所谓动物精神就是每个人采取行动的应激性,而不是经过刻意的、仔细的谋划之后才做事情。事实上,人们做出的大多数决定都是受到个人情绪驱动的,源头很大程度上都是人的潜意识,而非理性。亚当·斯密曾提出人们会理性地追求自身的经济利益,但是他并没有考虑到人们会受非经济动机的驱使,而且没有考虑到人们的非理性程度或者被误导的程度。概而言之,他忽略了动物精神。不仅仅是亚当·斯密,我们每个人都有意识地认为自己所做的事情都应该是经过深思熟虑的,其实我们远远没有自己所想的那么 The so-called animal spirit is the stress that everybody takes, not after deliberate and careful planning. In fact, most of the decisions people make are driven by personal emotions, and the source is largely human subconscious, not irrational. Adam Smith has proposed that people rationally pursue their own economic interests, but he did not consider that people would be driven by non-economic motives and did not consider people’s irrational or misleading degrees. In short, he neglected animal spirit. Not only Adam Smith, but each of us consciously believes that what we are doing should be well thought out, in fact, we are far from what we think