RT @scientxbt: this is insane. i genuinely don't understand why ambitious people aren't shown this lecture before their careers start consuming their entire lives.
clayton christensen spent his career studying why successful companies collapse. in his final class, he asked students to apply the theory to themselves: if you keep allocating your time the same way, what life are you actually building?
he had already seen the answer in his own harvard mba class. everyone looked successful at the fifth reunion; by the 10th, 15th, 20th, and 25th, many were unhappy, divorced, and living far from their children.
work shows you the score immediately. close a sale, ship a product, finish a presentation, earn a promotion, get paid.
an hour with your child may produce nothing you can measure today; it may take 20 years to understand what that hour built. so the next free hour goes back to work, one rational decision at a time.
this is how people build lives they never planned: through hundreds of right decisions that lead in the wrong direction, day after day.
money, titles, and headcount are easy to count. christensen believed a life should be measured by the people who became better because you were there.
he died in 2020.
one question remains: if someone saw only where your time, energy, and attention went this year, what would they think actually mattered to you?
the full 19-minute lecture is in the video below.
中文: RT @scientxbt:这太疯狂了。我真不明白,为什么在职业生涯开始消耗全部生命之前,没有向有抱负的人展示过这堂讲座。
克莱顿·克里斯滕森在职业生涯中一直研究成功企业倒闭的原因。在最后一堂课上,他要求学生将这一理论应用到自己的生活中:如果你一直以相同的方式分配时间,你究竟在建立什么样的人生?
他已经在自己的哈佛大班里看到了答案。在第五次重聚时,每个人都看起来很成功;到了第十、十五、二十二、二十五节,许多人感到不快,离孩子离婚,生活得离孩子很远。
工作会立即显示分数。完成销售,发货,完成演示,获得晋升,获得报酬。
和孩子在一起一小时可能无法让你今天就无法衡量;可能需要20年才能明白那个小时的建立。因此,下一个空闲时间将重返工作岗位,一次一个理性的决定。
这就是人们如何建立他们从未计划过的生活:通过数百个正确的决策,日复一日地朝着错误的方向发展。
金钱、头衔和人头统计很容易被数数。克里斯滕森认为,生活应该由那些因为你在那里而变得更好的人来衡量。
他于2020年去世。
一个问题仍然存在:如果有人只看到你今年的时间、精力和注意力流向何处,那么他们认为你究竟会有什么重要关系?
完整的19分钟讲座在下方视频中。