笔记

Hopefully, the stories in this book underscore the idea that boundless possibilities result from extracting yourself from your comfort zone, being willing to fail, having a healthy disregard for the impossible, and seizing every opportunity to be fabulous. Yes, these actions inject chaos into your life and keep you off-balance. But they also take you places you couldn’t even have imagined and provide a lens through which to see problems as opportunities. Above all, they give you growing confidence that problems can be solved.

1. 企业家精神（可以这么翻不？），在《小狗钱钱》里也有提到。所谓entrepreneurship指的是一种发现问题并积极解决问题的能力，一种不被条框约束、发挥想象力、突破界限去解决问题的能力。对entrepreneur来讲，问题意味着机遇，而不是像普通人一样，视问题为洪水猛兽，躲之不及，而这种思维方式也是与我们从小受到的教育（避免出现问题）相关的。
摘抄：An entrepreneur is someone who is always on the lookout for problems that can be turned into opportunities and finds creative ways to leverage limited resources to reach their goals.
Action：改变思维定式。生活里充满了机遇。Every day you should act like a foreign traveler by being acutely aware of your environment.

2.界限。我们都是井底的青蛙，自己画地为牢。我们用职业、性别、星座等各种标签在定义自己。我们自己圈定了自己能做什么、不能做什么。本书的概念是，没有什么是不可能的。Be crazy. Have a healthy disregard for the impossible. Think as big as possible.
摘抄：We always make our own prisons, with rules that we each create for ourselves, locking us into specific roles and out of an endless array of possibilities. The sole rule is that you are limited only by your energy and imagination.
Action：打破规则。有时走走小路，绕绕道，反而会看到更美的风景。自发的去发现，去抓住机会，而不是等待别人把机会递到你手上。Think wild。

3. 关于打破规则。
Rules are often meant to be broken. This idea is captured in the oft-used phrase “Don’t ask for permission, but beg for forgiveness.”
Sometimes side roads around the rules can get you to your goal even when the traditional paths appear blocked.
“All the cool stuff happens when you do things that are not the automatic next step.”
It is better to know the few things that are really against the rules than to focus on the many things you think you should do. This is also a reminder of the big difference between rules and recommendations. Once you whittle away the recommendations, there are often many fewer rules than you imagined.
Another way to break the rules is to break free of expectations you have for yourself and that others have for you.

4. 关于Brainstorming。The concept that there are no bad ideas is a hallmark of good brainstorming. Brainstorming is about breaking out of conventional approaches to solving a problem. You should feel free to flip ideas upside down, to turn them inside out, and to cut loose from the chains of normalcy.
It is important to remember that idea generation involves exploration of the landscape of possibilities. It doesn’t cost any money to generate wild ideas, and there is no need to commit to any of them. The goal is to break the rules by imagining a world where the laws of nature are different and all constraints are removed. Once this phase is complete, it is appropriate to move on to the “exploitation” phase, where you select some of the ideas to explore further. At that time you can view the ideas with a more critical eye.
Crazy is a good thing. Most ideas, even if they look silly or stupid on the surface, often have at least a seed of potential. It helps to challenge the assumption that ideas are either good or bad, and demonstrates that, with the right frame of mind, you can look at most ideas or situations and find something valuable.

5.不要害怕犯错。不自己去做，去不断尝试，是学不到东西的。There is strong evidence that the ratio between our individual successes and failures stays the same. Therefore, if you want more successes, you’re going to have to be willing to live with more failures. Failure is the flip side of success, and you can’t have one without the other. On the most basic level, all learning comes from failure. It is also nearly impossible to learn anything without doing it yourself, by experimenting along the way, and by recovering from the inevitable failures. The key to success is not dodging every bullet but being able to recover quickly. A successful career is not a straight line but a wave with ups and downs. The temporary dip is actually a setup for the next rise. Look at the progress of your career as moving around and up a three-dimensional pyramid, as opposed to up a two-dimensional ladder.

6.分析一件事的风险值，考虑所有可能的结果，每个结果的风险，以及应对措施。好的决定充分的考虑了风险，但不一定就有好的结果。为什么，因为风险在。If you do take a risk and happen to fail, remember that you personally are not a failure. The failure is external. This perspective will allow you to get up and try again and again. Failure is a natural part of the learning process. If you aren’t failing sometimes, then you probably aren’t taking enough risks.

7.知道何时放弃。You need to know when to stop pounding on an idea that isn’t working and when to move on to something new. Because even great ideas require a tremendous amount of work to reach a successful outcome, it’s incredibly hard to know when to keep pushing on a problem, hoping for a breakthrough, and when to walk away. Quitting is actually incredibly empowering. It’s a reminder that you control the situation and can leave whenever you like. Sometimes quitting is the bravest alternative, because it requires you to face your failures and announce them publicly.
怎么做：Listen to your gut and look at your alternatives. Essentially, you have to negotiate honestly with yourself. Do you have the fortitude to push through the problems in front of you to reach a successful outcome, or are you better off taking another path?
别忘了好聚好散。When you quit, you do so with careful thought about the consequences for those around you. Thinking about how you want to tell the story in the future is a great way to assess your response to dilemmas in general. Craft the story now so you’ll be proud to tell it later.

8.乔布斯被苹果开掉的故事。坏事可以是好事，看你怎么看。We choose how we view the world around us. The environment is filled with flaws and flowers, and we each decide which to embrace.
Failures can serve as incredible opportunities in disguise. Turn what seemed like a terrible situation into a period of extreme productivity and creativity. For most successful people, the bottom is lined with rubber as opposed to concrete. When they hit bottom, they sink in for a bit and then bounce back, tapping into the energy of the impact to propel them into another opportunity.

9.对孩子教育的启发。Rewarding only successes can stifle innovation because it discourages risk taking.

10.理想的职业。The sweet spot is where your passions overlap with your skills and the market. The goal should be a career in which you can’t believe people actually pay you to do your job. We simply tend to work harder at things we’re passionate about. The process of finding the gold mine where your skills, interests, and the market collide can take some time.
职业规划也是trial and error。Finding the right roles requires experimenting along the way, trying lots of different alternatives, testing the messages you get both explicitly and implicitly from the world, and pushing back on those that just don’t feel right. You never know when your experiences will prove to be valuable.
作者的经历：I took detours that might look to others like a waste of time. But this wasn’t the case at all. Not only did the twists in my path give me a fresh perspective on my goals, they also gave me time to experiment with options that helped confirm what I wanted to do.
I felt like a leaf in the wind, ready for any eventuality. It was exciting and scary. It was the first time I didn’t have a specific assignment, a focused goal, or a clear plan. Although often stressful, it was the perfect way to figure out what I really wanted to do.
Being too set on your path too early will likely lead you in the wrong direction.
People who are close to you often expect you to make decisions about your career path and stick with them. They want you to be a “fire and forget” missile that zeros in on a target and pursues it relentlessly. But this just isn’t how things work. Most people change course many times before finding the best match for their skills and interests.
There are so many unexpected experiences ahead that it’s best to keep your eyes open instead of blinding yourself to the serendipitous options that might present themselves. Planning a career should be like traveling in a foreign country.
The things you’re likely to remember from the journey are those that weren’t on your original schedule.

看中一份职业应该看中它提供给你的机会。

11.关于luck。“There’s no such thing as luck. It’s all hard work.”
“lucky people” share traits that tend to make them luckier than others. First, lucky people take advantage of chance occurrences that come their way.
Lucky people are also open to novel opportunities and willing to try things outside of their usual experiences.
They’re more inclined to pick up a book on an unfamiliar subject, to travel to less familiar destinations, and to interact with people who are different than themselves.
Lucky people also tend to be optimistic and to expect good things to happen to them.
Lucky people tend to be extraverted.
In short, being observant, open-minded, friendly, and optimistic invites luck your way.

12.很棒的故事：She invited me to lunch for an interview, but before we’d even ordered she said, “I just want to tell you that you’re not a good match for this organization. You’re just too pushy.” I felt tears welling up and had to think fast to pull out of the tailspin. I apologized, told her I appreciated the feedback, and said that most people would call me high energy and enthusiastic. I told her it was helpful to know I had inadvertently misrepresented myself. Clearly, my enthusiasm had been misinterpreted. The tension melted, we had a fascinating conversation, and I walked away with a job offer.

13.关于negotiation。
The key to a successful negotiation is to ferret out everyone’s interests so you can maximize the outcome for everyone. This is easier said than done, since most people hold their interests close to the vest, believing this gives them a stronger negotiating position. But oftentimes this strategy is misguided, because in actuality what you want might be right in line with what the other party wants.
Don’t walk into any negotiation with a clearly defined plan, but instead listen to what’s said by the other party and figure out what drives them. Doing so will help you craft a positive outcome for both sides.
The most important outcome of any negotiation is to get to the next negotiation. The first deal is just the beginning.
There are some cases that offer no win-win solution, and it’s actually better to walk away.
Many of us hold to the mistaken assumption that any deal is better than walking away. This certainly isn’t always the case, and walking away from a deal should always be considered a viable option.
The best way to know whether you should walk away from a deal is to understand your other choices, so you can accurately compare them to the deal at hand.

14.Help Others.
Another valuable skill is the art of helping others.
Unfortunately, most of us spend so much time in situations where we’re encouraged to win at someone else’s expense that it’s hard to get practice helping others.
Almost everything in life is done in teams, and those who don’t know how to make others successful are at a huge disadvantage. The best team players go to great lengths to make others successful. In fact, the higher you reach within an organization, the less important your individual contributions become. Instead, your job becomes leading, inspiring, and motivating others. Most of your work is done by colleagues tasked with implementing your ideas.
The idea is that you should pick the most talented person you can—the arrow—and then craft the job—the target—around what he or she does best. If you allow really talented people to do what they do best, then the results are astonishing.

15.Do the “right” thing instead of doing the “smart” thing. There is a significant difference between doing the right thing and rationalizing a decision that’s best for you.

16.Be fabulous. Being fabulous implies making the decision to go beyond what’s expected at all times.
The collection of missed opportunities adds up, leading to a huge deficit.
There’s a big difference between trying to do something and actually doing it. We often say we’re trying to do something—losing weight, getting more exercise, finding a job. But the truth is, we’re either doing it or not doing it.
Excuses are irrelevant.
We use excuses to cover up the fact that we didn’t put in the required effort to deliver.
Even if you feel obliged to make excuses to others, you shouldn’t make them to yourself.

17.You shouldn’t take yourself too seriously nor judge others too harshly.

18.Most things in life, especially our failures, aren’t as important as we think they are at the time.

19.Success is sweet but transient.

20.Uncertainty is the essence of life, and it fuels opportunity.

21.Those who are successful find ways to make themselves successful. There is no recipe, no secret handshake, and no magic potion. Each person he studied has a story as unique as a fingerprint. The consistent theme is that they each pay attention to current trends and leverage their own skills to build their influence. They find ways to sway history, as opposed to waiting for history to sway them.
Seize opportunities instead of waiting for someone to hand them to you. The world is divided into people who wait for others to give them permission to do the things they want to do and people who grant themselves permission. Some look inside themselves for motivation and others wait to be pushed forward by outside forces.

22.Real life is the ultimate open book exam. The doors are thrown wide open, allowing you to draw on endless resources around you as you tackle open-ended problems related to work, family, friends, and the world at large. 生活才是一场终极考试，运用你的能力、资源去解决各种问题。

23.those of us with a fixed mind-set about what we’re good at are much less likely to be successful in the long run than those with a growth mind-set. Her work focuses on our attitude about ourselves. Those with a fixed image about what they can do are much less likely to take risks that might shake that image. But those with a growth mind-set are typically open to taking risks and tend to work harder to reach their objectives. They’re willing to try new things that push their abilities, opening up entirely new arenas along the way.

24.解决问题第一步：识别问题。“If we clearly define a problem, the solution will logically present itself.”在《佐藤可士和的超级整理术》里也提到这个概念。

25.相信自己能够解决问题。解决问题越多，越有自信，良性循环。（也是成功日记的意义吧）