巨人的工具（用书指南——3）翻译版

Jigsaw Puzzle

原文翻译：

采访类的书很多，但是这本书不同，因为我没有将自己看成一个采访者，而是把自己当做一个试验者。如果我在繁杂的现实生活中没有去验证这些经验，如果这些经验的结果不可以重复，那么我会感到很乏味，我也根本不会将其写出来。书中所有的经验都经过了我的审核，探究并且以某种方式运用到我的生活中去了。我在复杂的谈判中，高风险的外部环境和在大型商业活动中运用了书中大量的策略和哲理。这些经验使我挣了很多钱并且让我避免了无效的努力和无谓的失败。这些经验将会在你最需要的时候帮到你！

有些是显然易见的，你第一眼就能明白的。而还有些是要经过好几周的体会和领悟，当你在洗澡或者睡觉的时候忽然自己明白的，那时你会惊叹：“天啊，我终于明白了！”

这里面有很多单句都是些值得我们去思考的和学习的。有的领域甚至用一句话就可以概括，非常之精辟。比如在本书的577页，写到关于国际象棋天才乔希·维茨金的时候，他从前世界国际象棋冠军鲍比·菲舍尔的王者之路中明白了：“从细微中发现伟大”。这种高人学习经验很受我们启发。之前看的“黑客帝国”，恐怕我是想错了，我可能只看懂了10%。但即使这样，这10%已经足以改变我的生活并且使我得到了10倍的回报。而之后回顾了100多个类似这样的单句，使我感到非常的兴奋，因为它们给我前所未有的先知。对于你们其中的一些电影迷来说，在电影《第六感》和《非常嫌犯》中可能会看到这种情形：“红色的门把手！还有tmd的小林咖啡杯！我怎么没有注意到的呢？它一直就在我眼前！”

为了帮助你能看到同样效果，我尽最大的努力将一些图案穿插在本书当中，还有就是在注释的地方，我补充了这些牛人的习惯，信仰，以及一些推荐的建议。希望对你有帮助！

完成一个拼图的过程肯定要比将拼图的碎片简单地堆起来更有用！

译者笔记：

我之所以要选择这本书作为我以后一个行动的指南，它不仅仅是很多顶级牛人的访谈录，更是作者自己亲自去思考去实践的真实笔录。这个就像一些药一直处于理论和实验阶段，而没有进行临床的验证。本文作者其实就是一只出了名的小白鼠，他通过自己的亲生的经历来验证了那些访谈的真实性，让我们普通人有了一个很好的参考样本，要比那些成功学的书要实用得多。本书将不是简单告诉你一些经验和道理，更为重要的是告诉你应该怎样去做。就像：完成一个拼图的过程肯定要比将拼图的碎片简单地堆起来更有用！（The completed jigsaw puzzle is much greater than the sum of its parts.）

原文：

There are many books full of interviews. This is different, because I don’t view myself as an experimenter. If I can’t test something or replicate results in the messy reality of everyday life, I’m not interested. Everything in these pages has beeb vetted, explored, and applied to my own life in some fashion. I’ve used dozens of these tactics and philosophies in high-stakes negotiations, high-risk environments, or large business dealings.  The lessons have made me millions of dollars and saved me years of wasted effort and frustration. They work when you need them most.

Some applications are obvious at first glance , while others are subtle and will provoke a “Holy shit  now I get it !” Realization weeks later, while you’re daydreaming in the shower or about to fall asleep.

Many of the  one-liners teach volumes.  Some summarize excellence in an entire field in one sentence. As Josh  Waitzkin (page 577), chess prodigy and the inspiration behind Searching for Bobby Fischer ,might put it, these bite-sized learnings are a way to “learn the macro from the micro. ”The process of piecing them together was revelatory. If I thought I saw “the Matrix” before , I was mistaken , or I was only seeing 10% of it . Still, even that 10%—“islands” of notes on individual mentors—had already changed my life and helped me 10X my results. But after revisiting more than a hundred minds as part of the same fabric, things got very interesting  very quickly. For the movie nerds among you , it was like the end of The Sixth Sense or The Usual Suspects: “The red door knob! The fucking Kobayashi coffee cup! How did I not notice that ? It was right in front of me the whole time !”

To help you see the same, I’ve done my best to weave patterns together throughout the book, noting where guests have complementary habits, beliefs, and recommendations.

The completed jigsaw puzzle is much greater than the sum of its parts.

未完待续

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