I have been reading "Game Theory" recently, and I have a few insights:
1. What I learned before, I forgot completely after a few years. I can't understand more than 70% of the formulas and derivations in the book, and I don't have the energy to understand them.
The peak period of people's learning ability and knowledge storage ability is 18 to 25 years old. The most cost-effective choice you can make at this stage is to absorb as much knowledge as possible in the field you are exposed to like a sponge.
These things determine the depth and breadth of your ideas, the opportunities you will encounter will increase, and what you learn is very helpful to improve the quality of decision-making.
The thing I regret most now is that I didn't learn what I wanted to learn thoroughly when I was a student. Looking back, I missed some opportunities because of this.
2. If you are not a scientist, a scholar, or an industry, and do not innovate and break through, these complex formulas and derivations are useless. To deal with problems in life, simple addition, subtraction, multiplication, division and some common sense are enough.
When reading a book, you don't need to stick to what this letter means or how this formula is derived. Just understand the corresponding cases and conclusions, and you know what may happen when you encounter such a thing, and what the best plan is. That's enough.
If you want to live a good life, you don't need high-tech knowledge; you need life wisdom such as how to flatter your leader, how to give gifts, how to quickly gain the trust of strangers, and how to play power to make subordinates obedient and hardworking.
Knowledge is always a tool to serve you, not to frame you. Don't believe those people who talk about seemingly awesome theories all the time. They are probably pretenders and have no use to you.
3. Many models in "Game Theory" are essentially about how to cut and harm each other and how to calculate to maximize your own profits.
It can be seen that mutual game calculations are very complicated. If you want to get a little benefit, you have to blow up your CPU. It is actually very difficult for you to choose game to make a profit.
But real life is hundreds of times richer than the various models in "Game Theory". Doing things is not just about mutual harm, cutting and rolling. There are too many opportunities for cooperation, mutual assistance and win-win.
Choosing construction instead of game as much as possible, and choosing win-win cooperation instead of calculating and cutting each other, may be less difficult.