原文翻译:
是什么使这些人与众不同
“衡量一个人的水平不是看他的回答,而是看他提出的问题。“
——彼埃尔·马克·加斯东
这些世界级的表演艺术家没有所谓的超能力。
虽然他们精心制定的这些规则是有一定的弹性(换句话说:不会使规则太过于死板),不过他们也学会了驾驭规则,而不是被那些规则所绑架,我相信你也能做到。这些规则通常是些不同寻常的习惯和一些看似荒谬的问题。
在这些令人惊讶的案例中,这种力量是非常荒谬的。越是荒谬,越是不可能的问题,答案越是深刻。那么这里举个例子,亿万富翁彼得·蒂尔喜欢问自己和他人一个问题:
“如果你有一个如何达到目标的十年计划,你应该反问自己:为什么我不能用6个月去做这项计划?”。
为了说明此问题的意图,我可能要修改一下刚才的问题,“如果你用枪顶着你的脑袋,什么将促使你在6月之内完成你打算用十年时间去完成的目标?”
现在,让我们先暂停一下。那么我难道是希望你花10秒钟时间去考虑刚才的问题,然后能在接下来的几个月的时间神奇般地完成你需要用10年完成的梦想计划吗?答案显然是否定,但我想这个问题将会打破你的原有思维模式。就像蝴蝶利用新的能力冲破茧蛹来摆脱束缚一样。存在于你思想中的标准模式和强加于你的社会规则,这些标准模式——当你来回答上面的问题时,是起不了作用的。而现在你用另一种思维模式强行地去摆脱那些原有的人为束缚,就像你蜕了一层皮一样,现在你可以意识到自己有能力去重新审视你一直认为的现实世界了。而这个小改变,仅仅是你通过练习就可以做到的。
我是想让你可以通过寻找这些最荒谬的问题来读这本书。例如,在本书的224页,你可以通过30分钟的思想交流意识日志就可能改变你的生活。
最重要的是,这个世界就是一个金矿,你需要通过那些已经挖到金子的人去掘金。请记住,“问题”就是你的掘金铲和竞争优势。这本书将会给你一个可供选择的武器库。
译者笔记:
这段开头就说了“问题”的重要性,的确要看一个人的能力就是看他提出的问题。因为最终的答案是由你解决怎样的“问题”而得到的,换句话说一个好的问题会引出成千上百条的回答,而一个平庸的“问题”,它的答案通常是单一无趣的,也就不会促使我们去解答,也就不会有精彩的回答。作者建议我们通过这些所谓“荒谬的问题”来读这本书,来使用这样一个武器库。“问题”就是我们的掘金铲,就是我们的打开财富大门的钥匙!
原文:
WHAT MAKES THESE PEOPLE DIFFERENT
“Judge a man by his questions rather than his answers.”
—Pierre-Marc-Gaston
These world-class performers don’t have superpowers.
The rules they’ve crafted for themselves allow the bending of reality to such an extent that it may seem that way, but they’ve learned how to do this ,and so can you .these “rules” are often uncommon habits and bigger questions.
In a surprising number of cases ,the power is in the absurd. The more absurd , the more “impossible” the question , the more profound the answers . Take , for instance ,a question that serial billionaire Peter Thiel likes to ask himself and others:
“If you have a 10-year plan of how to get [somewhere], you should ask: Why can’t you do this in 6 months?”
For purposes of illustration here , I might reword that to :
“What might you do to accomplish your 10-year goals in the next 6 months ,if you had gun against your head?”
Now, let’s pause. Do I expect you to take 10 seconds to ponder this and then magically accomplish 10 years’ worth of dreams in the next few months? No, I don’t . But I do expect that the question will productively break your mind , like a butterfly shattering a chrysalis to emerge with new capabilities .The “normal” systems you have in place ,the social rules you’ve forced upon yourself , the standard frameworks—they don’t work when answering a question like this . You are forced to shed artificial constraints, like shedding skin , to realize that you had the ability to renegotiate your reality all along .It just takes practice.
My suggestion is that you spend real time with the questions you find most ridiculous in this book . Thirty minutes of stream-of-consciousness journaling(page 224) could change your life.
On top of that, while the world is a gold mine, you need to go digging in other people's heads to unearth riches. Questions are your pickaxes and competitive advantage. This book will give you an arsenal to choose from.
未完待续
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