最近在看Jordan Peterson的一个公开课的视频，里边有一段话对我很有启发，看了很多遍，它是这么说的

You always learn when you are wrong which is very annoying. Now what do you learn when you are correct? You are walking in the world, you are operating in the world. You have a sense of what you want to have happen. You are always looking at the world through this sense of what you want to have happen. You are acting so that what you want to have happen will happen and when it happens. Well, then you are happy because well, first you get what you want and that’s good, maybe, depending on what you want but it’s also good because if you get what you want when you act then it turns out that your model of how to act is valid. Right？The outcome that you get what you want indicates no error on the part of your model but it’s very frequently the case that when you act to get what you want you don’t get what you want and then that’s unpleasant because you don’t get what you want, but it is more unpleasant because it brings with it the hint of a suggestion that the manner in which you are construing the world is incorrect at some indeterminate level.

作者接下来举了个例子，我也先用个例子来总结下上边的话。比如你和某个女生聊天，你欣赏这个女生，或者说喜欢这个女生，于是你用你觉得正确的和女生聊天的方式和你认为正确（能起到加分作用）的话去和她交流，但是结果却不如人意。于是你对自己产生了怀疑，你对自己认为正确的东西有了动摇之心。 作者的例子是这样的

For example if you tell a party, tell a joke at a party you presume that people will attend and then when they hear the joke they will laugh and then if you tell the joke and it goes flat or even worse, disgusts and offends people then you are going to be taken aback. And that’s partly because you didn’t get what you want and that’s not so good but it’s more because something wrong with the way you conceptualized the situation and then you are faced with a problem and the problem is the emergence of a domain of the unknown. It’s like what kind of mistake did you make , maybe you are not funny as you think you are . That could be a big problem. Maybe you are not around people that who are the way you think they are. Maybe they don’t like you as much as you thought they liked you. I mean the potential for various paranoid thoughts of increasing severity to come welling up at you in a situation where you make even a trivial social mistake is quite broad. And when you make an error of that sort you have to face it and sort through all the possibilities so that you can find out what it was that you did wrong and how to retool it so that in the future you don’t make the same mistake.

这段话大概意思是你在一个宴会上说了一个笑话，但是没得到你想要的效果，于是你思考原因，是不是你没有你认为的那么幽默，或者说周围的人并不是你想象的那群人(会觉得你笑话好笑的人），或者说周围的人可能并不怎么喜欢你。这么一个小的错误却能让你被无止境的想法淹没。当你遇到这种问题，你必须面对它，整理它，防止以后犯同样的错误。

再用上述的和女生聊天的例子，她没给你你想要的结果，于是你思考原因。1. 是不是你聊天时候说的话不合时宜，不恰当？2. 是不是那个女生本身就对你不是特别感兴趣? 3. 是不是你没有你想象的那么不错 ?

etc etc etc..

于是你可以怎么做？1. 聊天内容控制在安全线内，在两人不太熟悉的情况下 2. 想办法让她对你感兴趣，或者放弃 3. 努力让自己更优秀

我觉得这个概念能用到很多事情上，关键在于如何避免犯错误，犯错误改正自然好，如果能防范于未然那更是上策。

希望大家都能得到自己想要的。