凡事归咎于己，保持自主之力
内容总结：
【个人成长新视角：主动担责是掌控人生的关键】
在近期一场关于自我提升的讨论中，一位意见领袖提出“对一切负责，保持主观能动性”的观点，引发广泛共鸣。该观点强调，将问题归咎于外部环境会削弱个人解决问题的能力，而主动承担责任不仅能激发解决问题的动力，更是长期实现目标的核心要素。
讨论中指出，许多人容易陷入“外部归因”的思维陷阱，例如将社会不平等或个人困境归因于出身、种族或社会环境等不可控因素。尽管现实确实存在客观障碍，但过度强调外部因素会导致消极心态，使人在无意中放弃行动力。相反，那些长期坚持目标、保持高度主观能动性的人，往往能通过持续努力和迭代突破限制，最终实现成功。
以硅谷精英为例，二十年前聚集于此的年轻人并非天生拥有特权，而是主动选择进入创新环境并通过长期奋斗取得成就。这一现象印证了“主观能动性”的实际效果：当个人相信自身能够改变现状，并愿意为长远愿景持续努力时，外部因素的影响会逐渐减弱。
专家总结称，保持积极信念和主动担责的态度至关重要。悲观思维如同“盯着砖墙骑摩托车”，会不自觉导向失败；而聚焦长期目标、坚信自身能力，才是实现个人突破的关键。这一观点不仅适用于创新创业领域，也为普通人在生活中应对挑战提供了实用思路。
中文翻译：
凡事皆应归咎于己，方能保持主观能动性
尼维：我们再来聊聊另一条让我一见倾心的推文——或许我还转发了它。人们转发推文往往是因为看到某种自己心知肚明却未能言表的观点被清晰道破。
这种时候人们会觉得"必须转发"。这条1月17日的推文写道："凡事皆应归咎于己，方能保持主观能动性"。
在我看来其核心是：承担所有责任的过程中，你正是在创造并保持解决问题的行动力。若认为问题与己无关，自然无从着手解决。
纳瓦尔：关于你提到"早有共鸣却表达不及"这点，爱默生就精于此道。他总能优美地阐述某些观点，让人不禁感叹"这正是我所思所感，却不知如何表达"。
他曾说："在每部天才之作中，我们都能认出那些曾被自己摒弃的思绪——它们带着某种疏离的威严重返心灵。"我深爱这句话。这也是我发推的目标：用有趣的方式传递真理。
不仅要求真实有趣，还必须蕴含真挚的情感力量。必须是我近期深有感触的重要体会，否则就成了无病呻吟。我不会刻意构思推文，而是被某事触动后进行的凝练表达。
我会自我检验："这属实吗？"若觉得真实——至少在我关注的语境下成立，且表述方式有助于记忆，我就会发布。对心有灵犀者而言，这并非新知。
平淡无奇的陈述会沦为陈词滥调，但有趣的表达能唤醒重要记忆，或将特定认知转化为更普适的智慧。
这个过程对我有益，望他人亦能受益。说到这条推文，我注意到人们惯于愤世嫉俗："所有财富都是抢来的"——通过银行家、权贵资本家或寡头之手。
"身为X阶层就别想出头""穷孩子永无翻身之日""这种族/国籍/残障者注定失败"。问题在于：虽然现实阻碍确实存在，世界从不公平，但绝非全凭运气。
事实上，你我生活中都曾通过实际行动获得过好结果，心知若非当时所为，结局必然不同。所以人绝对可以改变命运，这绝非运气使然。
尤其当时间跨度越长、行动越积极、尝试越频繁、思考越深入时，运气成分就越微弱。举个简单例子——虽然多数人未必爱听——二十年前我在硅谷见过的每个聪明人，毫无例外都获得了成功。
每一个都是。我想不出反例。当初真该以才智为指标给他们建立档案。顺便说下，YC创业孵化器就在大规模做这件事，多棒的机制？这确实有效。坚持二十年，必见成效。
你或许会说："站着说话不腰疼，那是硅谷人的特权。"但这里没有天生土著，所有人都是迁徙而来。他们来此是为了与智者同行，为了成为高能动性群体。
能动性确实有效，但若急功近利，注定会失望。你会过早放弃，所以需要更高远的动力。这正是马斯克探索火星、萨姆研发AGI、乔布斯五十年前就构想书本大小电脑的原因——他当时描绘的正是iPad。
正是这些长远愿景支撑人们持之以恒，最终实现理想。愤世嫉俗的信念只会自我应验，悲观主义就像骑着摩托车却紧盯砖墙——你会不知不觉撞上去。
所以必须保持主观能动性。人与生俱来就拥有能动性，孩童便是高能动性群体：他们想要什么就去争取。你必须保持这种改变事物的信念。
英文来源：
Blame Yourself for Everything, and Preserve Your Agency
Nivi: Let’s talk about one more tweet which I liked when I first saw it, or I might have retweeted it. I think people retweet things when they see something that they haven’t figured out how to say yet, but they knew in their head, but it’s just implicit—it hadn’t been made explicit.
I think that’s when people are like, “I need to retweet this.” So this one was January 17: “Blame yourself for everything and preserve your agency.”
From my end it’s like: Take responsibility for everything, and in the process of taking responsibility for something, you create and preserve the agency to go solve that problem.
If you’re not responsible for the problem, there’s no way for you to fix the problem.
Naval: Just to address your point of how it was something you already knew, but phrased in a way that you liked. Emerson did this all the time. He would phrase things in a beautiful way and you would say, “Oh, that’s exactly what I was thinking and feeling, but I didn’t know how to articulate it.”
And the way he put it was he said, “In every work of genius, we recognize our own rejected thoughts; they come back to us with a certain alienated majesty.” And I just love that line. It’s what I try to do with Twitter, which is I try to say something true, but in an interesting way.
And not only is this a true and interesting way to say it, but also it has to be something that really has emotional heft behind it. It has to have struck me recently and been important to me. Otherwise, I’m just faking it. I don’t sit around trying to think up tweets to write. It’s more that something happens to me, something affects me emotionally, and then I synthesize it in a certain way.
I test it. I’m like, “Is this true?” And if I feel like it’s true, or mostly true or true in the context that I care about, and if I can say it in some way that’ll help me stick in my mind, then I just send it out there. And it’s nothing new for the people who get it.
If it’s not said in an interesting way, then it’s a cliche, or if they’ve heard it too much, it’s a cliche. But if it’s said in an interesting way, then it may remind them of something that was important, or it might convert their specific knowledge, or might be a hook for converting their specific knowledge into more general knowledge in their own minds.
So I find that process useful for myself and hopefully others do too. Now, for the specific tweet, I just noticed this tendency where people are very cynical and they’ll say, “All the wealth is stolen,” for example, by banksters and the like, or crony capitalists or what have you, or just outright thieves or oligarchs.
“You can’t rise up in this world if you’re X.” “You can’t rise up in this world if you’re a poor kid.” “You can’t rise up in this world if you are from this race or ethnicity, if you were born in that country, or if you are lame or crippled or blind,” or what have you.
The problem with this is that yes, there are real hindrances in the world. It is not a level playing field, and fair is something that only exists in a child’s imagination and cannot be pinned down in any real way. But the world is not entirely luck. In fact, you know that because in your own life there are things that you have done that have led to good outcomes and you know that if you had not done that thing, it would not have led to that good outcome.
So you can absolutely move the needle, and it’s not all luck. And especially the longer the timeframe you’re talking about, the more intense the activity, the more iteration you take and the more thinking and choice you apply into it, the less luck matters. It recedes into the distance. To give you a simple example, which most people won’t love because they’re not in Silicon Valley, but every brilliant person I met in Silicon Valley 20 years ago, every single one, the young brilliant ones, every single one is successful.
Every single one. I cannot think of an exception. I should have gone back and just indexed them all based on their brilliance. By the way, that’s what Y Combinator does at scale, right? What a great mechanism. So it works. If people stick at it for 20 years, it works. Now you might say, “Easy for you to say, man, that’s for the people in Silicon Valley.”
No one was born here. They all moved here. They moved here because they wanted to be where the other smart kids were and because they wanted to be high agency. So agency does work, but if you’re keeping track of the time period, you’re going to be disappointed.
You’ll give up too soon. So you need a higher motivator. That’s why Elon goes to Mars, and that’s why Sam wants to invent AGI. And that’s why Steve Jobs wanted to build, 50 years ago, in the eighties he was talking about building a computer that would fit in a book.
He was talking about the iPad. So it’s these very long visions that sustain you over the long periods of time to actually build the thing you want to build and get to where you want to get. So a cynical belief is self-fulfilling. A pessimistic belief is like you’re driving the motorcycle, but you’re looking at the brick wall that you’re supposed to turn away from.
You will turn into the brick wall without even realizing it. So you have to preserve your agency. You’re born with agency. Children are high-agency. They go get what they want. If they want something, they see it, they go get it. You have to preserve your agency. You have to preserve your belief that you can change things.