暂停，反思，看看效果如何

我们过去讨论过如何在你所从事的领域成为世界顶尖。不断重新定义你所做的事，直到这一目标成真。而Akira还为此创作了一首歌——《Akira the dawn》，愿上帝保佑他。我认为这绝对正确。

We talked about in the past how become the best in the world at what you do. Keep redefining what you do until this is true. And Akira made a song out of it. Akira the dawn, God bless him. And I think that's absolutely true.

你希望成为所在领域的世界最佳，但要持续重新定义你的事业直至实现这一点。而重新定义能奏效的唯一途径就是通过迭代的过程，通过实践。所以你需要那个胡萝卜，那面旗帜，那个终点的奖励来推动你前进，你需要迭代。迭代不等于重复，不是机械式的。不是一万小时，而是一万次迭代；不是时间消耗，而是学习循环。

You wanna be the best in the world at what you do, but keep redefining what you do until that's true. And the only way that redefining is going to work is through the process of iteration, through doing. So you need that carrot, you need that flag, you need that reward at the end to pull you forward into doing, and you need to iterate. And iterate does not mean repetition, iterate is not mechanical. It's not ten thousand hours, it's 10,000 iterations, it's not time spent, it's learning loops.

迭代意味着你先行动，然后停下来反思，评估效果好坏，接着做出调整，尝试新方法，再次暂停反思，观察成效，继续改进尝试。这就是迭代的过程，也是学习的本质。所有学习系统都遵循这个原理。进化就是迭代——变异、复制、选择，淘汰无效的部分。

And what iteration means is you do something, and then you stop and you pause and you reflect, you see how well that worked or did not work, then you change it, then you try something else, then you pause, reflect, see how well it did, then you change it and you try something else. And that's the process of iteration. And that's the process of learning. And all learning systems work this way. So evolution is iteration, where there's mutation, there's replication, and then there's selection, you cut out the stuff that didn't work.

这在科技发明领域同样适用：你创新发明新技术，试图推广它，要么在市场中存活，要么被淘汰。正如大卫·多伊奇在探索合理解释时所言，你提出猜想，这个猜想要经受批判，无效的内容会被剔除。这才是真正的科学方法。关键在于找到适合自己的自然之道，通过在竞技场中生活实践，通过高能动性的迭代过程，直到你领悟真谛，成为世界顶尖——而这本质上就是做真实的自己。

This is true in technology and invention, where you will innovate, you create a new technology, and then you try to scale it, and either survive in the marketplace or it'll get cut out. This is true as David Deutsch talks about in the search for good explanations, you make a conjecture, that conjecture is subject to criticism, and then the stuff that doesn't work is weeded out. And this is the true scientific method. It is all about finding what is natural for yourself and doing it by living life in the arena, high agency process of iteration until you figure it out, and then you're the best of the world at it, and it is just being yourself.