Macro patience, micro speed. They should not care about the next eight years, but they should stress the next eight days.

At a macro, I think everybody’s super impatient. I think I’m unbelievably patient in years and decades, and unbelievably sporadic and hyper every minute on a day-to-day basis. I genuinely think everybody’s the reverse. Everybody’s making decisions about, like, “What am I going to do at 25? I better do that. . . .” In years, they’re impatient and making dumb decisions, and then in days, they’re watching fucking Netflix. They’re super worried about 25 when they’re 22, yet they’re drinking every Thursday night at 7 P.M. They’re playing Madden. They’re fucking watching House of Cards. They’re spending four and a half hours on their Instagram feed every single day.

Everybody’s impatient at a macro, and just so patient at a micro, wasting your days worrying about years. I’m not worried about my years, because I’m squeezing the fuck out of my seconds, let alone my days. It’s going to work out.

上面這句話來自于 Tim Ferriss 新書Tribe of Mentors，這是對 Gary Vaynerchunk 的采訪。

這段話是 Gary 對初入社會的畢業(yè)生的建議，指出了我們年輕人身上的缺點，總想著在一兩年甚至更短的時間內(nèi)就達到人生巔峰，獲得各種成就。22歲時愁著25歲時的事情，25歲時愁著30歲時的事情，在焦慮的情緒中做著各種愚蠢的決定。而生活中的每一天卻過得不緊不慢，該看的電視劇一集不會錯過，一刻不停地刷新社交網(wǎng)絡，生怕錯過一條信息……總覺得成長太慢，總想著改變， 但卻總覺得還有時間。等過兩年再回首，卻發(fā)現(xiàn)自己還在原地踏步。

我們找準了方向，訂好了目標，就要對此抱有長足的耐心，然后每天勤勤懇懇，日拱一卒。

下面這個來自于 Gary Vaynerchunk 的博客。
You are a young man. Building something meaningful, a relationship, a business, it takes 10, 20, 30 years. On your day-to-day work, you have to be fast with the clients, they email you, you email them back.But your vision, what you want to achieve in life, you are not going to build it in one year. So many people have it reversed. In the day-to-day, they’re slow. And in the macro, they want their business to be huge the next day.

戰(zhàn)略上要耐心，執(zhí)行上要高效

你們都還很年輕。做成一件有意義的事情，像經(jīng)營一段關系，打造一個生意，都要花上10、20、30年的時間。在日復一日的工作上，比如對客戶的反應要快速，收到郵件馬上回復。但是你的愿景，你想要取得的人生成就，不可能會在一年之內(nèi)實現(xiàn)。很多人都反過來了，日常的工作晃晃悠悠的，卻希望第二天就做成大生意。

Macro patience, micro speed 被翻譯成了“戰(zhàn)略上要耐心，執(zhí)行上要高效”。通俗一點兒講就是對于自己認定的目標與方向要持有長久的耐心，同時要高效完成眼下的事情，高效執(zhí)行，步步逼近。

畢業(yè)僅兩年多，但同級同學里面已經(jīng)出現(xiàn)了分水嶺，有的穩(wěn)扎穩(wěn)打，有的野蠻粗放……衡量的標準是薪資，而不是所做的事情。分水嶺一旦出現(xiàn)，就很容易弄的人心惶惶，很多人開始懷疑自己所做的工作是不是還有意義。剛開始的這兩年與過幾年之后的兩年稍有不同，大多數(shù)人還處于找尋嘗試的階段，同時還是磨練心態(tài)的過程。大學時，大家的目標、進度都高度一致。但進入社會后，每個人的進度不一樣了，方向也千差萬別，最后所呈現(xiàn)出來的狀態(tài)肯定是不一樣的。但無論做什么，處于什么階段，macro patience, micro speed 都值得被我們牢記。

當對自己所做的事情十分堅定，充滿了信心時，just keep patient and execute efficiently.