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亨利·福特：我的生活与工作·补录 423
亨利·福特《我的生活与工作》· My Life and Work · 领导
We are--unless I do not read the signs aright--in the midst of a change. It is going on all about us, slowly and scarcely observed, but with a firm surety. We are gradually learning to relate cause and effect. A great deal of that which we call disturbance--a great deal of the upset in what have seemed to be established institutions--is really but the surface indication of something approaching a regeneration. The public point of view is changing, and we really need only a somewhat different point of view to make the very bad system of the past into a very good system of the future. We are displacing that peculiar virtue which used to be admired as hard-headedness, and which was really only wooden-headedness, with intelligence, and also we are getting rid of mushy sentimentalism. The first confused hardness with progress; the second confused softness with progress. We are getting a better view of the realities and are beginning to know that we have already in the world all things needful for the fullest kind of a life and that we shall use them better once we learn what they are and what they mean.
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定位：Additional excerpt 423 · 核对日期：2026-10-19 · 核验：短摘录
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我们正处在变革之中，只是变化缓慢不易察觉。关键是要学会把原因和结果联系起来看。很多看似混乱、制度被颠覆的现象，其实是新生的表面迹象。公众观念在变，只要换一个视角，过去很糟的制度就能变成未来很好的制度。我们正在抛弃那种被误认为精明实则木讷的“硬头脑”，代之以真正的智慧，同时也在摆脱滥情式的感伤。前者把顽固当进步，后者把软弱当进步。我们开始看清现实：世上已具备过充实生活所需的一切，只要弄懂它们是什么、意味着什么，就能用得更好。
上下文
亨利·福特在自传《我的生活与工作》中谈社会转型，认为工业进步需要观念更新，而非固守旧习或空谈感情。
今日一问
你身边有哪些“混乱”其实是新机会的信号？你能否换一个视角重新看待它？
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