The 2 Mental Shifts Highly Successful People Make (下)

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Shift 2: The Power of Context（环境）

Part One

[1] (精读)

"Synergy（协作） is what happens when one plus one equals ten or a hundred or even a thousand! It's the profound（深远的） result when two or more respectful human beings determine to go beyond their preconceived（预想的；事先形成的） ideas to meet a great challenge." - Stephen R. Covey
与他人合作，才能迎接更大的挑战。
In the book, Ego（自我） is the Enemy，Ryan Holiday explains that many successful people "stop being a student." When you're a student, you actively seek to（力图做某事） have your paradigm shattered（打碎）. You want to be wrong and you want feedback. You care more about learning than what other people think about you.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. 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（上升） Stephen R. Covey explains in The 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."
金词们：
synergy ['sɪnədʒɪ] n. 协作
ego ['iːgəʊ; 'e-] n.自我
seek to do sth 力图做某事
shatter ['ʃætə] vt. 打碎
金句们：
When you're a student, you actively seek 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.
当你保持学生心态时，你时刻准备改变自己的思路，你不怕犯错，你想听到不同意见。相对于别人怎么看你，你更关注自己真正学到了什么。
大乐乐有话说：在大乐乐讲的第一本原版书《Succeed：How we can reach our goals》中，这种时刻保持学习心态的人有一个名字：get-better型人。进取型人格。

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The habits Covey outlines to experience this private victory are:
- Be proactive 积极进取
- Begin with the end in mind 目标明确
- Put first things first 分清轻重缓急
Once you master these habits, you will go from dependence（依赖） on others to a high state of independence（独立） - the first mental shift. However, three additional habits of Covey's book are intended to take you beyond independence to a state of interdependence（互相依赖）, where you experience synergistic（协作性的） relationships in all areas of your life. What I'm calling the second mental shift Covey calls "Public Victory."
The habits Covey outlines to experience this public victory are:
- Think win-win 双赢思考
- Seek first to understand… then to be understood 先理解他人，再求被他人理解
- Synergize 协作
金词们：
proactive [prəʊ'æktɪv] adj. 积极主动的
dependence [dɪ'pend(ə)ns] n.依赖
independence [ɪndɪ'pend(ə)ns] n. 独立
interdependence[,ɪntədɪ'pendəns] n. 互相依赖
synergize ['sɪnədʒaɪz] vt. 协作

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I know several "successful" people who do not demonstrate 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（差的；次一级的）. They aren't team-players. They aren't teachable. They don't set up relationships that are mutually beneficial（互惠互利的）. Indeed, they care very little about other people.
It's been said that the 21st century is the time（时代） of the woman, because naturally, women demonstrate many of the characteristics（特征） needed to thrive（繁荣；兴旺） in today's global and team-driven（团队导向的）economy. On average, women are far better team players and collaborators. Men, on the other hand, are prone to（有…的倾向） ego and self-absorption（自我陶醉）. Men more often want the glory while women simply want to contribute and grow.
金词们：
inferior [ɪn'fɪərɪə] adj. 差的；次一级的
mutually [ˈmjuːtʃuəli] adv. 相互地
beneficial [benɪ'fɪʃ(ə)l] adj. 有益的
thrive [θraɪv] vi. 繁荣；兴旺
collaborator [kə'læbəreɪtə] n 合作者
be prone to 有…的倾向（后面搭配名词）
self-absorption ['selfəb'sɔ:pʃən] n. 聚精会神；专心致志
金句们：
Rather than seeking to understand, they only seek to be understood. Rather than synergizing, they only do things "their way," seeing others as inferior.
他们只希望别人理解他们，而不愿意为他人着想；他们只按照自己的意愿行事，而不愿意和他人协作，因为在他们眼中，他人都是笨蛋。
一点语法：
rather than doing sth
宁可…,也不愿做某事

Part Two

[1]（精读）

The following are the core（核心） components of your mental model after you've experienced the second shift:

10x thinking

"When 10x is your measuring stick（衡量标准）, you immediately see how you can bypass（绕开） what everyone else is doing." - Dan Sullivan
Becoming "successful" requires taking personal responsibility for your life and choices. By nature（本质而言）, it's beyond average, since, to be average is to not take responsibility.
Thinking 10x is much different, though, than simply taking responsibility. It involves a grand vision（远见） wherein others must also be responsible. Moreover, 10x thinking involves far more boldness（大胆） and creativity than simply "being proactive."
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.
When you do this, your strategy immediately shifts.
金词们：
bypass ['baɪpɑːs] vt.绕开
by nature 本质而言
vision ['vɪʒ(ə)n] n.远见
boldness ['bəuldnis] n. 大胆
金句们：
Becoming "successful" requires taking personal responsibility for your life and choices. By nature, it's beyond average, since, to be average is to not take responsibility.
成功意味着你要为你的生活和选择负全责。本质而言，这就意味着超越平凡，因为凡人常常敷衍塞责。
大乐乐有话说：还记得if it is to be，it is up to me吗？嗯，在这里，作者再次呼应了上一课咱们讲得内容。

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In his book, Tools of Titans, Tim Ferriss explains 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?
Of this type of questioning, Ferriss continues:
"For purposes of illustration here, I might reword（复述） [Thiel's question] to: 'What might you do to accomplish（完成；实现） 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（仔细思考；衡量） this and then magically（如魔法般地） accomplish 10 years' worth of dreams in the next few months? No, I don't. But I do expect that the question will productivity（这里应该是productively 有成果地；卓有成效地） break your mind, like a butterfly shattering a chrysalis（蝶蛹） to emerge with new capabilities（能力）. 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（使…脱落） artificial constraints, like shedding a skin, to realize that you had the ability to renegotiate your reality all along."
If you want to think bigger, ask better (and more absurd) questions.I once asked myself how I could write a blog post that would get one million social shares. The product was a 1[0,000 word list] unlike anything I'd ever seen to that point.These types of questions lead to creative breakthroughs and different avenues of thought. They also organically facilitate a very different strategic approach.
金词们：
reword [riː'wɜːd] vt.复述
accomplish [ə'kʌmplɪʃ; ə'kɒm-] vt.完成；实现
ponder ['pɒndə] vt.仔细思考；衡量
magically ['mædʒikli] adv. 如魔法般地
shed [ʃed] vt.使...脱落
renegotiate [riːnɪ'gəʊʃɪeɪt] vt.重新谈判；重新协商
金句们：
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.
你固有的所谓正常体系，你遵循的社会规则，你的标准，当你问出上述问题时，它们就都不起作用了。你得像动物蜕皮一样蜕去那些人为的限制，你要意识到自己一直都有能力改变自己的生活。

大乐乐有话说：所谓renegotiate不就是讨价还价吗？有的人会逆来顺受，全盘接受生活抛来的任何东西，认为自己没有议价能力。其实，你越是明白自己要什么，越是自律，坚持得越久，和生活的议价能力就越强。反之亦然。

Part Three

What absurd question will break you out of your limiting（局限的） and traditional（传统的） ways of thinking?

[1]（精读）

Delegate（授权）

"Delegate everything but genius."* - *Dan Sullivan
When you begin thinking 10x, you realize you can't do it all on your own. You need to be far more focused（聚精会神的）. Thus, it becomes essential to build a team around you immediately. Your network is your networth（净值）.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. 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（传统意义上）. It could mean that you exchange favors（互相帮助）. Or that you have win-win relationships - such as the one I have with my literary agent, my editor, and friends who help. These are mutually beneficial relationships wherein you focus on your superpower and have those around you who focus on theirs'.
金词们：
delegate [ˈdɛlɪˌɡeɪt; -ɡɪt; (for v.,) ˈdɛlɪˌɡeɪt] vt.委派...为代表
networth 净值
exchange favors 互相帮助
金句们：
Your network is your networth.The sooner you build a team around you, the faster, wider, and deeper will be your results.
你的人脉就是你的净值。越早打造团队，你的成就就来得更快、影响更广，作用更深。
一点语法：
The sooner…, the faster, wider, and deeper ...
The sooner, the better. 越快越好。
The more, the merrier. 越多越好

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Collaboration（合作） and synergy in all areas of life

"Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much." - Helen Keller
Take a minute to examine your life.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. As Michael Jordan explains, "Talent（才能；天才） wins games, but teamwork and intelligence wins championships（冠军）."
In a Darwinian（达尔文主义的）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.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."
Of course, if it is a true collaboration, you'll need to bring much to the table yourself. This isn't about [social loafing]. It's about intensive growth, and must therefore, be both win-win and synergistic.
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（效率） of the team and develop its unity（团结）." Another billionaire, Richard Branson, similarly stated, "Build your own business team. Survival in business requires a synergy of skills."
In everything you do, there should be collaborative and synergistic elements. Of course, there is work which is your work. However, that work should be embedded within a group of others and toward something much bigger.
Again, a huge difference from the first shift to the second is that you 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.
These others could be customers, fans, family, a workout partner. Whatever. The point is, you are responsible for other people's success. Moreover, in many ways, their success is your success. Their growth and development is just as satisfying as your own - sometimes more.
金词们：
talent ['tælənt] n. 才能；天才
championship ['tʃæmpɪənʃɪp] n.冠军
Darwinian [dɑ:'winiən] adj.达尔文主义者的
social loafing 社会惰化
intensive growth 集中成长
efficiency [ɪ'fɪʃ(ə)nsɪ] n. 效率
unity [ˈjuːnəti] n.团结
embedded [ɪm'bedɪd] adj.嵌入式的；植入的
金句们：
Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence wins championships.
天赋帮你赢得比赛，但是团队合作和智慧才能帮你拿到冠军。
If you want to become a better person, date or marry someone "up."
如果你想成为更好的自己，在找伴侣的时候，一定要注意精神上的门当户对。
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.
当每个人都致力于帮助他人取得成功时，团队的协同度暴增，此时团队才能最高效。理想状态下，每个人都应该向团队贡献不同的技能以提升团队效率，促进组织团结。

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Rest and recovery

"Working with a 10x goal and game-plan requires that your brain is relaxed, rested, and rejuvenated（更生的；恢复活力的）." - Dan Sullivan
Deep, creative, and strategic thinking and work is exhausting（使筋疲力尽的）. 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.
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（靶心）, consistently.
Precision（精度）.
Quality.
Conservation（保护；保存）, rest, and recovery（恢复）, then, becoming increasingly essential. 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].
Similarly, to build mass and strength, [many people need to workout less]*, *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.
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 from properly 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.
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.
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（接近）, 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 can *engage in life and work! *This is absolutely essential if you want to truly make the second shift.
金词们；
rejuvenated [ri'dʒu:vəneitid] adj. 更生的；恢复活力的
exhausting [ɪg'zɔːstɪŋ; eg-] adj.使筋疲力尽的
bulls-eye ['bulzai] n. 靶心
precision [prɪ'sɪʒ(ə)n] n.精度
conservation [kɒnsə'veɪʃ(ə)n] n.保护；保存
recovery [rɪ'kʌv(ə)rɪ] n.恢复
proximity [prɒk'sɪmɪtɪ] n.接近

Part Four

Conclusion

These mental shifts are incredible. Wherever you are on your own journey, you can intensify and deepen your understanding of the principles at these various levels. Never stop being a student. Never stop learning. Shatter whatever paradigm you have and get a new one. When you change the way you see things, the things you see change.
金句们；
Never stop being a student. Never stop learning. Shatter whatever paradigm you have and get a new one. When you change the way you see things, the things you see change.
永远做一名学生，永远不要停止学习。打碎成见，获取新知。改变你看事物的方式，事物也随之改变。

附录：
乐乐讲的这篇文章分为上下两个部分：第一部分在3月6日（Day 65），第二部分在3月31日（Day 90）。这两篇文章中提到了一些很棒的书籍，有兴趣的同学可以找来慢慢阅读：

Essentialism

Gilbert's TED talk

The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People

Tribal Leadership

Ego is the Enemy

Tools of Titans

有的同学会问到读中文版还是读英文版的问题，大乐乐的意见是：
读原版
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重要的事情说三遍！！！

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