Why do we keep working hard but always see no hope?
Get up early, read, run to study, and run to various courses. We firmly believe in strict self-discipline, diligence and patience, and continuous learning... However, this growth route does not allow us to get the results we want, thus changing our lives.
We are so busy that we are moved by ourselves every day. However, these activities are internal cycles, which can only make us better people. We do not directly produce externally and will not make us very powerful people.
On the contrary, if we invest in outward growth and continue to produce works or values to the outside world, we can participate in the cycle of the social value system, be strongly needed by others, and thus feel the hope of hard work.
"Cognitive Driven" tells us that we need to understand first: "introverted growth" and "extroverted growth".
Introverted growth: that is, growth activities that revolve around oneself, such as early as to get up, running, reading, etc.
Extraverted growth: that is, growth activities that revolve around the outside world, such as writing, painting, programming, etc.
If you are reading, you can write reading notes, write book reviews, and tell the content of the book you are reading to the people around you; if you learn a foreign language, you can try to help others translate articles or teach others how to learn; if you are learning office software, you can help colleagues process documents, or teach them some tips, etc.
output can not only bring value to others, gain praise and create a sense of accomplishment, but more importantly, it can improve your learning effect.
If you want to write and output, the direction provided by the author of this book:
1. What content can be written after three, five, or even ten or fifty years is still valuable;
2. The more people these values can help, the better, and the more common the pain points it can solve, the better;
3. Use knowledge to create value, not experience, because knowledge will not be outdated, and experience is easy to be narrow and exhausted;
4. Use your own language to explain the underlying new knowledge and create your own style;
5. Based on the long-term, accumulate slowly, and use the knowledge learned or the thoughts produced in the process to help others as much as possible...
How can you truly do something?
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Find the life goal you really want
"For growth, eliminating emotions, maintaining concentration, and improving action are actually all details. The real important thing is to find your own life goal.
Once we find the thing we are willing to do without thinking about food, our lives will have the attributes of peace, concentration and efficiency. However, it is not easy to find your own life goal. Many people do not realize that they always live in a goalless state."
determine what you want and what you want to do, and do not care about worldly standards, but find the goals you like and want to pursue from the bottom of your heart. It is very, very important. It directly determines whether your daily life is full of fun or boring.
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Achieve your own life goals
To become a valuable person, the goal of growth cannot be just "what I want", but ask more "what can I give"? For example, if you want to make money by selling horses, can you give it to a horse that everyone recognizes?
Learn to create value and start the road to success. However, if you want to make this road wider and smoother, there is another secret, which is to always contain altruistic intentions.
The Analects of Confucius says: "If you have no desires, you will be strong." Only by not considering personal gain can you easily break through the "shackles" of human nature when doing things, so that you can have greater energy without worrying about gains and losses, and fearing, because the altruistic spirit without selfish desires is the ultimate way to achieve oneself.
With an altruistic mindset, the next important thing is that we must act like long-termists.
Look at those who have made a difference. Many people’s achievements are derived from long-termism, and many master-level figures even “do only one thing in their lives.”
The author mentioned the "Seven Years Law" - "It takes about 7 years for a person to master a skill, and many people usually only learn one skill in their lifetime. If we use 7 years as a cycle, we can actually live many lives in this life..."
However, many people's understanding of creativity is still at the level of thinking or knowing. When we think about the difficulties we will encounter in the process of accomplishing things, we will want to give up. So how can we achieve unity of knowledge and action and make things perfect?
Stephen Covey said in " Seven Habits of Highly Effective People": "Everything is created twice - first conceived in the mind, and then put it into practice."
and Zhouling teacher gave us the method: "Write it down".
He gave this advice: "Writing the negative events you are currently facing can mobilize more rational resources to help us organize our thinking, so that the priority of dealing with emotional thinking is temporarily behind. At the same time, writing can activate the language area and writing area of the cerebral cortex, so that we have a more specific and clear understanding of the negative events we are currently encountering. Therefore, writing can provide a certain buffer for negative emotions and slowly restore our rationality or rationality."
When we have any lofty ideas, we may always feel that we cannot achieve it. But if we write down our ideas and plan a path closest to realizing our ideas step by step, and eliminate the vague problems step by step, maybe we can realize our ideas.
Knowing does not mean doing, and doing it does not mean doing it well. Our goal should always be to do it well and do it better, so that we will get closer and closer to realizing our ideals.
Zhou Ling wrote in the "Conclusion" of this book, "First-class life is awareness, internal cultivation, it can make us better ourselves; while top-level life is creation, external cultivation, it can make others live better."
