读 Derek Sivers: Anything You Want

初稿：2020年07月19日

现在时间是2020-07-19 15:29:57，周日的下午，在一个书店。

这本书是 Derek Sivers，就放在他的博客上，可以免费来读，当然我也下载了电子版，他说只需要1个小时就能读完，我试试，不在电子书上记录笔记，我就把这一些都记录在这里。作为一种新的尝试。

书的地址：https://sivers.org/a

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补：2020年08月01日18:50:34，我发现使用这种方式来阅读，是一种非常棒的享受，慢慢读，大量的时间都花在了自己去想东西上了，读书实际上花的时间并不多。

最近在学习翻译，并翻译一些文章来试验，给了我一些新的启发。翻译是为了把英语翻译成中文，便于理解。那么我实际上可以使用同样的概念，将中文的意思翻译给自己。很多中文的字面意思，只是识字而已，并没有深究自己对这句话意思，哪些概念一知半解。

对一些好书，实际上是可以这样来读的。逐句逐段的来读。很多中文的句子实际上也需要自己翻译给自己，翻译到自己心里。

我在将这种方法应用到我当下的阅读学习中。不追求快，追求理解。

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补：2020年08月10日21:17:57，从上周五晚上，一直到今晚，我把 Derek 刚发的两本书听完了，每本都听了有2个半小时。

这是我第一次买电子版的书，本来只买了一本的，后来 Derek 网站的发货系统出了点问题，就把两本书都发过来了。有文字版和他本人的录音版。

我一边听一边看，用听的速度来强迫自己不听下来，是很好的一种体验。非常好的两本书。过段时间，我会逐章读完，然后做一些自己的笔记。

Derek 新书的地址见，https://sive.rs/。我把他的 Anything You Want，Your Music and People，Hell Yeah or No，这三本读完了。今年他应该还能完成一本书，即How to Live，希望今年能读到。

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1

I’m pretty unusual, so what works for me might not work for others.

guru 导师

2

compass 指南针

Most people don’t know why they’re doing what they’re doing.

Don’t be on your deathbed someday, having squandered your one chance at life, full of regret because you pursued little distractions instead of big dreams.

utopia 乌托邦

moot 没多少意义

The real point of doing anything is to be happy, so do only what makes you happy.

3

play a gig 现场演奏

produce records 制作唱片

circus 马戏团

record label 唱片公司

with deep pockets

It’s not that distributors were evil. It was just an awful system, and I wanted nothing to do with it.

I didn’t know any programming, but I copied some examples from a programming book, with lots of trial and error.

我：他从不会编程，但是认为原有的唱片分发系统不好，所以想要自己弄一个。

4

distributor 分销商，批发公司

That’s it! That was my mission. I liked it. It was a worthy hobby. I named it CD Baby, and put my friends’ CDs there.

When you make a business, you get to make a little universe where you control all the laws. This is your utopia.

5

You set the selling price at whatever you want. We keep a flat $4 cut. And we pay you every week.

album 唱片

those same two numbers were the sole source of income for the company: a $35 setup fee per album and a $4 cut per CD sold.

A business plan should never take more than a few hours of work. Hopefully no more than a few minutes. The best plans start simple. A quick glance and common sense should tell you if the numbers will work. The rest are details.

6

a quirky person 奇怪的人

true love

But if you think true love looks like Romeo and Juliet, you’ll overlook a great relationship that grows slowly.

If you think your life’s purpose needs to hit you like a lightning bolt, you’ll overlook the little day-to-day things that fascinate you.

If you think revolution needs to feel like war, you’ll overlook the importance of simply serving people better.

我：人很容易将商业比作革命，但是忽视了小小的，不断的发展。

7

For the first time in my life, I had made something that people really wanted.

It always felt like an uphill battle, trying to open locked or slamming doors.

resonates with people 和人们共鸣

Present each new idea or improvement to the world.

Don’t waste years fighting uphill battles against locked doors. Improve or invent until you get that huge response.

我：将自己做的东西推向世界，然后让人们来评判，如果反响不大，就不要太投入。再找其他的想法，推行，改进。

8

If you’re not saying “HELL YEAH!” about something, say “no”.

When deciding whether to do something, if you feel anything less than “Wow! That would be amazing! Absolutely! Hell yeah!” — then say “no.”

Every event you get invited to. Every request to start a new project. If you’re not saying “HELL YEAH!” about it, say “no.”

我：这个准则不止可以用于别人的邀请，也可以用于自己为自己选择的事，选择哪些最喜欢的事情来做。

We’re all busy. We’ve all taken on too much. Saying yes to less is the way out.