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保罗·格雷厄姆：正确的那种固执·第3则
保罗·格雷厄姆《《正确的那种固执》》· The Right Kind of Stubborn · 领导
If you handed the Collisons an extremely hard problem to solve, they wouldn't become obstinate. If anything they'd become less obstinate. They'd know they had to be open to anything. Similarly, if obstinacy were caused by the situation, the obstinate would stop being obstinate when solving easier problems. But they don't. And if obstinacy isn't caused by the situation, it must come from within. It must be a feature of one's personality. Obstinacy is a reflexive resistance to changing one's ideas. This is not identical with stupidity, but they're closely related. A reflexive resistance to changing one's ideas becomes a sort of induced stupidity as contrary evidence mounts. And obstinacy is a form of not giving up that's easily practiced by the stupid.
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定位：Essay, additional excerpt 3 · 核对日期：2026-10-19 · 核验：短摘录
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如果给科利森兄弟一个极难的问题，他们不会变得固执，反而会更开放。同样，如果固执是情境造成的，那么固执的人在解决简单问题时应该不固执，但事实并非如此。所以固执不是情境造成的，而是来自内心，是性格特征。固执是对改变想法的反射性抵抗，这不等于愚蠢，但密切相关。随着反面证据增多，这种抵抗会变成一种诱导性愚蠢。固执是一种愚蠢的人容易做到的“不放弃”。
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格雷厄姆在《正确的那种固执》中继续论证固执是性格特征，而非情境产物。
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