I wrote the first version of Gmail in one day. It was not very impressive. All I did was stuff my own email into the Google Groups (Usenet) indexing engine. I sent it out to a few people for feedback, and they said that it was somewhat useful, but it would be better if it searched over their email instead of mine. That was version two. After I released that people started wanting the ability to respond to email as well. That was version three. That process went on for a couple of years inside of Google before we released to the world.(paulbuchheit.blogspot.com)

看完上面引用的这段话，你就会知道Gmail这么一个伟大的产品是如何诞生的，说明了听取用户的反馈不断改进产品是多么的重要。但那并不是我这篇文章想强调的重点。

So what’s the right attitude? Humility. It doesn’t matter how smart and successful and qualified you are, you simply don’t know what you’re doing. The good news is that nobody else does either, though some are foolish enough to think that they do (and that’s why you can beat them).(paulbuchheit.blogspot.com)

我想说的是做人要有一种谦卑的态度。自己要对自己负责，不要妄自菲薄，也更不能妄自尊大，否则不仅交不到挚友，生意场上也不会获得成功。

前天分享给大家的”Twelve Things I Love About You“中的第10条提到：

Self-Knowledge, and Knowledge of Others’ Capacities: Knowing which capacities you have, and which you lack, and what you know, and what you don’t, and what others can do better than you can, is enormously important to collaboration and love, especially in coping with challenges.

这便是自知之明，知道自己是吃几碗饭的，更可贵的是，要能够欣赏他人的长处。有一句话，我很喜欢，”做自己最擅长的事，其他的交给比自己更合适的人好了”，这本身也属于单干观念——外包所有非核心业务。

我喜欢这种谦卑的态度，希望我和我的朋友们共勉，一起保持谦卑的态度吧。

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