How to maximize benefits

Too often, we give up the right to choose and transfer the right to choose to others, that is, we are worried about taking responsibility after choosing. With all kinds of worries and entanglements. But we must recognize the fact that no matter who has the right to choose, the consequences must be borne by themselves. I think we will be more willing to take back our options from others.

Choosing means giving up, which has a concept in economics-opportunity cost. If there is a cost, we will pay more attention to the income. Maximizing benefits is one of the most basic needs of everyone.

So how can we maximize the return after we get the option back? The answer is to improve our ability to think independently.

It is mentioned in the column of classic teachers that the human mental model is divided into three levels: experience, explanation and analysis. In the first mental model, we are more concerned about whether this answer makes us feel good. In the second mental model, we pay more attention to others and give reasonable explanations. On the third level, we are no longer satisfied with the explanations given by others. But based on the known facts, an explanation closer to the truth is analyzed.

For example: globalization. Why do you say "globalization is good"? I feel that the income of people around me has increased, and the first-level mental model. Because globalization makes the allocation of resources more reasonable and the utilization rate is the highest. The second mental model. Although globalization has brought economic growth, it has also brought a more serious gap between the rich and the poor, which will further increase social instability. Whether globalization is a concept thrown at us by elites. Or an idea instilled in us. Under the common understanding of globalization, do we have unreasonable behaviors and how to avoid our own losses and increase our own profits? The third mental model.