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, if you wanna have and do stuff youve never done before? i challenge you to invest in matter how bad it is, or how bad it gets?.im going to make wanna represent an wanna represent of you right now, you wanna go to the next wanna be a civil engineer, you wanna council, you wanna be a to me: you cant get to that cant get to that level until you start to invest in your dare you to invest in your dare you to invest dare you to be dare you to spend an hour alone to get to know challenge you to get to a place where people do not like or do not even bother you ? because youre not concerned with making them happy youre trying to blow trying to get to the next youre investing in your youre still talking about your dream, if youre still talking about your goals, but you have not done anything, just take the first step!you can make your parents proud, you can make your school proud, you can touch millions of lives and the world will never be the same again, because you came this let anybody steal your may fail, and fail, and fail youre still looking at your dream, reviewing it everyday and saying to yourself?its not over until i can live your :英語勵志演講 is dave arringdale whos actually been a longtime guest at vivians 。he stayed there a hundred times in the last 20 years, 他在那里呆了數(shù)百次在近20年中and hes loyal to the property because of the relationship that vivian and her fellow employees have created with 。薇薇安和她的同事所創(chuàng)造的與他的這層關系,theyve created a habitat of happiness for tells me that he can always count on vivian and the staff there to make him feel at 。他告訴我他總是可以依賴于薇薇安和那里的所有員工他們讓他感受到了家的感覺。why is it that business leaders and investors quite 為什么企業(yè)領袖、投資者 often dont see the connection between creating the intangible of employee happiness with creating the tangible of financial profits in their business? 通??床坏竭@層關系創(chuàng)造的不可觸摸的員工們的快樂以及商業(yè)中的財政利潤? we dont have to choose between inspired employees and sizable profits, we can have fact, inspired employees quite often help make sizable profits, right? 我們并不一定要從中選擇或是有受激勵的員工或巨大的經(jīng)濟利潤。我們可以同時擁有這兩者事實上,受到鼓舞的員工,很多時候?qū)Λ@得巨大的利潤很有幫助 so what the world needs now, in my opinion, is business leaders and political leaders who know what to ,當今我們所需要的,我的觀點是商界領袖和政界領袖,那些知道去衡量些什么的人。we count count on really counts is when we actually use our numbers to truly take into account our ,我們依靠人,我們真正看重的是當我們可以用數(shù)字去真正使我們的顧客收益。i learned that from a maid in a motel and a king of a can you start counting today? 我從一個汽車旅館的女仆和一個國家的國王那里學到了這個道理。什么是你從今天開始就計算的呢? what one thing can you start counting today that actually would be meaningful in your life, whether its your work life or your business life? 有一樣東西,你今天就可以開始計算會使你一生受用,不管這是為你的工作,還是為了你的生意 thank you very 。weve been fooled by our that been fooled by our has been our hammer.“我們被我們的工具所愚弄。這個表述或許不恰當,我們被我們的工具所愚弄gdp就像是我們的錘子。and our nail has been a 19thand 20thcentury industrialera model of 。and yet, 64 percent of the worlds gdp today is in that intangible industry we call service, the service industry, the industry im ,當今世界百分之六十四的gdp是來自于不可見的,稱之為服務業(yè)的行業(yè)服務業(yè),我所在的行業(yè)。and only 36 percent is in the tangible industries of manufacturing and ,制造業(yè)和農(nóng)業(yè)。so maybe its time that we get a bigger toolbox, right? maybe its time we get a toolbox that doesnt just count whats easily counted, 所以是時候我們換一個大一點的工具盒了,對吧?;蛘呤菚r候我們事實上需要一個工具盒并不只能量那些很容易被量的,the tangible in life, but actually counts what we most value, the things that are 、可以的觸摸的東西,事實上能夠量度那些我們最重視的那些不可度量的東西。i guess im sort of a curious was also a curious economics major as an 。我過去也只是個對充滿好奇心的經(jīng)濟學專業(yè)本科生。i learned that economists measure everything in tangible units of production and consumption as if each of those tangible units is exactly the ,好像那些可以被具體化的單位是完全等同的一樣。they arent the fact, as leaders, what we need to learn 他們是不一樣的事實上,作為領導者,我們需要了解的 is that we can influence the quality of that unit of production by creating the conditions for our employees to live their 。in vivians case, her unit of production isnt the tangible hours she works, its the intangible difference she makes during that one hour of ,她的單位產(chǎn)量并不是可以計算的她工作的每個小時而是她所做到的那些不可觸摸的區(qū)別在那一小時的工作中。(86)85 ive taken that robert kennedy quote, and ive turned it into a new balance sheet for just a moment ,我也曾經(jīng)把它轉(zhuǎn)變成一種新的衡量收支平衡的辦法。this is a collection of things that robert kennedy said in that ,羅伯特肯尼迪在他的gdp gdp counts everything from air pollution to the destruction of our but it doesnt count the health of our children or the integrity of our public you look at these two columns here, 但它并沒兒童的健康考慮在內(nèi),沒把公務員的正直程度考慮在內(nèi)。當你看在這兩欄的時候,doesnt it make you feel like its time for us to start figuring out a new way to count, a new way to imagine whats important to us in life? 難道你不覺得這正是我們應該開始從新創(chuàng)造一種新的方式去衡量么一種方式去真正地想象什么才是生活中最重要的東西? certainly robert kennedy suggested at the end of the speech exactly said gdp measures everything in short, except that which makes life ,羅伯特肯尼迪在他的演講的末尾提出了完全一致的號召。他說,gdp計算了一切短暫的東西而沒有包涵那些使生命變得有價值的東西哇。 how do we do that? let me say one thing we can just start doing ten years from now, at least in this ?在我們開始這么做之前,讓我先告訴大家一件事兩年前的今天,至少是在這個國家,why in the heck in america are we doing a census in 2010? were spending 10 billion dollars on the 。were asking 10 simple questionsit is all of those questions are 。但是所有的這些問題都是可以觸摸的。theyre about about where you live, how many people you live with, and whether you own your home or ,你和多少人一起住還有你是否擁有你所居住的房子。thats about not asking meaningful not asking important not asking anything thats 。abe maslow said long ago something youve heard before, but you didnt realize it was said, if the only tool you have is a hammer, 馬斯洛很久以前說過的一些我們以前聽說過的,但是你以前并不意識到是他說的他說,“手里拿著個錘子 everything starts to look like a 。84 the reality is, in western countries, quite often we do focus on the pursuit of happiness as if happiness is something that we have to go out事實上是,在西方國家,通常我們注重對快樂的追求 an object that were supposed to get, or maybe many , 正如快樂是一種我們必須非常從外部才能得到的一種我們我們理應得到的東西,和很多其他的東西一樣in fact, if you look in the dictionary, many dictionaries define pursuit