Today, I read the second chapter of "Upward Growth", "The Nature of Wealth", and share the following points that made me feel insightful:
1. Your opponent is not the top 5%, but someone as mediocre as you
Jiubian said in the book that most people are lazy and stupid, you don't need to compete with the first and second heads, you only need to surpass the vast majority of lazy and stupid people, and you can live a good life.
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Think about it in a class, after all, there are very few top students, and most of them are at the middle level, so the real opponent is never a top student, but someone who is about the same as you. The way to do this is to be willing to work stupidly.
2. Doing something recklessly cannot wait for a reward
Most of the things are not done, the main reason is that there is no care, the number of repetitions is not enough, and the amount is not enough. And repetition is power, and quantity is heaping quality.
When asked why, she said that there is no natural top student, but when others are playing and playing outside, we are quietly brushing questions at home.
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3. If there is a lack of choice for a long time, the brain will learn to be helpless
This theory is from Barry Schwartz's The Paradox of Choice:
If a person is in a state of lack of choice for a long time, the subconscious mind will gradually think that nothing can change the status quo and change one's own destiny, so it will enter a state of so-called learned helplessness and become more negative.
Even if the situation changes, when the opportunity arises, do not act.
So be sure to find something that you can control, and the author's advice in the book is to run your own small things, such as Weibo, headlines, videos, etc.
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4. From "consumer" to "producer"
Now everyone is watching short videos in their leisure time, and it is the "producer" who makes the short video, and we in front of the mobile phone are the "consumers". We can be producers, not consumers.
This reminds me of when short videos were just starting out, there was a platform to find students to make short videos, a piece of 10 yuan, 20 minutes a day of production, a cumulative income of 300 yuan a month.
Instead of reading other people's content to pass the time, be a content exporter. For yourself, it is not only an improvement in ability, but also brings practical returns.
The above is what touched me a lot in the chapter "The Nature of Wealth", and I hope it will inspire you too!