Be a professional outlaw.

Being a professional wrongdoer doesn't mean making a lot of mistakes, but having a complete, rational and comprehensive reflection on mistakes every time and being able to turn them into principles.

2065 438+08 10 month, 18, the new book "Principles" was published.

The author Ray Dario is the founder of bridgewater. In the book, he shared his life and work principles for more than 40 years.

There are hundreds of principles, big and small. The content covers the author's two aspects of dealing with people and company management, which condenses his wisdom in life.

Many principles are introduced in this book. Every article is worth studying and pondering repeatedly, and interested students can look for it. Many truths are very enlightening to our life and work.

One of them struck me like lightning, which woke me up.

Be a professional wrongdoer in life.

Being a professional wrongdoer doesn't mean making a lot of mistakes, but having a complete, rational and comprehensive reflection on mistakes every time and being able to turn them into principles.

The understanding of this sentence is divided into several steps.

1. The experience gained in life and career should not only stay at the perceptual level, but must rise to the rational level.

2. Consciously record and summarize.

3. The process of reflection should be complete and comprehensive.

4. Turn the results of reflection into principles that are easy to understand and convey.

5. Stick to these principles.

These five steps are a complete closed loop. Complete a cycle and you're done.

In my life experience, I often make the same mistake again and again. Every time you make the same mistake, you will learn from it, but you won't change yourself in the end.

Mainly because at least one of the above five steps has gone wrong.

The first step: the experience gained in life and career can't just stay at the perceptual level, but must rise to the rational level.

For example, I spend less time with my family.

There is something wrong with step 1: it only stays at the emotional level and does not form a rational principle.

Every time I find that I have little communication with my family, I only stay at the emotional level, full of chagrin, but I have no rational thinking about why I have less time with my family and what I have not done enough. ...

Before solving a problem, we must form a correct cognition.

It is important to know yourself correctly, but it is more important to know yourself scientifically and change yourself through cognitive upgrading.

Therefore, rational reflection on your mistakes is the key factor in the first step.

How to think rationally, I think there is a very effective tool, the golden thinking circle.

Ordinary people think about problems, just like the arrow on the right, thinking about what to do, that is, thinking from what angle. Few people think from the perspective of how, and even less from the perspective of why.

If you can get rid of the ordinary people's "what-how-why" way of thinking, think about why first, and then think about how and what, then you will have a brand-new way of thinking, which is called the golden thinking circle. ?

When an error occurs, the most important question to ask is why it happened, how to solve it, and what it is. This way can help us think more rationally and have less perceptual knowledge.

Step 2: record and summarize consciously.

For example, another mistake I often make is "judge a book by its cover".

There is something wrong with the second step: there is no record and summary, just remind yourself in your mind.

People's memory is easy to forget unpleasant memories, so we will soon forget many details.

Consciously recording and summarizing is to learn to summarize one's views into a few sentences by keeping a diary and writing, and to convey this truth to others.

You can make a list of principles according to the author's method and number each principle.

There is also a tool for conscious recording and summary: knowledge IPO.

This situation has improved since last year because I insisted on writing articles. Although many articles are written from my own point of view, they are not of great value to readers, but the process of writing is actually a process of rational reflection on my mistakes.

Step 3:? The process of reflection should be complete and comprehensive.

How to think comprehensively is a problem that we often ignore. We think we have reflected, but sometimes it is one-sided and incomplete, and we often come to wrong conclusions.

Here is also a comprehensive thinking tool: six thinking hats.

The so-called six thinking hats refer to six different colors of hats to represent six different thinking modes. Anyone has the ability to use the following six basic thinking modes:

Learn to reflect thoroughly, and we have taken another step.

Step 4: Turn the results of reflection into principles that are easy to understand and convey.

There is also a tool to express opinions: Feynman technology.

Feynman is an interesting Nobel Prize-winning physicist. He told a story. In this story, he met the mathematics department and met an intellectual challenge: anyone can explain a concept to him, no matter how difficult or complicated it is, as long as the interpreter uses concise language (no complicated words and terms he doesn't understand), he (Feynman) can reach the same (final) conclusion as them.

Simplify concepts and facilitate communication.

"Professional Mistakers" are called professional mistakes in English.

The road of life and career is very long, and it is inevitable to make all kinds of mistakes. Our attitude towards mistakes determines whether our future life will spiral upward or downward towards failure and extinction.

Dario, the author of Principles, made a wrong investment decision early in his career and lost a lot of money.

He later recalled that investment failure was the worst thing that happened to him, but it was also the best thing. But the good news is that this incident taught him awe and changed his state from "I am right" to "how do I know I am right".

Make a professional mistake, starting today!