Let me share two quick stories that have nothing to do with investing. I want to convince you of something important and overlooked: Investing is a broader field than it looks, and there is so much to learn about it outside of the narrow lens of finance.

让我分享两个与投资无关的小故事。我想让你意识到一个重要且常被忽视的事实：投资的领域比表面看上去更广泛，而我们可以从非金融的视角学习到很多关于投资的知识。

The first comes from forests.

第一个来源于森林。

Most young tree saplings spend their early decades under the shade of their mother’s canopy. Limited sunlight means they grow slowly. Slow growth leads to dense, hard wood. But something interesting happens if you plant a tree in an open field: free from the shade of bigger trees, the sapling gorges on sunlight and grows fast. Fast growth leads to soft, airy wood that didn’t have time to densify. And soft, airy wood is a breeding ground for fungus, disease, and ultimately a short life. “A tree that grows quickly rots quickly and therefore never has a chance to grow old,” forester Peter Wohlleben writes.

大多数年轻的小树苗在生命的初期，通常生长在母树的树冠阴影下。由于光照有限，它们的成长速度较慢，而缓慢的生长能使木质变得密实坚硬。不过，当你在空旷的地方种植一棵树时，情况就不同了：没有大树的遮挡，树苗可以充分吸收阳光，快速生长。而快速生长产生的木质松软且稀疏，缺少时间变得紧密。松软稀疏的木材更容易滋生真菌和疾病，导致树木寿命缩短。森林学家彼得·沃勒本指出：“快速生长的树木容易腐烂，因此从未有机会长寿。”