成就卓越的一种方式：自我选择 (One way to Greatness: Pick Yourself)

I’ve heard many people say this: “I want to be great”, but most people only just have wild thoughts & imaginations of greatness, their daily plans & actions are pretty normal, nothing out of the extraordinary.

我听过很多人这样说：“我想成为伟大的人”，但是大多数人只对伟大有疯狂的想法和想像力，他们的日常计划和行动很正常，没有什么与众不同。

Let me burst your bubble, Greatness is too handsome, cute, well-polished & uber charismatic to just descend on anyone, you have to seduce it. Yes, I said it, you have to seduce it for a shift of extraordinary attention towards you.

让我打破你的泡沫，伟大太帅气，可爱，打磨和超凡魅力，以至于不能落在任何人身上，你必须勾引它。是的，我说过，您必须引诱它，以使您格外注意。

Several people we know like Bill Gates of Microsoft, Mark Zuckerberg of Facebook, Seth Godin of International Marketing that have become successful overtime were not just picked out of the general populace to become successful, they picked themselves by starting something early and consistently following through.

我们认识的一些人，例如微软的比尔·盖茨 ，Facebook的马克·扎克伯格 ，国际营销的塞斯·戈丁 ，已经成功地加班了，他们不仅仅是从普通大众中脱颖而出，他们还通过尽早开始并始终如一地跟进来选择自己。

Seth Godin has been writing blog posts daily on his website for over a decade.

塞思·戈丁(Seth Godin)十多年来每天都在他的网站上撰写博客文章。

Rebecca Black has reached out to more than 15,000,000 listeners, like it or not, without a record label by just making videos and uploading it to youtube consistently.

丽贝卡·布莱克(Rebecca Black)通过制作视频并将其始终上传到youtube，已经达到了1500万听众，无论喜欢与否，没有唱片公司。

Amanda Hocking is making a million dollars a year publishing her own work to the Kindle. No publisher.

阿曼达·霍金 ( Amanda Hocking )每年将自己的作品发布到Kindle上可赚取一百万美元。没有发布者。

Reject the tyranny of being picked: Pick Yourself — Seth Godin

拒绝被挑衅的暴政：挑剔自己—赛斯·戈丁(Seth Godin)

It’s a cultural instinct to wait to get picked. A lot of people try to seek permission or get a badge of approval from other people before actually getting down to work. It’s very common especially amongst young people looking for jobs, they submit their resumes to HR and just wait. They are simply just waiting to get “picked”. Meanwhile, there are one thousand and one things they could be doing at that time that could result in something more elegant & successful than the job they sent in their resume for.

等待被采摘是一种文化本能。许多人在实际开始工作之前尝试寻求许可或获得其他人的认可。尤其是在寻找工作的年轻人中，这很普遍，他们将简历提交给HR并等待。他们只是在等待被“挑选”。同时，他们当时可能要做的一千零一件事可能比他们发送简历所要完成的工作更为优雅和成功。

Once you reject that impulse and realize that no one is going to select you — that Prince Charming has chosen another house — then you can actually get to work — Seth Godin

一旦您拒绝了这种冲动，并且意识到没有人会选择您-迷人的王子已经选择了另一所房子-那么您实际上就可以开始工作了-塞斯·戈丁

The good thing about our world ( ideally, should be a bad thing I guess) is that we are always faced with problems seeking solutions and people are just waiting. Generally, no one wants to tackle the hard stuff but the people we celebrate and applaud daily are the ones that tackled them or at least tried to provide those solutions no matter how minute. Opportunities abound once you realize that you have all the resources and permission you need to solve people’s problems or add value to their lives.

关于我们这个世界的好处(理想情况下，我想应该是一件坏事)是，我们总是面临寻求解决方案的问题，人们只是在等待。通常，没有人想解决难题，但是我们每天庆祝和鼓掌的人都是解决难题的人，或者至少试图提供解决方案，无论多么微小。一旦意识到自己拥有解决人们的问题或为他们的生活增值所需的全部资源和权限，机会将无处不在。

I’m a 23-year-old Software Developer, and in a bid not to be an ordinary person just depleting earth’s natural resources I decided to open a blog where I write technical articles that teach people how to program. I also decided to start contributing to open source to hone my skills. I’ve sent in several pull requests to several open source projects, some were rejected and some were accepted. I’ve gotten at least 3 PRs merged into Laravel Framework. I also personally decided to start building libraries, packages & modules. Every day for the past 7 months, I have been committing & pushing stuff to Github.

我是23岁的软件开发人员，为了不让普通人仅仅消耗地球的自然资源，我决定打开一个博客，在其中写一些技术文章来教人们如何编程。我还决定开始为开源做贡献，以磨练我的技能。我已经向几个开源项目发送了一些请求请求，一些请求被拒绝，一些被接受。我至少已经将3个PR合并到Laravel Framework中。我个人还决定开始构建库，包和模块。在过去的7个月中，我每天都致力于和推动Github的发展。

During this period, I have had the opportunity of creating about 15 PHP/Laravel packages, 4 npm modules & 3 bower components that people around the world have downloaded & used at various points. I currently have plans to build libraries & components for iOs, Python & Django.

在此期间，我有机会创建了大约15个PHP / Laravel软件包，4个npm模块和3个Bower组件，世界各地的人们已下载并使用了这些组件。我目前有计划为iO，Python和Django构建库和组件。

Just recently I developed & released a Laravel Hackathon Starter Pack project to get developers easily started with Hackathons and MVPs and to my surprise it got lots of attention. Within 4 days of release to the public, it amassed over 500 stars on Github, the project started trending on Github & also got me to trend on Github as a top #PHP dev in the world.

最近，我开发并发布了Laravel Hackathon入门包 该项目使开发人员可以轻松地开始使用Hackathons和MVP，而令我惊讶的是，它受到了很多关注。在向公众发布后的4天内，它在Github上积累了500颗星，该项目在Github上开始流行，并让我在Github上成为全球顶级#PHP开发人员。

I also got reviews from some popular sites like Laravel Daily & Laravel News

我也从Laravel Daily和Laravel News等热门网站获得评论

It got lots of people to follow me on Twitter, GitHub & Facebook and a lot of “Good Job, Well done” messages all over Twitter & Facebook. Now, this has absolutely nothing to do with being smart because I consider myself to be one of the least smart persons where I work which is Andela( Too many smart folks in this company) and this might also mean nothing but it has taught me 4 lessons which are:

在T witter ， GitHub和Facebook上有很多人关注我，在Twitter和Facebook上都有很多“干得好，做得好”的消息。现在，这绝对与聪明无关，因为我认为自己是我工作的最不聪明的人之一，即Andela ( 该公司有太多聪明的人 )，这也许也没有什么意义，但它教会了我4课程包括：

Don’t wait for things to happen, Make things happen.
不要等待事情发生，让事情发生。
Consistently do great work, don’t stop after a few runs.
始终如一地做好工作，经过几次跑步后不要停止。
Gone are the days where you do something awesome & wait for people to notice you, PUSH out your work to the public through various channels. Social media has made this very easy for everyone.
已经一去不复返了，你做一些真棒和等待的日子里，为人们注意到你，通过各种渠道推送你的工作给公众。社交媒体使每个人都很容易做到这一点。
If you stumble, make it part of the dance. Don’t be discouraged.
如果您绊倒了，请使其成为舞蹈的一部分。不要气our。

I’m not successful yet, not even close, still millions of miles away from my goals but I know my name will eventually be on everyone’s lips at some point & I’ll have added values to millions of lives because I have started well by PICKING MYSELF.

我还没有成功，甚至没有实现目标，离目标还有数百万英里，但我知道我的名字最终会在某个时候在每个人的嘴上，我将为数百万的生活增添价值，因为自选。

No one is going to pick you. Pick yourself. — Seth Godin

没有人会去接你。 选择你自己。 塞斯·戈丁