Reading cognitive subversion: what is the correct posture in the face of competition? How to face the competition? What are zero-sum game, reverse game and positive sum game?

When many people encounter setbacks, they will say that this society is unfair, that they have paid but have not received the corresponding return, or that some things are unfair, that a game is unfair, and so on.

The book holds that fairness is an unfounded concept in the law of social existence. All expectations of fairness are a passive attitude. This society has always applied the survival law of survival of the fittest, and only by actively facing competition can we truly win.

So what we really need to do is to actively embrace competition and learn what games are.

1. Zero-sum Game-Finding Key Constraints

The most common game modes are like fighting and tug-of-war. Either you die or I die.

The futures market in the capital market is a standard zero-sum game. If you earn money, others will definitely lose, and the money you earn is the money that others lose. Then if you want to make money in such a market, you must study it carefully. What are the key winning points in the transaction?

2. Reverse game-switch to other people's roles

The book talks about a special way of tug of war, which is to see who moves first. When two people pull the rope hard, one suddenly lets go, and the other will trip. The harder others work, the more relaxed you are, and the better results you will get. This is a reverse game.

Reverse games often have amazing effects. One sentence of Laozi in the Tao Te Ching is the reverse game described, "If you want to escape, you must consolidate your will;" If you want to be weak, you must be strong. The popular explanation is "If you want it to die, you must make it crazy first". "

In fact, changing roles in our daily life is a very clever way of reverse game.

For example, parents and children exchange roles, husband and wife exchange roles, and leaders and subordinates exchange roles.

3. Zhenghe Game-Breaking through Closed Thinking

There is a chestnut in the book. Lao Wang in a certain district opened a soybean milk shop, and the business was booming. Lao Zhang was jealous and opened a soybean milk shop. This will be a disaster. Their business is a zero-sum game.

And if Laoruo opens a fried dough sticks shop, it just matches Laowang's soybean milk shop. In this way, it has evolved from a zero-sum game to a positive-sum game, which can achieve a win-win effect.

Most of us are the role of Lao Wang. We are caught in direct competition (zero-sum game) and it is difficult to jump out.

Therefore, in the current social environment, our thinking should jump from zero-sum game to positive sum game or reverse game.

2065438+March 26th, 2009