Name: 不要輕易拿自己和別人比較！ ► 大多數人沒聽過過「普萊斯定律」。- Dr. Jordan B Peterson 喬登-彼得森（中英字幕） (不要輕易拿自己和別人比較！ ► 大多數人沒聽過的「普萊斯定律」 - Dr. Jordan B Peterson 喬登·彼得森（中英字幕）)
Uploaded: 2025-07-18T00:03:45.000Z
Duration: 6 min 16 s

You know, there's a rule of thumb that if you run a company, that 20% of your employees do 80% of the work, or that 20% of your customers are responsible for 80% of your sales, or that 20% of them are responsible for 80% of the customer service calls.

要知道，有一條經驗法則是，如果你經營一家公司，20% 的員工要做 80% 的工作，或者 20% 的客戶要負責 80% 的銷售額，或者 20% 的客戶要負責 80% 的客戶服務電話。

The rule is, in a given domain, the square root of the number of people operating in that domain do half the productive work.

規則是，在某一領域，從事該領域工作的人數的平方根是生產性工作的一半。

So you think, well you have 10 employees, 3 of them do half the work.

所以你會想，你有 10 名員工，其中 3 人要做一半的工作。

然後，其中 10 人做一半的工作。

And if it's 10,000 employees, then it's 100.

如果是 1 萬名員工，那就是 100 名。

And this actually turns out to be a rather ironclad rule.

It applies across very, very many situations.

It applies, for example, to the mass of stars and the size of cities.

例如，它適用於恆星的品質和城市的大小。

So you can see how universal it is as a law.

由此可見，這是一條多麼普遍的定律。

It's something like those that have more get more, and those that have less get less.

這就好比 "多者多得，少者少得"。

To those who have everything, more will be given.

對於那些擁有一切的人，將給予他們更多。

From those who have nothing, everything will be taken away.

一無所有的人，一切都將被剝奪。

Economists sometimes call that the Matthew Principle.

經濟學家有時稱之為 "馬太原則"。

So what that lays out is a world that's rife with inequality.

由此可見，這個世界充斥著不平等。

So you know, you hear this idea that I think it's the 85 richest people in the world have more money than the bottom 2 billion.

所以，你知道，你會聽到這樣的說法：我認為世界上最富有的 85 人比最底層的 20 億人擁有更多的錢。

And you might say, to hell with capitalism for producing that.

你可能會說，讓資本主義見鬼去吧，因為它製造了這些。

It's like, sorry, you got your diagnosis wrong.

這就像，對不起，你的診斷錯了。

No matter what society you study, you get a Pareto distribution of wealth.

無論你研究哪個社會，你都會得到財富的帕累託分佈。

You get a Pareto distribution of number of records recorded.

你會得到記錄數量的帕累託分佈。

You get a Pareto distribution of number of songs written or goals scored.

你會得到歌曲創作或進球數的帕累託分佈。

Any creative product has that characteristic.

And it's partly because as you start to become successful, let's say, people offer you more and more opportunities.

部分原因是，隨著你開始走向成功，比方說，人們會給你提供越來越多的機會。

And as you start to fail, people move away from you and you plummet.

當你開始失敗時，人們就會遠離你，你就會一落千丈。

So what it means is that there is always a landscape of inequality.

是以，這意味著始終存在不平等現象。

What that means is there's always going to be people around that are better at something than you are.

這意味著周圍總會有人在某些方面比你強。

And that's a problem because you can get jealous and you can get bitter and you can get resentful.

這是個問題，因為你會嫉妒，會痛苦，會怨恨。

And worse, you can get hopeless, you know, because you look like...

更糟糕的是，你可能會絕望，你知道，因為你看起來像......

He was decrying his lack of success in the world.

他在譴責自己在世界上的不成功。

And he said, you know, his roommate, his college roommate was doing much better than he was.

他說，他的室友，他的大學室友過得比他好得多。

而他那該死的室友就是埃隆-馬斯克。

It's like, oh, you're not doing as well as Elon Musk.

這就像，哦，你做得還不如埃隆-馬斯克（Elon Musk）好。

Well, I mean, you can see it would take it rather personally because they were roommates and everything.

嗯，我的意思是，你可以看到它會把它相當個人 因為他們是室友和一切。

這就好比，我不如埃隆-馬斯克。

It's like, yeah, well, you and like 7 billion other people, you know.

這就像，是啊，你和其他 70 億人一樣，你知道的。

But I thought it was instructive because, well, because you have to be careful who you compare yourself to.

但我認為這很有啟發意義，因為，因為你必須小心謹慎，不要把自己和誰相提並論。

Now, you can't just not compare yourself to successful people, right?

現在，你不能不把自己與成功人士進行比較，對嗎？

Because then you don't have anything to aim at.

因為那樣的話，你就沒有目標了。

You need an ideal because you have nothing to aim at.

你需要一個理想，因為你沒有目標。

So how the hell can you have the benefits of having an ideal without having the crushing blow that goes along with having the judge that always regards you as insufficient?

那麼，怎樣才能既擁有理想的好處，又不遭受法官總是認為你不夠好的沉重打擊呢？

We don't want to let your distance from the goal crush you.

我們不想讓目標的距離壓垮你。

And then you got to make the goal, break the goal down into parts so that you can move towards it.

然後，你要制定目標，把目標分解成幾個部分，這樣你就能朝著目標前進。

And you have a fairly high likelihood of doing it.

而你做到這一點的可能性相當大。

So that's a bit of practical, I wouldn't say advice.

所以，這是一點實用的建議，我不敢說。

It's some practical knowledge about how to go about achieving an aim.

這是一些關於如何實現目標的實用知識。

Set a high aim but differentiate it down so you know what the next step is.

設定一個較高的目標，但要將其區分開來，這樣你才能知道下一步該怎麼做。

And then make the next step difficult enough so you have to push yourself past where you are.

然後讓下一步變得足夠困難，讓你不得不把自己逼到極限。

But also provide yourself with a reasonable probability of success.

但也要為自己提供合理的成功概率。

It's also what you do with children, right?

你也是這樣對待孩子的，對嗎？

You want to push them because they need to grow up and be more than they are, right?

你想逼迫他們，因為他們需要成長，需要超越自我，對嗎？

But you don't want to crush them with constant failure.

但你也不想用不斷的失敗來壓垮他們。

So what you do is aim high and make the goal difficult but proximal.

是以，你要做的就是志存高遠，讓目標變得困難但近在咫尺。

Who do you know that you can compare yourself to?

你認識的人中有誰可以與你相比？

Aim high but use as your control yourself.

So your goal is to make today some tiny increment better than yesterday.

是以，你的目標是讓今天比昨天好一點點。

This doesn't have to be some imposition of external morality.

You know where you're weak and insufficient and where you could improve.

你知道自己哪裡薄弱，哪裡不足，哪裡可以改進。

Think, okay, well, this is what I'm like yesterday.

想想，好吧，這就是我昨天的樣子。

If I did this little thing, things would be just an increment better.

如果我做了這件小事，事情就會變得越來越好。

And, well, that's a great thing because you get the ball rolling.

這是件大好事，因為你能讓球滾動起來。

And incremental improvement is unstoppable.

And it starts to generate Pareto distribution-like consequences.

它開始產生類似帕累託分佈的後果。

And I've seen that happen in people's lives over and over.

我看到這種情況一次又一次地發生在人們的生活中。

People write me all the time and tell me that they're doing that.

經常有人寫信告訴我，他們正在這樣做。

But I've seen that happen in people's lives continually.

但我看到這種情況不斷髮生在人們的生活中。

The goal should be, how could I conceive of my life so that if I had that life, it would clearly be worth living so I wouldn't have to be bitter, resentful, deceitful, arrogant, and vengeful?

我們的目標應該是：我怎樣才能構想我的生活，以便如果我擁有那樣的生活，它顯然是值得過的，這樣我就不必痛苦、怨恨、欺騙、傲慢和報復？

Because that's what endless failure does to you.

因為這就是無休止的失敗對你的影響。

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