指尖阅读 — 我的生涯我做主（二十七）

读书是一种清福，这种境界被吴延康说得直白：“读书身健即是福，种树开花亦是缘。”好一个读书人，好一片读书的心境。我们不是哲学家，能从一滴水中看世界，从一朵花中参悟人生，但我们可以像吴延康这样，静静地做个读书人，在一片芸芸众生里感悟人生收获快乐。

今天我们将继续和大家阅读《 the start-up of you》的下一个部分。

3 plan to Adapt (Part 2)

This philosophy has some serious strengths. It's important to have worthy aspirations. If you are passionate about something,you'll have fun, stay committed, and achieve more. It's also right to invest for the long term; to find out whether you're good at something and whether you like it, you need to stick with it for a meaningful amount of time.

But while these strengths may have made them the right philosophies in past decades, today there are some huge problems with this approach to career planning. First, it presumes a static world, and as wesaw in Chapter 1, the career landscape isn't what it used to be. Deciding where you want to be in ten years and then formulating a plan for getting there might work if our environments were unchanging. It might work if getting from point A to point B in your career were like crossing a lake in a boat on a calm summer's day. But, you're not in a calm lake. You're in a chaotic ocean.Conventional career planning can work under conditions of relative stability,but in times of uncertainty and rapid change, it is seriously limiting, if not dangerous. You will change. The environment around you will change. Your alliesand competitors will change.

Second, this philosophy presumes that fixed,accurate self-knowledge can be easily attained. In fact, lofty questions about identity and moral purpose, along with deceptively simple ones like "What am I passionate about?" take time to work out, and the answers frequently change. It's unwise, no matter your stage of life, to try to pinpoint a single dream around which your existence revolves.

Third, as we learned in the last chapter, just because your heart comes alive at a calling doesn't mean someone will pay you to do it. If you can't find someone who wants to employ you to pursue your dream job, or if you can't financially sustain yourself - that is, earn as alary that allows you to live the lifestyle you prefer - then trying to turn your passion into a career doesn't really get you very far.

热爱和兴趣是我们职业生涯发展的动力，同时也可以支持我们的不断地前进，但是如果遇到了生活的窘境，也许我们可以做出一点点的改变，便会让我们从求生和职业发展两难的境地摆脱出来。