职业与工作方法sivers.org
没有速度限制
There's no speed limit (2009)
2009 — 2012，它一次次回到首页
黑点是上首页（≥ 50 分）的那次投稿，空心点是没冲上去的投稿，点越大分数越高。
导读
Derek Sivers 在这篇短文中提出“学习没有速度上限”：只要有足够投入和正确引导，掌握技能可以远快于常规进度。文中也强调，声称想成功并不够，真正稀缺的是到场行动；导师和环境能帮助人突破按部就班的限制。
为什么经久不衰：它用简短有力的故事把“行动 vs 空谈”和“不要被常规进度限制”讲透，多年后仍能激励人加速学习、主动争取资源。
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赞赏文章，但担心把“无速度上限”推向极端会设太多不切实际目标而受挫，并困惑如何遇到人生转折点。
这篇文章很棒。但我的问题是我把它走向极端：我给自己设定不切实际的目标，因为课外有大约50件想学的事。我几乎总是达不到目标，然后非常沮丧。而且大多数成功者似乎都能指出过去某个事件或某个人是让他们走上成功道路的转折点；我似乎无法让自己处于那种位置。Derek，有什么建议吗？
reason查看英文原文
This is a great article. My problem is, however, that I take it to the extreme: I set unrealistic goals for myself seeing as there are about 50 different things I want to learn outside of school. I almost always never meet my goals, and I become really discouraged. It also seems like most successful people can point to an event, person, etc, in their past that served as a great turning point in putting them on the path to success. I just can't seem to put myself in a position for that to happen. Derek, any tips?
真正稀缺的是行动和到场，而不是口头声称想成功。
我最喜欢的一段是：“我常遇到说想成为伟大音乐家的孩子。我说我可以帮他们，如果他们是认真的，就早上9点来我工作室。几乎没人来过。”多年后我学到这点：每个人都谈想要成功，但没人当真。有人真的出现就是奇迹。
silverbax88查看英文原文
My favorite nugget: " I run across kids all the time who say they want to be a great musician. I tell them I can help, and tell them to show up at my studio at 9am if they're serious. Almost nobody ever does." I've learned this after so many years. Everyone talks about wanting to be successful. No one ever means it. Having someone just show up is a miracle.
导师给挑战和资源、用创造价值换取自由，年轻时责任少是加速学习的优势，但后来需要平衡生活。
这个帖子很棒。我初高中遇到过两位影响巨大的导师，都是老师，为我扫清道路。我没有按其他学生的课程走，而是接受更有挑战的安排，比如周末搭建新计算机实验室；还被推动帮学校各社团整合技术，因此加入许多原本不会加入的社团，结交兴趣多样的朋友。在校期间很多事发生在课堂外。通过每年为学校节省5万到8万美元网络管理费，我创造或节省了这么多价值，因此获得自己的办公室、电话号码、报销账户用于买书和学习用品、参加会议，基本能在学校自由行动，甚至有一叠预签的迟到条。因为进度很快，很多成果是副产品。10到15年后差别很大：当时我对生活其他方面责任少得多。年龄会占用更多时间，这是现实，如果要平衡生活不只工作。对某些创业型人这可能是致命打击，但对我成了新挑战，我最终做咨询业务来持续支撑自己追逐创业想法。
j45查看英文原文
Awesome thread. I had two massively influential mentors like this in middle and high school. Both were teachers who cleared the path for me. Instead of the curriculum other students did I was given one that challenged me. 95% if I got the new computer lab setup over the weekend. I was pushed to help integrate technology into all the schools clubs, which in turn required me to join a whack of clubs I never would have, nor made diversely interested friends. While I was in school, much of this did happen outside the classroom. By saving my school 50 to 80,000/year in network administration costs. By creating (or saving) this much value I was supported with my own office, phone number, expense account to buy books or things for learning, attend conferences, and generally have my run of the school, including a pre-signed pad of late slips to use when I ran late from my commitments. There was so much that got built as a byproduct of my time because I was going so fast. The difference 10 or 15 years later? I had far fewer responsibilities to other areas of my life (and others) back then. Age inevitably eats up more time and it's a reality, if you want a balanced life with more than just work in it. This might be a kiss of death to some startup types, but it presented a new challenge to me and I ended up pursuing a consulting business to forever float me while chasing startup ideas.
利用等待时间自学完整教材，说明学习没有人为门槛，主动权在自己手里。
这很鼓舞人，让我想起自己的一段经历。大一圣诞节，我陪朋友去联合车站坐火车回家。他去爱荷华，我去西部。他的火车比我早六小时，我就一起去了，因为学校那时基本关门。我带了一本书，是第二季度教材《FORTRAN 导论》（是的，那时全大写），我想是 McCracken 写的。等他的火车开走时，我已读完整本书并能编程。从那时起我的职业一路向上。我也喜欢这个社区这点：学习和做事没有人为障碍。你不需要资历或许可，一切在你自己手中。
wglb查看英文原文
This is inspiring, and it reminds me of an incident in my life. I went to Union Station with a friend to catch trains home for Christmas during my freshman year in college. He was going to Iowa, I was going out west. His train was six hours before mine, so I went along, as the school was pretty much closed down by that point anyway. I took a book along that was the text for the second quarter--Introduction to FORTRAN (yes, all caps those days). I think it was by McCracken. By the time the train had left, I had consumed the entire book and was ready to program. My career has never looked back from that time. That is what I like about this community as well. There are no artificial barriers to learning or to getting anything done. You don't need credentials or permission. It is in your hands.
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