The secret of success is nothing but being one step ahead.

The world is developing so fast that people are always caught off guard. It is easy for us to fall into a misunderstanding and try our best to solve the immediate problem. But busy as a dog, the effect is not great, at most, it just maintains the existing achievements. Day and night, what we have to do and develop may not necessarily make any progress. The same effort, but it seems that the force hit the cotton and was turned into invisibility. On the other hand, some people can take their time as if every step is under control. What determines the opposite state of these two people?

The martial arts in the world are fast and unbreakable. Being one step ahead is the key to almost all success. This requires us to make an accurate judgment on the future development trend. "Seven Principles of Understanding the Future" puts forward a concept of "foresight". It is the ability to judge the future development trend according to the existing situation. The book discusses seven points, and grasping these seven points can greatly enhance your foresight. Be an accurate prophet in your familiar field. Only with an accurate judgment of the future can we grasp the present more efficiently. Big to the workplace, start a business. As small as how to look at your dreams and realize them in a planned way, you can't do without foresight.

The author Dennis burroughs, a futurist, founded six enterprises and is an entrepreneur with outstanding military achievements. He used his years of research and summary on the development trend of enterprises to condense the essence. It has been highly praised by many entrepreneurs. This book not only needs every entrepreneur to read. It is also instructive to the planning of self-growth.

Consciously cultivate the ability to master the following seven principles. Let you benefit in the future development.

1. Start with certainty.

First of all, there is always a trend in the development of things. Some trends are countercyclical, while others are linear. Periodic, such as the alternation of four seasons, spring, summer, autumn and winter are bound to cycle. Linearity is like the growth of people's age, one year older, and it is impossible to stay or reverse.

The author also puts forward hard trend and soft trend. Hard trends cannot be changed, and soft trends can be changed the day after tomorrow.

For example, if there is a time machine that allows you to travel to 10 years later. You found that you won the lottery and made a fortune. Then winning the lottery after 10 years is a hard trend. What is a soft trend? Is your ability to control money.

Now you cross back. I know I will have 5 million in the future. So what are you doing now? Suppose you think that you will become rich anyway, just muddling along, and you will become rich in ten years. After waiting for ten years, you won the prize, but you can't manage money. As a result, it was defeated after a few years, not as good as before.

But you have another choice. It is trying to master financial management knowledge in the ten years without making a fortune. Ten years later, I won the grand prize. You use your financial knowledge to make money snowball. Not only have you always been rich, but your son may also become a rich second generation.

Predict the future as accurately as a time machine, which is what the author calls "foresight".

Step 2 gain insight into opportunities

The second principle is to pay attention to the importance of insight into opportunities.

As mentioned earlier, some people keep themselves busy every day, but they are not. Someone seems to control everything. Everyone must have seen the story of "Grass Boat Borrowing Arrows" before, and Zhuge Liang in it is just like a god. Take the enemy into the ditch step by step. Finally, the enemy's arrogance was defeated and so many arrows were trapped. Zhuge Liang is almost a god in the Romance of the Three Kingdoms. In fact, it describes ultra-accurate foresight.

Can take the initiative to take the strategy because of its flexible response. Preemptive strike is because of insight.

Strike first, then rule by law. Anticipate the problems you see, plan ahead and nip them in the bud. It is usually exhausting to make changes according to the external environment. Changes initiated from within are purposeful and constructive.

change

We say that change is very important. However, for the fast-developing economy and society, simple changes can't keep up with the rapid development of the times. Change is doomed to failure. What we need is change.

Have a clear idea to be a changer, or you will be forced to accept change. Remember to look at Luo Ji's thinking, there is a paragraph saying that the previous model was pyramid model. You must climb to the top to succeed. But now it's cactus mode. Everyone can be a bright spot on the cactus. As long as you do one thing well, you are not afraid of not developing and not afraid of not having opportunities.

Changers are always changing all kinds of patterns, and in a new pattern, they will definitely take the lead. This is actually an active and passive relationship. The author tells us that, first of all, you should have the consciousness of becoming a reformer.

Jump out of the problem you face.

The fourth principle is to jump out of the problem you are facing. Because the problem you are facing is not necessarily the real problem. For example. For example, Ma Yun.

At that time, it was difficult for Ma Yun to find a job because he was ugly. If you think about the problem step by step, it seems that you should sell your house and land and spend money on plastic surgery. Beautiful, looking for a job. If Ma Yun thought so, there would be no Taobao today, and there would be no express delivery for you and me.

Surface problems are not necessarily the key reasons. You need to find the real problem and solve it in order to really eliminate the trouble. People think that Ma Yun is ugly and refuses to give job opportunities. However, Ma Yun is far-sighted and has the capital to start his own business. Although the process was hard and he was once suspected to be a liar, he eventually became a rich man. If he takes money for plastic surgery, he will become an English teacher at most, and the plastic surgery fee he still owes for working is only a little.

It is very necessary to jump out of the problem you are facing. Focus on one problem at a time. Sometimes the problem seems complicated and many links are difficult. Don't try to solve all the problems, keep peeling onions until you find a problem that can be solved.

Do the opposite thing

On the other hand, it's not blind obedience. In the early days, our China stock market only went up but not down, and many people rushed to buy stocks. When the street sweepers, housewives and retired uncles and aunts all went in. Some smart people left quietly. Those who left first earned a lot of money, but those who rushed in later lost money, and many of them were trapped. It is always a minority who can grasp the trend. Most of them are blind followers. As the saying goes, "Prophets are always lonely."

There is a very effective way to foresee: look at the direction people pay attention to, and then look at the opposite direction. Focusing on areas that no one pays attention to can let you see opportunities that no one can notice. You can do what others can't.

6. Redefining and recreating

2 1 century, the only thing we can rely on is change. That means you can't go back. You can't stand still, you can't stand still, you can't continue to do what you have been doing, even if you try your best to keep it. The only way to survive and develop is to create and redefine.

In a sense, change is a hard trend and creation is a soft trend. Whether you like it or not, change is bound to happen, right around us. Re-creation will depend on us If you don't do it, others will do it.

Redefining and re-creating is to seize the opportunity to rewrite history before things happen.

For example, there are two obvious examples. Amazon and physical bookstores. When online shopping became popular, Amazon began to specialize in books. Many critics criticized the physical bookstore. There are indeed some physical bookstores that suffer greatly. But others began to transform rapidly, combining bookstores and cafes. Customers can read books while drinking coffee. What's more, it integrates a bookstore, a cafe and a cat house. There are more and more young people who like cats now. Read a book, order a cappuccino, and play with the kitten when you are tired. Coffee is profitable, just like a cat playing wild. But many young people are still eager for this model.

In the past, I was the only one in the world, but now you are the only one in the Wulin who walks fast. You should not only have a good idea, but also act quickly. Actively create new soil suitable for their own survival.

7. Lead the future

This principle should be said to be a sublimation part of understanding the seven principles in the future. The author tells us that we can accurately see the certainty of some elements in the future through hard trends. But if we consider the soft trend and our ability to influence it, we will know that how things develop is quite flexible.

Everyone has seen the butterfly effect, right? Every time the protagonist goes back and changes something, the whole ending will change a lot. The future is made up of many small details. How to develop in the future depends largely on our own choices, and these choices depend largely on our views on the future.

Seeing hard trends, soft trends, predicting, changing, doing the opposite, skipping your biggest problem and reinventing yourself are all valuable and important steps. But we also need a bigger and more inclusive principle: we need to actively shape our own future.

Part of looking to the future and living a successful life is not to be afraid of failure. Failure itself is an undervalued resource. Constantly try and make mistakes and sum up experience. Control the result by foresight.

When I read the book "Seven Principles of Understanding the Future", my brain kept spinning. Many points have inspired me a lot.

For example, as a photographer, I have been studying, hoping to improve my skills and win more orders. But sometimes it's not just technicalism. Innovation in business philosophy, scrambling to compete with others for the remaining few resources, it is better to open up a new road by yourself. Why not do the opposite? Open your own path.

Thinking is always more important. As long as you have a blueprint in mind. Whenever possible, it will be realized. If you don't do it, others will do it. What we should try to do is to seize the opportunity. Don't be led by others or times.

The Seven Principles of Understanding the Future is a good book that instinctively expands people's thinking mode. Anyone who needs it must find it and read it.