You spent a lot of years in school. You learned a lot.

你读书多年，满腹学识。

Some of what you learned you need to un-learn as soon as possible. Here are five key attitudes you should adopt instead:

可有些你学到的东西却应该尽快抛弃，转而养成以下5个态度：

1. If you only do what you're told, you'll excel.

1. 如果还是循规蹈矩，那你就出局了。

I know. School was hard.

的确，读书不容易。

But not that hard.

但也还不算难于上青天吧。

If you did what you were told--go to class, do the reading, turn in assignments on time, etc.--you could get As. Initiative was not required and, in fact, was often frowned on.

在学校，如果规规矩矩上课看书或按时提交作业，你会得到全优成绩。读书不要求你有什么创举，要是你搞什么新奇玩意儿，或许还会被责罚。

Now--whether you work for someone else or run your own business--doing what you're told makes you average. Not superior, not excellent... just average.

现在，不论是替别人打工还是自主创业，如果还是别人交待一件，你就只做一件的话，你永远只能平庸无为——不拔尖、不出色，就这样碌碌无为下去。

To be above average, or to achieve better than average results, you must do two things:

若想摆脱平庸，取得更高成就，你必须做到以下两点：

Do what others are willing to do, and do it better, and Do what others aren't willing to do

别人乐意做的事情，你要做得更好；别人不愿意做的事情，你更要亲力亲为。

Otherwise, you're just average.

否则，你只能沦为芸芸众生。

2. Being micro-managed is to be expected.

2. 意识到自己会处在“微观管理”的环境下

Sure, you felt overly-controlled in school: Dates, timelines, rules... not to mention the seemingly arbitrary policies and nonsensical assignments. You saw graduation as the day you would finally have more freedom.

毋庸置疑，学校管理都很严格：时间、期限、校规……当然还有一堆“独裁”政策和让人无语的安排。你以为等到毕了业就自由了。

Nope.

做梦！

In school you paid people to criticize, direct, and at times micro-manage you. Now you're the one getting paid... yet you somehow don't feel it's fair that investors, partners, or customers can dictate what you do, sometimes down to the smallest detail?

上学是你花钱请人批评、引导并时常约束你，现在只是换成你拿薪水罢了。就算这样，你还是觉得不公平：那些投资商、合作商或客户凭什么对你指手画脚，有时甚至连芝麻大的细节都不放过？

Don't expect someone to trust you to perform a task or service–and give you money to perform that service–until you've proven you can be trusted to perform that service.

除非你证明自己有能力完成任务或提供服务，否则别期望别人会凭空信任你，付你报酬去进行任务或服务。

Then, once you've proven your skills, if you still feel micro-managed it's your responsibility to change the situation. Communicate before you are communicated to. Answer questions before questions are asked. Demonstrate your value before you are asked to prove your value.

接下来，如果你已经证明了自己的能力，但还是被人微观管理，那就该自己站出来改变现状了。你要趁对方还没行动前先主动进行沟通，抢在对方提问前就把所有答案摆上台面，不等对方提出要求就把自己的实力展现出来。

No one wants to micro-manage you. They have better things to do with their time.

没人喜欢过多干涉你的事情。大家都不是闲着没事干的人。

If you're being micro-managed it's probably because you need to be.

所以，如果你正处在微观管理的环境，那原因很可能出在你自己身上。