The mental model is the most important asset, far more important than asking questions and solving them.
Because if the underlying thinking model you install is wrong or incomplete, then the direction in which you analyze and solve the problem is wrong, and the more you try, the farther away from the truth.
Here are 20 thinking models that have benefited me a lot:
1. It is easier to achieve the goal of 10 times more than 2 times.
Because once you hold yourself to a 10x standard, you will give up on the things that have limited growth and focus on the opportunities that have the potential to make you grow tenfold.
For example, if you want to achieve relative freedom in time or finance, it is impossible to rely on part-time work, you will not be keen on working overtime, earn a limited salary, and will take the initiative to use the time outside of 8 hours to develop a side business.
I don't care about cheap verbal praise and honorary titles given by the boss or leader, but pay more attention to the reputation among customers and accumulate resources for future independent work.
2. Happiness is neither a virtue nor happiness, the essence of happiness is growth, and when we grow, we will feel happy. If you don't make a little bit of progress today compared to yesterday, you will feel that you are trampling on your precious life time. In particular, career growth gives people a stronger and more lasting sense of satisfaction and achievement.
3. The key to defeating the strong with the weak is that in the local field, we can concentrate several times the strength of the opponent, quickly solve the opponent, and constantly encroach on the opponent's market, so as to gradually reverse the overall unfavorable situation.
4. The butt determines the head, so to convince a person, you must start from his interests, not reasoning.
5. If you only change jobs frequently because of short-term salary, but never care about your personal brand and reputation in the industry, then you will always hover at the bottom of the workplace.
6. Arm yourself with Moore's Law, choose those things with low production costs, low marginal costs, low distribution costs, and long-term value, and keep iterating and persistent.
For example, since writing, the cost is the cost of living such as food and drink, as long as you live, you can keep trial and error, if you can persist for ten years, you can succeed. Unlike investing a lot of money in an entity, you can never turn over if you fail once.
7. We live in a variety of concepts that we have created, using them to explain and transform the world. The power of thought is far more powerful than the power of matter.
In the future, the virtual world that crosses the physical boundary will swallow the physical world and create unprecedented new value, which has infinite possibilities. The explosion of generative AI last year was a milestone in the fourth productivity revolution.
8. Strong relationships give us a sense of security, while weak relationships have a greater probability of bringing new knowledge and new opportunities to change our destiny. The antifragile learning method, in which you learn a completely different field of knowledge every two or three years, may not be effective in the short term, but suddenly one day you can connect the previous bits and pieces and see opportunities that others do not see, and the rewards will far exceed expectations.
9. If you focus on results, you can never change; If you focus on change, you'll get results. Goal-oriented behavior, the benefits obtained are predictable and capped, but the competition is extremely fierce. And process-oriented, for a long time in the base, almost no income, once the tipping point, there will be more money earned in a year than in the past few decades combined.
10. Uniqueness will not be easily replaced, and scarcity will have a premium. To be a unique and scarce person, the essence is to master your own right to print money. The rules can be set however you want, and collecting money is a breeze. For example, Chanel, Picasso, Jobs, and Musk are all such people.
11. The mind allows two seemingly contradictory views to exist, but in fact they are unified in the higher dimensions.
12. Stick to your own circle of ability, don't do what you're not familiar with, and don't do what you're not good at, you won't be deceived. 13. If you can beat it, you can fight, and if you can't beat it, you can run.
When the strength is not enough, when the risk cost is far greater than the potential return, don't go to the front with others and consume your own strength in vain.
14. The decision not to consider the critical value is stupid, if a thing, you have no hope of breaking through this threshold at all, resolutely do not do it, otherwise it will be a waste of your own resources, such as meeting people who have prejudices against us, the best strategy is to give up and leave these people, because it is impossible to be educated, you can only do screening.
15. Positive feedback must be established as soon as possible in everything we do, that is, we must constantly seek a small competitive advantage in the local area and obtain a greater return with a smaller investment.
16. Give priority to expanding the right to choose to obtain benefits, then both the benefits and the right to choose can be obtained; If you sacrifice your right to choose for short-term gains, you will lose both your interests and your right to choose.
17. Stay in the green mountains, not afraid of no firewood. Infinite game thinking pursues to be able to play forever, so the decision that allows you to survive is the real rational decision. In the end, the rewards far exceed the expectations of finite thinking.
18. If you want the boss or leader to adopt your suggestion, the easiest way is to make him feel that your suggestion is what he originally thought.
19. Quantity is far more important than quality. Quantity is the most important quality, and most of the quality problems, in micro**, are not enough in a certain place. Take sales as an example, you have no performance, not because you are not good at words, but because you have too few high-quality customers.
20. If others don't take the initiative to ask you for advice, don't take the initiative to give advice to others. Those who are sincere will take the initiative to pay, and those who are white prostitutes will be blacked.