[Financial Freedom] What determines your destiny?
Look at that sentence again:
The so-called entrepreneurial success is nothing more than a solution to the problem master finished the right choice.
In fact, you can even remove the word "entrepreneurship":
The so-called success is nothing more than a solution to the problem master finished the right choice.
First of all, success is a matter of masters, at least for those who "become a master in the end."
Secondly, many masters, the level of answering questions is first-class, that is, let them solve problems, they are ability higher, more efficient, faster, and better results... But most of them are not necessarily able to success, because what they choose to do is often not a great success - that is, their ability to make choice questions is poor.
Finally, there is another explanation for the so-called success: doing the right thing in the right way (one of the core themes of "Being Time as a Friend").
You see, choosing this thing often happens before the action, so things are not done right, or after the wrong choice, the level is higher, the work is not helpful, the efficiency is better, the more the mistake, the faster, only can “early death and early resurrection”, as for the result, look back and know that it seems to have “determined” at the time of the initial choice - it is “destiny” because people usually use this when the results are not good. The word describes "destiny" or "luck."
In this sentence, what is the point of replenishing the word "entrepreneurship"? Because of the success of the business, it is often the cooperation of everyone and the victory of the group. Therefore, this judgment should be the thinking ability shared by the entrepreneur and the investor.
Entrepreneurs are the answer masters, investors are also the answer masters, but they are not the master of choice - then the probability of their victory is not great. Entrepreneurs, or investors, in the premise of master of problem solving, they are also the master of choice questions - this is the best combination, the odds are great.
The worst combination is probably this: the entrepreneur is a master of choice, but not the master of problem solving, the investor is the master of problem solving, but not master of choice... This is a ridiculous combination, ridiculous to even difficult to exist to the point.
About that sentence, we explained almost, and now you can take your attention back and consider the core issues:
Why are so many the master of problem solving doing wrong choices?
Because they did not develop correct and effective values.
What is the values? The so-called values, the most popular and most effective definitions are nothing more than:
Know what is good, what is better, what is best.
Knowing what is good, then knowing what is bad; knowing what is better, knowing what is worse; knowing what is best, you know what is the worst, right?
If we compare our brain to an operating system, then there are two things in this operating system that are core:
concept
Values
In the past 100 days, we used the concept of introspection every day, what is your capital, what is the biggest vice, what is the master key, what is backward, what is living in the future... Seriously examine each need the concept of use has become the habit of our group - believe me, measuring whether a person is smart or not is actually very simple:
1 See how many necessary, correct, and clear concepts are in they operating system.
2 See how much, necessary, and clear the relationship between the necessary, correct, and clear concepts in they operating system.
From this perspective, you understand why I don't believe that IQ is genetic. (Even, the concept of IQ itself is not a "necessary" concept.) You understand why I believe that everyone is actually can be smarter through training and self-training - because according to the above two criteria, intelligence is obviously learned, not born. Even if there is a certain difference between the individual, the difference is insignificant compared to the training of the day after tomorrow..
If you understand this basic principle, then you will become a Be-better Type when you are correct about your intelligence.
Think about it again, when you are faced with the so-called "choice", the reason why you hesitate or tangled is because in suddenly, you are not sure which option is better, which option is worse, right? If you know which one is better, just choose the one, right?
Therefore, the choice is not difficult, and may not even exist. The so-called choice is only the natural result after the values is determined.
In this column, I focus on the "automatic upgrade of the operating system". So, in essence, almost all articles are about "concepts" and "values" because these two things are fixed, "choice" It happens naturally. When "choice" occurs naturally, "action" will be triggered, and then "change" is natural. Presumably, many people have already had a profound experience.
So, the more in-depth conclusion is:
Values determine fate.
Many people didn't think it was like this, right? What determines your destiny is actually the values. Those who casual "values are shattered (三观碎了一地)" are also very fragile, not to mention that the heart is glass, and even their fate is more fragile than glass, and may be "scattered in the wind" at any time...
So, when we talk about "methodology," in essence, we are studying, "How do you distinguish between good and bad?" - It is really strange to say that after this level is implemented, this is just a "answer question"? Why are so many master of answering questions in such a place as if they suddenly lost their ability to solve completely?
The answer is simple and very strange:
Most people are limited by themselves, can't jump out of "the world of their own", observe the whole world, or, at least, jump out and see a bigger world (even if it is not the whole world), go see To a more real world (even if it is still not completely close to reality). Therefore, it is impossible to choose the right one and only choose the wrong one.
There is a word that everyone has heard, but almost no one knows that the word is attached to himself like a ghost from beginning to end, affecting everything that is in them life:
Overgeneralization (以偏概全).
People often regard their feelings as the feelings of the whole world, regard their observations as observations of the whole world, and regard their views as the views of the whole world... everything starts from oneself and does not know that others may be different from themselves. The world in which others live may be different from their own - even in every aspect.
As the first example of "Overgeneralization", let's look at a particularly common entrepreneurial idea:
1 I found that a requirement needs to be met but has not yet been met;
2 I have a strong need for this myself;
3 I asked people around me, they all said that they also have this need;
4 There are no products on the market that meet this demand;
5 If I make it, then I was the first one to make it, so it must be very advantageous and very promising...
This is a very common idea and the most difficult to convince idea - because every sentence seems to be right, it’s more right to look together... But, really?
"I have a very strong demand" and "the whole world has this strong demand" is very different.
For example, I, Li Xiaolai, have a strong demand, e-books should be able to be cross-book full-text search, otherwise what is the meaning of e-books? The Kindle has not met my needs for so many years (so I hate the Kindle for this reason), but at the same time, the Kindle sales are still very good! why? Because most people read novels on the Kindle, most people really don't have the need to search cross-book full-text search. Even the requirements for searching in a single book are very few... That is, I am really real demand, but it is really a very small demand, even if it is made, the market does not need to make any huge response.
"I asked the people around me" - Is the sample enough? More than 30? 30 is a number calculated by topology, rather than a random number. If the number of statistical samples is less than 30, then it is basically impossible to have meaningful statistical results. Today, when data is easier to obtain, maybe we need 300 or even 3000 samples to be more assured. Also, people around you often don't tell the truth for "harmony." Even, everyone has some "blind fan", and their words are not counted - your mother is your "blind fan", no matter what you say, she will say: "Wow, really good!"
The most important thing is that "there is no product on the market that satisfies this demand." It is not necessarily the result of "no one else wants to do it." It is more likely that "someone has thought of it and done it, but the product finally died." - This is terrible! In fact, the market has already verified that this idea does not work, but because the people who have done it have failed, so you don't know, so when you actually "test the law again", you don't even know that it is really "court death", so the idea is like a burning fire, and you are like a moth.
Another batch of examples, in a domestic platform, "Zhihu" is everywhere. Zhihu that there is a famous question template: "What do you think of xxx?" So, there we can see all kinds of "views" of people of all kinds (basically not "objective facts"). You can spend some time researching, why do those people think so? There, a few people will have a relatively objective view. More people have only "their own views," that is, "the views that are limited by themselves." (In fact, it is the same everywhere, but it just happens to be a platform with a large number of people and people are encouraged to publish "views")
You spend some time studying and thinking about it. When you can figure out that the limitations of those people come from there and how they are limited by this "Overgeneralization" mode of thinking that "think them world was the whole world." You have enough "Introspection mechanism” - you don't want to be such a person, don't you? If you don't want to, you have to find a way, don't you?
The way this thing is not natural, it is all thought out. The reason why I didn’t think about it in the past is because I have not been “scared” and saw those terrible people are in the terrible world, you want to run away, you will be afraid, so you have the motivation to "think hard" - who says fear is always a bad thing?
A recent example is the defeat of Hillary Clinton in the 2016 US presidential campaign. One of my relatively convincing arguments is that Hillary lost that because she did not actually understand the white American voters in the middle and lower classes, and never really "put down the habit" to go to the middle of the United States to observe the people's feelings... So, eventually Hillary Clinton mistakenly considered many "views" wishful wish as "facts", and made many decisions that were actually low-level mistakes.
According to this explanation, Hillary’s failure is a self-righteous failure of the elite.
In conclusion:
Choosing to decide the fate and deciding on the choice is the values; therefore, it is the individual's values that really determine one's fate. In the process of developing values, there is only one trap that should be carefully avoided: Overgeneralization.
Thinking and action
The development of values is a long-term and iterative process that cannot be completed overnight, and it should be a process that requires constant tempering throughout life. Therefore, it is impossible to solve all the problems in one article, but it is always necessary to start with an article. The simplest starting point is this:
1 Reviewing an important choice in your past;
2 See which values influence the choices at the time;
3 If a choice is wrong, then where you are the choice based on (values) “Overgeneralization”?
List three to five important choices of the past, review and reflect. Then you will ponder over what changes you have to make in order to not make the same mistakes in the future. What principles are formulated? What changes should the values have?