A person’s greatest internal friction is a low level of diligence

I’ve seen an interview with a character.

Once, Lei Jun asked Liu Qin of Morningside Capital to tell Liu Qin about the secret of his success.

Liu Qin said: I believe that God rewards hard work, if you are diligent, you must be a very good investor.

But Lei Jun directly retorted at the time: “Heaven does not necessarily reward hard work. ”

Many people know that Lei Jun is a model worker, he is more than a little diligent, he is a super diligent god who only rests for 5 hours a day.

But he didn’t agree, God rewards hard work.

In real life, we often see examples like this.

Some people Xi study very hard and work very hard, but the result is little gain and mediocre performance.

Even, we often feel that we have worked hard and worked hard, but the results are not satisfactory.

Why is this happening?

Because, we only know to work on the basis of the most primitive methods.

There is a saying in “The Godfather” that says it well:

“People who spend a second to see through the essence of things, and those who spend a lifetime unable to see the essence of things, are destined to have completely different fates.”

It is not only time that is plundered by low-level diligence, but what is more terrible is that it blinds our minds and traps us at the bottom of our cognition, so that the more we try, the more we are lost, and the harder we try, the farther away we want to be.

So, how can you avoid low-level diligence?

01

Only by recognizing the problem can we solve it.

In life, when you encounter troubles, you can face them soberly, think diligently, find the essence of the problem, and solve it naturally.

Heard a little story.

Two gardeners, each running their own garden.

One of the gardens was overgrown with weeds; Another garden is full of birds and flowers.

When I looked closer, I noticed that the two gardeners were not the same.

The first gardener, cursing and cursing while pulling weeds, was sweating from exhaustion.

The second gardener, on the other hand, was lying leisurely under a large tree, humming a little song.

Why is there such a big difference between the gardens of two gardeners doing the same job?

It turned out that the gardener of the beautiful garden was also weeding all the time at the beginning, and he was not allowed to be idle.

But he soon found out that no matter how hard he worked, he couldn’t pull out the weeds, and after he dealt with this weed, the other one grew again.

Later, he finally came up with a good idea to plant some flowers and plants in the garden that grow faster than weeds.

After these plants grow, the weeds disappear.

Since then, he has lived a leisurely life.

Isn’t the gardener of a beautiful garden lucky?

And what if he just keeps his head down cleaning up the weeds?

Presumably the same as the gardener in the first garden.

Meituan founder Wang Xing has a good saying: “Most people are willing to do anything to avoid real thinking.” ”

No matter what work you do or what problems you solve, you must think soberly, recognize the essence of the problem, and work the methodology, so as to amplify the results of your own efforts.

“Cognitive Awakening” says that many people are ignorant of the rules of the world, and are always Xi to spinning around in the fuzzy zone, going around in circles in the comfort zone, repeating what they have mastered, and turning a blind eye to the real difficulties.

Ambiguity is the source of life’s troubles.

And life is also like a race to eliminate ambiguity, the more serious the ambiguity, the more chaotic it is; Whoever has a slighter blur will be more awake.

No painful event goes away on its own, even the smallest thing.

The only feasible way to avoid being bothered is to face it, see it clearly, and then break it down and solve it.

The more sober you are, the luckier you are, and may you be one of the lucky ones in that “small group”.

02

Focus on the goal to get twice the result with half the effort.

Harvard University has a very famous follow-up survey on the impact of goals on life, and the survey subjects are a group of college graduates with similar intelligence factors, educational level, family environment, etc.

Here’s what it turned out to be:

The first group of people: 27% of people, no goal;

The second group of people: 60% of people, with vague goals;

The third group: 10% of people, with clear but short-term goals;

The fourth group of people: 3% of people, with clear and long-term goals.

After that, they began their careers.

Twenty-five years later, when they were followed up again, it was found that the fourth group of people had changed dramatically in their careers and life situations.

For 25 years, almost all people with clear and long-term goals have been working tirelessly to achieve the goals they set in life.

Twenty-five years later, almost all of them have become top successful people in all walks of life.

The third group of people with a clear short-term life plan will mostly live in the middle and upper echelons of society after 25 years.

One by one, their short-term life plans have become reality, and their living standards have continued to rise, making them indispensable professionals in all walks of life.

The second group of people with vague goals almost all live in the middle and lower strata of society, and some of them have a stable job and life, but none of them have any particularly significant achievements.

The first group of people who have no goals and plans almost always live at the bottom of society, are in poor economic conditions, and are often unemployed.

Therefore, the goal is to focus on life accurately.

When this focus is done, and you devote your time and all your attention to this one point, then hitting the target and achieving excellence is a matter of course.

Someone once asked Edison, “What is the first ingredient to success?” ”

Edison replied:

“Everybody is doing things all day. If you wake up at 7 a.m. and go to bed at 11 p.m., you’re doing things for 16 hours. Most of them must have been doing something all the time, the difference is that they do many, many things, and I only do one. If you spend that time on one thing, one direction, you will succeed as well. ”

Dong Yuhui said: There is no distraction, everything can be broken.

Spotlight is especially important for young people.

It is normal for young people to have multiple goals at the beginning of their careers, but after a period of trial and error, they need to determine a goal that suits their development and put all their efforts into it.

If you eliminate internal friction and go all out, you will distance yourself from others and reach the peak of life faster.

In “Cognitive Awakening”, it is said that the real master of action is not someone who has the ability to do many things at the same time, but someone who will find ways to avoid doing many things at the same time.

Focus on goal-level efforts, working on what to choose and not to do, and the value judgments behind it.

If you go in the wrong direction, the more you invest, the greater the loss. If the goals are scattered, it will be difficult to achieve excellence.

03

Timely review will continue to improve.

“Replay” is derived from the term Go, which refers to the fact that the player repeats the process of the game after the game, and through review, summarizes the advantages and disadvantages of each move, and derives methods that can be optimized and improved, so as to improve the player’s professional ability.

On the chess game of life, we also need to review in time.

If you pay attention, you will find that timely review is a common secret of those who are excellent.

The name Sam Altman may seem unfamiliar to everyone, but when it comes to chatGPT, there should be no one who doesn’t know it at the moment.

The founder of the company behind this popular AI product is none other than Sam Altman. Therefore, Sam Altman is known as the father of ChatGPT.

Altman, who was born in 1985 and is now only 38 years old, has the experience of opening up all the way.

At the age of 19, he dropped out of the computer science department of Stanford University to start a business;

At the age of 26, he sold the company for $43 million with his entrepreneurial partner, and since then he has been financially free;

At the age of 29, he invested in and managed YC, the largest business incubator in the United States, and expanded its scale tenfold in 5 years.

At the age of 30, he co-founded Open AI with Elon Musk and others, ranking among the top entrepreneurs in the world.

How did Sam Altman succeed?

There is an important reason, he said, that he reviews his goals every once in a while.

Socrates once said: A life without reflection is not worth living.

The meaning of the review is to let yourself know whether you have really achieved your goal.

In this world, there are many effective methods, but why are they useless for you?

Because you don’t know where your problems are, you just look forward, but forget to look back, you should compare your own behavior, sort out where the problems are in time, so that you can better take every step in the future.

30% of our learning Xi is from books and others, and 70% is from ourselves.

Whether you learn from others or from yourself, there is a process of realization, and only when you are realized by yourself will you become your own.

Learning from yourself is a review of yourself.

Regarding the great significance of review to a person’s growth, writer Zhang Meng also said:

If you don’t know what kind of person you are for so many years, the truth is actually very simple:

It’s because you haven’t systematically sorted out yourself and haven’t reviewed yourself, and of course you don’t know why you are the way you are today and what has shaped you today.

It is more meaningful to review in a timely manner, summarize experience and learn lessons from past lives, rather than just rushing to the road.

Retrospectives allow us to avoid low-level repetition and make both successes and failures in our work valuable.

The classical teacher said that diligence also has a realm:

Low level diligence depends on effort, medium level diligence depends on methodology, and high level diligence depends on the selection of goals.

The vast majority of people in this world are in a state of “low level of diligence”.

unwilling to think soberly and improve in method;

Don’t know how to focus, focus on the goal;

Not good at review, greatly discounted in results;

Such a life is full of internal friction.