Let me introduce the classical teacher first: the founder of the new elite profession and the famous career planner. After I got the App, I had my own personal column "Super Personal". Millions of bestsellers: Tear down the wall in your heart, What's possible in life, and Jump: The Skill of Being a Master.
The subtitle of the book Transition is: The Technique of Becoming a Master. Described aptly, this book is like a secret book of Wulin. After reading this book, people can get information and know how to become a master.
The classic teacher wrote the theme of this book in the preface: how to amplify personal efforts with laws and trends. After reading this book, I looked back at this sentence and found that it perfectly summed up the main idea of this book.
This book is divided into five chapters, namely: master's black box, master's strategy, online learning, thinking-breaking and inner cultivation. Let me talk about the main contents of this book in chapter order.
The classical teacher wrote in the book that there are three kinds of drowning people in this era:
First, people who can't control their attention;
At work, I'm going to call a customer back, turn on my mobile phone and see information that I'm very interested in. After reading it, I found that there were many hyperlinks to this kind of information at the bottom of the article, so I couldn't help but click it again.
Half an hour later, I suddenly realized: I want to call the customer!
I believe many people have similar experiences. This society is full of hyperlinks and temptations. In our life and work, we often fall into the trap of hyperlinks.
Nowadays, people who can't control their attention will waste a lot of precious time.
Second, information will not be filtered, and key people cannot be found;
The hottest news recently should be that Wu Moumou was arrested. Why did he get caught? What is the cause and effect of this matter? Who is involved in this matter?
So and so divorced? So-and-so started swearing on the Internet? So-and-so's new drama style has been spit out?
What I want to say is: What does this have to do with you? What growth can you bring by paying attention to these? Do you know these will make you full?
Now that the Internet is developed, a lot of junk information is flooding our lives. We should learn to filter the information we have contacted, which is useless to our lives and which can bring us benefits, and we should distinguish clearly.
People who can't filter information and can't find the key points are doomed to be overwhelmed by the torrent of the times.
Third, people who don't understand the system and can't collaborate with strangers online.
How many WeChat friends are you familiar with? How many are people you don't know, or people you don't know? How can we make full use of these strangers?
With the development of the Internet, the society is now slowly entering a stranger society: learning English, there are no people who can speak English around, you can learn online classes online, and you can also give one-on-one guidance. You want to decorate, and you don't know anyone around you. You can publish information online, which is cheap and good in technology.
Therefore, people who know how to cooperate with strangers online can be more comfortable in this society.
The purpose of a master is very clear. He knows what he should do and will not be attracted by chaotic information.
All experts know that only by grasping the key information and grasping the essence of information can we get the maximum benefit in the least time.
Masters know how to think, understand the underlying information, and know which skills must be mastered and which skills can be outsourced.
The development of human society is the process of brain outsourcing;
With the emergence of language, people have evolved from single-handedness to teamwork, storytelling has become a new skill, and human independent thinking has been outsourced.
With the appearance of words, people can record things with words. In this way, human beings have time to think about more things, so there will be a big explosion of ideas.
The appearance of computers outsourced our memory ability to computers, so we don't have to recite things. We can easily find what we want by remembering the key words and searching online.
Real masters can distinguish which skills are hard skills and which skills can be outsourced, and know how to use laws and trends to amplify personal efforts. This is the master's black box.
Buffett is called the stock god because he never invests in companies beyond his ability. Every time he invests, he is in the industry he is good at.
Even though Buffett and Bill Gates are good friends and know a lot of inside information, he has never invested in the Internet industry. Because he doesn't understand this industry, it is beyond his ability, and he is not completely sure.
A real master is a person who can find his own high-value area and keep making the right ones in this area. Only in this way can they keep iterating and constantly improve themselves.
So, how do you determine your high-value area? The answer is scratching the head. The head is a high-value advantage area in your track.
To determine the head area, we must recognize our real advantages. Sometimes, the advantages we think may be brought into play in previous competitions. Being in a high-value area is not necessarily an advantage.
You should not aim too high, but start with the head around you and slowly, step by step, from the head of a chicken to the head of a rooster.
Generally speaking, the head effect is to grasp the high-value and advantageous head through observation and judgment, and then move from small head to big head.
Many people, after working for many years, end up doing nothing because they have no brains. I don't know where my direction is, and I haven't made a career plan for myself.
In fact, thinking in the head is just like playing games to upgrade monsters. At the beginning, our ability is relatively poor, so we can start from within our ability. Grab the heads around you first, learn from the experience in the upgrade of fighting monsters, improve your ability, and then grab one head after another.
For example, we can be the head of the department first and then the head of the whole company. After getting it in front of the company, go to the best company in your industry in your city. After achieving the market leader, the goal is the industry leader. So slowly accumulate experience for yourself and improve layer by layer, and one day you will reach your ideal position.
I saw the annual summary of Great God on the Internet: how many books I read, how many books I wrote, how many times I traveled, how many courseware I made, and how many new skills I learned.
Wow, a great god is a great god. He can do so many things in a year.
In fact, great gods can do such a thing, in addition to high efficiency and good time management. It is also very important that they want to know what they need to learn, how to learn and where to learn before studying.
There is too much knowledge in this society now, which is out of order. Our study should be more utilitarian. Before studying, you should have your own utilitarian heart, and you can save most of your time by studying purposefully.
Just like some people's attitude towards friends, I will associate with whoever is useful to me. Although this attitude is not advocated in interpersonal communication, it is still good in study, and I will learn what is useful to me.
In addition to defining the purpose of learning, great gods also know how to learn, where to learn and where to find the source of knowledge. Sometimes it is more important to know where knowledge is than to learn it.
There are many great gods in New Oriental, such as Luo Yonghao, Li Xiaolai, Classical and so on. Why New Oriental? Apart from the talent training system of New Oriental, I think the biggest reason is that they all know English.
Why is knowing English a great advantage? We usually check information, and most people search online; Masters usually look up books and find answers from them; A better person is to look up papers. Many books and papers are foreign language documents, and translators may not be professionals. There will inevitably be differences in translation.
At this time, the ability to understand the original English books and documents is a rare ability. There are many contents. Only by understanding the western cultural customs can we accurately get the main points of the book.
Generally speaking, the source of many contents in the book may be just a paper or a research report. It may take hours to read a book, but it may only take a few minutes to read a research report.
Moreover, a lot of second-hand knowledge and third-hand knowledge have been interpreted and polished by the author. This secondary and tertiary processing may make us better understand these concepts, or it may lead us astray. If it is a bad interpretation, it may make us misunderstand.
Therefore, finding the source of knowledge can not only save a lot of time, but also let us know the original concept and make us understand it more deeply.
The book introduces three learning methods: self-study, online learning and cross-border online learning.
Self-study is the least efficient way, not only learning slowly, but also easy to walk into a dead end. This learning method is not recommended.
Online learning, to put it bluntly, is exchange learning. Sometimes, communicating with others about your study may get unexpected results and greatly improve your efficiency.
As the saying goes, one person is short and two people are long. Sometimes you can't solve the problem by thinking hard. Maybe someone else has a solution.
Others think that if they come up with a good idea, it will be a blockbuster, and they are afraid that others will know, so they will study it behind closed doors. As everyone knows, the idea he thought of may have been thought of and realized by others many years ago.
Masters are good at learning from others, and directly obtaining other people's achievements is the fastest learning method. Of course, other people's achievements will not be given to you in vain. We need to exchange things for others.
The best way to exchange is to exchange your own achievements. In the book, the results are called knowledge crystallization, and we summarize our own knowledge crystallization through our own study. Then exchange this knowledge crystal with someone else's knowledge crystal, so that you both have two knowledge crystals.
With two knowledge crystals, we can enter the circle of two knowledge crystals and turn them into four knowledge crystals. In this way, we constantly upgrade our own circles, update and iterate our own knowledge crystals, and realize our own transition.
Cross-border online learning is a higher realm than online learning. Sometimes, when we reach a state, the answer we want may be outside our industry. Only by communicating with people from different industries and having a certain sense of the overall situation can we understand many things.
We saw many awesome people like to communicate online, so we have a dinner party and a salon if we have nothing to do. Let's discuss what ideas you have and what good ideas you have. Maybe we decided to invest at that time. This circle culture is the best performance of online learning.
The book also introduces a fast learning method: knowledge IPO, which can make people learn knowledge quickly and sum up their own knowledge crystallization.
Knowledge IPO is simply: I: enter a question; P: problem solving; O: export products.
Specifically:
1, the real high-value problem that you must be able to solve (i);
2. Not to learn knowledge, but to solve problems (P);
3, output mandatory input (O).
For example, if you are a personal growth consultant, many people ask you questions about personal growth (1); And you don't know the answers to some of these questions, so we will learn new knowledge to solve these problems (P); Over time, you will sum up these frequently asked questions and find the appropriate answers. Based on these, you wrote a book and it sold like hot cakes (O).
Every time you make an annual summary report, do you feel that there is no change between this year and last year, and there is no change between last year and the year before last?
How long have you not stopped to think: how many years have passed in this life, has this life been like this?
Each of us lives in a situation. Without broken thinking, our life will go on forever.
Why do poor people stay poor? The poorer people are, the more they will pay attention to trivial matters. The more you focus on trivial matters, the more negative energy you have; The more energy, the less motivation; The less motivation, the poorer.
This is what we often call a vicious circle. Only by breaking the status quo can we enter a virtuous circle.
Breaking the game is actually very simple, just make some changes. For example, spend half an hour thinking, running and reading every day. Find yourself a benign habit that you didn't have before and stick to it. Before long, you will find that life is getting better and better.
If you want to break the game, you must first understand the game. There is a good saying in The Godfather: "Those who spend half a second seeing through the essence of things and those who spend their whole lives not seeing the essence of things are doomed to be completely different fates." The so-called understanding is the ability to see through the essence of things.
Classical teachers divide a thing into four levels, which can help us see the essence of things clearly. These four levels are: phenomenon level, law level, mind level and values level.
The classical teacher gave a good example, such as a discount at the grocery store.
Phenomenon layer: The canteen is on sale today.
Ordinary floor: the canteen is discounted every Wednesday, and all products are discounted.
Psychological layer: Why is there a discount on Wednesday? Why are only these products on sale? How does the boss view the relationship between discount and sales?
Values: As an elite boss, what does he value most?
If you want to change the present, analyze yourself through these levels. Only by seeing the essence of our current predicament can we know where to start breaking the game.
1, see the world: open and concentrated
Concentration is a necessary condition for everyone to succeed, but if you are too focused, it is difficult to distinguish concentration from obsession. While focusing on your own field, you should also keep an open attitude, communicate more with people and keep in touch with them.
I believe someone has experienced the problems you encountered today and found a better way. All you have to do is keep an open mind and keep learning.
Nine laws of "openness and concentration":
1. Seeing that people are very good, I often admire them with joy.
2. Find the source of knowledge in your field and share it.
Don't worship anyone casually. Once you worship him, your system will shut down again.
4. It is silly not to think that you don't like and don't understand.
Beware of the theory that everything can be explained.
6. Be tolerant of people whose level is not as high as yours, because you don't have the truth.
7. Set aside 10%~30% time for areas you don't know or know very well.
8. From a higher perspective, discover and focus on your own uniqueness.
9. Pay attention to the big problems in your life.
2. Look at yourself: slow and interesting
Now this society is too impetuous, and people are pursuing fast. If there are any hot spots, I want to know them at the first time.
After an incident comes out, there will be many opinions on the internet for the first time, both positive and negative, and everyone is happy to argue online. In fact, if we stop for a month, maybe the truth will come out.
Generally, such hot spots come and go quickly, and there is no substantial change in our lives. It will not make our income higher, nor will it make us progress. It's just some fun after dinner. If you are too obsessed with this information, the realm will seem a bit low.
Sometimes it's good to slow down. At least we have time to think and make the right choice without being confused by the appearance of things.
Seven laws of "boring and interesting":
1. Indifferent to unimportant things.
2. Hold back the first reaction and wait for the second reaction.
Don't chase hot spots, wait for the main points to appear.
4. Find the global optimal solution and make long-term judgment.
5. Diversification, doing something unreliable, interesting and useless regularly.
6. Success is a small probability event. Find your own infinite game.
7. Let go of anxiety and curiosity.
3, look at interpersonal relationships: simple kindness will anger.
Now the pace of social life is getting faster and faster, and we have gradually entered the stranger society from the acquaintance society. We don't have time to get to know a person through one, two or three meetings.
To cooperate with strangers, the first thing to do is simplicity. Only if it is simple enough, people can get to know you quickly, so that we can have more tacit understanding when we cooperate.
Then, treat people sincerely, but not kindly. As the saying goes, "If people don't attack me, I won't attack." Your kindness must be a bit sharp. We should do nothing, don't make trouble, and we won't be afraid if things happen. The premise of being kind to others is that others are sincere to you, and it is wrong to think that we are easy to bully.
For this book, the biggest influence on me is online learning and broken thinking. These two things are like timely rain to me, which can just solve my predicament.
I often see this sentence on the internet: after reading so many books, I still have a hard time. I've been in this predicament before. It was not until I read the book again that I suddenly realized.
I used to study alone, without the awareness of online learning, which also led to low learning efficiency. I read a lot of books, and I don't even want to get started.
For some concepts and knowledge, they are very vague and have not formed systematic knowledge. Many times, it's not just a detour, the path is simply wrong, which leads me to waste a lot of time.
When I saw the classical teacher talking about online learning, I suddenly realized that a person's strength is limited after all. There is a good saying: one person walks fast, and a group of people walk far.
So I began to look for some reading clubs on the internet and communicate with you after I went in. Sometimes when I look at other people's views on a book, I feel a little one-sided, and I don't think deeply about the author's intentions, but I also learn to look at the problem from different angles.
Since joining the group, it seems that a new door has been opened, and the daily progress can be seen by the naked eye. It is not advisable to build a car behind closed doors.
Broken thinking has also helped me a lot. After reading this book, I found that I live in many games. One of them is that I fell into the reading trap, which I call the reading trap.
The concrete manifestation is hunger. When you see a book that interests you, you start reading and keep reading. I no longer take reading notes, and I write very few articles about reading comprehension. There has always been a voice in my heart: life is so short and there are so many good books. What should I do if I can't finish reading them?
The more I read, the more anxious I feel. I want to find the answer in the book, and then start reading. In this way, I fell into a vicious circle, which is what the classical teacher said.
The way I break this game is simple, that is, stop and think. Reading so many books has really broadened my horizons, but my life has not changed substantially.
After a long time, I still feel a little unusual: not what I expected. So, I temporarily put down my reading and thought carefully for a few days.
Finally, I understand that reading can't be fast, and sometimes you can gain more by taking slow as fast. A good book should be read more than once.
It is best to read a good book with an attitude of delving into it. For example, I have not only read the book Transition several times, but also read other people's interpretations on the Internet. Even I watched the video of the classical teacher visiting Fandeng's reading club several times, and I got something.
The more so, the more I feel that the method of fast reading before is wrong. Not reading, just swallowing dates.
In the video of Fan Deng's reading club, the definition of books by the classical teacher deeply touched me. Classical teachers believe that a book is not necessarily a book, but a book, a person or a thing. As long as you have a little feeling, you can call it a book.
Read, read the ancient sinus, and be ridiculous. So the classical teacher thinks that reading means that people can stay. I think this image is too apt: reading is to stay and think about life.