In just a few steps, you can achieve rapid self-improvement and instantly rank among the top 5- 10% in your field. After that, the process from the former 5% to the former 1% is the real difficulty. Entering the field of 5- 10% only requires you to change your lifestyle. Before entering 1%, you need to achieve earth-shaking changes.
How to make you quickly enter the top 5- 10% of your field will help you pave the way to the top in the world.
The first stage will help you to be in the top 5- 10% in a specific field. Once you reach this level, you can make a living through skills in this field. As paul graham said, "once you make a profit, no matter how much your net income is, your future development prospects will become infinitely broad." Paul graham called this basic profit "Lamy profit", which means that the income of start-ups (or people from all walks of life) is enough to pay the living expenses of the founders.
Realizing "Shaxian County Profit" means that you can devote all your "work" time to this field, instead of struggling to stay up late to squeeze in the time after work. You can feed yourself and eat hot Shaxian snacks. At this stage, the second stage of truly realizing one's ideals and reaching the top of the world begins.
1, the first stage: "Shaxian County is profitable" (achieving sustainable profitability)
First of all, start with amateurs.
Kenzi and Harris recently got married. They all dropped out of Brigham Young University and started working in the Apple Store in downtown Salt Lake City. At the same time, they began to record music albums and release them on YouTube and Vine.
They have enough savings to support their life for the next year, so they quit the Apple Store and work full-time in music. They send videos on Vine every day, but after a few months, the number of hits has not improved, only a few thousand fans have been harvested.
Then everything changed. One day, they released a video of Vine, and it suddenly caught fire. The next day, some top Vine creators came to contact them, followed by an invitation to broker a contract. In this way, they realized the "Shaxian County Profit" and took a key step on the road to becoming musicians with the help of excellent exhibition channels.
If Kenzi and Harris hadn't started their amateur creative activities, they wouldn't have made such a breakthrough. They have some primitive talents, but more importantly, they are willing to continue to show their talents. Quantitative change leads to qualitative change, and they finally make something that people like.
Few people want to start with an anonymous amateur. Under the banner of perfectionism, they try their best to delay what they want to do. You must know such a person who talks about doing great things all year round, but never starts to do them. However, deep down, they are afraid of what others think of them.
They fall into the paralysis caused by thinking: there are too many internal calculations, but they never act. They don't do things in their own way, but want to do things in the way of people they think are popular. But that's just imitating people who have become popular.
Second, get guidance or learn by yourself.
Take your dreams seriously. Don't take this as nonsense, because most people really can't do it. You have to face your dreams very seriously to make a splash in Paramore. Therefore, you need to get guidance or learn by yourself.
Confucius said, "In a threesome, there must be a teacher."
After working overseas for two years, I have always longed to be a writer. However, it wasn't until my earnest efforts led me to find a mentor that my dream gradually came true.
It was two tutors who changed my writing style. One is a young professor, but he has taught me more in three months than I have learned in the past four years.
In fact, in three months, he taught me a set of academic writing and research methods that most people studied during their doctoral years. With his help, I was easily admitted to the ideal graduate school.
I started blogging about 2 1 a few months ago. After I realized that I wanted to blog seriously, I decided to seek professional guidance. This time, however, I chose the virtual online course.
During the one-month course, a blog I wrote in class was read more than five million times and translated into many languages. This online course is not the only reason for my success, but it has helped me make obvious progress.
When you meet the right teacher to teach you knowledge, you can enter the next stage.
Third, get rid of the red tape that others rely on.
What is popular is wrong. Most people act for common reasons. They follow red tape that doesn't allow people to reach their maximum potential. Their road is rugged, so everyone can keep the same speed.
If others go left, you should go right. American writer Darren Hardy once said that if you want to stand out from the crowd, you must "move away from others."
As American entrepreneur Peter de Mandis said, "Before a breakthrough idea is born, people will only regard it as a crazy idea." If what you do is not crazy in your own eyes, but others think you are crazy, then you may already be on the way to safety.
Sometimes you feel that you will never realize your dreams. You know what you want to do, but there are countless obstacles in front of you. You must win the competition with thousands of people to really do what you want to do.
Don't follow the rules made by society, but create your own rules. Reset the rules of the game and you will win easily. Ignore swearing, conventions and habits, do what you want, execute yourself, encourage, believe and act. Only by establishing a lifestyle that carries out your true self can you be happy. If you are true to your heart, you will eventually have a beautiful change.
Fourth, before success, persist, and then persist.
Patience.
If you can continue to do it, then do it. Perseverance is the most basic virtue to change you. Almost everyone can sprint hard for a short time, but most people will soon lose it and then choose to quit. All meaningful life will be a marathon, testing your persistence and will.
Do what you like, and do it regardless. In fact, what prevents you from realizing your dream is your obsession with specific results. You will be forced to work for certain results.
The law of nature called "compound interest effect" shows that if you can persist in investing a small amount of money, your final compound interest will increase exponentially. So are good habits and bad habits. If you persist long enough, the "compound effect" will take effect, and you can experience the results brought by exponential growth.
If you want to degenerate, you should try your best to degenerate. But if you don't want to, you won't. You will spend less time on socializing and hobbies, give up sleep, be creative, take risks, find a mentor, be educated and be modest. When you take your work seriously, you will be surprised to find that it is so simple to realize "Shaxian County Profit".
2. The second stage: becoming the world's top in this field.
Those who succumb to temptation don't know its power, but those who resist it know it. Experience is the key. Only by applying knowledge correctly and continuously can it become your wisdom. So, don't be a bystander, learn directly from the practitioners. If you think it's a loss to exchange jobs with someone, don't ask him about his job.
Follow the principles taught by others, and you will be among the top 5- 10% in your field. But sometimes, in order to be the best in the world in your field, you have to forget these things. You should be an innovator, a pioneer and an artist.
In order to reach the top of 1%, you will experience a period of high failure probability like walking a tightrope in midair. At this time, everything you have learned before will stand on the opposite side of what you want to do-but your intuition will become more acute.
Fifth, in order to behave better and better, you must change your living habits.
Being called one of the best people in the world requires you to devote yourself to your career. Everything you do is important. No matter what you eat, what you do, who you spend time with, or how you spend every hour, every moment in your life will either promote your dreams or set obstacles.
Most people's lives are centered on reflecting external information. The first thing they do in the morning is to check email or social media. They sometimes read a good book, but after all, these things are all intellectual input and addictive.
In order to become a top talent, you must explore the wealth in your subconscious and try to export it. When you sleep, socialize or participate in other activities outside of work, your subconscious mind is thinking and studying the problems you want to solve.
Therefore, the first thing you wake up every day should be output. By keeping a diary, you can catch all the work you do in your subconscious mind in your sleep.
Or get up at once and continue the work you are doing. When you end a meeting or any form of activity, don't go back to the input state of reading emails, just continue to output and work to stimulate your subconscious mind to the maximum extent. The source of wisdom will therefore flow in.
Keeping healthy and staying away from diseases is also the key to improving creativity. American writer Stephen Ozanick wrote in his new book, The Troubled Pain:
"Pain and other chronic symptoms are physical manifestations of unsolved problems in the body. Symptoms are the instinctive mechanism of human body to protect itself. Pain is a signal sent by the body to the brain, but our id occupies the brain and hides the signal sent by the body in the subconscious, so that we are not aware of it ourselves.
In 1990s, neuroscientist Dr Candice Porter discovered that the subconscious mind transmitted through neuropeptides does not run in the brain, but runs through the whole body. This means that we humans are born as one, and our brains and bodies work in harmony.
The tension that we can't solve in life will eventually show up in the form of physical illness. When we realize that we have this kind of tension, we can let the body heal naturally and organically. After all, a healthy body is more likely to bring inspiration.
Sixth, give yourself some time to recuperate.
Less is more.
When you are not mediocre, but highly concerned about the results, your work switch will be turned on at 100%. When you are not working, this switch is 100% off.
This will not only make you perfect in your work, but also ensure that you make full use of your rest and recovery time.
Scientific evidence can prove this. Psychological separation between work and rest is very important for efficient work! The psychological separation of work and rest will bring other benefits:
If you can't have a good rest when you should, you are more likely to be delayed and tired at work;
Obviously, if you can't do the psychological separation of work and rest, your married life will not be so happy.
High-intensity work is like fitness. If you don't rest between exercises in each group, you can't actually practice the explosive power and endurance of your muscles. However, not all "breaks" can make people recover, and some specific breaks can relax the body and mind more.
I usually keep a diary, listen to music, spend time with my wife and children, cook and eat, or serve the society. These things can cheer me up, so that I can not only return to work, but also work more meaningfully.
Seventh, set up a "pre-performance process" to facilitate you to enter the state.
Joshua Witzkin is a genius in the field of learning and human's best performance. He is a chess prodigy. He won five national Tai Ji Chuan championships in Brazil, and now he is trying to become a world-class player in Brazilian Jiu Jitsu. He applied many basic principles of bottom-up learning and applied them to many different disciplines.
In order to get into the state, Witzkin suggested that we set up a "pre-performance process" to help us reduce stress and anxiety and let you appear on the stage smoothly. This process usually takes 20-60 minutes to get you into the state, but Joshua suggests gradually shortening the time of this process before each stage, and finally achieving the goal of getting into the state slightly lighter.
"The process before performance" is to change your emotional state. Most people will experience some emotional obstacles and so on before writing. Negative emotions such as fear, uncertainty and discomfort can all become obstacles and have a negative impact on your performance.
"The process before the performance" will help you become calm, full of courage and strength. In this emotional state, the result of your work will be far better than before. How you feel at work will determine your performance.
Eighth, embrace fear and pain.
"The hearts of heroes and cowards are the same. But when a coward runs away, the hero will take advantage of his fear and push it on his opponent. In the face of fear, everyone feels the same, but what matters is the reaction in the face of fear. " Kush D'Amato
The concept of fearlessness is actually wrong, but it is often imposed on others. Real performers also feel fear and pain. However, they learned to bear and transform these pains, just like when practicing yoga.
Cycling is a sport that tests the will. As tyler hamilton said, "When I put all my energy into it, I found that all my energy was used to perform an intense and impossible task. My heart is pounding and lactic acid is swimming in my muscles, but I can feel good, normal and stable.
The "pain point" that cyclists often say refers to their deeper and deeper psychological state in the race. "I am deeper than I thought." "I have reached the limit." "I hit a wall (meaning that I can't work hard to improve after my grades reach a certain level)." You will often hear such words in interviews after cycling races.
"Resilience can be said to be the most critical trait needed to become a world-class performer and should be continuously cultivated. For myself, I have been looking for ways to keep myself going. When I feel uncomfortable, my intuition will not let me avoid it, but learn to live in peace with it. " Joshua Wizkin
When you start to feel uncomfortable, it is the starting point for you to feel good gradually. This is the starting point for your growth. No pains, no gains. This will make you happy. Most people here give up, but you won't.
Ninth, because of love.
Finally, the most important thing is to be closely connected with human nature. Your love for others will override everything else in your life.
The contents of these trainings and personal progress are mainly based on self-reflection and promotion. However, paying attention to external meaning and the needs of others will provide new meaning for our work. Being the world's top in your field is not for your reputation before and after death, but for the life you love.
In psychology, motivation is divided into four levels.
In the first stage, people are driven by fear. Everything you do is to avoid punishment or negative results. Decision-making theory holds that this form of incentive focuses on "prevention".
In the second stage, people are motivated by potential returns. Everything you do is to get what you want in return. If you believe in religion, you will abide by the precepts of blessing in the doctrine. If you work hard in business, you will only do those things that make money. At this stage, your concern is "promotion".
Both the first stage and the second stage show external motivation, which is far less powerful than internal motivation.
In the third stage, people are motivated by their responsibilities. With or without external rewards, you will do what you think should be done. You are no longer afraid of punishment, because your motivation is completely endogenous. But what is lacking at this stage is passion, and what is lacking is a kind of motivation that can make you surpass human ability and rationality.
In the fourth stage, people's motivation comes from love. You no longer worry about your own needs. Your goal is to bring as much happiness as possible to everyone. Your love is beyond human reason. Most people will think what you are doing is "crazy". Your life no longer depends on traditional rules, but is guided by the noblest and purest power.
3. Conclusion
It won't be long before you can live by your hobbies. This requires you to work hard, make sacrifices and persevere. However, the rules that keep you alive will not get you to the top. Break the rules and trust your intuition, and you will become the top.
You will decide the quality and influence of your work. You can be the best in the world, and it all starts with the sublimation of ideas.
Do you really want to be in the front 1%?