原則 Ray Dalio Life 1

書摘 Life 生活的原則

SUMMARY AND TABLE OF LIFE PRINCIPLES
• Think for yourself to decide 想想看
1) what you want,  你想要什麼
2) what is true, and  事實是什麼
3) what you should do to achieve #1 in light of #2, and do that with humility and open-mindedness so that you consider the best thinking available to you.  如何透過對事實的了解，謙虛且開放的去做，以達成想要的


LIFE PRINCIPLES INTRODUCTION
• Look to the patterns of those things that affect you
in order to understand the cause-effect relationships that drive them and to learn principles for dealing with them effectively.
為了瞭解影響你的那些事情的的因果關係， 以及有效處理那些事情的原則， 請你認真的看看影響你的那些事情的規律（PATTERN）


PART II: LIFE PRINCIPLES
1 Embrace Reality and Deal with It
1.1 Be a hyperrealist.
a. Dreams + Reality + Determination = A Successful Life.
1.2 Truth—or, more precisely, an accurate understanding of reality —is the essential foundation for any good outcome.

1.3 Be radically open-minded and radically transparent.
a. Radical open-mindedness and radical transparency are invaluable for rapid learning and e ective change.
b. Don’t let fears of what others think of you stand in your way.
c. Embracing radical truth and radical transparency will bring more meaningful work and more meaningful relationships.

1.4 Look to nature to learn how reality works.
a. Don’t get hung up on your views of how things “should” be because you will miss out on learning how they really are.
b. To be “good,” something must operate consistently with the laws of reality and contribute to the evolution of the whole; that is what is most rewarded.
c. Evolution is the single greatest force in the universe; it is the only thing that is permanent and it drives everything.
d. Evolve or die.
         
1.5 Evolving is life’s greatest accomplishment and its greatest reward.
a. The individual’s incentives must be aligned with the group’s goals.
b. Reality is optimizing for the whole—not for you.
c. Adaptation through rapid trial and error is invaluable.
d. Realize that you are simultaneously everything and nothing—and decide what you want to be.
e. What you will be will depend on the perspective you have.

1.6 Understand nature’s practical lessons.
a. Maximizeyourevolution.
b. Remember “no pain, no gain.”
c. It is a fundamental law of nature that in order to gain strength one has to push one’s limits, which is painful.

1.7 Pain + Re ection = Progress.
a. Go to the pain rather than avoid it.
b. Embrace tough love.
1.8 Weigh second- and third-order consequences.
1.9 Own your outcomes.

1.10 Look at the machine from the higher level.
a.  ink of yourself as a machine operating within a machine and know that you have the ability to alter your machines to produce better outcomes.
b. By comparing your outcomes with your goals, you can determine how to modify your machine.
c. Distinguish between you as the designer of your machine and you as a worker with your machine.
d.  e biggest mistake most people make is to not see themselves and others objectively, which leads them to bump into their own and others’ weaknesses again and again.
e. Successful people are those who can go above themselves to
see things objectively and manage those things to shape change.
f. Asking others who are strong in areas where you are weak to help you is a great skill that you should develop no matter what, as it will help you develop guardrails that will
prevent you from doing what you shouldn’t be doing.
g. Because it is di cult to see oneself objectively, you need to rely on the input of others and the whole body of evidence.
h. If you are open-minded enough and determined, you can get virtually anything you want.