《原则》-第六章（桥水40岁了）

CHAPTER 6

In June 2015,Bridgewater marked its fortieth anniversary, an amazing milestone we celebratedby throwing a big party. We had a lot to celebrate, since by most measures no firmin our industry had been as successful.13Key people who had been apart of our journey from its outset and throughout our forty years got up tospeak. Each of them described the evolution of the company through theireyes—how some things had changed over the years while others had stayed thesame, most importantly, our culture of striving for excellence in work andexcellence in relationships by being radically truthful and radicallytransparent with each other. They recounted how we uniquely and repeatedlytried new things, failed, learned from our failures, improved, and tried again,doing that over and over in an upward spiral. When it was my turn to speak, Iwanted to convey what I had always tried to give the people at Bridgewater, andwhat I wanted them to have in the future without me:

A community

in which you always have the right and obligation to make sense of things and a

process for working yourselves through disagreements—i.e., a real, functioning

idea meritocracy. I want you to think, not follow—while recognizing that you

can be wrong and that you have weaknesses—and I want to help you get the most

likely best answers, even if you personally don’t believe that they’re the best

answers. I want to give you radical open-mindedness and an idea meritocracy

that will take you from being trapped in your own heads to having access to the

best minds in the world to help you make the best decisions for you and for our

community. I want to help you all struggle well and evolve to get the most out

of life.

Though there were still important things that had to be done, at the time I thought that we were

wrapping up my transition nicely. I had no idea how difficult the next year

would be.

译文 ：

2015年6月，桥水庆祝了他的40周年庆，我们办了一个大party庆祝这个让人震惊的里程碑。我们有很多值得庆祝，即使用最多数的评判原则来看在我们这个行业我们也是非常成功的，从桥水开始到整个过程中已经成为其中之一的每个人都上来讲话，每个人都描述了他们眼中公司发声的极大变化—一些事物随时间发生了变化而另外一些则维持原样，最重要的是在工作上我们努力追求卓越的文化和在沟通中追求极致的真实和透明。他们讲述了我们是如何独特的，致力于尝试新事物，失败并从失败中学习，进步，然后再尝试，在螺旋中反复。当轮到我演讲时，我想传达的是我一直努力想给桥水每个人的传授的以及未来没有我，我想他们在未来应该做的。

一个你一直拥有权力和义务去弄清楚意义的社区，一个经管有分歧但你依然会为之奋斗的过程-例如一个真实，功能性的精英主意。我想让你去思考，而不是盲从—当意识到你可能错了，你有弱点—我想帮助你获得最可能的最佳答案，即使你个人不会相信他们是最佳答案。我想给你最极致开放和远离被困在你大脑中的那些主意，并借助这个世界上最佳的主意去帮助你做出最佳决策为你自己和我们的社群。我想去帮你高效努力并进化得到那些生命中最好的。

经管任然有重要的事情必须去做，那时我想我们能顺利的完成我的过度。我对下一年会如何困难完全没有准备。