巨人的工具——如何充分利用好这本书

2017-09-15  本文已影响0人  LifelongLearn
巨人的工具——如何充分利用好这本书

原文翻译:

“自助餐”式的工具书——如何充分利用好这本书

法则#1:自由地跳读(看你想看的)

我希望你跳过任何一个提不起你兴趣的东西。这本书应该读起来轻松有趣,就像你可以轻松自由地享用自助餐一样,挑那些你喜欢的。没有必要挨个地去看。如果你不喜欢吃虾,那就不要吃那该死的虾。选择你自己喜欢的冒险路线去使用这本书,我也是选择了一条自己喜欢的路线去写这本书的。我有一个心愿:这本书有50%你能喜欢,20%的你能爱上,10%能让你终身难忘。这就是为什么:对于数百万的博客听众和曾经那些校对这本书的人来说,这些“50/25/10”最精彩的地方是完全不一样的,每个人心里都有自己的那“50/25/10”。想到这,我欣喜若狂。

    我将不同类型的牛人收录于这本书中——这些都是将自己的事做到极致的牛人——请校对同一个描述,然后回答我的问题:“哪10%你将一定会保留,而哪10%你又会去除?”其实经常会出现:你确定会保留下来的10%是别人要必须要去除掉的。所以这不是一个“适合你,就一定适合所有人”的策略。我希望你舍弃大量你不喜欢的,去看那些你感兴趣的。

法则#2 不要盲目地跳读

总之,你要对那些跳读的部分做一个简短的体会笔记。也许是书中某个角落不起眼的一句话或是显眼的标题。

    也许是这些跳跃和滑过的部分恰恰可以解决了你生活中的盲点,瓶颈和困惑的问题呢?不错,对我来说,的确是这样的!

    如果你决定轻易地放过一些东西,那么请你注意,当你在以后偶尔想起来的时候,你要问你自己:“为什么我会跳过它” 是不是它使你反感了?看起来和你不相称了?看起来太困难了?你是否能想通,然后做到,或者是否它就是从父母和其他人那里遗传过来所得到的一个影子而已?其实,这些都很正常,就连我们的信仰都不是我们自己的!

    这本书练习的部分是让你怎样去创造一个新的自我,而不是去寻找你自己。对于后者是有其价值所在的,但它主要是过去式:是一个后视镜(只能往后看)。而现在我们应该去找挡风玻璃(往前看),去帮助我们到达想去的地方。

译者笔记:

作者给出的两条法则看似矛盾其实并不矛盾,那些和你原来认知体系能相融的东西固然能和你产生共鸣,你也因此更为确信你原来的认知体系。但还有一些是和你格格不入的,这些东西我们刚开始可能非常地排斥,不能接受,可是我们如果只接受那些能和你相融的东西,而不去试着接受那些刚开始让你讨厌的东西,那么我们永远是在找原来的自己,而不是去创造一个新的自己。认知体系的建立其实就是:打破原来的体系格局,不断地放进新的认知,然后重新建构的一个过程。虽然这个过程非常的痛苦,每次都会看见一个不完美的自己,每次都是伤痕累累,但是有一句话说的好:“不够完美又何妨,万物皆有裂痕,那是光进来的地方”!

原文:

THIS BOOK IS A BUFFET— HERE’S HOW TO GET THE MOST OUT OF IT


RULE #1: SKIP LIBERALLY

I want you to skip anything that doesn’t grab you . This book should be fun to read ,and it’s a buffet to choose from .Don’t suffer through anything anything.If you bate shrimp, don’t eat the goddamn shrimp .Treat it as a choose-your-own-adventure guide, as that’s how I’ve written it . My goal is for each reader to like 50% , love 25%, and never forget10%Here’s why: For the millions who’ve heard the podcast, and the dozens who proofread this book, the 50/25/10 highlights are completely different for every person.It’s blown my mind.

I’ve even had multiple guests in this book —people who are the best at what they do — proofread the same profile , answering my predation of “Which 10% would you absolutely keep , and which 10% would you absolutely cut ?”Oftentimes, the 10% “must keep” of one person was the exact “must cut”of someone else! This is mot one-size-fits-all .I expect you to discard plenty .Read what you enjoy.


RULE#2:SKIP,BUT DO SO INTELLIGENTLY.

All that said, take abridge mental note of anything you skip. Perhaps put a little dot in the corner of the page or highlight the headline.

    Perhaps it’s skipping and closing over precisely these topics or questions that has created blind spots , bottlenecks, and unresolved issues in your life? That was certainly true for me.

If you decide to flip past something, note it , return to it later at some point ,and ask yourself , “Why did I skip this ?” Did it offend you ?Seem beneath you ? Seem too difficult ?And did you arriver at that by thinking it through , or is it a reflection of biases inherited from your parents and others? Very often, “our” beliefs are not our own.

    This type of practice is how you create yourself ,instead of seeding to discover yourself, There is value in the latter , but it’s mostly past-tense:It’s a rearview mirror. Looking out the windshield is how you get where you want to go .

未完待续

推荐阅读:

《巨人的工具》

—— 蒂莫西.费里斯 著

上一篇下一篇

猜你喜欢

热点阅读