The trap of busyness

It's true, it's not always a good thing to be constantly busy.

I think it's normal for a person to be very busy at a certain time, but it's problematic if they're busy all the time.

Because to a large extent, it is just repeating yesterday's behavior all the time or falling into ineffective diligence.

In this way, he will not have time to think and improve himself.

This is like what Mr. Shao Nan said, in the 21st century, the era of knowledge workers

The biggest crisis people are forced 996, and using entertainment occupied the time of the people.

Because he has no time to take out of his schedule to improve themselves.

I think it is very important to learn and iterate your knowledge system in time.

The so-called knowledge system is to integrate knowledge into a structured way to cope with and solve problems.

Things are always in a state of change, especially in the current era of rapid change.

If we keep using the old ideas and methods, it is difficult to cope with the new situations that continue to emerge, and in the end, they are not even useful at all.

Just like in the 90s, many car mechanics' crafts can be useful, because the basic mechanical parts are constructed, with very little circuitry.

But after a few years of transition, circuit equipment gradually debut, slowly repairing the car master's craft was eliminated, and no longer repairing the car.

This and before I look at a big brother said there is similar reasoning.

That is to say, a good business model, is inevitably the need for the founder in a period very very busy, to promote some process.

But not always busy, even though he, in the first two years, basically only play golf, and did not go to the company a few times, because he has built the initial system.

Because he has already set up the system in the early stage, the time when he needs to be busy has passed.

Although he has returned to the company this year and started to be busy again, it is also a phase, and will not keep himself busy, because he will spend more time going back to the company.

Because he will spend more time thinking, to catch some more essential things, rather than always on the surface of the busy.

We ultimately look only at the results, not the surface of the degree of busyness.

Hard work is almost not worth mentioning, because it can not create value. The choice is more important than effort.

As the investor Nawal said, the importance of decision-making is greatly underestimated in the current Internet era.

because the presence of levers such as labor, capital, self-publishing, and code will act as amplifiers to fully amplify your decisions.

Just like Warren Buffett, he only makes few but the right decisions and spends most of his time learning and thinking, and a few decisions can affect his development years later.

So let's try not to waste valuable strategic resources, time, and energy, on short-term thinking and worthless heavy work.

The same is true for us as individuals.

Busyness itself does not bring progress; practice plus thinking plus review plus iteration is what makes progress possible.

If we take it further, there is an essential difference between being busy and being diligent.

If we are busy 8 hours a day, a phase has passed and did not see any results.

Then it is likely to be ineffective diligence, might as well stop and examine whether they have fallen into the trap of being busy.

Is it 80% of the time, only got 20% of the results.