principles for success1

EPISODE 1: The call to adventure

冒险的召唤
Before we begin, let me just establish the fact that I don't know much relative to what I need to know.

Whatever success I've had in life has more to do with my knowing how to deal with my not knowing than anything I know.

That I should be telling other people what to do sounds presumptuous to me, but I 'm going to do it because I believe that the principles that have made me successful could help others achieve their own goals.

I'm now at a stage in my own life in which it is much more important to me to pass along what I've learned about how to be successful than to seek more success for myself.

what you choose to do with these principles is up to you. you have to be an independent thinker, because only you can develop your own principles based on your own value .

this brings me to my first and most fundamental principle, which is that ###you need to think for yourself about what is true .###

so lest's get started, early on I discovered I need principle, principles are smart ways for handling things that happen over and over again in similar situation.

there are principles for everything. form skiing to parenting to cooking and so on.

I am going to share some of my most important overarching life principles that influence how we approach everything we do.

I didn't start out with principles, I acquired them over a lifetime of experiences. ,mostly form making mistakes and reflecting on them.

my life principles are simple but they're not complete, I still struggle to make the best decisions and I make mistakes and learn new principles all the time.

(truth is the essential foundation for producing good outcomes.
dreams + reality + determination = a successful life)
this is the reality.

at the beginning , I needed to escape the conventions that surrounded to me. which meant that I need to think for myself , unless you want to have a life that is directed by others.

you need to decide for your what to do ,and you need to have the courage to do it.

but I didn't know that at first , I only learned that form going on my adventure.

looking back on my own journey I now see the time is like a river, that carries us forward into encounters with reality that require us to make decisions.

we can't stop our movement down this rivers, and we can't avoid the encounter, we can only approach them in the best possible way .

in your lifetime you will face millions of decisions, the quality of your decisions will determine the quality of your life.

over the course of my life time, the most valuable things I've learned were the results of mistakes I reflected on the help form principles, so I wouldn't make the same mistakes again .

these principles took me from being a very ordinary middle-class kid from Long Island ,to becoming very successful as judged by conventional measures , they also gave me the meaningful work and meaningful relationships, that I value even more than these conventional successes.

people often ask me how I did it, I am assure you it wasn't because of my uniqueness as a person, it was the result of a unique approach to life I believe almost anybody can adopt.

it starts with embracing reality and dealing with it.