principles 002

MY PRINCIPLES AND HOW I LEARNED THEM

我的原则并且我怎样学习

I learned my principles over a lifetime of making a lot of mistakes and spending a lot of time reflecting on them. Since I was a kid, I’ve been a curious, independent thinker who ran after audacious goals. I got excited about visualizing things to go after, had some painful failures going after them, learned principles that would prevent me from making the same sort of mistakes again, and changed and improved, which allowed me to imagine and go after even more audacious goals and do that rapidly and repeatedly for a long time. So to me life looks like the sequence you see on the opposite page.

我用我一生的时间去犯错，反思来形成我的原则。当我是孩子的时候，我有很多好奇心，在完成大胆的目标之后会有自己独立的思考。我很兴奋能想象出要追求的东西，经历了一些痛苦的失败，那些学到的原则将会避免我再次犯同样的错误，并且不断的改变，不断的完善，这让我能够想象并追求更大胆的目标，并在很长一段时间内迅速而反复地做到这一点，因此我的生活看起来像你所看到的相反面。

I believe that the key to success lies in knowing how to both strive for a lot and fail well. By failing well, I mean being able to experience painful failures that provide big learnings without failing badly enough to get knocked out of the game.

我相信，成功的秘诀在于知道如何平衡努力和失败。通过失败，我能更好的经历它所带来的成长，没有失败就我们就更容易被淘汰出局。

This way of learning and improving has been best for me because of what I’m like and because of what I do. I’ve always had a bad rote memory and didn’t like following other people’s instructions, but I loved figuring out how things work for myself. I hated school because of my bad memory but when I was twelve I fell in love with trading the markets. To make money in the markets, one needs to be an independent thinker who bets against the consensus and is right.

这种学习方式对我来说很有效，因为我喜欢，因为我已经做到了。我总是会有一个糟糕的记忆习惯并且不喜欢按照他人的指挥来做事情，但是我喜欢独自想出解决问题的方案。我讨厌学校对它有糟糕的回忆，但是当我12岁的时候我爱上了市场营销。为了在市场中赚钱，人们需要独立的思考去赌上正确的结果。