Reading "Exercise", the bookmark of this book reads "Because of your existence, this world has added a new possibility." This book is not difficult to read. The views are clear and organized. However, I still think that the essence of the whole book can be more refined. Let me try to summarize it below.

"Balanced time perspective": Adopting different time perspectives in the workplace and life situations is advocated by the balanced time perspective. A common mistake modern people make is to confuse work and life. Instead of "living life", they "catch up with life".

Zhu Guangqian: Learning and career can only be regarded as the second thing in life. The first thing in life is life. What I call life is to enjoy, to appreciate, and to cultivate vitality. If you forget about life for the sake of knowledge and career, that kind of knowledge and career will lose their true meaning and value in life.

Similarly, when arranging leisure time, the satisfaction brought by "passive leisure" sitting in front of the TV and watching TV is far less than the satisfaction brought by engaging in a hobby of one's own. feel. While watching TV, we can eat melon seeds, play with mobile phones, and chat with others at the same time, but we are not "immersed in it."

When engaging in some creative activities such as writing and painting, you can be completely immersed in it and even enter a "flow" state. The degree of relaxation and satisfaction we derive from leisure does not depend on its length but on its quality.

Keep a hobby and let it grow slowly in the appropriate depth and length of time, and you may get unexpected achievements.

Buffett’s schedule is sparse and almost blank. Buffett explains that you have to be good at saying "no" in order to do the really special things.

Set higher goals for yourself and you will discover more and better options.

A mature person’s standards come from his heart, while most people are influenced by their environment.

When making particularly subjective choices involving feelings, preferences, etc., the best way is to listen to your inner voice.

No matter which choice you make, some things in you will never change. What ultimately takes you to your destination may not be a certain choice, but the things you will not change.

Because once you start, you have the opportunity to do it better. "Now" is the best time.

As long as you start doing something that seems tedious, it will become easier and easier. Our inner laziness, fear, and luck are accompanied by all kinds of excuses, erecting many invisible obstacles before the actions that should be taken. These psychological barriers often outweigh the difficulty of the actions themselves.

Minimum viable product: An experimental product that uses the least resources, is produced as quickly as possible, can perform basic functions, and can be used by users. Entrepreneurs should release the minimum viable product as soon as possible. It is then optimized based on feedback from users using it.

The internship experience in a certain company is not a product, but a systematic summary report written based on the internship experience can be counted as a product; the experience of reading a book is not a product, but an in-depth and thorough analysis of the book The article can be counted as a product; having the skill of painting is not a product, but the paintings created using this skill can be counted as a product.

The idea of ????Lean Startup is that you do not need to be completely ready before playing. You can prepare while playing or play first and then adapt. Although you may fall bruised at the beginning, your progress will be greater. quick.

Only when you make something tangible can your thinking become clearer, your talents can be effectively exercised, and your vision will be broader.

"Craft Strategy" believes that it is unrealistic for companies to always formulate a perfect strategy in advance and then strictly follow its execution. Companies should form and revise strategies as they act. This is just like what a pottery craftsman does. During the pottery making process, the embryo of the pottery is changing every moment. The craftsman needs to be keenly aware of how it changes, and then adjust strategies and ideas in a timely manner.

Treat criticism as information. One of the characteristics of a mature mind is that he can treat his own and other people's opinions impartially and fairly, without being complacent or blindly following.

As a reader, you always read from the first sentence to the last sentence in the novel. For a creator, there are many possibilities for the order in which novels are written. For example, some writers like to write the end of the novel first, and some writers will write the most exciting climax of the novel first.

Accumulate wisdom through review in practice: every time you finish a piece of work, think about it in your mind and make a reply summary, which is called "review". Over time, you can learn a lot.

Awesome people are always excellent at forward thinking and summative thinking. They can not only envision all aspects of possible situations in future events in advance, but also reflect on actions that have already taken place, so they always think more deeply and thoughtfully than ordinary people.

The value of acting before thinking: "Think before you act" is not necessarily correct. In many cases, it is even possible to "act before thinking" because "people's smart actions are the result of a high degree of skill and complex reasoning." formative,” so that reflection after action may in turn develop our understanding.

According to Japanese knowledge management master Ikujiro Nonaka, the knowledge contained in our actions is tacit knowledge that is not suitable for expression in words. For example, how can a ramen chef pull out very thin skin? These skills contain in his actions, but it may not be that easy for him to say it out loud. The knowledge in books is explicit knowledge that can be clearly expressed in language. He also believes that the process of knowledge creation is actually the process of mutual transformation of tacit knowledge and explicit knowledge. The transformation from tacit knowledge to explicit knowledge is the manifestation of knowledge.

When you don’t know how to do something, just start doing it. As long as the first step is started, there will be a second and third step.

Please publish your results on the corresponding online or offline platform, collect feedback from the outside world, and list the 3-5 suggestions that are most inspiring to you. Based on the suggestions collected and personal reflections, revise your "product".

Actively build knowledge. Any question can be explored.

Don’t just be a porter of information. Skills are the end of learning. The most effective way to learn: learn by doing.

The brain needs to "break away". Information overload is not caused by too much information, but because our "filters" have failed. Select trustworthy sources of information. Don’t chase trendy or over-the-top information. Emphasis on factual information, light on opinions and comments. Go into retreat regularly to shield yourself from external distractions.

Develop concise expression skills: Conciseness is the mainstream standard in writing. Moderate simplicity means richer connotation.

As long as you work hard enough, you can get better. Some people firmly believe that as long as they work hard enough, they can become more capable. Such people have the characteristics of a "growth mindset", while some people have a "frozen mindset". People with a growth mindset, they The academic or career achievements achieved are significantly higher than those of people with a fixed mind. That is to say, the belief that they will get better is exchanged for the reality of getting better through hard work.

How can people with a fixed mindset transform into a growth mindset? An effective method is to change your language habits and change closed and absolute summative evaluations into open heuristic questions. For example, instead of saying "I am not good at doing this", ask "How can I do it successfully?" Where do I still need to improve on this?"; don't say "I can't do this well", but ask "Is there any other way to get this done"; don't say "I can't do this well"; They did a great job", but ask "How can I do this better"; instead of saying "I definitely won't do things like them", ask "Can I learn from them?" "Something"...

People selected by special training programs may not be better than those outside the plan. "Wild growth" may also create outstanding talents.

The diversity between people at the biological level is far greater than personality. This diversity determines that the difference in people's intelligence levels is limited. But the hard work the day after tomorrow is different. The difference between a person who is lazy every day and a person who has been studying hard for ten years can be said to be a huge difference. The human brain has considerable plasticity, which means that the transformation effect of acquired efforts on people can be amazing. Therefore, Zhihu has a famous saying: "With the low level of effort of most people, it is simply not their turn to fight for talent."

When it comes to hard work, in addition to self-motivation, we should also think about: How should we work hard, what strategies should we use to invest our time and energy, and how should we effectively start, maintain and optimize our investment in one thing. These are crucial questions for us to think about.

Why is the barrel theory wrong? It is much more important to have outstanding strengths than to have no obvious weaknesses. This concept conflicts with what we know as the "barrel theory."

However, many people do not understand such a simple truth. Most of the letters for help the author received were from people who were confused about their future careers. He found that nine out of ten of these people did not realize the importance of concentration. The importance of developing personal talents. Gather your few resources (time, energy, money and even courage), invest them in doing one thing, concentrate on doing one thing well, and focus on one area until the end.

Then a clear fact emerges. Those who only dabble in it are likely to gain nothing, while those who devote themselves to the end will receive excess benefits.

“Carefully examine your strengths and weaknesses. Use your strengths to work hard and work with others to balance your weaknesses. Avoid wasting energy in many different directions. Stay focused and do what you can do. Do your best and keep an eye out for new opportunities. ”

No one can be perfect. There are so many areas that can be improved. With limited energy, we can only try our best to use our strengths. To the best of your ability, problems caused by your own weaknesses can be solved by forming a team with others with complementary strengths.

But if you don’t have any obvious advantages, who would be willing to team up with you to fight monsters?

For example: Qi Baishi spent half a year sketching the 16 borrowed volumes of "Mustard Seed Garden Painting Book". Discovering a good book, spending half a year copying it, and spending several years studying it are what a young man who is eager to learn does in an age of information scarcity. Today, how many people can study like Qi Baishi?

With a smartphone in hand, our time is divided into pieces.

There is no need to pursue perfection in everything: if you want to do things meticulously and make things perfect, you must make a choice: choose something that you think is the most important and valuable to you, and do it conscientiously. It is done accurately, carefully and well; for other minor things, it is enough to complete them with a standard of 70 or 80%; for other insignificant things, just don't do them if you can. The first secret of hard work is to "give up". Only when you have to give up can you gain something.

Highly difficult challenges stimulate unlimited potential. People need some setbacks, failures or difficult challenges to stimulate them. If everything goes smoothly all the time, you will always stay in your "comfort zone" and refuse to come out, and your potential will not be fully stimulated. From this perspective, challenges and talents go hand in hand. Without enough challenges, outstanding talents cannot be born. Build a personal ladder of challenges.

Willpower is a myth. When something that requires long-term persistence is placed in front of us, we always like to talk about the importance of willpower, as if you can persist to the end as long as your willpower is strong enough. And if you don’t follow through, it must be because of willpower. I have never believed in this willpower myth. In my opinion, willpower is very unreliable. The more you emphasize it and the more you rely on it, the more likely you are to give up halfway. Because there is always a limit to what can be endured by willpower, just like a rope that is already very tight, if you exert more force, it will break at any time.

If I can persist in doing something for a long time, it must be that the sense of abundance and satisfaction that this thing brings me exceeds all my efforts. It must be this thing that lingers in my mind day and night and makes me want to stop. It must be this thing that arouses the strongest interest deep in my heart. In other words, what gives me strength is the drive of passion, not the spur of willpower. This idea is not unique to me. Scientific research has also confirmed this. Psychologist Edward Deci found through experiments that people's performance in completing the same task is better when driven by the internal motivation of interest than when driven by material rewards. better.

If you don’t have a deep or thorough understanding of something, and you always just touch upon it, you will naturally not be able to appreciate the beauty of it, and you will naturally not have a lasting interest. This makes it easy for people to slip into an endless loop: insufficient understanding leads to lack of interest, and lack of interest cannot deepen their understanding of it. Another reason is that people always like to judge, draw conclusions and label things easily.

Create success, not copy success. Neither "student scumbag" nor "student scumbag" are good choices. Be an active and exploratory learner. Example: Jeff Raskin is a classic “self-help explorer.” He is not the kind of person who can be cultivated by a uniform education system. He relies on self-education to become a talent. He is neither a typical "academic master" nor a "student scumbag".

The risks of standardized education: top students choose to comply, while bad students choose to escape, but one thing is very similar, that is, they have not cultivated the autonomy of learning, and have not answered what they want to learn. How to learn well.

Looking at many accomplished people, they have a main line of research that has lasted for decades, but at the same time, they also maintain curiosity and desire to explore knowledge and opportunities in other fields.

Focusing yourself on one area and striving for excellence is the only way to cultivate talents. But at the same time, after you have delved into a field to a certain extent, you also need to find new knowledge and ideological nourishment from other disciplines or fields to enrich and inspire the field you are studying intensively.

Make good use of high-quality educational resources on the Internet. MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), TED, etc. However, Coursera, Udacity, and edX, the world's three largest online course academies, have low student course completion rates due to a lack of supervision from teachers and schools.

Only when you are unique can you be irreplaceable. For example: Aunt Susan. She was loved by many because she was so unique and unconventional, and any imitation of Susan would certainly fail to recreate that uniqueness.

Among all living beings in this vast world, being unique will make you easier to be discovered, remembered, and even more irreplaceable. More importantly, being unique means that one or more of your image, personality, knowledge, experience, and experiences cannot be copied or imitated by others. It means that you have added a new kind of quality to this diverse world. possibility and value. Forming an idea that is different from others is very rare and requires both wisdom and courage.

In the field of strategic management, many scholars believe that the best competitive strategy is not to teach you how to compete with others, but to carve out a unique path with few competitors. “The point of strategy is to keep you away from competition. Strategy is not about doing better, it’s about doing it differently.

"If you are nothing special compared to most people, then why should society reward you above the average?

Therefore, making yourself unique is a necessary condition for success. The following are the advantages of people with unique minds summarized by the author:

(1) Insight into opportunities that others have not discovered outside of mainstream views;

(2) Formation Personal core competitiveness, avoid low-level homogeneous competition, and make yourself irreplaceable;

(3) Reject the labels placed on yourself by others and the public, and develop yourself with a more open and free mentality;

(4) Because you don’t have to cater to the mainstream of society, you save a lot of time and energy, and you can focus on doing your own things well;

(5) Bring fresh insights and inspiration to the public , forming an influence on the public;

(6) It is more identifiable and easier to form a personal brand;

(7) Attracts other unique and excellent people People, become friends or partners with them.

Don’t do things for the sake of social recognition. If you try your best to conform to the mainstream standards, say what everyone likes to hear, and do what everyone likes, in order to be recognized by society. You are not recognized, you are ignored.

In the words of Susan Sontag, “I am a heretic, and everyone can be a heretic, but most people have to choose the middle way. ”

Finally, when we avoid the trap of pursuing social approval and realize the value of doing cool things, we may be on the path to success because we are unique. On this path , the following seven methods can help us:

(1) Resist your desires, or delay the gratification of desires;

(2) Question the seemingly most credible statements and do not blindly follow them Anyone;

(3) Block popular information, or only receive popular information during a fixed period of time;

(4) Think about the most impossible things and develop possibilities for them ;

(5) Retain and develop your own "eccentricities" and develop them into your own competitiveness;

(6) Be enthusiastic about small things, and be passionate about small things. Discover the big world;

(7) Carry out thought experiments and action experiments to let thoughts and actions inspire each other.

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