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奥里森·斯威特·马登:向前进·摘录 351

奥里森·斯威特·马登《向前进》· Pushing to the Front · 领导

"I felt that I was in the world to do something, and thought I must," said Whittier, thus giving the secret of his great power. It is the man who must enter law, literature, medicine, the ministry, or any other of the overstocked professions, who will succeed. His certain call, that is his love for it, and his fidelity to it, are the imperious factors of his career. If a man enters a profession simply because his grandfather made a great name in it, or his mother wants him to, with no love or adaptability for it, it were far better for him to be a motor-man on an electric car at a dollar and seventy-five cents a day. In the humbler work his intelligence may make him a leader; in the other career he might do as much harm as a bowlder rolled from its place upon a railroad track, a menace to the next express.

出处: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/21291
定位:Excerpt 351 · 核对日期:2026-10-19 · 核验:短摘录

白话

诗人惠蒂尔说:“我觉得自己来到世上是要做一件事的,而且非做不可。”这正是他力量的秘密。真正能成功的是那种“非进不可”的人——进法律、文学、医学、神职或任何已经人满为患的行业都一样。他明确的召唤,也就是对这件事的热爱和忠诚,才是事业里最硬的因素。如果一个人入行只是因为祖父在这行有名,或母亲希望他做,自己既不爱也不适合,那还不如去开电车,一天挣一块七毛五。在卑微的工作里,他的聪明可能让他成为领头人;在错的行当里,他可能像从山上滚到铁轨上的大石头,成为下一班快车的祸害。

上下文

马登引用美国诗人惠蒂尔的话,讨论职业选择中内在召唤与家庭安排之间的取舍。

今日一问

你现在的职业选择,有多少是出于自己的“非做不可”,多少是替家人完成心愿?

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