Instead of spending a lot of time and effort digging many shallow wells, it is better to spend the same time and energy digging a deep well. --Romain Rolland
At a gathering between Bill Gates and Buffett, Gates' dad asked the two super-rich to write "the word that helped you the most", and Gates and Buffett invariably wrote a word - Focus.
Focusing on one thing and doing one thing to the extreme is far better than doing ten thousand things mediocre.
Focus
Bo two rabbits, not a rabbit. —— Wu Qingyuan
Jiro Ono, born in Japan in 1925, is the world's oldest three-star chef. Rigor, self-discipline, precision, and the pursuit of the ultimate are his attitude to work, and even in order to protect the hands that create sushi, he always wears gloves when he does not work, and even sleeps.
Only one thing is done in a lifetime, and to do this to the extreme is a craftsman.
After all, people's energy and enterprise resources are limited, especially time.
In Malcolm Gladwell's book The Outlier, a 10,000-hour genius theory is mentioned:
For a person's skills to reach the world level, he must practice for more than 10,000 hours, which is equivalent to practicing for three hours a day or twenty hours a week, and so on for ten years.
Bill Gates had access to one of the world's first computer terminals at the age of 13, and by the time he founded Microsoft, he had been practicing programming for seven years, more than 10,000 hours.
Musical prodigy Mozart, before his 6th birthday, his musician father had guided him to practice for 3500 hours. By the age of 21 he had written the most popular Concerto No. 9.
Chess prodigy Bobby Fischer miraculously established himself as a master at the age of 17, but before that he also invested 10 years of hard training.
Practice deliberately
Some people have played chess all their lives, but they still stink in the chess basket. Some people have played basketball all their lives, but that's just a hobby. Some people have cooked all their lives, but they can only drink it at home, and it is difficult to become a famous chef.
Success takes 10,000 hours, but this is only a necessary condition for success, not a sufficient condition.
10,000 hours must be deliberate practice, which is an effective exercise that can improve your ability.
What Anders Erickson calls deliberate practice contains these few points —
There are specific goals. Targeted exercises, with design, with goals, not blind practice.
Focused, undistracted.
Get feedback and adjust. You must know what is wrong and be able to adjust in time.
Step out of your comfort zone. You can't practice, you can't repeat the past, and you can't be ambitious.
So, focus is not just focusing, not focusing on one direction. More importantly, it is constantly improving. Feedback adjustments, step out of your comfort zone, and move towards higher goals.
Focus on one thing, do it to the extreme, you can be like an oil seller, simply say "no him, only the hands are familiar." ”
What to focus on?
Focus on your goals, and your focus makes sense.
Others watch Playboy, I look at the company's annual report. — Buffett
If you run the wrong goal or don't have a goal, you may get worse and worse.
Focus means trade-offs, and it means that something isn't important to you.
Li Yu wrote, "How sad can you ask Jun?" Just like a river of spring water flowing eastward", Song Huizong created a thin gold body, both of which are artistic geniuses who have been delayed by the emperor's status. If they can really abdicate like Edward VIII, who did not love the country and love beauty, focus on their love, and let others perform their duties, it is not a good story.
Lei Jun summed up xiaomi's success in the seven-word recipe "focus, extreme, word of mouth, fast".
Focus: Less is more + strategic single explosion; cut 90%, only do 10%, seriously do that 10% is good enough.
When Jobs returned to Apple in 1997, Apple's product line was very large. It took three weeks for the employee to explain to Jobs. Jobs was fed up and drew a horizontal and vertical line on the whiteboard, writing "consumer" and "professional" at the top of the two columns, and "desktop" and "portable" at the top of the two lines. He said that just make four great products, one for each grid, and stop all the others, so that the excellent talents and funds for other projects will be released to specialize in four products.
In 1984, Vanke started with import and export trade. The company has done more than 10 kinds of business, Wanjia supermarket, Yibao pure water, etc. have been Vanke, and even made movies and packaged stars. It was not until 1994 that due to the "Junwan Dispute", Vanke gradually established the development direction of focusing on real estate, thus laying a strategic foundation for Vanke to become the king of real estate.
Focus on your strengths and your efforts will bear fruit.
There are two kinds of learning: expanding your own boundaries and narrowing your own boundaries. - Old Parable
Expanding one's boundaries is to learn knowledge, gain experience, and practice skills, while narrowing one's boundaries is to find advantages, focus and focus. The former is easy to learn, the latter is difficult to learn.
Five fingers are not the same, instead of laboriously making up for the shortcomings, it is better to focus on the long board and build your core competitiveness.
Ma Yun scored 1 point in the mathematics test of the college entrance examination, can not program, did not learn law, accounting, economics, management, why create Alibaba, the most cattle Internet company? If he tries to make up for his shortcomings instead of playing to his strengths, then I am afraid that he will not be able to start his own business for the rest of his life.
Dr. Wu Jun once talked about an investment project, saying that the team was very technical, but wanted to do a lot of things, and he suggested that they keep only one. Later, Amazon acquired this company, which is to see this core competitiveness.
Discover your passion and spend your life chasing your passion.
Save time and waste it the way you like
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