替你总结自己的职业生涯

 你了解自己吗？了解自己的职业吗？了解自己的欲求吗？希望下面这篇文章能帮助你找到答案。

1. Where are you are in your career? 你处于职业生涯的哪个位置?

First quarter 1/4处Second quarter 2/4处Third quarter 3/4处Fourth quarter 4/4处Retired 退休2. How do you assess yourself in your profession? 在职业中，你如何来评估自己Just getting started 才开始Intermediate 中等High-performer 高表现者Expert 专家World class 世界级3. What percent of your focus is on the following (for a total of 100%)? 对以下你的关注百分比是多少(一共是100%)To excel and achieve personal success: ____ % 在个人成功方面出类拔萃，并取得个人成功To make others around me successful: ____ % 让我周围的人成功4. What three things have the greatest meaning in your life? 哪三件事情在你生命中有最大的意义?

5. Have you found your life's calling? 你找到了自己的"天职"吗?

Not looking 没有在寻找Still searching 依然在寻找I think so 我自认为找到了Definitely 绝对是找到了6. How great an impact do you believe your life's calling can ultimately have? 你认为你的“天职”会产生多大影响?

Meaningful at an individual level 在个人级别上有意义Important at the local level 在某个范围内有意义Significant for the community at large 对整个社会有意义World-changing 能带来世界性的改变7. How close are you to realizing this potential? 你离实现这个潜能有多么远?

Just starting to make a dent¹ 才开始出一点成绩About a quarter of the way there 完成了1/4了About halfway² there 完成了1/2了Almost there 几乎实现了Keep your answers in mind as you continue reading. 在继续阅读的时候，请记住你对以上问题给出的答案。

Beyond Success 超越成功Over the past two decades I've had the opportunity to advise and recruit many extraordinary individuals. Often, these are people who have reached the pinnacle³ of success. Yet what's become clear to me is that reaching even the highest-profile, highest-paid, or highest-prestige positions isn't what's most important. 在过去的二十年里，我有机会聘请许多杰出的人物并给他们建议。这些人大多都取得了辉煌的成功。然而我认识到（在他们的职业生涯中），获得最高评价、最高收入或最高声望誉的职位都不是最重要的。

Sure, it's great to achieve all these things, and very few who do complain about it. But whether they've already reached the top, are just starting out, or are somewhere along the way, almost everyone yearns⁴ -- especially when they take the time to reflect -- for something more fundamentally gratifying in their lives. 当然，要实现所有这些是很好，而且不会有多少人会去抱怨这些东西。但是，不论是否他们已经到达了巅峰，还是刚刚起步，还是正在路上，几乎人人都在渴求生活中更基本的令人满意的事情，这种欲望在他们反思的时候尤为强烈。

1 dent   

n.凹痕，凹坑；初步进展

参考例句：

• I don't know how it came about but I've got a dent in the rear of my car.我不知道是怎么回事，但我的汽车后部有了一个凹痕。
• That dent is not big enough to be worth hammering out.那个凹陷不大，用不着把它锤平。

2 halfway   

adj.中途的，不彻底的，部分的；adv.半路地，在中途，在半途

参考例句：

• We had got only halfway when it began to get dark.走到半路，天就黑了。
• In study the worst danger is give up halfway.在学习上，最忌讳的是有始无终。

3 pinnacle   

n.尖塔，尖顶，山峰；(喻)顶峰

参考例句：

• Now he is at the very pinnacle of his career.现在他正值事业中的顶峰时期。
• It represents the pinnacle of intellectual capability.它代表了智能的顶峰。

4 yearns   

渴望，切盼，向往( yearn的第三人称单数 )

参考例句：

• Every man yearns for sympathy in sorrow. 每个遇到不幸的人都渴望得到同情。
• What I dread is to get into a rut. One yearns for freshness of thought and ideas. 我害怕的就是墨守成规。人总是向往新思想和新观念的。