Original Title 原标题Nvidia’s billionaire founder: The No. 1 thing I believe today that my younger self wouldn’t understand
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Jensen Huang used to worry about not having enough time to accomplish everything he wanted.
黄仁勋曾经担忧没有足够的时间去实现他想要的一切。
These days, the billionaire Nvidia CEO and co-founder wishes he hadn’t worried so much. “There’s plenty of time. If you prioritize yourself properly and you make sure that you don’t let [Microsoft] Outlook be the controller of your time, there’s plenty of time,” Huang told the “Acquired” podcast last year.
现在的英伟达首席执行官兼联合创始人、亿万富翁黄仁勋希望以前得他不用如此担忧。“有大把的时间。如果你把你自己放在优先位置，并确保不让微软Outlook控制着你的时间，你是有大把时间的。“黄仁勋在去年的“Acquired”播客上说。
Huang’s younger self would probably disagree with him, he added — but you should be able to do everything you want if you “prioritize your time really carefully.” Be strategic about identifying and focusing on the most important things that need your attention at work and at home, Huang advised.
黄仁勋补充道，年轻的他可能不同意他现在的说法，但是如果你“认真细致地把你的时间放在优先”的话，你应该能够做任何你想做的事情。黄仁勋建议，要有战略性地确定并专注于工作和家庭里需要你关注的最重要事情。
“Just don’t do everything,” said Huang. “Prioritize your life. Make sacrifices. Don’t let Outlook control what you do every day.”
“不要所有的事情都去做。”黄仁勋说：“要对你的生活作出优先规划。（有些事情）需要作出牺牲。不要每天都让Outlook控制着你做事。”
Learning how to prioritize your most important responsibilities, both at work and in your free time, can make you more productive and create a more fulfilling work-life balance, research shows.
研究表明，学会如何优先考虑你在工作和休闲时间里的最重要的责任，能够让你更有效率，并创造更有充实的工作生活平衡。
Huang expects his employees to follow suit: Nvidia employees are reportedly told to write down their top priorities in emails to their managers and Huang each week to improve their focus and productivity, according to Business Insider.
黄仁勋希望他的员工们也跟着这样做。据商业观察者（Business Insider）报道，每个星期，英伟达的员工们都被要求写下他们最优先的事情，用邮件发给他们的经理们和黄仁勋，以提高他们的关注度和工作效率。
The Nvidia CEO, who built his nearly $2.7 trillion tech giant after launching it from a Denny’s booth in 1993, has described himself as a “perfectionist” and a “demanding” boss who is “not easy to work for.” So, it’s perhaps unsurprising to hear him say he once worried about not having enough time in the day.
现在的英伟达是一家市值接近2.7万亿美元的科技巨头，1993年，由它的首席执行官黄仁勋在丹尼的一个展位上创立。黄仁勋描述自己是一个“完美主义者”，是一个“要求苛刻”和“并不容易为之工作”的老板。因此，这可能是我们并不感到意外地听到他说他在年轻时曾经担忧没有足够的时间。
Still, his younger self probably could’ve used the advice. Huang joked about skipping out on sleep in order to find more time in a 2003 speech at Stanford University.
尽管如此，年轻时的他未必会听从这个建议。2003年，在斯坦福大学的一次演讲上，黄仁勋开玩笑说，为了有更多的时间，他甚至跳过睡眠。
“That’s always a good option: It creates more time when you don’t sleep,” he said at the time.
他当时说：“这总是个好选择，当你不睡觉时，它会创造更多的时间。”
‘Your time is not always yours’
你的时间并不总是你的
Sleep or no, Huang understood the importance of taking control of his own time. “As a CEO, your time is not always yours, and so you need to have the discipline to make it yours,” he said in 2003. “I’ll often come into the office and tell my admin to clear my calendar so that I can have that time back.”
不管是否睡眠，黄仁勋清楚地知道掌控自己的时间的重要性。“作为一个CEO，你的世界并不总是你的，你需要有一个行为准则，找到你的时间。”他在2003年说：“我会经常到办公室，并告诉我的行政人员清理我的日历，这样我可以找回那段时间。”
Huang isn’t the only successful person who operates that way. “You have to be maniacally focused on owning your calendar,” Mary Callahan Erdoes, CEO of J.P. Morgan’s Asset & Wealth Management division, told CNBC Make It in 2016.
黄仁勋并不是唯一一个这样运作的成功人士。“你必须疯狂地专注于你自己的时间。“J.P.摩根资产和财富管理部门的CEO Mary Callahan Erdoes在2016年接受CNBC Make It也这样说。
“Unless you can stay on top of that religiously, it will end up owning you, and that’s not a way to go about staying organized and being on top of things,” she said.
“除非你能严格地遵循专注于自己的时间的原则，否则你最终会被时间掌控着你，这不是保持井然有序和掌控一切的方式。”她说。
In Huang’s case, he starts his days at 4 a.m. to exercise and spend time with family before beginning a typically 14-hour workday, the Financial Times reported in 2020. At work, he’s said he focuses on wherever he can have the greatest positive impact on Nvidia and his employees, including “product-planning and strategy” and getting product feedback from customers.
2020年《金融时报》报道，在开始典型的14小时工作日前，黄仁勋在早上4点开始锻炼，并和家人共度时光。他说，在工作上，他专注于任何对英伟达和他的员工们有最大积极影响的事情，包括了“产品计划和战略”，以及从客户那里获得的产品反馈。
Huang also likes to meet with his employees, sometimes while eating in the Nvidia cafeteria, so he can prioritize what he sees as his “No. 1 job function, and what I believe is the most important responsibility I have, which is to be the custodian of the culture,” he said in 2003.
黄仁勋还喜欢与他的员工们会面，有时候他会在英伟达的餐厅就餐，因此他能够优先考虑他认为的“第一职能以及他相信他承担的最重要责任——成为英伟达文化的守护者。”这也是他2003年说过的话。
“I try to spend my time, as much as I can, on the things that I believe will have a long-lasting influence on our company,” Huang said.
黄仁勋说：“我尽量多地把我的时间用在我相信对我们公司有长久影响的事情上。”
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Jensen Huang used to worry about not having enough time to accomplish everything he wanted.
黄仁勋曾经担忧没有足够的时间去实现他想要的一切。
These days, the billionaire Nvidia CEO and co-founder wishes he hadn’t worried so much. “There’s plenty of time. If you prioritize yourself properly and you make sure that you don’t let [Microsoft] Outlook be the controller of your time, there’s plenty of time,” Huang told the “Acquired” podcast last year.
现在的英伟达首席执行官兼联合创始人、亿万富翁黄仁勋希望以前得他不用如此担忧。“有大把的时间。如果你把你自己放在优先位置，并确保不让微软Outlook控制着你的时间，你是有大把时间的。“黄仁勋在去年的“Acquired”播客上说。
Huang’s younger self would probably disagree with him, he added — but you should be able to do everything you want if you “prioritize your time really carefully.” Be strategic about identifying and focusing on the most important things that need your attention at work and at home, Huang advised.
黄仁勋补充道，年轻的他可能不同意他现在的说法，但是如果你“认真细致地把你的时间放在优先”的话，你应该能够做任何你想做的事情。黄仁勋建议，要有战略性地确定并专注于工作和家庭里需要你关注的最重要事情。
“Just don’t do everything,” said Huang. “Prioritize your life. Make sacrifices. Don’t let Outlook control what you do every day.”
“不要所有的事情都去做。”黄仁勋说：“要对你的生活作出优先规划。（有些事情）需要作出牺牲。不要每天都让Outlook控制着你做事。”
Learning how to prioritize your most important responsibilities, both at work and in your free time, can make you more productive and create a more fulfilling work-life balance, research shows.
研究表明，学会如何优先考虑你在工作和休闲时间里的最重要的责任，能够让你更有效率，并创造更有充实的工作生活平衡。
Huang expects his employees to follow suit: Nvidia employees are reportedly told to write down their top priorities in emails to their managers and Huang each week to improve their focus and productivity, according to Business Insider.
黄仁勋希望他的员工们也跟着这样做。据商业观察者（Business Insider）报道，每个星期，英伟达的员工们都被要求写下他们最优先的事情，用邮件发给他们的经理们和黄仁勋，以提高他们的关注度和工作效率。
The Nvidia CEO, who built his nearly $2.7 trillion tech giant after launching it from a Denny’s booth in 1993, has described himself as a “perfectionist” and a “demanding” boss who is “not easy to work for.” So, it’s perhaps unsurprising to hear him say he once worried about not having enough time in the day.
现在的英伟达是一家市值接近2.7万亿美元的科技巨头，1993年，由它的首席执行官黄仁勋在丹尼的一个展位上创立。黄仁勋描述自己是一个“完美主义者”，是一个“要求苛刻”和“并不容易为之工作”的老板。因此，这可能是我们并不感到意外地听到他说他在年轻时曾经担忧没有足够的时间。
Still, his younger self probably could’ve used the advice. Huang joked about skipping out on sleep in order to find more time in a 2003 speech at Stanford University.
尽管如此，年轻时的他未必会听从这个建议。2003年，在斯坦福大学的一次演讲上，黄仁勋开玩笑说，为了有更多的时间，他甚至跳过睡眠。
“That’s always a good option: It creates more time when you don’t sleep,” he said at the time.
他当时说：“这总是个好选择，当你不睡觉时，它会创造更多的时间。”
‘Your time is not always yours’
你的时间并不总是你的
Sleep or no, Huang understood the importance of taking control of his own time. “As a CEO, your time is not always yours, and so you need to have the discipline to make it yours,” he said in 2003. “I’ll often come into the office and tell my admin to clear my calendar so that I can have that time back.”
不管是否睡眠，黄仁勋清楚地知道掌控自己的时间的重要性。“作为一个CEO，你的世界并不总是你的，你需要有一个行为准则，找到你的时间。”他在2003年说：“我会经常到办公室，并告诉我的行政人员清理我的日历，这样我可以找回那段时间。”
Huang isn’t the only successful person who operates that way. “You have to be maniacally focused on owning your calendar,” Mary Callahan Erdoes, CEO of J.P. Morgan’s Asset & Wealth Management division, told CNBC Make It in 2016.
黄仁勋并不是唯一一个这样运作的成功人士。“你必须疯狂地专注于你自己的时间。“J.P.摩根资产和财富管理部门的CEO Mary Callahan Erdoes在2016年接受CNBC Make It也这样说。
“Unless you can stay on top of that religiously, it will end up owning you, and that’s not a way to go about staying organized and being on top of things,” she said.
“除非你能严格地遵循专注于自己的时间的原则，否则你最终会被时间掌控着你，这不是保持井然有序和掌控一切的方式。”她说。
In Huang’s case, he starts his days at 4 a.m. to exercise and spend time with family before beginning a typically 14-hour workday, the Financial Times reported in 2020. At work, he’s said he focuses on wherever he can have the greatest positive impact on Nvidia and his employees, including “product-planning and strategy” and getting product feedback from customers.
2020年《金融时报》报道，在开始典型的14小时工作日前，黄仁勋在早上4点开始锻炼，并和家人共度时光。他说，在工作上，他专注于任何对英伟达和他的员工们有最大积极影响的事情，包括了“产品计划和战略”，以及从客户那里获得的产品反馈。
Huang also likes to meet with his employees, sometimes while eating in the Nvidia cafeteria, so he can prioritize what he sees as his “No. 1 job function, and what I believe is the most important responsibility I have, which is to be the custodian of the culture,” he said in 2003.
黄仁勋还喜欢与他的员工们会面，有时候他会在英伟达的餐厅就餐，因此他能够优先考虑他认为的“第一职能以及他相信他承担的最重要责任——成为英伟达文化的守护者。”这也是他2003年说过的话。
“I try to spend my time, as much as I can, on the things that I believe will have a long-lasting influence on our company,” Huang said.
黄仁勋说：“我尽量多地把我的时间用在我相信对我们公司有长久影响的事情上。”
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