指尖阅读—我的生涯我做主（三十六）

读书，使我们有了“少无适俗韵，性本爱秋山”的感情；读书，使我们有了“穷且益坚，不坠青云之志”的信念；读书，使我们有了“行贤面去自贤心，焉往而不美”的故事准绳；读书，使我们有了开启成功与智慧之门的黄金钥匙。

书是美景，读书是饱览美景。足不出户，你可以遍游于千山万水，徜徉于长江黄河之间，看一道残阳铺水中，半江瑟瑟半江红的春江胜景，感忽如一夜春风来，千树万树梨花开的雪景，更有那鱼水之乐游鱼细石，直视无碍。

今天我们将和大家继续阅读《the start-up of   you》的下一章。

Think Two Steps Ahead

Planning and adapting means thinking carefully about your future. Lunging at the first well - paid and / or high-status job you come upon may offer immediate gratification, but it won't get you any closer to building a meaningful career. A goal that can be achieved in a single step is probably not very meaningful - or ambitious. The business professor Clayton Christensen once told graduating students at Harvard Business School,"If you study the root causes of business disasters, over and over you'll find (a) predisposition toward endeavors that offer immediate gratification." At the same time, though, don't do the opposite and think ahead too far in the future. Again, you will change, the world will change, the competition will change. It's why Plan C, Plan D, or Plan E are not part of this framework.

The best thing to do it to think and plan two steps ahead. If you'd like to be promoted from analyst to associate, it may mean a first step of building a relationship with a key partner, or taking a night course to pick up advanced financial management skills before taking that step of marching into the boss's office and asking for that promotion.Sometimes the first step toward a goal is rather simple. A question people sometimes as us is, "What's the best way to get into Silicon Valley start-up?" Well, there are various ways, but the first step is this: move here.

If you're unsure what your first, or even your second, step should be, pick a first step with high option value, meaning that it could lead to a broad range of options. Management consulting is a classic example of career move that maximizes "optionality" because that skills and experiences of consulting can be helpful in and applied toward many other next steps, even if you're not sure what those steps are yet. A good Plan A is one that offers flexibility to pivot to a range of possible Plan B's;similarly, a good first step generates a large number of possible follow-onsecond steps.

我们要通过具有前瞻性的职业生涯设计，减少在人生路上的徘徊和犹豫，为主动迎接未来职业发展的挑战做好充分的准备。

与此同时，我们还要做好不同的计划，未雨绸缪，通过不同的计划来实现我们职业生涯的完美发展。