暂停，反思，看看它做得如何Pause, Reflect, See How Well it Did
Naval：我们之前谈过"在你所做的事情上成为世界第一，并不断重新定义你所做的事，直到这一说法成立"。Akira 为此写了一首歌。Akira the Don，愿上帝保佑他。我认为这话千真万确。你要在你所做的事情上成为世界第一，但要不断重新定义你所做的事，直到这一说法成立。而重新定义要真正奏效，唯一的方式就是通过迭代的过程、通过行动去实现。所以，你需要那根胡萝卜，也需要那面旗帜。
你需要最终的那个奖励牵引你行动起来，同时你还需要迭代。迭代不等于重复。迭代不是机械性的。不是一万小时，而是一万次迭代。它不是投入的时间，而是学习的回路。
而迭代意味着：你做一件事，然后停下来，暂歇片刻，进行反思。看看它效果如何，是否奏效。然后做出调整，再尝试别的方法。接着再停下来，反思，看看效果如何，然后调整，再尝试新的东西。这就是迭代的过程，也是学习的过程。所有学习系统都是这样运作的。
所以，进化就是迭代：先有变异，再有复制，然后有选择——把不管用的东西剔除掉。技术和发明领域同样如此：你进行创新，创造出一项新技术，然后尝试将其规模化，它要么在市场中存活下来，要么被淘汰出局。
正如戴维·多伊奇在关于"寻求好的解释"的论述中所说：你提出一个猜想，这个猜想要经受批评的检验，然后那些站不住脚的内容被剔除。这才是真正的科学方法。
这一切的关键在于：找到对你来说自然而然的事情，然后带着高度的主动性，在人生这个竞技场里，通过不断迭代把它做出来，直到你摸索明白——到那时，你就是世界上做"这件事"最厉害的人，而"这件事"无非就是做你自己。
Naval: We talked about in the past how “Become the best in the world at what you do. Keep redefining what you do until this is true.” And Akira made a song out of it. Akira the Don, God bless him. And I think that’s absolutely true. You want to be the best in the world at what you do, but keep redefining what you do until that’s true. The only way that redefining is going to work is through the process of iteration, through doing. So, you need that carrot, you need that flag.
You need that reward at the end to pull you forward into doing, and you need to iterate. And iterate does not mean repetition. Iterate is not mechanical. It’s not 10,000 hours, it’s 10,000 iterations. It’s not time spent. It’s learning loops.
And what iteration means is you do something and then you stop and you pause and you reflect. You see how well that worked or did not work. Then you change it. Then you try something else. Then you pause, reflect, see how well it did. Then you change it and you try something else. And that’s the process of iteration, and that’s the process of learning. And all learning systems work this way.
So evolution is iteration where there’s mutation, there’s replication, and then there’s selection. You cut out the stuff that didn’t work. This is true in technology and invention where you’ll innovate, you’ll create a new technology and then you’ll try to scale it and either survive in the marketplace or it’ll get cut out.
This is true as David Deutsch talks about in the search for good explanations. You make a conjecture, that conjecture is subject to criticism, and then the stuff that doesn’t work is weeded out. And this is the true scientific method.
It’s all about finding what is natural for yourself and doing it by living life in the arena, high agency, process of iteration until you figure it out and then you are the best in the world at “it,” and “it” is just being yourself.