这本书改变了我思考的方式This Book Changed the Way I Think
Naval：几年前，当我翻开一本十年前读过的旧书——《无穷的开始》(The Beginning of Infinity)，作者 戴维·多伊奇——时，我既惊喜又意外。
有时候你读一本书，它立刻就产生了影响。有时候你读一本书却读不懂；然后在恰当的时机再读，它就产生了影响。
这一次我读得比以往细致得多。我不是为了"读完了"而读，而是为了理解其中的概念而读，每到有新东西的地方就停下来。它开始重塑我的世界观，改变了我思考的方式。
我认为这本书是过去十年里唯一让我变得更聪明的书——或许纳西姆·塔勒布（Nassim Taleb）的几部作品，再加上零星的一两本书除外。它们确实拓展了我思考的方式，不仅扩充了我的知识储备，还扩充了我的推理能力。
人们经常随口提到"思维模型"这个词。大多数思维模型根本不值得阅读、思考或聆听，因为它们太琐碎了。但《无穷的开始》中诞生的那些概念具有变革性，因为它们极具说服力地改变了你看待真假的方式。
卡尔·波普尔（Karl Popper）提出了关于什么是科学、什么不是科学，什么是好的解释、什么不是好的解释的理论。
多伊奇在《无穷的开始》中极大地拓展了这一理论。他涉猎范围之广令人难以置信：认识论——即知识的理论——量子力学、多重宇宙理论、无穷、数学、可知与不可知之事的边界、普遍解释、计算理论、什么是美、什么样的政治制度更有效、如何养育子女，等等。
这些都是包罗万象、影响深远的思想。
Naval: I was pleasantly surprised a couple of years back when I opened an old book that I’d read a decade ago called The Beginning of Infinity by David Deutsch.
Sometimes you read a book and it makes a difference right away. Sometimes you read a book and you don’t understand it; then you read it at the right time and it makes a difference.
This time I went through it much more meticulously than I had in the past. Rather than reading it to say I was done reading it, I read it to understand the concepts and stopped at every point where something was new. It started re-forming my worldview. It changed the way that I think.
I credit this book as being the only book in the last decade—except maybe a few of Nassim Taleb’s works and maybe one or two other scattered books—that made me smarter. They literally expanded the way that I think. They expanded not just the repertoire of my knowledge but the repertoire of my reasoning.
People throw around the phrase “mental models” a lot. Most mental models aren’t worth reading or thinking about or listening to because they’re trivial. But the concepts that came out of The Beginning of Infinity are transformational because they very convincingly change the way that you look at what is true and what is not.
Karl Popper laid out the theory of what is scientific and what is not; what is a good explanation and what is not.
Deutsch dramatically expands on that in The Beginning of Infinity. The wide-ranging nature that he covers is incredible. He covers epistemology—which is the theory of knowledge—quantum mechanics, multiverse theory, infinity, mathematics, the reach of what is knowable and what is not knowable, universal explanations, the theory of computation, what is beauty, what systems of politics work better, how to raise your children, and more.
These are all-encompassing, long-range philosophical ideas.