托福阅读材料LinkedIn CEO赠给年轻人的三个建议.docxVIP

智课网TOEFL备考资料 托福阅读材料之LinkedIn CEO赠给年轻人的三个建议 Looking back over my career to date, I can identify at least three clear influences that forever altered my career path. In retrospect, its interesting to see how different the context was for each: parental advice, a passage in a book, and a persistent boss. Despite the contrasts, all three share one thing in common -- reinforcing the importance of knowing what it is you ultimately want to accomplish, and being open to allowing outside forces to help clarify, reinforce and facilitate the path to making it happen.  回顾我的职业生涯，我可以总结出至少三种力量永远的改变了我的生涯道路，它们是父母的建议、书本的启发和一个坚持的老板。忽略三者之间的差异，有一点是共同的：它们都认为最重要的是你知道自己最终想要什么，和擅于利用外界力量帮助你澄清并实现你的生涯梦想。  Here are the three pieces of advice that helped shape my career:  以下是改变我职业生涯的三条建议：  1. You can do anything you set your mind to  1. 你可以做到一切你一心想做的事  As a child, I cant recall a day that went by without my dad telling me I could do anything I set my mind to. He said it so often, I stopped hearing it. Along with lines like eat your vegetables, I just assumed it was one of those bromides that parents repeated endlessly to their kids. It wasnt until decades later that I fully appreciated the importance of those words and the impact they had on me.  在我还是个孩子的时候，我的父亲每天都会告诉我：你可以做到一切你一心想做的事。他常把这句话挂在嘴边，就像他常说：“吃掉你的青菜”。我以为这句话就像其它父母总是会不停对子女唠叨的老生常谈一样，直到多年以后我才明白这句话背后的分量和它对我的影响。  Today, the question Im asked most often by students and interns is how best to achieve their career goals. As simple as it sounds, the short version of my response is that you have to know what it is you ultimately want to accomplish (optimizing for both passion and skill, and not one at the exclusion of the other). As soon as you do, youll begin manifesting it in both explicit and implicit ways. ithout question, this first principle has been the most consistent driver of my own career path over the last 20 years.  今天，我最常被学生和实习生们问到的问题就是什么是实现他们生涯目标的最佳方式。我会用最简