My first job out of college was as a Product Manager at ZoomInfo. By all measures I was a terrible employee when I started.

大学毕业后的第一份工作，我在 ZoomInfo 担任产品经理。刚开始的时候，我各方面都表现得很糟糕。

I entered into a situation where 90%+ of what I was suppose to work on were things I knew nothing about. As a result I struggled to make progress on anything. I wish I had something like the Product Foundations program at the time.

我进入了一个新的环境，其中 90% 以上的工作任务都是我不了解的，因此我在推进任何事情上都遇到困难。我真希望当时能有类似产品基础课程的帮助。

Thankfully, my manager at the time quickly recognized this, and we had a long honest conversation about what I was comfortable with and what I wasn’t. From there, he helped reshape the project so that a larger percent of the work was based on things I knew how to do while making sure a chunk was still new to me. That was a turning point for me. After that, I not only learned much faster but delivered much better results.

幸运的是，我的经理当时很快意识到了这个问题，我们进行了长时间坦诚的交流，讨论我在工作中感到舒适和不安的地方。随后，他帮助重新规划了项目，使得大部分工作都在我擅长的范围内，同时确保有一部分仍然对我来说是新的挑战。这对我来说是个转折点。从那以后，我学习速度更快，工作表现也显著提升。