Language / 语言

Short reads / 短篇阅读

Lab Notes实验笔记

Short psychology notes that explain the ideas behind CurioLab assessments and games.解释 CurioLab 测评和小游戏背后概念的短篇心理学笔记。

19 models / 19 个模型Playful learning / 轻量学习No diagnosis / 非诊断

Lab Note / 实验笔记Personality / 人格5 min / 5 分钟

Big Five Personality: The Five Major Traits大五人格：五个主要特质

A friendly guide to the five major personality dimensions: openness, conscientiousness, extraversion, agreeableness, and emotional sensitivity.一份友好的指南，介绍五个主要人格维度：开放性、尽责性、外向性、宜人性和情绪敏感性。

Personality traits are dimensions, not fixed types.人格特质是维度，不是固定类型。
Each trait can be helpful or tricky depending on the situation.每个特质在不同情境下都可能有帮助，也可能带来挑战。

Lab Note / 实验笔记Personality / 人格4 min / 4 分钟

Why MBTI Feels Accurate为什么 MBTI 会让人觉得准确

Why type-based personality tests often feel personal, memorable, and surprisingly accurate.为什么基于类型的人格测试常让人觉得贴近个人、容易记住，而且意外准确。

Types are easier to remember than trait scores.类型比特质分数更容易记住。
Broad, positive descriptions can feel very personal.宽泛而正向的描述会让人觉得很私人化。

Lab Note / 实验笔记Social / 社交5 min / 5 分钟

Attachment Theory: How We Connect with Others依恋理论：我们如何与他人连接

A simple explanation of how connection patterns can shape closeness, safety, distance, and emotional support.简单解释连接模式如何塑造亲近、安全、距离和情绪支持。

Attachment styles describe patterns, not permanent identities.依恋风格描述的是模式，而不是永久身份。
Different people use different safety strategies under stress.不同人在压力下会使用不同的安全策略。

Lab Note / 实验笔记Mood / 情绪5 min / 5 分钟

Emotion Regulation: How Feelings Change情绪调节：感受如何改变

How emotions are shaped by situations, attention, interpretation, body state, and response.情绪如何被情境、注意、解释、身体状态和反应塑造。

Emotion regulation is not the same as suppressing feelings.情绪调节不等于压抑感受。
Changing attention or interpretation can change the emotional path.改变注意或解释，可以改变情绪路径。

Lab Note / 实验笔记Mood / 情绪4 min / 4 分钟

Yerkes-Dodson Law: Pressure and Performance耶克斯-多德森定律：压力与表现

Why a little pressure can sharpen performance, while too much can disrupt focus, memory, and judgment.为什么一点压力能提升表现，而过多压力会扰乱专注、记忆和判断。

Performance often improves with moderate arousal.表现常在适度唤醒下提升。
Too little pressure can feel flat, while too much can overload attention.压力太少可能让人感觉平淡，太多则会使注意力过载。

Lab Note / 实验笔记Attention / 注意力4 min / 4 分钟

Stroop Effect: When Words Fight ColorsStroop 效应：当文字和颜色打架

Why your brain slows down when a word's meaning conflicts with the color you see.为什么当词义与你看到的颜色冲突时，大脑会慢下来。

Automatic reading can interfere with color naming.自动化阅读会干扰颜色命名。
Attention is active selection, not passive seeing.注意力是主动选择，而不是被动看见。

Lab Note / 实验笔记Attention / 注意力5 min / 5 分钟

Working Memory: Your Mind's Temporary Workspace工作记忆：心智的临时工作台

Working memory is the mental space you use to hold, update, and work with information for a short time.工作记忆是你短时间保存、更新并处理信息所用的心理空间。

Working memory holds information briefly while you use it.工作记忆会在你使用信息时短暂保存它。
Capacity is limited and easy to crowd.容量有限，而且很容易被挤满。

Lab Note / 实验笔记Decision / 决策5 min / 5 分钟

Dual Process Theory: Fast Thinking and Slow Thinking双加工理论：快思考与慢思考

A simple way to understand intuitive fast thinking and slower, more deliberate reasoning.一种理解直觉式快速思考和较慢、更审慎推理的简单方式。

Fast thinking is automatic, intuitive, and efficient.快思考是自动、直觉且高效的。
Slow thinking is deliberate, effortful, and flexible.慢思考是审慎、费力且灵活的。

Lab Note / 实验笔记Decision / 决策6 min / 6 分钟

Cognitive Biases: The Shortcuts of the Mind认知偏差：心智的捷径

How mental shortcuts help us decide quickly, but sometimes lead us in the wrong direction.心理捷径如何帮助我们快速决策，又有时把我们带向错误方向。

Biases are shortcuts that can be useful or misleading.偏差是捷径，可能有用，也可能误导。
They become risky when stakes are high and evidence is thin.当风险高而证据薄弱时，它们会变得危险。

Lab Note / 实验笔记Investing / 投资15 min / 15 分钟

Modern Investment Masters: Ideas and Styles近现代投资大师：理念与风格

A field guide to influential modern investors, their decision styles, and learning resources for deeper study.一份关于近现代重要投资者、其决策风格，以及进一步学习资料的导览。

Each investor is best studied as a decision system, not as a source of hot tips.最适合把每位投资者当作一种决策系统来研究，而不是把他们当作热门建议的来源。
The transferable lessons are process, temperament, risk control, and review habits.真正可以迁移的经验，是流程、心态、风险控制和复盘习惯。

Lab Note / 实验笔记Investing / 投资7 min

Benjamin Graham: defensive value本杰明·格雷厄姆：防守型价值投资

Benjamin Graham is often treated as the starting point for modern value investing. His work turned stock selection into a discipline of business analysis, balance-sheet caution, and emotional restraint rather than a game of price prediction.本杰明·格雷厄姆常被视为现代价值投资的起点。他把选股从价格预测游戏，转化为一门关于企业分析、资产负债表谨慎性和情绪克制的纪律。

Graham's style is defensive, analytical, diversified, and price-sensitive.
His core idea is margin of safety: do not rely on a perfect forecast.

Lab Note / 实验笔记Investing / 投资8 min / 8 分钟

Warren Buffett: business quality and compounding沃伦·巴菲特：企业质量与复利

Warren Buffett began with Graham's value discipline, then gradually shifted the center of gravity from statistically cheap securities to exceptional businesses bought at sensible prices.

Buffett's style emphasizes owner thinking.
His most useful idea for learners is the circle of competence.

Lab Note / 实验笔记Investing / 投资8 min / 8 分钟

Charlie Munger: mental models and avoiding stupidity查理·芒格：思维模型与避免愚蠢

Charlie Munger pushed Berkshire toward better businesses, deeper thinking about incentives, and a multidisciplinary approach to judgment.

Munger's most famous contribution is the latticework of mental models.
His style is concentrated, patient, quality-biased, and intensely focused on error prevention.

Lab Note / 实验笔记Investing / 投资7 min

John Bogle: low-cost market ownership约翰·博格：低成本拥有市场

John C. Bogle changed the practical life of investing by making broad, low-cost indexing a serious default for ordinary investors.

Bogle's central focus was the arithmetic of costs.
His style is diversified, passive, cost-aware, and behaviorally humble.

Lab Note / 实验笔记Investing / 投资7 min

Peter Lynch: knowable growth and grounded curiosity彼得·林奇：可理解的成长与脚踏实地的好奇

Peter Lynch is associated with the idea that useful investment clues can appear in ordinary life, but his approach was much more rigorous than the slogan buy what you know.

Observation was only the beginning.
The story had to become visible in the numbers.

Lab Note / 实验笔记Investing / 投资8 min / 8 分钟

George Soros: reflexivity and market feedback乔治·索罗斯：反身性与市场反馈

George Soros is most closely associated with reflexivity: the idea that market participants do not merely observe reality.

Markets can create feedback loops.
Soros's style is macro, adaptive, psychological, and willing to change when the thesis changes.

Lab Note / 实验笔记Investing / 投资8 min / 8 分钟

Ray Dalio: economic machines and all-weather balance瑞·达利欧：经济机器与全天候平衡

Ray Dalio represents a more systematic macro tradition. He studies economies as machines made of credit, spending, income, productivity, policy, inflation, and expectations.

The goal is to understand how environments change rather than rely on one forecast.
Dalio's All Weather thinking asks what kind of portfolio might be more balanced across different economic surprises.

Lab Note / 实验笔记Investing / 投资8 min / 8 分钟

Howard Marks: risk, cycles, and second-level thinking霍华德·马克斯：风险、周期与二阶思维

Howard Marks is one of the clearest writers on risk, cycles, and market psychology.

Marks emphasizes second-level thinking.
His style is contrarian, cycle-aware, risk-first, and patient.

Lab Note / 实验笔记Motivation / 动机5 min / 5 分钟

Self-Determination Theory: What Motivation Needs自我决定理论：动机需要什么

Why motivation grows when people feel autonomy, competence, and connection.为什么当人们感到自主、胜任和连接时，动机会成长。

Motivation grows when autonomy, competence, and relatedness are supported.当自主、胜任和连接得到支持时，动机会成长。
Low motivation can be a signal about the environment, not just willpower.低动机可能是关于环境的信号，而不只是意志力问题。