Time is like a river that carries us forward into encounters with reality that require us to make decisions. -Ray Dalio
时间就像一条河流，载着我们顺流而下，遇到现实，需要决策。——瑞 达利欧
人生究竟是什么？每个人都有自己的答案。以前有一个老领导说，过日子就是麻烦，不停的遇到各种各样的麻烦，解决了又遇到下一个。我不认同他说法中负面的成分，但我理解他的意思，对我来说人生就是不断地解决问题和做出选择。
About what is life, everyone has their own answers. One of my former leaders said that life meant trouble. He kept meeting all kinds of troubles and met the next one after solving one. I don't agree with the negative in his statement, but I get his point. For me, life is about constantly solving problems and making choices.
有一次在看相亲节目的时候和老爸聊到，我说，人的性格能从他的选择中看出来。他做出的某项决定是怎样的，他是以怎样的状态去选择，他是否独立地做决定，都可以看出很多这个人的性格痕迹。我们每个人，都是由自己的无数选择而构成的。
I once talked with my dad when watching a blind date show. I said that a person's character can be seen from his choices. What was the decision he made, what kind of state he was in when chose, whether he made the decision independently or not, we can tell a lot of traces of this person's character. Each of us is built by our own countless choices.
一个选择的分歧，可能只会有小小的差异，但在无数个选择之后，我与“我”之间可能天差地别。当然，事实上，很多时候做出选择的我们背后，是所有经历拼凑而成的自我观念。正因为我是我，才会做出这样的选择，才会成为而今的我。
There may be only a tiny difference in one choice, but after countless choices, there may be a huge difference between me and "I". Surely, in fact, most of the time, it is the self-outlooks made up of all our experiences that behind our choices. Just because I am me, I make such choices and become who I am now.
但我们也可能被其他人的“原则”所影响。就好像我翻开《原则》这本书，我可能会对有一些原则感同身受，对于一些无感（我还没有遇到能触发这些原则的经历），并且反对某几条（我的经历让我无法认同）。我看到的这些原则，可能会成为意识或潜意识的一部分，在下一次需要做出决定的时候，成为影响因素，正向的，或者负向的。
But we can also be influenced by other people's "principles". Like when I open the Book Principles, I may feel the same for some principles, be insensitive for some else (I haven't had the experiences that can trigger these principles), and oppose a few (my experiences make me unable to identify with them). The principles I read may become part of the conscious or subconscious, and the next time a decision needs to be made, they will become influencing factors, positive or negative.
总结自己的原则也很实用。虽然我们已做出的选择可能看似不错，人生的前端看似平坦，但如果只靠运气或直觉，那就是没有方向也无法控制方向的船。没有外力、天气上佳，于是你顺流而下，但一旦有人挖渠、暴雨倾盆，那就相当可怕。这也是我们去看、去听、去问、去更多经历的缘故。
It's also practical to sum up our own principles. Although the choices we have made may seem good, and the previous life may seem smooth, if we only rely on luck or intuition, it's a boat that has no direction and can't control the direction. If there is no external force, the weather is good, you float downstream, but once someone digs a canal, or the rainstorm pours, that'll become terrible. This's why we go to see, listen, ask and experience more.
