Brief introduction of the author
Ray Dalio, founder of hedge fund company Bridgewater. He was born in a very ordinary middle-class family in Long Island, new york. At the age of 26, he founded Bridge Water in his two-bedroom apartment. After 42 years of development, Bridgewater ranks fifth in the list of the most important private companies in the United States (Fortune Magazine). He was selected as the most influential person in Time magazine 65,438+000 and the richest person in Forbes magazine 65,438+000. Because his unique investment criteria changed the fund industry, American CIO manager magazine called him "Steve Jobs in the investment field".
I found that the only way I can succeed is:
1. Find the smartest people who have different views from mine, and let me try to understand their reasoning.
Know when you can't have a clear opinion, and don't jump to conclusions.
3. Gradually sum up the eternal and universal principles, test them and make them systematic.
4. Balance risks to maintain large returns and reduce downward fluctuations.
Rui Daglio
The most complicated thing in this world is human nature, which makes people pay attention to rules and principles.
Rules are the laws followed by operation and operation rules.
Rules generally refer to laws and regulations formulated by the masses, recognized or uniformly formulated and adopted by representatives, and all members of the group abide by them. It exists in three forms: explicit rules, implicit rules and meta rules. No matter what kind of rules violate the morality of good and evil, they must pay the price of hell for maintaining world harmony; Ming rules are clearly defined rules, which have limitations and need to be continuously improved; Unspoken rules are rules that have no explicit provisions and no established restrictions, which can make up for the shortcomings of explicit rules; Meta-rule is a rule to solve problems through violent competition, a mixture of good and evil, and an immoral and civilized way.
[Principle] Originally refers to a trigger based on precise definition and normal specification addition and union set. Synonyms include "law", "principle" and "natural history"
A rule or standard, such as a principle, on which to speak or act. A matter of principle. Stick to principles. Basic principles.
Bai once said:
Human nature is extremely complex, there is neither pure good nor pure bad. Everyone has a good side and a bad side, depending on which side of you is activated by the surrounding environmental system and people.
Because of this, our society needs the existence of rules. The rule is not to limit the right to freedom, but to protect everyone's feelings as much as possible.
People can't stand the test.
Human nature can't stand temptation.
From 65438 to 0974, marina abramovic, the "mother of performance art", conducted an experiment to test human nature.
In the exhibition hall, she drugged herself, unable to move, but conscious. There are 72 kinds of props on the table, including guns, bullets, kitchen knives, whips and other dangerous goods.
The audience can manipulate her body with any object at will, and she doesn't fight back.
At first, everyone was very polite to her. As time went on, people became more and more courageous, and began to cut her clothes with scissors, take nude photos, and even cut her body with a knife.
Someone even put a loaded pistol to her head. In the whole violence, Marina was full of fear and despair, because through experiments, she saw the darkest side of human nature.
Scientist Newton once said: I can calculate the orbit of celestial bodies, but I can't calculate the madness of human nature. You can never imagine how terrible the evil hidden in people's bones is.
On the Zhihu, a netizen named "Air Master" shared what he saw and heard:
When I was in college, when the subway came into the station, there was a girl standing next to her, eating chicken chops with a brand.
There is a little boy beside him, pestering his mother to eat chicken chops. The adults said half jokingly, you go and ask your sister to make fried chicken chops for you.
The boy did, but the girl looked at the child and ignored it. Come here for a moment. When the subway came into the station, the little boy suddenly broke away from his mother's hand and ran forward, giving the girl a hard push.
When I stood closer, I grabbed her arm, which saved a life.
Schopenhauer once said: Everyone has some hatred, anger, jealousy, resentment and malice in his heart. These things usually accumulate in his chest, just like the venom stored in the teeth of a poisonous snake, which will burst out at that time.
Many times, people do not actively choose kindness, but are forced to choose kindness because of rules and morality.
The evil in people's hearts is like a dragon, and the rules are the cage that imprisons the dragon. This is the original intention of our need to improve the rules.
There is no rule constraint.
Society will fall into chaos.
I think someone must stand up and question my point of view:
Now let's look at a set of data: every 3 minutes, 1 women in India are subjected to violence;
Every 16 minutes, 1 women are sexually assaulted;
In 20 19, more than 30,000 cases of sexual assault were recorded, with an average of 9 1 a day.
In 20 12, an Indian bus sexual assault case that shocked the world occurred in India;
A 23-year-old girl and her boyfriend got on the black bus after the movie. Six people, including the driver, suddenly got up, knocked the girl's boyfriend unconscious with an iron bar, and then dragged him to the back seat of the carriage for sexual assault.
After committing such a heinous crime, criminals never repent, and even lied that women have greater responsibilities than men and should choose to accept persecution.
What is even more irritating is that the maximum sentence for this type of crime is 10 years, only 10 years, but they destroyed a girl and a family! This is the sorrow of a nation.
This can also explain why the crime rate in India is so high.
National laws and regulations, the prosperity of a country can not be separated from the support of rules, and the harmony of a family needs the support of rules.
If a society has no rules, it will fall into chaos, and of course there will be no future.
People's desires are endless. Only under the premise of clear responsibilities can we build a fairly harmonious society. Humanity does not depend on it, and only rules can contain the darkness of humanity.
The progress of mankind,
Is to keep the beast in a cage.
I have seen such an interesting question:
When the train driver drove to the fork in the road, five children were playing in the lane where his train should be driving. The driver quickly turned to another lane, only to find that there were 1 children playing. what should he do ？
If you keep driving in the same lane, you will kill five children. If you turn to another lane, the child who should not have died will have to bear the burden for the other five children.
For adults, it is obvious that killing five children is an accident and killing another child is murder. No matter what choice, it is wrong.
A father asked his 6-year-old son, and the answer was unexpected. The child replied without thinking: Just run over them.
Why did the child answer so simply? Because in his view, the train running over itself is a game, which does not involve the choice of life.
In children's cognition, everything is right as long as they can meet their own needs and vent their emotions. On the contrary, if adults have such values, they are no different from animals.
Ben Jonson once said: Man's wildness is no different from all kinds of wild animals in the oak forest.
Learn to control your unreasonable desires and choose to obey the rules, which is the biggest difference between humans and animals.
To control one's own animality is not to deprive one of the right to pursue desire, but to control desire within a reasonable and controllable range. Only in this way can human steps go further and further, and human civilization can spread.
Han Feizi said: "If you want to justify your way and follow its rules, everything will be done, everything will have rules, and the negotiators will have rules."
Rules are the foundation of being a man, the foundation of life, the driving force of social development and the source of human progress. All people or groups who ignore the rules will be eliminated.
For the rest of your life, be a good person, be a good person.