整理 / 意译
Naval · @naval
· 2018-05-31
如何致富(不靠运气):完整推文串整理
这是 Naval 最具影响力的长推文串之一:把「致富」拆成财富定义、股权与规模、伙伴选择、具体知识、杠杆与判断力。以下为中文整理/意译,非官方译文。
整理说明
本文为对 Naval Ravikant(@naval)公开帖子的中文整理/意译与结构重组,并非 Naval 官方中文译本。观点、产品与语境可能随时间变化;请以原帖为准。
1. 财富、金钱与地位
- 追求财富,而非金钱或地位。财富是能在你睡觉时仍替你赚钱的资产;金钱是转移时间与财富的媒介;地位是你在社会等级中的位置。
- 要明白合乎伦理的创造财富是可能的。如果你暗中鄙视财富,它就会躲开你。
- 忽略玩地位游戏的人——他们靠攻击创造财富的人来抬高自己的地位。
2. 股权、规模与长期主义
- 靠出租时间很难致富。你必须拥有股权(生意的一部分),才能获得财务自由。
- 致富之道:给社会它想要、但还不知道如何获得的东西——并以规模化的方式交付。
- 选择一个能与长期的人一起玩长期游戏的行业。
- 互联网极大拓宽了职业可能性,多数人还没意识到。
- 玩可重复的博弈。人生中财富、关系与知识的回报,都来自复利。
3. 伙伴与能力组合
- 挑选合作伙伴时看:高智力、高能量,以及最重要的——正直。
- 不要与愤世嫉俗者和悲观者合伙;他们的信念会自我实现。
- 学会销售,学会构建。两者都能做到,你将势不可挡。
4. 具体知识、问责与杠杆
- 武装自己:具体知识(Specific Knowledge)、问责(Accountability)、杠杆(Leverage)。
- 具体知识是无法被培训出来的知识。社会若能培训你,也能培训别人来取代你。
- 具体知识来自追随真实的好奇心与热情,而非追逐风口。
- 构建具体知识对你像玩耍,对别人却像工作。
- 具体知识若被传授,多通过学徒制,而非学校。
- 具体知识往往高度技术性或创造性,难以外包或自动化。
- 拥抱问责:以自己的名义承担商业风险。社会会以责任、股权与杠杆回报你。
- 最有问责感的人,拥有单一、公开且带风险的个人品牌(如 Oprah、Elon 等)。
5. 杠杆:资本、人力、代码与媒体
- 阿基米德:「给我一根足够长的杠杆和一个支点,我就能撬动地球。」
- 财富需要杠杆。商业杠杆来自:资本、人力,以及边际复制成本接近零的产品(代码与媒体)。
- 资本即金钱。要融资:运用具体知识 + 问责,并展示良好判断。
- 人力是最古老、争夺最激烈的杠杆。它能让父母印象深刻,但别把一生耗在追逐它上。
- 资本与人力是需许可的杠杆——有人必须把钱给你、有人必须追随你。
- 代码与媒体是无需许可的杠杆,是新富阶层背后的力量:软件与媒体可在你睡觉时工作。
- 数据中心里「打包」着一支机器人军队——去使用它。
- 若不会写代码,就写书与博客、录视频与播客。
- 杠杆是判断力的放大器;判断力需要经验,但可通过学习基础技能加速积累。
6. 学习、时间与执行
- 没有叫「商业」的技能。少看商业杂志、少上商业课。
- 学习:微观经济学、博弈论、心理学、说服、伦理、数学、计算机。
- 阅读快于聆听;动手快于旁观。
- 应该忙到没空「喝咖啡聊天」,同时仍保持清爽的日程。
- 设定并执行一个有野心的个人时薪:低于此时薪的问题可忽略;外包成本更低则外包。
- 尽可能努力工作——尽管「和谁做、做什么」往往比「多努力」更重要。
- 成为你所做之事的世界第一;不断重新定义「你所做之事」,直到这句话为真。
- 没有快速致富捷径——那只是别人从你身上致富。
- 运用具体知识与杠杆,最终你会得到应得的。
- 当你终于富有时,会发现那并不是你最初真正追求的东西——但那是另一天的话题。
原帖顺序(英文)
根帖:x.com/naval/status/1002103360646823936
- #1 · 原帖How to Get Rich (without getting lucky):
- #2 · 原帖Seek wealth, not money or status. Wealth is having assets that earn while you sleep. Money is how we transfer time and wealth. Status is your place in the social hierarchy.
- #3 · 原帖Understand that ethical wealth creation is possible. If you secretly despise wealth, it will elude you.
- #4 · 原帖Ignore people playing status games. They gain status by attacking people playing wealth creation games.
- #5 · 原帖You’re not going to get rich renting out your time. You must own equity - a piece of a business - to gain your financial freedom.
- #6 · 原帖You will get rich by giving society what it wants but does not yet know how to get. At scale.
- #7 · 原帖Pick an industry where you can play long term games with long term people.
- #8 · 原帖The Internet has massively broadened the possible space of careers. Most people haven't figured this out yet.
- #9 · 原帖Play iterated games. All the returns in life, whether in wealth, relationships, or knowledge, come from compound interest.
- #10 · 原帖Pick business partners with high intelligence, energy, and, above all, integrity.
- #11 · 原帖Don't partner with cynics and pessimists. Their beliefs are self-fulfilling.
- #12 · 原帖Learn to sell. Learn to build. If you can do both, you will be unstoppable.
- #13 · 原帖Arm yourself with specific knowledge, accountability, and leverage.
- #14 · 原帖Specific knowledge is knowledge that you cannot be trained for. If society can train you, it can train someone else, and replace you.
- #15 · 原帖Specific knowledge is found by pursuing your genuine curiosity and passion rather than whatever is hot right now.
- #16 · 原帖Building specific knowledge will feel like play to you but will look like work to others.
- #17 · 原帖When specific knowledge is taught, it’s through apprenticeships, not schools.
- #18 · 原帖Specific knowledge is often highly technical or creative. It cannot be outsourced or automated.
- #19 · 原帖Embrace accountability, and take business risks under your own name. Society will reward you with responsibility, equity, and leverage.
- #20 · 原帖The most accountable people have singular, public, and risky brands: Oprah, Trump, Kanye, Elon.
- #21 · 原帖“Give me a lever long enough, and a place to stand, and I will move the earth.” - Archimedes
- #22 · 原帖Fortunes require leverage. Business leverage comes from capital, people, and products with no marginal cost of replication (code and media).
- #23 · 原帖Capital means money. To raise money, apply your specific knowledge, with accountability, and show resulting good judgment.
- #24 · 原帖Labor means people working for you. It's the oldest and most fought-over form of leverage. Labor leverage will impress your parents, but don’t waste your life chasing it.
- #25 · 原帖Capital and labor are permissioned leverage. Everyone is chasing capital, but someone has to give it to you. Everyone is trying to lead, but someone has to follow you.
- #26 · 原帖Code and media are permissionless leverage. They're the leverage behind the newly rich. You can create software and media that works for you while you sleep.
- #27 · 原帖An army of robots is freely available - it's just packed in data centers for heat and space efficiency. Use it.
- #28 · 原帖If you can't code, write books and blogs, record videos and podcasts.
- #29 · 原帖Leverage is a force multiplier for your judgement.
- #30 · 原帖Judgement requires experience, but can be built faster by learning foundational skills.
- #31 · 原帖There is no skill called “business.” Avoid business magazines and business classes.
- #32 · 原帖Study microeconomics, game theory, psychology, persuasion, ethics, mathematics, and computers.
- #33 · 原帖Reading is faster than listening. Doing is faster than watching.
- #34 · 原帖You should be too busy to “do coffee," while still keeping an uncluttered calendar.
- #35 · 原帖Set and enforce an aspirational personal hourly rate. If fixing a problem will save less than your hourly rate, ignore it. If outsourcing a task will cost less than your hourly rate, outsource it.
- #36 · 原帖Work as hard as you can. Even though who you work with and what you work on are more important than how hard you work.
- #37 · 原帖Become the best in the world at what you do. Keep redefining what you do until this is true.
- #38 · 原帖There are no get rich quick schemes. That's just someone else getting rich off you.
- #39 · 原帖Apply specific knowledge, with leverage, and eventually you will get what you deserve.
- #40 · 原帖When you're finally wealthy, you'll realize that it wasn't what you were seeking in the first place. But that's for another day.