财富精英励志演讲103:艰难的抉择(4)
时间：2019-01-18 作者：英语课 分类：财富精英励志演讲
I took another really important course called gaming theory while I was here. Gaming theory to me was fascinating because, with all due respect to my very erudite teachers Jake Jacoby took that course. It's a great course, but to me what gaming theory was an attempt by scientists to explain irrational 1 decision making and irrational framework. Not all decisions are rational; not all decisions are scientifically based. Many people in business are overcome at times by their fears, their resentments 2, their rivalries 3, their agendas. It is part of life and business is a collection of people working together. I started out as a secretary. I was a medieval history major and philosophy major at Stanford University; it was really interesting but it would not pay the bills. I went on to law school, and discovered very quickly that I hated law school. So I quit. And then I had to pay the bills. And I took the only job that I knew I could do that would pay my bills and that was to be a secretary. Actually, secretary is big glorified 4, I was a receptionist, I sat in front of the building I typed and I answered the phones. That was my job. I thought while I was a secretary that the people in the mail room must be fundamentally different from the people in the board-mom. In what I have learned, in the course of my life, and my career and what this book is all about is that people are people wherever you find them.
我选的另一门重要课程是博弈理论，博弈理论引人入胜，因为有我的恩师，傅学的杰克·嘉科比执教。这是一门很好的课程。对我来讲，博弈理论是科学家试图解释非理性决策和非理性构架的理论，并不是所有的决策都是理性的，不是所有的决策都是以科学为依据的。许多生意人有时会被本身的恐惧、怨恨、竞争和日常事务所压倒，这是生活的一部分，做生意就是一班人一起工作。我的第一份工作是当秘书，我曾在斯坦福大学主修中古史和哲学，这些专业非常有趣，但是不能应付生活需要。之后我去学习法学，但是很快我就发现我讨厌法学，因此我退学了。但是我要谋生，要做可以胜任的工作来嫌钱，就是当秘书。美其名曰秘书，实际上我是接待员，我所做的就是坐在大堂中打宇、搞电话。那就是我的工作。我当秘书时以为收发室的人和董事会的人有根本上的不同。而我在生活及职业生涯中学到的，也是这本书所谈论的却是，无论在哪里，人就是人。
- After taking the drug she became completely irrational.她在吸毒后变得完全失去了理性。
- There are also signs of irrational exuberance among some investors.在某些投资者中是存在非理性繁荣的征象的。
- He could never transcend his resentments and his complexes. 他从来不能把他的怨恨和感情上的症结置之度外。
- These local resentments burst into open revolt. 地方性反感变成公开暴动。
- The new government was torn by rivalries. 新政府由于各派对立而四分五裂。 来自辞典例句
- Rivalries could bring about pain and hatred or give rise to fighting. 竞争会带来痛苦、仇恨，或者引起争斗。 来自互联网