More important than hard work is the ability to think deeply.

I have a friend who is an ideal type. He has ideas, passion, and love. He wants to give up his current job to find an angel investment job. Although he has not done similar work, he has spent the inner strength to drive him. I studied the job for half a month, wrote an industry investment analysis report, and then voted for it.

This buddy got the interview invitation and got a little excitement when he showed me the description. It can be said that the investment analysis report has gained certain recognition. But during the interview, the HR director asked a few questions to ask him questions.

HR Director: "What is the book that has the most influence on you, what title is it, and who is the author?"

He replied to a few points in the book and then said that the author really couldn't remember.

HR Director: "Do you usually watch science fiction movies?"

He replied: I usually work very busy and rarely watch movies. - What a stern answer.

More important than hard work is the ability to think deeply.

The HR director asked again: "What are you obsessed with? To what extent are you obsessed?"

He replied: In addition to work and reading some books, I really didn't get obsessed with anything.

After the test, he felt that the answers to these questions were very bad, and there were some hidden concerns in his heart. On the way back, he received a reply from the HR Director, saying, “Through the comprehensive assessment of colleagues, we think that your experience is not suitable for this job.”

He was a little unwilling to ask the HR director: "Why didn't the interview pass?"

The HR Director replied: "The depth and breadth of knowledge is not enough and there is no foresight."

This sentence awakened him, how painful to understand.

Depth, breadth, and vision, this not only awakened him, but also deeply awakened me.

After careful analysis of those issues, the pertinence is very strong. Asking what books have the most influence on you is intended to examine your depth of understanding of this book. Because of angel investment, deep thinking is the basic element. I can't read a science fiction movie, and I want to look at the level of attention to the future. Taking this standard to measure myself, I found that I was superficial in thinking about many issues. After thinking about one or two layers, it is difficult to go deeper.

I also like to read books and buy a lot of books, but it is basically equal to white. Just remembering a few points and not understanding the architecture in the book, the systemic knowledge is of little value. I saw it but didn't really digest it. If I didn't think deeply, I couldn't digest it into something of my own. In essence, it was the same as not seeing it.

I have read an article called "Deep Thinking is More Important than Diligence". At the time, I only remembered this sentence after reading it. There is nothing to understand. However, after a friend told about his painful experience, he found that this sentence was too weighty, so he searched the article online and read it carefully several times.

The article is a speech written by Liu Qin of Morningside Capital.

Lei Jun called Liu Qin and said to him: "I always think that you have your own unique investment. Can you tell me how to be a successful investor? Why do you invest? Very good?"

He gave Lei Jun an answer. "I believe that I am extremely diligent. I believe that Heaven will definitely pay for it! I believe that if you are diligent, you can be a very good investor." He thought this answer would at least get Lei Jun's Partially agreed, the results did not expect, Lei Jun gave him a surprising feedback. The answer is that Heaven is not necessarily rewarding. This view gave him a very big excitement.

Later he slowly understood that diligence may be necessary, but hard work is not enough.

Deep thinking is more important than hard work, but I think deep thinking determines life. Understanding this sentence requires a few concepts to be clarified. What is depth? Depth is the degree to which the essence of things is touched. It is deep to understand the essence of things, and only understand that the surface of things is shallow.

The decision is to play a decisive role, but it is not an absolute effect.

A detailed study of the speeches and articles written by the great coffees in various fields is not the result of deep thinking in a certain field, and the depth and vision of their thinking are beyond the reach of others.

Ma Yun’s deep understanding and vision of e-commerce has made Ali; Zhou Hongyi’s deep understanding of traffic has led to a world-wide change; the in-depth study and understanding of ion engine technology by AVIC 502 has produced the world’s most advanced ion. The engine shortens the flight time of the Earth to Mars to about 39 days.

But deep thinking is not unreachable. We can get this skill by practicing constantly. Once deep thinking becomes a habit, life will be very different.

Prerequisites for deep thinking

1. Inner will

No matter how good things you don't want to do, it doesn't help, and you have the will to open the door to thinking.

2, deep thinking is your own business

I feel this when I go to school, and I feel that learning is for others. At the school, the teacher forced the students to study, and the parents came to study. Have you finished your homework? Do not sleep without writing homework! The exam is not good, and it is awkward to return home.

When I grew up, I realized that learning is my own. The gap between people and people also happens after graduation. Those who regard reading as their own affairs and those who know how to learn by themselves are usually not too badly mixed. Deep thinking is always a matter of its own. Although it is difficult to get deep in the beginning, it is not difficult to have its own method for a long time.

3, a field that you like

I watched the movie "Interstellar Crossing" before. I feel that without such a strong sense of mission and love for my loved ones, Cooper will not return to the earth, nor can he save humanity. The field you choose directly affects the size of your future achievements.

4, determination

It’s not enough to think about it. If you don’t have the determination, you will find various excuses for yourself. "I don't have time, I am tired of my work, I still have a heart to think about this." Today, I am not determined to think deeply and study. Sooner or later, I will pay back tomorrow.

More importantly, it is necessary to be serious, and time is not waiting for people. If you want to make a life without thinking deeply, you can even become a winner in life. It is really a daydream. God only did two things, one is to create an environment, and the other is to establish competition. The antelope always thinks about how to run through the lion. It must have this determination, otherwise it will only become a dish for the lion.

To find the soil for deep thinking, you have to have a set of tools for reclaiming soil, that is, a methodology for deep thinking.

Methodology of deep thinking

1. The amount of knowledge that can be propagated

The concept of reproducible knowledge is to divide knowledge into two types, one that is non-reproducible and one that is reproducible. For example, "When Qin Shihuang was unified in the six countries, this kind of knowledge is not reproducible, but like "deep thinking is more important than hard work" is reproducible, it can make you improve, progress, and make you deeper. .

The fundamental reason for not being able to think deeply is that there is less knowledge and insufficient knowledge accumulation. Now is the era of information explosion, generating a lot of information every day, but not every piece of information has value. The first thing to do with information is to identify whether there is value. Valueless can not be seen, the focus is to see value. The really intelligent people are all working hard. The principle of Zeng Guofan’s reading is that he will never read the next book after reading it. A really good book can't be fast, fast is slow, fast is nothing, understanding is the most important.

2, thinking frequency

Thinking about the problem, I thought about it. Bruce Lee once explained this problem. He said that he is not afraid of one person who will work 100 kinds of skills. He is afraid that one person will practice one move for 100 times.

Good Kung Fu needs speed, strength, skill, and 100 kinds of kungfu. Everything is a taste of it. It can't be actual combat. It is often fatal to practice a stroke of 100 times. If you want to think deeply about a problem or not, you can't understand it. It's usually a very obsessed state. Besides thinking about sleeping, you are thinking about other times.

3, multi-dimensional thinking

The process of thinking is like a process of blind people's imagery, trying to look at the problem from multiple levels and multiple perspectives. To think at multiple levels, you can't think of one or two layers and spare yourself. According to a certain logical relationship, all the problems are considered. The process of knowing elephants is actually the structural thinking logic of one of the three logical thinkings that human beings have. According to the structural thinking logic, the various parts are found.

4, details

In the second season of Swordsman, there was a performer named Shen Xiaolong. He broke the sneeze and played it, which was very fun. Sometimes we don't know much about the problem. To a certain extent, we don't grasp the details. We only understand the general concept and don't pursue it. The deeper the pursuit, the deeper the understanding. The essence of things is wrapped in layers of appearance. If you don’t ask what is the appearance of the object, it is the essence of things. This misleads itself.

Profound is an attitude. Everything is not in the details. It is hard to imagine where he can be good.

5, the pyramid principle

The Pyramid Principles is a book written by American author Barbara Minto about the logic of thinking, expressing, and solving problems.

The pyramid principle is a good way to think and express. Why build a pyramid structure when thinking and expressing?

Because research shows that humans can remember and understand the most projects are seven. For example, if you write an article or make a speech, you can tell the arguments A, B, C, A1, A2, A3... in the following picture. I am afraid that it is difficult for others to understand. Therefore, more than 7 items need to be combined into several groups through deductive reasoning and inductive reasoning. The content in the same group is developed according to causal logic, structural logic, degree logic, and so on.

People's thinking process is bottom-up. The principle of the pyramid is that the point of view is first, first put forward the point of view, and then find the arguments by summing up and deducting the arguments.

The upper level thought is the summary of the lower level thought, the lower level is the upper layer explanation, this structure is the question/answer type, and the lower layer is actually the answer to the upper layer. Through the questions/answers, we will continue to form the entire pyramid structure and write an article.

6, the concept is clear

I have seen a book on early childhood education. When the baby is babbling, the parents often talk about the hoe as "馒馒", the worm as "bug", and the stool as "stool bench". This book suggests not to use this language to communicate with children. It is a gimmick that says gimmicks, worms that say bugs, and stools that say stools. The basis of language is words, and words are the basis of thought and logic. Only when the concept is clear, can the thought be clear and profound.

7, writing

Writing things is the best way to organize your thoughts, and what you think of and what you think can be shared with others.

When you write something, you may not have a single idea when you sit down, but the idea is written when you write it. Writing is a process of deep thinking. It extracts scattered knowledge points stored in different parts of the brain and combines them into a deep ideology.