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钟鸣鼎食之家如何教育自己的下一代？“富二代”如何规划自己的人生？

相信很多人知道“超人”李嘉诚著名的“富门寒教”，那么，被美国人称为“除了父亲之外最值得尊敬的男人”， 坐拥470亿美元的沃伦·巴菲特对儿子的培养历程，也许能给人们更多启发。

沃伦·巴菲特给了他的儿子一些财产，足以让他去追逐自己的梦想，但并不足以一辈子不用工作。

如果有人在刚刚成年的时候，给你 一张免费票，让你自由地探索你想要的职业生涯，但不是一辈子无所事事。你将如何规划自己的人生？你会利用这份自由选择另一条人生之路么？与你现在的人生相 比，会有怎样的不同？彼得·巴菲特即将出版的新书中

在“奥马哈的股神”沃伦·巴菲特之子，彼得·巴菲特即将出版的新书中，描述了这样一个对于普通人来说如同白日梦一般的故事。彼得19岁时便从他的富爸爸那里得到了一笔并不丰厚，但是够用的财产，这些钱“可以做任何事情，但不要停止工作”，这是他父亲经常提起的人生哲学之一，彼得在自己的文章中印证了这一点。近日，一篇内容改编自彼得的新书，题为《人生由你打造》(Life Is What You Make It)的文章，在近期出版的《彭博商业周刊》(Bloomberg BusinessWeek)发表。

当年，老巴菲特将一笔出售某处农场的所获得的收益，转化成自己的公司——伯克希尔·哈撒韦（Berkshire Hathaway）的股份，送给了儿子。彼得当时还是斯坦福大学(Stanford University)的学生。他选择变卖了手里的股票，得到了约九万美元，并离开了学校。（这些股票现在大约折合7200万美金，但彼得说他并未因此感到后悔。）

他搬到了旧金山，建立了一家工作室，开始从事他的音乐事业：弹钢琴，写曲子，试验电子音乐，从事他所能找到的任何工作，无论有没有报酬。

这一决定给他带来了好运，一次偶然的机会使他遇到了一位他事业的支持者，这个人在新兴的有线电视台MTV工作。这一机遇使得他将自己的音乐卖给了广告商，并且最终在音乐领域立足。

彼得在音乐领域不断探索，成为一名荣获艾美奖(Emmy Award)的音乐人、作曲家和制作人。“如果当初我不得不面对无米为炊的生活，我可能无法继续沿着自己选择的路走下去。”他在书中写道。

这是一个意味深长的故事。一些年轻人在刚毕业的时候就强迫自己找到一份高薪的工作，这些工作会诱使他们远离自己的职业梦想。 对其他人而言，谋生的需求是一种积极而又 现实的约束。拿我自己来说吧，如果有人给我这样的机会，像巴菲特先生对他儿子所做的那样，我想我会把时间浪费在写小说上，尽管那些文字也许不甚高明，而不是像现在这样找一份有薪水的文职工作。或者去当一名老师，在新闻学院继续深造，这也许是一条更为实际的道路。

读者们，如果有人在你年轻的时候，给你这样一个机会让你自由地追寻想要的人生，你会怎么做？你会有个和现在全然不同的职业生涯吗？抑或这样一个太过容易的机会将毁掉你对人生的激情？

Warren Buffett gave his son enough to follow his dream, but not enough to do nothing.

What would you have done if someone, very early in your adult life, had given you a free ticket to explore any career you wanted -- but not enough to stop working forever? Would you have used that freedom to pursue another life path? How would your life be different now?

A story from a forthcoming book by Peter Buffett, son of the legendary Omaha investor, is an invitation to daydream on that topic. At age 19, the younger Mr. Buffett received a relatively modest bequest from his wealthy father -- 'enough to do anything, but not enough to do nothing,' one of his father's often-quoted tenets, he explains in an essay adapted from his book, 'Life Is What You Make It,' published recently in Bloomberg BusinessWeek. Proceeds from the sale of a farm were converted into shares of his father's company, Berkshire Hathaway.

A student at Stanford University at the time, Peter opted to sell the shares, collect roughly $90,000 and leave college. (Those shares are worth roughly $72 million now, but the younger Buffet says he has no regrets.)

He moved to San Francisco, set up a studio and began working on his music, playing the piano, writing tunes, experimenting with electronic sounds and taking whatever work he could find, paid or unpaid.

The decision put Peter Buffett in position to get his lucky break -- a chance encounter that led to a meeting with an animator who worked with a fledgling cable channel called MTV. That led to paid work in advertising and eventually, the ability to make a living in music. Mr. Buffett went on to create a career as an Emmy Award-winning musician, composer and producer. 'If I had faced the necessity of making a living from day one, I would not have been able to follow the path I chose,' he writes.

I found this story thought-provoking. Some young adults feel forced to grab the highest-paying jobs they can get right out of college -- jobs that can entrap them on a path leading away from their career dreams. But for others, the need to earn a living serves as a positive and practical discipline. If someone had given me the gift of time, for example, as Mr. Buffett did for his son, I imagine I would have squandered it writing bad novels, rather than getting useful paying work as a secretary, then as a teacher, and then going on to graduate school in journalism, a far more practical path in my case.

　　Readers, what would you have done if someone had given you a free pass to spend time exploring the career of your dreams? Would you have taken a different career path? Or would a free ticket have destroyed your motivation?

注：本文翻译为原创，原文刊载于THE WALL STREET JOURNAL，“The lesson from Buffet on following dream”；鸣谢：聪