328/365 Forget The Straight Line

2013/5/3 DC

Goldman Sachs CEO Lloyd Blankfein在DC召開的Investment Company Institute年會上，給年輕人進入職涯的建議: 

"Look, I started out, I didn't just go to law school, I practiced law. Things ended up a lot different from where I thought they'd be. I would say people should go to a place and do something that's for the next period of their life and not to be so obsessive about where it's going to take you in the longer run. The longer run there's going to be a lot...Not only don't you know the context you're going to face, you don't even know yourself. And so the idea of planning these things and trying to do things on a course and 'Will this be good for me in the long run?'

I think people should take advantage of the fact that in this generation nobody's being drafted into the army. You can have a few years of experimentation that you can be liberated from the need to make sure everything is taking you on some straight line to some place because it turns out not to be a straight line anyway."

"And also don't worry about learning the content of your business because to succeed you have to know content of what you're doing, but you have to be a complete person. I think in the early part of your life you should focus on being a complete person."

"我不僅讀了法學院，還去實際做了法律工作。當我真正投入實地工作時，我發現這跟我想的很不一樣。我覺得年輕人應該先去一個地方，先做一些在生命的下一階段準備要做的事情；不要過于糾結這件事情是否有利于你的將來。未來可能發生很多事情。你不僅無法知道你將面對什么，你甚至不了解自己。

我認為年輕人應該珍惜這樣一個不用被迫參軍的年代。因為你可以有幾年的時間去不斷嘗試，你不必急于確保你做的每件事情都直接引領你走向目標，因為這絕不會是一條直線。"

"另外，不要太過于擔心工作內容的學習。因為要成功，你將不得不學習這些知識。但前提是你必須是一個全面的人。我認為年輕人應該將重點放在如何做一個全面的人上。"