Establishing your own principles form 《Principles》
--从《原则》中建立自己的原则
By Green.Wu
这真是一本好书
如果一生只能看一本书，我的选择是Ray Dalio的《Principles》，如果选择阅读方式的话，我的选择是一边用kindle看文字，一边用2.0音箱播放Ray Dalio的音频，当然要看英文原版，如果要问看几遍的话，我希望是一万遍。
作者与书
Ray Dalio是谁？根据本书前言的描述，他所创立的公司当前是美国第五大私营企业（《财富》杂志），他本人是《时代周刊》世界100位最具影响力人物之一、《福布斯》世界前100名富豪榜之一。the fifth most important private company in the U.S. (according to Fortune ), becoming one of the one hundred richest people in the world (according to Forbes ), and being considered one of the one hundred most influential (according to Time ).
《Principles》是一本什么样的书呢？百度搜索“2018年付费电子书新书榜”，它排名第一。豆瓣评分8.7分。纽约时代周刊评出的最卖座书排名第一。原则这本书，总结了21条大原则、139条中原则和365条分原则，涵盖生活原则、工作原则两大方面（未来还将发布投资原则）。
《Principles》是一本讲述真理的书
本书的第一句就是承认自己一无所知，他的所有成功是基于原则的学习与应用：Before I begin telling you what I think, I want to establish that I’m a “dumb shit” who doesn’t know much relative to what I need to know.Whatever success I’ve had in life has had more to do with my knowing how to deal with my not knowing than anything I know. The most important thing I learned is an approach to life based on principles that helps me find out what’s true and what to do about it.
其实，我们身边大多数人是随波逐流：Without principles we would be forced to react to all the things life throws at us individually, as if we were experiencing each of them for the first time. If instead we classify these situations into types and have good principles for dealing with them, we will make better decisions more quickly and have better lives as a result. Having a good set of principles is like having a good collection of recipes for success.
这本书大体上可分成3个部分，第一部分是作者的自传，但不同于一般的自传的是，作者在描述自己投资生涯的经历过程中，加入了大量的自己对问题的思考、对错误的反思，其中不乏经典的语句，例如，我读到的第一句就特别愿意一遍一遍朗读乃至背诵的是：“Time is like a river that carries us forward into encounters with reality that require us to make decisions. We can’t stop our movement down this river and we can’t avoid those encounters. We can only approach them in the best possible way.” 在谈到自己面临职业生涯困境时的选择时，Ray说：“Imagine that in order to have a great life you have to cross a dangerous jungle. You can stay safe where you are and have an ordinary life, or you can risk crossing the jungle to have a terrific life. How would you approach that choice? Take a moment to think about it because it is the sort of choice that, in one form or another, we all have to make.” ，在谈到投资市场的心态时，说：“Because most people are more emotional than logical, they tend to overreact to short-term results; they give up and sell low when times are bad and buy too high when times are good. I find this is just as true for relationships as it is for investments—wise people stick with sound fundamentals through the ups and downs, while flighty people react emotionally to how things feel, jumping into things when they’re hot and abandoning them when they’re not.” 。这些经典语句实在太多了。
当我看到本书第一章第7节回报恩惠“RETURNING THE BOON”时，发现Ray把自己自传的标题和内容与《千面英雄》的英雄的历程完美的结合到一起，突然感到Ray在作书时已然成竹在胸，大格局！不禁在心里暗暗叫了一声—高明！----详见文末的附图。
第二部分是生活原则，第三部分是工作原则。这二部分也不同于一般的科普、财经等非虚构类的书籍，Ray不是给出一些原则性的结论或价值观，而是简洁、具体的分门别类的提供了行动指南，更重要的是指出了这些行动指南背后的逻辑和前提条件。这些大、中、小原则蕴含了Ray在历史、生物、科技、经济、医学等各方面的深厚造诣，这些文字仅仅用眼睛看、用耳朵听是远远不够的，需要用心去体会。
Ray 的生活原则、工作原则，好比《孙子兵法》的36计，博大精深又通俗易懂，然而：知易行难！
我从《Principles》获得的启发
我选择这本书来看，其实是受到得到课程《财务自由之路》的作者李笑来先生的推荐，于是购买了这本书的英文纸质版原版书，并从网上下载到了中文电子版和audiobook原版音频，从第一页开始，我就被书中的内容和Ray的优雅又智慧的声音深深地打动了。在不断的学习、反复的学习后，我制作了一套可以音频、文字同步的课件（Aboboo课件），方便自己及中国的《principles》原版书迷及Ray粉交流学习。
此外，我还利用思维导图软件制作了我的读书笔记，下图是第一章节的精华导图。后续再陆续制作其他部分。
作为Ray迷，我有Ray的资料库。包括Ray的一些经典的音频、视频资源，例如：经济运行的规律（30分钟）、Principles系列动画、Ray的TED演讲、Ray接受Google专访、Ray接受summit专访等各种资源。
