Make fewer mistakes and you will succeed.

The trial and error method is the ladder of our growth. I read the Intuition Pump a few days ago and it said don’t be afraid of making mistakes. But life is very long, and is usually compared to a marathon. A little jump at the starting line is of little use, and a mistake will have little impact. But looking at it as a whole, as long as you keep running without falling, stopping, or running the wrong way, you can achieve good results even with limited talent. As for those who try and make mistakes, if they are always trying and always doing useless work, they will be left behind in the long run even if they are talented.

Although some success in life depends on luck, most people are still inseparable from their own efforts. All I can observe is my high school and college classmates. Almost 20 years after graduation, the differences between everyone are getting bigger and bigger. An obvious phenomenon is that those who are more successful now are not the smartest people or those who have made a lot of trials and errors, but those who have chosen a direction and have been moving in that direction for more than ten years. A classmate resigned after working for two years and changed industries, then started a business and started a company. After more than ten years, he returned to the original industry and started from scratch. I think he tried a lot and made mistakes, but it didn't really help the final result. There is also a classmate with average grades who went to a very average university. After graduation, he has been working hard in an industry. Without any luck, he has gradually become more successful step by step.

In Mr. Wu Jun’s course on making fewer mistakes and succeeding, he said that the four most common mistakes ordinary people make are: use today’s income to consider future consumption, and use today’s abilities to deal with future challenges. ; Strive to accumulate resources instead of using them; care too much about temporary gains and losses; make losses that increase linearly and start from scratch every time. The result of frequent trial and error may be to start from scratch again and again. He gave the example of playing badminton and chess. Generally, people who make fewer mistakes are more likely to win.

Recently, the ability to score in the college entrance examination has started to dominate the screen. When I was chatting with my friends about the future of the No. 1 picks, I checked Baidu and found that there seemed to be no well-known No. 1 picks after my career. Now it seems that the college entrance examination is just a short section of the marathon. Maybe many top picks did well in this section, but made mistakes later and were lost to everyone else. Of course, this lacks sufficient data support and is just a speculation.