欺骗大自然母亲是不可能的

你必须为发生在自己身上的一切坏事承担责任。这是一种心态。也许有点虚伪，但非常利己。事实上，如果你能更进一步，把所有好事都归功于运气，那也会有所帮助。但在某种程度上，真相非常重要。

You have to take responsibility for everything bad that happens to you. And this is a mindset. Maybe it's a little fake, but it's very self serving. And in fact, if you can go the extra mile and just attribute everything good that happens to you to luck, that might be helpful too. But at some level, truth is very important.

你不想假装。根据我的观察，事实是那些非常努力、全身心投入、不放弃并在足够长的时间尺度上为结果承担责任的人，最终会在他们专注的任何事情上取得成功。每个成功案例都明白这一点。理查德·费曼常说，他不是天才，只是一个全身心投入并非常努力的男孩。是的。

You don't wanna fake it. From what I have observed, the truth of the matter is people who work very hard and apply themselves and don't give up and take responsibility for the outcomes on a long enough time scale end up succeeding in whatever they are focused on. And every success case knows this. Richard Feynman used to say that he wasn't a genius, he was just a boy who applied himself and worked really hard. Yeah.

他显然非常聪明，但那是必要但不充分的条件。我们都知道聪明懒人的老套形象。我喜欢调侃我所有的朋友，包括尼维，我发现这些人的一个问题在于，你们的运作远低于潜力。你们的潜力比现状高得多。你们必须把其中一些转化为动能。

He was very smart, obviously, but that was necessary but not sufficient. We all know the trope of the smart lazy guy. And I like to harass all of my friends, including Nivy, that one of the problems I noticed with these guys, you're just operating way below potential. Your potential is so much higher than where you are. You have to apply some of that into kinetic.

讽刺的是，这会提升你的潜力，因为我们不是静态的生物。我们是动态的生物，你会学到更多。你会在实践中学习。所以别再找借口了，直接上场吧。你也喜欢叔本华。

And ironically, that will raise your potential because we're not static creatures. We're dynamic creatures, and you will learn more. You will learn by doing. So just stop making excuses and get in the ring. You also like Schopenhauer.

你从叔本华那里学到了什么，或者他的著作中有什么令人惊讶的地方？哦，叔本华并不适合所有人，而且有许多不同的叔本华。他写了很多东西，你可以读他更晦涩的哲学文本，比如《作为意志和表象的世界》，那是他为其他哲学家写的，或者你可以读他更实用的作品，比如《论存在的虚无》。他是历史上少数几个毫不畏惧地写作的人之一。他写下了他认为真实的东西。

What have you learned from Schopenhauer, or is there anything surprising in his work? Oh, Schopenhauer is not for everybody, and there are many different Schopenhauer's. Like, he wrote quite a bit, and you could read his more obscure philosophical texts like The World Is Will an Idea, where he was writing for other philosophers, or you could read his more practical stuff like on the vanity of existence. He was one of the few people in history who wrote unflinchingly. He wrote what he believed to be true.

他并不总是正确的，但他从未对你撒谎，这一点显而易见。他对事物的思考非常深刻。他不太在意别人对他的看法。他只知道，我写下的东西，我知道是真实的。他也没有犯任何错误。

He wasn't always correct, but he never lied to you, and that comes across. He thought about things very deeply. He didn't care that much what people thought of him. All he knew was what I'm writing down, I know to be true. He also didn't put on any errors.

他没有使用花哨的语言。他没有试图打动你。人们称他为悲观主义者。我认为这不完全公平。我认为他的世界观可以被解读为悲观的，但当我想要一剂严厉的真相时，我就会读他的作品。

He didn't use fancy language. He didn't try to impress you. People call him a pessimist. I don't think that's entirely fair. I think his worldview could be interpreted as pessimistic, but I just read him when I wanna read a harsh dose of truth.

叔本华对我独特的影响在于，他彻底解放了我做自己的勇气。他完全不在乎大众的看法，对平庸思维的蔑视表露无遗。不过不必完全认同这点——我比他更信奉平等主义，但他确实让你获得了做自己的自由。所以如果你擅长某事，不必羞于承认。

What Schopenhauer did uniquely for me is that he gave me complete permission to be me. He just did not care at all what the masses thought, and his disdain for common thinking comes out. Now, don't necessarily share that. I'm a little bit more of a egalitarian than he was, but he really gives you permission to be yourself. So if you're good at something, don't be shy about it.

坦然接受自己的专长。这对我曾很困难，因为我们总想合群。若想在群体中相处融洽，就不愿太过突出。俗话说枪打出头鸟。但若要成就非凡，就必须在某些方面押注自己。

Accept that you're good at something. And that was hard for me because we all wanna get along. If you wanna get along in a group, you don't wanna stand out too much. You know, it's the old line that tall poppy gets cut. But if you're going to do anything exceptional, you do have to bet on yourself in some way.

若你在某领域出类拔萃，就需要承认自己的卓越——至少努力追求卓越而不在意他人眼光。当然也不能自欺欺人。从事投资行业的人常会遇到自称在某方面极其出色却脱离实际的人。不，自我宣称卓越无效。

And if you're exceptional at something, that does require you acknowledging that you're exceptional at it, or at least trying to be and not worrying about what other people think. Now, you don't wanna be delusional either. Anyone who's been in the investing business is constantly hit by people who say, I'm so great at something, and they're a little delusional. No. You don't get to say you're exceptional at something.

只有他人才能判定你是否卓越，而且你母亲的评价不算数。来自他人的反馈通常是虚假的。奖项是假的。批评是假的。亲友的赞美也是假的。

Other people get to say you're exceptional at something, and your mom doesn't count. Feedback from other people is usually fake. Awards are fake. Critics are fake. Kudos from your friends and family are fake.

他们或许试图真诚，但淹没在虚假的汪洋中，你无法获得真实反馈。真实反馈只存在于自然界的自由市场中。物理定律很残酷——产品要么有效要么失效。自由市场也很残酷。

They might try to be genuine, but it's lost in such a sea of fakeness that you're not going to get real feedback. Real feedback comes from free markets in nature. Physics is harsh. Either your product worked or it didn't. Free markets are harsh.

人们要么买单要么拒绝。但来自他人的反馈都是虚假的。群体无法提供有效反馈，因为群体只追求和谐。个人追求真理，群体追求共识。无法和谐相处的群体终将分崩离析。

Either people buy it or they don't. But feedback from other people is fake. You can't get good feedback from groups because groups are just trying to get along. Individuals search for truth, groups search for consensus. A group that doesn't get along decoheres, it falls apart.

群体规模越大，你获得的真实反馈就越少。不必依赖母亲、朋友、家人甚至颁奖体系的评价。若企业以登上杂志封面或赢得行业奖项为目标，那注定失败。你需要的是客户——这才是真实的反馈。

And the larger the group, the less good feedback you're gonna get from it. You don't want to necessarily rely on feedback from your mom, or your friends, or your family, or even from award ceremonies and award systems. If you're optimizing your company to end up on the cover of a magazine, or to win the industry award, you're failing. You need customers. That's your real feedback.

你需要从自然中获取反馈。你的火箭发射了吗？你的无人机飞起来了吗？你的3D打印机是否在预期的时间、成本预算和公差范围内打印出了目标物体？人很容易自欺欺人。

You need feedback from nature. Did your rocket launch? Did your drone fly? Did your three d printer print the object within the tolerances that it was supposed to and the time it was supposed to and the cost budget that it was supposed to. It's very easy to fool yourself.

人也很容易被他人欺骗。但你永远骗不了大自然母亲。

It's very easy to be fooled by others. It is impossible to fool mother nature.