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Steve Jobs explains the Rules of Success
(YouTube, Dec. 2011)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KuNQgln6TL0&feature=email
People say you have to have a lot of passion for what you’re doing and it’s totally true.
And the reason is because it’s so hard that if you don’t, any rational person would give up. It’s really hard!
And you have to do it over a sustained period of time, so if you don’t love it, if you’re not having fun doing it, if
you don’t really love it, you’re gonna give up.
And that’s what happens to most people, actually. If you look at the ones that ended up being ‘successful’
(unquote) in the eyes of society and the ones that didn’t, often times it’s the ones that are successful (who) love
what they did so they could persevere, you know, when it got really tough. And the ones that didn’t love it quit,
‘cos they’re sane! right? who would want to put up with this stuff if you don’t love it?
So it’s a lot of hard work and it’s a lot of worrying, constantly.
And if you don’t love it, you’re gonna fail. So you gotta love it, you gotta have passion. And I think that’s the
high order bit.
The second thing is, you’ve gotta be a really good talent scout, ‘cos no matter how smart you are, you need a
team of great people.
And you’ve gotta figure out how to size people up fairly quickly, make decisions without knowing people too
well and hire them, and you know see how you do, and refine your intuition and be able to help, you know,
build an organisation that can eventually just, you know, build itself, ‘cos you need great people around you.
Vocabulary
1. give up
2. sustained period of time
3. you’re gonna
4. actually
5. ended up
6. unquote
7. often times
8. It’s the ones
9. it got really tough
10. ‘cos
11. they’re sane
12. put up with this stuff
13. fail
14. you gotta
15. high order bit
16. good talent scout
17. no matter
18. you’ve gotta figure out
19. size people up
20. hire
21. refine
abandonner, laisser tomber
sur une longue période
= you are going to
en fait
ont fini (par réussir)
fermer les guillemets
souvent
ce sont ceux
(quand) c’est devenu très difficile
= because
pas fous
tolérer, supporter ces choses
échouer
= you have got to (vous devez)
l’essentiel
un bon découvreur de talents
peu importe, quelque soit (votre intelligence)
vous devez savoir
jauger, juger les gens
embaucher
affiner