八大成功习惯：像成功人士一样思考

1. Look at How They Think, Not at What They Do.
1.着眼于他们是如何想的，而非其所作所为。

If you just observed the actions entrepreneurs take, you would conclude there isn’t that much to be gained from studying them. Each entrepreneur’s behavior is as idiosyncratic as they are. You would have to be Larry Page and Sergey Brin to start Google; Oprah Winfrey to found Harpo Productions.
如果你只是观察企业家们所采取的行动，你会得出这样的结论：研究他们没有多少收获。每个企业家的行为和他们自身一样独具特色。创立谷歌（Google）的必须是拉里 佩奇（Larry Page）和谢尔盖 布林（Sergey Brin）；成立哈普娱乐集团（Harpo Productions）一定要是奥普拉 温弗里(Oprah Winfrey)。

But—and it is a huge but—if you look at how they reason, you see remarkable similarities. The process just about all of them follows in creating their companies looks like this. They:
但是如果关注他们是如何思考的（这是一项庞大的工程），你就会看到明显的相似之处。他们在创立自己公司时所遵循的思考过程就像下面所示：

A. Figure out what they really want to do.
A． 弄清楚他们真正想做什么。

B. Take a small step toward that goal.
B． 向那个目标迈出一小步

C. Pause after taking that small step to see what they have learned.
C． 迈出一小步之后稍停片刻看看学到了什么

D. Build off that learning and take another small step.
D． 积累经验，再前进一小步

E. Pause after taking that step.
E． 之后再停下来

F. Build off what they learned in step two. And then take another small step…
F． 积累第二步中的经验。然后继续前进……

If we were to reduce it to a formula, it would be Act. Learn. Build Repeat.
如果我们要把它提炼一下的话，那就是行动、学习、积累重复。

Put simply, in the face of an unknown future, entrepreneurs act. They deal with uncertainty not by trying to analyze it, or planning for every contingency, or predicting what the outcomes will be. Instead, they act, learn from what they find, and act again.
简言之，在面对一个未知数时，企业家们采取了行动。他们应对不确定性时，没有试着去分析它、为每一个偶然性制定规划，或者预测结果。相反，他们采取了行动，从他们的发现中吸取教训，然后再采取行动。