奥巴马总统 | 关于失败、借口以及成功的建议

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if you are going to try something hard

if you're putting yourself out there in

some way there are going to be times

where you screw up or you don't succeed

excuses are tools of being competent

used to build bridges to nowhere and

monuments of nothingness

you just don't succeed in any endeavor

unless you've got a team that's been

supporting you wanna soar get a mentor

what's that belief nation at seven I

believe in you and this channel is

designed to be a part of your daily

success routine so today let's learn

from one of the best Barack Obama and

some of his best life-changing advice

mentor me Barak also if you want to know

Barack Obama and others have to say

about excellence check out my 254 black

excellence series where every day for

the next 254 days I highlight somebody

new in the black community and shine a

light of excellence on them the link to

join is in the description below maybe

someone in your family has lost their

job and there's not enough money to go

around maybe you live in a neighborhood

where you don't feel safe or have

friends we're pressuring you to do

things you know aren't right

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you

okay let's kick it off with your number

one focus on the right things worry less

about what you want to be and worry more

about what you want to do because when

you what when when you're more concerned

with I want to be a congressman or I

want to be a senator or I want to be

rich then you know some people may

succeed in chasing that that goal but

when they get there they don't know what

to do with it and if they don't get

there they don't have anything to show

for it

but if you're worrying about I want to

improve education in low-income

neighborhoods or I want to deal with

climate change and help save the planet

all right

then whatever you're doing in pursuit of

that goal in and of itself is going to

be worthwhile it and it's going to teach

you things and it's going to put you in

a position to have an impact and then if

it turns out as a result that you also

end up being successful in in in

politics or whatever thing you're

pursuing then so much the better the

most successful business people that I

know Bill Gates didn't start off saying

I want to be the richest man in the

world

he started off saying to himself I

really think these computers are cool

and I want to write cool software that's

what he wanted to do worked out well

form

rule number two stop making excuses we

know that too many young men in our

community continue to make bad choices

and I have to say growing up I made

quite a few myself

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sometimes I wrote off my own failings as

just as another example of the world

trying to keep a black man down I had a

tendency sometimes to make excuses for

me not doing the right thing but one of

the things that all of you have learned

over the last four years is there's no

longer any room for excuses I understand

there's a common fraternity Creed here

at Morehouse excuses are tools of being

competent used to build bridges to

nowhere and monuments of nothingness

well we've got no time for excuses not

because the bitter legacy of slavery and

segregation have vanished entirely they

have not not because racism and

discrimination no longer exists we know

those are still out there

it's just that in today's

hyper-connected hyper competitive world

with millions of young people from China

and India and Brazil many of whom

started with a whole lot less than all

of you did all of them entering the

global workforce alongside you nobody is

going to give you anything that you have

not earned nobody cares how tough your

upbringing was nobody cares if you

suffered some discrimination

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and moreover you have to remember that

whatever you've gone through it pales in

comparison to the hardships previous

generations endured and they overcame

them and if they overcame them you can

overcome up to rule number three build a

great team just don't succeed in any

endeavor unless you've got a team that's

been supporting you and that's part of

my political philosophy it's really

based on my own experience which was if

somebody hadn't been out there looking

out for me starting with my mom my

grandmother my grandfather that I

wouldn't made it it wasn't because of my

brilliance or something that these

things happen it had to do with people

investing in you and so we've got to

make sure we're investing in the next

generation just like somebody invested

in us rule number four learn from

failures with respect to failure it's

terrible but but but necessary if you if

you are going to try something hard if

you're putting yourself out there in

some way there are going to be times

where you screw up or you don't succeed

or there are times where you do

everything right and you still don't

succeed but that's not just true of

politics or running a not-for-profit

that's true some of you talked about

being entrepreneurial if you're starting

a clothing line that's that's a

cutthroat business you know I'm sure you

yeah I have every confidence I out of it

you're gonna succeed at some point but

you'll go through some failures you know

and and I think that the most important

thing and this is a little bit of a

cliche but sometimes clich茅s are true is

to learn from those failures and to have

a sense of resilience and be able to

examine what is it that I did not

succeed at why didn't I succeed and what

do I need to do better if you're focused

on giving of yourself to accomplish

something then even when you fail at a

particular objective

you're still succeeding in learning

about how you can accomplish those goals

and rule number five the last one before

a very special bonus clip is press odd

dr. King once said before we reach the

majestic shores of the promised land

there is a frustrating and bewildering

at wilderness ahead we must still face

prodigious hilltops of opposition and

gigantic mountains of resistance but

with patient and firm determination we

will press on so I don't know about you

CVC but the future rewards those who

press on with patient and firm

determination I'm going to press on for

jobs I'm going to press on for equality

I'm going to press on for the sake of

our children I'm going to press on for

the sake of all those families who are

struggling right now I don't have time

to feel sorry for myself I don't have

time to complain I'm gonna press on I

expect all of you to March with me and

press so take off your bedroom slippers

put on your marching shoes shake it off

stop complaining stop grumbling stop

crying we are going to press on we've

got work to do

now I've got a special bonus gift from

Barack Obama on how to commit to

something bigger that I think you could

enjoy but before that it's time for the

three-point landing questions time to

move from just watching another video to

taking action in your life for business

and if you're feeling bald leave your

answers in the comments below here we go

question number one where do you need to

just press on number two what was the

greatest lesson you learn from your

failures and number three what excuse -

you need to stop making I want to

highlight two main problems with that

old tired me first approach to life

first of all it distracts you from

what's truly important

and it may lead you to compromise your

values and your principles and your

commitments think about it it's in

chasing titles and status in worrying

about the next election rather than the

national interest and the interests of

those who you're supposed to represent

that politicians so often lose their

ways in Washington they spend time

thinking about polls but not about

principle it was in pursuit of gaudy

short-term profits and the bonuses that

came with them that so many folks lost

their way on Wall Street engaging in

extraordinary risks with other people's

money

in contrast the leaders we Revere the

businesses and institutions that last

they are not generally the result of a

narrow pursuit of popularity or personal

advancement but of devotion to some

bigger purpose the preservation of the

Union or the determination to lift a

country out of a depression the creation

of a quality product a commitment to

your customers your workers your

shareholders and your community a

commitment to make sure that an

institution like ASU is inclusive and

diverse and giving opportunity to all

that's the hallmark of real success

if you want more barack obama i took at

the top ten rules video man on him the

link is right there next to me i think

you'll enjoy it

continue to believe and i'll see you

there we don't score a touchdown every

time but we move the ball forward they

spent time thinking about polls but not

about principle