Name: 為什麼很多人明明很努力，卻總是重複著同樣愚蠢的錯誤？- Seth Godin 賽斯·高汀（中英字幕）
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I was trying to understand why people who put a lot of effort in keep making the same dumb mistake.

And the dumb mistake is they do hard work and hard work and hard work and just when they get to the point where everyone else is quitting, they quit too.

Past simple

And if they just stuck it out for two more months or two more years or 20 more years, they get to the other side.

Well we're scared of intent because if you announce your intent even to yourself, it makes it way more likely you're going to fail.

So we go into the store and someone says, can I help you say, I'm just looking.

I'm just looking is a statement of no intent.

And that's the way many people have been trained to go through life because the system wants you to have no intent.

It wants you to do your job, get paid, buy stuff, put it in a storage unit, watch TV, repeat.

And as soon as we start having intent, we hesitate.

We feel like an imposter when we have intent.

But if you can announce your intent, then you can get to who exactly are you seeking to change?

What change exactly are you seeking to make?

If you go to a surgeon, she doesn't just accidentally cut you open.

She says, you have a blocked vein or whatever.

And that action, whether we work for a company or on our own, can fuel us doing ever better work because we can say, I set out to do this and it either worked and I'm sorry it did or it worked and I'm glad it did or I could have done it better and here's how.

And for anyone out there who wants to do it.

Well, I think that all of us have no place to begin but with ourselves.

What would happen to our status with our neighbors and our role in the community if X, Y, or Z happened?

Even the most selfless person on earth, you know, you're diving into a shark infested waters to save someone's life.

Well, yes, saving their life is important but part of the reason it's important is you want to be the kind of person that would have done that act and save that person's life.

Being that kind of person is better than walking away and watching them drown.

So that's where we begin, which is getting clear in our head about what are the shifts we seek to make to become the person we want to be.

And then there's a series of choices we have to make but I think they're easier if we have habits.

Goals are results but you can't, having the goal of I'm going to make a number one best seller, what do you, that didn't tell me anything.

Whereas having the goal of I'm going to write every single day and I'm going to learn this and this and maybe the byproduct is that there's a best seller at the end, those are different things.

And my advice to people is number one, you don't have to be original.

You do not have to pick a way to make a living or an impact that has never been done before in history.

And two, the people who have come before you and gotten to the other side, what path were they on?

So if you want to be a successful cardiac surgeon, you probably need to go to medical school, right?

If you're not going to go to medical school, stop telling me you're going to be a surgeon.

But if you do that and then you get the fellowship and the intern, blah, blah, blah, then you're on your path.

So tell me who's come before you, who has made it through this dip because you can follow that path.

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為什麼很多人明明很努力，卻總是重複著同樣愚蠢的錯誤？- Seth Godin 賽斯·高汀（中英字幕）

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