The famous Brazilian writer Paul Goero once said:

> > "It seems that everyone knows clearly how others should live, but no one knows how their own lives should be, like the old woman who interprets dreams, who doesn't know how to turn dreams into reality." >

If you look at the people around you, some people seem to be on the go, but their lives don't seem to be getting any better in years.

There are also people who seem to be doing things lightly, but they always get twice the result with half the effort, and their lives are on the rise step by step, so many people say that they are lucky.

Are they really just lucky? Rockefeller, the American oil tycoon, wrote in a letter to his son that "good luck is all designed by one's own hands ", and I deeply agree.

I've always believed that what opens the gap between people is cognitive ability and way of thinking.

Those so-called "lucky" people, the way of thinking behind their work, gives them a lot of power; on the contrary, those with poor ability always waste time on irrelevant things, and they will become poorer and poorer in the long run. worse and worse.

After years of observation in my workplace and life, I found that the poorer and impatient people are, the more they like to waste time on three things. Share with you below, I hope you don't have one.

Indulge in things that are easy to achieve

When you are in school, you may have a classmate like this: He is working hard on the questions every day, and he seems to be working hard, but every time his exam results are not ideal.

It was only later that I found out that this classmate had been brushing the questions he could do, and when he encountered a question he could not do, instead of thinking about the problem-solving method seriously, he skipped it.

There will also be such colleagues in the workplace. They deal with simple things every day to gain a sense of accomplishment, but complex work is either delayed to the end or hastily completed, and the effect is naturally unsatisfactory.

Such people are what we often call "busy" people. They are always doing some low-yield things and have achieved a sense of accomplishment that they are proud of. But this sense of achievement does not help them in the slightest in terms of their ability to study or work, and it is a waste of time.

These easy-to-get senses of accomplishment can create an illusion for yourself: that you feel like you have been working hard all the time. Over time, time is passing, years are getting old, and they "don't advance or retreat".

For real masters, their daily work is prioritized, they have priorities and plans, and they always focus on the most important and urgent thing.

Smart people never divide their time and energy equally, they only focus on the things that best reflect their worth.

Get used to receiving "fast food information" with low information density

The second type of people who will become poorer and more impatient are those who refuse to think and are accustomed to receiving information with low information density.

They only watch idol dramas, cool articles, and gossip news that do not require thinking, but are unwilling to actively receive information that can be beneficial to their knowledge system or career, because this information requires thinking.

In the era of information explosion, if a person can extract the information he needs from many pieces of knowledge, and then think about and apply this information to his own life and workplace, such a person can make progress every day. Get what you want.

And those who refuse to think, the main reason why they are only willing to accept "fast food information" is that they are lazy. This kind of lazy thinking confines them little by little in their own siege, forming a small "knowledge cocoon".

What's more, some people will use "tactical diligence to cover up strategic laziness" in order to make themselves feel at ease, and they will never evade their inner condemnation and make themselves look like a diligent person.

Einstein once said: "If I were given an hour to answer a question that would determine my life and death, I would spend 55 minutes trying to figure out what the question was asking. Once I figured out what it was asking, the rest 5 minutes is enough to answer this question."

This is the power of thinking, it can let you solve problems quickly, make you more skillful in life and work, and keep improving.

Over-reliance on past experience

A man's experience is his life's wealth, that's right. But the experiences here are those that have been thought through and verified by practice and are beneficial to life.

In the workplace, many people indulge in the work process they are used to. Even if this process is complicated, they are still reluctant to change and only repeat it mechanically.

Over time, experience became the yoke that bound their progress.

The real masters, they all know how to improve the past experience in the development. The purpose of the experience is to make us work more efficiently, but only to keep the experience.

If you don’t know how to improve, and you don’t have the awareness of eliminating the complex and dross, your life and work will be messed up over time. It looks like I do a lot of things every day, but it's really just a waste of time and no progress at all .

Life is short, don't dwell on mistakes for too long. Stop and look at your past life and work, and stop wasting your life with these mistakes.

Neil Postman said in "Entertainment To Die": "It's not what we hate that destroys us, it's what we love."

In the fast-paced life, sometimes it is easy for us to lose ourselves in the complicated world, so we must know how to clear it regularly, so that we can change our thinking and meet a better self.