“Life is a marathon, not a sprint.”
——Growth thinking
Everyone is born with a strong desire to learn. Babies are expanding their skills every day. Not just ordinary skills, but the most difficult tasks in life, such as learning to walk and talk. They never think it is too difficult or worth the effort. Babies are not worried about making mistakes or being laughed at. They walk, they fall, they stand up, and they continue to move forward …
Life begins in this dynamic learning journey, which is the most precious portrayal of growth thinking.
Growth thinking is thinking that benefits people for life
Growth Mindset was proposed by Carol S. Dweck, a professor of psychology at Stanford University, after years of research. It is one of the most influential psychological studies in recent decades. People with a growth mindset think that intelligence can be improved, pay more attention to their own efforts, generate the desire for continuous learning, and tend to work hard.
Regrettably, most people in life are fixed minds, and there is no shortage of fatalists. They are doing habitual things every day, looking at the world with a fixed vision and thinking. Even reluctant learning is to cope with anxiety, rather than continuous, steady, long-term commitment to learning.
This is not difficult to understand from a biological perspective. Biology usually prefers a fixed activity mode in order to save energy to the greatest extent. The brain is the body’s largest energy consumption system, accounting for 20% to 45% of the overall energy consumption. The distribution of cognitive resources is extremely rampant, and has a tendency to resist thinking naturally, so it is not surprising that most people’s solidified thinking, but mental growth depends on long-term efforts, only in this way can we avoid life into narrow and rule-based Loss of ability to respond to environmental change.
From the perspective of biopsychology, the brain can be trained like muscles. Every time new knowledge is acquired, new synapses are generated, and the synaptic connections are more consolidated when the existing knowledge is reviewed. The more frequently the learned knowledge is called, the more complicated and smooth the neuron circuit, which means that the brain of people who continue to learn is constantly remodeling, and their cognition will gradually improve.
Freed from the cage of fixed thinking and believing that he has the possibility of lifelong growth, it will be easier for him to absorb new things and make progress.
Let’s talk about critical point thinking. This is a concept derived from physics. It is used to understand the critical state before the phase transition of an object. I like to use it for learning. No matter what skills are learned, continue to strive to reach the critical point. Later learning It will move towards automation.
For example, in English, when your vocabulary reaches a certain value, the new context will be continuously absorbed by the knowledge you have mastered, and language learning will enter a hidden state. Think about how long we have n’t learned new Chinese vocabulary. , But this has not affected our understanding of new things.
Programming is also the same. 80% of programmers repeatedly use programming knowledge learned in the first year of work. When you want to learn something, please ignore the law of 10,000 hours, use it for a period of time, maybe half a year, Maybe it is one month, persist in working hard to push yourself to the tipping point of knowledge, and that’s enough.
[The critical point model] can help you understand interdisciplinary learning, and it may take a while to establish the basic framework of a discipline. Usually, you should read a few professional books, clarify the discipline context, and master the core basic concepts of the discipline. In the future, new knowledge will be automatically classified and organized by subject in your mind. After you have established a cross-disciplinary framework, you will enjoy the joy of implicit learning in multiple fields, thick snow, long slopes, and knowledge. Compound interest will continue to arise. In addition, I have developed a habit. When introducing a new concept, I will outline its source. Although it is slightly embarrassing, it is extremely useful for readers to absorb and understand.
Let’s talk about the self-catalysis model
Self-catalytic thinking comes from the “catalyst” concept in chemistry. When the product of a chemical reaction can further catalyze the rate of this reaction, allowing the rate of this reaction to increase at an extremely fast rate, this reaction is called an autocatalytic reaction.
The autocatalytic model is the way of thinking that accelerates growth.
Personal success often starts with small successes, such as Akiba’s PPT, Laughing Friends of Time, Armored Learning Methodology. After achieving minor success in a certain field, they start an autocatalytic model and use it skillfully. initial local advantage, leveraging the network of other factors, such as other platforms and through cooperation, share uninterrupted speech, continued to enlarge its advantages, this local advantage + muster agent model also coincide commercial logic, because the two companies One of the most important functions is innovation and marketing. Marketing is the self-catalysis of the enterprise.
Use the self-catalysis model to make yourself grow faster, and you can also find and build your auto-catalysis model to accelerate your goals.
[Arrangements and combinations] also worth mentioning. Everything in the world is composed of basic elements, sometimes decomposed and sometimes aggregated. Permutation and combination thinking is used to look at things and derive new structures. Thinking is both a movement of knowledge and an arrangement of knowledge. Combination and trade-off; if it can produce a permutation and combination method that has never been before, it is innovation.
In recent years, in order to improve efficiency and stimulate organizational vitality, many large companies have introduced the Amoeba model. By breaking down the company into several self-managed small organizations, rearranging and combining personnel and resource elements to maximize efficiency, the company Permutation and combination of existing resources is an effective way to optimize redundancy.
For another example, in order to cater to the consumption upgrade, the fast-food restaurant combined the originally fixed single dishes into a multi-dish small-scale weighing model, which can meet people’s needs for rich nutrition, and can be taken as needed to avoid waste. Bringing Innovation.
Multi-dimensional thinking, free growth
Charlie Munger often mentions his reverse thinking, “think the other way, always think the other way around!” Reverse thinking can often help us understand the meaning of a way of thinking more thoroughly. After all, an effective way to understand things is often to study them. On the opposite side, reverse thinking is also an activator of solidified thinking. Inadvertently, the thinking mode is X2.
There is a powerful Lollapalooza effect between thinking models, which will make us look at things more three-dimensionally, and see the possibility from different dimensions. Take life as an example. We can understand from at least four dimensions. There are at least three other possibilities for the road: the [pursuit of wisdom] , love and relationship, and freedom, each of which can lead to happiness.
People often see only one dimension of possibility in their distress, and lack the perspective of seeing other opportunities. When they have a three-dimensional view of life, life has broad possibilities.
The power of thinking mode will penetrate into every aspect of everyone’s life, including your personality and your destiny. We may not be aware of these patterns, but they are critical to what we want and to achieve our goals successfully. Only when one has the right thinking can he fully enjoy the joy of life. With fun, it can stimulate intellectual curiosity and growth thinking, and then enter the ideal state of positive feedback.
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