A house full of books has messed up the living environment, which has made me more cautious about buying books in recent years. However, under the alluring publicity of many media, I finally bought "The Book of Navarre" when I was fighting for a discount.
Although this book is the most eye-catching topic of wealth and happiness, it is just a patchwork of words, and when I first read it, I felt bored and difficult to stir up inner turmoil.
Still, in order to live up to the time cost of reading and to exercise my thinking, I still tried to tap the value of it, and I still gained something.
Wealth formulaIn the book, Navar confidently proposes a formula for wealth. He firmly believes that even if one day he fails to start a business, is penniless, and is left on the streets of any English-speaking country, he can become rich again in 5 or 10 years. Because he has mastered the art of "making money", and this skill can be learned by everyone.
To simplify Navarre's idea of wealth into the most operational expressions, it is:
Wealth = [Interest, Expertise, Social Needs] Productization Leverage.We all know that only if you are interested in something can you be consistently engaged in it. As Tracy Born says, the things that make us so addicted to sleep and forget to eat are exactly what interests us.
First of all, we need:Make a list of all the things you're interested in。"If you really love something, follow it," Nawal emphasized. ”
Secondly,List our specialties。Nawal's explanation of the specialty is: "Knowledge that cannot be acquired through training. Because "if society can train you, then society can also train others to replace you". I understand this to mean skills that you are good at and have a comparative advantage over others.
Next, we're going to:Discover societal needs。"If you want to be rich, you have to figure out what you can offer society that it needs but doesn't have access to," Nawal said. "There are always many unmet needs waiting to be discovered.
Then, find the intersection of interests, expertise, and social needs and refine them into a standardized product or service, which is what Nawal calls "."Productization
Finally, make use of the network, **, etcLeverage promotionThese products or services can be scaled up to create wealth.
Nawal's summary of this method of making money, which not only takes into account the market demand, but also gives full play to the advantages of personal interests and expertise, and then realizes large-scale expansion through leverage, which is indeed of high practical value.
Of course, there are also people who think that this book is just a chicken soup article for successful people, and although they feel very reasonable after reading it, they still feel at a loss when faced with their actual problems. In my opinion, the concept of wealth in the Navarre Book is not an empty wisdom motto, but a practical guide to action. It can help us to have a clearer direction on the road to wealth, and the key is whether we can combine the ideas in the book with our own realities and put them into practice, so that we can truly benefit from them.
Unity of knowledge and action: Build your own behavior systemI'm stupid enough to think I'm smart. I use PEST to understand the development trend of politics, economy, society, science and technology in the next half century, and use SWOT to think about how to match the development of the world in combination with my own conditions. I also introduced six thinking hats to refine my strategy. This combination of long-term planning and tools makes me feel both professional and far-sighted, and my heart is full of an inexplicable sense of superiority.
In real life, however, I only live with games and beer. The lust triggered by big dreams contrasts sharply with the lazy behavior of reality. This caused me to fall into a deep depression of ambition and talent.
Some of Nawal's words had a positive impact on me.
"Once you decide to do it, act quickly and give it your full attention and give it your all," he said. At the same time, to:Be patient with the resultsBecause the only thing you can grasp is yourself, and other people and the external environment are complex and full of variables. ”
He also mentions: ".The only thing we have is the present moment. Nothing exists except the present. No one can go back in time, and no one can successfully ** the future in any meaningful way. The only thing that exists is the here and now, the moment when you happen to exist and this place in the universe. ”
Finally, he emphasized: ".Build systems, not set goals.
These words made me realize that fantasy is meaningless, and that only positive action can truly change lives. It makes more sense to build your own execution system than to plan for the long term.
This execution system consists of two parts:Scientific causality and strong action.
Scientific causality has given me an idea of what the action will be, or what action should be taken for a certain outcome. This understanding of the causal relationship of things is actually the "knowledge" in Wang Yangming's psychology.
On the other hand, a strong sense of action is to establish one's own patterns of behavior. I realized that only actions can lead to results. For example, after practicing the "three more and three less" in communication, after developing these habits, good interpersonal relationships and communication effects will naturally occur. This is the "line" of Wang Yangming's mind.
Be patient with the resultsThe only thing we have is the present moment. It was these two sentences of Nawal that made me break through the original superficial cognition of Wang Yang's unity of knowledge and action, and entered a new realm. The unity of knowledge and action is not that you should do it when you know it, but only when you do it can you really know. The unity of knowledge and action is to understand cause and effect and develop a behavioral pattern that creates the desired outcome. On this basis, through continuous summarization and improvement, we will continue to deepen our understanding of the relationship between cause and effect, optimize our own behavior patterns, and become accustomed to nature.
Let me abandon my fantasies and focus on what I do in the moment, and that's what I really learned from reading Navarre's book.