想象一下,你希望你的人生是什么样的?
今天听了一个TED演讲,Tim Urban讲述的话题是关于procrastination.(拖延症)
first, he starts at a situation as a student in college with major of government management. he has to write a lot of papers, and when a thesis needs to be written, he will plan like that, start off light at first, and then bump it up in the middle and kick into the high gear at the end period. actually, he never follow that plan. because in his mind, there is a gratification monkey beside the rational decision maker, in the monkey's mind what he want to do just for fun and happy, which prevent him from doing hard work. so he says the hard work is beyond his right option. and the normal work flow can not hold the procedure.
in fact all of us has the problem of procrastination, why, we have no SMART goals. this acronym shows S(specific) M(measurable) Achievable, relevant and Time-limited. from this principle, we can make the plan easy to catch. and what's more, we need to know why we do, how we do, what we should do. added up to, things could be done in schedule. but hard things like life long, we sometimes found it hard to do because we just do those things to be doing with make sense.
he give us a solution in a excel sheet. 90 year-long week blog, every blank means a week, to make it work, we just review every week, keep on doing it every week, make it more active and meaningful. with long-term visualized and smart goal. you can stick to it. at that time, you get the invitation from TED, and reach out you to have a talk about procrastination, you can do it better, and with no fear of that, when you open up the website, your picture still be there starring right back at you. you never need pull an all-nighter, and go through it just like go up stairs and feel not like a big deal.拖延症可怕,在于panic monster always wake you up when you lose time and make you unhappy and upset in a long term. 因此,你需要人生算法。
人生算法分为两个方面,内圣外王,或者用儒家的话语方式讲,穷则独善其身,达则兼济天下。
如果有兴趣,建议观察一下蚂蚁,他在一个平面上打转,找不到出路。但是如果它的眼界足够宽,发现区域上有层次,有方向,只是它站在自身的位置上,缺少这样的高度和思考的深度。
对于人来说,实际上,也有不同,纵使你是全市的象棋冠军,你的粉丝不见得比一个学校的篮球球员得到的关注更多。同样,羽毛球的顶级高手林丹与网球的高手费德勒,虽然同是挥拍运动的顶级运动员,虽然付出类似,但是获得的收益却是相差10倍以上。因此,有时候,你需要有教练的帮助,或者职业生涯顾问的帮助,帮助你找到更好的路径。
一次跟一位校长吃饭,他说,人生要善于走之字形,虽然很多时候你不能一蹴而就,但是你可以在每个环节上选择最好的路径,也就是说,别人在攀登,你走的是索道,效率自然比别人高。他举例说明了这个规划的重要性,包括一个小孩虽然没有上到浙大,但是上了另外一个稍微低一点等级的学校,但是这个学校有个专业是跟约翰霍普金斯大学联合办学,相当于在大三就可以到霍普金斯,这就是之字形的威力。此外,另外一个学生,大学上的名气不是最大的,专业不是最好的,但是到了研究生,上的是英国的国王学院,也是走的之字形。听完他的分析,醍醐灌顶,人生不只是自己要强,更重要的是你有专业的教练在帮你出谋划策。站在高处,俯瞰人生,上帝视角, 帮你站的更高。
当然,一山更有一山高,更高的人生目标,需要有更大的格局去驾驭,那么,这个驾驭的按钮在哪里?本质上讲,核心是整合力。
我们来看看洛克菲勒的案例。洛克菲勒进入的行业是石油行业,这个行业处于汽车业的关键卡位上,需求出在爆发增长的前夜,他创办了标准石油,但是股东不止他一个,所以,他的抱负难以实现,别人看不到他的雄心壮志,希望做个富家翁即可,那么他怎么做的呢?第一,回购股份,引入战略股东,然后将公司变成上市公司。第二,重视技术升级,让公司研发出油气分离技术,使得自身的煤油产品稳定和可靠;第三,收购行业竞争对手,提升行业集中度,类似于中国的千团大战或者谭智所操盘的分众传媒的整合工作。完成整合后,继续强化销售渠道。此外,借助银行业的信贷用杠杆来撬动增长,用金融股票来扩充竞争力,甚至与铁路大亨联合,实现了石油产品在铁路物流上的高效运输。到了后来,他整合控制了采油,炼油,销油的整个产业链。并且,这个产业链控制后,在汽车业大爆发的加持下,实现了洛克菲勒成为时代巨富的传奇。
因此,一个人要走得多远,不光靠自身的努力,更要靠专业的教练的帮助,在更大的平台上有老板思维,上帝视角。
荀子在《劝学》中说“声非加疾也,而闻者彰。假舆马者,非利足也,而致千里;假舟楫者,非能水也,而绝江河。君子生非异也,善假于物也。”
因此你看,在成功者中,不一定是学历最高的,最聪明的,但是一定有善于资源整合,具有系统思维方法,具备使命愿景价值观的人。所以,你的人生算法是什么?