如果你在商業游戲中認為自己可以“以假亂真”,或者跳過艱苦的磨練而獲得成功,那么請三思。奧斯卡獎獲得者斯派克·李在紐約舉辦的2023年度領英Talent Connect全球峰會(2023 LinkedIn Talent Connect Summit)上拋出了一些“真理炸彈”,為那些幻想通過走捷徑登頂的人澄清了真相。
“對年輕人來說,最糟糕的謊言之一就是所謂的‘一夜成名’。這對人們造成了極大的傷害。”他說。
“這并不像你正好排隊站在那里,上帝之手就會從天而降,說,'你就是下一個。’這是胡扯。”
舉例來說,雖然掀起熱潮的ChatGPT才剛剛進入公眾視野,但人工智能已經有50年的歷史了。
李說,“一夜成名”是謬見,這是因為在成名之前,幾乎總是要在幕后付出數年,甚至數十年的努力。
這位66歲的老人自己的成名經歷就是最好的例子。
斯派克·李的漫漫成功路
斯派克進入娛樂圈絕非一帆風順。
首先,在他最終被紐約大學(New York University)錄取之前,南加州大學(University of Southern California)和美國電影學院(American Film Institute)都拒絕了他的電影學院入學申請。
在紐約大學,李又遭遇了進一步被拒的經歷:他差點被紐約大學電影學院開除,這是因為他的短片《答案》(The Answer)差評不斷,而制作該片是為了回應大衛·格里菲斯(D.W. Griffith)執導的《一個國家的誕生》(The Birth of a Nation)(于1915年上映)中的種族歧視現象。
但他還是堅持了下來。在畢業后的31年里,李執導并制作了超過35部電影,他的大片《黑色黨徒》(BlacKkKlansman)獲得了六項奧斯卡提名,令人印象深刻。
除此之外,他還是一名商人——他的公司40 Acres and a Mule Filmworks在2021年與網飛(Netflix)簽訂了長達多年的創意合作協議——他還是紐約大學的終身教授。
“這不是一蹴而就的。你會有想哭的時候,也會有想放棄的時候。”李總結道。“你不能放棄。你必須繼續前行。”
其他“一夜成名”謬見的終結者
流行音樂界最耀眼的新星之一奧利維亞·羅德里戈(Olivia Rodrigo)也同樣否認她一夜成名的說法。
盡管她在2021年因單曲《駕照》(Driver’s License)的爆火而突然走上星途,但她最近告訴《衛報》(Guardian),她“多年來一直在創作歌曲,為成名那一刻準備了很長時間。”
即使在商界,鯊魚坦克(Shark Tank,又稱創智贏家)明星馬克·庫班(Mark Cuban)也曾在1999年以57億美元的價格將自己的公司Broadcast.com賣給雅虎(Yahoo),一夜之間成為億萬富翁。但在此之前,庫班曾有一段時間和六個人睡在達拉斯一套三居室公寓的地板上,連銀行開戶的最低限額200美元都賺不到。
庫班堅持不懈,耐心等待,才有了今天的成就。
“我當時就想,'我必須繼續努力'。”他在2017年牛津辯論社(Oxford Union)的一次問答會上說。
“這對我來說一直很有效。即使在最艱難的時候,我的態度也是享受生活、微笑面對、闖出一條屬于自己的路,并牢記自己擅長什么。”
與此同時,愛彼迎(Airbnb)的布萊恩·切斯基(Brian Chesky)在2008年創立這個廣受歡迎的租賃平臺時,還在出租自家地板上的一個充氣床墊,以支付租金。在愛彼迎起步之前,他在洛杉磯擔任工業設計師,年薪4萬美元。
如今,切斯基的身價高達96億美元——但在大眾開始使用他的應用程序之前,他花了大約10年的時間才登“頂”,包括經常獨自一人工作18個小時。(財富中文網)
譯者:中慧言-王芳
如果你在商業游戲中認為自己可以“以假亂真”,或者跳過艱苦的磨練而獲得成功,那么請三思。奧斯卡獎獲得者斯派克·李在紐約舉辦的2023年度領英Talent Connect全球峰會(2023 LinkedIn Talent Connect Summit)上拋出了一些“真理炸彈”,為那些幻想通過走捷徑登頂的人澄清了真相。
“對年輕人來說,最糟糕的謊言之一就是所謂的‘一夜成名’。這對人們造成了極大的傷害。”他說。
“這并不像你正好排隊站在那里,上帝之手就會從天而降,說,'你就是下一個。’這是胡扯。”
舉例來說,雖然掀起熱潮的ChatGPT才剛剛進入公眾視野,但人工智能已經有50年的歷史了。
李說,“一夜成名”是謬見,這是因為在成名之前,幾乎總是要在幕后付出數年,甚至數十年的努力。
這位66歲的老人自己的成名經歷就是最好的例子。
斯派克·李的漫漫成功路
斯派克進入娛樂圈絕非一帆風順。
首先,在他最終被紐約大學(New York University)錄取之前,南加州大學(University of Southern California)和美國電影學院(American Film Institute)都拒絕了他的電影學院入學申請。
在紐約大學,李又遭遇了進一步被拒的經歷:他差點被紐約大學電影學院開除,這是因為他的短片《答案》(The Answer)差評不斷,而制作該片是為了回應大衛·格里菲斯(D.W. Griffith)執導的《一個國家的誕生》(The Birth of a Nation)(于1915年上映)中的種族歧視現象。
但他還是堅持了下來。在畢業后的31年里,李執導并制作了超過35部電影,他的大片《黑色黨徒》(BlacKkKlansman)獲得了六項奧斯卡提名,令人印象深刻。
除此之外,他還是一名商人——他的公司40 Acres and a Mule Filmworks在2021年與網飛(Netflix)簽訂了長達多年的創意合作協議——他還是紐約大學的終身教授。
“這不是一蹴而就的。你會有想哭的時候,也會有想放棄的時候。”李總結道。“你不能放棄。你必須繼續前行。”
其他“一夜成名”謬見的終結者
流行音樂界最耀眼的新星之一奧利維亞·羅德里戈(Olivia Rodrigo)也同樣否認她一夜成名的說法。
盡管她在2021年因單曲《駕照》(Driver’s License)的爆火而突然走上星途,但她最近告訴《衛報》(Guardian),她“多年來一直在創作歌曲,為成名那一刻準備了很長時間。”
即使在商界,鯊魚坦克(Shark Tank,又稱創智贏家)明星馬克·庫班(Mark Cuban)也曾在1999年以57億美元的價格將自己的公司Broadcast.com賣給雅虎(Yahoo),一夜之間成為億萬富翁。但在此之前,庫班曾有一段時間和六個人睡在達拉斯一套三居室公寓的地板上,連銀行開戶的最低限額200美元都賺不到。
庫班堅持不懈,耐心等待,才有了今天的成就。
“我當時就想,'我必須繼續努力'。”他在2017年牛津辯論社(Oxford Union)的一次問答會上說。
“這對我來說一直很有效。即使在最艱難的時候,我的態度也是享受生活、微笑面對、闖出一條屬于自己的路,并牢記自己擅長什么。”
與此同時,愛彼迎(Airbnb)的布萊恩·切斯基(Brian Chesky)在2008年創立這個廣受歡迎的租賃平臺時,還在出租自家地板上的一個充氣床墊,以支付租金。在愛彼迎起步之前,他在洛杉磯擔任工業設計師,年薪4萬美元。
如今,切斯基的身價高達96億美元——但在大眾開始使用他的應用程序之前,他花了大約10年的時間才登“頂”,包括經常獨自一人工作18個小時。(財富中文網)
譯者:中慧言-王芳
If you’re in the business game thinking you can pull off a little “fake the funk” or skip the hard grind to grab success, think again. Oscar winner Spike Lee dropped some truth bombs at the 2023 LinkedIn Talent Connect Summit in New York, setting the record straight for anyone harboring illusions about taking shortcuts to the top.
“One of the worst lies that’s been told to young people is that there’s a thing called ‘overnight success.’ That’s done a lot of damage to people,” he said.
“It’s not like you’re just out there, and the hand of God is going to come down from the heavens and say, ‘You are the next one.’ That is BS.”
For example, although palpable buzz for ChatGPT has only just reached the public domain, artificial intelligence has been 50 years in the making.
Becoming an “overnight success” is a myth because it is nearly always preceded by years—if not decades—of work behind the scenes, Lee said.
The 66-year-old’s own experience with fame and fortune is a prime example.
Spike Lee’s slow-burning success
Spike’s entry into the entertainment industry was far from smooth sailing.
For starters, both the University of Southern California and the American Film Institute rejected his film school applications before he finally got accepted by New York University.
Once there, Lee experienced further rejection: He was nearly kicked out of NYU’s film school because of poor evaluations for his short film The Answer, which was made in response to the racism of D. W. Griffith’s 1915 The Birth of a Nation.
But he kept at it. In the 31 years since graduating, Lee has gone on to direct and produced more than 35 films, with his blockbuster BlacKkKlansman receiving an impressive six Academy Award nominations.
On top of that, he’s also a businessman—his company 40 Acres and a Mule Filmworks signed a a multiyear creative partnership with Netflix in 2021—and a tenured professor at NYU.
“It’s not going to happen overnight. There are going to be times where you want to cry and you want to quit,” Lee concluded. “You can’t quit. You’ve got to keep going.”
Other “overnight success” myth-busters
One of pop music’s brightest new stars, Olivia Rodrigo, similarly rejected the theory that she became successful overnight.
Despite being suddenly thrust into stardom in 2021 with the success of her single “Driver’s License,” she recently told the Guardian that she had “been working on songs for years and preparing for that moment for a long time.”
Even in the business world, Shark Tank star Mark Cuban became a billionaire overnight when he sold his business Broadcast.com to Yahoo for $5.7 billion in 1999. But before that, there was a time when Cuban was sleeping on the floor of a three-bedroom Dallas apartment with six guys and couldn’t make the $200 minimum to open a bank account.
Cuban persevered and played the long game to get to where he is today.
“I was just like, ‘I just have to keep on grinding,’” he said during an Oxford Union Q&A session in 2017.
“And that’s always worked out for me. Even when things were the toughest, my attitude has just been enjoy your life, smile, fight your way through it, and remember what you’re good at.”
Meanwhile, Airbnb’s Brian Chesky was renting out an air mattress on his floor to help meet the rent when he came up with the popular rental platform in 2008 and was earning $40,000 a year as an industrial designer in Los Angeles before Airbnb took off.
Now, Chesky is worth a cool $9.6 billion—but it took around a decade of scaling to the “top of the mountain,” including pulling in 18-hour work shifts often alone, before the masses were using his app.