The Problem: Knowing vs. Doing
Why do we know many big truths but still fail to live well?
为何知道很多大道理却过不好一生？
The short answer is: We don’t live deeply enough.
因为，我们没有深入地生活。
As Aristotle would define it, we grasp the ideas but never practice them. Living well is fundamentally a matter of doing, not merely knowing.
按亚里士多德的解构，我们只是知道了一些大道理的概念和理论，并没有深入去实践。过好一生到底是一个实践问题。
The Mechanism: Compressed Knowledge
From the viewpoint of information theory, big truths carry very little data. They are heavily compressed.
从信息论的视角看，大道理对接受者而言，它的信息量很少，其信息压缩比非常大。
A line like “If you have no dream, you’re no different from a salted fish” may be true, but it’s only a few dozen bits. It forms only a few neural links, so its power to guide action is tiny.
比方说，人没有梦想，跟咸鱼有什么区别。这个大道理的信息量不过就是几十比特。人们接受这信息量后，所产生的大脑神经链接也很少，产生实践指导的作用也因此有限。
Big truths are compressed knowledge. People without deep, practical experience simply don’t have the decompression system.
换言之，我们知道的大道理是经过压缩过的高密度信息，缺乏经验的人，并没有相应的解压还原系统。
The Solution: High-Bit Life Input
Life is different.
但是当人在生活中，
When you face people, setbacks, work, and confusion—life feeds you thousands of bits. These bits shape memory, ways of thinking, and skill models.
面对各种人、事、物，经历社会的毒打、生活的艰辛、人生的迷茫，这个过程摄取了许多比特的信息，这些非结构性或结构性的信息，被人脑所接受，产生记忆、思维方式、技能模型等等。
Only then do you see why dreams matter, or what happens when they don’t. This complex process—where you understand the world by ingesting rich data—can’t be replaced by slogans.
他才会明白为什么人需要梦想，或者说没有行不行。还能依据实践经验指导未来的行为。而这个伴随丰富信息摄入的理解世界过程是不可替代的。
The decompression system only grows through practice and reflection. This means: living deeply.
而解压还原系统，需要很多的生活实践和思考，才有可能形成。深入自己的生活，带着那些大道理去验证，去理解现实反馈和理想结果的差距，及其背后的因素，结合他人的实践经验，调整自身的认知和思考，再实践再生活，这是实打实地生活到深处。
The Swimming Analogy
You can read a thousand books about swimming—its history, theory, categories, and meaning. None of them will teach you to swim.
看过一千本教你游泳的书，知道它的历史、定义、类别、意义、发展，也无法真正教会你游泳。
The knowledge sits in someone else’s brain. Your life, though, is in the pool. You still need to choke, struggle, find balance, and move.
别人的经验在书里，在别人那有着丰富神经树突链接的大脑里，而你的生活在游泳池里，我们要看书听听别人的经验，但是终究要跳到游泳池里，呛水，窒息，扑腾，找到平衡，游动起来。
The required knowledge is kinetic and experiential, not theoretical.
The Error
The philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer laid out the correct hierarchy for genuine wisdom: Life > Thinking > Reading.
叔本华就告诉过后人：生活>思考>读书。
But many of us invert this path: Reading > Thinking > Living.
但是现在我们很多人：读书>思考>生活。
And that’s why we know big truths but still fail at life.
这就是知道很多大道理却过不好生活的问题所在。