指尖阅读—你的生涯你做主（十四）

书是灯，读书照亮了前面的路；书是桥，读书接通了彼此的岸；书是帆，读书推动了人生的船。读书是一门人生的艺术，因为读书，人生才更精彩！

随着《the start-up of you》的深入，我们将会带来更多有意思的内容。

The start – up of you Mind-set: Permanent Beta

Technology companies sometimes keep the beta test phase label on software for a time after the official launch to stress that the product is not finished so much as ready for the next batch of improvements. Gmail, for example, launched in 2004 but only left official beta in 2009, after millions of people were already using it. Jeff Bezos,founder / CEO of Amazon, concludes every annual letter to share holders by reminding readers, as he did in his first annual letters in 1997, that “it’s still Day 1” of the Internet and of Amazon.com: “Though we are optimistic, we must remain vigilant and maintain a sense of urgency”. In other words, Amazonis never finished: it’s always Day 1. For entrepreneurs, finished is an F-word.They know that great companies are always evolving.

Finished ought to be an F-word for all of us. We are all works in progress. Each day presents an opportunity to learn more, do more, be more, grow more in our lives and careers. Keeping your career in permanent beta forces you to acknowledge that you have bugs,that there’s new development to do on yourself,  that you will need to adapt and evolve. But it’s still a mind-set brimming with optimism because it celebrates the fact that you have the power to improve yourself and , as important,improve the world around you.

Andy Hargadon, head of the entrepreneurship center at the University of California-Davis says that formany people “twenty year of experience” is really one year of experience repeated twenty times. If you’re in permanent beta in your career, twenty years of experience actually is twenty year of experience because each will be marked by new, enriching challenges and opportunities. Permanent beta is essentially a lifelong commitment to continuous personal growth.

Get busy livin’ , or get busy dyin’. If you’re not growing, you are contracting. If you’re not moving forward, you’re moving backward.

什么是初心？初心，就是在人生的起点所许下的梦想，是一生渴望抵达的目标。

每个人的人生开始，都不缺乏各种各样的梦想，只是随着时间的推移，生活的磨砺，让我们越来越执著于眼前，淡忘了曾经的愿望。梦想是一个人出发的起点。不忘初心，才会让人知道，我们从什么地方来，要到什么地方去。不管在怎样的年龄，都有踏上征程的勇气。

企业亦是如此，只要记住创立的初心，就会达到最终的目标。