Imagine life as a game in which you are juggling five balls in the air. You name them — work, family, health, friends and spirit. Work is a rubber ball. If you drop it, it will bounce back. But the other four balls are made of glass.
Brian Dyson
Georgia Tech Commencement 1996, 1996
这句语录背后的故事
Dyson — the former CEO of Coca-Cola Enterprises — closed his speech with this metaphor that would become one of the most widely shared pieces of commencement wisdom. The five-ball juggling metaphor was memorable because it was both simple and subversive: in a speech to graduates of a top engineering school, the CEO of one of the world's largest companies was telling them that work was the least important ball. The glass balls — family, health, friends, and spirit — 'will be irrevocably scuffed, marked, nicked, damaged or even shattered. They will never be the same.' The word 'irrevocably' carried the weight of the argument: work failures were recoverable, but neglected relationships and health were not. Coming from someone who had spent decades in the corporate world, the warning had particular credibility.
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