通过行动发现你的专属知识

我最终觉得，每个人都该找到自己真正擅长、又和本性契合的事，这种独特性会让你真实可信，积累专属知识，形成竞争优势，变得无可替代，然后你就该全力投入进去。

I ultimately think that everyone should be figuring out what it is that they uniquely do best that aligns with who they are fundamentally, and that gives them authenticity, that brings them specific knowledge, that gives them competitive advantage, that makes them irreplaceable, and they should just lean into that.

有时候，你得真去做了，才会明白自己擅长什么。

And sometimes you don't know what that is until you do it.

这就是在竞技场上活出的人生。

So this is life lived in the arena.

除非你真的行动起来，面对各种艰难处境，否则你永远不知道自己的专属优势是什么。

You're not going to know your own specific knowledge until you act, until you act in a variety of difficult situations.

等到那时候，你可能会突然意识到：咦，这些别人觉得难倒的事，我居然顺利扛过来了；或者，别人会指着你说：

And then you will either realize, oh, I managed to navigate through these things that other people would have had a hard time with, or someone else will point at you.

嘿，你的超能力好像是这个。

They'll say, hey, your superpower seems to be x.

我有个朋友，创业好几次了，我总注意到，他未必最聪明、技术最顶尖，但特别勤奋。

I have a friend who has been an entrepreneur a bunch of times, and what I always notice about him is that he may not necessarily be the most clever or the most technical, and he's very hardworking.

所以我不会说他只是‘勤奋’这么简单。

That's why I don't wanna say he's in the hardworking.

他其实特别勤奋。

He's actually super hardworking.

但我注意到的是，他最有勇气。

But what I do notice is he's the most courageous.

他根本不在乎前面有什么障碍，再难的事也打不倒他。

So he just does not care what's in the way, Nothing gets him down.

他总是笑着、乐呵呵的。

He's always laughing or smiling.

他总是一直往前走。

He's always moving through it.

一百年前，这种人你会说：他真是最有胆量的。

And this is the kind of guy that a hundred years ago, you would have said, oh, he's the most courageous.

去冲那个机枪阵地吧。

Go charge that machine gun nest.

他干这个再合适不过了。

He would have been good for that.

但在创业的语境下，他就是那种能不断撞销售的墙，打几百个电话，直到终于有一个人说‘好’的人。

But in an entrepreneurship context, he's the one who can keep beating his head against the sales wall and just calling hundreds of people until finally one person says yes.

他能打四百通电话，收到三百九十九个拒绝，但只要有一个同意，他就心满意足，然后就能开始迭代，从那里学习。

So he'll call 400 people and get three ninety nine nos, and he's fine with one yes, and that's enough, then he can start iterating and learning from there.

这就是他的独特优势。

So that's his specific knowledge.

这确实是一种能力。

It is knowledge.

他清楚自己能接受这样的过程。

It's a capability that he knows that he's okay with it.

他知道终点有回报，愿意为之坚持，这才是真正的超能力。

There's an outcome on the other side that he's willing to go for, and that's a superpower.

如果他能再进一步发展这种能力，或者把它和其他技能结合起来，甚至只是找准应用场景，他就变得很难被替代。

Now, maybe if he can develop that a little further or combine it with something else, or maybe even just apply it where it's needed, that makes him somewhat irreplaceable.

所以，你要通过行动、通过实践，才能找到自己的独特优势。

And so you find your specific knowledge through action, by doing.

当你为自己工作时，自然就会选择那些符合你自身特质和专长的事情去做。

And when you are working for yourself, you will also naturally tend to pick things and do things in a way that aligns with who you are and what your specific knowledge is.