Have you ever wondered why some product managers always like to imitate other people's products just to save a few pennies?However, a really good product manager knows how to make 1% improvement in details, so that the quality of the product is an order of magnitude higher. Doing so will not only increase a lot of profits, but also capture a larger market share.
For example, the retina display of Apple computers costs less than $10 more than ordinary displays, but it can not only sell the computer for more than $100 more, but also more than double the user experience. This is to increase the cost of "sesame" in exchange for the effect of "orange".
The difference in the amount of work done is only a few times at most, but the quality of the work done and the subsequent impact can be of magnitude difference.
If you want to understand this, you might as well change the way you work and do more impactful things.
Of course, this is not to make everyone ambitious, otherwise the success rate will always be equal to zero, and you will achieve nothing for the rest of your life. Based on my observations of the older generation of teachers at Tsinghua University and my contemporaries, I found that there are not many of them who cannot achieve success in their lifetimes. This is not because they have low requirements for themselves and only do simple things, but because they think too highly of themselves and are unwilling to start with small things in a down-to-earth manner. After achieving nothing, those people without exception feel that they have no talent. Even if you are the smartest of the smartest, if you are too ambitious, the success rate will drop to zero. No matter how large the number is multiplied by a zero, the result will still be zero.
When a career starts, most people start small. And because of the lack of skill, the speed of doing things is usually slow, and the success rate of even a little thing is not high. But it doesn't matter, the functions that can change by magnitude are not all large at the beginning, but get bigger and bigger over time. The same is true of people.
Anyone who does something with their feet on the ground, after a period of time, the success rate will increase, the efficiency will also increase, and then the impact of doing everything needs to be increased. Some people are able to grow with age, and some people hit the ceiling at the age of 30, so success is not about whether you try to do two more things, but whether you can jump to a higher magnitude.
Not only does it take time to increase the magnitude, but it often also requires jumping at key points.
Yu Minhong was also a gold medal lecturer back then, but if he always positioned himself as Teacher Yu, no matter how good the class was, it would just earn a hard-earned money, and his income would be much higher than that of ordinary teachers. Yu Minhong finally successfully transformed from Teacher Yu to Principal Yu, which allowed him to not only obtain huge wealth and capital market recognition through the profits of the enterprise, but also create an industry, which is a breakthrough in magnitude.
Of course, now his anchor Dong Yuhui is also facing a similar problem, I don't know if he will read anything from Principal Yu's experience, so as to let go of the burden of small homework.
A very important reason why many celebrities are unsuccessful in starting a business is that they have not completed the transformation from well-known ** people to TV station directors. The magnitude did not go up, and in the end it could only be repeated at the same level.
For most people, even if they are not engaged in science and engineering, do not invest, and do not start a business, they should understand the concept of magnitude. Don't be obsessed with repeating a lot of things that have little impact, otherwise no matter how hard you try, you will not be able to achieve great things. Pay attention to the success rate of your own work, and strive to produce some positive effects in everything you do, so as to lay the foundation for doing bigger things in the future.
Finally, the important words to repeat, achievement = success rate x influence x speed. It's hard to change three variables in a formula at the same time, and it's better to raise them one at a time and roll forward.
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