Do you have good control over your free time?For example, when it comes to weekends or small long vacations, do you have your own plans?
Have you achieved all your plans?What if you have a long vacation or two?Will you live the life you expect on a long vacation?
A young teacher said that she didn't like the summer and winter vacations, because her schedule would be chaotic during such a long vacation, and her plans would all fall through. She felt like she didn't have any control over the holidays.
Let's talk about money, are you a moonlight now?Are you able to manage the money in your pocket well?If you suddenly hit a jackpot, how would you spend it?
In 2002, a sanitation worker in the UK won £9.7 million, and overnight, he became a super-rich. So he began to enjoy the glory and wealth that money brings: buying a famous car, buying a luxury house, taking drugs, gambling.
Seven years later, his wealth was squandered, his wife had left him, and he had to start working as a coolie again, living on handouts.
Why is it that a teacher with such a regular schedule can't control his vacation?Why do jackpot winners who get rich overnight become poorer than before?
Actually,This is all caused by a mismatch in ability, the teacher's ability to manage time does not match the time she has, and the winner's ability to manage wealth does not match the money in his hand.
Author Zhou Ling said,The matching principle applies to any field we can observe.
For example, learn Xi, if aloneMatch the edge of your comfort zone with the corresponding effort, and you will get the best learning Xi results
Why be on the edge of your comfort zone?
Because everyone's pace of growth is different, for example, a student with poor grades wants to catch up, then he should do some questions that match his current ability and are slightly more difficult, instead of doing some Olympiad questions.
If he does something that is beyond his ability, he will only achieve worse or even worse results.
Regarding fitness and Xi for people in the workplace, the book talks about two plans of AMY.
One is her running plan, she initially asked herself to run for one hour a day, but running for so long every day made her feel very tired, and she gave up after persevering for a while.
She later switched to running for half an hour at a time, only four times a week, which made it easier for her to stick to it because it matched the edge of her comfort zone, so she felt relaxed after each run.
The other is her plan to learn English, and she was initially asked to study for one hour a day, which annoyed her.
Later, she adjusted to study Xi for half an hour every day, and stopped studying Xi when the time was up, which made her feel that she could persevere and no longer feel irritable.
She said that although she lowered the difficulty and the standard and took longer to reach her goal, working on the edge of her comfort zone improved her mobility, and she felt that this kind of perseverance would definitely have a compounding effect.
Another example is reading, everyone likes to read books according to the list of books recommended by some famous experts. But when I bought it back, I found that some books were difficult to understand, because the same book, different people have different knowledge backgrounds, and it seems that the feeling must be different.
At this time, you might as well find a book that you need and are interested in, and just enough to read and use.
When reading, don't be greedy for speed and quantity, don't put too much pressure on yourself, and if you're too busy with work, it's okay to just read one page a day. Start small, add up, let the edge of your comfort zone slowly expand, and then go back to the previous book, and there may be no difficulty.
It is impossible to do anything like the star sucking ** in a martial arts film, as long as you breathe it, you can suck other people's skills onto yourself.
Keep in mind that the compound interest curve we learned earlier will be a slow process at the beginning, and it will only explode until a certain amount is reached, and then it will start to develop rapidly after an inflection point.
If you have a long-term goal in mind, sit down, find out where you are in your comfort zone right now, and set some small goals that match you in the short term.
Once these goals have been reached, you may have to re-identify the new edge of your comfort zone, and then set some short-term matching goals, so that you can continue to expand the edge of your comfort zone until you reach your goal.
So, sit back now and find the edge of your comfort zone!