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Programmers are probably the simplest category in the workplace.
We are diligent, we work hard, we are constantly fighting with code.
But we often overlook the improvement of cognition and the improvement of skills outside of work.
Many programmers work hard until they are 35, but are forced to return to the talent market.
For a time, he drew his sword and looked around at a loss, at a loss.
I will combine my past experience and thinking to talk to you about how programmers can improve their cognition and quickly counterattack things.
I also hope to really help everyone!
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Work perception
You will never make any money beyond your cognition, and even if you make it by luck, you will lose it by strength.
What is cognition? The previous article gave an example: the gold rush in the western United States, a group of cowboys turned into sellers, digging for gold frantically, while a group of Jews carried water and sold water in a low-key manner.
Digging for gold is a small probability event, but it is a certain event that people drink water when they are thirsty.
The final outcome is: most of the gold prospectors are tragically bankrupt, and a group of Jewish bigwigs have risen.
People who only have gold in their eyes naturally cannot see the value of water.
This is the difference between high and low cognitive ability.
For ordinary people, the fate of being harvested can only be avoided by continuously improving their cognition.
Let me talk about cognition at work.
What do you think is the most important part of a part-time job?
There may be many answers, but I think the most important thing is choice.
Especially in the fast-growing Internet industry with many opportunities.
The Internet bigwig friends around me, without exception, joined the right company at the right time.
Or become an executive, or earn the first pot of gold with the company going public.
So how to make the right choice? Cognitive ability is the most important part.
The cognition of self-ability and interest, the cognition of the industry, the cognition of the competitive environment, the cognition of strategy, the cognition of good company.
Based on these knowledge, the right choice can be made.
For many candidates, they may only look at the level of salary and work comfort.
As everyone knows, there will be no "time compound interest" in the choice of considering these factors.
At the graduation meeting, a friend of mine got two offers, Tencent R&D post and Baidu test post.
Friends love programming and have no interest in testing.
But because Baidu gave 2K more than Tencent, I chose to go to Baidu for testing.
After entering the job, I soon couldn't adapt to the boring job.
After half a year, I left my job and joined a small company to do research and development, which made my career detours for several years.
Friends' coding skills are first-rate, but they fail in recognition.
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Cognition outside work
Let's talk about cognition outside of work.
1. Comprehensive understanding of consumption
Many of my friends around me started chasing various consumer products to become the moonlight clan after having a little money.
Of course, it is not to encourage everyone to become a miser, but the use of money should be just right.
Put an end to any impulsive consumption, put an end to any meaningless luxury and waste.
Ordinary people always use their savings to buy luxury goods, while the rich are just squandering passive income.
Many people advocate that money is not saved, but earned.
This is a complete lie, especially for social tools.
No matter how high your salary is, if you do not control your desire to consume, you will not have any wealth in the end.
The desire to consume is a scourge, and it will continue to grow as your income grows.
Remember: Be sure to fall in love with the pleasure of saving money.
Sooner or later in our lives we will face a moment when we need a large sum of money.
Whether it is buying a house, seeing a doctor, going to school with your children, or an excellent investment opportunity that can change your life.
Solving these problems is not difficult, it just requires a lot of money.
For most people, this money cannot be changed, only slowly.
Those young people who believe in consumerism.
Maybe only in middle age can you realize: I have struggled for so many years, but I still can't make enough money to change my life.
2. Comprehensive understanding of investment
Friends who have overcome consumerism tend to invest when they have a small amount of money.
At this time, if there is no deep understanding of investment, it is very likely to be reaped mercilessly.
Such as buying real estate in small cities with a net outflow of population.
For example, when the aunts started to enshrine the gods, they were excited and brought all their wealth into the stock market.
This kind of investment will only make your hard money go in the water.
To make money beget money, you must first have a deep insight into how money works.
3. Comprehensive perception of value
Recently, I am reading the masterpiece of Hillhouse Capital founder Zhang Lei: Value.
In the article, Zhang Lei mentioned how to construct a corporate moat.
Zhang Lei believes that the only way for a company to build a moat is to create user value madly and continuously.
Think further about how we, as ordinary tool people, have a moat of life?
I think the answer is still: crazy and continuous value creation.
This is the only way to avoid the middle-aged crisis, start the second and third curves of life, and build the moat of life.
This is also the only way for us to leap from consumer to producer.
It can even make us: super producers.
That is, we have created a value beyond expectations, which can be sold many times.
Such as knowledge payment, book publishing, live training, etc.
If we can become super producers, it means that we can break away from the capital platform and live alone.
At least let us get rid of the fear of being eliminated at any time.
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How to improve awareness
Cognition is so important, how can we improve it?
1. Summary and review in practice
The best way to raise awareness is undoubtedly through practice.
The experience and lessons learned after the groping in work and life are especially precious.
But after many people practiced, they didn't summarize and review the game, but just finished it.
In fact, summarizing and reviewing is the real deep thinking.
But most people are willing to do everything, just don't want to think deeply.
Of course, this is also a weakness left by human evolution. After all, the brain consumes 90% of energy to initiate deep thinking.
Therefore, if you want to enhance your cognition, you must be anti-human, cherish the summary and review after each practice, and separate the experience and lessons in practice into systematic wisdom.
Microsoft once had an unwritten rule: You can make mistakes, but you are not allowed to make the same mistakes.
This is actually to judge whether you will do a summary review.
2. Read more and read well
Based on the summary of practice, read more and read well, and your cognition will increase rapidly.
The process of reading is the same frequency resonance with the author across time and space.
It is the best way to get all the excellent wisdom in the world.
In the matter of reading, the experience of teachers is especially worth learning.
When the teacher was young, he set his ambition: to read all the best books in the world.
Even worse, he put this ambition into action.
The teacher once said: My greatest hobby in my life is reading. I can skip meals for a day, sleep for a day, and not read books for a day.
He believes, "With knowledge, it's like standing on a mountain, and you can see many things far away. Without knowledge, if you walk in a dark ditch and you can't feel it, it will be miserable."
The top tycoons who have counted the Internet are all reading madmen.
Meituan Wang Xing, Ali Ma Yun, Huawei Ren Zhengfei, 360 Zhou Hongyi, etc., are the masters of the book.
The gap between human and human talents is not that big, and even the human brain is essentially a repeater.
To make this repeater full of wisdom, reading is simply the most cost-effective thing.
3. Communicate with as many people as possible
Many times, when you are struggling to think about unsolvable problems, the window paper will be pierced by a gentle tap.
Finding people who are more cognizant than you in certain aspects, and communicating with them is a good shortcut to improve cognition.
Feng Lun once said an entrepreneurial golden sentence: learn advanced, sugar daddy, take the right way.
Advanced learning here means to keep communicating with great people.
The bullies are not just those big guys who are far ahead of you.
As long as your friends have cognition and knowledge that you don't possess, they are also great people you want to ask.
Provide equal value to the cattle, in exchange for their advice and guidance to you.
Let your cognition grow rapidly with the help of the cattle.
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First principles
First principles were first put forward by Aristotle.
He believes that any system has a first principle.
He said: "In every system exploration, there are first principles. First principles are basic propositions and assumptions, which cannot be omitted, deleted, or violated."
Simply put, in a logical system, some statements may be deduced from other conditions, and first principles are principles that cannot be deduced from other principles.
It is the most essential invariable law that determines things, a natural axiom, the starting point of thinking, and the premise for the existence of many truths.
Adhering to first principles refers to guessing the problem without thinking by analogy or reference.
Rather, it looks at the problem from the perspective of "what it is" and "how it should be", and I believe that everything has a truth behind it.
First principles are a framework of thinking, free from the fetters of experience and environment.
Can directly find the root of the problem and find the solution to the problem from the most essential point of view.
Many times, our cognition is constrained by experience.
When the environment and various external factors have undergone drastic changes, we are still at the original level.
First principles happen to be the best weapon to break this bondage.
Break and disassemble a complex system into the most basic unit, and then re-assemble and reason up.
This kind of thinking framework is very important, and in some cases it is the only effective way to break the game.
Especially when new things appear, traditional experience often fails.
Before the advent of the mobile Internet era.
Many Internet giants sneered at smartphones and still attacked the PC side.
Those practitioners and entrepreneurs who really dismantled user needs, but clearly saw the future of the mobile Internet.
And they have joined in and become a new generation of bosses.
Those who see the future naturally have a greater chance of winning.
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Critical thinking
Many people have rich practical experience and read many books, but they still have a bad life.
They all have one big characteristic: lack of critical thinking.
Easily fall into a state of blind confidence or others.
What is critical thinking?
Critical thinking is thinking in a reasonable, reflective, and open-minded way.
The connotation is not to refute without brain, but to think with the original intention of exploring rationality when encountering any thing and viewpoint.
The lack of critical thinking will stop our cognitive development at the pinnacle of ignorance.
Educational psychologists Elder and Paul proposed six stages of critical thinking development:
Level 1: Those who do not think
These people lack the necessary understanding of thinking itself.
I don’t even know what thinking means to my life.
They always form opinions and make decisions based on wrong and paranoid ideas.
They either believe in themselves or others.
After making countless mistakes, his thinking ability has never progressed.
Think about it, are there many such people around you?
Level 2: Learn to question people
Thinkers on the second level have begun to realize the importance of thinking to life.
Also clearly understand that the flaws in thinking will cause big troubles.
They begin to admit that they have problems and look for solutions to them.
They began to understand that "high-quality cognition and thinking must first conduct a detailed analysis of the thinking itself."
When they encounter views that they take for granted, they will reflect: Is it really the case? Are there other ways and methods?
When they started asking questions, the rapid cognitive evolution began.
The third level: beginner thinkers
Thinkers at this level have begun to clearly realize how important a humble mentality is.
In the thinking of all aspects of life, they will be proactive, trying to control the thinking process.
They know that there are blind spots in their thinking and will take corresponding measures to correct them.
Introductory thinkers value rationality more and maintain self-knowledge in the thinking process.
They have begun to have the ability to discover the various concepts and tendencies behind their ideas.
They will always review their decision-making and thinking processes.
And extract the true wisdom from it.
The fourth level: thinkers
People at this level can not only discover their own flaws, but also have the corresponding ability to solve problems.
They develop better thinking habits, and they will conduct standardized analysis of their thinking process.
They can clearly recognize where their thinking is strong and where is weak.
But they have not yet mastered the systematic method of deeply solving thinking problems.
Therefore, it is inevitable that they often fall victim to self-centeredness and self-deception.
Level 5: Advanced Thinkers
They have a very strong habit. They can gain insight into their thinking and conduct in-depth analysis in every aspect of life.
They stand up to justice and are always able to discover the harmfulness of others and their own thoughts.
Their analytical thinking has been initially systematized, and the system itself will continue to evolve.
Advanced thinkers can face self-criticism calmly.
And it will systematically conduct this behavior to seek further improvement.
Level 6: Master of Thinking
Super thinkers at this level can fully control their entire process of processing information and making decisions.
They continue to work hard to strengthen their thinking ability, and through repeated practice, "continuously improve their thinking to reach a conscious level."
Masters of thinking have in-depth insights into psychological activities and are firmly committed to maintaining fairness and controlling their self-centered tendencies.
They are always introspecting and checking their assumptions about flaws, logic, and tendencies.
Through practice and learning, we will continue to develop and improve the level of critical thinking.
To become a master of thinking may require talent and luck.
But the first five levels of thinking can be obtained through hard work and correct methods.
Every step up is accompanied by a big explosion of cognitive ability.
And these cognitions will give you extra wealth.
Final words
Programmers tend to immerse themselves in hard work, focusing only on the work in front of them, ignoring the improvement of cognition and pattern.
If wealth is like gold, cognition is as precious as diamonds.
When a person's cognition is not enough to control the wealth he has.
This society has 10,000 ways to harvest him.
Until his wealth and cognition match.
When a person's cognition far exceeds his wealth.
This society has 10,000 ways of giving back, letting him have more wealth.
I hope that every programmer will bid farewell to the fate of being harvested and realize financial freedom as soon as possible.
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