设并否定。
3. What would I do if I knew I wouldn't fail?
“What would I do if I knew I wouldn't fail?”
第二类虚拟条件句(if + 过去式,主句 would),用假设剥离恐惧变量。可套用于自我提问:What would you build if money weren't an issue?
4. X is not just A, it's B.
“This is not just enough, it's the most powerful force there is”
递进强调结构,先承认较弱说法,再拔高。注意 there is 作定语从句缩略(the most powerful force [that] there is),书面口语皆可用。
5. … doesn't come from A, it comes from B.
“Burnout comes from friction, stress and tension, it comes from you being out of alignment”
纠正常见误解的句式,先否定直觉归因再给出真实原因。you being out of alignment 是「代词 + 动名词」结构,作 from 的宾语。
6. The more … , the more …
“The more that you tap into it, the more you have and the more you give it away the more you get back”
比较级并列表示正相关,可连续叠加三段。讲者用它论证「能量像爱一样越用越多」,仿写时保持两句结构对称。
7. So let me get this straight. …? What's the decision then?
“Let me get this straight. Fired up, you have energy all in as long as it takes. I said, what's the decision then?”
苏格拉底式追问:先复述对方的话确认,再反问「那还有什么可决定的」,用于 coaching 或说服场景,语气轻松却有力。
8. There's really only one decision: …
“There's really only one decision, class of 2024 which voice will you listen to?”
收尾句式,把复杂问题压缩为唯一选择,制造收束感。适合演讲结尾或文章末段,后接一个短促的问句效果最佳。
词汇精讲 · 92 · 按出现顺序
the goat n. (slang) 0:03
史上最伟大的人(greatest of all time 的缩写),俚语
grinded it out phr. 0:03
硬撑着做完(标准形式为 ground it out),口语
toughed it out phr. 0:03
咬牙坚持下来,熬过去
offsite /ˈɔːfsaɪt/ n. 0:03
(公司)外出集中会议、团建务虚会
brutal /ˈbruːtl/ adj. 0:59
极其难熬的,残酷的(口语中形容折磨人的经历)
hatched /hætʃt/ v. 0:59
(秘密)策划、酝酿(计划)
file out phr. v. 0:59
鱼贯而出,排成队走出去
hide out phr. v. 0:59
躲藏起来
stall /stɔːl/ n. 0:59
(厕所的)隔间
bust out phr. v. 1:33
冲出去,逃出(口语)
bandana /bænˈdænə/ n. 1:33
印花大头巾,扎头的方巾
glorious /ˈɡlɔːriəs/ adj. 1:59
极其美妙的,令人愉快的
runner's high n. 1:59
跑者的欣快感(长跑后因内啡肽释放产生的愉悦状态)
a wave of calm phr. 2:36
一阵平静(感)涌来
gratuitous /ɡrəˈtuːɪtəs/ adj. 3:10
无端的,多余的(此处戏谑指电影里为了煽情而加的训练场景)
catch a glimpse of phr. 3:10
瞥见,一眼看到
drains out of phr. v. 3:41
(能量、血色等)从……流失殆尽
stealthily /ˈstelθɪli/ adv. 4:12
偷偷地,鬼鬼祟祟地
overlooking /ˌoʊvərˈlʊkɪŋ/ v. 4:12
俯瞰,(建筑)朝向……
survival instinct n. 4:47
生存本能
fight or flight n. 5:22
战斗或逃跑反应(面对威胁时的生理应激反应)
inner critic n. 5:22
内心的批评者,自我批判的声音
drowns us out phr. v. 5:58
(声音)盖过、淹没(我们的声音)
dissidence /ˈdɪsɪdəns/ n. 5:58
不和谐、冲突(此处为 dissonance 之口误,指内心失调感)
tap into phr. v. 6:34
接通、利用(能量、资源)
episodically /ˌepɪˈsɑːdɪkli/ adv. 7:13
偶发地,断断续续地
unstuck /ʌnˈstʌk/ adj. 7:13
摆脱困境的,不再卡住的(get unstuck 走出僵局)
compartmentalize /kəmˌpɑːrtˈmentəlaɪz/ v. 8:34
把(情绪、经历)分隔封存起来,不去面对
constraints /kənˈstreɪnts/ n. 9:05
约束,限制
paralyzed /ˈpærəlaɪzd/ adj. 9:05
瘫痪的;(因恐惧)动弹不得的
insomnia /ɪnˈsɑːmniə/ n. 9:37
失眠症
plethora /ˈpleθərə/ n. 10:42
过多,大量(a plethora of)
proceeds to phr. v. 10:42
接着去做(常带讽刺意味)
half of the battle idiom 11:11
成功了一半,最关键的一步
plateau /plæˈtoʊ/ n. 11:11
平台期,停滞期
on the other side of phr. 12:11
在……的另一边;经历……之后才能得到
tapping in phr. v. 12:45
接入、接通(内在声音)
a grind /ɡraɪnd/ n. 13:18
苦差事,枯燥消耗的重复劳动
willpower /ˈwɪlpaʊər/ n. 13:18
意志力
nebulous /ˈnebjələs/ adj. 14:16
模糊的,含糊不清的
intimidating /ɪnˈtɪmɪdeɪtɪŋ/ adj. 14:16
令人望而生畏的
partake in phr. v. 14:46
参与,体验
jump out of bed idiom 15:17
一跃而起(形容对某事迫不及待)
enlightened /ɪnˈlaɪtnd/ adj. 15:43
开悟的,觉悟的
cranking away on phr. v. 16:22
埋头苦干(某事),口语
firing you up phr. v. 16:22
点燃你的热情,让你振奋
infectious /ɪnˈfekʃəs/ adj. 16:53
有感染力的(情绪、热情)
inflame /ɪnˈfleɪm/ v. 16:53
点燃,激起
by definition phr. 17:27
从定义上讲,本质上
hedged /hedʒd/ adj. 18:02
两头下注的,不敢全押的(源自金融对冲)
hesitancy /ˈhezɪtənsi/ n. 18:41
犹豫,迟疑
draw back phr. v. 18:41
退缩,抽身
ineffectiveness /ˌɪnɪˈfektɪvnəs/ n. 18:41
无效,收效甚微
bomb /bɑːm/ v. 19:18
(表演、演讲)彻底搞砸,惨败(口语)
pounding /ˈpaʊndɪŋ/ v. 19:18
猛击,狠狠打击
false humility n. 19:48
假谦虚
articulate /ɑːrˈtɪkjələt/ adj. 19:48
口齿伶俐的,善于表达的
charisma /kəˈrɪzmə/ n. 19:48
个人魅力,感召力
devastated /ˈdevəsteɪtɪd/ adj. 20:32
深受打击的,极度沮丧的
utter /ˈʌtər/ v. 20:32
说出,吐露(词语)
in another form phr. 21:12
以另一种形式(出现)
recesses /ˈriːsesɪz/ n. 22:17
深处,幽深角落(the recesses of the mind)
subconscious /ˌsʌbˈkɑːnʃəs/ adj./n. 22:17
潜意识(的)
limiting beliefs n. 22:17
自我设限的信念
stripped … of their power phr. 22:17
剥夺……的力量(strip A of B)
lit up phr. v. 22:45
(脸上)放光,眼睛一亮
every ounce of phr. 22:45
每一分(力气、灵魂),全部
let me get this straight idiom 23:41
让我理一理/确认一下(你的意思)
seed round n. 23:41
种子轮融资
Without hyperbole /haɪˈpɜːrbəli/ phr. 24:43
毫不夸张地说
sure enough phr. 24:43
果然,不出所料
on the fence idiom 25:15
犹豫不决,骑墙
dissipates /ˈdɪsɪpeɪts/ v. 25:15
消散,消失
lays down his sword idiom 25:15
放下武器,认输
pangs of doubt phr. 25:55
一阵阵的怀疑(pang 指突然的刺痛)
burnout /ˈbɜːrnaʊt/ n. 25:55
倦怠,职业耗竭
friction /ˈfrɪkʃn/ n. 26:25
摩擦;(人际或内心的)冲突
out of alignment phr. 26:25
失调,不一致(与自我/目标不契合)
exhaustible /ɪɡˈzɔːstəbl/ adj. 26:25
可耗尽的
abundant /əˈbʌndənt/ adj. 26:25
充裕的,取之不尽的
persistence /pərˈsɪstəns/ n. 27:08
坚持不懈
unhedged /ʌnˈhedʒd/ adj. 27:56
不留退路的,全押的
ripped my heart out idiom 28:30
撕心裂肺,极度痛苦
extestential crisis n. 29:14
存在主义危机(标准拼写 existential crisis)
finite /ˈfaɪnaɪt/ adj. 29:14
有限的
midlife crisis n. 29:49
中年危机
quest /kwest/ n. 29:49
(长期的)探寻,追寻
meditation retreats n. 29:49
冥想静修营
love thy neighbor phr. 30:25
爱你的邻人(《圣经》古语,thy = your)
ruminating on /ˈruːmɪneɪtɪŋ/ v. 31:12
反复思索,琢磨
day in and day out idiom 31:12
日复一日
magnitude /ˈmæɡnɪtuːd/ n. 32:16
规模,量级;分量
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