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奥里森·斯威特·马登:向前进·摘录 390
奥里森·斯威特·马登《向前进》· Pushing to the Front · 领导
Choose upward, study the men in the vocation you think of adopting. Does it elevate those who follow it? Are they broad, liberal, intelligent men? Or have they become mere appendages of their profession, living in a rut with no standing in the community, and of no use to it? Don't think you will be the great exception, and can enter a questionable vocation without becoming a creature of it. In spite of all your determination and will power to the contrary, your occupation, from the very law of association and habit, will seize you as in a vise, will mold you, shape you, fashion you, and stamp its inevitable impress upon you. How frequently do we see bright, open-hearted, generous young men come out of college with high hopes and lofty aims, enter a doubtful vocation, and in a few years return to college commencement so changed that they are scarcely recognized. The once broad, noble features have become contracted and narrowed. The man has become grasping, avaricious, stingy, mean, hard. Is it possible, we ask, that a few years could so change a magnanimous and generous youth?
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定位:Excerpt 390 · 核对日期:2026-10-19 · 核验:短摘录
白话
选择职业要往上看,先研究一下你想进入的行业里那些人。这个行业是否让从业者变得更高尚?他们是心胸开阔、有见识的人,还是成了职业的附属品,生活僵化、在社区里毫无地位、对社会没用?别以为自己会是例外,能进入一个有问题的行业而不被它改变。不管你的决心和意志多强,由于联想和习惯的规律,职业会像钳子一样抓住你,塑造你、打磨你,给你打上不可避免的印记。我们常看到聪明、开朗、大方的年轻人满怀希望和理想走出大学,进入一个可疑的行业,几年后回到母校,变化大得几乎认不出来。原本宽厚高尚的面貌变得狭隘,人变得贪婪、吝啬、刻薄、冷酷。我们不禁要问,短短几年真能把一个慷慨大方的青年变成这样吗?
上下文
马登在《奋力向前》中告诫年轻人,职业环境对人的塑造力极强,选择职业时要看它把人变成什么样。
今日一问
你所在的行业或岗位,正在把你塑造成什么样的人?你愿意接受这种塑造吗?
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