Everyone encounters a situation - not being understood - it could be a behavior, a choice, or even a habit or thought pattern. Most people feel a dilemma when faced with this problem, as it is often a time of bad outcomes, possibly failure or isolation. However, there are a few people who don't care about this "unappreciated" situation and enjoy it.
The purpose of these two examples is to show that not being understood happens all the time, and that not being understood doesn't necessarily mean it's not true. But these two examples are a bit big, and a bit far away. In fact, life, work, this situation abounds: you love to read, there will be a lot of people say that reading is useless; your hobby of writing, there will be people say that you can not become a writer; you change your job, and then jumped out and shouted that you're not stable enough, the work can not be stabilized; you study the start-up, a bunch of people say that the risk of the back is too great, and there are another bunch of people waiting to see the joke ... ... ...
Take myself to say it, I never think stable work is a good thing, also can not accept a dry is more than ten years of a single job. Because I'm always trying to enrich my life, day-to-day repetition is a kind of torture for me. Look at my work experience: internship in the credit department of the bank, do computer apprenticeship, in the supermarket as a buyer, in the magazine as an editor, the organization of the media alliance, planning a large-scale activities, partnership to open an advertising agency, to the project planning, as a financing consultant, in the clothing brand as a market, in the department store as a manager, in the brand company to do operations, responsible for the market development of the eastern provinces, in the wedding photography has done the director of the market. ...... stayed in five cities, all over the country running around, the eastern province of the county have traveled all over.
Many people will say after reading this, you are too out of tune, which has a little bit of career planning. At this level I am not understood, it does not matter, I do not care, because what I want to do is not the so-called career planning, my choice is the planning of life. The constant enrichment of my experiences has given me insight into many industries. I want to take a certain industry to say something, it can be deep into the bones to pull out the essence of the industry. And I believe that one day, I will reap success as a result.
In all these cases, I believe that everyone will be right and come up with a bunch of examples and experiences that are not understood. So why write about this topic? It started with reading Taleb's Wisdom and Magic Spells. It's a very small book, can be read in a while, and is full of seemingly fragmented aphorisms. But the heart of the book is a profound one. Taleb says he centered his book around a Greek myth - the bed of Procrustes - to develop "a reflection on the abandonment of essence in favor of unprincipled experience and normative behavior. behavior." I won't go into the story or the book, so check it out, and also check out The Black Swan and The Random Walking Fool.
One of the more realistic and meaningful conclusions I've come to through the heart of this book is that we don't need to be understood, because that kind of understanding is meaningless. Of course, this "not be understood" is a premise, you go to kill and set fire to that no one can understand you, only the law will be kindly care of you. The "no need to understand" here is the behavior that conforms to the principle of first nature and has been y thought out and eventually transformed into execution. This a moment on the powerful, I wrote myself are a little confused, the following to break down the sentence:?
The initial goal - the first principle
What is in line with the first principle? It's actually sticking to the original goal - which can also be called the first principle. This "first principle" is more hot recently, so I will use it directly. To put it in layman's terms: no matter what you do, you have to act around a core goal.
Your goal is to become a writer and publish a novel. That constant reading and writing is something that doesn't need to be understood, and others can say whatever they like, because reading and writing is an effective way for you to realize your dream of being a writer. Of course, you can even do some more "excessive" things, such as go wandering, I think it is within the scope of not needing to understand.
Of course, this is a big goal in life, but what about the smaller goals? For example a specific project, you just have to consider the initial goal of the project. Take a ground promotion activities, if the core goal is to enhance brand reputation, then your free experience to spend how much money is worth. It doesn't make sense for any department to complain with you because you want to make sure the initial goal is achieved. At this point you are only responsible for the goal and not for anyone else's understanding of it, especially the finance department (of course you have to agree with the BOSS first).
So how can you realize the first principle? How can you accurately capture clear goals? This requires a powerful weapon - thinking.
Deep thinking - the essence of the problem
In fact, many problems are several levels, most people see is often the surface of the superficial layer, a few people can enter the middle layer, very few people can see the essence of the problem.
For example, what do you think of the catering industry to start a business? Most people think that this is a traditional industry, there is a profit margin, but the need to control costs, so it is best to use their own family to manage and purchase, so the catering industry is a lot of husband and wife store or a little bit of the family store; a few people will be a clear analysis of the catering industry is the service industry, can be made into a standardized chain, so a lot of chain catering company appeared, such as Zhenkongfu, Grandma's house and so on; finally there are A very few people, will see the catering industry as an experience economy, do differentiated marketing, until jumping out of the shackles of catering, to achieve the experience economy or even the concept of economy, for example, Hai Di Lao, carving master beef brisket.
Here you will not associate Xu Zheng and Wang Baoqiang's "Lost in Thailand", which has a bridge: Wang Baoqiang played the role of a scallion pancake, sales are very good, after Xu Zheng's analysis of the project can be done to market. But when it comes to the core issue, Wang Baoqiang said, "The recipe is that I have to make it myself." Xu Zheng gave the conclusion: "You're just a scallion pancake maker for life." This, says the thinking level.
The same opportunity, when you give it to determine the initial goal has been limited, that the final result can only be the result of that limitation. At the same time, it has to be clear that the vast majority of people are limited because they don't think y and are satisfied with the superficial level of problems and concepts. At that point if you make a deep thought, it is often not understood, and just to be clear: that lack of understanding is irrelevant because what they don't understand is an entirely different level of thinking.
So how do you get this ability to think? There's no trick to it, it's just to keep thinking, over and over again. The same problem, repeatedly to push and polish, do not stop at the superficial level. On this issue Li Xiaolai has a very practical example, that is, you lie on the bed to see the ceiling, just look at the time is white, slowly you will find some small black dots, and then may find some dark lines, and finally may be coupled with the light and shadow will appear in some of the images ...... and initially that is the white ceiling. This is something I used to do a lot when I was a kid, so I know it well.
Thinking about the problem is the same, when you continue to hammer, it will continue to go deeper and deeper, until thinking about the core of the problem and finally seize your first principles. And often think to the first principle of this level, but also the goal and the needs of a clear combination. What do you do next with a goal that has a clear need?
Practical Program - Execution
Once we have identified the core goal through deep thinking, we move to another stage - execution. In fact, this is the most important step, because no matter how good you think, as long as you do not act, it is an empty idea. You want to become a writer, and then think all day, all day conceptualization, but just do not move the pen, then finally when you really want to write, will be miserable to find that you may not even write a decent sentence to understand.
Including the core of this article is also closely related to execution, because when you act, resistance will appear. How can this most critical step be blocked? That's why I titled this article "You Don't Need to Be Understood". When people who don't understand you show up, smile - that understanding means nothing, so don't worry about it.
With this kind of judgment, you can act more firmly. And it is only on the basis of such thinking that action is more valuable and more likely to come closer to the original goal. Blind action often produces the kind of people who are busy all their lives, but can't change their lives at all, because without deep thinking to determine the goal, all actions are almost always ineffective, or even counterproductive.
A determined minority
The start of the marathon is overcrowded, this time it really does not matter, it does not matter if you lose; start running, many people will run together for a period of time, and gradually will be pulled apart; after the halfway point, there may have been no one beside you; in the end, you're just in a race with yourself. You want to achieve just their own goals, as the origin of the marathon: it is to commemorate the delivery of the messenger of the news, his faith to support him to complete a breath from Marathon run back to Athens feat.
By sticking to your goal, you are surely alone, with only a few people left by your side, and the understanding of the majority will not lead you to success, because that understanding tends to be limited thinking. Taleb's point is that we tend to ignore the nature of the problem because of some so-called rules and experiences. For example, if there is a problem in education, instead of studying how to develop educational tools adapted to the child, we study the incentives to change the textbook, change the system, and change the teacher, which is typical of being bound by the system. Mark Twain also said that it is not ignorance that gets us into trouble, but the fallacy of what seems to be right. The so-called "seemingly correct fallacy" is not the majority of those who understand?
Finally, there was an American, Patterson, whose contribution to removing lead from chemical products such as fuel oil was so great that he saved countless children. However, his life was not brilliant, because he got in the way of interest groups, he was constantly suppressed, no financial support, but he kept on with his cause and finally succeeded in de-leading fuel and other products. His actions were not understood, but we now know who and what purpose they were for not understanding him.
If you are an entrepreneur, you have to be a firm minority without any hesitation, stay away from fallacies, and achieve brilliance;
If you are a working person, avoid the influence of incomprehension, be firm in your own will, and embody your value;
If you love life, then you don't need to consider the opinions of others, and satisfy your family and loved ones, and make them happy;
If you continue to grow, then you just have to pursue that original intention, without distraction, until success ......
Become that unappreciated minority, your perseverance and action will be richly rewarded, whether it is career, life, or love, life ......
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I'm Chip Chill, an atypical post-80s. Now only do two things: thinking about the future & practicing the present.
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