[Financial Freedom] We refocused our attention
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What is the most valuable asset you have?
- Inexplicable join in the hot
- Edgy to follow the crowd
- Worry someone else’ s things
How many people in these three pits?
And,
what is the most important, but overlooked, precious asset that everyone has?
PIT AND FINANCIAL
If you start from the life phenomenon, you will find yourself surrounded by lots of big pits. They have extremely normal and reasonable faces, and even bring you many benefits in the short term, such as finding a sense of belonging in the crowd for you: join in the hot things is enough; such as for you to save yourself thinking about making decisions: follow the crowd is enough; such as bring you some sense of accomplishment and comfort: Worry someone else’ s things is enough. But in the long run, they destroy the most important capital you have to gain and build up, attention.
Compared with attention, money is not the most important thing, because it can be regenerated. Time is not the most important thing, because it does not belong to you in essence, you can only try to make friends with it and make it for you. Your attention is the most important and valuable resource you have. From this point of view, life is actually fair, because your attention is really your own, unless you give up yourself. So, that outcome is good or bad, in fact, is your own choice. In view of this, the defeat of so many people has long been doomed very early, because almost from that moment, they have developed a habit of squandering their own attention, leaving their own most important and valuable resources bit by bit or a lot to lose. If such people can succeed, where is justice?
Therefore, you must put your most precious attention on yourself.
TWO INTERACTS
This week we made interactive with readers in two dimensions, on the one hand, we hope to provide examples of life that attention the three pits, because I think, when you can focus exhaustive scenes of life, then it would at least make an impression on your mind, until then encounter a similar pit, can have a subconscious doubt, found the problem is to avoid the beginning.
On the other hand, I hope everyone can be good at managing your own attention, starting with documenting daily attentional expenses, it is important to note that with the end of this week’s article, we stopped talking about the use of attention and didn’t mean your good habits to stop, I hope everyone in the absence of reminders to persevere.
In the two interaction, readers put forward various problems, some of which indicate that one has lost the attention to the attention itself in the process of trying to concentrate. I said in “Time as a friend”, when you take a course, the initial “Introduction” is the hardest to learn because your knowledge of the course is almost equal to zero. Each new one mentioned in the introduction the concept of starting from scratch for you is also likely to distract you from the initial learning. And I see that many people will ask questions about some huge concepts, such as what is accumulation effect, how to improve core competitiveness and how to learn. In fact, you should be very clear, these things I will expand said after that, say well. But still anxious to know the answer as soon as possible.
When we record the use of attention, many people make the mistake of “misunderstanding”. We hope everyone will record the cost of ‘attention’ rather than the cost of ‘time’. There are so many people who send out time accounts to show that “the most valuable wealth you have is the attention” is not deeply understood.
I say, why not all people think the first time the answer to “time” as the most precious wealth, because attention is our inner choice, it’s not like time is not our body can control thing, attention can serve us completely through our control, so the “what you have” in the title is an indispensable key assertion.
So when somebody asks why their everyday is full, but still feel no gains, will remind them that your time is full, idle is your attention, and your growth is wasted.
Re-understanding the value of attention, the ultimate goal is to guide us how to better use it. I suggest that you put it on three things, as for the specific proportions, everyone can have their own choice, and each choice will ultimately lead you to a different life.
First, focus on your own growth. Put in all the skills that can help you accumulate effects, and then give full learning, thinking and exercise. Some skills don’t appear to be particularly like a skill in the early stage, but as the accumulation deepens, their impact on your ability curve will become exponential. The formula for the compound interest effect is (1 + r) ^ n, where 1 is your starting point and r is the daily progress. It can be very small, but you have to make sure that it must be positive.
Second, focus on your true love. After I talked about the essence of true love this week, it get many resonated in the commentary. Your love is worthless when you just “claim” that you are in love. Unfortunately, that is exactly the situation for most people: they are just afraid of being alone. There is an essential difference between fear of loneliness and true love, which we can see as the difference between “weak” and “strong”. Because the meaning of true love is that you are even willing to “waste” your most precious wealth on them. This is precisely the embodiment of resources, “you still have precious wealth to waste.” But those who are afraid of loneliness will be crazy to ask for it in the name of love. For example, I have seen some people who are “not agree with each other, then start their own business”. They don’t love their field or love their entrepreneurial life. But they want to get the benefits of entrepreneurship, such as controlling the power of the team, such as getting money in the boom of capital. This is the gesture of the weak.
If you are true love for something, don’t say it with your mouth, you love your parents, you love your other half, you love your children, you love your friends. Putting your attention on true love without repay is the key to true happiness. After putting them, what are you paying attention to? The same thing: growth, focus on their growth. It doesn’t matter with age, believe me, even your parents need to grow.
Finally, focus on what makes a real contribution to the whole society. Or that sentence: the individual value is equal to his social contribution rate. This is not a saying. It’s really not a sentiment. It’s really not a fake. It’s really just a real economic calculation. It’s the most cost effective way to do so.
The value to those who really make a difference to society is enormous. As for whether the price must converge with value, sooner or later. The more long-term, more so; and with social progress and development, the difference between value and price fluctuations can only be smaller and smaller, don’t believe it: in this highly developed information, the time when information exchange costs are getting lower and lower, the time for value return will be shorter and shorter. This means that any bubble caused by information asymmetry will disintegrate at a faster and faster rate. In the capital circle, this view also has a lot of recognition, just as my friend Li Feng, the founder of FreeS VC, said publicly some time ago: “Now it’s getting easier for good people to make money.”
In the end, our understanding is back to how to achieve financial freedom through reasonable consumption of attention. So we have to mention a very simple and successful business mode in the world: concentrate massive cheap or even free attention and sell it at a high price.
Those who don’t value their attention are doomed to be poor, because they have been harvested for life, and there can be no real valuable output throughout life. How can they become rich eventually?
That’s easy.
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