All the laws of reality were given to us by nature. Man didn’t create these laws, but by understanding them we can use them to foster our own evolution and achieve our goals. For example, our ability to fly or to send cell phone signals around the world came from understanding and applying the existing rules of reality—the physical laws or principles that govern the natural world.
所有现实法则都是大自然赋予我们的。人类并没有创造这些法则，但通过理解它们，我们可以利用它们来促进我们自身的进化并实现我们的目标。例如，我们在世界各地飞行或发送手机信号的能力来自于理解和应用现有的现实规则——支配自然世界的物理定律或原则。

My experience, based on watching thousands of people try this approach, is that with practice the vast majority find it so rewarding and pleasurable that they have a hard time operating any other way.
根据我对成千上万人尝试这种方法的观察，我的经验是，经过实践，绝大多数人发现它是如此有益和愉快，以至于他们很难以任何其他方式进行操作。

You must be willing to do things in the unique ways you think are best– and to open-mindedly reflect on the feedback that comes inevitably as a result of being that way.
你必须愿意以你认为最好的独特方式做事，并以开放的态度反思这种方式不可避免地带来的反馈。

Learning is the product of a continuous real-time feedback loop in which we make decisions, see their outcomes, and improve our understanding of reality as a result. Being radically open-minded enhances the efficiency of those feedback loops, because it makes what you are doing, and why, so clear to yourself and others that there can’t be any misunderstandings. The more open-minded you are, the less likely you are to deceive yourself– and the more likely it is that others will give you honest feedback. If they are “believable” people (and it’s very important to know who is “believable”), you will learn a lot from them.
学习是持续实时反馈循环的产物，在这个循环中我们做出决策、查看其结果并由此提高我们对现实的理解。保持彻底的开放态度可以提高这些反馈循环的效率，因为它使你自己和他人都清楚自己在做什么以及为什么这样做，从而不会产生任何误解。你的思想越开放，你就越不可能欺骗自己，别人就越有可能给你诚实的反馈。如果他们是“可信”的人（知道谁“可信”非常重要），你会从他们身上学到很多东西。

Radical open-mindedness and radical transparency are invaluable for rapid learning and effective change. Learning is the product of a continuous real-time feedback loop in which we make decisions, see their outcomes, and improve our understanding of reality as a result. Being radically open-minded enhances the efficiency of those feedback loops, because it makes what you are doing, and why, so clear to yourself and others that there can’t be any misunderstandings. The more open-minded you are, the less likely you are to deceive yourself— and the more likely it is that others will give you honest feedback. If they are “believable” people (and it’s very important to know who is “believable”), you will learn a lot from them.
彻底的开放思想和彻底的透明度对于快速学习和有效变革来说是无价的。学习是持续实时反馈循环的产物，在这个循环中我们做出决策、查看其结果并由此提高我们对现实的理解。保持彻底的开放态度可以提高这些反馈循环的效率，因为它让你自己和他人都清楚自己在做什么以及为什么这么做，不会有任何误解。你的思想越开放，你就越不可能欺骗自己，别人就越有可能给你诚实的反馈。如果他们是“可信”的人（知道谁“可信”非常重要），你会从他们身上学到很多东西。

Most people fight seeing what’s true when it’s not what they want it to be. That’s bad, because it is more important to understand and deal with the bad stuff since the good stuff will take care of itself.
当事实不是他们想要的那样时，大多数人都不愿意看到真相。这很糟糕，因为理解和处理坏事更重要，因为好事会自行解决。

source:https://www.principles.com/principles/35488158-a0bc-47c0-bc89-050c036d995e/

People who achieve success and drive progress deeply understand the cause-effect relationships that govern reality and have principles for using them to get what they want. The converse is also true: Idealists who are not well grounded in reality create problems, not progress.
取得成功并推动进步的人，是深刻理解支配现实的因果关系，并拥有利用它们来获得自己想要的东西的原则。反之亦然：不立足现实的理想主义者会制造问题，而不是进步。

Understanding, accepting, and working with reality is both practical and beautiful. I have become so much of a hyperrealist that I’ve learned to appreciate the beauty of all realities, even harsh ones, and have come to despise impractical idealism.
理解、接受现实并与现实合作既实用又美好。我已经成为一个超级现实主义者，我学会了欣赏所有现实的美丽，甚至是严酷的现实，并且开始鄙视不切实际的理想主义。

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。

I discovered I could do that by expressing my decision-making criteria in the form of algorithms that I could embed into our computers. By running both decision-making systems–i.e., mine in my head and mine in the computer–next to each other, I learned the computer could make better decisions than me because it could process vastly more information than I could, and it could do it faster and unemotionally. Doing that allowed me and the people I worked with to compound our understanding over time and improve the quality of our collective decision making. I discovered that such decision-making systems–especially when believability weighted–are incredibly powerful and will soon profoundly change how people around the world make all kinds of decisions. Our principle-driven approach to decision making has not only improved our economic, investment, and management decisions, it has helped us make better decisions in every aspect of our lives.
我发现我能够通过以可嵌入到计算机中的算法的形式表达我的决策标准来做到这一点。通过同时运行两个决策系统（即我大脑中的决策系统和计算机中的决策系统），我了解到计算机可以比我做出更好的决策，因为它可以处理比我多得多的信息，而且它可以比我做出更好的决策。可以更快、更冷静地完成这件事。这样做使我和与我一起工作的人随着时间的推移加深了我们的理解并提高了我们集体决策的质量。我发现这样的决策系统——尤其是在考虑可信度时——非常强大，并将很快深刻地改变世界各地人们做出各种决策的方式。我们以原则为导向的决策方法不仅改善了我们的经济、投资和管理决策，还帮助我们在生活的各个方面做出更好的决策。