赚钱无关运气

显然，我们希望富有，并且希望在这一生中不依赖运气就能实现。

Obviously we want to be wealthy and we want to get there in this lifetime without having to rely on luck.

很多人认为赚钱靠运气，其实不是。

A lot of people think making money is about luck, it's not.

赚钱是成为那种能赚钱的人。

It's about becoming the kind of person that makes money.

你知道，我喜欢这样想：如果我失去了一切财富，把你丢在任何一个英语国家的随机街头，五年到十年内，我依然会再次富有，因为这仅仅是我培养出的一套技能，我认为任何人都可以掌握。

You know, I like to think that if I lost all my money and if you drop me on a random street in any English speaking country within five to ten years, I'd be wealthy again, right, because it's just a skill set that I've developed and I think anyone can develop.

你知道，在一千个平行宇宙中，你希望在其中999个里是富有的。

You know, in a thousand parallel universes, you want to be wealthy in 999 of them.

你并不想在那50个靠运气致富的宇宙中变得富有。

You don't want to be wealthy in the 50 of them where you got lucky.

所以，我们要把运气排除在外。

So we want to factor luck out of it.

我们刚才谈到了四种真正的运气。

There's really four kinds of luck that we were talking about.

这来自一本书。

This came from a book.

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马克·安德森写过一篇关于这个的博客文章，但基本上有不同类型的运气。

Mark Andreessen wrote a blog post about it, but basically there's different kinds of luck.

第一种运气你可以称之为纯粹的运气，即我仅仅因为一些完全超出我控制的事情而幸运，比如命运、天意等等。

The first kind of luck you might just say is like blind luck where I just got lucky because something completely out of my control happened, you know, that's fortune, that's fate, etcetera.

然后还有一种运气来自于坚持、努力、拼搏和行动，即当你四处奔波、创造大量机会、产生大量能量、做很多事情时。

Then there's luck that kind of comes through persistence, hard work, hustle, motion, which is when you're just running around creating lots of opportunities, you're generating a lot of energy, you're doing a lot of things.

许多事情都会在尘埃中被搅动起来。

Lots of things will just get stirred up in the dust.

这就像混合一个培养皿，看看什么会结合，或者混合一堆试剂，看看什么会反应。

It's almost like mixing a petri dish and seeing what combines or mixing a bunch of reagents and seeing what combines.

你只是产生了足够的力量、拼搏和能量，让运气自然找到你。

You're just generating enough force and hustle and energy that luck will sort of find you.

我们这个群体，可以说是因为这个而聚在一起的。

We as a group, you could argue, got together because of that.

你知道，内纳德在网上发布了这些很棒的视频。

You know, Nenad had put up these great videos online.

我在推特上看到了它们。

I saw them on Twitter.

因此，从这个意义上说，他通过不断制作视频，直到像我这样的人不断发现他，从而为自己创造了运气。

And so in that sense, sort of generated his own luck by just creating videos until people like me keep finding him.

第三种方式是你变得非常擅长发现运气。

A third way is that you just become very good at spotting luck.

所以，如果你在一个领域非常精通，当该领域出现幸运契机时，你会注意到，而那些对此不敏感的人却不会察觉。

So if you are very skilled in a field, you will notice when a lucky break happens in that field when other people who aren't attuned to it won't notice.

因此，你对运气变得敏感，而这源于技能、知识和努力。

So you become sensitive to luck and that's through skill and knowledge and work.

最后一种运气最奇怪、最难理解，但正是我们想讨论的：你塑造了独特的个性、独特的品牌、独特的思维方式，然后运气就会找到你。

And then the last kind of luck is the weirdest, hardest kind, but that's what we wanna talk about, which is where you build a unique character, a unique brand, a unique mindset where then luck finds you.

例如，假设你是世界上潜水最厉害的人，以敢于挑战无人敢尝试的深海潜水而闻名。

For example, let's say that you're the best person in the world at deep sea underwater diving, and you're known to like take on deep sea underwater dives that nobody else will even attempt to dare.

然后，纯粹靠运气，有人在海岸附近发现了一艘沉没的宝藏船，但自己却无法打捞。

And then by sheer luck, somebody finds a sunken treasure ship off the coast they can't get at.

那么，他们的运气就变成了你的运气，因为他们会来找你打捞宝藏，而你会因此获得报酬。

Well, their luck just became your luck because they're gonna come to you to get that treasure, and you're gonna get paid for it.

现在这是一个极端的例子，但它只是说明了，发现宝箱的人所经历的幸运是盲目的运气。

Now that's an extreme example, but it's just showing how, like, the person who got lucky by finding the treasure chest, that was blind luck.

但他们来找你帮忙打捞，并愿意分你一半收益，这就不算运气了。

But them coming to you and asking you to extract it and having to give you half, that's not luck.

你其实是为自己创造了运气。

You kinda created your own luck.

你让自己处于一个能够把握或吸引这种运气的位置，而其他人却从未为自己创造这样的机会。

You've put yourself in a position to be able to capitalize on that luck or to attract that luck when nobody else has created that opportunity for themselves.

因此，当我们谈论不靠运气时，我们希望做到的是可预测的、有确定性的。

So when we talk about without getting lucky, we wanna be deterministic.

我们不想把事情交给运气。

We don't wanna leave it to chance.

你能再详细解释一下这个观点吗？在一千个平行宇宙中，你想在其中999个里变得富有？

Do you wanna elaborate a little bit more on the idea that in a thousand parallel universes, wanna get rich in 999 of them?

我认为有些人看到这个会觉得这不可能，听起来好得不真实。

I think some people are gonna see that and say that sounds impossible, sounds like it's too good to be true.

不，我不认为这不可能。

No, I don't think it's impossible.

我认为，根据你的初始条件，你可能需要为此付出更多努力。

I think that you may have to work a little bit harder at it given your starting circumstances.

我的意思是，我从小在印度一个贫穷的家庭长大，对吧？

I mean, I started as a poor kid in India, right?

所以，如果我能成功，从这个意义上说，任何人都能做到。

So if I can make it, anybody can in that sense.

当然，我四肢健全，心智正常，也接受过教育，所以有一些前提条件是无法逾越的；但如果你正在看这个视频或听这个播客，你很可能已经具备了必要的条件——一个健康的身体和一个正常运作的大脑。

Now obviously I had all my limbs and I had my mental faculties and I did have an education, so there are some prerequisites you can't get past but if you're listening to this video or podcast you probably have the requisite means at your disposal which is a functioning body and a functioning mind.

一路上我也遇到了不少倒霉事。

And I've encountered plenty of bad luck along the way.

我赚到的第一笔小钱，立刻在股市里亏掉了。

First little fortune that I made, I instantly lost in the stock market.

我赚到的第二笔小钱——或者说我本该赚到的那笔钱，基本上被我的商业伙伴骗走了。

The second little fortune that I made or I should have made, I basically got cheated by my business partners.

直到第三次才终于成功，即便如此，这也是一段缓慢而持续的奋斗过程。

It's only the third time around has been a charm and even then it has been a slow and steady struggle.

我这一生从未通过一次巨额回报赚到钱。

And I haven't made money in my life in one giant payout.

一直都是很多小事一点一点积累起来的。

It's always been a whole bunch of small things kind of piling up.

所以，这更多是关于通过创办企业、创造机会和进行投资来持续创造财富。

So it's more about consistently creating wealth by creating businesses and creating opportunities and creating investments.

这从来不是一次性的巨大收获。

It hasn't been like a giant one off thing.

我的个人财富并不是由某一年的巨额收入创造的，而是通过一点一点地积累小收益实现的——更多的选择、更多的生意、更多的投资、更多的我能做的事情。

My personal wealth has not been generated by one big year, it just sort of stacks up little bit chips at a time, more options, more businesses, more investments, more things I can do.

就像Aninod、De La Certus这样的人，他们在网络上打造自己的品牌，制作视频。

Same way someone like Aninod, De La Certus, he's building his brand online, he's building videos.

并不是某一个视频会突然让他一夜暴富，而是需要一生持续地学习、阅读和创作，这些都会不断复利增长。

It's not like any one video is going to suddenly shower him with riches overnight, it's going to be a long lifetime of learning, of reading, of creating that's just going to compound.

我们谈论的致富，是为了获得自由、能够退休，这里的退休不是指什么都不做，而是指不必去任何你不想去的地方，不必做任何你不想做的事，你可以随心所欲地起床和睡觉，不再有老板。

So we're talking about getting wealthy so you can retire, so you have your freedom, not retire in the sense that you don't do anything, but in the sense that you don't have to be any place you don't want to be, you don't have to do anything you don't want to do, and you can wake up when you want, you can sleep when you want, you don't have a boss.

那就是自由。

That's freedom.

所以我们谈论的是积累足够的财富以获得自由，尤其是如今得益于互联网，这些机会变得极其丰富。

So we're talking about enough wealth to get to freedom, and especially thanks to the internet these days, those opportunities are massively abundant.

事实上，我有太多赚钱的方式。

I in fact have too many ways to make money.

我只是没有足够的时间。

I don't have enough time.

我 literally 有无数机会涌向我，而我唯一耗尽的是时间。

I literally have opportunities pouring out of my ears and the thing I keep running out of is time.

创造财富、产品、企业、机会的方式太多了，作为副产品还能得到社会的报酬，我根本忙不过来。

There's just so many ways to create wealth, to create products, to create businesses, to create opportunities, and to, as a byproduct, get paid by society that I just can't even handle it all.