CHAPTER 8

原则列表

Goodprinciples are effective ways of dealing with reality. To learn my own, I spenda lot of time reflecting. So rather than just giving you my principles, I willshare the reflections behind them.

Ibelieve thateverything that happens comes about because of cause-effect relationships thatrepeat and evolve over time. At the big bang, all the laws and forces of theuniverse were created and propelled forward, interacting with each other overtime like a complex series of machines that work together: the structure ofgalaxies, the makeup of Earth’s geography and ecosystems, our economies andmarkets, and each one of us. Individually, we are machines made up of differentmachines—our circulatory systems, our nervous systems, and so on—that produceour thoughts, our dreams, our emotions, and every other aspect of our distinctpersonalities. All these machines are evolving together to produce the realitywe encounter every day.

Look to the patterns ofthose things that affect you in order to understand the cause-effectrelationships that drive them and to learn principles for dealing with themeffectively.

By doing this, you willbegin to understand how the machinery underlying any “another one of those”works and develop a mental map for dealing with it. As your understanding ofthese relationships grows, the essentials stand out from the blizzard of thingscoming at you; you will notice which “one of those” you are facing andinstinctually apply the right principles to help you through it. Reality, inturn, will send you loud signals about how well your principles are working byrewarding or punishing you, so you will learn to fine-tune them accordingly.

Having good principlesfor dealing with the realities we encounter is the most important driver of howwell we handle them. I’m not saying that all people have the same encounters.It is certainly the case that different people in different parts of the worldface different challenges. Still, most of our encounters with reality fallunder one category or another and the number of those categories is notenormous. If you were to write down what type of encounter you have every timeyou have one (e.g., the birth of a child, the loss of a job, a personaldisagreement) and compile them in a list, it would probably total just a fewhundred items and only a few of them would be unique to you. You might want totry this. Not only will you see for yourself if what I’m saying is true, butyou will also start to build a list of the things you need to think about andhave principles for

Whatever success I’vehad is because of the principles I followed and not because of anything uniqueabout me, so anyone following these principles can expect to produce broadlysimilar results. That said, I don’t want you to follow my (or anyone’s)principles blindly. I suggest that you think through all the principlesavailable to you from different sources and put together a collection of yourown that you can turn to whenever reality sends “another one of those” yourway.

Life Principles and WorkPrinciples are organized in outline form at three different levels so you canskim along the surface or dive in depending on the amount of time and interestyou have.

1Higher-levelprinciples, which are also the chapter titles, are preceded by single numbers.

1.1Mid-level principles are contained within each chapter and are designated by

two numbers: one indicating the higher-level principle it is under and the

other showing the order in which it appears in the chapter.

a. Sub-principles

fall under the mid-level principles and are marked with letters.

All three levels ofprinciples have explanations following them. To give you a quick overview, I’veincluded summaries of principles at the end of Life Principles and thebeginning of Work Principles. I suggest you start with the higher-levelprinciples and the text explaining them, plus the headings for both theprinciples and subprinciples. Life Principles is intended to be read in itsentirety, while Work Principles is meant as more of a reference book.

译文：

好的原则是处理实际问题的有效方法。而学习我自己的原则，我花费了大量时间反馈。所以我不仅要给你我所有的员额，我更想与你分享这些原则的反馈。

我相信发生的任何事情都是因为因果关系—反复而随着时间进化。随着宇宙大爆炸，宇宙所有的法律和秩序被创造出来并推动宇宙发展，随着时间互相作用就像一系列复杂的机械一起工作：银河系的结果，地球地理和生态的组成，我们的经济和时常，已经每个人。毫无意外的，我们都是由不同机械组成的—我们的情绪，我们独无一二的个性的每一面。所有这些机械一起进化并创造出了我们现在每一天面对的真实世界。

仔细观察那些影响你的事情的模式以便于理解因果关系—驱动，学习高效做事的原则。

这样做，你会开始明白为什么潜藏在处理机制背后的心理地图下的机制。随着你理解的这些关系增长，你就会从扑面而来的事物中发现那些潜藏的要点；你会发现你面对的“那些中的一个”原则会本能地帮你提供正确的原则帮助你通过考验。真实世界会依据你的原则工作好坏依次给你正向或负面的反馈，所以你会掌握正确的微调原则。

面对真实世界拥有好的原则使我们能怎样驾驭他的最重要的助手。我不是说所有人能遭遇同样困难。当然不同地区的不同人会面临不同的挑战。情况依旧是，大多数我们面临的真实情况会落在一个类别或另一个而那些类别并不是很大。如果你你能把每次你遇到的情况记下来（比如小孩出生，失去工作，个性化的类别），把他们分门别类，也许只能一百多条目，而仅仅几个可能对你来说是独特的。你可能想去尝试。不仅你会自己看到我所说的是对的，你也会开始建立你需要思考和持有规则辨别的列表。

不论我曾经因为我遵循的原则而多么成功，不是因为我多么独特，所以任何遵循这些原则的人都能产生出大致近似的结果。那样说，在于我并不想让你盲目遵循我的（或者任何人的）原则。我建议你通盘考虑你从不同途径收集的原则，然后形成你自己的一个集合，那样你就能随时从现实中找到你自己的办法。

1 较高级别的原则，同时也是章节题目，在之前都有独立数字编号

1.1 中间层的原则包含在每章节回见，由两个数字表示：一个数字指代较高级别的原则，而他的下面，另一个数字代表原则出现在章节中的顺序。

A．下一级原则在中间层原则的下一级，由字母标识。

所有这三层原则有相应解释在其后。便于你快速浏览，我在生活原则末尾，工作原则开头做了原则的总结。我见你从最高级别的原则开始，先阅读解释他们的文字，除了头条之外。生活原则建议你全文于都，而工作原则则更多的像一本参考书。

读后感：

好了本书前面的正文，或者说是正文前的所有背景，称述，啰嗦的解释都结束了，下面是干货部分。经管在我看来这些干货仍有水分存在，但我们不妨接着看下去。

这三个月的煎熬终于到头了，我一直以来的翻译加理解阅读，很艰难，多次在放弃还是继续之间徘徊，最终我熬到了这里，算是看到希望了。希望你也能和我一起坚持下去，毕竟已经到了长城脚下，不上去看看如何甘心，怎么能称好汉那？哈哈，下一章开始干货。