指尖阅读—我的生涯我做主（三十四）

宠辱不惊，闲看书卷奥秘，去留无意，漫随书卷人生。阅书，读己，追随心灵的净土！多读书，行万里路。好读书，开卷有益。读好书，良师益友。勤读书，学海无涯。

今天我们将继续和大家一起阅读《the start-up of you》的下一章。

Learning by doing

Entrepreneurs penetrate the fog of the unknown by testing their hypotheses through trial and error. Any entrepreneurs (and any expert on cognition / learning) will tell you that practical knowledge is best developed by doing, not just thinking or planning. At Flicker, there was anassumption that a multiplayer online game would have the most uptake. It was only by launching it, gauging user feedback, and building new side features like photo sharing every several weeks, that the team learned where the real opportunity lay. In the early days of LinkedIn, the plan was to have members invite their trusted connections by email - an invitation mechanism would fuel membership growth. But it turned out that the best way to enable viral spread was actually to enable members to upload their address books and see who elsewas on the service already.

For careers, too, you don't know what the best plan is until you try. It was only after I spent time in that graduate program that I learned academia wasn't the path for me. When I moved to the business world, I mistakenly thought my competitive advantage was being able to hold complexity in my head and master abstractions. But when I started working, I discovered my real advantage in the Internet industry was having the ability to think simultaneously about individual psychology and social dynamics on amassive scale.

Learning by doing. Not sure if you can break into the pharmaceutical industry? Spend six months interning at Pfizer making connections and see what happens. Curious whether marketing or product development is a better fit than what you currently do? If you work in acompany where those functions exit, offer to help out for free. Whatever the situation, actions, not plans, generate lessons that help you test your hypotheses against reality. Action help you discover where you want to go and how to get there.

在实操中学习！通过亲生体验，找到最适合自己的工作职位。

如果你感觉到犹豫、恐慌、紧张、担忧、抗拒之类的情绪，停下来，再给自己多一点点时间，问问为什么会这样？工作中的什么让你产生这些情绪？

如果你发现自己非常渴望下一周的工作，有种恨不能穿越时空要去爱的感觉，停下来，快停下来，问自己为什么？当前工作中的哪些因素让你如此兴奋、享受、快感不断……找到它，记录下来，分析它们。