人生中大多数难事，解决办法都是间接的In Most Difficult Things in Life, The Solution is Indirect
Naval： 就像生活中大多数有趣而困难的事情一样，解决办法是间接的。
这正是"如何致富"推文风暴的一部分：如果你想致富，你不会直接冲着钱去。我猜你也可以像黑心银行家那样干，但如果你在创造有价值的东西，使用杠杆，承担起担当，并运用你的专长，金钱会作为副产品随之而来。
你会创造出伟大的产品，把自己产品化，金钱只是副产品。同样地，如果你想获得幸福，那就缩小自我，投入高心流的活动，或者参与那些让你忘掉自我的活动，最终你会收获幸福。
顺便说一句，这在求爱中同样成立。你不会走过去对一个女人说"我想和你上床"来追求她。那不是它的运作方式。地位也是如此。对地位的公然追逐恰恰暴露了低地位——追逐地位本身就是一种低地位行为，因为它首先揭示了你在地位层级中本来就处于较低的位置。
并不是说所有事情都必须间接地追求。很多事情最适合直接去做。如果我想开车，我就上车开走。如果我想写点东西，那我就坐下来写。但那些本质上是竞争性的、或者对我们来说显得难以捉摸的事情——部分原因在于，它们正是剩余的那些最适合间接追求的事情。
Naval: Like in most interesting, difficult things in life, the solution is indirect.
That was part of the How to Get Rich tweetstorm, which is, if you want to get rich, you don’t directly just go for the money. I suppose you could like a bankster, but if you’re building something of value and you’re using leverage and you’re taking accountability and you’re applying your specific knowledge, you’re going to make money as a byproduct.
And you’re going to create great products, going to productize yourself and create money as a byproduct. The same way, if you want to be happy, you minimize yourself and you engage in high flow activities or engage in activities that take you out of your own self and you end up with happiness.
By the way, this is true in seduction as well. You don’t seduce a woman by walking up and saying, “I want to sleep with you.” That’s not how it works. Same with status. The overt pursuit of status signals low status, it’s a low status behavior to chase status because it reveals you as being lower in the status hierarchy in the first place.
It’s not the fact that everything has to be pursued indirectly. Many things are best pursued directly. If I want to drive a car, I get in and I drive the car. If I want to write something, then I just sit down and write something. But the things that are either competitive in nature or they seem elusive to us—part of the reason for that is that those are the remaining things that are best pursued indirectly.