Why do we say that we cannot learn from experience, but must learn the principles?

Because experience is often worthless; the environment is constantly changing, and more importantly, you cannot distinguish between the signals and noise in your experience. Sometimes, it is easy to fall into the trap of empiricism.

Today, Teacher Liu Run also wrote something deeply resonant in his public account: In terms of judgment, experience is useless, but reading is the only useful thing.

He presented a counterintuitive viewpoint: Humans actually have no understanding ability; what we think of as understanding is essentially retrieval.

If your brain's retrieval resources are insufficient, it is easy to fall into the trap of empiricism and be unable to extricate yourself. However, if you have read enough books and filled your brain with enough top-tier models, when you encounter difficult problems, what you retrieve will no longer be the life experiences repeated by the neighbor Wang, but rather the smartest brains of humanity over thousands of years.

For example, when I first entered the industry, I made a lot of money due to the boom of ICOs, but when the market quickly declined, the ICO business model was no longer effective. However, I still tried to invest using this method to make up for the losses in the downtrend, and the results were quite disappointing. The money I earned by luck was indeed lost back due to lack of skill, and what formed at that time was path dependence and the trap of empiricism.

Therefore, blindly copying experience is a foolish thing; we should learn the principles.

The principles mentioned here are somewhat different from so-called "wisdom." Principles are those things that have been experimentally verified and peer-reviewed.

The best way is to read more, to read profound books in conjunction with your own path and experiences, which may lead to moments of awakening.

For example, if you want to raise a good child, you need to read "Developmental Psychology" to understand the structure of the brain.

If you want to lead a good team, you need to study the psychological motivations behind management.

And if you want to make money, you need to understand the underlying business models of wealth circulation.

The reality is that many people are reluctant to spend time learning the principles, yet they dare to make business decisions worth millions based on experience, or place bets worth tens of millions. How much will they lose?

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