Once you master your own underlying algorithm, you may have some power to control your own destiny, thus achieving both material and spiritual freedom. - Old Parable
The algorithm of life is a set of programming that everyone gives themselves.
What kind of thinking and logic your underlying thinking and logic are, what kind of life you will have.
Go thinks it can maintain the last pride of mankind, why is it worthless in front of AlphaGo?
AlphaGo Zero is more ruthless. Start with blanks, don't need any human Go experience, completely self-taught, and crush your predecessors 100:0. Since then, Go has not been new in the face of technology.
Zero only took three days, surpassing thousands of years of human Go experience, how did it come to this?
algorithm.
The new reinforcement learning algorithm allows Zero to learn a more intelligent strategy in the process of self-play without relying on past experience.
Machines can rely on new algorithms to achieve technological breakthroughs, but what about humans?
Life algorithms
People who spend half a second to see through the essence of things, and people who spend a lifetime unable to see the essence of things, are doomed to completely different fates. —Mario Puzo, The Godfather
What your underlying thinking and logic are, will lead to what kind of results.
If you have two buttons, press the red button, you can take a million dollars directly; press the blue button, there is half a chance, you can get a hundred million dollars, but there is still half a chance, you can't get anything. Which one would you choose?
Some people choose to drop the bag for safety. Some people choose to gamble.
Whatever your choice is determined by your life algorithm.
If not 100 million, but 3 million, I am afraid that more people will choose the deterministic 1 million.
In fact, rational choice has only one answer – press the blue button (expectation 50 million).
But the key point comes, some people will be smarter.
He would go to an investor and sell the project to him for 50 million yuan below the "expected value", such as 20 million, and get the certain 20 million by himself, while the buyer got the expected profit of 30 million.
This is another "life algorithm" based on "probabilistic thinking".
The same fair chance, placed in front of many people, different life algorithms, will lead to completely different choices.
Entrepreneurs who also start a business and know how to make the right choice in the strategic direction have a better life algorithm and a higher probability of success.
On the surface, Niuren is smart, highly educated, and experienced, but in essence he has a set of advantageous life algorithms.
In the development of China's reform and opening up for more than 40 years, there are many historic big opportunities and daily small opportunities, which are placed in front of everyone, some people can grasp them, some people can't grasp them, and some people can't even see them.
Ma Yun once said: Any opportunity has four stages, invisible, looked down, can't understand, too late.
Improving the algorithm of life is the fundamental place where you can see opportunities, understand opportunities, and seize opportunities.
God doesn't arrange everyone's fate, He just devised the basic algorithms. - Old Parable
The core algorithm of each person is to acquire knowledge of knowledge, accumulate experience of experience, cultivate emotional intelligence of emotional intelligence, is the underlying thinking, is the core ability.
The so-called underlying thinking, underlying logic, and underlying algorithm are innovative thinking, perfect logic, and optimized algorithms.
The core algorithm is the core capability.
The old Yu formula for life achievement points out that -
The core algorithm is the most core variable of life's achievements.
The algorithm is correct, the direction is correct. The greater the weight of the algorithm, the greater the achievement.
The rest is simply and persistently repeated and effort on the basis of the algorithm.
And this effort will not be a simple linear effort, but an exponential exponential multiplication of effort.
Life is like a snowball, the important thing is to find very wet snow and long slopes. — Buffett
Wet snow and long slopes are the core algorithms, and rolling is simply repetitive.
The compound interest principle of value investing is the core algorithm. Never lose money and keep adding value. Then, it's a simple repetition, let the snowball roll up, live long, and let the snowball continue to roll.
Luo Fat said that he did Luo Ji thinking, insisted on sending 60 seconds of audio on the public account every day, and insisted that ten years was 3650 days.
I reflect on myself. By insisting on writing down what you have seen and heard and thought about, you can sort it out. Only in this way can we achieve continuous and effective accumulation of life, and quantitative change can achieve qualitative change.
What are some life algorithms to watch out for?
Worldview, outlook on life, values are the most fundamental algorithms of life, how you look at the world, look at yourself, look at values, you will have different attitudes, different choices, different behaviors. But this proposition is too grand, so we will only say a few specifics.
1. Growth mindset is the core algorithm
Only by turning the mood of complaining about the environment into a force for self-improvement is the guarantee of success. --Romain Rolland
People with fixed thinking patterns believe that a person's mind is static, fixed and unchanging.
People with a growth mindset believe that a person's mind is dynamic and can grow.
The growth mindset is a core algorithm of life.
Each of us may be affected by a fixed mindset at different stages, using procrastination, avoidance and other means to keep ourselves in our comfort zone.
Therefore, the courage to grow, this is the need for skills and learning.
Here is a very important piece of advice for parents: praise your child as much as possible not to praise him (her) intelligence, but to praise his efforts.
When the child performs well, praise the child's intelligence, he will easily equate himself with the smart, he will avoid and reject anything that makes him behave unintelligent in the future, and he will be afraid of challenges and afraid of failure;
On the contrary, when the child performs well, praise the child's efforts, he will naturally attribute his success to the result of hard work, knowing that the failure and setbacks in the future are not enough efforts, not afraid of challenges, the courage to grow.
When you find that your child often makes excuses and shows impatience when it comes to failure and frustration, be aware that your child has shown a fixed mindset.
Setbacks and failures are actually the best growths, but it's not easy to recognize and do it.
The same stone that becomes your stumbling block or a stepping stone, chooses in you.
2. Probabilistic thinking is the core algorithm
Probabilistic thinking is a pair of rational glasses that see this uncertain world.
Probability thinking believes that nothing is absolute, one hundred percent, and that there are probability distributions for various outcomes of things, but the probability size is different.
Acknowledging success based on probability does not mean entrusting yourself to fate.
On the contrary, it is precisely those who recognize, accept, and use probability to better take their fate into their own hands. Because they will do what is most likely to be done to themselves, allowing themselves to gain the upper hand when gambling with the goddess of destiny.
In an uncertain world, the real masters choose to continue to do things with a greater probability of success, while trying to avoid the potential hidden dangers of small probability events.
Looking at the problem from the perspective of probabilistic thinking, the same results will have different conclusions.
For example, how to evaluate Wei Yanbing's strange plot out of the Meridian Valley, Deng Ai's smuggling of YinPing to destroy Shu in the First World War, and Sun Tzu's art of war "winning with the right combination". How to evaluate Chen Jiulin's brilliance in building Chinese aviation fuel and the huge loss of options trading, Soros's success in sniping at the pound sterling and the collapse of the sand in Russia...
Success is not necessarily correct, and failure is not necessarily wrong.
Buying a lottery ticket in the jackpot does not mean that you are at a high level, on the contrary, from the perspective of investment probability, the act of buying a lottery ticket is itself wrong. Of course, if you think it's fun, it's a different story.
Probability thinking is a set of methodologies, if you always choose a higher probability of behavior, even if there are one or two setbacks and failures, compared with the overall benefits are still insignificant.
Because everything is a probability, copying other people's ways of thinking and acting principles does not necessarily ensure that you will succeed. Old Mr. Qi Baishi said: Those who learn from me are born, and those who are like me die." Success can be learned, but not copied.
3. The multivariate thinking model is the core algorithm
To the man with the hammer in his hand, every problem is like a nail. —Charlie Munger
Taking bridge playing as an example, the winning strategies include establishing a long set, eating, flying cards, safe playing, squeezing cards, etc.
For people who master only one way of thinking, just as playing cards is only one winning strategy, your advantage and probability of winning are obviously much worse than those who master multiple ways.
Of course, more methods do not necessarily guarantee that you will win, but more methods provide you with more possibilities and allow you to have more choices in the face of different situations.
There are selected representatives who are capable.
Have a pluralistic thinking model, do not act extremely, and be a person without stubbornness. Know that everyone has their own logic and value in every point of view, have an open mind, and have the courage to embrace change.
With multiple mental models, you have flexibility. The most flexible people are the ones who are in control of the big picture. Flexibility is the belief that there must be more than three solutions to everything.
With a multi-dimensional thinking model, you have multiple perspectives, multiple perspectives, multiple ideas, and the same fact you can see more, know more, and learn more.
With multiple mental models, you have the possibility to innovate. Cross-border, analogy, reference and other means are the source of innovation, and many human inventions and creations come from the combination of interdisciplinary knowledge. When you have a multi-thinking model, you have a greater probability of achieving innovative breakthroughs and seizing the opportunity for trend changes.
4. Lifelong learning is the core algorithm
The most important growth mindset is lifelong learning. Live to learn. Lifelong learning, lifelong growth.
Only by continuous learning can we continuously optimize our own underlying algorithms, and then produce and optimize other life algorithms.
Only by continuous learning can we master more mental models.
Only by continuing to learn can you improve your probability of success.
Only by continuing to learn can we make our own growth possible.
Reinforcement learning is Alpha Zero's ultimate weapon to become a master from scratch. It took only 3 days for the millennium of mankind.
Therefore, time management is also a kind of underlying thinking, and the ability to manage time is also a core algorithm.
Good time algorithms make you add value every day.
Good time algorithms make you do more with less.
On the road to growth, good algorithms are more important than your blind efforts.
Save time and waste it the way you like
"North Mountain's Life Algorithm"