Week 7 – Understand the Skills You Have and Employ Them
第七周—懂得你所具有的技能并运用它们
In Week 6 we discussed the entrepreneurial journey andappreciating the struggles we have along the way and learning from them. Thisweek I talk about how your skill set is applicable to many more applicationsand problems than you probably realise.
在第六周，我们探讨了创业之旅、对自己在此过程中的奋斗的认识，以及由此而带来的收获。本周，我会与您就如何把您的技能组合运用于超过您可能意识到的更多用途和问题中进行讨论。
No one can be a master of everything. That’s a fact. When Istarted my business I thought I had to be, and realising I wasn’t was a bignegative to me. Then I realised that I only had to be a master of one thingbecause mastering everything else just takes time. If you can master one thingyou can master anything because the recipe is the same.
没有人能够样样精通。这是个事实。当我开始自己的事业时，我认为自己必须要精于每件事情。同时，我又意识到自己不是这样一个人，这给了我不小的负面影响。然后，我认识到：自己只是必须要成为某方面的达人，因为要精通其他每件事情都要花费时间。如果你能掌握一方面，你就能掌握一切，原因是对待它们的方法是相同的。
I am a trained engineer and specialised in two areas ofengineering through my career. That was it. However, the top ten skills I haveprobably seven of them were developed and directly related to those jobs. If Itake those skills out of that application they can still be applied to acompletely different industry. Project management is a key skill which can beused if you are building a mine or selling bananas. We often don’t realise theoverarching skill set we have because we are used to applying it to a singleproblem, or similar set of problems, again and again in our jobs. When Istarted my own company I understood that by breaking a general skill down intothe many skills which make it up I could then apply all the separate skills inmy own way to suit varying problems in areas which I had little experience.
在职业生涯中，我是一名训练有素的工程师，专门从事两大工程领域的工作。事实就是如此。但是，在我所具备的十项主要技能中，可能有七项都由这些工作发展而来，并直接与它们相关。如果我不把这些技能运用到那些工作中，仍然可以在完全不同的行业里使用它们。如果你正在修建一座矿山或出售香蕉，项目管理是一种能够被用到的关键技能。我们通常不会意识到自己所具有的综合技能组合，因为我们习惯于一再地用它解决工作中的单一或近似问题组合。当我开始经营自己的公司时，我懂得了通过把一项综合性技能分解为多个能组合为这种综合技能的技能组，我就可以用自己的方式运用各个单独的技能组，以此适应自己全无经验的领域中不断变化的各种问题。
For example, project management is the overarching skill butthere are many skills that you use as a project manager such as logistics,communication and cost control. I found that when I stopped working as anengineer I found it useful to stop referring to myself as an engineer. That wasmy past, I just learned to focus on my skills and work out how they could makeme money.
例如，项目管理是一项整体技能，但还有许多技能是你作为一名项目经理所用到的技能：比如物流管理、沟通和成本控制。我发现，当自己不以工程师的身份工作时，我才知道不把自己看作工程师是有好处的。那都是过去了，我只是从中学会了专注于自己的技能，并找到如何用它们获得更多收益的方法。
You will have a skill that you are better at than mostpeople. For me that is communication, verbal presentation and a high level ofsocial skills. That was perfect for getting new clients and presentingprojects. I still use my superior skills in that area to get ahead because Iknow that I am weaker in other areas. In my days of working for someone elsethat skill wasn’t as valuable as it is now but I always took the opportunity touse it and make it work in my favour.
你会具有一项强于绝大多数人的技能。就我而言，那就是沟通能力、口头表达能力以及一种高水平的社交能力。要获得新客户并对项目进行介绍，这是一种非常优秀的能力。为了获取成功，我一直把自己突出的技能运用到企业所从事的行业中，因为我知道自己在其他方面是个弱者。在我为他人工作期间，沟通能力所具有的价值不及现在。但我始终抓住机会运用它，并让它有助于我的工作。
Write down five main overarching skills that you use in youwork. Then break each one of those down in to five subsets with more specificskills. If nothing more this will actually give you a huge confidence boost asit will highlight what you can actually do. I use all my skills every day inone form or another and I also try to develop in areas where I am not sostrong.
写出你在工作中用到的五项主要的综合性技能。然后，将每一个技能拆分为与更多特殊技能合并在一起的五个子技能集。如果没有其他的技能，这将事实上极大地提升你的自信心，正如它会使你真正能做的事情得到突出一样。每天，我都以某种方式运用自己的各种技能。同时，我也尝试在自己不太熟悉的领域里增强这些技能。
When we work for someone else in a job with a jobdescription we get so familiar with what we are doing, regardless of itscomplexity that we take for granted what we actually do. When working foryourself there is no job description per se so you have to harness all youskills and abilities and have them close to hand at all times to ensure youovercome the next obstacle.
当我们受雇于他人而从事一项带有工作内容描述的工作时，不论这项工作的复杂程度如何，我们都会非常熟悉于自己正在从事的工作，以至于认为自己实际所做的一切是理所当然的。而当我们为自己而工作时，如果没有对工作本身的说明，那幺您必须要驾驭自己所有的技能，并让它们可以用在任何时候，以确保你战胜下一个困难。
Next week I’ll discuss finding a mentor and how beneficialasking for guidance as assistance will be in both your business development andpersonal growth.
下周，我将与您讨论找到一位良师益友，以及寻求具有辅助作用的指引将如何使你的事业发展和个人成长受益。
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Alex Biggs is a co-founder of the coffee company KultKoffee. In the distant past he was an engineer where he discovered his love forcoffee and like all good loves he made it his business. Alex is originally fromLondon but now lives in both Australia and China with his girlfriend where heis learning Mandarin and developing Kult Koffee in to an international brand.Weibo ID: Biggze / WeChat ID: Biggze888
阿里克斯·比格斯是Kult Koffee咖啡公司的联合创始人。多年以前，他曾是一位工程师。也就在那时，他发现了自己对咖啡的热爱。他喜欢各种优质的咖啡，并使它成为了自己的事业。阿里克斯来自英国伦敦，但现在，他与自己的女友有时居住在澳大利亚，有时居住在中国。在中国，他正在学习普通话，并正在将KultKoffee发展成为一种国际品牌。
WeiboID: Biggze / WeChat ID: Biggze888
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