摘要：Amateurs think that if they were inspired all the time, they could be professionals. Professionals know that if they relied on ins

Day 362: On Professionalism

第362天：关于专业性

Amateurs think that if they were inspired all the time, they could be professionals. Professionals know that if they relied on inspiration, they’d be amateurs.

业余爱好者认为，如果他们一直都有灵感，他们就能成为专业人士。

专业人士知道，如果依赖灵感，他们就是业余人士。

—Philip Pullman

Inspiration is important to get you to start working on your goals, but you can’t rely on it alone if you want to pursue excellence and become a high performer. The keys to professionalism are:

灵感对于让自己开始努力实现目标非常重要，但如果你想追求卓越，成为高绩效人才，就不能仅仅依靠灵感。专业性的关键在于：

1. Routine. Don’t wait for inspiration to strike you. In an ideal world you’d be inspired all the time, always pumped up to work. In the real world, you’re probably going to be uninspired more often than you’ll be inspired. Yet, if you want to become professional, you need to deliver on both good and bad days.

1.例行公事。

不要等待灵感的降临。

在理想的世界里，你随时都会受到启发，工作起来总是干劲十足。

但在现实世界中，你可能更多的时候是没有灵感的。

然而，如果你想成为专业人士，你就需要在好日子和坏日子里都有所表现。

Establish a routine of what you need to produce each day (whether it’s 1000 words of a book, playing the guitar for an hour, making 50 sales calls, or learning 20 new words in a foreign language) and stick to it, regardless of your mood.

不管你的心情如何，制定一个每天需要完成的任务清单（无论是写1000字的书、弹奏吉他一小时、打50个销售电话，还是学习20个外语单词），并坚持下去。

2. Reliability. If you give a promise, you fulfill it — and that includes any promise you make to yourself. This also means sticking to deadlines and resisting the temptation to extend them just because they’re difficult to meet.

2.可靠性。

如果你做出了承诺，就必须兑现——这包括你对自己做出的所有承诺。

这也意味着要坚守最后期限，抵制诱惑，不要因为难以实现而延长期限。

3. Constant improvement. Amateurs dabble, while professionals constantly improve their craft. Always seek new ways to improve your performance and avoid the laziness of rejecting new, possibly better methods, just because they can disrupt your current way of doing things.

3.不断进步。

业余者只是浅尝辄止，而专业人士则会不断精进自己的技艺。

要不断寻求提升自己表现的新方法，避免因懒惰而拒绝尝试新的、可能更好的方法，仅仅因为它们可能会打乱你目前的做事方式。

来源：弘霖教育