In the process of chatting, I learned that this uncle is a chef and has worked in that industry for about 20 years. I joked that you must have made a lot of money as a cook for most of your life!

The other person sighed with emotion, "Chef is a job of selling physical strength. Hungry or not, but it is really more difficult to change your destiny than to ascend to heaven. "

Why does this uncle repeat yesterday's work from nine to five every day, holding a fixed salary and looking at the future at a glance, unwilling to be mediocre, but ultimately mediocre?

Is he not working hard enough? Or are you born not smart enough?

Neither. There are two real reasons. First, his works have not grown. Second, I didn't try to change myself.

One of the reasons for mediocrity is that there is no growth in work.

Why does everyone say that content creation and the Internet are high-paying industries?

Because their marginal cost is almost zero, and they break the time limit, they can be sold many times at the same time, thus producing compound interest effect.

Let's look at a concept first: marginal cost

1. What is the marginal cost?

Marginal cost refers to the increase in the total cost of each product produced or not sold.

For example, if you are a software developer and you develop a software for an enterprise, every additional user of the software will bring in a sum of money, but the cost will not increase while increasing the income.

Workers in traditional industries such as catering and welders are not so lucky. For every extra dollar they earn, they have to pay an expensive marginal cost, which is time.

And those mediocre people are mediocre, not because they don't work hard, but because their work is very tired; This is not because they have no money or resources. In fact, time is a person's most important asset.

As we all know, as far as time is concerned, God is fair to everyone. He will not give more because you are poor, nor will he give less because you are rich. Everyone has the same time.

At the same time, different usage methods have formed the so-called "ordinary people and masters".

Some people are selling their time and can only sell it once in a while, so they are called ordinary people. Others, while buying other people's time, spend money to buy other people's time and repeatedly sell it for profit. This is called a master.

2. What is the compound interest effect?

Suppose you study 1 knowledge points every day. I believe everyone can do such a simple thing. You will learn 1720 knowledge points in five years.

Every time you learn a knowledge point, you will derive an idea or your own point of view. After five years, 8600 ideas can be derived.

Is this really a fact?

no

In fact, the ideas you derive every day are not the most important. What matters is the quality of these ideas, which will improve with your own experience.

When the quality of your ideas is high enough, the value of each idea will exceed one million dollars.

Jobs once said that "all greatness comes from a trivial beginning".

This is the compound interest effect, and all the major changes are just because you learn one knowledge point every day.

Is the compound interest effect far from us?

Not far, it's nearby, but we ignored it.

For example, if you are a content creator, as long as the article is well written, only one reader will forward your article, which will bring more readers, so that the word will have a compound interest effect.

The early compound interest effect is not obvious, so at first, it is likely that the articles you spend a lot of energy writing are not much different from those written casually by others.

But every word, article and experience you write will be used in the following writing.

Second, the second reason for doing nothing is that I have not tried to change myself.

People do one thing after getting up every day. They will tell themselves that they will change their lives one day, but no one will take action. -"Thieves in the City"

I don't know, do you have such people around you:

Every day, I am clamoring to change myself and be an excellent person, but I am always enthusiastic.

I complain every day that money is getting harder and harder to earn, and the rich and the poor are getting more and more divided, but I never thought about how to improve my ability to make money.

Why, you are eager to succeed and change your destiny, but you have never made up your mind to change yourself?

Because, you didn't think clearly, why should you change yourself?

Why change yourself?

Everyone knows to change themselves, but few people think about it. Why change yourself?

Take smoking as an example. Everyone knows that smoking is harmful to health, but they still haven't given up smoking. Why? Is it because you are a heavy smoker?

Don't!

Some time ago, a friend who smokes around me was admitted to the hospital because he often smokes. After the examination, the doctor told him that if he continued to smoke after discharge, his life would be in danger.

With this experience, he will think of the doctor's warning every time he wants to smoke. A colleague asked him to smoke, but he refused politely and never bought cigarettes again.

Two months later, I quit smoking naturally. Afterwards, he analyzed that smoking is actually a subconscious habit.

Every time you smoke a cigarette, repeat the action of smoking. Repeating it many times becomes a subconscious physiological reaction, just like eating when you are hungry and drinking when you are thirsty.

There is a saying that "more important than changing yourself, why change yourself?" Only when you find this answer will you really take action.

Third, how to change?

The key to change is to establish a methodology of deliberate practice.

What is the methodology of deliberate practice?

Some time ago, while studying Mr. Li Shanyou's course, he shared that the method of intentional practice is to create a thinking model.

How is the thinking mode created?

The first step is that everything happens for a reason (find a simple basic reason)

For example, you are an author. The teacher will tell you that writing is a process of inputting knowledge, processing knowledge and outputting knowledge;

Teachers will also tell you that writing is a systematic and big project. To be a qualified self-media author, you need to practice the skills of title, frame, beginning, argument and ending.

Step two, there is a very old principle in the world (act according to that principle very strictly)

Everything has its rules. What we have to do is not to find ways to break the rules, but to do things according to the rules.

For example, you want to practice running. The correct way to run is to warm up before running and run continuously.

The third step, the core algorithm of success, comes from a large number of repetitive actions.

Why can Haruki Murakami, a famous Japanese novelist, stand out among many novelists? Why can you continue to produce a large number of excellent works?

He once shared in the book "I am a novelist": "From the age of 29, I will write 5000 words every day for more than 30 years."

I remember a saying that "the road to success is not crowded, but too few people can continue to act."

Conclusion:

The core of the above sharing is three points.

One of the reasons why (1) is mediocre is that your work has no time to compound interest and has no growth.

(2) The second reason for your mediocrity is that you don't know why you want to change yourself?

(3) The key to changing yourself is deliberate practice. How to practice (methodology) deliberately?

The first step is that everything happens for a reason (find a simple basic reason).

Step 2: The business community has a very old principle (act strictly according to the truth).

Step 3: The core algorithm of success comes from a large number of repetitive actions.