The Career Capital Theory of Great Work
1：The traits that define great work are?rare and valuable.
2：Supply and demand says that if you want these traits you need rare and:valuable skills to offer in return. Think of these rare and valuable skillsyou can offer as your?career capital.
3：The craftsman mindset, with its relentlessfocus on becoming “so goodthey can’t ignore you,” is a strategy well suited for acquiring careercapital. This is why it trumps the passion mindset if your goal is tocreate work you love.
如何做到優(yōu)秀到不能被忽視
Step 1: Decide What Capital Market You’re In
你處于什么資本市場
When you areacquiring career capital in a field, you can imagine that you are acquiring this capital in a specific type of career capital market.
There are two types of these markets: winner-take-all and auction.?
In a winner-take-all market, thereis only one type of career capital available, and lots of different peoplecompeting for it.?
Television writing is a winner-take-all market because all that matters is your ability to write good scripts. That is, the only capital typeis your script-writing capability.
贏家通吃市場：只有一種職業(yè)資本夯膀，而許多不同人競爭同一個方向娃肿。比如電視編劇就是個贏家通吃的市場罗晕，只關(guān)乎你你的寫作能力。
An auction market, by contrast, is less structured: There are many different types of career capital, and each person might generate a unique collection.
競拍市場：構(gòu)成就沒那么固定了妄田，會有很多種不同類型的職業(yè)資本，可能每個人都有自己的特殊技能。
With this in mind, the first task in building a deliberate practice strategy isto figure out what type of career capital market you are competing in.
Step 2: Identify Your Capital Type
確定資本類型
Once you’ve identified your market, you must then identify the specific typeof capital to pursue.
一旦你確定了你的市場上陕，就要確定要最求的特定的資本類型扬跋。
If you’re in a winner-take-all market, this is trivial: By definition, there’s only one type of capital that matters.
如果是贏家通吃市場阶捆，只要一種資本重要。
For an auction market, however, you have flexibility. A useful heuristic in this situation is to seek open gates—opportunities to build capital that are already open to you.
如果是競拍市場機(jī)會相對靈活胁住。
The advantage of open gates is that they get you farther faster, in terms of career capital acquisition, than starting from scratch.
In other words, it’s hard to start from scratch in a new field. If, for example, Mike had decided to leave Stanford to go work for a private sustainability non-profit,he would have been starting at the ground floor with no particular leg up. By instead leveraging his Stanford education to gain a position with a Stanford professor, he was acquiring valuable capital much sooner.
Step 3: Define “Good”
定義什么是“好”
It’s at this point, once you’ve identified exactly what skill to build, that you can, for guidance, begin to draw from the research on deliberate practice. The first thing this literature tells us is that you need clear goals. If you don’t know where you’re trying to get to, then it’s hard to take effective action.
一旦你確定要發(fā)展什么技能趁猴，首要事是要有明確的目標(biāo)。
Geoff Colvin, an editor at Fortune magazine who wrote a book on deliberate practice, put it this way in an article that appeared in Fotune: “[Deliberatepractice] requires good goals.”
Step 4: Stretch and Destroy
伸展和破壞
Doing things we know how to do well is enjoyable, and that’s exactly?the opposite of what deliberate practice demands…. Deliberate?practice is above all an effort of focus and concentration. That is what?makes it “deliberate,” as distinct from the mindless playing of scales?or hitting of tennis balls that most people engage in.
把事情做好還不夠彪见，你還需要走出自己的舒適區(qū)儡司，進(jìn)行伸展，才有機(jī)會變的更好余指。
If you show up and do what you’re told, you will, as Anders Ericsson explained earlier in this chapter, reach an “acceptable level” of ability before plateauing.
The good news about deliberate practice is that it will push you past this plateau and into a realm where you have little competition.?
The bad news is that the reason so few people accomplish this feat is exactly because of the trait Colvin warned us about: Deliberate practice is often the opposite of enjoyable.
通過刻意練習(xí)捕犬，你會通過高原區(qū)，而后進(jìn)入少有對手的水平酵镜。但是大部分人是無法做到的碉碉，因?yàn)榭梢跃毩?xí)是與享受相對立的。
Stretching is the precondition to getting better.
This is what you should experience in your own pursuit of “good.” If you’re not uncomfortable, then you’re probably stuck at an “acceptable level.”
Pushing past what’s comfortable, however, is only one part of the deliberate-practice story; the other part is embracing honest feedback—even if it destroys what you thought was good.
走出舒適區(qū)只是可以練習(xí)的一部分淮韭，另一部分需要真實(shí)的反饋垢粮。真實(shí)的反饋會毀掉你認(rèn)為好的事情。
As Colvin explains in his Fortune article, “You may think that your rehearsal of a job interview was flawless,but your opinion isn’t what counts.”
你認(rèn)為你的面試排練是完美無缺的靠粪，但是你的觀點(diǎn)并不算數(shù)蜡吧。
It’s so tempting to just assume what you’ve done is good enough and check it off your to-do list, but it’s in honest,sometimes harsh feedback that you learn where to retrain your focus in order to continue to make progress.
Step 5: Be Patient
耐心
Acquiring capital can take time.
Without this patient willingness to reject shiny new pursuits, you’ll derail your efforts before you acquire the capital you need.
It captures well the feel of how career capital is actually acquired: You stretch yourself, day after day,month after month, before finally looking up and realizing, “Hey, I’ve become pretty good, and people are starting to notice.”
