the Almanack of Naval - 06
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COLLECT MENTAL MODELS：
I think being successful is just about not making mistakes. It’s not
about having correct judgment. It’s about avoiding incorrect judgments.
When you are the principal★委托人, then you are the owner—you care, and you will
do a great job. When you are the agent代理人 and you are doing it on somebody
else’s behalf, you can do a bad job.
The less you feel like an agent, the better the job you’re going to do.
Historically, we’ve all evolved in tribes of 150 people.
★★★IF YOU CAN’T DECIDE, THE ANSWER IS NO. :
There are tons and tons of options. We
live on a planet of seven billion people, and we are connected to
everybody on the internet.
When you choose something, you get locked in for a long time.
★★★If you have two choices to make, and they’re relatively equal
choices, take the path more difficult and more painful in the
short term.
What’s actually going on is one of these paths requires short-term
pain. And the other path leads to pain further out in
the future. And what your brain is doing through conflict-avoidance
is trying to push off the short-term pain.
If the two are even and one has short-term pain,
that path has long-term gain associated.
Your brain is overvaluing the side with the short-term happiness
and trying to avoid the one with short-term pain.
So you have to cancel the tendency out by leaning into the pain.
★★★What are the most efficient ways to build new mental models?
Read a lot—just read.
Reading a book isn’t a race—the better the book, the more
slowly it should be absorbed.
I’ll start at the beginning, but I’ll move fast. If it’s not interest-
ing, I’ll just start flipping ahead, skimming, or speed reading. If
it doesn’t grab my attention within the first chapter in a mean-
ingful, positive way, I’ll either drop the book or skip ahead a
few chapters.
The number of books completed is a vanity无价值的/虚无的 metric度量标准. As you
know more, you leave more books unfinished. Focus on new
concepts with predictive power.
The reality is I read maybe two chapters of it. I got the gist★要点.
If they wrote it to make money, don’t read it.
★★★Explain what you learned to someone else. Teaching forces learning.
What can I do for the next sixty days to become a clearer,
more independent thinker?
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Read the greats in math, science, and philosophy. Ignore your
contemporaries当代的 and news. Avoid tribal identification. Put
truth above social approval.
Study logic and math, because once you’ve mastered them,
you won’t fear any book.
No book in the library should scare you. A number of them are going
to be too difficult for you. That’s okay—read them anyway. Then go
back and reread them and reread them.
★When you’re reading a book and you’re confused, that con-
fusion is similar to the pain you get in the gym when you’re
working out. But you’re building mental muscles instead of
physical muscles. Learn how to learn and read the books.
★(hahahah)I have people in my life I consider to be very well-read who
aren’t very smart. The reason is because even though they’re
very well-read, they read the wrong things in the wrong order.
They started out reading a set of false or just weakly true things,
and those formed the axioms of the foundation for their worldview.
Then, when new things come, they judge the new idea
based on a foundation they already built. Your foundation is
critical.
When it comes to reading, make sure your foundation is very,
very high quality.
If you want to learn macroeconomics, first read Adam Smith,
read von Mises, or read Hayek.
If you start with the originals as your foundations, then you
have enough of a worldview and understanding that you won’t
fear any book.
★★If you’re a perpetual 永久的
learning machine, you will never be out of options for how to
make money. You can always see what’s coming up in society,
what the value is, where the demand is, and you can learn to
come up to speed.
I switched to Twitter and Facebook, and I realized I wasn’t
actually learning anything. I was just taking little
★dopamine snacks all day long.
When solving problems: the older the problem, the older the
solution.
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If you’re talking about an old problem like how to keep your
body healthy, how to stay calm and peaceful, what kinds of
value systems are good, how you raise a family, and those kinds
of things, the older solutions are probably better.
You know that song you can’t get out of your head? All
thoughts work that way. Careful what you read.
A calm mind, a fit body, and a house full of love.
These things cannot be bought.
They must be earned.
