《哈佛不曾教给我的三节课》英译汉.docVIP

THREE KEY LESSONS I’VE NEVER LEARNT IN HARVARD Harvard captures the imagination like few other institutions. World leaders from President Barack Obama to U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon are Harvard graduates. Business titans like Jamie Dimon, chief executive of JPMorgan Chase, A.G. Lafley of Procter Gamble and Lloyd Blankfein of Goldman Sachs are too. Ive found the academic training I received at graduate school there invaluable--but I learned even more outside the classroom than in it. Here are three key lessons that helped my career that Harvard didnt teach me in the classroom. I learned the first lesson from my own students. I was a teaching fellow at the time, educating them on Chinas modern history and political system. I probably learned more from them than they from me. Every day students would come to my office overlooking Harvard Yard, and wed usually end up talking about more than just China. Wed discuss their hopes and, more often than not, their fears. They were afraid of not keeping up with their peers and not living up to their parents expectations. They felt this way pretty much across the board. Rich kids and legacies thought theyd gotten there because of their families; minority students worried they were there because of their skin color; brains from humble backgrounds worried they werent rich enough to be there. As their teacher I could see that they all deserved to be there for different reasons. But they themselves couldnt easily gauge how their work measured up against others, and this fed their insecurities. The most brilliant of them, though, didnt let their fears stop them from thriving. They did the opposite. They had plenty of fear in them, but rather than let it dominate them they used it to motivate them to prove those fears wrong. They worked harder to confirm for themselves that they really did belong. Often the most insecure of them were also the most brilliant. Businessmen need to conquer their fears too. They need to know h