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myJGw 发表于 2018-10-22 11:54:26

2018-10-22

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Continue to read book "Principles: Life and Work" by Ray Dalio

Ray starts out by explaining his background, and although this section was interesting to me, could probably be skipped - especially if you have no interest in finance. The real meat of the book is the section on "Life Principles" which spells out a set of structured principles for getting the most out of life and achieving your goals. Some strong themes of the book that stuck with me:

* Focusing on determining what *is* true (opposed to what you *want* to be true), and open disagreement in sole pursuit of this
* Radical open-mindedness, staying humble and always asking, "How am I sure I'm not the one who is wrong?"
* Radical transparency
* Biological evolution as a metaphor applied to progressing as an organization and as an individual
* Higher-level thinking - looking down from above at the decision landscape
* Believability-weighted decision-making. Not everyone is equally credible.
* Calm reason over frantic emotion
* Process over circumstance: design rules for the machine and let it run

Although not a book about cognitive psychology, the author clearly has some substantial understanding of it (evidenced especially by his neuroanatomy discussion in "Understand That People Are Wired Very Differently" chapter), as many of these themes dovetail nicely with modern cognitive psychology:

* Our brains did not evolve for truth-seeking (bias to be overcome by explicitly seeking what is true over what you want to be true)
* Our brains evolved to be overly tribal (bias to be overcome by being "radically open-minded")
* Individuals show more variance in cognitive traits & styles than many want to believe. Dalio says to accept and learn from this.
* System 1 vs. System 2 thinking and being constantly aware of the difference, ala "Thinking Fast and Slow"

The book is organized very well, in the form of three levels of principles, with the top level effectively forming chapter titles. There is a ton of substance here - page after page of practical advice. Very little did I find myself skimming or getting bored.

The third section is "Work Principles" which apply more to a workplace environment, particularly as a manager. As this doesn't apply to me as much, I approached this with some skimming, though I can see this as being quite valuable for many people. I'm sure the extreme success of Bridgewater (from broke in 1982 to world's largest hedge fund now) is in no small part a result of the careful and thoughtful principles its founder established.