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【中英互譯】

Large Stone Block

大石塊

One day an expert in time management was speaking to a group of business students .As he stood in front of the group of high-powered over-achievers he said, "Okay, time for a quiz.」 Then he pulled out a one-gallon, wide-mouthed Mason jar and set it on the table in front of him. He then produced about a dozen fist-sized rocks and carefully placed them, one at a time, into the jar. When the jar was filled to the top and no more rocks would fit inside, he asked, "Is the jar full?" Everyone in the class said, "Yes."

一天，一名時間管理專家在對一群學習商業的學生講話，站在這群學生面前，他說：「來，做個小測試。」他拿出一個廣口玻璃瓶，放在他們面前的桌上。接著他拿出一小堆拳頭大小的石 塊，小心翼翼、一塊一塊地放進瓶子里。等石塊裝滿到瓶子時，他問：「瓶子滿了嗎？」大家都說：「滿了。」

He replied, "Really?"

他問：「真的滿了嗎？」

He reached under the table and pulled out a bucket of gravel, then dumped some gravel in and shook the jar causing pieces of gravel to work themselves down into the space between the big rocks.

他伸手到桌下提出一桶碎石，將碎石倒進瓶子里，搖晃瓶子讓碎石漏進石塊的間隙里去。

He asked the group once more, "Is the jar full?"

他又問學生：「瓶子裝滿了嗎？」

By this time the class was on to him.

這時學生們領悟過來了。

He reached under the table and brought out a bucket of sand. He started dumping the sand in the jar and it went into all the spaces left between the rocks and the gravel. Once more he asked the question, "Is the jar full?"

然後他伸手從桌底下拎出了一桶沙，把沙往瓶子里倒，沙子塞滿了石塊與碎石的縫隙，他又一次問：「滿了嗎？」

"No!" the class shouted.

「沒滿！」全班學生大聲回答。

he said, "Good!"

他說道：「好！」

Then he grabbed a pitcher of water and began to pour it in until the jar was filled to the brim. Then he looked at the class and asked, "What is the point of this illustration?" One eager student raised her hand and said, "The point is, if you try really hard you can always fit some more things in!"

然後他又拿出一大罐水往瓶子里倒，一直倒到水升到瓶口高。他看著學生們問：「這個演示說明了什麼？」一個學生急忙舉手說：「說明了：只要你想辦法，總是可以見縫插針地做更多的事情。」

"Good answer, but no," the speaker replied, "that』s not my point. The truth this illustration teaches us is: If you don』t put the big rocks in first, you』ll never get them in at all. What are the 』big rocks" in your life? In my life they are my children... my wife... my loved ones... my education... my dreams... charities and worthy causes...

「回答得好，不過，」專家說：「這不是我想說的。這個例子告訴我們一個事實：如果你不是先放大石塊，以後它們就永遠擺不進去。你生活中的『大石塊』是什麼呢？在我的生活中，那就是我的孩子、妻子、所愛的人、學習、夢想、善行和有價值的事業等等。

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