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追求财富，而不是金钱或地位。财富是睡着了还在为你赚钱的资产。

Seek wealth, not money or status. Wealth is having assets that earn while you sleep.

要明白，合乎道德地创造财富是可能的。如果你暗地里鄙视财富，财富会躲着你走。

Understand ethical wealth creation is possible. If you secretly despise wealth, it will elude you.

靠出租你的时间，你富不了。你必须拥有 equity——企业的一小块——才能获得财务自由。

Youre not going to get rich renting out your time. You must own equity—a piece of a business—to gain your financial freedom.

你会富起来，是因为你给了社会它想要、但还不知道怎么得到的东西。大规模地给。

You will get rich by giving society what it wants but does not yet know how to get. At scale.

选一个能和长期的人玩长期游戏的行业。

Pick an industry where you can play long-term games with long-term people.

玩重复博弈。人生所有的回报——财富、人际关系、知识——都来自复利。

Play iterated games. All the returns in life, whether in wealth, relationships, or knowledge, come from compound interest.

学会卖，学会造。两样都会，你将无敌。

Learn to sell. Learn to build. If you can do both, you will be unstoppable.

Specific Knowledge 是没法被培训出来的知识。如果社会能培训你，就能培训别人来替代你。

Specific knowledge is knowledge you cannot be trained for. If society can train you, it can train someone else and replace you.

打造 Specific Knowledge 的过程，对你像玩，对别人看像工作。

Building specific knowledge will feel like play to you but will look like work to others.

赚钱不是你去做的一件事——它是一门你要学的技能。

Making money is not a thing you do—its a skill you learn.

拥抱 Accountability，用你自己的名字去冒商业风险。社会会用责任、equity 和 leverage 来奖赏你。

Embrace accountability, and take business risks under your own name. Society will reward you with responsibility, equity, and leverage.

发财需要 leverage。商业上的 leverage 来自资本、人，以及边际复制成本为零的产品（代码和媒体）。

Fortunes require leverage. Business leverage comes from capital, people, and products with no marginal cost of replication (code and media).

资本和人力都是要许可的 leverage。人人都在追资本，但得有人给你。

Capital and labor are permissioned leverage. Everyone is chasing capital, but someone has to give it to you.

代码和媒体是免许可的 leverage。新富阶层的杠杆都长在这里。

Code and media are permissionless leverage. Theyre the leverage behind the newly rich.

一支机器人大军免费任你差遣——它们就装在数据中心里，为了散热和省地方才挤在一起。用起来。

An army of robots is freely available—its just packed in data centers for heat and space efficiency. Use it.

Leverage 是你判断力的放大器。

Leverage is a force multiplier for your judgment.

没有一门技能叫商业。别看商业杂志，别上商业课。

There is no skill called business. Avoid business magazines and business classes.

阅读比听快，做比看快。

Reading is faster than listening. Doing is faster than watching.

成为你所在领域世界第一。不断重新定义你的领域，直到这句话成立。

Become the best in the world at what you do. Keep redefining what you do until this is true.

没有快速致富的捷径。那些都是别人在靠你致富。

There are no get-rich-quick schemes. Those are just someone else getting rich off you.

用上 Specific Knowledge，加上 Leverage，迟早你会得到你应得的。

Apply specific knowledge, with leverage, and eventually you will get what you deserve.

财富是睡着了还在为你赚钱的资产。

Wealth is assets that earn while you sleep.

技术让消费民主化，让生产集中化。任何领域世界第一的那个人，可以为全世界做这件事。

Technology democratizes consumption but consolidates production. The best person in the world at anything gets to do it for everyone.

Specific Knowledge 教不出来，但学得会。

Specific knowledge cannot be taught, but it can be learned.

没人能跟你比做你自己。

No one can compete with you on being you.

人生大半辈子，都是在找：谁最需要你、什么最需要你。

Most of life is a search for who and what needs you the most.

销售能力就是一种 Specific Knowledge。

Sales skills are a form of specific knowledge.

Specific Knowledge 是种怪异的组合：你独特的 DNA、独特的成长环境，加上你对这一切的回应。

The specific knowledge is sort of this weird combination of unique traits from your DNA, your unique upbringing, and your response to it.

Specific Knowledge 更多是靠追随你的天赋、真正的好奇和热爱找到的。

Specific knowledge is found much more by pursuing your innate talents, your genuine curiosity, and your passion.

用真实逃离竞争。

Escape competition through authenticity.

如果你在打造和营销的东西就是你这个人本身的延伸，没人能跟你竞争。

If you are fundamentally building and marketing something that is an extension of who you are, no one can compete with you on that.

最好的工作既不是任命的，也不是学位给的，而是自由市场里持续学习者的创造性表达。

The best jobs are neither decreed nor degreed. They are creative expressions of continuous learners in free markets.

致富最重要的技能，是成为一个终身学习者。你得学会学会任何你想学的东西。

The most important skill for getting rich is becoming a perpetual learner. You have to know how to learn anything you want to learn.

互联网极大地拓宽了职业的可能空间，大多数人还没意识到。

The internet has massively broadened the possible space of careers. Most people havent figured this out yet.

你可以上网，找到你的观众。

You can go on the internet, and you can find your audience.

选一个能和长期的人玩长期游戏的行业。

Pick an industry where you can play long-term games with long-term people.

人生所有的回报——财富、人际关系、知识——都来自复利。

All the returns in life, whether in wealth, relationships, or knowledge, come from compound interest.

意图不重要，行动才重要。这就是为什么讲道德很难。

Intentions dont matter. Actions do. Thats why being ethical is hard.

当你找到了对的事、找对了人，就深深投进去。

When you find the right thing to do, when you find the right people to work with, invest deeply.

99% 的努力都浪费了。

99% of effort is wasted.

拥抱 Accountability，用你自己的名字去冒商业风险。社会会用责任、equity 和 leverage 来奖赏你。

Embrace accountability and take business risks under your own name. Society will reward you with responsibility, equity, and leverage.

Accountability 是把双刃剑：成了，你署名领功；败了，你署名挨打。

Accountability is a double-edged thing. It allows you to take credit when things go well and to bear the brunt of the failure when things go badly.

那些有能力用真名公开失败的人，其实攒到了很大的 power。

The people who have the ability to fail in public under their own names actually gain a lot of power.

要意识到，在现代社会，downside 其实没那么大。

Realize that in modern society, the downside risk is not that large.

如果你不拥有一家企业的一小块，你就没有通往财务自由的路。

If you dont own a piece of a business, you dont have a path towards financial freedom.

这是所有权和出卖时间的区别。

Its ownership versus wage work.

没有所有权，你睡觉时不赚钱，退休了不赚钱，度假时不赚钱，而且你赚不到非线性的钱。

Without ownership, when youre sleeping, youre not earning. When youre retired, youre not earning. When youre on vacation, youre not earning. And you cant earn nonlinearly.

拥有公司的 equity，基本意思是你拥有 upside。

Owning equity in a company basically means you own the upside.

每个真正赚到钱的人，在某个时刻都拥有过一块产品、一块生意或一块 IP。

Everybody who really makes money at some point owns a piece of a product, a business, or some IP.

我们活在无限 leverage 的时代，真诚的好奇心带来的经济回报，从没这么高过。

We live in an age of infinite leverage, and the economic rewards for genuine intellectual curiosity have never been higher.

别再分穷富、白领蓝领了。现在只分：有杠杆，和没杠杆。

Forget rich versus poor, white-collar versus blue. Its now leveraged versus un-leveraged.

代码和媒体是免许可的 leverage。新富阶层的杠杆都长在这里。

Code and media are permissionless leverage. Theyre the leverage behind the newly rich.

我只想为事情本身去做事。这就是艺术的一个定义。

I only really want to do things for their own sake. That is one definition of art.

我为自己赚到最多钱的那一年，恰恰是我干得最不拼、最不在乎未来的一年。

The year I generated the most wealth for myself was actually the year I worked the least hard and cared the least about the future.

你永远靠出租时间富不了。

Youre never going to get rich renting out your time.

用脑子赚钱，不用时间赚钱。

Earn with your mind, not your time.

人生中能选的时候，永远优化独立性，而不是优化薪水。

Whenever you can in life, optimize for independence rather than pay.

一个有杠杆的打工人，能顶一千个、一万个没杠杆的。有杠杆的人，判断力远比他多拼、多熬重要。

A leveraged worker can out-produce a non-leveraged worker by a factor of one thousand or ten thousand. With a leveraged worker, judgment is far more important than how much time they put in or how hard they work.

人生你要的是掌控自己的时间。

What you want in life is to be in control of your time.

每周 40 小时是工业时代的遗物。知识工作者像运动员：训练、冲刺，然后休息、复盘。

Forty hour work weeks are a relic of the Industrial Age. Knowledge workers function like athletes—train and sprint, then rest and reassess.

想进一家伟大的科技公司，你得会 SELL 或会 BUILD。两样都不会，就去学。

If you want to be part of a great tech company, then you need to be able to SELL or BUILD. If you dont do either, learn.

学会卖，学会造。两样都会，你将无敌。

Learn to sell, learn to build. If you can do both, you will be unstoppable.

每一级，leverage 在涨，accountability 在涨，Specific Knowledge 在涨。

Each level has increasing leverage, increasing accountability, increasingly specific knowledge.

这三样乘上时间的复利，会让你富。

The combination of those over a long period of time with the magic of compound interest will make you wealthy.

你唯一要避开的，是 ruin 的风险。

The one thing you have to avoid is the risk of ruin.

避开 ruin，第一条：别进监狱。别干违法的事，穿橙色囚服永远不值。

Avoiding ruin means stay out of jail. So, dont do anything illegal. Its never worth it to wear an orange jumpsuit.

别一把梭哈。相反，要下理性乐观的注：upside 巨大，downside 可控。

Dont gamble everything on one go. Instead, take rationally optimistic bets with big upsides.

我希望纯粹为我的 judgment 被付费，不为任何干活被付费。我要机器人、资本、电脑去干活，我为我的判断收钱。

I would love to be paid purely for my judgment, not for any work. I want a robot, capital, or computer to do the work, but I want to be paid for my judgment.

被验证过的判断力——判断力上的 credibility——至关重要。

Demonstrated judgment—credibility around the judgment—is so critical.

巴菲特花一年做决策，花一天行动，那个行动管几十年。

Warren Buffett spends a year deciding and a day acting. That act lasts decades.

Leverage 是你判断力的放大器。

Leverage is a force multiplier for your judgment.

给你的时间定个时薪，无情地花钱把时间买回来，标准就是这个时薪。你的价值永远超不过你自己认为的价值。

Value your time at an hourly rate, and ruthlessly spend to save time at that rate. You will never be worth more than you think youre worth.

没人会比你更看重你。

No one is going to value you more than you value yourself.

一件事，外包/不干的成本低于你的时薪，就外包/不干。

If you can outsource something or not do something for less than your hourly rate, outsource it or dont do it.

我这辈子赚钱从来不是一笔 giant payout，永远是一堆小事堆起来。

I havent made money in my life in one giant payout. It has always been a whole bunch of small things piling up.

如果你暗地里鄙视财富，财富会躲着你走。

If you secretly despise wealth, it will elude you.

财富创造是进化史上很新的正和游戏，地位是古老的零和游戏。攻击财富创造的人，往往只是在刷地位。

Wealth creation is an evolutionarily recent positive-sum game. Status is an old zero-sum game. Those attacking wealth creation are often just seeking status.

玩蠢游戏，赢蠢奖品。

Play stupid games, win stupid prizes.

把时间花在做大决定上。人生早期基本只有三个大决定：住哪儿，跟谁，做什么。

Spend more time making the big decisions. There are basically three really big decisions you make in your early life: where you live, who youre with, and what you do.

你要对一切说 no，腾出时间解决重要问题。

You have to say no to everything and free up your time so you can solve the important problems.

搞清楚你擅长什么，开始免费帮别人。给出去，别记账。

Figure out what youre good at, and start helping other people with it. Give it away. Pay it forward.

我宁愿做一个失败的创业者，也不愿做一个从没尝试过的人。

I would rather be a failed entrepreneur than someone who never tried.

退休，就是你不再为一个想象中的明天牺牲今天。

Retirement is when you stop sacrificing today for an imaginary tomorrow.

我想跳下享乐主义跑步机。

I want to be off the hedonic treadmill.

以真诚逃离竞争。（出自本节核心句 The way to get out of the competition trap is to be authentic —— 逃出竞争陷阱的办法，是真诚。）

Escape competition through authenticity.

我永远在工作。在别人看来是工作，在我感觉是玩。

I’m always working. It looks like work to others, but it feels like play to me.

任何游戏的赢家，都是那些上瘾到边际效用递减还在继续玩的人。

The winners of any game are the people who are so addicted they continue playing even as the marginal utility from winning declines.

在一千个平行宇宙里，你要在 999 个里都富有。

In 1,000 parallel universes, you want to be wealthy in 999 of them.

以某种方式塑造你的品格，你的品格就成为你的命运。

Build your character in a certain way, then your character becomes your destiny.

到了一定程度，它确定性强到不再像运气。运气这个词开始褪色，变成命运。

It starts becoming so deterministic, it stops being luck. The definition starts fading from luck to destiny.

折腾，直到撞上它。

Hustle until you stumble into it.

成为你所做之事的第一名。打磨到名副其实。机会会来找你。运气成为你的命。

Become the best at what you do. Refine what you do until this is true. Opportunity will seek you out. Luck becomes your destiny.

品格和声誉是你能亲手打造的东西。有了它们，你能抓住别人眼中走运的机会，而你自己知道，那不是运气。

Your character and your reputation are things you can build, which will let you take advantage of opportunities other people may characterize as lucky, but you know it wasn’t luck.

做一个创造者，做出人们想要的有意思的东西。展示你的手艺，打磨你的手艺，对的人最终会找到你。

Be a maker who makes something interesting people want. Show your craft, practice your craft, and the right people will eventually find you.

如果一个人总在强调自己有多诚实，他大概率不诚实。

If someone is talking a lot about how honest they are, they’re probably dishonest.

鲨鱼吃得好，但一辈子活在鲨鱼群里。

Sharks eat well but live a life surrounded by sharks.

你想离我越近，你的价值观就得越好。

The closer you want to get to me, the better your values have to be.

你真正的简历，是你所有受过的苦的目录。

Your real résumé is just a catalog of all your suffering.

如果你数着日子熬，你会在成功到来之前先耗尽耐心。

If you’re counting, you’ll run out of patience before success actually arrives.

把 Specific Knowledge 加上 Leverage 用出去，最终你会得到你应得的。

Apply specific knowledge with leverage and eventually, you will get what you deserve.

真正学会一件事的唯一办法是动手做。是的，要听指导，但别等。

The only way to truly learn something is by doing it. Yes, listen to guidance. But don’t wait.

很多人把财富和智慧搞混了，数量惊人。

Amazing how many people confuse wealth and wisdom.

你不是靠花时间省钱致富的。你是靠省时间赚钱致富的。

You don’t get rich by spending your time to save money. You get rich by saving your time to make money.

判断力。判断力被低估了。

Judgment. Judgment is underrated.

我对智慧的定义是：知道你的行动的长期后果。

My definition of wisdom is knowing the long-term consequences of your actions.

在杠杆的时代，一个正确的决定可以赢下一切。

In an age of leverage, one correct decision can win everything.

你走的方向，比你走得有多快重要得多，尤其在有杠杆的时候。

The direction you’re heading in matters more than how fast you move, especially with leverage.

思维清晰是比聪明更高的赞美。

“Clear thinker” is a better compliment than “smart.”

讲不给小孩听，你就是不懂。

If you can’t explain it to a child, then you don’t know it.

清晰的思考者，只认自己的权威。

Clear thinkers appeal to their own authority.

痛苦，就是我们再也否认不了现实的时刻。

Suffering is the moment when we can no longer deny reality.

我们希望为真的东西，遮蔽了我们对何为真的感知。

What we wish to be true clouds our perception of what is true.

你的感受跟事实无关——它只告诉你，你对事实的估计是什么。

What you feel tells you nothing about the facts—it merely tells you something about your estimate of the facts.

只有无聊之后，才有好想法。

It’s only after you’re bored you have the great ideas.

犬儒容易，模仿容易。乐观的逆向者最稀有。

Cynicism is easy. Mimicry is easy. Optimistic contrarians are the rarest breed.

说实话，就别带身份说话。

To be honest, speak without identity.

如果你的所有信念整整齐齐打包成几捆，你就该高度警惕了。

If all your beliefs line up into neat little bundles, you should be highly suspicious.

在动态系统里，没有永久的解决方案。

There are no permanent solutions in a dynamic system.

几乎所有偏见都是省时间的启发式。做重要决定时，丢掉记忆和身份，只看问题本身。

Almost all biases are time-saving heuristics. For important decisions, discard memory and identity, and focus on the problem.

决策就是一切。

Decision-making is everything.

一个决定正确率 80% 的人，比正确率 70% 的人，在市场上值钱几百倍。

Someone who makes decisions right 80 percent of the time instead of 70 percent of the time will be valued and compensated in the market hundreds of times more.

你懂得越多，越不需要分散。

The more you know, the less you diversify.

做决策时，大脑是一台记忆预测机器。

During decision-making, the brain is a memory prediction machine.

你要的是原则，你要的是 Mental Models。

What you want is principles. You want mental models.

我不觉得我有能力说什么能成。相反，我尽量剔除什么成不了。

I don’t believe I have the ability to say what is going to work. Rather, I try to eliminate what’s not going to work.

别理噪音。市场会裁决。

Ignore the noise. The market will decide.

如果你拿不定，答案就是不。

If you can’t decide, the answer is no.

难决定、两边差不多时，走短期更疼的那条路。

If you’re evenly split on a difficult decision, take the path more painful in the short term.

在智识领域，复利为王。

In the intellectual domain, compound interest rules.

做不出可证伪预测的，不是科学。

If it doesn’t make falsifiable predictions, it’s not science.

你懂得越多，越不需要分散。（本节末尾原句，亦见 NVL-025）

The more you know, the less you diversify.

每天读一小时科学、数学、哲学，七年内你大概率跻身人类成功的前列。

Reading science, math, and philosophy one hour per day will likely put you at the upper echelon of human success within seven years.

对阅读本身真正的热爱，一旦培养起来，就是超能力。

The genuine love for reading itself, when cultivated, is a superpower.

学习的手段 abundant，稀缺的是学习的欲望。

The means of learning are abundant—it’s the desire to learn that is scarce.

阅读是我的初恋。

Reading was my first love.

读你爱的，一直读到你爱上阅读。

Read what you love until you love to read.

读书不是比赛——书越好，吸收得越该慢。

Reading a book isn’t a race—the better the book, the more slowly it should be absorbed.

读完几本书是个虚荣指标。

The number of books completed is a vanity metric.

如果他写书是为了赚钱，别读。

If they wrote it to make money, don’t read it.

讲给别人听。教学逼你学。

Explain what you learned to someone else. Teaching forces learning.

不是受过教育和没受过教育的区别，是爱读书和不爱读书的区别。

It’s not about educated vs. uneducated. It’s about likes to read and doesn’t like to read.

学逻辑和数学，因为一旦掌握，你就不怕任何书了。

Study logic and math, because once you’ve mastered them, you won’t fear any book.

读数学、科学、哲学的大家。无视同时代人和新闻。

Read the greats in math, science, and philosophy. Ignore your contemporaries and news.

读书读到困惑，那个困惑就像健身房里练到疼。但你练的是脑肌，不是体肌。

When you’re reading a book and you’re confused, that confusion is similar to the pain you get in the gym when you’re working out. But you’re building mental muscles instead of physical muscles.

你的地基至关重要。

Your foundation is critical.

如果你是个永动学习机器，你赚钱的路永远不断。

If you’re a perpetual learning machine, you will never be out of options for how to make money.

解题时：问题越老，解法越老。

When solving problems: the older the problem, the older the solution.

平静的心、健康的身体、装满爱的房子。这些买不来。只能挣来。

A calm mind, a fit body, and a house full of love. These things cannot be bought. They must be earned.

你脑子里那首甩不掉的歌？所有念头都这样。读什么，小心。

You know that song you can’t get out of your head? All thoughts work that way. Careful what you read.

幸福其实是一种默认状态。当你拿掉生命中那种缺了点什么的感觉时，幸福就在那里。

Happiness is really a default state. Happiness is there when you remove the sense of something missing in your life.

幸福也许不是你继承来的，也不是你选来的，而是一项高度个人化的技能，可以习得，就像健身或营养一样。

Maybe happiness is not something you inherit or even choose, but a highly personal skill that can be learned, like fitness or nutrition.

今天我是 9 分……绝大部分来自这些年里我学到的一件事：我自己的幸福是我最重要的一件事，而我用很多方法刻意培养了它。

Today, I am a 9/10... Most of it comes from learning over the years my own happiness is the most important thing to me, and Ive cultivated it with a lot of techniques.

别把自己太当回事。你只是一只怀揣计划的猴子。

Dont take yourself so seriously. Youre just a monkey with a plan.

幸福对我主要是：不痛苦、不欲望、不在未来和过去里想太多，真正拥抱当下此刻，拥抱现实本来的样子。

Happiness to me is mainly not suffering, not desiring, not thinking too much about the future or the past, really embracing the present moment and the reality of what is, and the way it is.

世界只是把你自己的感受反射回来给你。现实是中性的，现实没有评判。

The world just reflects your own feelings back at you. Reality is neutral. Reality has no judgments.

这就是我说幸福是一种选择的意思。如果你相信它是选择，你就可以开始下功夫了。

This is what I mean when I say happiness is a choice. If you believe its a choice, you can start working on it.

真正的幸福只会作为平和的副产品到来，大部分来自接纳，而不是改变外部环境。

Real happiness only comes as a side-effect of peace. Most of it is going to come from acceptance, not from changing your external environment.

理性的人可以通过对外在不可控之事培养漠然，找到平和。

A rational person can find peace by cultivating indifference to things outside of their control.

我们以为自己是固定的、世界是可塑的；其实是我们可塑，世界大体上是固定的。

We think of ourselves as fixed and the world as malleable, but its really we who are malleable and the world is largely fixed.

幸福、爱和激情……不是你找到的东西，而是你做出的选择。

Happiness, love, and passion…arent things you find—theyre choices you make.

幸福是你做出的选择，是你练出的技能。

Happiness is a choice you make and a skill you develop.

记忆和身份是过去的包袱，阻碍我们自由地活在当下。

Memory and identity are burdens from the past preventing us from living freely in the present.

如果你整天活在对未来的妄想里，你会亲手毁掉自己的幸福。

You can literally destroy your happiness if you spend all of your time living in delusions of the future.

开悟就是你念头之间的空隙。

Enlightenment is the space between your thoughts.

如果今生就是我们被许诺过的天堂，而我们只是在挥霍它呢？

What if this life is the paradise we were promised, and were just squandering it?

我们渴望那些能让我们活在当下的体验，但这种渴望本身，又把我们从当下拽走。

We crave experiences that will make us be present, but the cravings themselves take us from the present moment.

我说幸福，我指的是平和。很多人说幸福，指的是欢愉或极乐，但我要的是平和。

When I say happiness, I mean peace. When a lot of people say happiness, they mean joy or bliss, but Ill take peace.

一个幸福的人，不是一直开心的人，而是一个能毫不费力地解读眼前事件、让自己不丢掉内在平和的人。

A happy person isnt someone whos happy all the time. Its someone who effortlessly interprets events in such a way that they dont lose their innate peace.

我现在是更想留着这个念头，还是更想要我的平和？因为只要我留着这些念头，我就不可能有平和。

Would I rather be having this thought right now, or would I rather have my peace? Because as long as I have my thoughts, I cant have my peace.

欲望是你和自己签的一份合同：在得到你想要的东西之前，你都不会幸福。

Desire is a contract you make with yourself to be unhappy until you get what you want.

根本的妄想就是：外面有个东西，会让我永远幸福、永远圆满。

The fundamental delusion: There is something out there that will make me happy and fulfilled forever.

向外寻找任何东西，是根本的妄想。

Looking outside yourself for anything is the fundamental delusion.

把你的欲望打磨好，远比做一件你不是百分百渴望的事重要得多。

Its way more important to perfect your desires than to try to do something you dont 100 percent desire.

年轻时，你有时间，有健康，但没钱。中年时，你有钱，有健康，但没时间。老了，你有钱，有时间，但没健康。

When youre young, you have time. You have health, but you have no money. When youre middle-aged, you have money and you have health, but you have no time. When youre old, you have money and you have time, but you have no health.

等人们意识到钱够了的时候，时间和健康已经没了。

By the time people realize they have enough money, theyve lost their time and their health.

幸福是对已有的一切感到满足。成功来自不满足。选一个。

Happiness is being satisfied with what you have. Success comes from dissatisfaction. Choose.

平和是静止的幸福，幸福是流动的平和。你随时可以把平和转化成幸福。

Peace is happiness at rest, and happiness is peace in motion. You can convert peace into happiness anytime you want.

人生中你几乎可以得到任何你想要的东西，前提是：只要一样东西，而且你想要它的程度远胜一切。

You can get almost anything you want out of life, as long as its one thing and you want it far more than anything else.

真正从内部得到平和的唯一方法，是放弃问题这个概念本身。

The only way to actually get peace on the inside is by giving up this idea of problems.

享乐适应让我们留在跑步机上。诀窍是知道什么时候跳下来，去玩。

Hedonic adaptation keeps us there. The trick is knowing when to jump off and play instead.

现实是，人生是个单人游戏。你独自出生，独自死去。

The reality is life is a single-player game. Youre born alone. Youre going to die alone.

所有真正的记分卡都是内在的。

All the real scorecards are internal.

你得成为那个人。你愿意彻底整包置换他的一切吗？如果你不愿意做 24/7 百分之百的置换，那嫉妒就毫无意义。

You have to be that person. Do you want to actually be that person with all of their reactions, their desires, their family, their happiness level... If youre not willing to do a wholesale, 24/7, 100 percent swap with who that person is, then there is no point in being jealous.

训练自己幸福完全是内在的，没有外部进度，没有外部认可。你在跟自己竞争——这是个单人游戏。

Training yourself to be happy is completely internal. There is no external progress, no external validation. Youre competing against yourself—it is a single-player game.

每当应该这个词在你脑子里冒出来，那是愧疚或社会规训。

Whenever the word should creeps up in your mind, its guilt or social programming.

平和和幸福是技能。这些不是你生来就有的。

Peace and happiness are skills. These are not things you are born with.

归根结底，你是你习惯的总和，再加上你花时间最多的那些人。

At the end of the day, you are a combination of your habits and the people who you spend the most time with.

工作时，和比你更成功的人在一起；玩的时候，和比你更幸福的人在一起。

When working, surround yourself with people more successful than you. When playing, surround yourself with people happier than you.

幸福最重要的窍门是：意识到幸福是你练出的技能、你做出的选择。你选择幸福，然后下功夫。

The most important trick to being happy is to realize happiness is a skill you develop and a choice you make. You choose to be happy, and then you work at it.

如果你看不到自己能和某人共事一辈子，那就别和他共事一天。

If you cant see yourself working with someone for life, dont work with them for a day.

每次发现自己在欲望某样东西，就问：它真的重要到不顺我意我就不幸福吗？

Every time you catch yourself desiring something, say, Is it so important to me Ill be unhappy unless this goes my way?

身体有平和，心智更容易有平和。

If you have peace of body, its easier to have peace of mind.

告诉你的朋友你是个幸福的人。然后你会被迫言行一致。

Tell your friends youre a happy person. Then, youll be forced to conform to it.

你的秘密越多，你越不幸福。

The more secrets you have, the less happy youre going to be.

无例外：所有屏幕活动都和更少幸福相关，所有非屏幕活动都和更多幸福相关。

No exceptions—all screen activities linked to less happiness, all non-screen activities linked to more happiness.

政治、学术和社会地位都是零和游戏。正和游戏造就正向的人。

Politics, academia, and social status are all zero-sum games. Positive-sum games create positive people.

自律是通往新自我形象的桥。

Self-discipline is a bridge to a new self-image.

先是知道，然后是理解，然后能讲出来，然后能感受到，最后你就是它。

First, you know it. Then, you understand it. Then, you can explain it. Then, you can feel it. Finally, you are it.

人生中任何处境，你永远有三个选择：改变它，接纳它，或者离开它。

In any situation in life, you always have three choices: you can change it, you can accept it, or you can leave it.

最糟的选项是：希望改变却不改变，希望离开却不离开，也不接纳。这种挣扎和抗拒，是我们大部分痛苦的来源。

What is not a good option is to sit around wishing you would change it but not changing it, wishing you could leave it but not leaving it and not accepting it. That struggle or aversion is responsible for most of our misery.

我在脑子里对自己说得最多的一句话，就一个词：接纳。

The phrase I probably use the most to myself in my head is just one word: accept.

如果你想改变它，那就是个欲望。在你成功改变它之前，它会让你痛苦。所以别选太多。

If you want to change it, then it is a desire. It will cause you suffering until you successfully change it. So dont pick too many of those.

归根结底就一个大窍门：拥抱死亡。

Fundamentally, it boils down to one big hack: embracing death.

没有遗产。没什么可留的。我们都会消失。

There is no legacy. Theres nothing to leave. Were all going to be gone.

你的人生是黑夜里萤火虫的一闪。你在这里的时间短得离谱。

Your life is a firefly blink in a night. Youre here for such a brief period of time.

你总有一天会死，这一切都不再重要。所以享受吧。做点正向的事。投射一点爱。让某个人开心。笑一笑。珍惜此刻。做好你的工作。

Youre going to die one day, and none of this is going to matter. So enjoy yourself. Do something positive. Project some love. Make someone happy. Laugh a little bit. Appreciate the moment. And do your work.

死亡是发生在你身上最重要的事。当你直视它并承认它，而不是逃避，它会给人生带来巨大的意义。

Death is the most important thing that is ever going to happen to you. When you look at your death and you acknowledge it, rather than running away from it, itll bring great meaning to your life.

这个世界上没人能在做你自己这件事上打败你。你永远不可能比我更会做我。

No one in the world is going to beat you at being you. Youre never going to be as good at being me as I am.

你永远不会遇到两个可以互相替代的人。

You will never meet any two humans who are substitutable for each other.

要做出原创的贡献，你必须对某件事有非理性的痴迷。

To make an original contribution, you have to be irrationally obsessed with something.

你唯一该做的，就是做你想做的事。

All you should do is what you want to do.

医生不会让你健康，营养师不会让你苗条，老师不会让你聪明，大师不会让你平静，导师不会让你富有，教练不会让你健美。归根结底，你得自己负责。救你自己。

Doctors wont make you healthy. Nutritionists wont make you slim. Teachers wont make you smart. Gurus wont make you calm. Mentors wont make you rich. Trainers wont make you fit. Ultimately, you have to take responsibility. Save yourself.

我人生第一优先级，高于我的幸福、高于我的家庭、高于我的工作，是我自己的健康。

My number one priority in life, above my happiness, above my family, above my work, is my own health.

当所有人都病了，我们就不再认为那是病。

When everyone is sick, we no longer consider it a disease.

我们为稀缺进化，却活在丰盛里。一直在挣扎着说不，而基因永远想说 yes。

We evolved for scarcity but live in abundance. Theres a constant struggle to say no when your genes always want to say yes.

锻炼越狠，这一天越轻松。

The harder the workout, the easier the day.

我没时间只是它不是优先级的另一种说法。

I dont have time is just another way of saying Its not a priority.

最适合你的锻炼，是你兴奋到愿意每天做的那个。

The best workout for you is one youre excited enough to do every day.

世界上最简单的饮食法：加工度越高的食物，越少吃。

Worlds simplest diet: The more processed the food, the less one should consume.

说到医药和营养，先做减法，再做加法。

When it comes to medicine and nutrition, subtract before you add.

如果细菌都不吃，你吃？

If bacteria wont eat it, should you?

我们的大部分痛苦来自逃避。冷水澡的大部分痛苦，是你踮着脚尖往里蹭的那个过程。一旦进去了，就是进去了。不痛苦，只是冷。

Most of our suffering comes from avoidance. Most of the suffering from a cold shower is the tip-toeing your way in. Once youre in, youre in. Its not suffering. Its just cold.

呼吸是少数几个自主神经系统与随意神经系统交汇的地方。

Your breath is one of the few places where your autonomic nervous system meets your voluntary nervous system.

情绪是进化生物学在预测当下事件对未来的影响。在现代社会，这种预测通常被夸大了，或者干脆是错的。

An emotion is our evolved biology predicting the future impact of a current event. In modern settings, its usually exaggerated or wrong.

冥想是心灵的间歇性断食。

Meditation is intermittent fasting for the mind.

糖太多，身体沉重；干扰太多，心智沉重。

Too much sugar leads to a heavy body, and too many distractions lead to a heavy mind.

不被打扰、独自一人，自我审视、写日记、冥想，能把未解决的心结一个个解开，带我们从心智肥胖走向心智健美。

Time spent undistracted and alone, in self-examination, journaling, meditation, resolves the unresolved and takes us from mentally fat to fit.

我发现，我 90% 的念头都是恐惧驱动的，另外 10% 可能是欲望驱动的。

What I find is 90 percent of thoughts I have are fear-based. The other 10 percent may be desire-based.

一旦你认出一个恐惧，都不用刻意去做什么，它自己就消散了。

The moment you recognize a fear, without even trying it goes away.

睡前小技巧：躺在床上冥想。要么进入深度冥想，要么睡着。怎么都是赢。

Life-hack: When in bed, meditate. Either you will have a deep meditation or fall asleep. Victory either way.

解决它们不需要任何努力——你只需要看着。

Resolving them doesnt take any work—you just observe them.

等它们都了结了，总有一天你坐下来冥想，会撞上心智的收件箱清零。

Once they’re resolved, there will come a day when you sit down to meditate, and you’ll hit a mental inbox zero.

我推荐每天早上冥想一小时，因为少于这个时间，根本进不深。

I recommend meditating one hour each morning because anything less is not enough time to really get deep into it.

冥想不难。你要做的只是坐着，什么都不做。

Meditation isnt hard. All you have to do is sit there and do nothing.

冥想的好处，是让你看清自己的心智有多失控。

The advantage of meditation is recognizing just how out of control your mind is.

光是觉察，就能让你平静下来。

Awareness alone calms you down.

内观冥想让你在大脑的调试模式下运行，直到你发现自己只是大程序里的一个子程序。

Insight meditation lets you run your brain in debug mode until you realize youre just a subroutine in a larger program.

单点专注的能力，跟忘我的能力相关——临在、快乐，反而（讽刺地）更有效。

The ability to singularly focus is related to the ability to lose yourself and be present, happy, and (ironically) more effective.

心智本身就是一块肌肉——可以训练、可以调教。

The mind itself is a muscle—it can be trained and conditioned.

冥想是关掉社会，听听自己。

Meditation is turning off society and listening to yourself.

最强的超能力，是改变自己的能力。

The greatest superpower is the ability to change yourself.

怎么解读这些体验，是你选的，不同的人解读方式不同。

How you choose to interpret those experiences is up to you, and different people interpret them in different ways.

你成为你的习惯。

You become your habits.

要心智安宁，先得身体安宁。

To have peace of mind, you have to have peace of body first.

当你真想改变，你就直接变了。

When you really want to change, you just change.

行动上急，结果上缓。

Impatience with actions, patience with results.

每当我们说我要试试做这件事或我要试试养成这个习惯，其实都是在耍赖。

Whenever we say were going to try to do something or try to form a habit, were wimping out.

当下的环境在给大脑编程，但聪明的大脑可以选择下一个环境。

The current environment programs the brain, but the clever brain can choose its upcoming environment.

如果有件事你想以后做，现在就做。没有以后。

If theres something you want to do later, do it now. There is no later.

对我来说，科学就是研究真理。它是唯一真正的学科，因为它能做出可证伪的预测。

Science is, to me, the study of truth. It is the only true discipline because it makes falsifiable predictions.

我觉得，如今人们读的东西，几乎都是为了社会认同而设计的。

I think almost everything that people read these days is designed for social approval.

人生的回报，在羊群之外。

The returns in life are being out of the herd.

不靠自律也能自我提升：更新你的自我形象。

For self-improvement without self-discipline, update your self-image.

打磨、流汗、劳作、流血，直面深渊——都是成为一夜成名的一部分。

Grind and sweat, toil and bleed, face the abyss. Its all part of becoming an overnight success.

自然说数学。数学是我们在逆向工程自然的语言，我们才刚摸到皮毛。

Nature speaks in mathematics. Mathematics is us reverse engineering the language of nature, and we have only scratched the surface.

最难的不是做你想做的事——最难的是知道你到底想要什么。

The hardest thing is not doing what you want—its knowing what you want.

注意，没有成年人这回事。每个人都是边走边编。

Be aware there are no adults. Everyone makes it up as they go along.

现在我想要的是内在自由，是自由免于——免于反应，免于愤怒。

Now, the freedom Im looking for is internal freedom. Its freedom from. Freedom from reaction. Freedom from feeling angry.

勇气不是冲进机枪阵地。勇气是不在乎别人怎么想。

Courage isnt charging into a machine gun nest. Courage is not caring what other people think.

珍惜你的时间，它是你拥有的一切。

Value your time. It is all you have.

别把时间花在让别人开心上。别人开不开心，是他们的问题，不是你的。

Dont spend your time making other people happy. Other people being happy is their problem. Its not your problem.

愤怒是你跟自己签的一份合同：在现实改变之前，我自愿处于身心情绪的动荡中。

Anger is a contract you make with yourself to be in physical and mental and emotional turmoil until reality changes.

愤怒是自己的惩罚。一个愤怒的人想把你的头按进水里，他自己也在同时溺水。

Anger is its own punishment. An angry person trying to push your head below water is drowning at the same time.

尝过自由的滋味，你就没法再被雇佣了。

A taste of freedom can make you unemployable.

对我来说，心智应该是仆人和工具，不是主人。

To me, the mind should be a servant and a tool, not a master.

忙碌的心智，会加速主观时间的流逝。

A busy mind accelerates the passage of subjective time.

现代人的困境：孤独的个体，召唤着非人的意志力，断食、冥想、锻炼……对抗的是成群的科学家和统计学家，把充足的食物、屏幕和药物武器化，变成垃圾食品、标题党新闻、无限色情、无尽游戏和成瘾药物。

The modern struggle: Lone individuals summoning inhuman willpower, fasting, meditating, and exercising… Up against armies of scientists and statisticians weaponizing abundant food, screens, and medicine into junk food, clickbait news, infinite porn, endless games, and addictive drugs.

意义是私人的，你得自己找。别人给你的任何智慧，无论出自佛陀还是我，听起来都会像胡话。关键不在答案，而在问题。

Its personal. You have to find your own meaning. Any piece of wisdom anybody else gives you, whether its Buddha or me, is going to sound like nonsense. Fundamentally, the important part is not the answer, its the question.

人生没有意义，人生没有目的。奥修说：就像在水上写字，在沙上盖房子。

There is no meaning to life. There is no purpose to life. Osho said, Its like writing on water or building houses of sand.

几代人之后，没人会记得你，无论你是艺术家、诗人、征服者，还是乞丐。

No one is going to remember you past a certain number of generations, whether youre an artist, a poet, a conqueror, a pauper, or anyone else.

作为生命系统，我们所做的一切都在加速抵达那个终点……在那里我们本质上不可区分。

What we do as living systems accelerates getting to that state... Were essentially indistinguishable.

在你欺骗别人之前，你必须先欺骗自己。

Before you can lie to another, you must first lie to yourself.

人生一切好处都来自复利——金钱、关系、爱情、健康、习惯，无一例外。

All benefits in life come from compound interest, whether in money, relationships, love, health, activities, or habits.

我不信等级关系。我不想在任何人之上，也不想在任何人之下。

I dont believe in hierarchical relationships. I dont want to be above anybody, and I dont want to be below anybody.

问题越古老，答案也越古老。

The older the question, the older the answers.

什么都试，亲自检验，保持怀疑，有用的留下，没用的扔掉。

Try everything, test it for yourself, be skeptical, keep whats useful, and discard whats not.

如果我无法亲自验证，也走不通科学路径，那它可能为真、可能为假，但它不可证伪，所以我不能把它视为根本真理。

If I cant verify it on my own or if I cannot get there through science, then it may be true, it may be false, but its not falsifiable, so I cannot view it as a fundamental truth.

人人起初纯真，人人都会被污染。智慧就是借由知识，抛弃恶习、回归美德。

Everyone starts out innocent. Everyone is corrupted. Wisdom is the discarding of vices and the return to virtue, by way of knowledge.

智慧就是理解你行为的长期后果。

Understanding the long-term consequences of your actions.

如果智慧能靠言语传授，我们这会儿早就毕业了。

If wisdom could be imparted through words alone, wed all be done here.

其实除了这一刻，什么都不存在。从来没人回到过过去，也从来没人以任何有意义的方式成功预测过未来。

There is actually nothing but this moment. No one has ever gone back in time, and no one has ever been able to successfully predict the future in any way that matters.

你每时每刻都在死去又重生。忘掉还是记住，随你。

Youre dying and being reborn at every moment. Its up to you whether to forget or remember that.

死亡真正的意思，不过是没有更多的未来时刻了。

All death really means is that there are no more future moments.

灵感是易腐的——立刻行动。

Inspiration is perishable—act on it immediately.

说实话，我读书不是为了自我提升，我是出于好奇和兴趣。最好的书，就是让你停不下来的那本。

The truth is, I dont read for self-improvement. I read out of curiosity and interest. The best book is the one youll devour.

读得够多，你就成了鉴赏家，自然会更偏向理论、概念和非虚构。

Read enough, and you become a connoisseur. Then you naturally gravitate more toward theory, concepts, nonfiction.

打开这本书你会发现，他有同样的问题、同样的心智挣扎，他也在努力做更好的人。你一下就明白：成功和权力改善不了你的内在状态——内功还得自己练。（评《沉思录》）

When you open this book, you realize he had all the same issues and all the same mental struggles; he was trying to be a better person. Right there, you figure out success and power dont improve your internal state—you still have to work on it.

博尔赫斯大概是我读过最有力量的作者——不是那种直写哲学的作者，但科幻里全是哲学。

Borges is probably still the most powerful author I have read who wasnt just outright writing philosophy. There was philosophy in there with the sci-fi.

我跟人说我在读什么的时候，会跳过三分之二……我读很多我不同意的东西，因为它们烧脑。

When I tell people what Im reading, I skip two-thirds of my books... I read all kinds of stuff I disagree with because theyre mind-bending.

我在书上花钱从不心疼，我从不把那当消费，那是投资。

I always spent money on books. I never viewed that as an expense. Thats an investment to me.

如果你按新闻倡导的吃、投资、思考，你会在营养、财务和道德上三重破产。

If you eat, invest, and think according to what the news advocates, youll end up nutritionally, financially, and morally bankrupt.

放下 ego 好好吸收，这一篇博客就能永远改变你的写作风格。（评 Scott Adams〈The Day You Became a Better Writer〉）

This one blog post right there will change your writing style forever if you put your ego down and absorb it properly.

天才就在这里，只是分布不均。

Genius is here, just unevenly distributed.

幸福 = 健康 + 财富 + 好的关系。

Happiness = Health + Wealth + Good Relationships

用脑赚钱，不用时间赚钱。

Earn with your mind, not your time.

阅读/学习是终极元技能，可以兑换成其他任何东西。

Reading (learning) is the ultimate meta-skill and can be traded for anything else.

人生真正的好处都来自复利。

All the real benefits in life come from compound interest.

真理就是有预测力的东西。

Truth is that which has predictive power.

健康、爱、你的使命，按这个顺序。其他的都不重要。

Health, love, and your mission, in that order. Nothing else matters.