双语新闻：Zuora创始人兼CEO 成功三分靠自身七分靠环境

2014-07-08 15:39:25来源：可可英语

　　8. What was the most important thing you learned in school?

　　8. 你在学校学到的最重要的东西是什么?

　　I’d say there are two things. I was an electrical engineering major. I can’t say that I liked it, and that’s why I’m not an electrical engineer today. I remember learning this while having to take weed out courses in my sophomore and junior years: What it taught me was that you can do anything if you put your mind to it. That was a really important lesson. You become less daunted about things. I think as we grow, we get so used to being in our comfort zone that we lose the ability to tackle new things.

　　我要说两点。我学的专业是电气工程，说不上喜欢，这也是今天我没有成为电气工程师的原因。我记得在大二和大三，我在修专业课的同时还得去上筛选课程。我从中学到的是，如果专心致志，就能做成任何事情。这一课真的很重要。这会让你变得不那么容易气馁。我觉得随着年龄的增长，我们会习惯于待在让自己舒服的环境里，这会让我们失去接纳新事物的能力。

　　Now that I have a 4-year-old, and I see the opposite, where she’s tackling everything, I think the idea that you can learn anything is really important. The second thing is that when you go to business school and you learn about accounting and such, that’s all nice, but the big lesson in business is that at the end of the day, it’s all about people. It’s the organizational behavior classes are really important. Stanford has this class called “Touchy-Feely,” which is all about interpersonal dynamics. You learn about how you impact people and how people perceive you. It was a great class because in the end, it’s all about people; it’s all about relationships.

　　现在我有了一个四岁的女儿，她让我看到了截然相反的情况，什么东西她都会去探索。我觉得自己能学会任何东西的观念真的很重要。第二点是，进入商学院后会学到会计等课程。这些课程都很好，但我在经营方面的重要经验是，最终发挥作用的还是人。真正重要的是组织行为课程。斯坦福大学(Stanford)有一门课叫“Touchy-Feely”，内容就是人际关系。学生们学的是自己如何影响别人以及别人怎么看待自己。这门课很棒，因为最终起作用的还是人，是人际关系。

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