In recent years, I have always heard people say the word "class solidification", which probably means that with the development of economy and the change of social structure, the mobility between social classes has weakened.

For example, college graduates used to be regarded as "favored children" in people's eyes, but now they are gradually evolving into "ant families" with no bright future, and their social status and wealth are no longer obtained by individual efforts as in the past. Therefore, some people say that "it is difficult for the poor to be expensive" and the rising channel of ordinary people is closing.

The subtext is that, as ordinary people, no matter how hard we try, we will only be involved in limited social resources, and there is no possibility of a breakthrough.

is it true that without family background, talent, talent and beauty, it is impossible to break the existing class?

I read a book recently, which brought me a brand-new understanding. This is Cai Leilei's Ascending: a reproducible way to break through.

Cai Leilei, known as "Uncle Cai" in Jianghu, is a millions of best-selling authors, who grew up and practiced tribal leaders in the community, and high IQ associations beat the cold & Mensa is a dual member and has many years of experience in the Internet and blockchain industries. His WeChat WeChat official account "Please Debate" has hundreds of thousands of followers, and has published bestsellers "Cognitive Breakthrough" and "The Logic of Love".

Cai Shu not only has profound theoretical foundation, but also has very rich practical experience. What he is best at is to tell you the underlying logic behind complex events in the most plain language.

In Ascension, he made a detailed analysis of the ascending strategy from six aspects: time, social interaction, influence, making money, investment and driving, and combined with the entrepreneurial cases of himself and others around him, provided operational steps for ordinary people to ascend.

In today's increasingly competitive society, such a workable "way to go up" is worth reading repeatedly by everyone who wants to keep going up.

Heine, a German poet, said, "Thought goes before action, just as lightning goes before thunder." The same is true for the uplink. If you want to break through your own circle, you must first refresh your ideas.

the gap between classes never lies in social status and material wealth, but in the differences in world outlook, outlook on life, values and modes of thinking. The core of all this lies in people's cognition.

A person's cognitive upgrading must precede wealth, which is more important than all specific strategies. The stronger a person's cognitive ability, the closer he is to the "right" decision at a critical moment. There is an old saying in China: "A tiny difference is a thousand miles away." Sometimes a decision-making mistake seems trivial, but the deviation it brings may affect people's life.

At the same time, we should also realize that going up is not a short-term thing that can see results. For individuals, it requires us to pay all our time and energy, not just within eight hours of work. For a family, it may take several generations of efforts to achieve a class breakthrough in one generation.

when you have determined the goal you want to go up, you can start to take action.

Cai Shu made a detailed analysis of the upward strategy from six aspects: time, social interaction, influence, making money, investment and driving, among which the "time" part touched me the most. As a delaying cancer, when I read this chapter, I really felt that I was poked into a hole every minute.

As we all know, time is fair to everyone. No matter who he is, his day is only 24 hours. There is a saying: "Time can see." Where a person spends his time will ultimately determine what kind of person he becomes.

Cai Shu wrote in his book: "Time is the greatest secret of transcendence." So, how to make good use of this means of production and surpass others on the way up?

There are three ways to help me improve my effective time, namely:

The first one is not difficult to understand. Since the total amount of time is constant, we can only make a fuss about the allocation of time. The more time we spend on learning and making money, the less time we spend on leisure and entertainment.

The second one is actually to arrange the time reasonably, and spend the most complete chunk of the day on the most important tasks, while those scattered small tasks can be handled in a timely manner;

The essence of the third way is to ensure the utilization rate of your own time and reduce external interference, so as to ensure your own flow time.

Cai Shu also mentioned a "Matthew allocation" about time in his book, which means:

This is also somewhat similar to the "28 Law", that is, 2% of the work in the early stage may take up 8% of the time. But most of us expect to see the results after only a little time in the early stage. Once there is no result, it is easy to give up.

how to optimize procrastination? The method given by Cai Shu is also very simple-let procrastination go with the flow. Come to think of it, it makes sense. Since you will procrastinate, it means that the matter itself is not that important. When it is delayed until it is necessary to start, it can improve efficiency and complete the task in the shortest time. No wonder everyone says "deadline is the primary productive force".

In other aspects, some of Cai Shu's ideas have also enlightened me, for example,

As the ancients said, "If you don't advance, you will retreat." The same is true of life. If you don't work hard, you can only go downstream.

If there is a channel for the flow of social strata, it must be two-way. If someone goes up, someone will inevitably go down. Even if we don't see the successful ascending people around us, the downward channel is always open. Otherwise, as ordinary as you and me, why do you always have a string in your heart when you shout "lie flat"?

So, only those who don't insist on doing anything will say "impossible". People who really want to "go up" have already begun to work hard to move forward.

So, for ordinary people, how can we seize the upward opportunity and successfully achieve a breakthrough in life? I think, after reading Ascension, you and I both have the answer.