Recitation · D7
Money, Time, and Attention
三种资源里只有注意力买不到——这是投资自我和投资资产的分水岭。
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We usually have three kinds of resources: money, time, and attention.
我们手里通常有三种资源,金钱,时间,注意力。
Education, at its core, is investing in ourselves.
教育的本质是投资自我。
Every investment works the same way: it requires time as a basic means of production.
天下的投资都一样,投资就需要时间作为基本生产资料,
Anything that takes no time, or very little time, is not investing.
不花时间的或者只花很少时间的不是投资,
We have another name for that: speculation.
我们对这样的行为有另外一个称呼,叫作投机。
When we invest, what we're really doing is always the same — we're pouring money into time.
投资的时候,我们做的事情,本质上来看都一样,其实是在往时间里倾注金钱。
If we use a dollar-cost-averaging strategy, we keep pouring money into time — but never our attention.
如果采用定投策略的话,那就是不断往时间里倾注金钱但绝不倾注注意力。
When we learn — or, in other words, when we invest in ourselves — there's one key difference.
当我们学习的时候,或者说,当我们投资自我的时候,有个重点区别,
We still pour money into time, but more importantly, we pour our attention into it too.
我们要往时间里倾注的也有金钱,但与此同时,更重要的是注意力。