33.How do you know you're making progress

33.How do you know you're making progress?
This year we put forward a new concept called "climbing mode". To put it simply, there will rarely be a certain upward channel in life in the future. Every step up, you have to test your choice ability and climbing ability in the present, which is of course rock climbing.
Someone asked, how can I know which gripper to grasp next? Just these two days, I saw a sentence by Timothy Snyder, a historian of Yale University. He said, "old friends are the last thing you can rely on; Making new friends is the first step to change the situation. "
You see, if you really don't know how to choose next, you should make a new friend, which is already climbing up.
Of course, I don't mean a general understanding. To make friends means to really get along well with a person, to be recognized in value and accepted in relationship, and he will bring you into a new circle.
In fact, any progress of people will be reflected in this new change in interpersonal relationship. This is also a golden thread to test whether we are really making progress.
你怎么知道自己在进步？
今年我们提出来一个新概念，叫“攀岩模式”。简单说就是，今后很少再会有那种确定性的人生上升通道了。人每往上走一步，都要考验你在当下的选择能力和攀爬能力，这当然就是攀岩了。
有人就问了，那我怎么知道下一步该抓住哪块抓手呢？正好这两天我看到耶鲁大学历史学家提摩西·史奈德的一句话，他说，“老朋友是你能依赖的最后依靠；而结交的新朋友则是改变现状的第一步。”
你看，如果实在不知道下面该怎么选的话，那就去结交一个新朋友，这本身就已经在向上攀岩。
当然，我指的不是泛泛的认识。结交，是指真的和一个人相处愉快，在价值上被认可、在关系上被接纳，他会把你带进一个新圈子。
其实，人的任何进步，都会体现为人际关系上的这种新变化。这也是检验我们是不是真的在进步的一根金线啊。
重点词汇
put forward 提出 ; 推荐
in the future 今后
climbing ability 爬升能力，爬高能力
rock climbing 攀岩
Yale University 耶鲁大学
last thing 最后一件事;临睡前