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How to Be True to Yourself
怎樣做個表里如一的人
My grandparents believed you were either honest or you weren’t. There was no in between. They had a simple motto hanging on their living-room wall: "Life is like a field of newly fallen snow; where I choose to walk every step will show." They didn’t have to talk about it - they demonstrated the motto by the way they lived.
我的祖父母認(rèn)為，人要么誠實，要么不誠實，不可能居于兩者之間。他們在起居室的墻上掛著一幅簡短的箴言：“生活就像剛被白雪覆蓋的原野，無論走到哪兒，都會出現(xiàn)我的腳印。” 他們從不在口頭上做文章----而是身體力行去實踐這句箴言。
They understood instinctively that integrity means having a personal standard of morality and ethics that does not sell out to expediency and that is not relative to the situation at hand. Integrity is an inner standard for judging your behavior. Unfortunately, integrity is in short supply today–and getting scarcer. But it is the real bottom line in every area of society. And it is something we must demand of ourselves.
他們本能地懂得, 誠實意味著有個人道德標(biāo)準(zhǔn), 既不見利忘義, 也不趨炎附勢. 誠實是評判舉止的內(nèi)在標(biāo)準(zhǔn). 遺憾的是, 當(dāng)今社會越練越缺少誠信, 而它卻是社會每一個領(lǐng)域的真正底線, 也是我們對自己的必須要求.
A good test for this value is to look at what I call the Integrity Triad, which consists of three key principles:
檢驗這種價值, 要依據(jù)我所謂的”誠實三和弦”, 它包括三個主要原則：
1.Stand firmly for your convictions in the face of personal pressure. There’s a story told about a surgical nurse’s first day on the medical team at a well-known hospital. She was responsible for ensuring that all instruments and materials were accounted for during an abdominal operation. The nurse said to the surgeon, "You’ve only remove 11 sponges, and we sued 12. We need to find the last one. "
面對個人壓力，要堅定信念。有這樣一個故事：在一個著名的醫(yī)院，一個外科護士第一天到醫(yī)療組上班，在一個腹部手術(shù)中，她負(fù)責(zé)對所有的器材進行清點時，對外科醫(yī)生說：“您只取出11塊紗布，可我們用了12塊，必須找到最后一塊。”
"I removed them all," the doctor declared. "We’ll close now."
“我都取出來了,” 醫(yī)生斷言, “現(xiàn)在要縫合刀口了.”
"You can’t do that, sir," objected the rookie nurse. "Think of the patient." Smiling, the surgeon lifted his foot and showed the nurse the 12th sponge.
“您不能這樣, 先生,” 新來的護士抗議道, “得想想病人,” 外科醫(yī)生抬起腳，笑著給護士看第12塊紗布。
"You’ll do just fine in this or any other hospital," he told her. When you know you’re right, you can’t back down.
他告訴護士：“不論你是在這所醫(yī)院還是其他地方，都會干得很好的。” 當(dāng)你確定自己正確時，就不能退縮。
2.Always give others credit that is rightfully theirs. Don’t be afraid of those who might have a better idea or who might even be smarter than you are.
經(jīng)常贊揚那些值得肯定的人，不要懼怕那些比你更有見解，更機智的人。
David Ogilvy, founder of the advertising firm Ogilvy & Mather, made this point clear of his newly appointed office head by sending each a Russian nesting doll with five progressively smaller figures inside. His message was contained in the smallest doll:
戴維.奧格爾維是奧格爾維和馬瑟廣告公司的創(chuàng)始人，他給每一個新上任的部門經(jīng)理送一個俄羅斯式套娃，里面有一次變小的5個娃娃。最小的一個里面有他的留言，清晰地告訴他們：
"If each of us hires people who are smaller than we are, we shall become a company of dwarfs. But if each of us hires people who are bigger than we are, Ogilvy & Mather will become a company of giants." And that is precisely that the company became one of the largest and most respected advertising organizations in the world.
“如果我們雇用的每個人都比我們矮小，我們就會成為侏儒公司。但是，反過來，如果雇用的人都很高大，奧格爾維和馬瑟將成為巨人公司。” 正是這樣，這個公司后來成為世界上最達最有聲望的廣告公司。
3.Be honest and open about who you really are. People who lack genuine core values rely on external factors - their looks or status in order to feel good about themselves. Inevitably they will do everything they can to preserve this fa?ade, but they will do every little to develop their inner value and personal growth.
真誠、坦率地展現(xiàn)真我風(fēng)采，只有缺乏核心價值觀的人才會依靠外界因素----他們的外貌或地位 ---- 使自我感覺良好。不可避免地，他們會掩飾內(nèi)心，不去培養(yǎng)自己的核心價值，也不注重自我成長。
So be yourself. Don’t engage in a personal cover up of areas that are unpleasing in your life. When it’s tough, do it tough. In other words, face reality and be adult in your responses to life’s challenges.
所以，要做你自己。不要掩飾生活中不盡人意的方方面面，要堅強地面對生活中的困難時刻。換言之，面對現(xiàn)實，要成熟地應(yīng)對生活中的種種挑戰(zhàn)。
