Some people know what they want to do from an early age and focus on it relentlessly. Others reinvent themselves, changing careers and industries until they find something that works. As a reminder that the path to success is not always linear, we've highlighted what Richard Branson and other fascinating and successful people were doing at age 25.
有的人很年轻的时候就知道他们想做什么，并且坚定地专注于此。有的人通过职业和行业的调整来改变自己，直到发现自己真正想做的事情。通向成功的道路不会一帆风顺，我们来看看理查德-布兰森和其他成功人士在25岁时都在做什么。
Richard Branson had already started the Virgin Records record label.
理查德-布兰森(维京集团创始人)已经创办了维京唱片公司
At age 20, Branson opened his first record shop, then a studio at 22 and launched the label at 23. By 30, his company was international.
20岁时布兰森开办了他的第一家唱片店，22岁时建立了一家工作室，23岁时创办了维京唱片公司。30岁时他的公司已经是国际级的了。
Those early years were tough, he told Entrepreneur: "I remember them vividly. It's far more difficult being a small-business owner starting a business than it is for me with thousands of people working for us and 400 companies. Building a business from scratch is 24 hours, 7 days a week, divorces, it's difficult to hold your family life together, it's bloody hard work and only one word really matters ― and that's surviving."
最初的几年很艰难，他告诉《企业家》杂志：“我还清楚地记得那些岁月。对我来说，建立一家小型公司开始创业比领导成千上万的员工和400家公司要困难得多。白手起家创建一家公司意味着一周七天，一天24小时不停地工作，还有离婚，因为你很难兼顾家庭生活。那时工作非常艰苦，只有一个词最重要，那就是生存。”
JK Rowling came up with the idea for the Harry Potter series on a train.
JK罗琳在火车上想到了《哈利波特》系列故事的灵感
In 1990, Rowling was 25 years old when she came up with the idea for Harry Potter duirng a delayed four-hour train ride.
1990年，25岁的JK罗琳在一次晚点4小时的火车旅途中想到了《哈利波特》的灵感。
She started writing the first book that evening, but it took her years to actually finish it. While working as a secretary for the London office of Amnesty International, Rowling was fired for daydreaming too much about Harry Potter and her severance check would help her focus on writing for the next few years.
在那天晚上她开始写第一本书，但她花了好几年才完成这本书。罗琳曾经在国际特赦组织的伦敦办事处当秘书，但是因为总在构思《哈利波特》的故事而被炒了鱿鱼，这其实让她在接下来的几年可以专注于写作。
During these years, she got married, had a daughter, got divorced, and was diagnosed with clinical depression before finally finishing the book in 1995. It was published in 1997。
在这些年里，她结了婚，有了一个女儿，又离了婚，还被诊断出患有抑郁症，最终她在1995年完成了她的作品，于1997年出版。
