There is nothing more important than understanding how reality works and how to deal with it. The state of mind you bring to this process makes all the difference. I have found it helpful to think of my life as if it were a game in which each problem I face is a puzzle I need to solve. By solving the puzzle, I get a gem in the form of a principle that helps me avoid the same sort of problem in the future. Collecting these gems continually improves my decision making, so I am able to ascend to higher and higher levels of play in which the game gets harder and the stakes become ever greater.
没有什么比了解现实如何运作以及如何应对现实更重要的了。你在这个过程中所表现出的心态会带来很大的不同。我发现把我的生活想象成一场游戏，其中我面临的每个问题都是我需要解决的难题，这很有帮助。通过解决这个难题，我得到了一个原则形式的宝石，可以帮助我避免将来出现同样的问题。收集这些宝石不断改善我的决策能力，因此我能够提升到越来越高的游戏水平，其中游戏变得越来越难，赌注也越来越大。

All sorts of emotions come to me while I am playing and those emotions can either help me or hurt me. If I can reconcile my emotions with my logic and only act when they are aligned, I make better decisions.
当我在玩人生游戏时，各种各样的情绪都会涌向我，这些情绪要么帮助我，要么伤害我。如果我能够协调我的情绪和逻辑，并且只有在它们一致时才采取行动，我会做出更好的决定。

Learning how reality works, visualizing the things I want to create, and then building them out is incredibly exciting to me. Stretching for big goals puts me in the position of failing and needing to learn and come up with new inventions in order to move forward. I find it exhilarating being caught up in the feedback loop of rapid learning–just as a surfer loves riding a wave, even though it sometimes leads to crashes. Don’t get me wrong, I’m still scared of the crashes and I still find them painful. But I keep that pain in perspective, knowing that I will get through these setbacks and that most of my learning will come from reflecting on them. Just as long-distance runners push through pain to experience the pleasure of “runner’s high,” I have largely gotten past the pain of my mistake making and instead enjoy the pleasure that comes with learning from it. I believe that with practice you can change your habits and experience the same “mistake learner’s high.”
了解现实是如何运作的，想象我想要创造的东西，然后将它们建造出来，这对我来说是非常令人兴奋的。为大目标而努力让我处于失败的境地，需要学习和想出新的发明才能继续前进。我发现陷入快速学习的反馈循环中是令人兴奋的——就像冲浪者喜欢冲浪一样，尽管有时会导致崩溃。别误会我的意思，我仍然害怕崩溃，并且仍然觉得它们很痛苦。但我会正确看待这种痛苦，因为我知道我会度过这些挫折，并且我的大部分学习将来自对它们的反思。就像长跑运动员克服痛苦来体验“跑步者的高潮”的快乐一样，我基本上已经摆脱了犯错误的痛苦，而是享受从中学习所带来的快乐。我相信，通过练习，你可以改变你的习惯，并体验同样的“错误学习者的快乐”。

source:https://www.principles.com/principles/8b086563-5bb4-4741-8713-c62bd1a0d749/