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不要證明，只要進步 (Don't Prove Yourself; Improve Yourself - Dewitt Jones)
德威特‧瓊斯（Dewitt Jones）是一位著名的世界級攝影師，他的照片在過去的二十年裡經歷了多次國家地理考察，他在視頻中介紹了自己做為國家地理雜誌攝影師的重要原則。
在工作的第一天，德威特的新老闆坐下來，強調說：「看，如果你在這裡工作，你是世界上最好的攝影師團隊的一員。你不必證明自己，不是我或其他攝影師。我要求你做的是提升你自己的能力。每一天，努力成為一個更好的攝影師，一個更好的用視覺講故事的人。你學到的一切都是與其他國家地理雜誌攝影師公開分享的。改進和分享，如果你這樣做，你會沒事的。如果沒有，你不會在這裡工作。到目前為止，德威特已經把他的新老闆形容為生活變化的寶貴禮物。「不要擔心證明自己，只要改善自己！」
德威特說：「看著無數的攝影師浪費無數的時間試圖向別人證明自己，而不是花費相同的時間來提高他們的技能和銳化他們的眼睛。在我們所有生活的所有領域都是如此。」
DON’T PROVE YOURSELF; IMPROVE YOURSELF August 4, 2011
A critically important, universal success principle is featured throughout Dewitt Jones’ recent account of his experience as a photographer and photojournalist for National Geographic. Dewitt Jones is the highly acclaimed, world-class photographer whose images have been featured in scores of National Geographic expeditions over the past 20 years.
On his very first day on the job, Dewitt’s new boss sat him down and emphatically said:
- “Look, if you work here, you’re part of a team of photographers that are the best in the world. You don’t have to prove yourself, not to me, or to the other photographers.
- What I do demand that you do is improve yourself. Every day, strive to be a better photographer, a better visual storyteller.
- And everything you learn, share it openly with the other photographers here at NGS. Improve and share; if you do that, you’ll do fine. If not, you won’t work here long.”
To this day, Dewitt describes those words from his new boss as an extremely valuable and life-changing gift. “Don’t worry about proving yourself; just improve yourself!”
Over the years, Dewitt “watched countless photographers waste countless hours trying to prove themselves to others rather than spending those same hours improving their technique and sharpening their eye.”
The same is true in all areas of all of our lives. Each of us have watched hundreds, even thousands of people waste countless hours trying to prove themselves to others rather than spending those same hours improving themselves, their performance and their value.
Dewitt Jones is absolutely right when he writes, “you get better a lot faster by focusing on improving rather than proving. You learn far more by sharing than by hoarding.”
And so it is with each and every one of us. We get better much faster by focusing on improving rather than proving. We also contribute and learn far more by sharing than by hoarding.
Don’t prove yourself; improve yourself – and then openly share with others!
- Note: Photos, text, or video at here are taken from the public website without intention to infringe their copyrights.
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