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发帖数: 10208 | 1 1. Believe in yourself when no one else does. Lin’s only the 4th graduate
from Harvard to make it to the NBA. He’s also one of only a handful of
Asian-Americans to make it. He was sent by the Knicks to play for their D-
League team 3 weeks ago in Erie, PA. He’d already been cut by two other
NBA teams before joining the Knicks this year. You’ve got to believe in
yourself, even when no one else does.
2. Seize the opportunity when it comes up. Lin got to start for the Knicks
because they had to start him. They had too many injuries. Baron Davis was
gone. The other point guards were out. Carmelo Anthony was injured.
Amare Stoudemire had to leave the team because of a family death. Lin could
have squandered the opportunity and we would have never have noticed. But
he made the most of it. You never know when opportunities are going to
arise in life. Often, they’re when you least expect them. Make the most
of them. Don’t fritter them away.
3. Your family will always be there for you, so be there for them. It wasn’
t until a few days ago that Lin got his contract guaranteed by the Knicks
for the rest of the season. Before that, he could have been cut at any time
. He had to sleep on his brother’s couch on the Lower East Side to get by.
His family always believed in him and picked him up when he could have
gotten down on himself. That made him continue to believe. If you want
your family to believe in you like that, you’ve got to be there for them
too when they need it.
4. Find the system that works for your style. Lin isn’t Michael Jordan or
Kobe Bryant. He’s not a pure scorer. He’s a passer and distributor –
who can also score very well. It didn’t work for him in Golden State or
Houston – where he was before landing at the Knicks. But Mike D’Antoni’s
system at the Knicks has been perfect for him to show off his strengths.
You’ve got to do your best to understand what your strengths are and then
ensure that you’re in a system (a job or organization or industry) that is
a good fit for those strengths. Otherwise, people overlook the talents you
bring to the table.
5. Don’t overlook talent that might exist around you today on your team.
You probably manage people at your own company today. Are you sure you don
’t have a Jeremy Lin living among you now? How do you know that “Mike”
couldn’t do amazing things if you gave him a new project to run with? How
do you know “Sarah” isn’t the right person to take the open job in London
that you’ve been talking over with your colleagues? We put people around
us in boxes. He’s from Harvard. He’s Asian-American. Not sure he can
play. How many assumptions have you made about talent around you? Don’t
be like the General Managers in Golden State and Houston, and let talent
slip through your fingers. With all their money, scouts, and testing, they
didn’t have a clue what they had in their hands. Do you know what your
people (or even yourself) is really capable of? Take off the blinders of
assumptions you wear when you look at the world.
6. People will love you for being an original, not trying to be someone else
. You’ve got to be you. You can’t be some 2nd rate copy of Michael Jordan
. There will never be another Michael Jordan. Just be Jeremy Lin —
yourself. Whatever that is. That doesn’t mean you don’t work hard — it
just means you find what you’re good at and do it. Fans will love you for
being you, just like they love Jeremy Lin. Judy Garland said it best:
Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version
of somebody else.
7. Stay humble. If you one day are lucky enough to have newspapers want to
put you on the cover in order to sell more, don’t let it get to your head.
It’s been remarkable watching how humble Lin remains through all this
media frenzy. It makes his teammates and fans love him that much more.
8. When you make others around you look good, they will love you forever. I
didn’t know how good Tyson Chandler was, until I saw him playing with
Jeremy Lin. Lin has set Chandler up many times over the last week for easy
dunks because he drew the defense and then passed the ball. That’s partly
why the Knicks are playing so well. They are all working harder to share
the ball with others. And it’s beautiful to watch. And when the media
swarms Lin, he tells them how good his teammates are. Do the same with your
peers and reports.
9. Never forget about the importance of luck or fate in life. Some people
believe in God, some in destiny, some in luck. Whatever you believe in, be
grateful for it.
10. Work your butt off. Lin couldn’t have seized his opportunity if he hadn
’t worked like crazy for years perfecting his skills. There are no short
cuts to hard work. Success is a by product of that. If you’ve got a Tiger
Mom who’s always pushed you to work hard, great. If not, let your
conscience be your own Tiger Mom! Get up early, stay up late. Nobody gave
Lin any free passes. Why should you get any? You can only control what you
control and that means you’ve got to work harder than anyone else you know.
I hope the Lin-sanity continues. And I hope we all can apply these lessons
to our own work and family life.
There’s a great line from a New York Times article on Lin and his faith
which is worth it for all of us to remember (from Romans 5:3-5):
suffering produces character, and character produces hope, and hope does not
disappoint us. | M****7
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