It’s amazing recently. I have never heard Buffett’s words before, but I have seen them three times from different places recently!

I first saw it in a parenting book, to the effect of:

Buffett said: Educating children is like rolling a snowball, it requires good snow and continuous push, and it requires A long ramp.

I thought this metaphor was too vivid at the time, and immediately thought of the daily update. After more than 60 days of daily updates, the whole process seemed like a snowball.

1. First, there must be good snow to make small snowballs: Although my articles are generally very short, in terms of content, I have always asked myself to write at least a small topic, which can be very small and accompanied by I draw one painting every day, which is a kind of personal characteristic.

2. Then continue to push: I keep updating 6 days a week, and try to complete it in the morning or during the day. When time is tight, I will also write several short articles at a time to deal with emergencies.

3. There is a long slope: During the period of getting the 20-day and 50-day master badges, I began to have a clear goal: to get the 365-day badge. This is I snowballed down the long ramp.

During this process, I also saw some data trends:

1. The number of fans increased by 35 in the first month and 150 by the second month.

2. The number of likes every day in the first 20 days is within 10, and the number of followers increased is 1. The number of likes every day in the middle 20 days is within 20, and the number of followers increased is 1-2. In the last 20 days The number of likes every day is 30-50, and the number of followers is 5-10.

3. An article about reading notes has received nearly 5K views in a month (click to view)

The doubling of this data shows me that the continuous The power of doing a small thing is also more affirmed. The starting point for novice writers is to practice writing frequently, rather than holding back a long article every few days.

As a writing novice, a newcomer, and a busy mother, I do not set the number of popular articles and the number of fans as my goals, because I understand that I do not have the ability to devote all my efforts to personal development. Ability and time to go. Using Sister Xiaosha's point of view in "Five Kinds of Time", I still need to figure out my "survival time" before I can have "money-making time". However, it is a slow process. First, develop the habit of practicing writing every day. Later, qualitative changes will follow quantitative changes and occur at the appropriate time.

Later, I met Buffett’s famous saying twice. Once in the “Deep Reading” class group of Teacher Mengwei, the group members lamented with the teaching assistant that they worked very hard, but the growth of their fans was extremely slow. At the time, the teaching assistant encouraged her and said: The beginning is always the hardest! As your followers grow, it will get better and better! It’s like a snowball! ——When I saw this, I felt inspired. Yesterday I was listening to Sister Xiaosha's new book "Five Times" in the Himalayas. The article actually mentioned Buffett's words again: Life is like a snowball. The important thing is to find very wet snow and a long slope.

Only then did I realize that this sentence came from Buffett’s biography "Snowball":

This sentence originally stated the essence of investment, that is, the power of compound interest. Maybe Everyone has found that it can be applied not only to investment, but also to parenting, and even to life in general. It can be seen that this sentence actually illustrates an objective law of our life.

If you want to expand your knowledge and change your life through reading, you must develop reading as a habit like eating, and effectively apply knowledge to real life.

If you want to realize your dream, you must break it down into small steps and make unremitting efforts step by step.

If you want to become a writer, you must first develop the habit of practicing writing every day.

The process of daily updating is like cultivating good snow and slowly polishing your writing skills. If you develop the habit of updating every day for a long time, you will see your progress bit by bit. Instead of comparing the number of fans or the number of article views with others, it is better to compare with yourself and see if you have improved compared to your previous self. Everyone is special and unique. Find the rhythm that suits you, enjoy the process of hard work, and don't pay too much attention to the results. This is what Rigeng taught me.