2024-2-28 (Wed)
Husband and wife read a book and reading notes.
Principles of Ray. Dalio
Part 1 My Journey.
Excerpt from p37:
Bringing to the public and analyzing people's opposing perspectives has given me a lot of insight into the way people think.
I've come to realize that people's biggest weaknesses and biggest strengths are the opposite of each other. For example, some people tend to be overly risk-taking, while others are overly risk-averse. Some people pay too much attention to detail, while others think too big.
Most people are overdoing in one area and falling short in another.
Often, when we follow our natural instincts, we may not be able to consider our weaknesses. This will lead us to failure.
The most important thing is what to do after failure. Successful people, acknowledging and even accepting their weaknesses and then making changes that are beneficial to themselves, allows them to continue to use their strengths and make up for their shortcomings. And the unsuccessful ones don't do that.
Insight: I happened to be organizing the planning and implementation of the company's training recently, which involved the review and inquiry of the training PPT.
In the preparation, the tutor needs to try to teach the PPT, and the members of the review team listen first, put forward their own suggestions after listening, and then everyone work together, and finally reach an agreement after the tutor modifies its PPT.
In the process of questioning, the tutor often insists on his original things (this is normal, and it also needs to be like this), and the review team has very different ideas and communication methods (what they want is different), and sometimes they will enter the state of each other's own opinions, that is, when they can't listen to their own opinions, the scene is extremely "lively" and serious, that is, different ideas are colliding, and the different points of view are openly and then integrated, and everyone feels relaxed and happy at the moment when they finally reach an agreement.
In the end, the effect of the training is better than before the modification, and the tutor's purpose, content, ideas, context, coherence, PPT layout, PPT aesthetics and audience absorption have been improved a lot, which shows the value.
Speaking of PPT, the same is true of many things in work and life:
If one thing is important to me, it is important to others. When I am in charge, my thoughts are important, and it is especially important that the minds of the people involved in this matter need to be involved and play a role. As for who to get involved, it's usually best to have someone of a higher level or at least someone at the same level as yourself.
If I have to make a choice, it is especially important to seek advice from people around me who are of a higher level or a similar level, because it will avoid some of the risks that come with my own limitations and weaknesses, which are even contrary to what I want to gain in the end.
If I'm doing a job that requires skills that happen to my longboard, that's my luck, and it's a good match. That doesn't necessarily mean I'm going to be able to do well. Because on the back of my longboard, there is also my short board on the contrary. If I can be very clear about this, then I can play my strengths as much as possible, and I can also do something on my weaknesses, such as making changes that "I need" or doing things that reduce the negative impact of shortcomings.
How do you make the best possible deployment while recognizing your strengths and weaknesses? It's worth thinking about!