I. Contents of chapters
Foreword "Fate" and "Luck" determine a person's life.
1, when it comes to fate, many middle-aged people will have this experience: no matter how hard they work, it seems that they can't get further recognition from society; On the contrary, if you do things step by step, it doesn't seem so bad. Somehow, it seems to be blocked by these two lines. Actually, this is life.
2. Life is the way a person looks at problems and does things, that's all, but they determine a person's life.
3, but mortals have a slightly wider knowledge and a slightly wider social circle. Your life will be much better if you have a little comprehensive understanding of things.
4. "Pay attention to your thoughts, because it determines your words and deeds. Pay attention to your words and deeds, because they will dominate your behavior. Pay attention to your behavior, because it will become your habit. Pay attention to your habit, because it can shape your character. Pay attention to your character, because it can determine your destiny. " This passage may be the origin of what we call "character determines fate" today. In fact, what determines our destiny also includes our habits, behaviors and the way of thinking behind them.
5. Attitude towards the world. If someone slaps us in the street, how will we react?
All the reactions can be summarized into three kinds: the first kind, slapping back; Second, recognize cowardice and walk away with your face covered; Third, calm analysis first. Maybe we really should be slapped, so we should learn a lesson. Maybe the other person is really an asshole. Maybe we should call the police to take care of him. Of course, in the future, someone may find an opportunity to punish him and let him remember the lesson.
In our life experience, we will always encounter all kinds of troubles and problems. They keep slapping us like other people or real life. The attitude and way of dealing with these slaps determines our fate.
-Do you believe in fate? What is fate?
Life is the general trend of our times, the resources we have, our starting point, our talents and limitations, the problems we face every day, our thinking and choices, and how far we have gone in that direction.
Luck is something we can't grasp, an opportunity, a gift, a change, an unexpected encounter, a boat crossing the river, a kite flying in the wind, a vent for blowing pigs, and a huge wave from the pavement.
If described by a picture, life is a smooth curve, and luck is the point around this line-ups and downs, affecting the direction of the long river.
Don't trust those senior two teenagers who are "the only one in the world", and don't trust those chicken soup who are "you can do anything".
Everyone's fate is different. Recognize people's own limitations, take stock of the resources available in their own pockets, stop staring at other people's roads, and just go your own way.
"Resignation" is not to compromise with the world, not to give up efforts, but to put aside unrealistic fantasies, recognize reality, make good use of one's endowment and resources, and guide one's life with a more objective and optimistic attitude, so that the future will be better than the present and this life will be meaningful.
Chapter 1 Happiness is the goal and success is the means.
Life is a river.
The world owes you nothing.
The most important investment in life
Let the service mature first.
march to one's doom
Chapter II Life Needs Subtraction
Happiness without choice
Life and Poetry: We Need Lin Daiyu
Watermelon and sesame
Life is limited and knowledge is limited.
Are we better off than18th century people?
The third chapter talks about knowledge
How far are we from genius?
Starting line and blx
in luck
What is more terrible than poverty?
Dialogue with Zhuangzi: Talking about knowledge.
The meaning of reading
Chapter IV Everyone's Wisdom
Shakespeare's Wisdom: On Friends
Larry Page's Management Wisdom
Buffett Lunch: Wisdom of Life
The Wisdom of Sima Qian: On Huo Zhi, the earliest comprehensive paper on economics in the East.
The wisdom of the sales master
Chapter V Rejecting Fake Workers
Don't be a fake worker.
Can hard work 10000 hours really help you succeed?
Three axes to break four dilemmas
OKR: Google's management by objectives
Do the final 1%
Chapter VI Workplace Misunderstanding and Violation of Law
Young people should not pay too much attention to salary in their first job.
Level 5 Engineer and Career Development
Four misunderstandings in the workplace and four ways to break them.
Two things that professional employees and managers should pay attention to.
Imperial, kingly and overbearing in the profession.
Perfect progress in the workplace: common sense, technology and art
Chapter VII The Essence of Commerce
The essence of business is to make people spend more money, not save money.
The secret of management: no choice.
Three stages of the success of "the third eye beauty new product" in the market
Chapter VIII Rational Investment View
Money view
risk awareness
The first investment lesson
Investment error
Asset allocation around investment purposes
Chapter 9 is well said
Everything you say and do is to achieve your goals.
Talk about reasonable methods
What do we rely on to convince people?
How to make a good speech
Postscript of Silicon Valley's Letter to Insight
1, "When I was young, I read Rousseau's books, Bacon's essays, and the memoirs or essays of Zweig, romain rolland, Lu Xun, Liang Shiqiu, Zhu Ziqing, Zhou and others, and gained more. Those wise men inadvertently told me their feelings about life, which unconsciously influenced me, a young man who is seeking in college. Later, when I had the opportunity to be with many outstanding people in the world (from famous scholars to business leaders to cultural elites), I was able to experience things that others didn't have the opportunity to experience, and at the same time, I was influenced by their way of thinking and gradually learned to look at the world and life more deeply. "
Reading good books and making good friends have a great influence on our personal growth. Reading is a cheap and profitable thing. Everyone is limited by the environment and can't choose the social circle around him, but the books he can read are almost endless; Reading good books, such as paying homage to famous teachers and making friends with outstanding people, is an excellent way to increase your wisdom. It takes a threshold to make friends with high people. You are excellent yourself, either a young generation worthy of support, a young person with potential, or a knowledgeable person who can communicate with you. These two things may not change your economic conditions soon, but they can bring you wisdom-attitude towards life and ideas for solving problems.
According to the feedback from readers, I found that what everyone cares most is how to better grasp the lifeline of future development and how to make more achievements in career. ..... I named this book (Knowledge) because I think the fate of a person's life is actually largely limited by his knowledge, and the change of fate first needs the promotion of knowledge.
Everyone is eager for progress and success, which is almost a law engraved in human genes. Everyone has a desire to be "better than now", whether it's a tender baby, a vibrant youth, a steady middle age or an old age, even a person lying flat is no exception. Settle down, yes. "Knowledge" is information, knowledge, the possibility of choice and the way we can go. Shepherds in rural areas have been repeating the fate of "herding sheep-marrying a wife-giving birth to a baby-herding sheep again" all their lives, not because of lack of opportunities, but because of lack of knowledge. If we don't know the value of jewels and jade, even if we own the whole Baoshan, our life will not be improved at all.
Nowadays, many commercial channels rely on "information asymmetry" to make money. Speaking of it, it seems that our time is extremely rich in information and "knowledge", but some core knowledge and experience are still in the hands of a few people. They are elites from all walks of life, leaders of enterprises, managers of society and people who make a fortune silently. Still have to think more about some "essence", the essence of business, the essence of society, the essence of country, the essence of love, the essence of family ... and pay less attention to some grandiose concepts and entertainment.