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2025-03-25 00:04
這篇文章來自於印度裔美國投資家Naval Ravikant,他是硅谷著名的投資人,他的成功投資案例包括Twitter和Uber,同時他也是一名創業者,創辦了著名的股權眾籌平臺AngelList。
Naval Ravikant的故事本身也非常傳奇——
Naval的父親從印度移民到美國,但作為一名藥劑師,他的父親在美國不被承認,只能在五金店打工,拮据的生活讓他的父母離婚了,他和弟弟跟隨母親生活在紐約布魯克林的黑人聚集區。
由於無人照顧,當他的母親工作時,他和弟弟就被鎖在家里。
然而拮据的生活並沒有壓倒這個年輕人,十五歲的他就在印度餐廳開始兼職,推一輛三輪自行車送外賣。
同時在放學后,Naval一頭扎進了布魯克林的公共圖書館,在那里,他如飢似渴地閲讀,書是這個男孩為數不多的朋友。
轉機發生在16歲那年。
那一年,Naval Ravikant以傑出的成績考進了以科學和數學見長的紐約史岱文森公立高中(Stuyvesant High School)
這所紐約市教育局直屬的高中入學門檻非常高,它設計了極其嚴格的入學考試,作為一個出生極其平凡印度裔男孩,Naval Ravikant以非凡的努力抓住了這個改變命運的機會,成功實現了罕見的逆襲。
后面的故事就變得波瀾不驚了:
他高中畢業之后順利進入了藤校——達特茅斯學院,在精英如雲的達特茅斯,Naval學習了最熱門的計算機和經濟學,畢業后進入硅谷,成為一名創業者和投資人。
2018年5月31日,Naval Ravikant在Twitter上一口氣發了39條推文。
這一系列推文專門討論了一個重要的主題——How to Get Rich without getting lucky?(如何不依靠運氣變得富有?)。
衞夕嘗試將這39條推文翻譯成中文,供讀者參考,如有不準確的地方,歡迎探討——
1.Seek wealth, not money or status. Wealth is having assets that earn while you sleep. Money is how we transfer time and wealth. Status is your place in the social hierarchy.
追求財富,而不是金錢或地位。財富意味着擁有在你睡覺時也能幫你賺錢的資產,而金錢是我們轉移時間和財富的方式,地位則是你在社會等級中的位置。
2.Understand that ethical wealth creation is possible. If you secretly despise wealth, it will elude you.
充分理解堂堂正正地創造財富是可能的,如果你在內心中暗自鄙視財富,它就會遠離你。
3.Ignore people playing status games. They gain status by attacking people playing wealth creation games.
忽略那些熱衷於玩地位遊戲的人,他們通過攻擊創造財富的人來獲得地位。
4.You’re not going to get rich renting out your time. You must own equity - a piece of a business - to gain your financial freedom.
你不會因為販賣你的時間而變得富有,你必須擁有產權(如一個公司的一部分股權)才能獲得財務自由。
5.You will get rich by giving society what it wants but does not yet know how to get. At scale.
你可以通過提供社會大眾想要但還不知道如何獲得的東西而變得富有。當然,你必須成規模地交付;
6.Pick an industry where you can play long term games with long term people.
選擇一個能與目光長遠的人一起長期從事的行業。
7.The Internet has massively broadened the possible space of careers. Most people haven't figured this out yet.
互聯網極大地拓寬了職業的可能性,大多數人還沒有弄清楚這一點。
8.Play iterated games. All the returns in life, whether in wealth, relationships, or knowledge, come from compound interest.
玩那種有疊加效應的遊戲,生活中的所有回報,無論是財富、人際關係還是知識,都來自複利。
9.Pick business partners with high intelligence, energy, and, above all, integrity.
選擇聰明、精力充沛、最重要的是誠實的合作伙伴。
10.Don't partner with cynics and pessimists. Their beliefs are self-fulfilling.
不要與憤世嫉俗和悲觀主義的人合作,那些人的悲觀信念真的會自我應驗。
11.Learn to sell. Learn to build. If you can do both, you will be unstoppable.
學會營銷,學會創造,如果你能做到這兩點,你會變得勢不可擋。
12.Arm yourself with specific knowledge, accountability, and leverage.
用獨一無二的知識、責任感和影響力武裝自己。
13.Specific knowledge is knowledge that you cannot be trained for. If society can train you, it can train someone else, and replace you.
獨一無二的知識那種你無法僅僅通過培訓獲得的知識,如果社會能培訓你,同樣也能培訓別人,別人就能替代你。
14.Specific knowledge is found by pursuing your genuine curiosity and passion rather than whatever is hot right now.
你可以通過追隨真正的好奇心和熱情,而不是追隨當下的熱點從而找到那種獨一無二的知識。
15.Building specific knowledge will feel like play to you but will look like work to others.
建立獨一無二的知識對你來説感覺就像是在玩,但對其他人來説卻是工作。
16.When specific knowledge is taught, it’s through apprenticeships, not schools.
獨一無二的知識是通過學徒制被傳授的,而不是通過學校。
17.Specific knowledge is often highly technical or creative. It cannot be outsourced or automated.
獨一無二的知識通常具有高技術性或高創造性,它不能被外包或自動化。
18.Embrace accountability, and take business risks under your own name. Society will reward you with responsibility, equity, and leverage.
接受問責制,並獨自承擔商業風險。社會將獎勵給你責任、公平和影響力。
19.The most accountable people have singular, public, and risky brands: Oprah, Trump, Kanye, Elon.
最負責任的人擁有獨特的、開誠佈公的以及敢於冒險的個人品牌,比如奧普拉、特朗普、坎耶、埃隆*馬斯克。
20.「Give me a lever long enough, and a place to stand, and I will move the earth.」 - Archimedes
「給我一個足夠長的槓桿以及一個支點,我就能撬動地球。」 - 阿基米德
21.Fortunes require leverage. Business leverage comes from capital, people, and products with no marginal cost of replication (code and media).
財富需要利用槓桿,商業槓桿來自資本、人才和邊際成本為0的產品(如代碼和媒體)。
22.Capital means money. To raise money, apply your specific knowledge, with accountability, and show resulting good judgment.
資本就是金錢。要賺更多的錢,請應用你獨一無二的知識、責任感並表現出良好的判斷力。
23.Labor means people working for you. It's the oldest and most fought-over form of leverage. Labor leverage will impress your parents, but don’t waste your life chasing it.
人力意味着為你工作的人,它是最古老、最受追逐的槓桿形式,如果你善用人力槓桿,你的父母會對此印象深刻,但不要浪費你的生命去刻意追逐它。
24.Capital and labor are permissioned leverage. Everyone is chasing capital, but someone has to give it to you. Everyone is trying to lead, but someone has to follow you.
資本和人力是需要獲得他人許可的槓桿,每個人都在追逐資本,但總需要有人願意給你。每個人都想當領導,但總得有人願意追隨你。
25.Code and media are permissionless leverage. They're the leverage behind the newly rich. You can create software and media that works for you while you sleep.
代碼和媒體是不需要許可的槓桿,它們是新財富背后的槓桿,你可以創造那些那些即便是在你睡覺時也會不停為你工作的軟件和媒體。
26.An army of robots is freely available - it's just packed in data centers for heat and space efficiency. Use it.
今天,計算機資源幾乎是免費的,它們存在雲端,它們可以提高人類的熱力和空間使用效率,去用它。
27.If you can't code, write books and blogs, record videos and podcasts.
如果你不會寫代碼,那麼就寫書和博客,錄製視頻和播客。
28.Leverage is a force multiplier for your judgement.
槓桿可以以乘數效應放大你的判斷力。
29.Judgement requires experience, but can be built faster by learning foundational skills.
判斷力需要經驗,但可以通過學習基本技能更快地建立。
30.There is no skill called 「business.」 Avoid business magazines and business classes.
沒有一項被稱之為「商業」的技能,不要去看商業雜誌,不要去上商務課程。
31.Study microeconomics, game theory, psychology, persuasion, ethics, mathematics, and computers.
學習微觀經濟學、博弈論、心理學、説服力、倫理、數學和計算機科學。
32.Reading is faster than listening. Doing is faster than watching.
讀比聽快,做比看快。
33.You should be too busy to 「do coffee," while still keeping an uncluttered calendar.
你應該忙到「沒時間和別人喝咖啡」,同時仍然保持一個整潔的日曆。
34.Set and enforce an aspirational personal hourly rate. If fixing a problem will save less than your hourly rate, ignore it. If outsourcing a task will cost less than your hourly rate, outsource it.
計算並嚴格執行你的個人時薪,如果解決某個問題所節省的成本小於你的時薪,就不要做這件事。如果外包一件事的成本比你的時薪便宜,那就把這件事外包。
35.Work as hard as you can. Even though who you work with and what you work on are more important than how hard you work.
還是要盡你所能努力工作,儘管與誰一起工作以及從事什麼工作比單純努力工作更重要。
36.Become the best in the world at what you do. Keep redefining what you do until this is true.
努力將你做的事情成為世界上這個領域最好的,不斷重新定義你所做的事情,直到它變成真的。
37.There are no get rich quick schemes. That's just someone else getting rich off you.
沒有快速致富的方案,那只是別人從你身上賺錢罷了。
38.Apply specific knowledge, with leverage, and eventually you will get what you deserve.
運用獨一無二的知識,加上槓杆,最終你會得到你應該得到的。
39.When you're finally wealthy, you'll realize that it wasn't what you were seeking in the first place. But that's for another day.
當你最終變得富有時,你會意識到這並不是你最初想要的,但真到那一天,那就是另一件事了。
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