成功法则第一条：责无旁贷

The First Decision for Success: The buck stops here.

成功法则第一条：责无旁贷。

Harry Truman

哈里 杜鲁门

SFH: Your First Decision talks a lot about personal responsibility. Why did you choose Harry Truman to best illustrate this point?

SFH：你的第一个法则涉及了许多个人责任的内容。为什么你选择哈里杜鲁门来说明这一点呢？

ANDY: I can’t think of any decision in history that held more importance and more consequences then Harry Truman’s decision to drop the atomic bomb on Japan at the end of World War II. That was truly the ultimate “damned if you do, damned if you don’t” scenario. Yet he was put in a position to make that decision, knowing fully the responsibility would rest with him on what was going to happen because of it.

ANDY：我们无法想起历史上的任何决定造成了比哈里杜鲁门在第二次世界大战即将结束之日决定将核弹投向日本所产生的更深刻的影响以及造成的更严重的后果。这确实是最终的方案。但是他被历史放进了这个角色去做这个决定，他深刻的了解因为这个决定将会给他带来的责任以及将会发生什么。

The topic of responsibility today is a huge issue everywhere you look. On television and on talk radio there are two very distinct sides to the issue and I feel a lot of them fail to understand what responsibility is all about. You have one camp that blames other people for not accepting respon-sibility for their actions, and the other camp says, “It’s not their fault.”

 

    责任在今天是一个丰富的话题以至于它存在于你生活的每个角落。在电视上和脱口秀频道中，对于责任这个词有两个完全不同的概念，我感觉他们其中有很多人完全不理解什么是责任。其中一群人指责别人因为他们不能接受别人对待责任的行为，而另一帮人则会说，“这不是他们的错。”

If both sides could just understood that responsibility has nothing to do with blame. It has everything to do with hope and control. If everyone could understand this, a lot more people would be grabbing for all the responsibility they could get their hands on because who among us doesn’t want to have hope for a greater future that we can control?

    如果两方面能懂得指责和批评对于责任是没有任何作用的。但是责任却和希望与对命运的支配息息相关。如果每个人都能理解这些，更多的人就会尽到他们力所能及的责任，因为在我们中间谁不希望有一个我们可以支配的更美好的未来呢？

If somehow you can look in the mirror and say, “I’ve had some crazy things happen in my life that I had no control over,” the better off you will be in the long run. If you blame yourself for these uncontrollable forces for your lack of success, you will be forever caught in a web of the past—never in charge of your destiny.

    如果你能够照着镜子并说，“有一些疯狂的不可控的事情曾经发生在我的生活中”，那么你将在未来走的更好。如果你因为这些不可控的力量而埋怨你自己缺乏成功，你将会永远被困在过去的网中，永远无法掌控自己的命运。

It’s important to understand that you are where you are today—mentally, physically, spiritually, emotionally and financially—because of the decisions you have made. So the challenge is making better choices, never second-guessing and always looking forward.

 

    理解你现在的思想、身体、精神、情感和经济条件非常重要。因为这些是你已经决定了的。所以做出更好的选择的是更大的挑战，永远不要事后评价，并且保持希望。