导师天团: 成功的尝试让人更有信心

2018-04-26

今天要介绍的于去年 11 月 出版的《导师天团（Tribe of Mentors）》，本书上市前一个月就已经冲到了亚马逊商业类书籍预售的第一名。

作者蒂姆·费里斯（Tim Ferris）美国著名的畅销书作家、天使投资人、连续创业者。作为天使投资人，他是 Twitter、Facebook 等一流企业的早期投资人。作为畅销书作家，他的几部作品《巨人的工具》、《每周工作四小时》，每一本都在美国卖到脱销。

在这本书里，费里斯精心准备了 11 个问题，收集了 133 位世界级智者的回答。然后把他们的答案集结成册。

其中一个作者认为很重要的问题是：

In the last five years, what have you become better at saying no to (distractions, invitations, etc.)? What new realizations or approaches helped? Do you have any tips for people who want to say no to more things?

翻成中文是，什么习惯、想法，对你影响重大？

今天要介绍Debbie Millman的回答。她是知名播客，主持一档设计师访谈节目Design Matters。通过她的采访，我们也能接近这班天马行空、突破边际的设计者的想法。是一值得一听的节目。

什么习惯、想法，对你影响重大？

Millman说：

I’ve come to the conclusion that confidence is the successful repetition of any endeavor.

翻成中文是，成功的尝试让人更有信心。

我觉得她很有意思，因为一开始她在答这个题目时，她采取了小孩子学走路的隐喻，这个老掉牙的隐喻，让我以为她会讲些practice makes perfect之类的道理。

但后来她更新这个隐喻。她说，你在尝试新东西的过程中，你会探索出一些技巧、认知框架，下次你在遇到新东西，你不会那么怕，你会有" internal pattern recognition"，你知道你可以，你这次还是会做到。

这启发我想到，我为什么对于学新东西总是觉得有种莫名的自信。因为我常想起我是怎样考试的，我怎样猜题、把握重点，怎样巩固一个知识。想起过去的学习技巧，我就会试着看看，新的科目它有哪些类似的特征，再针对重点攻克。

Millman说的对，我们要试着发展" internal pattern recognition"，我们可以更顺利也更有自信面对新的挑战。

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下面附上她的英文回答

Q: In the last five years, what new belief, behavior or habit has most improved your life.

A: I’ve come to the conclusion that confidence is the successful repetition of any endeavor. So if you think back to something that you had to learn for the first time, walking for example, you didn’t start walking in just starting walking perfectly, you were crawling, you were holding onto things and ultimately you get that ability to step up, and take that first step and then you learn how to walk. And I think that that is the case for anything that we do. Anything new that we start, it’s highly unlikely that we will feel enormously confident doing something that we’ve never done before. It takes time to be able to manifest confidence through the successful repetition of any endeavor. We end up having a certain internal pattern recognition by the fact that we’ve done this thing before, fairly well, maybe excellently, and we anticipate that the result will be the same the next time we do it. So the more you practice doing something, the better you will inevitably get at it, and your confidence will then grow over time.

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