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Why do some people always finish their work efficiently and easily, while others always work overtime, but the results are not satisfactory?

Why do some people always achieve their set goals, while others get lost on the road?

Why do some people try, but never succeed?

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If you also have the above confusion, there is a book "The Logic of Doing Things, How to Continue to Do the Right Things" that can help you answer it.

The reason why we are dissatisfied with life is that we have no consciousness of actively looking for logic.

Logic-is the most attractive word in 2 1 century, and the so-called logic wins the world.

What is logic? Logic is the law behind the operation of things. For us, seeing clearly the logic behind the operation of things can help us look at the overall situation, predict the future trend, sort out the personal thinking logic, and everything can be like a duck to water.

What practical logic is there in that book? I take some of the essence to share with you, hoping to help you.

First, think deeply with the four-quadrant thinking mode.

I believe everyone knows the "four-quadrant rule", and this topic is also a cliche: important things that are not urgent should be done in time, important and urgent things should be avoided as much as possible, urgent and unimportant things should be properly rejected, and things that are not urgent and unimportant should be done less.

"Four Quadrant Rule" can help us to deal with many things, such as multi-task management and time management.

The "four quadrant thinking" we are going to talk about today is not limited to measuring the importance and urgency of things. This coordinated thinking mode can also be flexibly applied to various scenes by changing the vertical and horizontal coordinates.

1, "four quadrants of important emergencies", applied to the theory of "income half-life"

By considering income (monetary reward, spiritual satisfaction and personal growth) and half-life (duration of income), we can measure whether a thing is worth doing and how much effort it is worth spending.

For example, there are four ways to improve our face value: fitness is a high-yield and long-half-life event, makeup is a high-yield and short-half-life event, manicure is a low-yield and short-half-life event, and buying clothes is a low-yield and long-half-life event.

By thinking in this way, we can judge the meaning of doing something and concentrate on guiding us to judge "what to do".

2. "Four Quadrant Rule" can correspond to "Four Cognitive States"

Four cognitive states: I don't know, I don't know, I know, I know, I know.

Different cognitive realms will affect a person's strength, thinking level and social status. Through the four-quadrant rule, we can help us examine our cognitive state and guide us to make adjustments.

3. In life, the "Four Quadrants Rule" can also be applied to the delicacy and health of food.

As far as food is concerned, every kind of food can be divided into delicious and healthy, healthy but disgusting, delicious and unhealthy and unhealthy. By classifying food attributes, people can make a simple choice between immediate enjoyment and long-term benefit.

The key to establishing a "four-quadrant" thinking mode is to find two dimensions to analyze the problem. To analyze the problem from two dimensions, we can establish a plane, accurately locate things in a certain coordinate, and then make a specific definition and comprehensive analysis with our own values.

In today's society, information is complicated, so we should look at things rationally with this way of thinking, and form our own unique way of thinking and the habit of thinking deeply by uncovering the appearance and essence of things.

Second, keep a positive consciousness anytime and anywhere.

Ralph Waldo Emerson once said: If you change your attitude, you can change your life, and no external force can rule you.

Mentality determines success or failure, and a person's mentality determines the state. So how to avoid falling into negative emotions and keep yourself in the most full mental state?

1. Change the environment and resist negative emotions.

When you feel decadent, force yourself into a lively environment and let yourself feel the pressure of being concerned, compared and supervised, thus stimulating your enthusiasm and eliminating your bad emotions.

For example, if you don't have the motivation to study, you will be embarrassed to keep playing with your mobile phone when you run to the crowded study room and see that everyone is working hard.

2. Use interest to promote and provide continuous motivation.

For the efforts that can't see the results for the time being, we can artificially give an effective meaning and turn them into visible efforts.

For example, when you are faced with an insurmountable problem, you can break down your goal into several parts. When you finish a part, you reward yourself, and this interest drive provides us with a steady stream of motivation.

3. Eliminate external interference with the benefit transfer method.

Nowadays, we are deeply influenced by mobile phones, and we are disturbed by all kinds of information anytime and anywhere, but we can't say goodbye to mobile phones completely. How can we minimize the time spent brushing our mobile phones while maintaining a happy mood?

You can ask yourself, what can make you feel as happy as a mobile phone, then use this thing instead of a mobile phone, so as to eliminate interference.

Third, information asymmetry is the most valuable.

The two sides with asymmetric information will always be the one with the most important information, which is more dominant and has the right to speak. It is the asymmetry of information that brings market opportunities.

People who have more resources are more active in allocating, calling and netting resources, and can profit from them.

Then how can we ordinary people seize the asymmetry of information to earn benefits? Generally speaking, there are three ways.

1, seize the information source

The sooner people grasp the information, the more likely they are to make a profit. If they want to seize the information source faster, they must improve their information sensitivity, study more, read more and expand their knowledge, so as to occupy the information highland faster than others.

For example, since the media era, if you want to improve your popularity by writing hot articles on current affairs, you must keenly capture the information before the hot topics of current affairs and publish the articles before others start writing, so that you can take advantage of the soaring attention of current affairs.

2. Improve the ability to process information.

Grasping the information, but not knowing how to handle and use it, is ultimately useless, so we must improve our ability to handle information.

Excellent information processing ability is more rare and decisive than excellent information weaving ability.

3. Grasp the initiative to manipulate information.

Each of us should see clearly our position in the game, whether we are the one who actively configures information or the one who is configured by information.

I used to think that leaders must be experts with excellent business skills, but some time ago, my cognition was completely changed.

Once I went to a friend's studio, the photographers were all very professional, but the boss knew nothing about photography, but his team was managed by him alone. I was puzzled. I asked him: You don't know how to manage the team. He replied: Leave the photography to the photographer, as long as I configure the information.

In this world, there are many excellent talents, but few excellent information collators.

Fourth, broaden the thinking and improve the pattern.

Excellent people are broadening their thinking and perfecting their own pattern. To improve thinking, you can master the following three modes of thinking:

1, curve thinking

We have long known that a straight line is the shortest between two points, but when we are involved in a complex and chaotic world, straight-line thinking no longer applies. At this time, we need an unusual curve thinking.

"Ji Xiaolan with iron teeth and copper teeth" once the government sent Xiao Shenyang and Ji Xiaolan to the local disaster relief. Xiao Shenyang ordered his men to mix some soil into the grain. When Ji Xiaolan knew this, he was very angry and asked Xiao Shenyang, What are you doing? Xiao Shenyang replied: The real victims don't care if there is sand in the porridge. People who want to eat and drink won't come and let the victims live.

Ji Xiaolan, full of benevolence and righteousness, only saw the appearance of poverty alleviation, while Shenyang, full of benevolence and righteousness, saw the deep logic behind the appearance and changed its angle to solve practical problems.

So sometimes direct thinking is not suitable for some occasions, and unusual curve thinking is more intelligent.

2. Reverse thinking

Peter Kaufman mentioned reverse thinking many times in his book "Poor Charlie's Collection". He is always used to seeing things in the opposite direction:

To understand how to get happiness in life, we must first study how life becomes painful;

To study how to become stronger and bigger, we must first study how to decline.

Most people are more concerned about how to invest successfully in the stock market, and Charlie is most concerned about why most people fail to invest. Summarizing failures is often a more effective way to achieve goals than going straight to the point.

There is a saying: I just want to know where I will die in the future, so I won't go there.

People who know how to use negative thinking flexibly will certainly benefit a lot in this world full of probability.

3. Layout thinking

Layout thinking, in the final analysis, is the overall situation consciousness+comprehensive layout.

Only those who really have the overall situation will have different horizons, patterns and thinking angles, and their strategies will be very different.

The ultimate goal of cultivating the logic of doing things is to continue to do the right thing.

The logic of doing things and how to do the right thing continuously show us the importance of logic and share how to apply rational thinking to our daily life. I hope you can also find the rational beauty of this world and do the right thing with the right logic.

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