What is the master of this era?
Masters know how to use the lower rules to stimulate the individual's leap-forward growth-this is their little-known "black box" and the secret of the masters.
Three laws of black box
1. Use a loan method that others don't know but they know. With the help of technology, platforms, channels, contacts and so on.
2. Use three steps of self-transition: cognitive transition, ability transition and energy level transition. Let the cognitive level, professional ability and personal work level go to a new level.
3. Outsourcing the brain: outsourcing unimportant skills and focusing on the transition of your core skills. For example, we outsource knowledge storage and then use internet tools such as search engines to extract this knowledge. It is more important to know where knowledge is than to remember it.
Do "less but better"
Find the best point, focus strategically, and wait for the opportunity. Find high-value areas, focus on strategy, and win in the most sure way. Because:
1. High-value areas are often counter-intuitive areas that you don't believe.
2. High-value fields need strong competitiveness.
3. High-value areas will change with the times.
Why the less the better? Isn't the more the better?
Today is a world full of opportunities, but the success rate of a single opportunity is even smaller. Wherever there are opportunities, there is fierce competition. The more open the opportunity market is, the more you should focus on your core competitiveness, and the ability to choose is more important than execution.
Three principles of head effect
1. Proceed from value rather than advantage;
2. Think about the advantages of differentiation;
3. Start from the nearest head and change from the head of a chicken to the head of a phoenix.
Using transition to achieve head effect
The first transformation: efficient growth under the rule of 28
Instead of spending all your energy on learning all the knowledge in a field, it is better to spend only a little energy on learning the most essential 20% head knowledge in each field.
Those who lay a solid foundation step by step are too late in this rapidly changing society. They can't show the advantage of getting up early, so they can't get the advantage of Matthew effect from the beginning-pushing excellent people to a more advantageous head position.
The second change: use the system to amplify fame.
If others think it's awesome (preferably really awesome), it will give you more opportunities. The opportunity will be closer to the person in the head. The more outstanding people you show in the early stage, the sooner you can get the head resources. Thereby forming a virtuous circle of continuous self-reinforcement.
The classical teacher gave an example of the outbreak of a generation of famous teachers in New Oriental. Those excellent teachers skillfully grasped the knowledge lever, took advantage of the platform bonus, and emerged online with the best people, which is an amplifier of natural and social laws.
The law behind these things is a potential opportunity for everyone to promote self-transition.
Therefore, we should use the conventional lever of the main strategy:
Internally, continue to amplify the sense of self-efficacy through the 28 th rule;
Externally, by moving to the head of the system, the system gains great impetus. Quickly become a junior person in charge, thus attracting the best resources, linking the head personnel and resources, and becoming a senior person in charge. In the 28-20 rule, 20% of the head can still be divided into 20% of the head and 80% of the tail. All you have to do is be 20% of the head in every 28-20 distribution.
Continuous iterative and systematic progress
Do not seek skillful hands, do not be greedy for victory.
After a point is completed, use the resources gathered by the head to proceed to the next step. If you want to parallel multiple heads at the same time, in the end, because of distraction, each one can't be a head, which is the result of biting off more than one can chew.
How to find an avatar?
To find high value and advantage areas in your own track, that is, high value+high advantage. Determine the high value first, and then think about the advantages.
But it should be noted that:
1. Don't rush into the stadium without considering your own advantages. The most beneficial thing about the new battlefield is that many people have accumulated in this direction.
2. Put yourself in the other's shoes, don't follow others' advice.
3. If the big head doesn't work, find a small head.
4. Don't pay attention to opportunities that don't belong to you, start from the head around you and start now.
5. Cut in from differentiation: focus on subdivision, shift to the periphery, and surround cities from rural areas.
6. Concentration is easier to form a head than dispersion.
7. Do something with a high probability of winning, as long as each step is higher than 50%.
Make head products and start knowledge IPO.
Drucker's books are popular because he keeps up with the contemporary puzzles, and each of his books can solve a practical problem in a guiding way.
Knowledge IPO method:
I: Input questions to solve problems continuously;
P: integrate multidisciplinary knowledge to solve problems;
O: Export products and turn ideas into products through consultation, research and development, teaching integration and writing.
Design your own knowledge
1. Make sure that there is a high-value problem that really needs to be solved, and this problem is solvable;
2. Remember that learning knowledge is not an end in itself, the purpose is to solve problems);
3. Invert the input through the output;
4. Don't make big moves and keep iterating;
Don't be afraid to share, sharing will bring you resources.
The first sequence changes state, and the second sequence changes system.
There are two forms of change: the first-order change is the change that does not affect the original model; The second order change is the change of mode.
First-order change: system change, state change, experience change.
Second-order change: for the change of the system, change the mode and change the result.
Everything goes back and forth because there is no broken thinking, usually because there is no solution within the bureau itself. So we must be able to see through the game, take a step back, see the whole system clearly, and then break out, in order to stop this vicious circle.
For example:
You fall into a nightmare, in which you run, jump, dodge, drown and fight. These are all first-order changes. You can't jump out of this nightmare unless you really wake up. Waking up is a second-order change. You can't do anything in a nightmare to interrupt it.
When the first order can't change the situation, jumping to the second order to change the mode is the key to breaking the game. The main transition is a second-order continuous change.
Relationships are more important than elements in the system.
The master can see the whole forest, and the novice can only see one tree after another. The author of "Deliberate Exercise" said in the book that when he trained the subjects' memory, he finally got the best memory method, that is, memorizing in groups of four numbers instead of just memorizing a single number.
Only remember the numbers, that is, only see the first order; Memorizing with digital chunks is to break the game by looking at the second order, that is, to change the mental model.
If a person's mental model has not changed, even if he changes 10 job and 20 girlfriends, he will eventually fall into the same predicament.
Find out the relationship between the past and the present
Let the past good become the present good, and then act on the future good.
For example, judging whether a habit is good or not only depends on whether it can form a positive loop closed loop. Exercise can promote health, a healthier body can exercise better, and better exercise can further strengthen the body. Then exercise is a good habit. A good past will bring a good present and eventually a good future.
Beware of the four death spirals.
The poorer, the poorer: poverty is a kind of heart, and the poorer, the poorer is a typical death spiral.
Insufficient investment: Many enterprises are faced with such problems: the decline in profits leads to insufficient investment in R&D, which further reduces their competitiveness. At the same time, the company does not dare to stop, because there are many workers and factories. Once it stops, everyone will starve to death, just like sitting on a crater.
Workaholic cycle: workaholic-less family investment-no sense of accomplishment at home-it is better to go to work-workaholic.
Be yourself: seek approval-can't find yourself-seek approval. The more you seek approval, the more you pay attention to the outside world, the harder it is to find your own strengths.
Two thinking habits of creating positive cycle and cutting off negative cycle
The first habit of thinking is to interrupt the negative cycle in reverse time. Once these situations are found to be connected end to end, break this vicious negative cycle as soon as possible.
The second habit of thinking is to establish a positive cycle over time, such as forming good habits.
The upper level decides the lower level.
Low-level workers are trapped in their current cognitive level, unable to see a higher level, and think that higher-level people think so, so they can't make a leap.
Each layer calls the system, which is called by its lower layer and also called by its upper layer.
The lower layer has no solution, and the transition layer has an answer.
The superior decides the goal of the subordinate and decides how to use it. The method of the upper level is not good, and the efforts of the lower level are useless, which is what we often say: "Don't use tactical diligence to cover up strategic laziness." Methodology determines the way to work hard. When there is no solution at the lower level, we should look for upward methods instead of making unnecessary efforts at the lower level.
No matter what system, the reason why a higher level will appear is to coordinate the resources of the original level more efficiently.
For example, to form a team is to exert one's own strength. If individuals pay too much attention to their own gains and losses and deviate from the team goals, then the team will fail and individuals will not stay. Learning is to solve problems. If you pay too much attention to the fun of learning and forget the purpose of learning, the overall efficiency will also decrease. Execution is to finish it. If you don't really think about the result of something and just do it blindly, then you will lose the possibility of completing it with more methods and more strength.
control point
Multilayer layout
In fact, the key to controlling victory is to place enough control points at each level. The more control points, the more controllable. The more controllable a person's mentality is, the better and more stable it is; Otherwise, it will fall into a vicious circle.
Single point controllable
Masters know how to pay attention to the internal and stable factors as much as possible. That is to control what you can control. Don't try to control what you can't control. Try your best to know your own destiny.
The worse the controller, the more opportunism. They wasted all their efforts where luck rather than hard work determined them. In some places, hard work is more important, such as playing chess, and in some places, luck is more important, such as gambling.
Multi-level distribution+layer-by-layer controllability means that when these control points appear, you can do everything with peace of mind and try to keep things under control. If it is out of control, adjust the control points to make the target controllable again.
Target refraction
Sometimes, to achieve the goal, you don't have to go all the way to the dark, but you have to adjust flexibly according to the current situation. The final successful path is a broken line or curve.
Life is not satisfactory, maybe it's not that you don't work hard enough, but that you choose wrong;
Low work efficiency, perhaps not lack of energy, but too many goals;
The relationship is not intimate, perhaps not because of this trivial matter, but because the feelings have been accumulated for a long time;
Not rich enough, it may not be that you don't save enough, but that you don't know how to invest.