每周回答

我同意你的说法。但如果把“正在做错事”改为“所做的行不通”，这个说法还成立吗？如果成立，许多伟大的发明可能就不会诞生了。

我猜你想表达的是，许多伟大的发明都是在多次失败和反思中诞生的。如果是这样，并假设那些经历失败的人懂得如何通过高质量的反思把失败转化成经验教训，那么咱们的想法是完全一样的。

I think you are saying that a lot of great inventions have come from failures and learning from them. If so, we are entirely on the same page, assuming that the people doing the failings know how to convert them into learnings through quality reflecting.

达利欧的原则是克服偏见、扫除盲点的好方法，即使是最聪明的人也会受到偏见盲点的困扰。智慧非但无法让人远离认知偏见，反而会让认知偏见更加严重。一个人越是聪明，越擅长把自己的信念合理化，并将支持的言论讲得头头是道。这就是为什么非常聪明的人有时候会做很愚蠢的事。

这也是为什么 真正 聪明的人会明白，人的成功更多是源自于知道如何应对自己的不知，而非源自于他们的已知（聪明的人通常懂得很多，而习得这些知识是由于他们想要探索自己所不知的事物）。

It’s also why REALLY smart people know that success comes more from knowing how to deal with their not knowing even more than it comes from what they know (which is often a huge amount, which is learned because of their desire to explore what they don’t know).

虽然我认同我们必须不偏不倚地来看待事物，但是我相信天佑勇者。我建立的最成功的那些公司，最初在做推介时，都受到了嘲笑。但当它们变得很火的时候，大家就都想分一杯羹了。

大胆地、极度开放地评估批判意见的好处，这是获得成功的关键。因为当你在做大胆、冒险的事情时，需要同时做到勇敢和谨慎，才能取得巨大成功。那些看似一直在冒险但却能取得成功的人，其实具备很强的风险控制能力。我知道，勇敢和独立思考是我以及多数成功人士取得成功的关键。但是同时我也知道我和他们都会听取可信度高的人的意见，来对自己的思维方式进行压力测试，并从中学习。大胆、审慎和极度开放的心态是获取巨大成功的神奇公式。

To be bold and radically open-minded to consider the merits of the the criticisms of others is the key to success because great success in doing bold, risky things is achieved through being bold and cautious at the same time. Observe anyone who does seemingly risky things repeatedly and successfully and you will see a person who does them with great risk controls. I know that my boldness and my independent thinking has been key to my success and to the successes of most of the really successful people I know, and I also know that I and they seek criticism from highly believable parties to stress-test their thinking and to learn. Combining that boldness with that cautions and open-mindedness is that magic formula to achieving great results.

杏仁核劫持(Amygdala hijack) 是真实存在的，但可以通过正念练习来改善，尤其是把 “劫持”看作是一种信号，提醒你要多给自己点时间。我发现自己太过情绪化，内心对话常常被情绪支配，过于在意别人的言语或行为，导致对他人做出错误的判断等。当这些失控的想法和行为出现时，我知道自己应该休息一下了。哪怕我需要忍受一段时间的煎熬直到我能消化它们，我也努力不在头脑不清的情况下行动。在这个时候，写日记对我来说是最有效的方法。

我也是这么认为的。用我的话来说就是，你让更高层次的自己很好地理解并管理了低层次的自己。同时，你通过写作进行高质量的反思，帮助上述这一过程的进行并使自己冷静下来。这个方法对我也很有效。

That’s true for me too. In my lingo, you got your upper level you to understand and manage your lower level self well and you’re using quality reflections through the writing to both help that process and to calm yourself down. That works for me too.