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What's interesting is that it is now 25 years since you got your MBA and as part of your MBA experience, you were asked to write a 25 year plan.
有趣的是現在距離你拿到 MBA 學歷,已經過了二十五年,而在你 MBA 的課堂經驗中,你必須寫一個二十五年的計畫。
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I was. How did that work out for you?
沒錯。那個計畫最後是怎麼進行的?
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There was a professor, I think his name was Dr. Nailor.
有一個教授,我記得他叫 Dr. Nailor。
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Does that sound right? Tom Nailor.
應該是吧?Tom Nailor。
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Yeah, Tom Nailor.
沒錯,Tom Nailor。
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And, he was a great professor and one of the things that he'd ask us to do was to write a 25 year plan.
而他是一位很棒的教授,他叫我們做的其中一件事是寫一個二十五年的計畫。
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Maybe some of you have had to do this.
也許你們其中一些人必須做這件事。
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And, it was more of a you know more of a personal plan.
而這個,比較像是,你知道的,比較像是一個個人的計畫。
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And normally, I would never remember this, but I was doing a commencement address a few years ago and I was scrambling for some old things, and I found, in a box, this plan.
而一般來說,我應該不會記得這件事情,但我幾年前受邀到畢業典禮致詞,我正在翻找一些舊的東西,我就在一個箱子裡找到了這個計畫。
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And, this plan had turned yellow because of age, but I looked at it and I would say it was reasonably accurate for all of 18 to 24 months, after it was written.
這份計畫已經因為年久而泛黃了,但當我翻閱它時,我會說自寫好它後的十八到二十四個月,它都相當地準確。
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And, it was nothing, there was nothing, a single thing on it that was accurate post that, not a single thing.
而沒有任何一件事,沒有任何一件事,上面沒有一件事在那之後是準確的,一件都沒有。
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Zero!
完全沒有!
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And, I think that the lesson there is, at least for me, maybe you guys will be different, maybe you have much more insight into what you may be doing.
我想我學到的,至少對我而言,也許你們會有不一樣的想法,也許你對你的未來有更多的洞見。
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But for me the journey was not predictable at all.
但對我來說,這趟旅程一點都無法預期。
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And, it goes sort of back to the Lincoln quote, is the only thing I believe you can do is prepare.
而這一切都回到了林肯的名言,就是我相信你唯一可以做的就是預作準備。
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And, the world is gonna change many times.
世界會一直改變。
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The environment is gonna change many times.
環境會一直變動。
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The companies that you work for are going to ebb and flow, you may wind up in the same company, you may not.
你任職的公司會有興衰,你最後可能會待在一樣的公司,也可能不會。
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You may wind up in the same career, you may not.
你最後可能會在同一個職涯領域,也可能不會。
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You may wind up with the spouse you're married to now, you may not.
你最後可能還會和你現在結婚的配偶在一起,也可能不會。
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There are lots of things in your life.
你的人生會經歷許多事。
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I hope that one doesn't change.
我希望剛剛那個不會改變。
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But, there's lots of things that change, and I think that you sort of have to have a north star.
但是有很多事情會改變,我覺得你應該要有一顆北極星。
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And, stay with the north star and let those things go on about you, and sort of find your, find your journey.
跟著那顆北極星,讓那些事跟隨你,然後試著去找到你的,找到你的旅程。