So if we hear that a notable CEO runs eight marathons a year and made a billion dollars, we automatically connect this no days off attitude with her thirst for success.
所以,如果我们听说一位著名的 CEO 一年跑八次马拉松,赚了10亿美元,我们就会自然而然地把这种休息的态度和她对成功的渴望联系起来。
To find out, I'm going to speak to Oliver Balch, a freelance journalist who just wrote a piece for the FT about how executives switch off or don't on holiday.
It seemed to me that it would be no unworthy resting-place if we put her for the time in one of the coffins of her husband's ancestors lying in what is still consecrated ground.
St. John—you know him—would urge you to impossibilities: with him there would be no permission to rest during the hot hours; and unfortunately, I have noticed, whatever he exacts, you force yourself to perform.
In other words, the more we believe that one has the opportunity for success based on hard work, the more we tend to think that people who skip leisure and work all the time are of higher standing.