CHAPTER 8
生活原则列表
1EmbraceReality and Deal with It
拥抱现实，并处理他
There isnothing more important than understanding how reality works and how to dealwith it. The state of mind you bring to this process makes all the difference.I have found it helpful to think of my life as if it were a game in which eachproblem I face is a puzzle I need to solve. By solving the puzzle, I get a gemin the form of a principle that helps me avoid the same sort of problem in thefuture. Collecting these gems continually improves my decision making, so I amable to ascend to higher and higher levels of play in which the game getsharder and the stakes become ever greater.
All sorts of emotionscome to me while I am playing and those emotions can either help me or hurt me.If I can reconcile my emotions with my logic and only act when they arealigned, I make better decisions.
Learning how realityworks, visualizing the things I want to create, and then building them out isincredibly exciting to me. Stretching for big goals puts me in the position offailing and needing to learn and come up with new inventions in order to moveforward. I find it exhilarating being caught up in the feedback loop of rapidlearning—just as a surfer loves riding a wave, even though it sometimes leadsto crashes. Don’t get me wrong, I’m still scared of the crashes and I stillfind them painful. But I keep that pain in perspective, knowing that I will getthrough these setbacks and that most of my learning will come from reflectingon them.14Just as long-distance runners push through pain to experience the pleasure of“runner’s high,” I have largely gotten past the pain of my mistake making andinstead enjoy the pleasure that comes with learning from it. I believe thatwith practice you can change your habits and experience the same “mistakelearner’s high.”
[if !supportLists]1.1 [endif]Be a hyperrealist.
做一个啊超现实主义者
Understanding, accepting, andworking with reality is both practical and beautiful. I have become so much ofa hyperrealist that I’ve learned to appreciate the beauty of all realities,even harsh ones, and have come to despise impractical idealism.
Don’t get me wrong: I believe inmaking dreams happen. To me, there’s nothing better in life than doing that.The pursuit of dreams is what gives life its flavor. My point is that peoplewho create great things aren’t idle dreamers: They are totally grounded inreality. Being hyperrealistic will help you choose your dreams wisely and thenachieve them. I have found the following to be almost always true:
a. Dreams + Reality +Determination = A Successful Life. People who achieve success and driveprogress deeply understand the cause-effect relationships that govern realityand have principles for using them to get what they want. The converse is alsotrue: Idealists who are not well grounded in reality create problems, notprogress.
What does a successful life looklike? We all have our own deep-seated needs, so we each have to decide forourselves what success is. I don’t care whether you want to be a master of theuniverse, a couch potato, or anything else—I really don’t. Some people want tochange the world and others want to operate in simple harmony with it and savorlife. Neither is better. Each of us needs to decide what we value most andchoose the paths we take to achieve it.
Take a moment to reflect on whereyou are on the following scale, which illustrates an overly simplified choiceyou should think about. Where would you put yourself on it?
The question isn’t just how much
of each to go after, but how hard to work to get as much as possible. I wanted
crazy amounts of each, was thrilled to work hard to get as much of them as
possible, and found that they could largely be one and the same and mutually
reinforcing. Over time I learned that getting more out of life wasn’t just amatter of working harder at it. It was much more a matter of workingeffectively, because working effectively could increase my capacity by hundredsof times. I don’t care what you want or how hard you want to work for it.That’s for you to decide. I’m just trying to pass along to you what has helpedme get the most out of each hour of time and each unit of effort.
Mostimportantly, I’ve learned that there is no escaping the fact that:
译文：
1、拥抱现实，并处理他
没有什么比了解现实是如何运作以及如何应对更重要的了，而你用在这个过程的思维状态就是差异所在。我发现如果我将生命中遇到的每一道难题视为我需要解决的难题的游戏，对我的生命是有益的。为了解决难题，我以原则的形式帮助自己在未来避免同类型的问题。而持续的收集这些原则帮我提升自己的决策制定，所以我能随着游戏难度升级，风险日益巨大，越来越提高自己的水平。
而在我经历这些时候所以各种经历的情绪，那些情绪既能帮助我也能伤害我。如果我能用自身逻辑调整自己的情绪，只有将他们调和一致，我才能更好的做出决策。
而了解真实世界是如何运作的，将我想创造的事物可视化，然后将他们创作出来能给我带来出乎寻常的兴奋。为大目标而努力将我至于失败的境地，需要继续学习，并开展新发明以便于前进。而快速学习的反馈能循环令人振奋—就像冲浪人喜爱在海浪上冲浪，即使海浪优势可能带来崩溃，别误解我的意思，我依旧害怕犯错，我依旧认为犯错会很痛。但我坚持用痛苦的视角，坚信我能越过这些挫折而我能学习的最大知识来自于这些痛苦的反馈。就像那长途跑步的人会不顾痛苦去体验跑步者的高峰体验，我则从过去我范的那些错误的痛苦中体验过太多，而从学习反馈中享受快乐。我相信随着练习你能改变你的习惯并体验犯错者的高峰体验。
1.1 做一个超现实主义者
理解，接受，并与真实世界一起工作是即现实而又美丽的。我已经成了超现实主义者以至于我会享受并感谢这美丽的真实世界，既是是苛刻的真实情况，并开始鄙视不切实际的理想情况。
别误会我的意思：我相信让梦想实现，对我来说，没有比这更美妙得了。准求梦想就是准求生活本身的味道。我的观点是那些创造伟大事物的人不是单纯的梦想家：他们都是脚踏实地的。成为超现实主义者会帮助你更明智的选择你的梦想，然后达成梦想。我发现下面这些几乎总是真的：
梦想+现实+决定=一个成功的人生。取得成功并推定进步的人都深深明白掌控现实和使用原则得到他们想要的之间的因果关系。相反的情况也是如此：不切实际的理想主义者创造麻烦而不是进步。
一个成功的人生看起来是什么样的那？我们都有自己的深层次需求，所以我们每个人都必须自己决定什么是成功。我不关心你是否想成为宇宙的主人，一个懒蛋，或者其他的—我其实不-有些人想要改变世界 而其他一些人只是想简单的面对一切，品尝生活。无所谓好坏。我们每个人都需要决定我们的最大价值并选择我们达成目标的道路。
问题不仅仅是每个人能为目标投入多少，而是如何努力工作尽可能达成目标。而我想两者兼顾，疯狂工作并尽可能达成一切，我发现他们有很大可能是成为同一个东西，相似并且彼此促进强化。随着时间我逐渐明白从生活中得到更多不仅仅是努力工作这么简单。更在于如何更加有效的工作，因为有效工作能成百倍的增加自己的能力。我不关系你先要什么或者你是如何努力为梦想工作的。那是你要决定的。我只是尝试传递给你如何从每小时和每一次努力中得到最大化的帮助。
最重要的是，我已经明白无法逃脱的事实是-见下节内容。
读后感：
终于到了干活章节了，然而我依旧没看到干货，所以失望和犹豫是可想而知的，但我决定继续读下去，我发现雷先生的文章虽然实用性与我的预期不符，但在英语学习和部分段落的愉悦性方面还是有收获的。
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