I loved testing myself more than I feared being beaten.

我愿意探索自己的极限而不是担心被击败。

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I learned more from the 20 minutes of watching than I would have learned checking over the guide and testing the instructions for 3 days myself.

在20分钟的观察里，我学到的东西比我自己在3天里的还要多。在这3天里，我自己一遍一遍的检查和测试写好的操作指南。

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I was only fourteen, but after I had taken hundreds of observations in my mind I found myself testing their accuracy, comparing the behaviour of stocks to-day with other days.

当时我只有十四岁，但我观察了数百只股票价格的浮动情况，通过比较股票当天的浮动情况与其他日子的差异，来测试自己的发现的准确性。

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Anyways that was honestly just me testing myself.

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Tim Lee has an excellent post on charters and high-stakes testing at his blog (riffing off of another really good post from Aaron Swartz) which I found myself in turns agreeing and disagreeing with.

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