3. Your time off is the highlight of the year.

3. 休息时间是你全年的盼头

You may have forgotten your mom's birthday, but I'll bet you knew the exact day every semester ended and the start and end of Spring Break. And you lived for snow days.

你可能会忘记老妈的生日，但我打赌你绝不会忘了什么时候学期结束、什么时候放春假。你可是掰着指头盼假期呢！

So it only makes sense to see weekends and vacations as the highlight of your working year, right?

所以，工作时的盼头也只剩下周末和假期了，对不？

Actually, no: If you feel you endure the workweek just to get to the payoff of the weekend, you're in the wrong business. Find work you enjoy; then you won't see time off as a chance to finally do something fun but as a chance to do something else fun.

其实未必：如果你只为了周末而苦熬上班时间，那就大错特错了。找份喜欢的工作吧，这样你就不至于苦巴巴等待的放松时光，周末假期只是你快乐的一部分而已。

While you'll never love everything you do in your professional life, you should enjoy the majority of it.

虽然你无法喜欢工作中的一切，但至少可以享受其中的大部分吧。

Otherwise you're not living–you're just working.

要不然，你只是一台工作机器——根本就没有生活。

4. Getting criticized means you failed.

4. 受人批评表示自己很失败

Here's another pay/paid dichotomy. In college you paid professors to critique your work.

这也是付酬与领薪的区别。在学校，你付钱请教授指正你的学业。

So now that you are the one getting paid, why is it unfair for someone--like a customer, investor, or key partner–to critique your work?

现在你是领取薪水的那个人。那么，为什么当客户、投资商或重要合作伙伴指正你的工作时，你还会觉得不公平呢？

It's not.

显然不应该啊。

When you get negative feedback, see it as an opportunity. Think, "Wow, I didn't realize I wasn't doing that right. I didn't realize I wasn't doing that as well as I could."

如果受到批评，那就把它当作一次机会呗。你就想：“哇，我自己都没发现出了问题，原来我还可以做得更好啊。”

Criticism is a chance to learn--and this time you're getting paid to learn.

批评也是学习的良机——何况你还因此领取报酬呢。

Never complain when someone pays you to learn.

要是别人既付你钱又指正你，那还有什么可抱怨的！

5. Success is based on toeing the line.

5. 成功来自顺从与认同

Say you disagreed with a professor's point of view on a particular point. You may even have been right... but the only way to get an A in the class was to parrot the professor's take on the subject. Except in rare cases, confirming and following the rules was everything.

比方说，你不认同教授对某个问题的观点，而且有可能你的看法是正确的，但为了成绩得A，你还是会拍教授的马屁。除非是遇到极少数情况，否则认同并按规则办事就是王理。

In business, conforming only ensures that you will achieve the same results as other people.

在职场上，认同即意味着你只能取得跟别人一样的成果。

If you want to achieve different results you'll have to think and act differently. Do your homework, think critically, and don't be afraid to create your own path.

如果你想获得不同的结果，那就得开动脑筋、特立独行。多做做功课，批判性思考问题，勇敢开创自己的道路。

But don't be different just for the sake of being different. Be different because it's who you are and what you believe... and because it will get you where you want to go, with your integrity and your sense of self intact.

但也别为了故意标新立异而显得格格不入。要与众不同，是因为你这个人和你的信念原本就是的，而你的所信所向、诚实和自我则会引领你到达渴望的地方。