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保罗·格雷厄姆《《如何做出伟大的工作》》· How to Do Great Work · 成长 · 认知 · 行动 · 领导

This is particularly true for behavior. Some talented people are jerks, and this sometimes makes it seem to the inexperienced that being a jerk is part of being talented. It isn't; being talented is merely how they get away with it. One of the most powerful kinds of copying is to copy something from one field into another. History is so full of chance discoveries of this type that it's probably worth giving chance a hand by deliberately learning about other kinds of work. You can take ideas from quite distant fields if you let them be metaphors. Negative examples can be as inspiring as positive ones. In fact you can sometimes learn more from things done badly than from things done well; sometimes it only becomes clear what's needed when it's missing.

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定位:Essay, additional excerpt 6 · 核对日期:2026-10-19 · 核验:短摘录

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行为上尤其如此。有些有才华的人很混蛋,这让没经验的人误以为有才就得混蛋。其实不是,才华只是让他们逃过了后果。最有力的模仿之一,是把一个领域的东西搬到另一个领域。历史上这种偶然发现太多,所以值得主动学点别的行当,给偶然搭把手。只要把想法当隐喻,再远的领域也能借。反面例子和正面例子一样有启发;有时从做得差的东西里学得更多,因为缺了什么,才看清需要什么。

上下文

格雷厄姆讨论模仿与学习,提醒不要模仿坏行为,并鼓励跨领域借鉴和从失败中学习。

今日一问

你可以从哪个完全不相干的领域借一个比喻,来解决手头的问题?

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