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July 30th, 2008 in Featured, Lifestyle
10 Skills You Need to Succeed at Almost Anything
10 SKills You Need to Succeed at Almost Anything
What does it take to succeed? A positive attitude? Well, sure, but that’s hardly enough. The Law of Attraction? The Secret? These ideas might act as spurs to action, but without the action itself, they don’t do much.
Success, however it’s defined, takes action, and taking good and appropriate action takes skills. Some of these skills (not enough, though) are taught in school (not well enough, either), others are taught on the job, and still others we learn from general life experience.
Below is a list of general skills that will help anyone get ahead in practically any field, from running a company to running a gardening club. Of course, there are skills specific to each field as well – but my concern here is with the skills that translate across disciplines, the ones that can be learned by anyone in any position.
1. Public Speaking
The ability to speak clearly, persuasively, and forcefully in front of an audience – whether an audience of 1 or of thousands – is one of the most important skills anyone can develop. People who are effective speakers come across as more comfortable with themselves, more confident, and more attractive to be around. Being able to speak effectively means you can sell anything – products, of course, but also ideas, ideologies, worldviews. And yourself – which means more opportunities for career advancement, bigger clients, or business funding.
2. Writing
Writing well offers many of the same advantages that speaking well offers: good writers are better at selling products, ideas, and themselves than poor writers. Learning to write well involves not just mastery of grammar but the development of the ability to organize one’s thoughts into a coherent form and target it to an audience in the most effective way possible. Given the huge amount of text generated by almost every transaction – from court briefs and legislation running into the thousands of pages to those foot-long receipts you get when you buy gum these days – a person who is a master of the written word can expect doors to open in just about every field.
3. Self-Management
If success depends on effective action, effective action depends on the ability to focus your attention where it is needed most, when it is needed most. Strong organizational skills, effective productivity habits, and a strong sense of discipline are needed to keep yourself on track.
4. Networking
Networking is not only for finding jobs or clients. In an economy dominated by ideas and innovation, networking creates the channel through which ideas flow and in which new ideas are created. A large network, carefully cultivated, ties one into not just a body of people but a body of relationships, and those relationships are more than just the sum of their parts. The interactions those relationships make possible give rise to innovation and creativity – and provide the support to nurture new ideas until they can be realized.
5. Critical Thinking
We are exposed to hundreds, if not thousands, of times more information on a daily basis than our great-grandparents were. Being able to evaluate that information, sort the potentially valuable from the trivial, analyze its relevance and meaning, and relate it to other information is crucial – and woefully under-taught. Good critical thinking skills immediately distinguish you from the mass of people these days.
6. Decision-Making
The bridge that leads from analysis to action is effective decision-making – knowing what to do based on the information available. While not being critical can be dangerous, so too can over-analyzing, or waiting for more information before making a decision. Being able to take in the scene and respond quickly and effectively is what separates the doers from the wannabes.
7. Math
You don’t have to be able to integrate polynomials to be successful. However, the ability to quickly work with figures in your head, to make rough but fairly accurate estimates, and to understand things like compound interest and basic statistics gives you a big lead on most people. All of these skills will help you to analyze data more effectively – and more quickly – and to make better decisions based on it.
8. Research
Nobody can be expected to know everything, or even a tiny fraction of everything. Even within your field, chances are there’s far more that you don’t know than you do know. You don’t have to know everything – but you should be able to quickly and painlessly find out what you need to know. That means learning to use the Internet effectively, learning to use a library, learning to read productively, and learning how to leverage your network of contacts – and what kinds of research are going to work best in any given situation.
9. Relaxation
Stress will not only kill you, it leads to poor decision-making, poor thinking, and poor socialization. So be failing to relax, you knock out at least three of the skills in this list – and really more. Plus, working yourself to death in order to keep up, and not having any time to enjoy the fruits of your work, isn’t really “success”. It’s obsession. Being able to face even the most pressing crises with your wits about you and in the most productive way is possibly the most important thing on this list.
10. Basic Accounting
It is a simple fact in our society that money is necessary. Even the simple pleasures in life, like hugging your child, ultimately need money – or you’re not going to survive to hug for very long. Knowing how to track and record your expenses and income is important just to survive, let alone to thrive. But more than that, the principles of accounting apply more widely to things like tracking the time you spend on a project or determining whether the value of an action outweighs the costs in money, time, and effort. It’s a shame that basic accounting isn’t a required part of the core K-12 curriculum.
What Else?
Surely there are more important skills I’m not thinking of (which is probably why I’m not telling Bill Gates what to do!) – what are they? What have I missed? What lessons have you learned that were key to your successes – and what have you ignored to your peril?
10項使你成功的必備能力
xing_zh
於2008-08-06 16:47:18翻譯 | 已有8837人瀏覽
想知道哪些能力使你成功嗎？本文給你道出部分秘密。來自www.lifewiz.org, 做生活的智者。
Tags:翻譯 | 生活 | 能力
（著）Dustin Wax （譯）Edmond
成功需要什麽？積極的態度？當然，但遠遠不夠。《吸引力法則》？《秘密》？這些方法隻能激勵你去行動，但對行動的效果可能沒有多少影響。
成功需要你去行動，而高效合適的行動需要一些能力。而這些能力一部分在學校中習得，一部分在工作中習得，還有一部分在生活經曆中得到。
下麵列出的各項能力會幫助你在各個領域中，不管是開公司還是創辦園藝俱樂部，取得進步。當然也有些針對特定領域的能力存在，這篇文章我關心的是任何人都可以經過訓練獲得的能力。
1.演講能力 在眾人麵前發表易懂並具有說服力的演講這一重要的能力是可以習得的。一個好的演講者在演講時一般非常從容並十分自信而且他在自己的圈子中往往富有魅力。擁有好口才意味著你可以推銷任何東西，如產品，點子，理念還有世界觀。對你來說也意味著擁有更多的事業提升，爭取大客戶和商業讚助的機會。
2.寫作能力 好文筆有著跟好口才一樣的優勢，文筆好的人跟比文筆差的人比起來更容易推銷出自己的產品，自己的想法還有他們自己。寫作能力好不是指精通語法而是能把自己的想法有條理地組織在一塊而且能向對讀者有效地表達出來。
3.自主能力 如果成功依賴行動的結果，那麽有效的行動依賴隨時隨地都能集中注意力的能力。優秀的組織能力，高效的習慣還有高度的自律性都是成功所需要的素質。
4.人脈 建立人脈不單是謀求份工作或者爭取到更多的客戶。在倡導理念和創新的經濟社會，好的人脈給新理念的出現提供了又一渠道。精心打造的人脈不是把一個人和大量的人聯係起來而是和大量的關係網聯係起來。這些關係網不隻是它的各部分的總和。關係網的相互作用有助於新事物的出現和培養自己的創造力，並且給新理念的出現提供土壤。
5.獨立思考（Critical Thinking） 我們麵對的信息要比先輩們多得多。正確評價信息，篩選有價值信息以及分析各種信息間的聯係和意義的能力非常重要。然而這種能力是無法教授的，必須自己習得。當今社會擁有獨立思考能力的人更易生存。
6.決策能力 做出決策是在分析可行性與采取行動之間的一步。而做出決策就是根據現有的信息知道該做什麽。然而缺乏決策能力是危險的，而過多的去分析信息以及在做決定前等待獲取更多的信息也同樣危險。根據當前情況迅速有效的作出回應是實幹家和空想家之間的區別。
7.數學 你不要以為合並多項式就說明你會數學了。能在大腦中對數字進行粗略的但不乏精度的估計以及理解一些複利和統計的知識會讓你勝人一籌。上麵的這些能力會讓你更快更有效地進行數據分析以便於做出更佳的決策。
8.調研能力 一個人不可能知道所有的事物或者某個事物的各個細小的部分。即使在你自己的領域，你不知道的很有可能的比你知道的還要多。你不必知道所有事，但是你要具備能不費力地找到你想要知道的東西的能力。那麽你要學著有效的使用因特網，學會使用圖書館，學會富有成效的閱讀的方式，並學會如何利用你的人脈並且要學會因地製宜。
9.放鬆 壓力不僅會毀掉你，還會帶來錯誤決策，欠考慮的想法以及低效的社會交流。如果你不會放鬆，那麽你將喪失這個列表裏至少3個能力，實際上可能會更多。另外， 過度的工作使得自己沒時間享受工作成果並不是真正意義上的”成功”。運用你的智慧直麵危機並采用最有效的辦法去化解它們的能力是這10個能力中最重要的一 項。
10.基本的會計知識 現如今的社會裏，錢是必須的。這也是一簡單的事實。甚至你想擁抱自己的孩子這類簡單的樂事最終也需要錢，除非你沒打算要個孩子。別說是想發財，就是對於基本的生存來說，跟蹤記錄你的收支都是一件非常重要的事情。比那更重要的是，會計知識也可以用在記錄一個項目的花費時間或者決定某個行動的價值是否值得你花費的相應的錢，時間和精力去做。基礎會計學沒有設置成必修課程真令人遺憾。
還有其它的嗎？還有其它更多重要的能力我沒想到。它們會是哪些呢？哪些教訓是你學到的對於成功的關鍵要素？還有哪些是你忽視了危險因素？
10 Skills You Need to Succeed at Almost Anything
10 SKills You Need to Succeed at Almost Anything
What does it take to succeed? A positive attitude? Well, sure, but that’s hardly enough. The Law of Attraction? The Secret? These ideas might act as spurs to action, but without the action itself, they don’t do much.
Success, however it’s defined, takes action, and taking good and appropriate action takes skills. Some of these skills (not enough, though) are taught in school (not well enough, either), others are taught on the job, and still others we learn from general life experience.
Below is a list of general skills that will help anyone get ahead in practically any field, from running a company to running a gardening club. Of course, there are skills specific to each field as well – but my concern here is with the skills that translate across disciplines, the ones that can be learned by anyone in any position.
1. Public Speaking
The ability to speak clearly, persuasively, and forcefully in front of an audience – whether an audience of 1 or of thousands – is one of the most important skills anyone can develop. People who are effective speakers come across as more comfortable with themselves, more confident, and more attractive to be around. Being able to speak effectively means you can sell anything – products, of course, but also ideas, ideologies, worldviews. And yourself – which means more opportunities for career advancement, bigger clients, or business funding.
2. Writing
Writing well offers many of the same advantages that speaking well offers: good writers are better at selling products, ideas, and themselves than poor writers. Learning to write well involves not just mastery of grammar but the development of the ability to organize one’s thoughts into a coherent form and target it to an audience in the most effective way possible. Given the huge amount of text generated by almost every transaction – from court briefs and legislation running into the thousands of pages to those foot-long receipts you get when you buy gum these days – a person who is a master of the written word can expect doors to open in just about every field.
3. Self-Management
If success depends on effective action, effective action depends on the ability to focus your attention where it is needed most, when it is needed most. Strong organizational skills, effective productivity habits, and a strong sense of discipline are needed to keep yourself on track.
4. Networking
Networking is not only for finding jobs or clients. In an economy dominated by ideas and innovation, networking creates the channel through which ideas flow and in which new ideas are created. A large network, carefully cultivated, ties one into not just a body of people but a body of relationships, and those relationships are more than just the sum of their parts. The interactions those relationships make possible give rise to innovation and creativity – and provide the support to nurture new ideas until they can be realized.
5. Critical Thinking
We are exposed to hundreds, if not thousands, of times more information on a daily basis than our great-grandparents were. Being able to evaluate that information, sort the potentially valuable from the trivial, analyze its relevance and meaning, and relate it to other information is crucial – and woefully under-taught. Good critical thinking skills immediately distinguish you from the mass of people these days.
6. Decision-Making
The bridge that leads from analysis to action is effective decision-making – knowing what to do based on the information available. While not being critical can be dangerous, so too can over-analyzing, or waiting for more information before making a decision. Being able to take in the scene and respond quickly and effectively is what separates the doers from the wannabes.
7. Math
You don’t have to be able to integrate polynomials to be successful. However, the ability to quickly work with figures in your head, to make rough but fairly accurate estimates, and to understand things like compound interest and basic statistics gives you a big lead on most people. All of these skills will help you to analyze data more effectively – and more quickly – and to make better decisions based on it.
8. Research
Nobody can be expected to know everything, or even a tiny fraction of everything. Even within your field, chances are there’s far more that you don’t know than you do know. You don’t have to know everything – but you should be able to quickly and painlessly find out what you need to know. That means learning to use the Internet effectively, learning to use a library, learning to read productively, and learning how to leverage your network of contacts – and what kinds of research are going to work best in any given situation.
9. Relaxation
Stress will not only kill you, it leads to poor decision-making, poor thinking, and poor socialization. So be failing to relax, you knock out at least three of the skills in this list – and really more. Plus, working yourself to death in order to keep up, and not having any time to enjoy the fruits of your work, isn’t really “success”. It’s obsession. Being able to face even the most pressing crises with your wits about you and in the most productive way is possibly the most important thing on this list.
10. Basic Accounting
It is a simple fact in our society that money is necessary. Even the simple pleasures in life, like hugging your child, ultimately need money – or you’re not going to survive to hug for very long. Knowing how to track and record your expenses and income is important just to survive, let alone to thrive. But more than that, the principles of accounting apply more widely to things like tracking the time you spend on a project or determining whether the value of an action outweighs the costs in money, time, and effort. It’s a shame that basic accounting isn’t a required part of the core K-12 curriculum.
What Else?
Surely there are more important skills I’m not thinking of (which is probably why I’m not telling Bill Gates what to do!) – what are they? What have I missed? What lessons have you learned that were key to your successes – and what have you ignored to your peril?
10項使你成功的必備能力
xing_zh
於2008-08-06 16:47:18翻譯 | 已有8837人瀏覽
想知道哪些能力使你成功嗎？本文給你道出部分秘密。來自www.lifewiz.org, 做生活的智者。
Tags:翻譯 | 生活 | 能力
（著）Dustin Wax （譯）Edmond
成功需要什麽？積極的態度？當然，但遠遠不夠。《吸引力法則》？《秘密》？這些方法隻能激勵你去行動，但對行動的效果可能沒有多少影響。
成功需要你去行動，而高效合適的行動需要一些能力。而這些能力一部分在學校中習得，一部分在工作中習得，還有一部分在生活經曆中得到。
下麵列出的各項能力會幫助你在各個領域中，不管是開公司還是創辦園藝俱樂部，取得進步。當然也有些針對特定領域的能力存在，這篇文章我關心的是任何人都可以經過訓練獲得的能力。
1.演講能力 在眾人麵前發表易懂並具有說服力的演講這一重要的能力是可以習得的。一個好的演講者在演講時一般非常從容並十分自信而且他在自己的圈子中往往富有魅力。擁有好口才意味著你可以推銷任何東西，如產品，點子，理念還有世界觀。對你來說也意味著擁有更多的事業提升，爭取大客戶和商業讚助的機會。
2.寫作能力 好文筆有著跟好口才一樣的優勢，文筆好的人跟比文筆差的人比起來更容易推銷出自己的產品，自己的想法還有他們自己。寫作能力好不是指精通語法而是能把自己的想法有條理地組織在一塊而且能向對讀者有效地表達出來。
3.自主能力 如果成功依賴行動的結果，那麽有效的行動依賴隨時隨地都能集中注意力的能力。優秀的組織能力，高效的習慣還有高度的自律性都是成功所需要的素質。
4.人脈 建立人脈不單是謀求份工作或者爭取到更多的客戶。在倡導理念和創新的經濟社會，好的人脈給新理念的出現提供了又一渠道。精心打造的人脈不是把一個人和大量的人聯係起來而是和大量的關係網聯係起來。這些關係網不隻是它的各部分的總和。關係網的相互作用有助於新事物的出現和培養自己的創造力，並且給新理念的出現提供土壤。
5.獨立思考（Critical Thinking） 我們麵對的信息要比先輩們多得多。正確評價信息，篩選有價值信息以及分析各種信息間的聯係和意義的能力非常重要。然而這種能力是無法教授的，必須自己習得。當今社會擁有獨立思考能力的人更易生存。
6.決策能力 做出決策是在分析可行性與采取行動之間的一步。而做出決策就是根據現有的信息知道該做什麽。然而缺乏決策能力是危險的，而過多的去分析信息以及在做決定前等待獲取更多的信息也同樣危險。根據當前情況迅速有效的作出回應是實幹家和空想家之間的區別。
7.數學 你不要以為合並多項式就說明你會數學了。能在大腦中對數字進行粗略的但不乏精度的估計以及理解一些複利和統計的知識會讓你勝人一籌。上麵的這些能力會讓你更快更有效地進行數據分析以便於做出更佳的決策。
8.調研能力 一個人不可能知道所有的事物或者某個事物的各個細小的部分。即使在你自己的領域，你不知道的很有可能的比你知道的還要多。你不必知道所有事，但是你要具備能不費力地找到你想要知道的東西的能力。那麽你要學著有效的使用因特網，學會使用圖書館，學會富有成效的閱讀的方式，並學會如何利用你的人脈並且要學會因地製宜。
9.放鬆 壓力不僅會毀掉你，還會帶來錯誤決策，欠考慮的想法以及低效的社會交流。如果你不會放鬆，那麽你將喪失這個列表裏至少3個能力，實際上可能會更多。另外， 過度的工作使得自己沒時間享受工作成果並不是真正意義上的”成功”。運用你的智慧直麵危機並采用最有效的辦法去化解它們的能力是這10個能力中最重要的一 項。
10.基本的會計知識 現如今的社會裏，錢是必須的。這也是一簡單的事實。甚至你想擁抱自己的孩子這類簡單的樂事最終也需要錢，除非你沒打算要個孩子。別說是想發財，就是對於基本的生存來說，跟蹤記錄你的收支都是一件非常重要的事情。比那更重要的是，會計知識也可以用在記錄一個項目的花費時間或者決定某個行動的價值是否值得你花費的相應的錢，時間和精力去做。基礎會計學沒有設置成必修課程真令人遺憾。
還有其它的嗎？還有其它更多重要的能力我沒想到。它們會是哪些呢？哪些教訓是你學到的對於成功的關鍵要素？還有哪些是你忽視了危險因素？
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