We tell young people in our society that end of the rainbow is retirement at 65.
我们这个社会的年轻人被告知,彩虹的尽头是65岁退休。
We ought to tell them that "there is going to be this short but beautiful golden window from roughly age 3 to roughly age 12 where your kids are not only easy (comparatively to bottles & diapers), but are going to be these beautiful little creatures and it will pain your heart to be away from them for too long.
我们应该告诉他们:「从大约3岁到大约12岁,会有一段短暂而美好的黄金窗口期——这段时间里,孩子不仅好带(比起喂奶换尿布的时期),还会变成一个个美好的小生命,离开他们太久你会心痛。
So, prepare in your 20's, financially and career wise, to build that flexibility into that chapter of your life".
所以,在你20多岁时就在财务和事业上做好准备,把这种灵活性提前安排进人生那个篇章。」
You don't get another shot at living the "golden window".
「黄金窗口」只有一次,没有重来的机会。
And, for me, leaning hard into that golden window has made everything else in my life feel fairly insignificant in comparison.
对我而言,全身心投入这段黄金窗口,让我生命中其他一切相比之下都显得无足轻重。
I have made plenty of mistakes as a father, but what I won't have is the regret of having been distracted and absent from these formative years.
作为父亲我犯过很多错,但我不会留下这样的遗憾:在孩子性格成型的关键年份里分心、缺席。
In some cases, that has required financial sacrifices (declining a particular career opportunity that would have required relocation), but I personally have zero regrets.
有些时候这需要经济上的牺牲(我曾拒绝过一个需要搬家的职业机会),但我个人毫无悔意。
I also hear from some ambitious & successful people with a 4 year old that say "I've lost my ambition, I am so immersed in fatherhood".
我也听一些有4岁孩子的、上进又成功的人说:「我失去了野心,我完全沉浸在当爸爸这件事里了。」
At least for me, and a number of my friends, it comes back.
至少对我和我的一些朋友来说,野心会回来的。
You can't keep an ambitious person down and if you have the fire, hanging at a playground on too many Tuesday afternoons is going to feel like torture after too long.
你压不住一个有野心的人;如果你心里有火,太多工作日的下午泡在儿童游乐场里,时间久了就会变成一种折磨。
My three boys are approaching 13, 11 & 9, and it's much different than 7, 5 & 3.
我的三个儿子快13岁、11岁、9岁了,这和7岁、5岁、3岁时
This summer, for example, they slept until 11am and I2pm to work (being on PT helps), then got another great window 7-11pm, but was able to be present in theeks when they were at basketball camp, etc.
比如今年夏天,他们睡到上午11点,我就有了一段早上6点到(兼职身份帮了忙),晚上7点到11点又是一段好时间,而白 天最核心的时段我都能陪在他们身边,还有几周他们去篮球
It gets easier, your time frees up again (there's a s'm back to working as intensely as I did pre-kids just because my day to day presence requires fewer hours ty wife is just superbly wonderful).
一切会变轻松,你的时间重新空出来(这也带着一点伤感) 强度工作,只是因为日常陪伴所需的时间比以前少了(另外,我妻子真的非常非常好)。
And that is the beautiful gift of entrepreneurship (oness), the ability to deliver still a high level ofoutput but work that around your life rather than the opposite.
这正是创业美好的馈赠(至少对我这种生意而言):依然能 着生活转,而不是反过来。
TLDR, grind before, and grind after. Prepare for the golden window.
一句话总结:之前拼命拼,之后也拼命拼,为黄金窗口做好