20 - 停止浪费时间 | 掌握成功与财富的秘诀

欢迎收听《影响力播客》。我是埃迪·威尔逊，将带领你们看见他人所不能见，在他人失败处创造机遇，推动你们在空白处建立帝国。让我们携手启程，共同改变世界。今天节目要探讨的是传统意义上的‘工作’。若这个词让你感到刺耳，对我而言，它意味着进步。

Welcome to the Impact Podcast. I'm Eddie Wilson, here to help you visualize what others cannot see, create opportunities where others have failed, and push you to build empires where once there was empty space. Let's embark on this journey together and make a difference in this world. Today on the podcast, we are going to talk about good old fashioned work. And if that feels like a dirty word to you, to me, what it feels like is progress.

它值得我投入时间和生命。首先分享我对工作的理解：当今世代甚至我这一代人，常将其视为消极概念。但工作本质只是能量的交换——用能量换取某物。有趣的是，当今社会和商业往往只嘉奖‘想法’。

It feels like something worth giving my time and my life to. Let me give you just some thoughts to start this off about work. Because I think it's one of those things that this generation and maybe even my generation looks at is almost a negative a negative concept. And work by definition is just the exchange of energy, the exchange of energy for something. So what's interesting to me is that I think society today, and I think that even oftentimes business today, rewards the idea.

这种嘉奖如同对潜在可能的短期认可。人们获得短暂肯定后，却不愿投入时间精力去理解真正的认可——将想法付诸实践直至完成。亨利·福特有句名言：‘你无法靠将要去做的事建立声誉’。你遇见过多少终日把‘我即将行动’挂在嘴边的人？

It's like it's like it when they reward the idea, it's like a short term validation of something that potentially could exist. And so people get the short term validation, but they never will actually put in the time, the effort, the energy to actually understand what true validation is, which is the completion of something that you had an idea on but brought it to life. I love the Henry Ford quote that says, you can't build a reputation on what you are going to do. How many people in your life have you come in contact with that are always going to do something? I'm about to do something.

‘我要做这个’‘我要做那个’。我钟爱这句名言，因为它指出空谈无法赢得信誉。事实上，若你的声誉建立在空谈者身上，反而会让实干者不愿与你合作。真正的困难不在于设定宏伟目标。

I'm going to do this. I'm going to do that. And I love the Henry Ford quote because he says you can't build a reputation on that. As a matter of fact, if you are building a reputation on somebody who is always going to do something, it's a reputation that's gonna prevent people that actually have substance from actually doing business or wanting to work with you. The hard thing isn't about setting our big hairy audacious goals.

也不在于寻找新创意，而在于当你未能实现目标时不得不裁员——这才是工作的本质：能量交换。工作不是光鲜概念，却应最鼓舞人心。因为若理解其基本原理，工作就是为达成结果而付出的能量。每一刻的投入都是向终极目标迈进的步伐。

The hard thing isn't about finding the next good idea. The hard thing is is when you actually have to lay people off because you missed the big hairy audacious goal or you didn't actually accomplish what it is that it takes because that is the essence of work, energy exchange. Work is not a sexy idea, but it should be the most encouraging one. Because if you understand the basic concepts of work, work is exchanging energy towards an end result. So every moment, every ounce of energy that's actually given into work is actually just a step towards the desire that you have in the end.

重点不在于设定BHAG目标，不在于空谈计划，也不在于炫酷创意，而在于每日向目标踏实前进。停止追逐想法的短期认可吧。

So it's not about setting a BHAG goal. It's not about talking about what you're going to do. And it's not about this sexy idea that you have. It's about taking one more step every single day towards the end result. Stop chasing the short term validation of your ideas.

工作即成就，而作为成就的工作才是更大的奖赏。它是能量的消耗，纯粹的能量交换。但人们常误解其本质：有时工作是在健身房独自挥汗。

Work is an accomplishment and work as an accomplishment is a far greater reward. It's energy expended. Work is simply the exchange of energy. However, I think that oftentimes it's misunderstood as to what work is. Sometimes work is being in the gym alone.

是无人见证的孤身坚持；有时是空荡办公室里的独处时光；有时是被你丢弃的草稿——那也是工作，对吧？

It's being there by yourself. Sometimes it's being in the office alone when no one else is there to see it or capture it. Sometimes it's, it's the rough draft that you threw away. Also work. Right?

能量的消耗。有时是被弃置的草图，是永远不见天日的无数版本，却是通往真正成就的跬步。工作至关重要，且绝非空想。既然工作是能量消耗，我该将能量投向何处？

Energy expended. Sometimes it's the discarded drawing. It's every rendition that sits on a shelf that's actually never seen the light of day but is one more baby step towards a true accomplishment. Work is important and work is not an idea. So if work is energy expended, then what should I be giving my energy to?

对吧？因为我们的能量有限，时间有限。虽然有些人看似拥有无限能量，有些人储备更丰沛。

Right? Because we have a finite amount of energy. We have a finite amount of time and we have a finite amount of energy. Now seemingly some people have unlimited amounts of it. Some people have a greater resource of it.

但最终，我们拥有的时间是有限的，真正有足够精力去投入以取得某种成就的时间更是有限。如果你听过一段时间的播客，就知道我经常引用马尔科姆·格拉德威尔的一万小时理论。要达到精通或在所从事领域取得某种成就，需要一万小时。他说，根据研究，如果你想在任何事情上成为专家，就必须投入一万小时。也有人反驳说，真正的精通需要两万小时。

But in the end, we have a finite amount of time that actually has enough energy to exert to have some sort of accomplishment. If you've been a podcast listener for any amount of time, know that I always reference Malcolm Gladwell's concept of ten thousand hours. Ten thousand hours in order to reach mastery or reach some sort of an accomplished status at whatever you do. If you want to be an expert at anything, he says you have to put ten thousand hours into it based on research. And some people have come back and said, no, in order for true mastery, it's twenty thousand hours.

还有人认为可以走捷径，七千小时就够了。但归根结底，我们能否都同意，正是这些小时的投入才真正造就了精通？什么是精通？精通就是能够真正掌握一项技能或项目，以比他人更快、更高效、更低风险的方式达成目标，对吧？

Some say you you can actually shortcut it and it's seven thousand hours. But in the end, can we all agree that it's the expenditure of those hours that actually creates mastery? What is mastery? Mastery is the ability to actually master or to take a project or take a an end result and get there faster, quicker, with less liability than others. Right?

它实际上是理解成功，以最小阻力迈向成功的步骤，这就是精通。因此，我们必须为精通付出代价。那就是时间，是精力，是消耗的能量。

It's actually understanding success, taking the steps to success with limited resistance, mastery. And so we have to have an exchange for mastery. It's time. It's energy. It's energy expended.

那么我该把精力投向何处？因为我觉得，很多时候我们过于推崇想法本身。我们会肯定别人：啊，这真是个绝妙的主意。但你知道吗，我这辈子听过多少绝妙的主意？

So where do I put my energy at? Because, I think that, oftentimes we elevate the idea. We validate people. Ah, it's a brilliant idea. Well, can I tell you in my lifetime how many brilliant ideas I've heard?

我还能告诉你，我听过多少所谓的绝妙主意最终被证明并不绝妙吗？但我要说的是，数量更庞大的是那些从未被投入过一丝精力的想法。它们最终沉寂在创意的荒原上。所以我们周围充斥着这片创意的荒原，无人曾为其注入过能量。

Can I also tell you how many brilliant ideas I've heard that actually didn't turn out to be a brilliant idea? But I will tell you that far greater is the count. It's a body count, right, of ideas that actually never had had one ounce of energy expended on on whatever it is. And in the end, it lays dormant and kind of the wasteland of all ideas. And so we have this wasteland of ideas out there that, no one has ever given energy to.

因此，尽管一个想法本身可能宏大、惊人，但如果没有一丝能量的投入，它就毫无价值。当你理解这个概念后，对我来说，问题就回到了：我究竟把精力花在哪里？我的能量是否真正投入到了那些重要且有价值的事情上？所以我想回到我愿意投入精力的四件事上。我愿意为之付出能量的四件事。

And so while the idea itself may be grandiose, may be amazing, without an ounce of energy, it truly is worthless. So when you when you grasp that concept, for me, what happens is is it goes back to then where am I actually spending my energy? Is my energy actually being expended on the things that actually count and matter? So I wanna go back to, the four things that I'm willing to give my energy to. The four things that I'm willing to give my energy to.

因为如果我有个好主意，首先要确定的是需要投入何种能量才能将其实现。在我们Collective Influence这样的私募股权公司里，我每天都会听到好点子。我的合伙人安德鲁是个有远见的人，他有时每分钟都能给我惊人的创意。但关键在于，不在于我们能有多少想法，多少是好主意，多少能改变我们正在做的事情的轨迹。

Because if I have a great idea, what I first have to do is determine what type of energy is it going to take in order to bring it to life. In a private equity firm like we have here at Collective Influence, I get good ideas every day. I have a visionary partner, Andrew. He gives me amazing ideas literally by the minute sometimes. But the fact of the matter is, is it's not about how many ideas can we have, how many ideas are great, how many ideas can change the course of what we're doing.

关键在于我们是否有足够的能量投入这个想法，使其真正产生价值？而那些我们正在投入能量的其他想法，是否值得我们所投入的能量？是否应该从中撤出能量？我认为，这才是企业真正的管理困境。我相信这区分了优秀管理者与平庸管理者，将卓越管理者与普通管理者区分开来。

It's do we actually have enough energy to expend into the idea to actually make it have value? And are all the other ideas that are sitting there that we are spending, energy into worth, the energy that we're putting in and should energy be removed from them? Here is the true, I believe, management dilemma inside of a business. I believe this separates a good manager from a poor manager. I think it separates the greatest manager from the most average manager.

那就是在有限时间内，能够判断将这种有限资源投向何处才能产生最大影响的能力。领导力最终应决定我们的能量应该投向哪里。管理者则应管理有多少能量被投入到领导层设定的最终目标上。对吧？就像领导力激励行动发生。

And that is the ability that on task and within a finite amount of time to determine where can I put this finite resource I have in order to make the greatest impact? Now leadership should ultimately qualify where our energy should be spent. Managers should then manage how much energy is then expended on the end goal that's given by leadership. Right? Like leadership inspires the is inspires the action to happen.

管理者随后审视资源，并管理这些资源朝着期望的最终状态前进。追随者则实质上是让事情发生的人。对吧？所以层级是领导者、管理者、追随者。但我要说，这一切都基于能量。

Managers then look at the resources, and they manage those resources towards that desired end state. The followers then essentially make it happen. Right? So leaders are leader, manager, follower. But I will say it all is based on energy.

对吧？因此领导者必须决定，我是否愿意放弃其他想法，以便让能量得以释放？管理者需要评估这将消耗多少能量。而执行工作的追随者则需实际付出能量。以下是我愿意投入能量的四个领域。

Right? And so the leader has to determine, am I willing to give up, other ideas in order for the energy to take place? The manager has to determine how much energy it's gonna take. And the follower, the person doing the work, has to actually expend the energy. So here are the the four areas that I'm willing to give energy towards.

这可能涉及商业领域，也可能是一个全新创意。本质上，它也可以成为生活本身。第一，我愿意为市场调研投入能量。市场调研最终应成为我们是否该做某事的最大制约因素。

This could be in business. This could be a brand new idea. And essentially, it also can become life. So number one, I'm willing to give energy towards market research. Market research should ultimately be the biggest deterrent of whether or not we should or should not do something.

这可行吗？有需求吗？具有合理性吗？我数不清遇到过多少点子，投资过多少创意，最终却发现那其实是个糟糕的主意。

Is this viable? Is it needed? Is there validity to this? Right? I can't tell you how many ideas I've come across and how many ideas I've invested in, to only find out that it was actually a poor idea.

要知道，别人早已捷足先登。要实现它需要耗费的能量远超其实际价值，相对于你能获得的回报而言。所以第一点是市场调研。市场调研极其重要，因为它不仅是标准概念——关键在于验证这个需求是否存在？

You know, somebody else had already beat us to the punch. It it it was gonna take so much more energy to actually make it happen than was it was worth, as far as what you're gonna receive in conjunction to it. So number one, market research. And market research is very, very important because market research isn't just standard concept. Market research is is about the validation of is this needed?

有机会吗？真有实施空间吗？第二点，我会把能量用在制定计划上。顺便说，前两点本就该投入能量。

Is there opportunity? Is there actual space for this to take place? Right? Number two, the second place I'll spend my energy is developing a plan. And by the way, these first two should be should have energy.

如果点子足够好、足够出色、足够惊艳，你就该有充足能量做市场调研，就该有能量制定计划。商业运作有两种模式，李·艾柯卡是第二种模式的倡导者之一。第一种叫「计划-执行」模式。

If the idea is good enough, if the idea is great, if the idea is amazing, you should have enough energy to put on market research. You should have enough energy to develop a plan. Now there are two types of business, out there. And Lee Iacocca was one of the ones that, developed kind of the second concept. And, there's kind of the first one that is called plan and execute.

对吧？你制定计划，设定里程碑，然后沿着路径执行。大多数分析型人才都希望商业或创意能以这种方式落地——先规划，再执行。

Right? So you build a plan, you build the milestones, and you actually execute along that pathway. Right? That's that's how most, analytical people desire for business or ideas to come to life. Build a plan, and then let's execute on that pathway.

这就是「计划-执行」模式，传统商业模型。但李·艾柯卡提出：在快速变化的环境中，「计划-执行」的速度往往太慢。我们必须采取第二种方式——「行动-调整」模式。

That's plan and execute. Plan and execute. That's a traditional business model. Lee Iacocca actually came out and he said, the speed at which we plan and execute oftentimes is too slow. In an environment that's moving fast or quickly, we have to take the second approach, which is act and adjust, act and adjust.

即实际采取行动，消耗能量，并根据结果不断调整。这是两者中效率较低的方式——「计划-执行」更高效。但「行动-调整」的速度优势才是关键。想想大多数创业者，他们真的会坐下来制定完整商业计划，按计划执行，让90%行动都预先确定吗？

So it's actually taking action, expending energy, and adjusting to whatever the result is. Right? Now it's the least efficient out of the two, plan and execute, more efficient. The speed oftentimes of act and adjust is really the reason why most, if you think about it, think about most entrepreneurs. Do they actually sit down and build a true business plan, execute on the business plan, and 90% of all of their actions are already predetermined.

答案是否定的。多数创业者是直接跳下飞机，在下坠过程中才试图组装降落伞。他们挣扎求生——这就是「行动-调整」模式。

The answer is no. Most entrepreneurs jump out, and they jump out of the airplane, and they're trying to figure out how to put the parachute on, you know, on the way down. Right? And they're trying to survive. That's the act and adjust model.

正如李·艾柯卡在克莱斯勒所说的，我们没有足够的资金。我们没有足够的缓冲时间去规划和执行。我们必须跟上通用的步伐，必须跟上别克，必须跟上奥兹莫比尔——那个时代所有汽车制造商的领军者。

And that's what, you know, Lee Iacocca said at Chrysler, we don't have enough money. We don't have enough runway to plan and and execute. We have to keep up with GM. We have have to keep up with Buick. We have to keep up with Oldsmobile, all the leaders of of the car manufacturers at that time.

那么克莱斯勒做了什么？他们推出了一款新产品，然后观察销售情况。他们只是说，好吧，这个不错，我们继续推进。

So what did Chrysler do? They came out with a new product, and then they watched their sales. They just said, okay. This is a good one. Let's keep going.

我们开发了一款产品。不，这个不行。撤下货架吧。对吧？于是他们开始让流程变得极其灵活。

We came up with a product. Nope, not a good one. Take it back off the shelf. Right? And they began to get very, very nimble in their processes.

大多数企业家都是这样行动的。他们采用‘行动与调整’模式。制定计划可以是坐下来用白板梳理、设立里程碑并执行；也可以更基础些——先制定战略执行，但计划的核心是根据每次获得的数据和资源不断调整出新方案。对吧？

That's how most entrepreneurs act. They have the act and adjust model. So developing a plan can be sitting down, whiteboarding it out, creating milestones, executing on the milestones. Developing a plan can also be more rudimentary where you're going to develop a strategy that you execute on, but the plan is then to adjust to create a new plan every single time you get data and resources back. Right?

这引出了我的下个观点：精力该投向何处？第三点，反馈。反馈至关重要。无论你做市场调研后采用‘规划执行’还是‘行动调整’模式，都必须获得某种程度的反馈。消费者，无论面对的是B2B、B2C还是B2B2C产品，明白吗？

But that brings me to my next point, and that is where will I spend energy? Number three, feedback. Feedback is crucial. If you do market research, develop a plan, whether it's plan and execute or act and adjust, you have to have some level of feedback coming to you. The consumer, whether the consumer is a B2B business to business product or a B2C product or a B2B2C product, right?

无论你的战略是什么，都必须有反馈机制。我们在Aspire Tour做得最棒的一件事——我们运营着目前全美规模最大的商业巡演——就是活动结束后立即发送调查问卷。因为对我们而言，关键是要确认：我们真的...你看，我们制定了计划。但由于年轻缺乏经验，很多时候我们是以‘行动调整’模式开始的。

Like whatever your strategy is, there has to be some level of feedback. You know, one of the greatest things that we do at the Aspire Tour, you know, we have the world's largest business tour that still travels the nation right now, is that at the end of the event immediately we send out a survey. Right? Because for us, it's vitally important to understand, did we actually you know, we we we planned. We began the process oftentimes because we're young, we're new.

这绝对是更偏向‘行动调整’的模式。我们会根据收到的反馈进行调整：你喜欢这位演讲者吗？不喜欢？喜欢这个场地吗？

It's more of an act and adjust model for sure. We then are adjusting based on the feedback that's coming in. Did you like this speaker? Did you not like this speaker? Did you like this venue?

不喜欢这个场地？食物合口味吗？不喜欢？停车方便吗？诸如此类。

Not like this venue? Did you like the food? Not like the food? Parking? Whatever it is.

这种反馈循环极其重要，它对人生和商业成功都至关重要。我认为，在极权环境下没有追随者能茁壮成长。他们在执行上或许出色，但在发展方面绝对不行。

And so that feedback loop is so vital, but it's vital for success in life and for business. You know, I think that, no follower does well in a totalitarian environment. No follower does well. In that, they don't do well in developing. They can do well in executing, but they don't do well in developing.

在专制型社会里，当人们只被命令该做什么时，没有追随者能在发展中表现出色。对吧？所以要让人们既能行动又能发展，就必须给予他们反馈的机会。你的员工有反馈渠道吗？你的孩子有表达意见的机会吗？

No follower does well in developing in a dictatorial type society where they're just told what to do. Right? So what we have to do in order for people to act and also develop is give them the chance to give feedback. Does your employees have a chance to give feedback? Do your children have a chance to give feedback?

他们所有的经验对于你计划的制定都非常、非常重要，对吧？这是同义的。好的。最后一点，也是你投入精力最多的地方，我称之为迭代与优化。迭代与优化。

All of their experiences are very, very important to the developing of your plan, right? It's synonymous. Okay. And then lastly, which is the most important place you give energy to is what I call iterate and refine. Iterate and refine.

如果有人问我的商业哲学，为什么我能成功？为什么我能创立并扩展数百家成功企业？我是怎么做到的？是我不断发现下一个伟大事物、新点子吗？还是我找到了别人未曾涉足的蓝海领域？

If someone were to ask my business philosophy, why am I successful? Why have I built hundreds of successful companies, scaled hundreds of companies? How have I done that? Have I constantly found the next greatest thing, the new idea? Have I found these blue ocean spaces where no one else has found?

如果你观察后说，好吧，埃迪创建了一家公司并做到了十亿规模就收手了。那你可能会说，是啊，他不知怎么找到了无人涉足的领域，实施了某种蓝海战略并取得了成功。

Well, if you look at it and you would say, okay. Well, Eddie has built one company and it scaled to a billion and then he was done. Then maybe you would say, yeah. Yeah. He he somehow, you know, found a place, where no one else existed and he hit kind of this blue ocean strategy and found success.

但那不是我。我取得的成功——这种完全可以复制的成功，你其实也能做到——源于我信奉'迭代优化'的商业模式，不断迭代优化。告诉你个秘密：我的咖啡店能打败街对面的星巴克，原因在于——虽然星巴克是巨无霸（我欣赏他们的商业模式而非咖啡），舒尔茨确实是杰出的商人。

That's not who I am. And the success that I've had, which is which is easily replicable, you can actually do what I've done, is that I believe in the model, the business model of iterate and refine, iterate and refine, iterate and refine. Let me give you a secret. The reason why my coffee shops, my coffee company, my coffee shop specifically, beat Starbucks that typically are right up the street is because if you take the behemoth Starbucks, right, and, I'm a fan of not a fan of their coffee, but I'm a fan of their model, the business model. I think that Schultz was a brilliant businessman.

我研究过他。甚至在拥有咖啡公司前就研究过他的模式：他如何将体验具象化，如何制造并销售体验而非产品，如何提升我们所谓产品的溢价。去唐恩都乐只需付星巴克一半价钱，因为那里卖的是产品，而他卖的是体验。

I've studied him. I not even before I owned a coffee company, studied his model, how he brought the experience to life, how he manufactured an experience and sold an experience, not a product, how he elevated the cost of what we would say is a product. Go to Dunkin' and you're paying half of what you pay at Starbucks because you're buying a product. He wasn't selling a product. He was selling experience.

杰出的商人。但我的店铺能打败星巴克是因为：这个巨无霸通常每周都会出具门店报告，但作为上市公司，他们每月才根据模型评估一次，然后认为必须做出改变。

Brilliant businessman. But the reason I beat Starbucks at our shops is because of this. The behemoth Starbucks, reports on their shops typically every week. But in the end, they're looking at the model based on a publicly traded company model. And that is every single month, they look at their model and they think, we have to change.

他们必须进行各种调整——推出新品、提升效率等等，每月都要做决策。

We have to make whatever change it is. We're gonna add new products. We're gonna add whatever it is. We're gonna have to create more efficiency. And they make choices every month.

这样每年只有12次决策机会。而为过我工作的人都知道，我的模式是每周二要求所有机构核对所有财务收支，同时每周审查所有关键绩效指标——因为我要做52次优质决策。

So that's 12 choices a year. If you've ever worked for me, if you've ever talked to anybody that's worked for me, if you've ever come in contact with people that currently work for me, you know that my model is we measure every single week. Every single week on Tuesday across all of my organizations, we have to reconcile all financial transactions. Income, outgo. Income, outgo.

想象一下：星巴克每年做12次决策？这种体量的公司其实不难战胜——宏观层面确实强大，但门店层面不然。因为门店每年只有12次决策机会，对吧？

We also have to look at all of our KPIs on a weekly basis because I want to make 52 great decisions. If you think about it this way, what if Starbucks makes 12 decisions a year? And by the way, a company that big is not hard to beat because in the end, they essentially now they're hard to beat on a macro scale, but not at the store level. Because at the store level, they get 12 decisions a year. Right?

他们每月分析数据，每年12次决策。而从总部决策到门店执行可能还要再耗上30天。

They look at their data every single month. They get 12 decisions a year. Then they make their decision. But how slow is it from corporate all the way back down to the store to actually make a decision and implement something? Well, it could take another thirty days to implement something.

这么说吧，他们每30天做一次选择，一年大约要做11到12次决策。而在我们所有公司里，我要求他们每周都必须核对数字。为什么？因为我想获得一年做52次决策的机会。

So let's just say that every 30 days, they're making choices. So they're gonna make 11 to 12 decisions a year. For me, in all of our companies, they have to reconcile their numbers every single week. Why? Because I want the chance to make 52 decisions.

假设他们做了一个错误决定。明白吗？简单算一下。一个错误决定就意味着全年十二分之一的时间都建立在错误决策上。

If they make, let's say, one wrong decision. Right? Just do the math. They make one wrong decisions decision. That's one twelfth of all their entire year that's based on a wrong decision.

而我的是五十二分之一。懂吗？这就涉及到迭代的概念。对我来说，决策速度越快、频率越高，就越不需要做重大决定。我可以做些微调，最终不必非要——不必非要做得比星巴克好100%。

Mine is one fifty second. Right? Like, you'd start looking at iterations. Like and for me, the faster I can make decisions, the more frequently I can make decisions, then I don't have to make big giant decisions. I can actually make small tweaks that end up I don't have to be I don't have to be a 100% better than Starbucks.

我只需要每周比星巴克好5%。突然间在门店层面，我们就能碾压星巴克。明白吗？这是我们应该学习的人生原则。一万小时定律的关键在于你把时间投入在哪里。

What I have to be is 5% better than Starbucks every single week. And all of a sudden now at the store level, we're crushing Starbucks. Right? And so that is a principle in life that we should learn. It's ten thousand hours, but the ten thousand hours, it matters where you put it.

对吧？精力消耗的方向很重要。我成功的根源可以回归到这个概念——因为我愿意付出努力。懂吗？我不偷工减料，不走捷径。

Right? It matters where you're expending the energy. So the reason that I'm successful is go back to this concept is because I'm willing to put in the work. Right? I'm not cutting short I'm not taking shortcuts.

事实上我创造的工作量远超多数人愿意承受的范围。所以要不断迭代优化，循环往复。我常教授的商业五阶段：初创期、坚持期、生存期、扩张期和传承期。无论什么商业模式，你现在就处于其中一个阶段。

I'm actually creating more work than most people are willing to do. So iterate and refine, iterate and refine. The five phases of business I often teach, I say that there's startup, there's perseverance, there's viability, there's scale, and then there's succession. Five phases of business. You're in one of those phases of business right now, no matter what business model you're in.

我要告诉你，一旦进入坚持期，如果不开始持续迭代优化，就很难过渡到生存期。而如果你能坚持迭代优化直到生存期，扩张就会轻松很多，因为那时你将清楚知道拉动哪些杠杆来扩展业务。这个方法也适用于个人理财，人们常以为我只谈商业，现在聊聊你的个人财务吧。

And I will tell you that once you move into perseverance, if you don't start iterating and refining, iterating and refining, iterating and refining, it will be very difficult for you to get into viability. And if you'll iterate and refine all the way up through viability, it becomes so much easier to scale because now you'll know exactly what levers to pull in order to scale your business. Can I say that this also works in your personal finances? I think oftentimes people think I only talk about business. Let's talk about your personal finance.

对吧？如果你现在都不清楚钱花在哪里，却跑来问我：'艾迪，我真的想投资'——这种问题我天天被问：'我该把钱投到哪里？'

Right? Right now, if you don't know where you're spending your money on and you say, hey, Eddie. I really wanna invest my money. I get that question all the time. Where should I put where should I invest my money?

我的标准回答是：我不是投资顾问，不会告诉你具体投资方向。我可以分享自己的投资选择，但绝不提供财务建议。不过，如果你连钱花在哪里都不知道，第一步就该回去做调研。对吧？

And I my standardized answer is I'm not an investment counselor. I'm not gonna tell you where to invest your money. I can tell you where I'm investing my money, but I'm never gonna give somebody financial advice. However, if you don't know where your money is being spent, then the first step is to go back to actually research. Right?

比如：我的钱都花在哪？我想把钱花在哪？第二步制定计划。第三步考虑这个选择会影响哪些人，可能是配偶。

Like, where is my money spent? Where do I wanna spend my money? Number two, I'm gonna develop a plan. Number three, there's people that are essentially going to be impacted by that choice. Maybe it's a spouse.

可能是伴侣，可能是孩子，也可能是父母。对吧？反馈。

Maybe it's a significant other. Maybe it's a child. Maybe it's a parent. Right? Feedback.

然后你会开始走上这条不断迭代和完善的道路。大多数人浪费了很大一部分钱。对吧？我们知道，你一生中最大的开销将是税款。第二大的开销其实会是——这很可怕——它与资金成本、利率之类的东西挂钩。

Then you're going to start taking that path of iterating and refining. Most people throw a good percentage of their money away. Right? We know that the the greatest, you know, thing that you're gonna spend money on in your lifetime is gonna be taxes. The second thing is is actually going to be and this is the scary thing, is it's going to be tied to the cost of money, interest rates, something like that.

对吧？比如你为信用卡债务支付了多少，为房贷支付了多少，为车贷支付了多少，将来还要支付多少。对吧？那些利率会蚕食你的财富。但除此之外，你本不必承担这些成本。

Right? Like how much you're paying for your credit card debt, how much you're paying for your mortgage, how much you're paying for the car loan, how much you're gonna pay. Right? That those interest rates are going to be they're gonna eat into to that. But beyond that, you wouldn't have to have those costs.

第一，如果你提高了财商。但通常，如果你能减少开支，迭代消费方式——多数人根本不清楚钱花在哪里——你必须回头审视并迭代优化。比如，如果我知道每天刮胡子... 凯文·奥利里常说的那个讨厌的咖啡瘾，对吧？

Number one, if you upped your financial IQ. But oftentimes, if you would reduce, if you'd iterate on where you're spending your money, most people don't know where they're spending their money. You have to go back and you have to iterate and refine. Well, if you knew that every day I I shaved, you know, there's I I love Kevin O'Leary often talks about, the the nasty coffee habit. Right?

他说人们把钱扔在咖啡和星巴克这类东西上。我在某种程度上同意。我爱咖啡，宁愿把钱花在咖啡上而非其他。所以我不介意花四五美元买咖啡，因为这真是我特别享受的事。对吧？

Where he talks about, like, you're just throwing your money at coffee and Starbucks and everything like that. And I agree to it to a certain extent. I love coffee, and I'd rather spend my money on coffee than just about anything else. And so I don't have a problem spending 4 or $5 on a coffee because it's the one thing I really, really enjoy. Right?

但有些东西我不会花钱买。可我们每天都会有无谓的开销。对吧？关键在于持续优化。重点不在于如何攒下20%工资投资或全款买车免利息之类。

And, but there are other things I wouldn't spend money on. But all of us spend unnecessary money on any given day. Right? And it's about the iterations of it. It's not about it's not about how do I save 20% of my paycheck in order to invest in this thing or to pay cash for a car so I don't have to pay interest or whatever it is.

真正的问题是：我能每天从开销中省下一美元吗？能每天在星巴克订单里少花20美分吗？与其彻底戒掉星巴克，不如减少消费频率？这就是迭代。对吧？

What it is is it's about could I actually shave a dollar every single day off of what I'm spending? Could I shave 20¢ off of my Starbucks order every day? Instead of depriving yourself from Starbucks, what if what if you just reduce down the frequency of it? What if you just it's iterations. Right?

迭代很重要。迭代是辛苦活。不断迭代完善。但话说回来...

Like the iterations matter. Iterations are work. Iteration and refine. Iterate and refine. But by the way, wanna say this.

工作永远做不完。永远。你越是逃避，就离理想状态越远。对吧？如果全心投入，你会找到通往成功的路径。

Work is never ever done. Work is never done. And to the degree that you spend your time avoiding it, you're actually avoiding the desired end state that you have. Right? If you'll give yourself to it, you'll begin to start finding this pathway towards success.

我想为那些朝着目标专注努力的人发声。我觉得我给14、15、16岁年轻人的建议最不受欢迎——他们都想当抖音网红，以为拼命几年就能成功。不是这样的。

I wanna be a champion for people who actually expend their energy towards an end state with a directed, with a directed purpose. Right? And, I wanna be the voice. I I think that I give probably the most unpopular advice to every 14, 15, 16 year old, that ever comes in contact with me because they all wanna be TikTok famous, and they wanna we've kind of elevated this like you just grind for a couple of years and then you'll make it. No.

关于工作与休息的平衡存在一个度，但你应该将生命奉献给工作。工作是值得尊敬的事，是能量的交换。但若能找到热爱之事，它便不再像是工作。这才是最重大的能量交换。

There is a balance in how much you should work or should not work, but you should give your life to work. Work is a respectable thing. Work is an exchange of energy. But if you can find the things that you love to do, right, then it doesn't feel like work. And that's that's the big the big exchange.

对吧？当我在洪都拉斯或瓜达拉哈拉搬运砖块砌墙或建公园时，那看似艰苦劳动，但我乐在其中，丝毫不觉是工作。对我而言，值得消耗这份能量去追求心中所爱。

Right? Is that when I'm down in Honduras or I'm in Guadalajara and I'm carrying bricks to build a wall or a park. Right? Like, that looks like hard work, but I love it and it doesn't feel like work. But it's worth to me expending that energy to ultimately give towards, towards what I'm passionate about.

那么我们该将能量投向何处？市场调研、制定计划、收集反馈，然后迭代优化。不要耗尽生命空想新点子，而要用于迭代完善。当你在执行道路上时，迭代中的新想法将成为通往未来成功的可行路径。

So what should we give our energy to? Market research, developing a plan, feedback, and then iterate and refine. Spend your life not coming up with new ideas. Spend your life iterating and refining. The new ideas in iteration when you're on a path of execution become a viable path to future success.

作为企业主、员工或怀揣目标的人，我们必须明白投入时间是关键。强烈推荐霍洛维茨的《创业维艰》——这本书深刻探讨了承受成功所需的压力。马尔科姆·格拉德威尔的《异类》也提出一万小时定律...

It's super important that as a business owner, as an employee, as a human being that has a desire to reach some goal, that we get into a place where we understand we just have to put in the time. One massive book recommendation, that I love to recommend is the book, The Hard Thing About Hard Things Horowitz. It's one of my favorite books. He talks so much about just getting under the weight, getting under the pressure of what it takes to get to success. Malcolm Gladwell, ten thousand hours, you know, and his concept of outliers.

我们拥有如此多优质资源，但人们常抗拒'工作'这个四字词。事实是：艰苦工作虽不迷人，却应是最鼓舞人心的概念——因为每份能量消耗，都让你离理想更近一步。

It's like we we've got so many good resources. But sometimes they push this four letter word of work on us and we resist. But the fact of the matter is, is hard work isn't sexy, but it should be the most encouraging concept you ever come in contact with because when you expend energy, you're just moving one more step towards that desired end state.

你开篇就强调工作虽不迷人却至关重要，我完全认同。但随即想到：我认识许多终日忙碌却一事无成的人。

You start off by saying strong, you know, work isn't sexy, but it's, you know, it's critical. It's everything that we should be focused on. And I agree with that. I think that is very true, rings true. And then I immediately think, but I know a lot of people who are very busy who get nothing done.

所以我试图逆向推演你的观点，寻找自己问题的答案。

And so then I was trying to like reverse engineer your points to see if I could figure out the answer to my own question.

各位，请务必关注我们每月举办的'志向之旅'全国巡讲。这是我和合伙人安德鲁·科德尔打造的舞台，汇聚名人领袖为企业家带来灵感。我们通过美国顶尖商业头脑分享的理念，激发你的潜能。

Yeah. Hey, guys, I wanna make sure that you're taking advantage of one of the things that we put on every single month around the nation. It's the Aspire Tour. The Aspire Tour is the brainchild of myself and my business partner, Andrew Cordell, where we bring celebrities together and we bring inspiration to business owners, business leaders around the nation. We want to create kind of an aspirational place and inspire you to do more by bringing concepts and theories and thoughts to you by some of the greatest business minds in America.

嘉宾包括大卫·戈金斯、达蒙·约翰、凯文·奥利里、马克·库班、肯德拉·斯科特等杰出商业领袖，他们将持续带来精彩分享。

We have David Goggins. We've got Damon John. We've got Kevin O'Leary, Mark Cuban. Just some amazing people, Kendra Scott. Some amazing people, business minds that come and share, on a consistent basis.

欢迎加入！作为播客听众，我期待与你线下相见。登录aspiretour.com了解'志向之旅'详情。

So come join me. And actually, I would love to meet you. If you're a podcast listener, I'd love to come see you in person. You come see me in person. Check out the Aspire Tour, by going to the aspiretour.com.

你也可以使用促销码impact podcast，impact podcast，这将为你带来特别优惠票价。期待见到你。一定要来现场和我聊聊，我们将在即将到来的Aspire巡演中相见。每天你会遇到很多人，他们总是说自己很忙。但当你审视他们生活的产出时，却发现寥寥无几，几乎没有实例或成果能证明他们的忙碌是值得的。

You can also use the promo code impact podcast, impact podcast, and it'll get you a special promo ticket price. Love to see you. Make sure you come out and talk to me and we will see you in upcoming Aspire tour. There are a lot of people that you come in contact with every day that are really busy and will tell you how busy they are. And then you look at the output of their life and there's very little, you know, example or output that proves that they actually, that their busyness was worthwhile.

因此，或许有几个领域应避免投入精力。第一，无止境的空想。我们反复强调构思、创意、追梦这些概念。但到了某个节点，你必须放下梦想，决定付诸行动。

And so maybe a few areas to avoid putting energy into. Number one, dreaming endlessly. We again emphasize so much this concept of ideation and ideas and dreaming and follow your dreams. At some point you have to put your dream down. You have to decide that you are going to execute.

我认为无止境的空想是扼杀所有伟大梦想的凶手。就像我说的，如果不能在某个时刻确立目标并开始推进——比如进行市场调研、制定计划——如果不让自己遵循这样的框架，你就会陷入周而复始的空想状态。人们会为此肯定你，告诉你这是个绝妙的主意。

And dreaming endlessly is, I think is the killer of all great dreams. It's like, if at some point you cannot establish and start moving into this place of, like I was talking about market research, developing a plan. And if you don't put yourself through this kind of format, then what happens is you just get into this reoccurring state of dreaming. And people will They'll validate you over it. They'll tell you, that's a brilliant idea.

他们会说'我从没这样想过'，这会给你带来类似多巴胺的快感，但最终毫无实际成就。早年我在美国企业工作的一个好处是：当时我是个空想家，会把梦想大声说出来，而他们会说'除非你能证明它可行，否则别再说了'，就像'回你的格子间去'。

I've never thought about that before. And you get this like kind of dopamine hit, but then there's nothing accomplished by it. And the one benefit of being in corporate America in my early days was I was a dreamer. And I would dream and I would say it out loud and then they would say, until you can prove this, stop talking about it. You know, like, go back to your cubicle.

他们就像这样打压我的想法。但这对我有好处，因为作为一个不断空想的年轻人——我有个爱做梦的二儿子，他想改良一切、修复一切、创造一切——这并非坏事。

You know, like, they would just kinda like squash it. And which was good for me because as a young person who's just dreaming over and over again, I have a middle son who is a dreamer. He wants to make everything better. He wants to fix everything and create everything. And it's like, you know, it's not a bad thing.

这种特质有其可取之处。但有时你需要被告诉'回去验证你的方法，回你的格子间待着'。这种提醒是必要的，因为太多人没听过这话，终其一生只会向人倾吐梦想。第二件我不愿投入时间的事，是那些对有想法的人如影随形的消极自我对话。

You know, like that's there's there's good qualities in that. However, sometimes you need to be told, you know, go back and prove your method and go sit in your cubicle. You know, like it's there there is a good thing to that because too many people don't get told that and so they just spend their life spouting their dreams at people. The second thing that I would not put time towards is the negative self talk that constantly creeps in to most people who have ideas. What happens is as you begin to start to iterate and refine, you get all the way there.

当你开始迭代完善时，消极自我对话就会全面爆发。正是在精进过程中，这些负面声音最猖獗。我不认为这些自我否定有多大价值。有个概念说：如果把一个自信的人放到任何任务前，无论他是否真懂行，其表现往往优于缺乏信心的人。比如一个练习了一万次罚球却缺乏信心的孩子，对比只练过一百次但坚信自己能进的孩子——你会让后者上场，因为信心能推动他走向成功。

That's when when you're getting into the refining process is when all the negative self talk happens. And I wouldn't give much credence to that negative self talk. There's a concept, and that is if you actually, take somebody who has a level of confidence and you put them towards any task, no matter if they actually know what they're doing or not, they often outperform the person who lacks confidence. Right? Take a kid that actually has shot 10,000 free throws but lacks confidence to shoot the free throw versus the kid who's only shot a 100 of them that has the confidence he's gonna make it, you put that kid on the line because his confidence is something that's going to propel him towards success.

因此我们必须摒弃消极的自我对话。我不愿为此耗费精力。分析反思是一回事，自我批判是另一回事。前者有益。

And so what happens is is we have to allow that we have to get rid of the the the negative self talk. I would not put energy towards that. It's one thing to be analytical. It's another thing to be self critical. Analytical is good.

对吧？我哪里可以改进？哪里需要调整？哪里应该迭代？

Right? Where could I be better? Where could I change? Where could I iterate? Right?

但诸如'我不行'、'这事成不了'、'这主意糟透了'的想法——我们必须杜绝，不能为此浪费精力。

However, this I'm not good. This is never gonna work out. This is a horrible idea. Right? We have got we have to get we can't put energy towards that.

我们必须将精力投入到建立自信的状态中。最后我想强调的是，在模型被验证成功与否之前，应避免将精力耗费在调整上。创业者天生容易冲动，他们往往缺乏耐心，不愿给予事物足够的时间去孕育成功。我并非认为这完全是坏事，毕竟存在'不创新即灭亡'或'快速试错'等理念，但必须给予足够的时间。

We have to put energy towards moving into a confident place. And then the last thing that I would, you know, really kind of stay away from putting energy towards is adjustments until we can prove the model was successful or not successful. What happens is entrepreneurs by nature are impetuous and they don't have a lot of they're just not willing to actually allow things to develop long enough to create success. And so I I don't, you know, want to say that that's necessarily a horrible thing because I think there is a concept there tied to innovate or die or, fire fast and all these types of things. But there has to be enough time.

必须投入足够的精力才能真正见证成果落地。因此需要建立评估框架来判断是否达成成功。多数创业者出于恐惧，往往在触及成功前就改变模式——他们害怕成功来得不够快，担心永远无法抵达终点。你会发现许多愿景型创业者存在周期性行为，每三个月、六个月或一年就要重新包装品牌。

There has to be enough energy expended to actually see it come to life. So there has to be a framework to understand, did I reach success or did I not reach success? Most entrepreneurs out of fear, most entrepreneurs out of fear will actually change the model before they get to success because they fear they're not getting to success fast enough and they'll never get there. What you'll notice in a lot of visionary entrepreneurs is they're cyclical. Every three months, every six months, every year, they gotta rebrand.

他们必须改变。必须尝试不同做法。必须调整模式。这本质上是恐惧的体现——那种'如果不够完美就无法成功'的恐惧在驱使着他们。

They gotta change. They gotta do something different. They gotta they gotta change the model. And what that is, that's a place of fear. And that that fear is telling them, if I don't if I don't you know, if if if it's not perfect, I'm not gonna get there.

而如果无法成功，就意味着永远与成就无缘。因此这些行为往往源于恐惧驱动。我建议在至少达到某个可评估成败的里程碑前，不要耗费精力做改变。创业者通常缺乏等待成功显现的耐心。我在其他播客中讲过所谓的'坚持连续体'理论。

And if I don't get there, then I'm not gonna get success. And so oftentimes, it's really fear based activity. And so I would not expend energy in changing until you've hit at least a milestone to judge its success or lack of lack thereof. Oftentimes, entrepreneurs just they're not patient enough to to wait long enough to see its success. I've taught in other, podcast episodes this what I call the perseverance continuum.

成功创业者与苦苦挣扎者的区别，往往仅在于前者能比后者承受更长时间的负重。就像那家成功的咖啡店，无非是坚持做好财务规划直到迎来转机，他们懂得延迟满足。

And the difference between a successful entrepreneur and a one that has really struggled with success is oftentimes just their ability to carry weight for a longer period of time than the person who didn't get to success. They stayed under the wait long enough. How did that coffee shop do well when that one didn't? Well, they managed their finances long enough that they finally got to success. They had delayed gratification, whatever it is.

为什么这家干洗店成功了而对面那家没有？答案很简单：他们坚持得更久，最终等到成功降临。关键在于承受重压的耐力，这又回归到努力的本质。

How did this dry cleaner work when this one across the street didn't work? Right? And it's like, well, they persevered longer and they ended up getting to success. They stayed under the weight. And it goes back to work.

他们投入了持续的能量。因此在没有真正成功标尺的情况下，我不建议快速消耗精力进行改变和调整。

They put in the energy. So I wouldn't put energy into changing and adjusting quickly without actually having a true gauge for success.

我的下一个想法是，你谈到的这些领域似乎都偏向宏观层面。如果参照马尔科姆·格拉德威尔的一万小时定律，微观层面具体是哪些日常事务在消耗时间？

My next thought is, feels like a lot of these areas you're talking about feel in the macro. Big picture. Big thing. If but if we go to like Malcolm Gladwell's like 10,000 shots or steps, it's like what is the micro? What's the daily things that eat up that time?

就像每天存下一美元，经年累月也能积少成多？

What's the dollar I can put away that will build up over time?

确实。我认为这取决于你追求成功所从事的具体活动。就我个人而言，目前正刻意追求几项技能的真正精通。人生应该持续追求新的精进领域，永远不要认为自己已到达终点。

Yeah. And I think that it comes down to whatever the activity is that you're trying to gain success you'd have to determine what that is. For me, there's a few things I'm trying to intentionally get to true mastery of right now. I think that we all should be striving for new mastery throughout our life. We should never get to a place where we've arrived.

因此有几个领域我已臻至精通，比如收购企业。我精通这个。我投入了超过一万小时。出售企业，也投入了一万多小时。企业运营，同样一万小时。

And so there's a couple of areas that I have mastered, like buying businesses. I master that. I've put more than ten thousand hours. Selling businesses, more than ten thousand hours into selling businesses. Operations of a business, ten thousand hours.

明白吗？我在这些领域都投入了一万小时。而在金融这类我尚未投入万小时的商业领域，我花的时间还不够。现在，我比以往任何时候都更专注于理解金融概念——如果你现在去我家，会发现我床头柜上放着三本金融工具书。

You know? Like, I've put the ten thousand hours in. Areas of business where I haven't put the ten thousand hours in, financial. I have not spent enough time. Right now, I spend more time understanding financial concepts than I've ever if you go to my house right now, there's three books sitting on my side table that are all financial resource books.

我正在尝试理解高阶内容，不是基础金融书籍，因为从银行业角度我已投入万小时，但从商业角度还没有。有些与金融相关的商业概念我仍在努力掌握。我正在投入时间。最近我和公司CFO共事的时间非常多，可能过于深入细节了。我的目标是达到精通境界。

And I'm trying to understand high level, not finance books because I've spent ten thousand hours in finance from a banking standpoint, but not from a business standpoint. There's business concepts around finance that I'm still trying to master. And I'm putting the hours in. The amount of time I'm spending with my CFO right now, you know, our CFO of this company is a lot, and I'm probably in the weeds way too much. What I'm trying to do is create mastery.

今年我定下一个目标：虽然一直会弹点吉他，熟悉和弦和一些技巧，但我想要真正精通吉他演奏。我觉得这是我想开发的大脑领域。

You know, one thing that I set out this year, was I have always played guitar a little. I know my chords. I know various things. I would like to actually create mastery in guitar. I think that that's a part of my brain I want to unlock.

我需要更多创造性时间。平时太多分析性工作，我想增加创作时间。所以晚上有空就练琴——早起或睡不着时，我就拿起吉他开始弹奏。我的目标是掌握吉他。

Like, I need more creative time. I spend a lot of time in the analytical, and I wanna spend more time in the creative. And so I'm spending time in the evenings. You know, if I get up early, if I find myself awake at certain times, I'll grab the guitar and I'll begin to start playing. And so what I'm trying to do is master guitar.

目前可能投入了一千小时。要达到精通，未来六年每周得练四十小时。这太多了。显然我没那么多时间。但如果用接下来十到十五年零碎时间反复练习，我能达到精通吗？

Well, I've I maybe have put a thousand hours in. So I got forty hours a week for the next six years in order to get to mastery of a guitar. That's a lot. So but, you know, obviously, I don't have that type of time. But if I put in the next ten, fifteen years of my life and I start just playing a little bit here and there, playing it over and over again, can I get to mastery?

当然可以。我渴望达到精通，但关键在于细微积累。比如说要精通吉他，绝不仅限于弹奏本身。

Sure. And so I want to get to mastery. But I think that it's the little things. And so like if you go to you're talking about, okay, but what is it? So like if I want to master guitar, what it is is mastery of guitar is more than just playing.

还包括乐理知识对吧？音乐有诸多构成要素——音乐功能、演奏乐器本身。

It's the music theory. Right? It's you've got kind of like the various components of music. It's the functions of music. It's the instrument that's playing the music.

不同音乐风格，所有这些组成部分。现在我正尝试从基础层面突破，方法是分解目标——目前掌握了八九个基本和弦。

It's the different styles of music. It's all of those pieces. And so for me, I'm trying to master kind of the one on one level. The way that I have to do that is now I'm breaking it down. And I'm like, I have my basic eight or nine chords.

我的目标是每周学习三个新和弦。直到完整掌握三和弦、七和弦、大小调等所有和弦类型。我已制定计划，感觉六月前能掌握全部和弦，之后就要转向风格化演奏之类的训练。

My goal is is I want to learn three new chords a week. And so right now until I get to a full chord set where I understand my thirds and my sevenths and my minors and my majors, I want to understand all that. And so I have it mapped out. And I feel like by June, I'll have all of my chords mastered. Then it's gonna have to go into stylistic playing or whatever.

这就是我的目标。但归根结底还是在于持续迭代。比如我能否每周学会三个新和弦？这周到目前为止我已经学会了两个，而今天才星期二。不对，是星期一。

And and so so that's my goal. But again, goes down to iteration. So can I learn three new chords a week? Well, I can tell you, this week, I've learned two so far, and it's Tuesday. It's It's Monday.

对，星期一。所以我已经学会了两个。昨晚我花了很多时间练习。不过还是那句话，这又回到了那个核心。

Yeah. Monday. So I've already learned two. So I spent a lot of time last night playing. And but again, it goes back to that.

这就像，关键不在于一次性筹集一万美元投资，而在于我能否每天存下三美元，经过足够天数后累积成一万。最后分享个成长故事：我出生在虔诚的宗教家庭。父亲总爱对我说：埃迪，上帝愿意帮助任何人，但绝不会帮助懒汉。这句话他反复强调。

It's like, it's not about finding $10,000 to invest. It's about, can I save $3 a day for the next however many days to get to my $10,000? Closing thought, I grew up in a very faith based household. And the anecdote that my dad would give me all the time is he would say, Eddie, God will help anybody, but he won't help a lazy man. And he would say that to me over and over again.

有趣的是他会用实例佐证。比如我们铲土干活时，他就会说：圣经里上帝帮助过通奸者，帮助过杀人犯，但你能找出一个上帝帮助懒汉的例子吗？

And the interesting part about that is he would back it up. Right? Like, we'd be shoveling dirt or whatever, and he would say, you know, God in the Bible helped adulterers. He helped murderers. God would help all these people are like, but show me one time in the Bible, God, if God will help a lazy man.

从经文角度解读也是如此。圣经多处强调劳动的价值——上帝欣赏扶犁耕作的人，劳动蕴含正直品格，人被命定要劳作。追溯到亚当夏娃的故事，亚当的职责就是照看伊甸园。整部圣经的架构都与劳动密不可分。

And it's also, you know, if you kind of go to it from a scriptural standpoint, there's a lot said in scripture about work. You know, that God admires someone who puts his hand to the plow, that there's that there is integrity in work. There It's appointed on demand once to work. Like that there, if you go all the way back to the stories of Adam and Eve, it's like Adam was charged with actually caring for the Garden of Eden. It's like the whole construct of of of the Bible is is tied to work.

再看创世七日：上帝用六日创造万物，第七日安息。圣经中所有概念都与劳动相关，而父亲不断在我心中强化这些理念。

You even go to the seven days of creation. You know, it's like you had six days of creation where God worked and then on the seventh, he rested. Right? Like, All these concepts in the Bible that are tied to work. Well, my dad would constantly refresh those in my mind.

就我个人而言，人生中所有成就都源于——这里有个对立命题：如果工作的本质是能量输出，那么懒惰就是能量浪费。如果说上帝是爱是光，那么上帝的本质就是能量。作为地球上的凡人，上帝赐予你什么？有限的时间和有限的能量。

And for me, what I can look at is to the degree that I found success in my life, it has been and I think here's the opposition. If work is nothing more than energy expended, laziness is nothing more than energy wasted. And so to me, if you look at it and it's like if God is love and God is light, the essence of God is truly energy. And so what has God given you as a human on this planet? It's a finite amount of time and a finite amount of energy.

唯有善用这份馈赠去创造，才能与造物主同工。或许父亲是对的——没有什么比虚度光阴、浪费能量、糟蹋这份让你能与神同工创造的恩赐更违背上帝旨意了。今天我想鼓励大家审视自己的能量投向，确保不是浪费在无法让构想成真、改善他人生活、达成终极目标的事情上。开始行动吧。

But the only way that I actually can act in tandem with God, my creator, is to actually expend the one gift I've been given to create something else and to act in tandem with him. So maybe my dad was right. Right? Like there's nothing maybe more that violates the very concept of God than to actually waste time, to waste energy, to do away with the one substance that you've been given to actually act in tandem and create, to actually make something come to life. And so I want to encourage you today to think through what you're giving your energy to, to make sure that you're not just wasting energy on things that aren't bringing concepts to life, making people's lives better, taking yourself to your end goal, and get to work.

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