的吗 The?
这是两年前的今天 也就是2018年1月 It was two years ago to the day in January of two thousand and eighteen.
我对自己的生活感到沮丧 I was frustrated with my life.
我在学校表现很好 I had been doing really well in school.
我有一个很好的GPS I had a really good GPS,
但这并不能满足我的好奇心 but it wasn't satisfying my curiosity.
我觉得我的学习可能是学术性的 I felt like I was learning may be academically,
但是我的钱包并没有变大 所以为了克服这个问题 but I wasn't growing as a purse and so to combat this,
我开始每周读一本书 一开始我慢慢地建立这种势头 I started to read a book a week and I did this kind of building momentum slowly at first,
然后我真的进入了它 因为我觉得它在两年后对我的生活产生了积极的影响 and then I really got into it because I felt that it was having a really positive impact on my life in two years later.
我们每周读一本书已经读了两年了 Here we are having read a book a week for two years,
一百周读一百本书 a hundred books in a hundred weeks,
大约超过104 但听起来不好听 approximately more than one hundred and four but doesn't sound is nice.
我觉得那是一个很好的时刻因为我改变了阅读习惯我一会儿会解释 and I thought that was a good moment as I kind of changed my reading habits and I'll explain that in a sec,
但要说读这么多书有什么好处 but to talk about what's been so beneficial about reading so many books,
因为对我来说 because to me,
这和一些人或我预期的有点不同 it's a little bit different than than some people or than I might have anticipated.
我想很多人都喜欢阅读 而我也是这个阵营的一员 一开始是为了学习这种百科知识 I think a lot of people get into reading and I was part of this camp at first to learn this kind of encyclopedic knowledge,
所以你拿起这些非小说类的书你假设通过阅读你会记住一些事实 so you pick up these nonfiction books and you assume that you're going to memorize some of the facts just by reading it.
如果你读得慢些并做笔记 and if you read it slowly and take notes,
你会记住更多 you'll memorize more,
然后你就可以在谈话或课堂上提出这个问题 and then you'll be able to bring it up in conversation or in class,
或者不管你有什么 这些小信息就会跳出来 or whatever you'll houses these tidbits of information that just pop out.
虽然在某种程度上这是绝对正确的 你会从你读到的东西中找到一些事实 And while this is definitely true to some extent and that you pick up some facts that you're reading,
我认为更有影响力的是你在阅读时所养成的模式 what I think is more impactful is the patterns that you pick up while you're reading.
我的意思是 如果你正在阅读 What I mean by this is if you're reading,
比如说一本心理学书 say a psychology book.
正确的确定 Right sure,
你们肯定会记住其中的一些概念 you're going to remember some of the concepts absolutely,
但你不可能记住所有的单词 but you're not going to remember all of them,
但是当你的大脑在学习作者是如何思考的 或者作者是如何交流的 but when your brain is learning is how the author is thinking and perhaps how the author is communicate.
所以你学习了这些分析模式和交流模式 And so you learn these patterns of analysis and these patterns of communication,
也许潜意识里 它们会影响你如何分析事物 如何交流事物 and perhaps subconsciously they go on to inform how you analyze things and how you communicate thing.
我认为这是非常重要的 And I think that this has been super important.
我认为 I think,
也许比我读到的事实更重要比作者试图传达的信息更重要的是他们思考的方式更方便 perhaps more important than the facts that I've been reading than the information that authors are trying to convey its the way in which they're convenient in the way in which they're thinking,
这两年对我影响最大 which has influenced me the most of these past two years.
读一百本书并没有使我成为活百科全书 reading one hundred books has not made me a walking encyclopedia.
我不记得我读过的所有书中的所有事实 I don't remember all of the facts in all the books that I read.
这不是我的思维方式 That's not how my mind works,
但它对我的作用是它向我展示了一百多种不同的分析框架一百种不同的方法来处理世界和问题 but what it has done for me is it shown me over a hundred different frames of analysis over a hundred different ways of approaching the world and of approaching problems.
所以在解决问题的时候 So when it comes to solving problems,
无论是个人问题 be it personal problems,
无论是学术问题 be it academic problems,
不管是什么情况 whatever the case may be.
它不再只是我的声音和我的观点 It's now no longer just my voice and my opinion,
但我可以根据自己感觉最合适的方式从不同的来源获得答案 but I can draw from different sources depending on what feels most appropriate.
大多数作家都会告诉你 如果你想成为一个伟大的作家 Most authors will tell you that if you want to be a great author first,
你必须是一个伟大的读者 you have to be a great reader.
你得读很多书 You have to read a bunch of books.
你必须了解作者在小说中表达事物的方式 you have to learn the ways that the author is particularly in fiction are expressing things,
然后你需要把它用到你的工作中去 and then you need to take that into your own work.
我认为这同样适用于任何职业 and I think the same holds true for really any profession,
也是为了人类的权利 but also for humans right.
如果你想成为伟大的人 If you want to be a great human,
你必须看看其他伟大的人类在做什么 you have to look at what other great humans are doing,
这应该主要发生在现实生活中 and this should primarily happen in real life.
但书籍提供了一条我以前一直忽略的途径 But books provide an avenue that I had previously been neglecting.
你看 You see,
在我的日常生活中 我没有机会接触到那么多伟大的人物 I don't have access to that many great figures in my day to day life.
我不是在和马尔科姆·艾克斯说话 I'm not talking with Malcolm X,
或者像这样的人 or with any one like that.
只是 It's just,
我没有这样的机会 I don't have that opportunity,
但我所拥有的是阅读它们的机会 but what I do have is the opportunity to read from them.
我可以读他的自传 I can read his autobiography.
我可以阅读我尊敬的人所呈现的作品 我可以开始学习他们如何处理自己 I can read works presented by people that I respect and I could start to learn how they handle themselves,
他们如何处理困难 how they deal with hardship.
这对哲学来说是个大问题 This is a big one for philosophy.
在我看来 In my opinion,
对的 Right,
塞内加是如何应对困难的 how did Seneca deal with hardship?
马可·奥勒留是怎么做到的 How did Marcus Aurelius?
不管怎么 How did whoever,
他们如何对待爱 How do they deal with love?
他们如何处理这些我们在日常生活中都在纠结的事情 How do they deal with these things that we're all wrestling with in our day to day lives,
这并不是说我要带你们知道吗 and it's not that I'm going to take you know OK?
马可·奥勒留的这句话很好地概括了我的决策过程 This one statement that Marcus Aurelius made really encapsulates what my decision making process here is going to be.
不是那样的 而是更多 It's not like that it's more.
哦 Oh,
这是他思考这个问题的方式 this is how he's thinking about this problem.
这就是这个人思考这个问题的方式 This is how this guy's thinking about this problem.
这是他思考这个问题的方式 This is how that guy's thinking about this problem.
现在 Now.
我怎么把这些都记在心里 How do I take all of those things in mind,
我如何为自己做出关于爱和困难的决定 and how do I make a decision for myself about love for about hardship,
不管是什么情况 whatever the case may be,
因此 and so for this reason,
我不想读书 I don't think about reading.
如你所知 As you know,
在我的大脑中建立事实 building facts in my brain,
我认为这是重新布线我的 I think about it as rewiring my.
把它看作是教我的大脑用不同的方式思考问题 Think about it as teaching my brain to think about things differently,
用不同的方法分析问题和机会 to analyze problems and to analyze opportunities differently.
我在2011年4月有一个很受欢迎的视频当时我刚开始读20美元的书我做了一本书每周读一本书改变我的生活 I had a popular video in April of two thousand and eighteen when I just started reading as twenty bucks deep and I made a book reading a book a week of changing my life,
现在我回顾一下那个视频 and I look back in that video now,
我在里面看到的是一个孩子他们觉得自己是一个非常年轻的我 and the person that I see in it is a child they feel like a very younger version of me,
我并没有活在一年半的时间里 很明显 阅读并不是这一年半中唯一影响变化的因素 and I don't live in a year and a half and obviously reading hasn't been the only thing which has influenced the change over that year and a half.
这是一个重要的因素 我认为这是一个重要的因素 It's been a major factor and I think it's been a major factor,
特别是在揭露多么天真的想法 especially in exposing how naive idea.
18岁的时候你就知道了 And so you know at eighteen.
我以为我已经弄明白了大部分事情 I thought that I had most things figured out.
这是那个年龄的一种功能 And this is kind of a function of being that age,
但也与我暴露的程度有关 but also just a function of how much I'd been exposed.
然后 then,
通过阅读 我发现这个世界比以前复杂得多 through reading what I found is a lot more complexity in the world than I had previously.
不 No,
我已经接触到 I've been exposed to.
不公正已经暴露在道德难题中 Injustices have been exposed to ethical conundrums,
但是遇到了我不知道如何解决的问题 but exposed to problems that I just don't know how to solve,
我找不到解决办法 and I can't find a solution.
世界上有这么多我不知道的复杂性 And so there's all of this complexity in the world that I just didn't know about,
阅读给了我一个途径去探索这种复杂性去思考并潜在地解决这些问题因为它们是我生活中重要的问题 and reading gives me an avenue to explore this complexity and to think about and potentially solve these problems because of their important problems in my life.
但每周读一本书听起来像是一个神奇的数字 But reading a book every week kind of just sounds nice as a magical number,
以及我来证明自己的方式 and the way that I came up and justified.
这个数字是关于我读完一本书平均要花多长时间 that number to people who questioned it was that this is about how long it was taking me to get through a book on average,
有些书需要更短的时间 有些书需要更长的时间 and some books would take shorter and some books would take longer.
虽然这是真的 And while this was true,
它真的消除了一些我想读的极端 it really kind of eliminated some of the extremes that I wanted to be reading.
今年早些时候 so earlier this year,
例如 for example,
我选了一本汤因比的 历史研究 I've picked up a study of history by Toynbee volumes,
从一到六页删减到六百页 one through six abridged in at six hundred pages.
这是一种非常密集的自由 and it's like pretty dense freedom.
我知道我写了20页之后 我想 and I knew that after I was about twenty pages and I thought,
好吧 OK,
这大概需要一个月的时间 我把它写下来了 this is going to take me about a month to get through and I put it down.
我没有把它捡起来 I didn't pick it back up,
我并没有完全把它合理化 and it wasn't fully that I rationalised.
好吧 OK,
我就不读了 因为太长了 I'm not going to read this because it's so long,
但这是一种激励 but that was kind of the incentive for,
这是不好的 and that's bad.
我不想用这种方式来决定我应该读什么书 不应该读什么书 I don't want that to be the way that in making decisions about what books I should read in what books I shouldn't,
我不认为这个长度会对它产生影响 I don't think that length should have an impact on that.
我有的是时间 I have plenty of time.
我只有20岁 I'm only twenty years old,
正确的 right.
有些书我应该读 There are books that I should be reading,
都是很长的书 which are just going to be long books.
我不应该回避所有这些 我想说的是 我正在改变决定读哪些书的方式 I shouldn't avoid so all that to say in that I'm kind of changing the way in which I'm deciding which books to read.
它将不再是一本书 在2000年的每星期 It's no longer going to be a book every week for two thousand and twenty would have done instead.
那是书单吗 Is that made a book list?
所以我去找了一些我尊敬的人 So I went through to a bunch of the people that I respect,
我看了他们推荐的书 and I looked at their book recommendations.
我看了看我已经列在阅读清单上的书 I looked at the books that I already had on my kind of to read list,
我看着 and I looked at.
你知道伟大的书籍和文学 You know great books and literature,
等等 and so on.
我感兴趣的不同的主题 我开始从那里拿出书 真正地问自己 我认为我要花多长时间来阅读 Different topics that I was interested in and I started to pull out books from there and really asking myself How long do I think it's going to take me to read?
知道其中一些密度会更大 Knowing that some of these are going to be more dense,
它们会变大 they're going to be larger,
或者他们可能只是更体贴 or they might just be more thoughtful.
它们可能是我应该放慢速度 更仔细地阅读的东西 They might be things that I should slow down and read a lot more carefully.
所以我所做的就是创建了一个28本书的清单 So what I've done is I've created a list of twenty eight books,
有些书要花我一个月的时间 有些书要一周 and some of the books are going to take me a month to get through some of them a week,
有些人已经两周了 但已经解释了这一切 some of them two weeks but have accounted for all that.
如果你把所有的书加起来 大概有42或40本 And if you sum up through all the books you get to about forty two or forty,
三周的阅读 我选择了这个数字因为我觉得我将会在他们出版的路上挑选一大堆书或者他们推荐给我的书都是送给我的 three weeks of reading and I chose that number just because I figured I'm going to be picking up a bunch of books just along the way as they come out or as they'd be recommended to me are gifted to me,
我想给我一些空间和他们一起玩 and I want to have some room for me to play with their.
一年大概读了28本书 so probably read more than twenty eight books in the year.
但是我将要读的2008本书都是非常棒的书我公开出版了这个列表所以如果你想了解林肯的描述 你可以去看看 But the two thousand and eight books that I'm going to be reading are really awesome books that I published that list publicly so you can check it out if you want Lincoln description,
但这就是我正在做的 but that's what I'm doing.
所以我没有读52本书 So instead of reading fifty two books,
我读了三十本 但是三十本很有影响力的书 I read thirty but thirty high impact ones.
所以真的 So really,
这只是战略上的改变 it's just a change in strategy.
我还是会像以前一样阅读 I'm still going to be reading just as much as before.
只是现在 而不是每周都买一本新书 It's just now rather than picking up a new book every week.
有时我会读一些基本的书 我会花一个月的时间读完 Sometimes I'm going to be reading what is essentially for books and one and it'll take me a month to get through.
如果你想知道这有什么不同 So if you're interested to see how this is different,
我从这些书中学到了什么 how this plays out or what I'm learning from these books,
欢迎订阅 喜欢这个视频 feel free to subscribe to feel free to like the video.
如果你喜欢的话 If you enjoy that,
尽管不喜欢它 feel free to dislike it.
如果你没有留下评论 If you didn't leave a comment,
如果你也喜欢阅读 if you enjoy reading as well.
哦 Oh,
是的 yes,
很抱歉这么长时间没有发布视频了 我花了很多时间和朋友和家人在一起 sorry for not posting videos in a little while I have been spending a lot of time with friends and family.
这很好 蒙特利尔银行现在又回来了 It has been pretty wonderful and Bank of Montreal now back in the grind,
所以希望下次看到更多 so expect to see some more here who see next time.