Musk said, if you want to make $1 million, you must first believe that you have $1 million, and it will come true.
Sounds ridiculous, right?
If you say to yourself that you want 1 million, what your brain hears is "want", which means you "don't have" the million. But if you say that I have 1 million, even if it is far from your actual income, your brain will wake up and pay attention to it.
Musk knew this secret when he was 13 years old and has been using it ever since. From childhood to adulthood, he has filled notebooks with his goals. He even wrote them down in the morning, afternoon, and evening to keep himself focused on his goals at all times. He told himself: I want it, and I must have it in my life.
The sea relies on shipping routes, and life is the same.
(Cognitive Awakening) Author Zhou Ling said
People without life goals are like 'awake sleepers,' unaware of themselves, lacking opinions about life, and with no choices regarding their fate.
Zhou Ling once spent all his time outside of work drinking, partying, staying up late watching videos, reading gossip news, and playing mobile games. When there was really nothing to do, he would wrap himself in a quilt and sleep deeply.
The seemingly comfortable life continued until two of his friends had accidents. He was awakened: If I lose my job, who am I? What do I still have? What can I leave in this world?
He gasped, realizing he could hardly do anything and understood he could not continue like this.
A life of boiling frogs in warm water is like a prison, slowly turning us into 'useless' people.
If a person has no life goals, even if they have food, drink, books to read, and classes to attend every day, they will feel lost, with no joy in their hearts, no passion in life, and may even despise themselves, because goals are where we store our passion and energy.
For most people, work is just a struggle to achieve someone else's goals. Work is not a life goal; it is merely a means of living.
He decided to keep his mind clear and no longer be muddled; to master more skills so that he would no longer be at a loss when faced with challenges; to create actively instead of passively enduring the status quo...
After setting this goal, he kept learning and tapping into his potential. Later, he started a public account to share his rapid growth process, became a growth consultant, and wrote bestsellers (Cognitive Awakening) and (Cognitive Drive).
Churchill said that to achieve great accomplishments, the most important thing is to determine your main goal and decide to achieve it at all costs.
Zhang Junjie, founder of Wang Ba Tea, once said
When people are young, they may need to add things to their lives in order to see possibilities and find direction. But once you are clear about what you want to do, you can know what you cannot have.
They all point to one thing: expand life experiences and find goals through trying.
Elon Musk, who has deep experience in this area, strongly agrees with this view. He said
To achieve great things, you must clarify what you want. Taking some detours is not necessarily a bad thing; it can quickly filter out what you don't want. So, what price are you willing to pay to get what you desire?
The self is generated in the collision with the external world. Liking to do something is not easy to define, but the feeling of hating something will definitely be very strong.
In (The 4-Hour Workweek), Ferriss also suggested asking yourself three questions: what you want to have, who you want to be, and what other things you want to do. If you don't know the answers, start by stating the things you don't want to have, the person you don't want to be, and the things you don't want to do.
Then you will realize what it feels like if you do not take action and continue to waste the next year, five years, and ten years on things you dislike. Are you willing to continue bearing such risks?
Fear is the answer our subconscious gives us. Finding a path to avoid things we dislike is our goal.
The same principle applies: some people think it's motivational talk, while others find it extremely useful. If you can take consistent action, the world will surely favor you.
Result = Cognition * Action * Time.
In this life, even if we don't struggle, time will pass. Finding a goal to take action is better than doing nothing! Compared to a life of confusion and numbness, the greatest risk is not taking action.
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