I just finished reading "Investment Different", a very good book, and I will share some of its wonderful notes and thoughts with you.
The reason for reading this book is that I saw someone recommend it in the circle of friends, and sharing some of the best content in the circle of friends during the reading process also caused many friends to ask: Which book is this content?
As the author himself said, this book is not only about investment, but also about life philosophy. For me, it also gives guidance on how to choose entrepreneurial projects and how to improve themselves.
The important thing is that a paragraph in the book answers the question that has puzzled me for a long time: Why do many successful entrepreneurs have an engineer background?
The following is the essence of the summary:
Time management
Time is limited and ambitions are limitless. How should we manage our time and attention? This is the most important problem we face when we are born.
Time is everyone’s only scarce asset. Learn to pay attention to important issues. The gap between people is opened by "important but not urgent things", such as physical exercise and cognitive upgrading.
Ideas determine fate
Mrs. Thatcher said:
Pay attention to your thoughts, because it can determine your words.
Pay attention to your words, because it can dominate your behavior.
Pay attention to your behavior, because it can change your habits.
Pay attention to your habits, because they can shape your character.
Pay attention to your character, because it can determine your destiny.
Seven lies in the world
The biggest lie in the world: There is no shortcut to success.
The second biggest lie in the world: competition is fair.
The third biggest lie in the world: Science is truth.
The fourth biggest lie in the world: God pays for work.
The fifth biggest lie in the world: Destiny is doomed.
The sixth biggest lie in the world: at the beginning of man, nature is good.
The seventh biggest lie in the world: People are rational.
Nature
People who see the essence in one second and those who spend half their life unable to see the essence of a thing naturally have different fate. --"godfather"
Risks and opportunities
The judgment of risk is positively correlated with the level of cognition; good cognition can identify "risks" that others cannot see, and can also screen out "opportunities" that others fear. Risks and opportunities are nothing but gaps in perception.
Race track
How big a company can be is determined by the track, not by the CEO of the company.
Technical businessman
Many engineers succeed not because of his engineering background, but because he has evolved into a businessman (businessman).
All successful engineers can transform into businessmen; most engineers are basically engineers from the start of their business to the day they fail, without any growth or evolution. We have to work hard to find technical businessmen who can grow and evolve quickly. They often have a strong desire to succeed, have a certain technical background but do not need to be a great technical master. They respect technology, but are goal-oriented and market-oriented. They can grow in adversity and quickly evolve into a Technical businessman in a new era environment.
Iterative optimization
Whether it is entrepreneurship or investment, we will never be a headless fly. We must keep trial and error, trial and error regularly, optimize the path, and improve cognition until we find the shortcut to success.
Lei Jun says
Lei Jun said to entrepreneurs: I realized the key to success. Smart people, hardworking people, there are more in this world, but this is only a prerequisite for success. There are no guarantees for your success. What is really important is to take advantage of the trend and find the outlet.
copy
As long as it is good, as long as it conforms to the trend, can make the company grow rapidly, as long as it does not violate the law, what about borrowing it. If the ethics is too serious, it may be difficult to move. Even firing will make entrepreneurs embarrassed, and humanity and sophistication will become his stumbling block.
The nature of competition
The essence of competition is the crushing of advantages. Unfair competition in which advantages are used to crush the disadvantages of opponents is the magic weapon for countries, nations, enterprises and other organizations to win.
opportunity
If you miss the opportunity, you won't be blown up by the wind or pushed up by the waves. Missing the opportunity is to be the enemy of the times, because the potential energy has been borrowed by the forerunners.
good business
A good business must be able to clearly locate the target service groups with rigid needs. Although this group of people may not pay the bill directly, as long as it is just in demand, there is room for realisation.
leadership
Leadership is to activate the common imagination of a group of people, compile a jointly recognized story, let the group believe this story, form a belief, and organize them to carry out large-scale and efficient collaboration.
Running and reading
People who run every day mainly fall in love with running not because of their strong self-control, but because they work hard; people who wake up early every day to read are not because they don’t like to sleep late, but because they get more pleasure through reading.
reading
Reading is not to remember what the author said, but to digest what we think is correct and enlightening while reading, transform these thoughts into our own cognition, and become our decision-making in future actions "Subconscious" and "Unconscious" intuition!
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