如何不依靠运气变得富有？

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今天给大家分享一篇翻译的文章，名为《如何不依靠运气变得富有？》

这篇文章来自于印度裔美国投资家Naval Ravikant，他是硅谷著名的投资人，他的成功投资案例包括Twitter和Uber，同时他也是一名创业者，创办了著名的股权众筹平台AngelList。

Naval Ravikant的故事本身也非常传奇——

Naval的父亲从印度移民到美国，但作为一名药剂师，他的父亲在美国不被承认，只能在五金店打工，拮据的生活让他的父母离婚了，他和弟弟跟随母亲生活在纽约布鲁克林的黑人聚集区。

由于无人照顾，当他的母亲工作时，他和弟弟就被锁在家里。

然而拮据的生活并没有压倒这个年轻人，十五岁的他就在印度餐厅开始兼职，推一辆三轮自行车送外卖。

同时在放学后，Naval一头扎进了布鲁克林的公共图书馆，在那里，他如饥似渴地阅读，书是这个男孩为数不多的朋友。

转机发生在16岁那年。

那一年，Naval Ravikant以杰出的成绩考进了以科学和数学见长的纽约史岱文森公立高中（Stuyvesant High School）

这所纽约市教育局直属的高中入学门槛非常高，它设计了极其严格的入学考试，作为一个出生极其平凡印度裔男孩，Naval Ravikant以非凡的努力抓住了这个改变命运的机会，成功实现了罕见的逆袭。

后面的故事就变得波澜不惊了：

他高中毕业之后顺利进入了藤校——达特茅斯学院，在精英如云的达特茅斯，Naval学习了最热门的计算机和经济学，毕业后进入硅谷，成为一名创业者和投资人。

2018年5月31日，Naval Ravikant在Twitter上一口气发了39条推文。

这一系列推文专门讨论了一个重要的主题——How to Get Rich without getting lucky？（如何不依靠运气变得富有？）。

以下就是这39条推文的中英文版本

1.Seek wealth, not money or status. Wealth is having assets that earn while you sleep. Money is how we transfer time and wealth. Status is your place in the social hierarchy.

追求财富，而不是金钱或地位。财富意味着拥有在你睡觉时也能帮你赚钱的资产，而金钱是我们转移时间和财富的方式，地位则是你在社会等级中的位置。

2.Understand that ethical wealth creation is possible. If you secretly despise wealth, it will elude you.

充分理解堂堂正正地创造财富是可能的，如果你在内心中暗自鄙视财富，它就会远离你。

3.Ignore people playing status games. They gain status by attacking people playing wealth creation games.

忽略那些热衷于玩地位游戏的人，他们通过攻击创造财富的人来获得地位。

4.You’re not going to get rich renting out your time. You must own equity - a piece of a business - to gain your financial freedom.

你不会因为贩卖你的时间而变得富有，你必须拥有产权（如一个公司的一部分股权）才能获得财务自由。

5.You will get rich by giving society what it wants but does not yet know how to get. At scale.

你可以通过提供社会大众想要但还不知道如何获得的东西而变得富有。当然，你必须成规模地交付；

6.Pick an industry where you can play long term games with long term people.

选择一个能与目光长远的人一起长期从事的行业。

7.The Internet has massively broadened the possible space of careers. Most people haven't figured this out yet.

互联网极大地拓宽了职业的可能性，大多数人还没有弄清楚这一点。

8.Play iterated games. All the returns in life, whether in wealth, relationships, or knowledge, come from compound interest.

玩那种有叠加效应的游戏，生活中的所有回报，无论是财富、人际关系还是知识，都来自复利。

9.Pick business partners with high intelligence, energy, and, above all, integrity.

选择聪明、精力充沛、最重要的是诚实的合作伙伴。

10.Don't partner with cynics and pessimists. Their beliefs are self-fulfilling.

不要与愤世嫉俗和悲观主义的人合作，那些人的悲观信念真的会自我应验。

11.Learn to sell. Learn to build. If you can do both, you will be unstoppable.

学会营销，学会创造，如果你能做到这两点，你会变得势不可挡。

12.Arm yourself with specific knowledge, accountability, and leverage.

用独一无二的知识、责任感和影响力武装自己。

13.Specific knowledge is knowledge that you cannot be trained for. If society can train you, it can train someone else, and replace you.

独一无二的知识那种你无法仅仅通过培训获得的知识，如果社会能培训你，同样也能培训别人，别人就能替代你。

14.Specific knowledge is found by pursuing your genuine curiosity and passion rather than whatever is hot right now.

你可以通过追随真正的好奇心和热情，而不是追随当下的热点从而找到那种独一无二的知识。

15.Building specific knowledge will feel like play to you but will look like work to others.

建立独一无二的知识对你来说感觉就像是在玩，但对其他人来说却是工作。

16.When specific knowledge is taught, it’s through apprenticeships, not schools.

独一无二的知识是通过学徒制被传授的，而不是通过学校。

17.Specific knowledge is often highly technical or creative. It cannot be outsourced or automated.

独一无二的知识通常具有高技术性或高创造性，它不能被外包或自动化。

18.Embrace accountability, and take business risks under your own name. Society will reward you with responsibility, equity, and leverage.

接受问责制，并独自承担商业风险。社会将奖励给你责任、公平和影响力。

19.The most accountable people have singular, public, and risky brands: Oprah, Trump, Kanye, Elon.

最负责任的人拥有独特的、开诚布公的以及敢于冒险的个人品牌，比如奥普拉、特朗普、坎耶、埃隆*马斯克。

20.“Give me a lever long enough, and a place to stand, and I will move the earth.” - Archimedes

“给我一个足够长的杠杆以及一个支点，我就能撬动地球。” - 阿基米德

21.Fortunes require leverage. Business leverage comes from capital, people, and products with no marginal cost of replication (code and media).

财富需要利用杠杆，商业杠杆来自资本、人才和边际成本为0的产品（如代码和媒体）。

22.Capital means money. To raise money, apply your specific knowledge, with accountability, and show resulting good judgment.

资本就是金钱。要赚更多的钱，请应用你独一无二的知识、责任感并表现出良好的判断力。

23.Labor means people working for you. It's the oldest and most fought-over form of leverage. Labor leverage will impress your parents, but don’t waste your life chasing it.

人力意味着为你工作的人，它是最古老、最受追逐的杠杆形式，如果你善用人力杠杆，你的父母会对此印象深刻，但不要浪费你的生命去刻意追逐它

24.Capital and labor are permissioned leverage. Everyone is chasing capital, but someone has to give it to you. Everyone is trying to lead, but someone has to follow you.

资本和人力是需要获得他人许可的杠杆，每个人都在追逐资本，但总需要有人愿意给你。每个人都想当领导，但总得有人愿意追随你。

25.Code and media are permissionless leverage. They're the leverage behind the newly rich. You can create software and media that works for you while you sleep.

代码和媒体是不需要许可的杠杆，它们是新财富背后的杠杆，你可以创造那些那些即便是在你睡觉时也会不停为你工作的软件和媒体。

26.An army of robots is freely available - it's just packed in data centers for heat and space efficiency. Use it.

今天，计算机资源几乎是免费的，它们存在云端，它们可以提高人类的热力和空间使用效率，去用它。

27.If you can't code, write books and blogs, record videos and podcasts.

如果你不会写代码，那么就写书和博客，录制视频和播客。

28.Leverage is a force multiplier for your judgement.

杠杆可以以乘数效应放大你的判断力。

29.Judgement requires experience, but can be built faster by learning foundational skills.

判断力需要经验，但可以通过学习基本技能更快地建立。

30.There is no skill called “business.” Avoid business magazines and business classes.

没有一项被称之为“商业”的技能，不要去看商业杂志，不要去上商务课程。

31.Study microeconomics, game theory, psychology, persuasion, ethics, mathematics, and computers.

学习微观经济学、博弈论、心理学、说服力、伦理、数学和计算机科学。

32.Reading is faster than listening. Doing is faster than watching.

读比听快，做比看快。

33.You should be too busy to “do coffee," while still keeping an uncluttered calendar.

你应该忙到“没时间和别人喝咖啡”，同时仍然保持一个整洁的日历。

34.Set and enforce an aspirational personal hourly rate. If fixing a problem will save less than your hourly rate, ignore it. If outsourcing a task will cost less than your hourly rate, outsource it.

计算并严格执行你的个人时薪，如果解决某个问题所节省的成本小于你的时薪，就不要做这件事。如果外包一件事的成本比你的时薪便宜，那就把这件事外包。

35.Work as hard as you can. Even though who you work with and what you work on are more important than how hard you work.

还是要尽你所能努力工作，尽管与谁一起工作以及从事什么工作比单纯努力工作更重要。

36.Become the best in the world at what you do. Keep redefining what you do until this is true.

努力将你做的事情成为世界上这个领域最好的，不断重新定义你所做的事情，直到它变成真的。

37.There are no get rich quick schemes. That's just someone else getting rich off you.

没有快速致富的方案，那只是别人从你身上赚钱罢了。

38.Apply specific knowledge, with leverage, and eventually you will get what you deserve.

运用独一无二的知识，加上杠杆，最终你会得到你应该得到的。

39.When you're finally wealthy, you'll realize that it wasn't what you were seeking in the first place. But that's for another day.

当你最终变得富有时，你会意识到这并不是你最初想要的，但真到那一天，那就是另一件事了。