财富忠告：三人行，必有我师。

克里斯滕森（Harvard Business school professor）

任何时候都需要谦虚谨慎。

三人行，必有我师。

克里斯滕森：Kent Bowen是我转向学术生涯之前在波士顿创办的一家公司的合伙人。当时，他是麻省理工学院的教授。如果颁发材料科学诺贝尔奖的话，他应该就是获奖人。有一次，当我意识到他已经是他那个领域里最优秀的人的时候，我问他：“成为你这一领域世界之最时，感觉如何？”他没有拒绝我的恭维，说道：“其实很失望。”他解释说：“当我年轻的时候，仰望着山顶，心里想，哇，上面的人真酷！而当你接近山顶朝下看时，心里会想，小子，如果没有人比我更酷了，这世界真的是很悲惨。”

这番话给我留下了深刻的印象。我意识到，我们许多人，在学校时，只向比自己强的人学习，而当你渐渐接近顶峰时，还抱着这种观点，你学习的机会就会越来越有限。因此，你需要谦虚谨慎――需要树立“三人行，必有我师”的观点。

You can learn from anyone.

Kent Bowen was my partner in a company we started in Boston before I switched to academia. He was a professor at MIT then. If they ever give a Nobel Prize in material sciences, he should get it. Once I realized he was the best in his field, Iasked him: “How does it feel to be the top guy in the world in your field?” without denying my characterization of him, he said: “You know, there’s a real disappointment.” He said something like, “When I was younger, I looked up at the top of the mountain and thought, Wow, those guys are really smart! When you’re near the top of the mountain looking down, you think, Boy, if nobody is smarter than I am, the world is really hurting.”

That had such a profound impact on me. I realized that a lot of us, when we’re in school, believe that you can learn only from people who are smarter than you. But if you move toward the top of that hill and maintain that belief, then your opportunities for learning become progressively more constricted. So what you need is a fundamental humility—the belief that you can learn from anyone.

摘自《财富》——易激扬编译