Source: Drucker School of Management? WeChat public account

Introduction

If you often observe the friends around you, you will find that when a person is fast When growing up, he will have a clear and clear direction of development. We call this direction the "algorithm of life."

The so-called life algorithm is a systematic method to solve various problems in life. It is a mechanism of continuous iteration and a routine to increase the probability of achieving your goals.

But for society as a whole, we have the most common life algorithms. As long as you find and practice these algorithms, you will go faster.

This is what I call "do things according to talent and reuse routines to succeed." There are only a few things a person is good at, and the routines for accomplishing things are also traceable.

So what you have to do is very simple, just like Luo Fat said: The algorithm of life is the most basic routine that you keep repeating when facing the world. You have to find it, repeat it, and strengthen it. Use its power to travel through time and turn all your weaknesses into armor.

I have observed many outstanding people who have counterattacked from ordinary people. I have summarized their life algorithms based on my own experience and share them with you here.

1

Habitual reflection:

Am I satisfied with the present? Can I be better?

Alibaba CEO Zhang Yong once said when giving a lecture at Hupan University: "Restlessness is an important criterion for me to select talents."

The so-called restless people are habitual Reflecting: Am I satisfied with my current work and life? Can I do better?

Most people are actually not that satisfied with their lives, but when they think about the pain of "leaving the present" and the uncertainty of the future, they will most likely shrink back.

Huang Haifei, the executive chef of Hema, a subsidiary of Alibaba, is known as Gary to Ali. He has been a chef for more than 30 years and was the first Chinese executive chef of Marriott Hotel. He is hailed as the "God of Cooking" in Shanghai by insiders.

After Huang Haifei returned from the UK to work for several years, he keenly discovered new trends in the catering industry. He found that although the high-end restaurants under his jurisdiction were still industry leaders, they were also beginning to be impacted by new business formats. Various methods such as Internet celebrity catering, Internet ordering, and online and offline retail stores are becoming more and more popular among young people.

Huang Haifei realized that the industry was undergoing great changes, and he felt that he could do something bigger.

So, at the age of 47, he joined Hema, which was impoverished at the time, put down his frying spoon, and worked with a group of young people who were more than 20 years younger than him with his computer under his arm every day.

Compared to those who are determined to change themselves because their lives are unsatisfactory, it may be more difficult for Huang Haifei to make this decision. After all, he has reached the top level of the chef industry, and after the interview, the founder of Hema This is what Lao Cai (Hou Yi) and Lao Qi (Xia Yuan) told him at the time:

"The sooner you come over, the better. We are going to open a restaurant soon."

"Okay, is the restaurant open?"

"No."

"Where is the address?"

"No."

"We'll decide when you get here."

This brief conversation even made Huang Haifei mistakenly think that this was a leather bag company .

But reality did not disappoint Huang Haifei. Hema’s development speed, working methods, and overall atmosphere all made Huang Haifei uncontrollably excited.

After joining the company in April, Huang Haifei began to select locations, develop dishes, plan menus, and decorate. On July 7, the first new store opened. "We barely slept 48 hours before the opening. It was a really exciting time."

In addition, in just a few months, Huang Haifei also led his employees to develop SOP (Standard Operating Procedure) for more than 1,000 self-produced cooked foods, instant dishes and snacks. In order to get the same taste of mooncakes, he would even try it in the kitchen more than 30 times and go back and forth to the store and factory more than 10 times...

Later, their success was obvious to all, and Hema opened on the first day Sold 200 takeaways, 300 on the second day, and 400 on the third day...

I often say that the most scarce opportunity for a person is the opportunity to choose. When you still have the ability and willingness to do it, When making a choice, I advise you not to hesitate.

There are not many key choice nodes in life. If possible, you must jump out of your comfort zone and pursue the life you want. If you don't want to regret it when you get old, then you must cherish the opportunity to choose.

Compared with the continuous pain caused by unsatisfactory life, I still advise you to choose the pain caused by change.

So, in terms of "reflection", I have 6 suggestions to share with you:

1. Think regularly: Is the current life what I want? Can it be done better? How can I do it better? You can think about it every 3 to 6 months.

2. If the current life is not what you want, then you need to change your life and work model. If changing these cannot save you, then you should find a way to get yourself into a better life. A bigger step, such as studying for a new degree, taking a new certificate, or changing to a new job.

3. Don’t be afraid of choosing, because many choices just involve you being entangled before choosing. In fact, it’s just one thing to cross that hurdle.

4. The reason why a choice is a choice is because the options are evenly matched for you, so just "thinking" is useless. You can only do it through full investigation and accurate consultation with people with relevant experience. , to get a relatively correct answer.

5. When faced with important life decisions, don’t blindly trust the relatives and friends around you, but firmly trust those who “understand”. For example, when many people decide which university to choose after the college entrance examination, they often trust not experienced seniors, but their relatives and friends who have never attended university.

6. If you don’t know what you want to do or what you should do, and you are particularly confused, then you should do the things you are doing well or go all out to make money. After all, making money can cure everything. Pretentious.

2

Treat your time well:

All economies are time economies

I don’t know if you have noticed, but modern people are The use of fragmented time has reached an outrageous level.

In the business field, major companies are doing their best to compete for users' time. Luo Zhenyu even proposed the concept of "total national time", pointing out that in the future, users' personal time will become the ultimate battlefield for business.

But at the personal level of users, most people don’t take their time seriously at all, and are addicted to many products as if they were poisoned. Products such as Toutiao, Douyin, Weibo, and Moments are seamless. Fill up all your time, even including going to the toilet, brushing your teeth, washing your face...

The power of business is winning step by step in the competition for time, which means that individuals are losing ground in the use of time.

A survey by the British "Daily Mail" showed that during non-sleeping time, people unlock their mobile phones at least 73 times a day, an average of once every 4 minutes.

Of the total time, browsing media software accounted for 13%, using social software accounted for 12%, browsing the web accounted for 9%, making phone calls only accounted for 13%, and the remaining time was spent playing games and mobile phones. Shopping, watching videos.

Many young people come back from get off work and lie in bed to use Douyin and Kuaishou. It is standard to stay on until one or two o'clock in the middle of the night.

Failure to compete for time not only means less time for you to use independently, but also brings more problems, such as lack of concentration, fragmented working time, low efficiency, staying up late, etc. Low willpower...

Marx has a famous saying: All economies are time economies.

Fundamentally speaking, the distinction between life encounters begins with the way time is used. In addition, many people are addicted to fragmented media. As one goes and the other goes, the differences between people are getting bigger and bigger.

So:

1. People who do not value time often mean that their time is of little value, because they have wasted so much time and they have nothing to lose.

2. Stay away from time-killing products such as Toutiao, Douyin, Kuaishou, vulgar YY novels, online games and other things that can make you addicted.

3. Plan your personal time scientifically, go all out to work, study, and exercise during the working day, and play as much as you want on the weekends.

4. Learn to say no, devote 80% of your energy to truly important things, and say no to irrelevant opportunities, work, parties, and social interactions.

5. Learn to rest scientifically, because good rest is the foundation of all life and work. People who have a good rest can walk like a tiger.

3

Continuous self-motivation:

If you do not exceed expectations, you are unqualified

I once asked a boss who was from McKinsey: Who do you think has the most potential in the workplace, and who do you like to work with the most?

The boss thought for a while and said that those with the most potential are often those with strong self-motivation ability. You can have absolute trust in them. The most important thing is the work results they deliver. All exceeded expectations.

He also shared a McKinsey work principle: If the requirement for you is 100, even if you reach 100 but do not far exceed 100, although no one will say anything to you, you are not qualified.

Is it able to far exceed the boss's requirements and expectations of you, and can it reflect your work attitude and your work requirements for yourself? Only those who have strict requirements for themselves are likely to continuously break the boss's expectations and are the people with the most potential in the workplace.

I used to have two authors, one is a new author, let’s call him W, and the other author is Shuai Xiaobing who has recently emerged in the field of paid knowledge.

To be honest, I had very few writers available to me in the past, so I had to ask W to write for anything at first, but the whole process of W working for me was extremely disappointing.

Every time W’s manuscripts are of average quality, there are occasional delays, plagiarism, unclear words, and typos. He often doesn’t answer the phone or respond to WeChat messages. Moreover, he pays special attention to the manuscript fee, and his asking price is much higher than the standard. Writers of the same caliber.

Given that he had these problems, I would only use him later when I couldn't find anyone.

But my other author Shuai Xiaobing is not. On the one hand, she is not particularly obsessed with manuscript fees and regards every writing opportunity as an opportunity to improve and show herself;

On the other hand, she will sum up the methodology very carefully, check the information and come up with ideas for each manuscript with great care. After the manuscript is written, she will carefully polish it more than three times. Many times, the content she writes makes me feel like I am seeing it before my eyes. As soon as it shines, I often pass it in one draft.

Two years have passed, and looking back, there is a huge difference in the development of the two people. W has not made much progress, and his manuscript fees and writing skills are basically at the same level as when he debuted two years ago.

But Shuai Xiaobing has already made a mark in the content field. The "12 Reading Monetization Lessons" she lectured sold 5,000 copies in just a few months, and she is expected to become a lecturer with a salary of one million this year. . This is undoubtedly a huge career milestone for an author who has just debuted.

And W still thinks that he is unappreciated for his talent, complains about his bad luck, complains that I don’t give him a real good opportunity, and is unwilling to step down and do some solid work seriously.

So I am not surprised by the significant difference in the development of the two people. You must know that if you always treat work carelessly. When you buckle down and want to do something big, you will find that you are not strong enough, both in terms of habit and ability.

Tips:

1. Always think about how to do better. After all, this world does not belong to the powerful or the rich, but to Belongs to those who are thoughtful.

I can’t guarantee whether you can become an elite by striving for perfection in everything you do, but those who do this are very awesome.

2. Never lower your requirements, because as long as there is a first time, there will be a second and third time... For example, as long as a person who loses weight indulges himself once, he will definitely There was a second and third time.

3. There is a high probability that you can’t do the previous one, but if you can’t do it, don’t blame yourself, because the huge feeling of guilt will weaken your willpower. What you have to do is “indulge in the past” "I did it 100 times, now try to indulge myself 90 times instead of 110 times." Even if you have made progress, don't try to achieve it overnight.

4. Don’t think “I will be serious when the time comes.” Anyone who has experienced the college entrance examination knows that being serious is a habit. People who are not serious at ordinary times will not be serious when it comes to the college entrance examination.

Go all out for every opportunity, check every important node of the document (especially the title, quotation, leader name, etc.) repeatedly, and don’t muddle along.

5. Lao Tzu said, "The difficult things in the world must be done in the easy way. The great things in the world must be done in the details." It is not enough to have dreams and goals. We must also set realistic goals and start from the relatively easy ones. From an angle, there is an executable plan that can be implemented down to the details, and you need to review it afterwards to find problems.

6. There is no self-control that cannot be managed well, only discipline that cannot be enforced.

If you want to be an excellent person, you must first have an excellent body. Don’t be slovenly. Buy a few sets of good-fitting clothes, wash yourself clean, lose weight when it’s time to lose weight, and improve your temperament when it’s time to improve. Temperament, just exercise when you need to exercise. It sounds simple, but many people can't do it.

7. Don’t be vulgar, don’t always say dirty words, don’t always watch some weird videos, don’t always go to some weird places (even if you go to an Internet cafe, you should go to a higher-end Internet cafe).

4

Empty cup mentality:

Always be open to new things

A reader once asked me a question: Why now? There is so much information online, but are there still so many differences in knowledge and understanding between people?

I thought about it and answered him: There is a gap in learning ability between people, which leads to intuitive differences in learning levels. More importantly, many people’s mentality is too fixed, and they simply I can't accept any new information.

But if you always refuse the input of new knowledge and ideas, then your knowledge level, way of thinking, and values ??can only be determined by your relatives and friends around you and some mindless Internet articles. Most people who love to deny others and get emotional easily are this kind of people.

This is the beginner’s mentality that Zen Buddhism talks about, which is also what many people call the empty-cup mentality. Don’t have any prejudices against new knowledge and ideas, and don’t reject new knowledge and ideas because of emotions and experiences. .

I think an important indicator to judge the strength of potential is the "empty cup mentality", which means that the person remains open to new things, rather than always relying on his own experience and old cognition. Reject new knowledge.

I have a friend who wants to learn writing and open a public account, so I took the initiative to recommend a new media course on a certain public account. However, the title of the course tweet went in the opposite direction and read, "In 2019, I advise you to stop being a public account!" 》.

This friend of mine is a little angry. Why did you recommend this article to me? It’s impossible for me to learn from this title!

I concluded that he only read the title and came to refute me without reading the content. This is a typical example of not having an open mind for learning.

I say that if you want to be a self-media person, you must listen more and read more. You must not have such a closed mind. You cannot refuse to study simply because the title does not suit you.

Many people do not give up learning after learning, most people give up learning before learning.

This is why although knowledge and information are so popular, there are still many people who seem to know nothing.

These people are often in the stage of "I don't know what I don't know" as Fu Sheng said. What's even more frightening is that 95% of people are in this stage, so they have lost their thinking, cognition, and knowledge upgrades. opportunity.

But everyone knows that technology in this world is advancing by leaps and bounds, and all walks of life are undergoing tremendous changes every day. Knowledge and ideas are colliding with each other every moment, and the requirements for people are correspondingly increasing. The higher we go, if we always stay at the lowest stage, it will be difficult to adapt to the new requirements the world places on us.

And people who maintain an empty cup mentality will not be too bad in the end, because their knowledge system and cognitive system are constantly upgrading. When they face "correct", they will consciously compare themselves with themselves. See Think of the wise and reflect on yourself when you see the unworthy. This kind of growth power is huge.

Tips:

1. Before criticizing others, think about whether it is because you are too low to see the awesomeness of others.

2. Don’t just point out other people’s mistakes without investigation and thinking, because it’s probably just that you think others are wrong.

3. People who gossip and say bad things about others online all day are often losers because they have nothing to do and don’t feel bad about wasting time.

4. Before encountering new knowledge and ideas, do not rush to deny them. Understand first, then think, and finally draw conclusions.

5. When you reject new knowledge and ideas, if you make a decision within 3 seconds, then this decision must be subconscious and often prejudiced. It is recommended that you reconsider it carefully. .

6. There is a high probability that you are one of the 95%, so you should study hard and study hard.

7. Establish your own regular information sources. You can regularly check information on industry papers, industry websites, technology websites, selected public accounts, and industry groups, and keep in touch with people at the forefront.

The above are my thoughts and thoughts on how to grow efficiently. I hope it can help everyone and make progress together.