If you want to be successful, the first step is not to know yourself very well. For years the emotional intelligence movement has been telling us the reverse — that self-knowledge is vital to get anywhere at all.
如果你想成功，那么第一步就是不要太了解自己。多年来，“情商”说一直在告诉我们相反(的理论)，即自我认识是实现任何目标的关键。
【大作文万用句式】
If you want to…, the first step is to …如果你想……，那么第一步就是……
the reverse 相反(的理论)
【经典句式】
emotional intelligence情商
self-knowledge自我认识
vital至关重要的
at all彻底;完全;任何
There has never been much evidence to back this up, but it sounds good, and so everyone takes it on trust. However, even the most casual acquaintance with the world of business suggests otherwise. Over the past three decades I’ve met large numbers of senior business people, and can’t help noticing that the only thing most of them have in common is that they don’t seem to know themselves at all.
虽然一直以来都没有多少证据支持这一论调，但它听起来不错，于是人人都将之奉为真理。可是，哪怕你对商业世界只有最粗浅的了解，也会得出相反的结论。过去三十年我见过许多商界高层人士，我不禁留意到，他们大多数人唯一的共同之处就是似乎完全不了解自己。
【经典句式】
back up支持
take… on trust盲目相信
casual通俗的;休闲的
acquaintance with熟悉……
senior business people商界高层人士
can’t help doing sth 不禁……;忍不住……
have… in common 有……的共同之处
【大作文万用句式】反对：
There has never been much evidence to back … up, but it sounds good,and so everyone takes it on trust. However, even the most casual acquaintance with the world of … suggests otherwise.
虽然一直以来都没有多少证据支持这一论调，但它听起来不错，于是人人都将之奉为真理。可是，哪怕你对…世界只有最粗浅的了解，也会得出相反的结论。
Last week I came across some research that backs up my hunch that self-knowledge is not all it’s cracked up to be. Zenger Folkman, a leadership consultancy, has conducted a large piece of research in whichit compared what 69,000 leaders think of themselves to what their teams —750,000 people altogether — think of them. It found little correlation between how managers rate their own abilities and how others rate them, which is precisely what I would have expected.
最近我看到了一些研究结果，它们支持了我的直觉——自我认识并没有人们想象的那么重要。领导力咨询公司Zenger Folkman进行了一项庞大的研究，将6.9万名领导者对自己的看法与其团队(总共75万人)对他们的看法进行比较，结果发现管理者对自我能力的评价与其他人对他们的评价相关性不大，这恰恰符合了我的预想。
【经典句式】
come across碰到
back up支持
hunch直觉
self-knowledge自我认识
crack up吹捧
leadership领导力
consultancy咨询公司
conduct执行
a piece of 一个【注】大部分不可数名词都可以用piece作为量词。
think of认为
correlation between … and … …和…的关联
rate打分
【大作文万用句式】反对：
… is not all it’s cracked up to be.……并没有人们想象的那么重要。
【小作文数据表达】
altogether总共
But the next bit was more surprising. Successful people, I’d always assumed,believe their own hype.Most chief executives are pretty good, but they tendto think they are great. Just the other day I watched one of the biggest names in global banking hold forth on stage in the manner of one offering extraordinary wisdom,oblivious to the fact that he was inflicting one pompous banality after another on the large, bored audience who stared up at him.
但接下来的研究结果比较出人意外。我原来总以为，成功人士相信他们自己那套炒作宣传。大多数首席执行官能力都不错，可他们往往认为自己非常伟大。就在不久前，我看到一个全球银行界的大腕人物在讲台上口若悬河，摆出一副他在传授过人智慧的架势，但事实明显是台下大批观众百无聊赖地抬头看着他，忍受着他没完没了的华丽而庸俗的陈词滥调。
【经典句式】
bit部分
assume以为
hype炒作宣传
chief executive首席执行官
tend to往往
big name知名人士
banking银行业
in the manner of … 以……方式
oblivious to sth 不知道……
inflict使遭受
one… after another 一个接一个
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