Tom, an American writer, was in charge of the Business School of the University of Michigan. Conalan wrote a book called 1% rule. In the book, Jim is a football coach. In order to improve the team's skills and study the reasons why outstanding athletes stand out, he devoted a lot of energy to objectively calculate and analyze the results of various Olympic Games, and finally he came to an amazing conclusion.
No matter swimming, track and field, or any other famous competition, the average gap between the first place and the fourth place [gold medal and no medal] is always between 1%. 1% is the difference between excellent and excellent. It is such a small gap, and finally a huge gap has gradually formed.
Because the top athletes face the same top opponents, Phelps is not necessarily much better than Cavic. But in the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games 100-meter butterfly, he swam a little far at the moment when he hit the wall. This short distance allowed him to win the gold medal with a slight advantage of 0.0 1 second.
What is competition? A competition that takes place at the same level of filial piety is called a competition.
Clothing stores in wholesale malls are paranoid if they regard Chanel and lv as competitors; Shaxian snack downstairs, if Michelin restaurant is regarded as a masterpiece, it is also overreaching. Like the clothing store owner, there is a boutique clothing store next to it, and the competition with Shaxian snacks is the nearby Lanzhou Lamian Noodles. They only need to do their original work well, and their opponents will think more and do more to retain customers and stabilize their income.
Economist He Fan once mentioned the concept of "getting dividends". It means that people seem to be doing the same thing, but there are always many people who are unwilling to do it. Their philosophy of life is to muddle along. However, there are also some people who are eager to make continuous progress, set strict standards for themselves, and strive to achieve everything 100. In the end, they overcame "muddling along" and enjoyed the bonus. As long as you do 1% more than the people around you, you can enjoy the bonus.
How do ordinary people do that 1%? Give you two suggestions.
1, pursuing a single point.
Try your best to do every simple thing, go back and forth, you have opened the gap with 90% people. Anyone can make a can of Chili sauce, but Tao did it to the extreme and became an old godmother; Anyone can cook hot pot, but when Zhang Yong reaches the extreme, it becomes a fishing in the sea: anyone can cook sushi well, while Jiro Ono only cooks sushi all his life, becoming the world-famous "God of Sushi". In any industry, as long as you devote yourself to the game, find a single point that suits you, and put all your resources and energy into polishing yourself, you will definitely surpass Excellence and move towards Excellence in the long run.
2. Adhere to the "snail strategy".
Do you know that there are only two kinds of animals that can reach the top of the pyramid in this world? One is an eagle, the other is a snail. Eagles can reach out because they have strong enough wings; Snails can climb up because they are focused enough to find a direction and stick to it.
What makes ordinary people become extraordinary talents?
Kazuo inamori concluded that it is the power of unremitting and silent efforts, and it is also the power to spend every day in a down-to-earth manner, or persistence, which makes the ordinary extraordinary. For example, climbing a mountain, after a few steps, because I can't see the top of the mountain, I plan to change to a shorter mountain. For example, digging a well, digging 99 meters without seeing the water source, ready to change a hole and start digging again.
Such people will never achieve anything. Napoleon once said: there is only a small gap between people, but this small gap has caused great differences. If you make progress 1% every day, you can make progress 37.8 times a year. Life is fair. As long as you get better every day, you will fall far behind others one day.