- In the face of the era, individual power is insignificant. You need to utilize the laws of the era to amplify your abilities.
The "point-line-surface-body" is an important framework for decision-making. When you choose a city or a company, you are essentially choosing a system. Your rate of evolution depends on the quality of the system. The better the system, the more adaptable it is to the era, and the faster your evolution will be.
Regardless of your choices, hard work is the foundation.
- Your relationship with the company is not one of employment, but one of cooperation. You bring together your respective resources and abilities to work together on a task.
The essence of work is value exchange - selling your time and abilities to realize them through the company.
Wages do not determine your worth as a person, but rather the worth of the position. Behind the position lies responsibility and the need to deliver value. If you want a raise, the best way is to get promoted. Therefore, you need to think, act, and prove your value based on the position you want to be promoted to. When choosing a job, your personal growth is much more important than a fixed salary.
- The thinking of exceptional individuals follows the "Golden Circle" mindset. Before doing something, ask yourself why you want to do it.
Exceptional thinking follows the pattern from the inside out:
why -> how -> what
Ordinary thinking follows the pattern from the outside in:
what -> how -> why
In the "Golden Circle" mindset:
Why: the core of motivation. What is your mission? What are your beliefs? What is your purpose?
How: the method of doing things.
What: the specific tasks to be done, the execution.
- You need to find ways to increase your leverage in your work.
As the number of people benefiting from your work or service increases, if the marginal cost you put in does not decrease or even increases, it means your leverage is low. On the other hand, if the marginal cost decreases rapidly or even becomes zero, then your leverage is high.
Jobs with low leverage have the characteristics of simplicity, repetitiveness, and mechanization. For example, taxi drivers or assembly line workers. To increase leverage, your value will become greater. There are three basic methods:
Reduce the time required to complete a task.
Increase the impact of a task.
Outsource low-leverage tasks and allocate time to high-leverage tasks.
- Time cannot be managed, the only thing you can manage is yourself.
To manage yourself, there is a simple and effective principle: always do the most important thing first.
- When you encounter difficulties, you need to activate a growth mindset and actively solve problems. Solve what can be solved and accept what cannot be solved, instead of complaining.
The circle of influence is what you can control, while the circle of concern is what you cannot control. Many times, we focus on the circle of concern, which leads to inaction. Therefore, you need to focus on the circle of influence so that you can control more things.
- In the past, you only needed to have one skill to sustain yourself, but now it's not enough. On the basis of network collaboration, you need to develop yourself into a super soldier. In other words, one person is a team.
You need to build multidimensional competitiveness. If you have product skills, you can also develop innovation, operation, marketing, and other abilities.
Nowadays, many investors are building multidimensional competitiveness: "I understand marketing", "I understand strategy", etc.
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You need to make good use of the basic business capabilities provided by super platforms, such as mobile payment, express delivery, e-commerce, short videos, public accounts, communities, and even supply chains. In other words, you need to use the capabilities provided by super platforms to arm yourself and empower yourself.
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Some things will bring you compound interest when you do them, such as reading, writing, public speaking, running, mindfulness meditation, etc.
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The logic of life is greater than the logic of business. Business focuses on profit, while life focuses on meaning.