入世第一课 THE FIRST LESSON OF ENTERING THE SECULAR WORLD

　　杨钊

　　Author: Charles Yeung

　　Translated by Soula Lo

　　年青人走入社会，开始创业时，首先要注意些什么？我认为企业和个人要想取得成功，第一个门槛，称之为「入世第一课」，就是「目标与责任」。

　　When young people step into society and start their career, what do they need to pay attention to first

　　 In my opinion, if an enterprise or a person desires success, the first threshold is to have goals and responsibility. This is called “The first lesson of entering the secular world”.

　　小时候读书，认为长大后要做出成绩，最重要是「立志」，也就是要有志向和理想。现在企业的经营者，要想取得成功，没有目标，很难到达目的地。事业的成功有赖把长远的目标订立出来，然后分阶段去追求、去落实。又或者先有小目标，然后到达了小目标之后，再寻找下一个目标，一个个目标去达到，从而走上一个较高或较大的目标，积少成多，集石成塔。要想达到目标，重要在于行动，故古有「千里之行，始于足下」的名训。其次，目标不宜订得太多，不宜订得太高，太多则乱，不知往那方向努力，太高则力所不逮，打击「信心」，所以俗语说「实事求是、脚踏实地」是成功要诀。

　　When we were children and studied at school, we thought in order to have good achievement, the most important thing was to make a resolution, which means we needed to have ambition and ideals. Nowadays, if businessmen in enterprises desire success, they cannot get to their destination without a goal. The success of a career depends on setting long-term goals, piding them into different phases, then pursuing and executing those goals step by step. Or we can start with small goals; after we achieve the small goal, then look for the next goal, and achieve each one by one. Thus move on to higher or bigger goals, and accumulate them from a few to many, as if collecting rocks to build a tower. If we want to achieve our goals, the most important thing is to have a plan of action. We have an ancient famous saying which said “A thousand mile walk starts from beneath the feet.” Secondarily, we should not set too many goals, and should not set goals too high either. Too many goals would cause confusion; we may not know which direction we should put our efforts toward. If the goals are too high, we would not be able to achieve them, which would strike down our confidence. Therefore, this idiom: “Follow the facts, and stand on solid ground” is the key to success.

　　迈向成功的另一个重要因素是「责任」。它是动力的泉源，它可以推动人们努力工作、勤奋工作、拼命工作，有了「责任」，就会自动自觉地寻找工作做、拼命地工作。「责任」有个人责任、家庭责任、家族责任、企业责任、社会责任和对国家的责任。

　　Another important element toward success is responsibility. It is the source of power, which can motivate people to work hard, work diligently, and do our very best. If we have responsibility, we would voluntarily look for more work to do, and work as hard we can. Responsibility includes: inpidual responsibility, family responsibility, clan responsibility, enterprise responsibility, social responsibility and responsibility to our nations.

　　首先，人们要肩负起对自己的责任和家庭的责任，如果没有责任，人们就会没劲，没劲就容易放弃，容易逃避，这是最令人瞧不起的人，也就是没有出息的人，所以现在管理学选出人生最失败的东西是「放弃」。

　　First, people need to carry their own responsibility and family responsibility. If people have no responsibility, they would lose enthusiasm. Without enthusiasm, they would give up or run away easily. These kinds of people are despised by others the most, and they have no future at all. Therefore, management science studies chose “giving up” as the worse failure.

　　要肩负责任，自己要有「责任的感觉」，称之为「责任感」。有了「责任感」，自己就会对自己说，要担起自己的责任；自己能站立起来，又或者说，自己能担起家庭的责任。进一步是担负起家族，以及企业的责任。在意识中树立起挑担子的「观念」。由于这一个「观念」，是自己对自己说的，也是心甘情愿的，所以称之为「意诚」。要成大事的人，要成为有用的人，儒家总结了许多案例，归纳人生要想成功，第一步必须由「心」开始，由自己开始，这一步称为「意诚」，也是最重要的一步。但是，社会上理论研究者往往把这一步忘记了，又或者有意无意地把它忽略，致使世人不重视。

　　To carry responsibility, one needs to have the feeling of being responsible; this is called “the sense of responsibility”. If one has the sense of responsibility, he or she would tell himself to take up his own responsibility, and stand up by himself, or we could say, one could carry his family”s responsibility. The next step is to carry the responsibility for the whole clan and the enterprise. Consciously setting up a concept of carrying responsibility. Because this concept is what one tells himself, and one is d…

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