Evolutionary principle
进化法则
Your present work may not be the work you want to do; but unless you can do your present work perfectly you are not ready for the work you want to do. And even when you can do your present work perfectly, if that is all that you can do you are not ready for anything else.
你现在的工作可能不是你理想的工作；但是除非你能把现在的工作做好，否则你还无法为你理想的工作做好准备。即使你能把现任工作做好，如果那是你的全部，你依然没有为别的事情做好准备。
It is only when you can do your present work perfectly, and do some other work besides, that you are ready to advance.
只有当你把现任工作尽可能做到完美时，再去做一些别的工作，你就准备前进了。
Evolution is brought about by developing the faculties which are to be used on a higher plane; and this is done by first doing perfectly the work of the lower plane and then adding to it, so as to bring other faculties into use, or to so develop those already in use that they become too large to find expression on the lower plane.
进化是由发展更高层次的能力引起的。而这一开始需要做好基层工作，然后再逐步累积，以便把别的技能加以应用或者那些已经在应用的技能发展到一定程度，无法在基层找到诉求(导致进化)。
To rise, you must not only fill your present place, but you must more than fill it: it is that part of you which projects beyond the boundaries of your present place which gets hold on the higher place.
要想有所提高，你不仅需要充实你目前的状态，还要多方面充电：达到更高的境界是由于部分的你(把注意力)投注你目前所在领域界限外的成果。
The evolutionary principle of success is that you should more than fill your present place; and you can succeed in no other way.
成功的进化法则就是这样，除了充实你现有的状态，还要获取多方位知识；此外，别无他法。
-Wallace D. Wattles
--华莱士 D. 沃特尔斯
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