Hello, I'm all the way.
Recently, I read the book "Aliens" and felt a lot of emotion.
01 Is success accidental?
There are many successological arguments that believe that success can be replicated.
A lot of success books also break down the various elements of success, as if you just have the characteristics of what he calls ABCD, you will definitely get good results.
But the reality is that these elements of success conditions are either not replicable, and even if they can be replicated, you may not be able to succeed.
Why? Because behind every successful person, there are a lot of accidental factors, the background of the times in which he lives, his family background, his educational background, etc., which cannot be directly copied by others.
Zhou Hongyi, the founder of 360 Company, said that there is no rule to follow when starting a business, success is accidental, and failure is inevitable!
Malcolm Gladwell, the author of "Outliers", is known as a geek, and he tells a lot of success stories of "The Chosen One" in this book, but unlike most people who generally believe that these Chosen Children mainly rely on talent and ability to achieve success in the end, he believes that these so-called successful people not only rely on their own talents and abilities, but also have many other uncontrollable factors, such as good opportunities, good family background, just in time for the rise of social change, etc., It is all these factors that work together to make these "outliers".
02 What to do?
Outliers poured cold water on those who are pretentious, think they are talented, and they are born to be useful, success is not so natural, and there are many factors that you can't control when you want to succeed.
Now that the entire economy is in a downturn, whether it is ordinary people, the middle class, or big bosses, everyone generally has a common problem: that is, anxiety. Anxious about your career, anxious about your future ...... life
Because of anxiety, everyone wants to pursue success, and if they want to succeed, everyone is desperately involuted. But when everyone enters the whirlpool of involution, everyone exhausts their strength and does not say anything, and in the end they can't see the effect they expect, and in the end it only adds a layer of anxiety.
Luo Jiade, a professor at Tsinghua University, once said that when he taught at Tsinghua University, he found that Tsinghua students were also very anxious.
It stands to reason that these students are already people at the top of the pyramid, much more cattle than most of their peers, and they are all called the king of volumes, but they are still anxious, sometimes even more anxious than the average person.
Because they already have the so-called success elements of success, if they still don't make a big difference in the end, this gap will make them feel more uncomfortable and more anxious.
Outliers tells us that success is full of chance, you don't have to fall into unnecessary anxiety, accept reality, do what you have to do, and wait for your opportunity.
1. Accept the impermanence of life
There are many uncontrollable factors in a person's life, you can't choose the era you were born in, your family background, you can't control the arrival of opportunities, there are too many accidents in life, you can't control everything.
Only by recognizing the impermanence of life will we have a proper attitude, that is, to accept the reality, do what we can change, give up what we can't control, and try our best to pursue those things that are more likely to help you succeed
Such as giving up complaining, making excuses, arrogance, slander, laziness, negativity, ......
To pursue tolerance, responsibility, self-discipline, pattern, vision, diligence, positive ......
Life is impermanent, and what we can do is to bury our heads in preparation and wait for the opportunity to come.
2. 10,000 hours of training
We need to prepare for 10,000 more hours before waiting for the wind to come.
Heterogeneity mentions in the book that the more psychologists study talent, the more they find that talent actually plays a small role in success, and the role of acquired effort is actually very large.
The most famous case in the genius theory is the study of the team of psychologist Erikson, who finally came to two conclusions:
First, there is no innate genius at all.
Geniuses mentioned in the study are those who spend less time than others and achieve more than others.
Second, there is no such thing as hard work.
The so-called hard life refers to those who work harder than others, but still can't be better than others.
This conclusion tells us that in order to achieve success, it is far more important to rely on acquired efforts than to rely on one's own talents.
In the process of learning, in order for a person to master a complex skill perfectly, it is necessary to practice hard over and over again, and the market for practice must reach a minimum critical amount, and many researchers have given a magical critical amount for the duration of practice: 10,000 hours.
To put it simply, it's a pile. Before I get it done, don't talk about why I haven't succeeded, ask yourself, has my training volume increased? When the number of training has not accumulated to a certain level, it is delusional to talk about qualitative change
Of course, 10,000 hours of training is not an inefficient and aimless old donkey pulling and grinding in place, it is simply the cumulative sum of waiting time, it is a kind of training with a goal, staring at the goal, consciously practicing, accumulating over time, and accumulating energy for future takeoff.
3. Wait for the situation and do things with a high probability of winning
Outliers mentions a very important phenomenon in the book, and to this day, the greatest group of entrepreneurs in the United States, such as Morgan and Rockefeller, were mostly born between 1831 and 1840.
When this group of people was in the period of young and vigorous and professional **, probably from 1860 to 1880, this period happened to be the transition period of the American economy, so these people were lucky to seize the development advantages of this era and take off.
A group of well-known Internet entrepreneurs such as Jack Ma, Ma Huateng, Robin Li, etc., who have emerged in China have led the rapid development of enterprises in the past 20 years and dominated the Internet world precisely because they have caught up with the east wind of the fourth information revolution.
Lei Jun, the founder of Xiaomi, greatly admires the trend, he believes that "there are too many smart people in this world, too many hard-working people, which are just necessary conditions for doing things, and more importantly, people must follow the trend."
Of course, not everyone can be lucky to be born in the tuyere of the times, but the environment is not static, the trend will always change, we must learn to observe the trend, stand in our own position to find our own potential, and find our own outlet.
03 Write at the end
Success is not easy to come by, and the impermanence of life cannot be fully controlled.
Understanding this truth, it is easier to maintain peace of mind and no longer be overly anxiousWe just need to focus on discovering our talents, our longboard strengths, and the things we're most passionate about, and then put all our energy into 10,000 hours of practice to improve our abilities as much as possible, and to be ready to do it