为什么要把这篇文章拿来分享呢？原因在于他推荐的几本书我都读过。因为阅历的问题，我还很难判定这些书是否能够改变我的命运。但是我能保证的是其中很多书籍都改变了我看待问题和看待世界的视角，对我的生活产生很大的影响。
比如《穷爸爸富爸爸》，这本书让我开始审视学校和家庭对我个人观念的影响，让我开始关注我的财务问题，让我认识到资产和负债的区别。也让我开始认真对待我的言语和措辞，一定程度上避免了成为自己语言的囚徒。纳西姆·塔勒布的《黑天鹅》，让我认识到未来的不可预测，以及如何构建自己的反脆弱能力，使自己保持警醒，为不期而至的意外的做好准备，甚至从中获利。而读《穷查理宝典》使我更加坚信“兴趣广泛”—跨学科学习将对自己大有裨益。
昨天，在阅读克里希那穆提的《冥想的力量》时，了解到吠檀多圣典列举的人生4大障碍：①辣雅（laya）：指的是身体问题造成的障碍。②韦舍帕（vikshepa）：指受旧有的思想、记忆和倾向困扰。③卡莎雅（kashaya）：过分执着。④如萨瓦达（rasaawada）：享受浅层的喜悦。
冥想者只有克服这4大障碍才能获得成长。当然，我们不一定要去冥想，冥想只是获得专注的一种手段。下面这些书会在不同程度上都能帮助大家克服吠檀多所描述的这几种障碍。
下面是原文，希望读完之后，你也能去读读。
一、《穷爸爸和富爸爸》——罗伯特·清崎
Before I get hanged for apostasy, let me explain. The list is about books thatchanged my lifeand this one absolutely did. I pulled this off my father’s shelf and read it in high school, and it kicked off a lifelong interest in investments, business, and the magic of compound interest. That eventually led me to find Warren Buffett and Charlie Munger, affecting the path of my life considerably.
在我因叛教而被绞死之前，先让我对此解释一番。这份清单的主题是“改变我生活的书”，而这本必属其一。高中时，我从老爹的书架上取下了这本书开始读，然后我就开始对商业、投资和复利的魔力产生了浓厚的兴趣。这本书引领我找到巴菲特和查理芒格，对我的人生道路产生了重要影响。
二、《巴菲特专：一个美国资本家的成长》/《巴菲特致股东的信》—罗杰·罗温斯坦，巴菲特
Learning about Warren Buffett took the kid who liked “Rich Dad, Poor Dad” and watchedThe Apprentice, and might have been on a path to highly leveraged real estate speculation and who knows what else, and put him on a more sound path. I read this biography many times in college, and decided I wanted to emulate some of Buffett’s qualities. Although I have a business degree, I learned a lot more from reading and applying the collected Letters to Shareholders.
喜欢阅读《穷爸爸和富爸爸》，看特朗普的《学徒》，以及已经从事高杠杆房地产投机的人都会愿意学习了解沃伦巴菲特，并对其推崇备至。我在大学的时多次读过他的传记，并暗自思忖去学习巴菲特的某些品质。虽然我获得了工商学位，但我其实从阅读和应用《致股东的信》中获得的更多。
三、《穷查理宝典》——彼得·考夫曼，查理芒格等。
The Almanack isthe greatest book I have ever read, and I knew it from the first time I read it. As Charlie says in the book, there is no going back from the multi-disciplinary approach. It would feel like cutting off your hands. I re-read this book every year in whole or in part, and so far, 8 years on, I haven’t failed to pick up a meaningful new insight. Like any great book, it grows as you grow. I like to think I understand about 40% of it on a deep level now, and I hope to add a few percent every year. I literally cannot conceive of a world in which I didn’t read this.
《穷查理宝典》是我读过的最好的书。就像查理在书中写的那样：“如果你轻车熟路地走上跨学科的途径，你将永远不想往回走，那就像砍掉你的双手”。我每年都会重读这本书的全部或者部分内容，目前为止，8年已经过去，我从没有错过其中任何有意义的新见解。如同其他任何伟大的书籍，这本书会伴着你成长而成长。我认为我已经读懂了其中40%的深奥内容，我希望每年都还能获得一些新的领悟。我无法想象，如果我没读这本书的话，我的世界会是什么样子。
四、《教养的迷思》—朱蒂·哈里斯
This book affected my thinking considerably. I noticed in the Almanack that Munger recommended this book and another, No Two Alike, towards the end. Once I read it, I could see why. It is amonumentto clear and careful thinking. Munger calls the author Judith Rich Harris a combination of Darwin and Sherlock Holmes, and he’s right. If this book doesn’t change how you think about parenting, social development, peer pressure, education, and a number of other topics, then re-read it.
这本书对我的思维产生很大的影响。我是在《宝典》这本书的末尾，发现芒格推荐的这本书，同时他还推荐了另一本书《基因或教养》。当我开始读的时候，我就知道为什么他要推荐了。在审慎和清晰思考方面，这本书具有里程碑式的意义。芒格说这本书的作者朱蒂哈里斯是达尔文和夏洛克·福尔摩斯的合体。如果这本书没有改变你对养育、社会发展、同辈压力、教育和其他相关主题的看法，那么就重读一遍吧！
五、《反对愚蠢的行为》/《生活在极限之内》—加勒特·哈丁
Like The Nurture Assumption, these two books are brilliantly well thought-through. It wasn’t until years after I read them that I realized Garrett Hardin was friends with, and in fact funded by, Charlie Munger. The ideas about overpopulation in Living within Limits made a deep impression on me, but the quality of thought in general hit me the hardest. Like the Almanack, it made me want to become a better and more careful thinker.
和《教养的迷思》一样，这两本书也融汇了作者卓越的思想。直到读过这本书多年之后，我才知道哈丁是芒格的朋友，而且还是他资助的。在《生活在极限之内》这本书中，作者关于人口过剩的观点给我留下了深刻的印象，但总的来说，其思维水平对我的冲击更大。和《宝典》一样，这本书使我希望成为更好的思考者。
六、《黑天鹅》—塔勒布
Who has read this and not been affected by it? Like many, Nassim’s books changed how I think about the world. The ideas from The Black Swan and Fooled by Randomness about the narrative fallacy and the ludic fallacy cannot be forgotten, as well as the central idea of the book itself that rare events are not predictable and yet dominate our landscape. Also, Nassim’s writing style made me realize deep, practical writing didn’t have to be dry and sanitized. Like him or not, he wears his soul on his sleeve.
读过这本书的人，谁又敢说自己不曾受到这本书的影响呢？和很多其他的书一道，纳西姆的书改变了我看待世界的方式。《黑天鹅》和《随机漫步的傻瓜》中关于叙事谬误和戏局谬误的观点让我终身难忘，以及本书的核心观点：“稀有事件难以预测，但却会控制我们的生活”。同时，纳西姆的写作风格让我发现深刻、朴素的写作不一定就晦涩乏味。不管你喜不喜欢他，他总是很直率的袒露自己。
七、《卡路里功与过》/《为什么我们会变胖？》—加里·陶碧思
I’ve been interested in nutrition since I was young, and these books made me realize most of what I knew was not very accurate. Gary Taubes is a scientific journalist of the highest order. Like Hardin, Munger, and Harris, he thinks much more carefully than most of his peers. Nutrition is a field that is still sort of growing up, and the quality of the research and thought shows it. Taubes made me recognize that nutrition can be a real science if it’s done more carefully, more Feynman-like. Hopefully his NuSi initiative will help shove the field in the right direction.
我自小就对营养学非常感兴趣，而这两本书让我知道我们所熟知的很多观念其实都不是很准确。加里·陶碧思是最顶级的科学记者。与芒格和哈丁一样，他比大多数同龄人的思考都更深入而全面。营养学仍旧是在快速发展的学科，研究和思考的质量已经证明了这一点。陶碧思使我相信：“如果我们能够做的更认真，更像费曼所做的那样，那么营养学也能成为一门真正的科学”。希望他的Nusi提议能够推动这一领域朝着正确的方向发展。
八、《不诚实的诚实真相》—丹·艾瑞里
This book by Ariely was a game-changer in that it helped me realize the extent to which we rationalize our behavior in a million little ways. I had a lot of nights thinking about my own propensity for dishonesty and cheating after I read this one. I had never considered howsituationaldishonesty was, but now that I do, I see it constantly in myself and others. There are also good sections on incentive-caused bias and social pressure that made an impact.
艾瑞里的这本书改变了“游戏规则”，这本书帮助我认识到我们在合理化自身行为方面的：程度之深，借口之多。读完这本书后，我花了很多个晚上思考我自身的不诚实和欺骗倾向。我从未思考过“环境不诚实”（依据情境采取的方法）有多严重。但现在我做到了！我不断地从自身和他人身上发现这点。书中关于激励导致的偏见和社会压力也让我印象非常深刻。
