In the basement of a building in Tokyo, Japan, there is a small sushi restaurant that can only seat 10 people. Although it looks unprepossessing, if you want to eat sushi there, you need to make a reservation one month in advance, and the minimum consumption per person is no less than 3,000 yuan. The owner of this restaurant is Jiro Ono, the "God of Sushi".
Some people say that it is worth a special flight to Japan to have a meal of Jiro Ono's sushi; even former US President Obama visited Japan and tasted their sushi.
Jiro Ono once shared his method of polishing his craft in a documentary. He said, "I repeat the same thing every day, but I hope to do better every time than the last time." In his 90s, he still spends more than ten hours a day at work, and often makes sushi in his sleep. ; In order to make the meat softer, he will even massage each squid for forty minutes...
I think this is the basic mentality of cultivating core competitiveness: like a craftsman polishing his craft, keep improving, and always I hope I can do better.
In other words, you need to invest a lot of time and energy to form what Buffett calls a "moat" core competitiveness. There is nothing to negotiate, it is a necessary quid pro quo.
Regarding cultivating core competitiveness, Mr. V, the master of Jianshu, once said that there are four dimensions: like and be good at, scarcity and sustainability. In a word, the abilities that society is in urgent need of for a long time are exactly what you are good at and like. Internally: you have continuous motivation to improve and can do better than most people; externally: this competitiveness can help you make a lot of money and will not be eliminated.
It is not easy to do this. However, we can do it in the form of reverse reasoning:
1. Find the skills that can currently make money: you can go to the recruitment website for research, and the salary is sorted from high to low, excluding the business type and the senior level of the company positions, and the remaining positions are those that are urgently needed in the market. Paste all these job descriptions into Word.
2. Determine whether these skills will make money in the future: For example, programming may not necessarily make money in the future, because primary schools have started to have programming classes, and there will definitely be more people who know it in the future. The method of judgment can start from "whether it is a person's instinctive need" - such as whether it is related to food, clothing, housing and transportation; or it can start from the development driving force of the industry - such as the development of mobile communication tools, which enables the rise of communities...
3. Find the people who currently master the most powerful skills: You can find these people from books, forums or major professional websites. If possible, try to meet and chat with him; if not, study his skill development process.
4. Start now and continue to act: In fact, if you can continue to do something, even if you have no talent, you can surpass 90 people. For more "fun learning methods", please search the WeChat public account "Traveling in the 90s".