《Same as Ever》读书笔记,在当前洋溢的乐观向上的氛围中,保持一份冷静。
1. One is highlighting this book’s premise—to base predictions on how people behave rather than on specific events. Predicting what the world will look like fifty years from now is impossible. But predicting that people will still respond to greed, fear, opportunity, exploitation, risk, uncertainty, tribal affiliations, and social persuasion in the same way is a bet I’d take
基于人类的本性(对贪婪、恐惧、机会、利用、风险、不确定性、社群的反应)去预测未来更为靠谱
2. One is the constant reminder that wealth and happiness is a two-part equation: what you have and what you expect/need. When you realize that each part is equally important, you see that the overwhelming attention we pay to getting more and the negligible attention we put on managing expectations makes little sense, especially because the expectations side can be so much more in your control.
幸福 = 能力 - 预期,降低预期能更容易/可控的获得幸福
3.People don’t want accuracy. They want certainty.
The inability to forecast the past has no impact on our desire to forecast the future. Certainty is so valuable that we’ll never give up the quest for it, and most people couldn’t get out of bed in the morning if they were honest about how uncertain the future is
不能预测过去对我们预测未来的欲望没有任何影响。确定性是如此宝贵,以至于我们永远不会放弃对它的追求。大多数人如果诚实地面对未来的不确定性,那么他们早上就无法起床
4.The decline of local news has all kinds of implications. One that doesn’t get much attention is that the wider the news becomes the more likely it is to be pessimistic
新闻传播的越广,每天我们能看到各类事故的的可能性就越大,实际就是一个概率问题
5. Let’s say you’re a seventy-five-year-old economist. You started your career at age twenty-five. So you have half a century of experience predicting what the economy will do next. You’re as seasoned as they come.But how many recessions have there been in the last fifty years? Seven. There have only been seven times in your career that you’ve been able to measure your skills.
假设你是一位七十五岁的经济学家。你25岁就开始了你的职业生涯。所以你有半个世纪的经验来预测经济下一步会怎么走。你和他们一样老练。但是在过去的五十年里,有多少次经济衰退呢?七个。在你的职业生涯中,只有七次你能够衡量自己的技能
6.There is too much information in the world for everyone to calmly sift through the data, looking for the most rational, most correct answer. People are busy and emotional, and a good story is always more powerful and persuasive than ice-cold statistics.
世界上有太多的信息需要每个人冷静地在数据中筛选,寻找最理性,最正确的答案。人们都很忙,情绪化,一个好的故事总是比冰冷的统计数据更有力量和说服力
7.When a topic is complex, stories are like leverage.Leverage squeezes the full potential out of something with less effort. Stories leverage ideas in the same way that debt leverages assets.
当一个话题很复杂时,故事就像杠杆。杠杆作用可以用更少的努力把某样东西的全部潜力挤出来。故事以同样的方式利用思想,债务利用资产
8.The most persuasive stories are about what you want to believe is true, or are an extension of what you’ve experienced first hand
9.Pessimism is more intellectually seductive than optimism and captures more of our attention. It’s vital for survival, helping us prepare for risks before they arrive.
悲观主义在智力上比乐观主义更有诱惑力,更能吸引我们的注意力。它对生存至关重要,帮助我们在风险到来之前做好准备
Save like a pessimist and invest like an optimist.Plan like a pessimist and dream like an optimist.
像悲观主义者一样储蓄,像乐观主义者一样投资。像悲观主义者一样计划,像乐观主义者一样梦想
10.Same in investing. I wrote in my book The Psychology of Money: “More than I want big returns, I want to be financially unbreakable. And if I’m unbreakable I actually think I’ll get the biggest returns, because I’ll be able to stick around long enough for compounding to work wonders.”
投资也一样。我在《金钱心理学》一书中写道:“我不想获得高额回报,我更想在财务上坚不可摧。如果我是牢不可破的,我认为我会得到最大的回报,因为我可以坚持足够长的时间,创造奇迹
11.Nassim Taleb says, “My only measure of success is how much time you have to kill.” More than a measure of success, I think it’s a key ingredient. The most efficient calendar in the world—one where every minute is packed with productivity—comes at the expense of curious wandering and uninterrupted thinking, which eventually become the biggest contributors to success.
纳西姆·塔勒布说:“我衡量成功的唯一标准是你有多少时间可以消磨。”不仅仅是衡量成功的标准,我认为这是一个关键因素。世界上最有效率的日历——每一分钟都排满了生产力——是以好奇心的漫游和不间断的思考为代价的,而好奇心的漫游和思考最终成为成功的最大贡献者
12.This is one of the most useful life skills—enduring the pain when necessary rather than assuming there’s a hack, or a shortcut, around it.
这是最有用的生活技能之一,在必要的时候忍受痛苦,而不是假设有一个黑客或捷径可以绕过它
13.There are two types of information: permanent and expiring.Permanent information is: “How do people behave when they encounter a risk they hadn’t fathomed?” Expiring information is: “How much profit did Microsoft earn in the second quarter of 2005?”
有两种类型的信息:永久的和过期的。永久性的信息是:“当人们遇到他们没有弄清楚的风险时,他们会怎么做?”过期的信息是:“微软在2005年第二季度赚了多少利润?
14.Expiring knowledge catches more attention than it should, for two reasons.。One, there’s a lot of it, eager to keep our short attention spans occupied.Two, we chase it down, anxious to squeeze insight out of it before it loses relevance.
过期的知识引起了比它应该引起的更多的关注,原因有二。第一,它有很多,渴望让我们短暂的注意力被占据。第二,我们追逐它,急于在它失去相关性之前从它身上榨取见解