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保罗·格雷厄姆《《如何做出伟大的工作》》· How to Do Great Work · 行动 · 成长 · 投资 · 领导

Believe it or not, I tried to make this essay as short as I could. But its length at least means it acts as a filter. If you made it this far, you must be interested in doing great work. And if so you're already further along than you might realize, because the set of people willing to want to is small. The factors in doing great work are factors in the literal, mathematical sense, and they are: ability, interest, effort, and luck. Luck by definition you can't do anything about, so we can ignore that. And we can assume effort, if you do in fact want to do great work. So the problem boils down to ability and interest. Can you find a kind of work where your ability and interest will combine to yield an explosion of new ideas? Here there are grounds for optimism.

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定位:Essay, additional excerpt 7 · 核对日期:2026-10-19 · 核验:短摘录

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信不信由你,我已尽量把这篇文章写短。但长度至少起了筛选作用:能读到这里,说明你对做大事有兴趣。这已经比你以为的走得远,因为愿意想要做大事的人本来就少。做大事的因素是字面意义上的乘法:能力、兴趣、努力和运气。运气你管不了,先忽略;努力如果你真想,也可以假设有。所以问题归结为能力和兴趣:你能不能找到一种工作,让能力和兴趣相乘,爆发出新想法?这里有理由乐观。

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这是《如何做出伟大的工作》结尾部分,格雷厄姆总结做大事的四个因素,并聚焦于能力和兴趣。

今日一问

你目前的工作里,能力和兴趣相乘得怎么样?可以怎么调整?

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