今日又沒有看書，運(yùn)動(dòng)了，繁忙一天，沒有停下來看看書，只能再搬出老朋友瑞的話了。
因?yàn)槿祟惸苓M(jìn)行有意識的、以記憶為基礎(chǔ)的學(xué)習(xí)，所以比任何物種都更快、更深入地進(jìn)化，不僅一代代地進(jìn)化，而且在自己的一生中進(jìn)化。?
這種持續(xù)追求學(xué)習(xí)和改進(jìn)的動(dòng)力，讓人類天生地對進(jìn)步感到快樂，對快速進(jìn)步感到興奮。盡管大多數(shù)人覺得他們是在追求能讓自己快樂的東西（玩具、大房子、金錢、地位等），但這些只能帶來小的滿足，遠(yuǎn)遠(yuǎn)比不上進(jìn)步能給大多數(shù)人帶來的長期滿足感。得到了追求的東西后，我們的滿足感通常不會(huì)持久。這些東西只是誘餌。追逐誘餌，就必須進(jìn)化，而且對所有人來說重要的是進(jìn)化，而不是回報(bào)本身。這意味著對大多數(shù)人而言，成功就是以盡可能高效的方式去拼搏和進(jìn)化，即迅速認(rèn)識自身和所處環(huán)境，然后通過改變實(shí)現(xiàn)進(jìn)步。?
這是收益遞減規(guī)律的自然結(jié)果。想想賺錢這件事。一旦錢賺得太多，人從賺錢中得到的邊際收益就會(huì)很小或者沒有，這會(huì)對人產(chǎn)生負(fù)面影響，這和任何形式的過量是一個(gè)道理，如暴飲暴食。如果擁有健康的心智，人們就會(huì)開始探索新東西，或者更深入地探索舊東西，并在這個(gè)過程中變得更強(qiáng)大。如弗洛伊德所說，“愛與工作是人性的基石”。?
工作不一定是一份職業(yè)，不過我認(rèn)為如果是職業(yè)的話，通常要好一些。而工作可以是任何使人進(jìn)步的長期挑戰(zhàn)。你也許已經(jīng)猜到了，我相信，人們對有意義的工作的需求，與人天生對進(jìn)步的渴望相關(guān)。而人際關(guān)系就是人與他人的自然聯(lián)系，它會(huì)使人對他人和整個(gè)社會(huì)有意義。
Because humans are capable of conscious, memory-based learning, we can evolve further and faster than any other species, changing not just across generations but within our own lifetimes.?
This constant drive toward learning and improvement makes getting better innately enjoyable and getting better fast exhilarating. Though most people think that they are striving to get the things (toys, bigger houses, money, status, etc.) that will make them happy, for most people those things don’t supply anywhere near the long-term satisfaction that getting better at something does. ?Once we get the things we are striving for, we rarely remain satis?ed with them. The things are just the bait. Chasing after them forces us to evolve, and it is the evolution and not the rewards themselves that matters to us and to those around us. This means that for most people success is struggling and evolving as e?ectively as possible, i.e., learning rapidly about oneself and one’s environment, and then changing to improve.
It is natural that it should be this way because of the law of diminishing returns. Consider what acquiring money is like. People who earn so much that they derive little or no marginal gains from it will experience negative consequences, as with any other form of excess, like gluttony. If they are intellectually healthy, they will begin seeking something new or seeking new depths in something old—and they will get stronger in the process. As Freud put it, “Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.”?
The work doesn’t necessarily have to be a job, though I believe it’s generally better if it is a job. It can be any kind of long-term challenge that leads to personal improvement. As you might have guessed, I believe that the need to have meaningful work is connected to man’s innate desire to improve. And relationships are the natural connections to others that make us relevant to each other and to society more broadly.
