成就卓越的一種方式：自我選擇 (One way to Greatness: Pick Yourself)

I’ve heard many people say this: “I want to be great”, but most people only just have wild thoughts & imaginations of greatness, their daily plans & actions are pretty normal, nothing out of the extraordinary.

我聽過很多人這樣說：“我想成為偉大的人”，但是大多數人只對偉大有瘋狂的想法和想像力，他們的日常計劃和行動很正常，沒有什么與眾不同。

Let me burst your bubble, Greatness is too handsome, cute, well-polished & uber charismatic to just descend on anyone, you have to seduce it. Yes, I said it, you have to seduce it for a shift of extraordinary attention towards you.

讓我打破你的泡沫，偉大太帥氣，可愛，打磨和超凡魅力，以至于不能落在任何人身上，你必須勾引它。是的，我說過，您必須引誘它，以使您格外注意。

Several people we know like Bill Gates of Microsoft, Mark Zuckerberg of Facebook, Seth Godin of International Marketing that have become successful overtime were not just picked out of the general populace to become successful, they picked themselves by starting something early and consistently following through.

我們認識的一些人，例如微軟的比爾·蓋茨 ，Facebook的馬克·扎克伯格 ，國際營銷的塞斯·戈丁 ，已經成功地加班了，他們不僅僅是從普通大眾中脫穎而出，他們還通過盡早開始并始終如一地跟進來選擇自己。

Seth Godin has been writing blog posts daily on his website for over a decade.

塞思·戈丁(Seth Godin)十多年來每天都在他的網站上撰寫博客文章。

Rebecca Black has reached out to more than 15,000,000 listeners, like it or not, without a record label by just making videos and uploading it to youtube consistently.

麗貝卡·布萊克(Rebecca Black)通過制作視頻并將其始終上傳到youtube，已經達到了1500萬聽眾，無論喜歡與否，沒有唱片公司。

Amanda Hocking is making a million dollars a year publishing her own work to the Kindle. No publisher.

阿曼達·霍金 ( Amanda Hocking )每年將自己的作品發布到Kindle上可賺取一百萬美元。沒有發布者。

Reject the tyranny of being picked: Pick Yourself — Seth Godin

拒絕被挑釁的暴政：挑剔自己—賽斯·戈丁(Seth Godin)

It’s a cultural instinct to wait to get picked. A lot of people try to seek permission or get a badge of approval from other people before actually getting down to work. It’s very common especially amongst young people looking for jobs, they submit their resumes to HR and just wait. They are simply just waiting to get “picked”. Meanwhile, there are one thousand and one things they could be doing at that time that could result in something more elegant & successful than the job they sent in their resume for.

等待被采摘是一種文化本能。許多人在實際開始工作之前嘗試尋求許可或獲得其他人的認可。尤其是在尋找工作的年輕人中，這很普遍，他們將簡歷提交給HR并等待。他們只是在等待被“挑選”。同時，他們當時可能要做的一千零一件事可能比他們發送簡歷所要完成的工作更為優雅和成功。

Once you reject that impulse and realize that no one is going to select you — that Prince Charming has chosen another house — then you can actually get to work — Seth Godin

一旦您拒絕了這種沖動，并且意識到沒有人會選擇您-迷人的王子已經選擇了另一所房子-那么您實際上就可以開始工作了-塞斯·戈丁

The good thing about our world ( ideally, should be a bad thing I guess) is that we are always faced with problems seeking solutions and people are just waiting. Generally, no one wants to tackle the hard stuff but the people we celebrate and applaud daily are the ones that tackled them or at least tried to provide those solutions no matter how minute. Opportunities abound once you realize that you have all the resources and permission you need to solve people’s problems or add value to their lives.

關于我們這個世界的好處(理想情況下，我想應該是一件壞事)是，我們總是面臨尋求解決方案的問題，人們只是在等待。通常，沒有人想解決難題，但是我們每天慶祝和鼓掌的人都是解決難題的人，或者至少試圖提供解決方案，無論多么微小。一旦意識到自己擁有解決人們的問題或為他們的生活增值所需的全部資源和權限，機會將無處不在。

I’m a 23-year-old Software Developer, and in a bid not to be an ordinary person just depleting earth’s natural resources I decided to open a blog where I write technical articles that teach people how to program. I also decided to start contributing to open source to hone my skills. I’ve sent in several pull requests to several open source projects, some were rejected and some were accepted. I’ve gotten at least 3 PRs merged into Laravel Framework. I also personally decided to start building libraries, packages & modules. Every day for the past 7 months, I have been committing & pushing stuff to Github.

我是23歲的軟件開發人員，為了不讓普通人僅僅消耗地球的自然資源，我決定打開一個博客，在其中寫一些技術文章來教人們如何編程。我還決定開始為開源做貢獻，以磨練我的技能。我已經向幾個開源項目發送了一些請求請求，一些請求被拒絕，一些被接受。我至少已經將3個PR合并到Laravel Framework中。我個人還決定開始構建庫，包和模塊。在過去的7個月中，我每天都致力于和推動Github的發展。

During this period, I have had the opportunity of creating about 15 PHP/Laravel packages, 4 npm modules & 3 bower components that people around the world have downloaded & used at various points. I currently have plans to build libraries & components for iOs, Python & Django.

在此期間，我有機會創建了大約15個PHP / Laravel軟件包，4個npm模塊和3個Bower組件，世界各地的人們已下載并使用了這些組件。我目前有計劃為iO，Python和Django構建庫和組件。

Just recently I developed & released a Laravel Hackathon Starter Pack project to get developers easily started with Hackathons and MVPs and to my surprise it got lots of attention. Within 4 days of release to the public, it amassed over 500 stars on Github, the project started trending on Github & also got me to trend on Github as a top #PHP dev in the world.

最近，我開發并發布了Laravel Hackathon入門包 該項目使開發人員可以輕松地開始使用Hackathons和MVP，而令我驚訝的是，它受到了很多關注。在向公眾發布后的4天內，它在Github上積累了500顆星，該項目在Github上開始流行，并讓我在Github上成為全球頂級#PHP開發人員。

I also got reviews from some popular sites like Laravel Daily & Laravel News

我也從Laravel Daily和Laravel News等熱門網站獲得評論

It got lots of people to follow me on Twitter, GitHub & Facebook and a lot of “Good Job, Well done” messages all over Twitter & Facebook. Now, this has absolutely nothing to do with being smart because I consider myself to be one of the least smart persons where I work which is Andela( Too many smart folks in this company) and this might also mean nothing but it has taught me 4 lessons which are:

在T witter ， GitHub和Facebook上有很多人關注我，在Twitter和Facebook上都有很多“干得好，做得好”的消息。現在，這絕對與聰明無關，因為我認為自己是我工作的最不聰明的人之一，即Andela ( 該公司有太多聰明的人 )，這也許也沒有什么意義，但它教會了我4課程包括：

Don’t wait for things to happen, Make things happen.
不要等待事情發生，讓事情發生。
Consistently do great work, don’t stop after a few runs.
始終如一地做好工作，經過幾次跑步后不要停止。
Gone are the days where you do something awesome & wait for people to notice you, PUSH out your work to the public through various channels. Social media has made this very easy for everyone.
已經一去不復返了，你做一些真棒和等待的日子里，為人們注意到你，通過各種渠道推送你的工作給公眾。社交媒體使每個人都很容易做到這一點。
If you stumble, make it part of the dance. Don’t be discouraged.
如果您絆倒了，請使其成為舞蹈的一部分。不要氣our。

I’m not successful yet, not even close, still millions of miles away from my goals but I know my name will eventually be on everyone’s lips at some point & I’ll have added values to millions of lives because I have started well by PICKING MYSELF.

我還沒有成功，甚至沒有實現目標，離目標還有數百萬英里，但我知道我的名字最終會在某個時候在每個人的嘴上，我將為數百萬的生活增添價值，因為自選。

No one is going to pick you. Pick yourself. — Seth Godin

沒有人會去接你。 選擇你自己。 塞斯·戈丁