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原链接请戳--How can I be as great as Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, Elon Musk, and Richard Branson?

这篇文章的作者，是“钢铁侠”Elon Musk的前妻Justine Musk(引自wiki)。

这个女人是个神马样的人捏~

她是作家，编剧，老师，PayPal, SpaceX, and Tesla Motors的联合创始人，最重要的，是当代“钢铁侠”Elon Musk的前妻。

她是这么讲述与钢铁侠的婚姻---第一任妻子眼中的“钢铁侠”

下面是她在quora上对想要如Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, Elon Musk, and Richard Branson般成功的人的几点建议~

winter is coming~喝点鸡汤暖暖身吧(づ｡◕‿‿◕｡)づ

极度的成功来自于极端的性格，同时以许多其他的事情为代价。极度的成功不同于你所定义的“成功”，我想你不是要成为Richard，或是Elon那样，富可敌国，名满天下，极尽生活之奢华。你拥有快乐的几率会更大。但如若你是一个极端的人，你一定要成为你自己，这就意味着你或多或少与快乐无缘。这些人反复无常，于世不容，他们不得不以一种超乎寻常挑战性的方式阅尽人间。他们培养出一套生存之道，随年岁日增，他们会找到一些方法去贯彻其生存策略，为自己创造出清晰有力的优势。他们的思维方式与众不同。他们观察事物的角度会开启新想法与见解。别人认为他们略显疯狂。

Extreme success results from an extreme personality and comes at the cost of many other things. Extreme success is different from what I suppose you could just consider 'success', so know that you don't have to be Richard or Elon to be affluent and accomplished and maintain a great lifestyle. Your odds of happiness are better that way. But if you're extreme, you must be what you are, which means that happiness is more or less beside the point. These people tend to be freaks and misfits who were forced to experience the world in an unusually challenging way. They developed strategies to survive, and as they grow older they find ways to apply these strategies to other things, and create for themselves a distinct and powerful advantage. They don't think the way other people think. They see things from angles that unlock new ideas and insights. Other people consider them to be somewhat insane.

专注。

Be obsessed.

沉迷。

Be obsessed.

疯狂。

Be obsessed.

如果你现在不够专注，停下你正在做的事情，找到使你为之执着的事。这会帮助你建立自我，但是如果想要吸引那些你需要他们来帮助你的人（没有错，你需要他们）你还要有更大的目标。人们会在你还不够强大，你的东西还不够好时，围绕着你，告诉你你有多厉害，“更大的目标”会使你免于归为平庸。不要因为你“想变得很厉害”而去追随某事物。要追随那些使你目眩神迷，流连于追随这件事本身而难以自拔的事物。极端的人会将才华天赋与“疯狂的”职业道德相结合，如果工作本身不能驱使你，你会殚精竭虑，半途而废，或是被你极端的对手所碾压，哭死你丫儿的。

If you're not obsessed, then stop what you're doing and find whatever does obsess you. It helps to have an ego, but you must be in service to something bigger if you are to inspire the people you need to help you  (and make no mistake, you will need them). That 'something bigger' prevents you from going off into the ether when people flock round you and tell you how fabulous you are when you aren't and how great your stuff is when it isn't. Don't pursue something because you "want to be great". Pursue something because it fascinates you, because the pursuit itself engages and compels you. Extreme people combine brilliance and talent with an *insane* work ethic, so if the work itself doesn't drive you, you will burn out or fall by the wayside or your extreme competitors will crush you and make you cry.

追随你的执着直到出现问题，要有一个巨大的，能引人深思的挑战性问题，尽可能冲击多一些的人，你要坚定不移地去解决问题，或至死方休。你可能要花上好几年去找到那个问题，因为你要探索不同领域的知识，将点滴串联起来，将它们相互联系，使其完整。

Follow your obsessions until a problem starts to emerge, a big meaty challenging problem that impacts as many people as possible, that you feel hellbent to solve or die trying. It might take years to find that problem, because you have to explore different bodies of knowledge, collect the dots and then connect and complete them.

这会帮助你拥有超人的能量和耐力。如果你不是天生神力，就要拿出最好的姿态。路上会有时差，你要绞尽脑汁，来来回回的艰难对战，寂寞，无意义的会议，大挫折，家庭纷争，和一些你很少见到的大人物的问题，灵魂的阴暗面，有人烦你闹你，缺乏睡眠。将你的身体和精神都维持在最佳状态。天道酬勤。

It helps to have superhuman energy and stamina. If you are not blessed with godlike genetics, then make it a point to get into the best shape possible. There will be jet lag, mental fatigue, bouts of hard partying, loneliness, pointless meetings, major setbacks, family drama, issues with the Significant Other you rarely see, dark nights of the soul, people who bore and annoy you, little sleep, less sleep than that. Keep your body sharp to keep your mind sharp. It pays off.

学会处理一系列会将大部分人击溃的压力。

Learn to handle a level of stress that would break most people.

不要走既有的道路，不要模仿你的模范，这世上没有“下一步”。极度的成功不像其他的成功; 对别人来说有效的，对你不一定有用。他们是一群观点鲜明，探索一套独特力量的人。他们不守常规，他们成为企业家的原因之一是因为他们不能，不要，也不会适应企业生活的体制，规章。他们有阅读困难，自闭，多动症，他们不得其所，他们惹人生气，陷入争吵，打破平衡，嘲笑文案工作。但是他们会将弱点转换，创造附加价值—就是我前面提到的策略—同时，寻找一些擅长做他们不会做的事情的伙伴。

Don't follow a pre-existing path, and don't look to imitate your role models. There is no "next step". Extreme success is not like other kinds of success; what has worked for someone else, probably won't work for you. They are individuals with bold points of view who exploit their very particular set of unique and particular strengths. They are unconventional, and one reason they become the entrepreneurs they become is because they can't or don't or won't fit into the structures and routines of corporate life. They are dyslexic, they are autistic, they have ADD, they are square pegs in round holes, they piss people off, get into arguments, rock the boat, laugh in the face of paperwork. But they transform weaknesses in ways that create added advantage -- the strategies I mentioned earlier -- and seek partnerships with people who excel in the areas where they have no talent whatsoever.

他们不害怕失败—或者他们头也不回地往前冲了。他们会经历英雄式的，波澜壮阔的，颜面扫地的，众目睽睽之下的失败，但他们会找到一个办法，去重塑这一切，直到逆转乾坤。当他们以谁都不会的方式失败了，他们也会学到其他人没有，也不会有的经验教训。他们的毅力与适应力令人瞠目咋舌。

They do not fear failure -- or they do, but they move ahead anyway. They will experience heroic, spectacular, humiliating, very public failure but find a way to reframe until it isn't failure at all. When they fail in ways that other people won't, they learn things that other people don't and never will. They have incredible grit and resilience.

他们不会读像这样的东西。（这么说并不是要打脸或是批评谁，我自己就很喜欢读这些东西）他们更愿意直接读书：可能是亚历山大大帝或是凯瑟琳大帝的传记，或是其他他们认为很厉害的人。上网是杀时间的利器，他们认为他们的时间很有价值—即使回到那些严格意义上并不那么有价值的时光—他们依然付不起这个代价。

They are unlikely to be reading stuff like this. (This is *not* to slam or criticize people who do; I love to read this stuff myself.) They are more likely to go straight to a book: perhaps a biography of Alexander the Great or Catherine the Great* or someone else they consider Great. Surfing the 'Net is a deadly timesuck, and given what they know their time is worth -- even back in the day when technically it was not worth that -- they can't afford it.

我可以继续，这是一个很棒的话题。但你已经知道我的意思了。祝你好运，也祝你拥有力量，也许你要喝点白酒。

I could go on, it's a fascinating subject, but you get the idea. I wish you luck and strength and perhaps a stiff drink should you need it.

最后，祝福大家都能找到生命中那个让你obsessed的人和事( •̀ ω •́ )y，度过痛并快乐着相爱相杀的淫生！(づ￣ 3￣)づ