每日原则：从点数中发掘有用信息

对一个人的每项观察都可能会告诉你关于其行为处事的有价值信息。如前所述，我把这些观察称为点数。一个点就是一条数据，对应你对其含义的推断，例如，这涉及某人可能做了什么决定，讲了什么话，或想了什么。我们通常不公开这些推理和判断，但我认为，要是能把它们系统地搜集起来，假以时日，在综合考察对一个人的印象时，它们将极有价值。

Every observation of a person potentially tells you something valuable about how they operate. As I explained earlier, I call these observations "dots." A dot is a piece of data that's paired with your inference about what it means--a judgment about what someone might have decided, said, or thought. Most of the time we make these inferences and judgments implicitly and keep them to ourselves, but I believe that if they are collected systematically and put into perspective over time, they can be extremely valuable when it's time to step back and synthesize the picture of a person.