Message 2019: Make the most of everyday

The last day of 2018 ended with reading and watching the documentary "Southwest United". " Make the most of everyday?" is a line of interview in the movie, and I suddenly got teary-eyed when I heard this: Live every day of your life, and let time witness the changes you've made.

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Summary of 2018

Keyword 1: The Power of Time

This year, I spent almost a month thinking about the word "time" over and over again. Behind this thinking were several questions:

Question 1: Why do I feel anxious all the time, and how can I overcome this anxiety?

You can find a lot of similar questions and answers when you search on Zhihu. In 2018, I also kept asking myself, when focusing on the question itself, I found that my thinking fell into the reinforcement of "anxiety", and even continue to reinforce the anxiety of more anxiety, and even lead to serious procrastination and boredom with the work.

When you see people 5 or 6 years younger than you doing the same work, and more energetic, you will panic;

When you see people your age have a successful career, earning 7 figures a year, you will also panic;

What you see is that you have been abandoned by the time, in the quiet flow of the years, and slowly become an ordinary person, but inwardly can not accept.

Until I read Mr. Li Xiaolai's books, "Seven Years is a Lifetime" and "Treating Time as a Friend", I realized that the reason behind the anxiety is the lack of awareness of "time" and the panic of the lack of self-growth due to the passage of time. These books are the answer and analysis of time.

The answer I found is: time is merciless, it will not stay for me, and will not bring me any additional benefits because of my anxiety; time is fair, the "others" in your eyes, as well as you, enjoy the gift of time.

Question 2: How can I build barriers to what I will become in the next 3 years?

Are you resigned to being so mediocre?

Is it to see people of the same age have made achievements in their own field, and they are still in a desk above the self-proclaimed "white collar", feel heartbroken?

This question is a reflection on "future time, future life", and I ask: what are the possibilities of my life, and what will give me such possibilities? The so-called barriers are simply that you have invested more time, thought more, acquired more skills, and exported more ideas in one area than anyone else. Are these things simple? In fact, as long as you go to do, it is very simple; these things difficult? You need to really put your heart into it, whether it's work or extracurricular self-growth, time will give you the answer.

The answer I've found is: you just have to use your time well, and the possibilities are endless

Question 3: Why does the phrase "there's no rush" and "take your time" irritate me so much? What's happening to the people who said those things?

These two phrases were the mantra of our Mr. Ghazen, who always reassured me when I felt stressed at work and had bad results, when I was losing money on the board, and when I felt like I wasn't growing.

My college mentor said the same thing to me: there is no rush, take your time, and we will do something different together in 10 years.

When I was annoyed and angry for my own dissatisfaction, a few years, my college mentor, the business to hundreds of millions of dollars, and gradually completed the construction of the full range of business systems. Mr. Zeng in 9 months, a person to complete a full set of quantitative system on futures, electronic money, from data collection, trading system, operating interface, capital statistics, operating strategy of the construction and live.

The answer I found is: slow is fast, less is more.

Keyword 2: continuous action

In the process of thinking about time, fortunately, I also met a pioneer of action Scalers, he is almost with their own continuous action for several years, to build their own community system and growth framework, and lead to inspire a few thousand people to change together.

At the end of October, I picked up my long-abandoned public website and started writing consistently. When writing, I set myself a basic goal: to explore my inner self through 100 articles, dissecting inner perceptions and core concepts. In my opinion, only through the completion of the understanding of the basic principles (such as the above mentioned "time"), in order to be able to support the process of action, know where the problem is, in order to quickly adjust.

"Continuous action" is the second fundamental principle to explore, in addition to time. Action is the only variable, and that's from S. Time only works as an exponential if you take action. If you don't act, your Y-value will always be zero.

And what I've gained from writing consistently over the past 60 days or so is a renewed awareness of myself, a renewed analysis of myself. When writing doesn't work, you feel the lack of your own thoughts, and realize that after a few years of working, you have so little to sink your teeth into your field. Action forced me to constantly input, the most direct compulsion is to read .

The chart below shows the books that I drove myself to read every day on the way to and from work, during lunch breaks, and after work, and asked myself to conduct case studies and internalize the output based on the articles for each book, and what I felt was the enrichment and growth, as well as the certainty of the future.

Keyword 3: thinking out of the box

In the workplace and life, I have always belonged to the kind of direct, very contemptuous of the "skills" of people.

After a period of sustained action, I found that my thinking began to change. I started to look at some of my own stereotypes, such as:

Is the micro-business really low?

Are people who do pay for knowledge really harvesting IQ tax?

Are people who speculate in the workplace really useless?

Is chicken soup for the soul poison?

When abandoning some preconceived notions and opinions to really look at these things and think about the logic behind them, I realized that my eyes were blinded by wrong thinking, and if I couldn't break through these thoughts, I wouldn't see the bigger world, and I wouldn't be able to explore the principles of the society, and I wouldn't be able to see the complexity and helplessness of the human world.

The word "microbusiness" is an old concept from 2014 and 2015, and now all we talk about is "community e-commerce" and "social e-commerce". This contains the link to "people" and emotional. Do these forms come out of nowhere? If you go to analyze, you will find that in fact, many social e-commerce is transformed from micro business. If you are bent on looking at the group of micro-merchants with prejudice, you will find that you have actually missed the new wave of e-commerce dividends.

Knowledge payment has seen a blowout in 2018, and in almost every public number, there are sales pitches for courses, with prices ranging from 9.9 to thousands of dollars. If you simply look at the payment of knowledge as a collection of IQ tax, it is simple binary thinking. But if you can find what you need in this content, and really go deep, and invest the time to learn to figure it out, the growth is much greater than when a critic.

The speculators in the workplace don't look like that to themselves. And you have to believe that in the future you will be one of those people. Because we are at a different level, the scope and breadth of thinking is different. Therefore, there are different paths and methods on the landing level. If you scoff at such people, bring only their own limitations. Instead, you should go to see the strengths, ways of doing things, and ways of thinking of these people, and then advance your self-growth.

I started to actively look at what various types of people were doing, how they survived, and what kind of people were behind all kinds of weird news, new inventions, and new apps that were building these things. I discovered some new worlds, different from my own two-square-meter cubicle and some of the so-called highs in my industry.

"The power of time", "sustained action", "thinking out of the box" is the summary of 2018, these key words let me get more power internally, and thus find new directions and thinking .

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2019 Outlook

Keyword 1: Hardcore Growth

I remember that one of the hardest times I worked hard was in my senior year of high school. At that time, there was no air conditioning in the classroom, a class of more than 70 people, every day like a steamer in the study. Even so, every day can insist on learning very late. When I think back now, I still remember the feeling of sweat running down my cheeks and soaking my books drop by drop. That kind of time is the most fulfilling and nostalgic.

"Southwest University", those 90-year-olds in the past, remembering the past, remember is also the appearance of hard work at that time. War does not hinder the thirst for knowledge, and scarcity is not a reason for laziness.

So, everyone has their own "hard core" side, the external environment, the material itself can not hinder a real desire to grow up. In the practice of growth, the hardcore mentality of not giving yourself a reason can really bring you change. Keep reading, keep writing, keep doing your best work, and live each day to the fullest.

Keyword 2: Dare to be seen

When Bruce Zhang changed WeChat to "see", I was a little excited.

This word has been thought about for a long time, and it corresponds to the thinking of the world and people. Whether it's social, business, media, or action, everyone is anxious about the traffic dividend. Everyone is anxious about the traffic dividend, they are saying that their growth has reached a bottleneck. But the world is so big, and there's still plenty of room to expand your customers and reach. You have to find a way to be seen and understood by more people.

Going back to the individual, maybe you think you are a horse of a thousand miles, but you often lament the fact that you can't see the talent in the eye of the beholder. In fact, first of all, you yourself is not a horse, and secondly, you are drowned in the crowd, there is no way to enter the eyes of others.

When I write an article, I am often afraid to send it out for fear that people in my circle of friends will look at it and laugh at their own bad writing, for fear of being seen by their bosses and coworkers, and say that they are not doing their job. That's when it's time to think outside the box a bit and tell yourself that's not the case. I believe I need to dare to be seen. Write but good or bad, let my friends see my thinking and growth. When I'm working, I do my best, and when I'm not working, I work harder to enrich myself and feed back to bring improvement to my work.

And this courage to be seen may also bring new life opportunities.

Keyword 3: Internalization of knowledge

"After reading so many books, you still can't live a good life". This sentence can be said to be a reflection of oneself at this stage. Although in a large number of reading and summarizing, but what is the use of this knowledge in the end? The current self is confused.

One of the questions I've been thinking about is: why can some people seize the opportunity, and some people miss it all their lives? "Dividend" "trend" hanging in the mouth every day, but in the action of no change? In the end, I realized that what you understand is just the surface, the concepts known to the public. How to transform this knowledge, experience into their own growth enablers, influence their own choice of judgment, is what needs to be considered.

Therefore, this year to exercise their knowledge internalization ability. The initiative to learn, see as far as possible to practice, to translate into their own language expression output.

Keyword 4: community practice

"Community" and "personal IP" are common judgments about the future (in fact, these two points are human phenomena that have existed since ancient times). Combined with the internalization of knowledge and active output mentioned above, I am also looking for a carrier for growth and advancement, and the best carrier is to find a group of partners to build a community with the same philosophy and values.

In this community, I hope to be able to form a "hardcore growth" **** the same cognition, landing some specific matters, systematic reading of some books, such as: Kevin Kelly series, Trout series, sociology, psychology, etc.;

hardcore to learn some skills, data analysis, product methodology, operational thinking, etc.;

Use solid action and spiritual power to influence the growth of community members. The most important thing is that on the way to growth, we keep meeting better ourselves and better partners.

"Hardcore Growth", "Dare to be Seen", "Knowledge Internalization", and "Community Practice" are the outlook for 2019. God is a magician, creating a chain reaction with one small change after another to create the current society. And I am also a magician in life, using one concrete action after another to create my present self, and then constantly accomplishing my life by the points of the present.