- In the face of the times, individual power is insignificant. You should utilize the laws of the times to amplify your abilities.
The "point-line-surface-body" is an important framework for making choices. When you choose a city or a company, you are essentially choosing a system. Your rate of evolution depends on the quality of the system. The better the system, the more adaptable it is to the times, and the faster your evolution will be.
Regardless of your choices, hard work is essential.
- Your relationship with the company is not one of employment, but of cooperation. You bring together your respective resources and abilities to work together on a task.
The essence of work is value exchange - selling your time and abilities and realizing them through the company.
Wages are not determined by a person's worth, but by the position they hold. Behind each position lies responsibility and the need to deliver value. If you want a raise, the best way is to get promoted. Therefore, you need to think, act, and prove your value in accordance with the position you want to be promoted to. When choosing a job, your personal growth is much more important than a fixed salary.
- The thinking of exceptional individuals follows the "Golden Circle" mindset. Before doing something, ask yourself why you want to do it.
Exceptional thinking follows the pattern: why -> how -> what.
Ordinary thinking follows the pattern: what -> how -> why.
In the "Golden Circle" mindset:
- Why: the core of motivation. What is your mission? What are your beliefs? What is your purpose?
- How: the method of doing things.
- What: the specific tasks to be done, the execution.
- You need to find ways to increase your leverage in your work. As the number of people who benefit from your work or service increases, if the marginal cost you incur does not decrease or even increases, it means that your work leverage is low. Conversely, if the marginal cost decreases rapidly or even becomes zero, then your work leverage is high.
Occupations with low work leverage have the characteristics of simplicity, repetitiveness, and mechanization. For example, taxi drivers and assembly line workers. To increase work leverage, your value will continue to grow. There are three basic methods:
- Reduce the time required to complete a task.
- Increase the impact of a task.
- Outsource low-leverage work and allocate time to high-leverage work.
- Time cannot be managed, the only thing you can manage is yourself.
To manage yourself, there is a simple and effective principle: always do the most important thing first.
- When you encounter difficulties, you need to activate a growth mindset and actively solve problems. Solve what can be solved and accept what cannot be solved, instead of complaining.
The circle of influence is what you can control, while the circle of concern is what you cannot control. Many times, we focus on the circle of concern, which leads to inaction. Therefore, you need to focus on the circle of influence so that you can control more things.
- In the past, you only needed to have one skill to sustain yourself, but now it's not enough. Based on network collaboration, you need to develop yourself as a super soldier. In other words, one person is a team.
You need to build multidimensional competitiveness. If you have product skills, you can also develop innovation, operation, marketing, and other abilities.
Many investors are now building multidimensional competitiveness: "I understand marketing," "I understand strategy," etc.
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You should be good at using the basic business capabilities provided by super platforms, such as mobile payment, express delivery, e-commerce, short videos, public accounts, communities, and even supply chains. In other words, you need to use the capabilities provided by super platforms to arm yourself and empower yourself.
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Some things will bring you compound interest when you do them, such as reading, writing, public speaking, running, mindfulness meditation, etc.
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The logic of life is greater than the logic of business. Business is centered around profit, while life is centered around meaning.