7 Things I Learned Reading 50 Books A Year For 7 Years7年读300多本书，我学到的这7件事，分享给你

我们总是通过阅读来反省生活，但你有没有反省过“阅读”这一活动本身呢？书籍的选择、阅读的目的、阅读的收获等等都是值得思考的事项。快来听听这位每年读超过五十本书的作者聊他的阅读心得吧。

I've read over 300 books since the beginning of 2011, not counting the many I started but didn't finish and the endless content we all read online. I've read about topics ranging from Buddhism to business, philosophy to physics, and writers ranging from feminists to pick-up artists. I've read a lot of books from which I got nothing and a handful of books I still love. Here's what I've learned in all that reading time.

从2011年初开始，我已经阅读了300本书，这还不算很多看到一半就不看的书以及在网上阅读的内容。我读书涉猎甚广，从佛学到商业，从哲学到物理，无所不包；我既读女权主义者的书，也读搭讪艺术家的书。我读过的很多书都让人一无所获，但也有一些我至今仍然喜爱。下面是我在阅读中了解到的事。

1. Truly good books are few and far between — and so they're priceless
2. 真正的好书十分罕见，因此都是无价之宝
   
   The are two camps of “good books” and both of them are rare. The first is good content. They deliver a message that stands on its own. The writing only needs to be good enough to allow you to follow. The second is good craft. It doesn't matter as much what the content is because the writing is so goddamn beautiful it all but sings off the page. When it comes to choosing between them, I prefer the former over the latter. The truly good book is a thing to cherish.

有两种“好书”都十分罕见。第一种书是内容质量非常高的书。书籍传递的内容十分独特。文笔只要能够让人理解即可。第二种书是文笔极佳的书。这种书已经无关是什么内容的了，因为文采斐然、笔歌墨舞，足以引人入胜。如果非要在这两种书之间选一种，我会选择前一种。真正的好书都是值得珍藏的。

1. Conversely: there's a lot of garbage out there
2. 与第一条相对的，书中也有很多垃圾
   
   My least favorite books are what I call “bullshit business books” — the theoretical fluff written by people who have never directly done the thing. The authors have read about others doing the thing, and they make it their business to compile all the notes they've seen from other people's actual businesses. I read a truly unfortunate number of these books before I got fed up enough to swear them off forever, like dumping that big-talk lover who promises you the moon but just leaves dirty laundry everywhere.

我最不喜欢的书籍就是被我称为“胡话连篇的商业书”——都是些由毫无实战经验的人写成的浅显理论。这些书的作者只是读到过别人做的事，就把他人的经商经验编写成书。在我厌倦读这类书并发誓再也不读之前，我确实读过很多。这种感觉就像是和爱说大话的恋人分手一样，明明说要为你摘星辰，却只留你一地脏衣服。

1. Reading easily becomes just another form of consumption — and procrastination
2. 阅读很容易变成另一种形式的消费和拖延
   
   There are studies about how all the most successful people read voraciously. It disappoints me that we perpetuate this nonsense. I'm not saying successful people don't read. But reading isn't the secret to success. I started and built my own business in late 2015. I had read dozens of books on marketing and entrepreneurship and customer segmentation and sales and product and design. But when it came to decision-making, the biggest impact was just doing it. At some point, “research” is just a distraction from real tasks.

有研究表明成功人士是如何大量阅读的。很遗憾，我们一直相信这种鬼话。我不是说成功人士不读书。但是，阅读不是成功的秘密。2015年末的时候，我开始创业。我读过很多关于市场、创业、细分客户、销售、产品和设计的书。但是，当真正开始做决定时，最大的影响就是做这件事。在某种程度上，“研究”会分散你对实际任务的注意力。

1. If you're reading for growth, read to get answers on specific questions
2. 如果你是为了成长而阅读，那么请在阅读时获取特定问题的答案
   
   From books for healing to engineering books to resolve a design question, books are an excellent resource for specific questions. Once you get enough of an answer to act on, stop reading and start doing. Otherwise it becomes “an academic exercise”.

无论是用于治愈心灵的图书，还是用于解决设计问题的工程类图书，书籍都是某些特定问题的最佳资源。一旦你获得的答案足以让你行动，就停止阅读，开始做事。否则，这就变成了一次“学术活动”。

1. Listen to people who have actually, firsthand experienced the thing
2. 听听拥有亲身实战经验的人怎么说
   
   My favorite types of books are autobiographies and memoirs from people I admire. I'll take any autobiography over any biography. I want to get to know the person. I want their thought process. I'll take a firsthand account with mediocre writing over flowery garbage that says nothing any day.

我最喜欢的图书类型是我钦佩之人的自传和回忆录。我认为自传的价值比任何传记都要高。我想要了解这个人，想要了解他的思维过程。我宁愿看文辞平淡的第一手叙述，也不想要辞藻华丽、空洞无物的文本。

1. Context and timing is king
2. 环境和时机是王道
   
   When I first tried to wander in philosophy in my early 20’s, I felt like I'd walked into the middle of a heated debate with big words and no context. But when I came back to philosophy a few years later, with very specific questions I wanted answers, I had a much more fruitful experience.

在我二十多岁刚接触哲学时，我感觉自己进入了一个激烈争辩的世界，这个世界里大话连篇，空洞无物。但是几年之后，当我重新去读哲学之时心中带着特定的问题，并希望能寻得答案，因此，这次阅读就变得极有收获了。

1. No writing can be totally objective
2. 没有一种写作是完全客观的
   
   Writers are people. Be careful what you read. No matter your viewpoints, you can find a writer who agrees. That doesn't make any opinion — yours included — right. And we have to remember this while reading, especially when we're looking for “answers to questions” and already have an idea of what answer we want. Similarly, it might be tempting to forget that any single piece of work is only the viewpoint of a single person. It's  only their lived experience.

作者也是人。留心你所阅读的东西。不管你持有什么观点，都能找到一个与你意见相同的作者。但这并不意味着有哪种观点（包括你的观点在内）就是正确的了。我们在阅读过程中需要记住这一点，尤其是当我们带着问题在书中寻找答案并且已经知道自己想要什么答案的时候。同样地，人们可能会忘记，任何一件作品都只是一个人的观点。这只是他们的生活经验而已。

正所谓“一日不读书，尘生其中，两日不读书，言语乏味，三日不读书，面目可憎。” 看完这位作者的阅读心得，你对哪些深有同感，又对哪些不以为然呢？快到评论区发表自己的观点吧~