Some advice from Jeff Bezos

Source: signalvnoise.com/posts/3289-some-advice-from-jeff-bezos

Jeff Bezos stopped by our office yesterday and spent about 90 minutes with us talking product strategy. Before he left, he spent about 45 minutes taking general Q&A from everyone at the office.

Jeff Bezos昨天来我们办公室坐了坐，花了90分钟和我们谈论产品战略。在他离开前，他用了45分钟回答了办公司每个人员的问题。

During one of his answers, he shared an enlightened observation about people who are “right a lot”.

其中一个回答，他分享了一条令人启发的观察，是关于“总是对”的人的。

He said people who were right a lot of the time were people who often changed their minds.He doesn’t think consistency of thought is a particularly positive trait. It’s perfectly healthy — encouraged, even — to have an idea tomorrow that contradicted your idea today.

他讲到，在大部分时间都对的人是那些经常改变主意的人。他并不认为持续不变的想法是一项特别的优点。明天的想法和今天的想法完全相反，是非常有益的，甚至是值得鼓励的。

He’s observed that the smartest people are constantly revising their understanding, reconsidering a problem they thought they’d already solved. They’re open to new points of view, new information, new ideas, contradictions, and challenges to their own way of thinking.

他观察到，最聪明的人不断地修正他们的理解，重新考虑那些他们认为已经解决了的问题。他们对于新观点，新信息，新想法，矛盾，对于他们想法的挑战都保持开放态度。

This doesn’t mean you shouldn’t have a well formed point of view, but it means you should consider your point of view as temporary.

这并不意味着你不应该拥有形成良好的观点，但你应该知道你的观点只是暂时的。

What trait signified someone who was wrong a lot of the time? Someone obsessed with details that only support one point of view. If someone can’t climb out of the details, and see the bigger picture from multiple angles, they’re often wrong most of the time.

对于大部分时间总是错的人，有什么特征呢？ 一些人沉迷于支持某种观点的细节里。如果他不能爬出细节，从多个角度看到更大的景象，那么在大部分时间里，他们都会错。

Great advice. 好建议。

想法改变说明重新思考问题后，得出新的观点。想法并不重要，重要的是通过想法来指导实践。但是，若想法有问题，实践的结果必然不好。所以说，想法是否能对现实有正确的认识至关重要。

不能因为是自己的想法，而抱着不放。保持开放态度，从多个角度看问题，得出现在看来是最好的结论。

但永远记住，这个结论只是暂时的。

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