Hello Friends, Let me tell you a very interesting and real story. Once, Adam Grant, a psychologist from the University of Pennsylvania. A student comes to him and says sir I have a very interesting idea for an online retail company where I am going to make a big company by using my innovations, would you like to invest in it? Adam Grant is interested in it, then he starts asking some questions about it.
He asks if you are thinking of making a big company and you had worked in this company Then he says no sir I have done work, along with it, I was doing an internship as well. On that Adam says it doesn't matter that you were doing an internship but as your college will end, after that you will work on this full time, or do you have some other plan? Then he says no sir, along with this, I'm also finding a job. By chance if the idea fails then I Should have a backup plan, Adam doesn't like these answers but still, they keep talking about investment, he comes to them again and again for investment Adam is not able to decide what he has to do, finally, there is such thing happened by Adam becomes sure that I'm not investing.
The day they launched the company one day ago their website wasn't working. This thing feels very bad to Adam because Because after being an online retail company, if your website isn't working properly then why invest in it? any logical person will do the same, that's why he doesn't invest in it. If you see yourself like that if someone like this comes on Shark Tank who talks about big things related to an online company but his website doesn't work properly will Shark's people invest in them? likewise, Adam also did not invest in it.
Then the interesting thing happened times go out after that one day suddenly Adam comes to know the company in which he did not invest in the company, The name of the company is "Warby Parker" you might have heard the name of that company, it is a company related to glasses which is considered to be a very innovative company, whose valuation is worth $6.8 billion These people sell glasses online, you can say that it is US lenskart When Adam comes to know these things then he feels very regret that he how could miss judged that student, his company? how did he miss this golden opportunity? This thing seemed so bad to Adam that he decided that he will do research on it how we should recognize an intelligent person? who seems to do big in his life And he do all the search on it and wrote a book, that he named Originals.
Originals are such people intelligent people, who think beyond normal people these people not only generate new ideas but also take action on it and also become successful in life by creating something new, Steve Jobs, Mark Zuckerberg, Authors say all these people are originals. And with the help of this book, today I'm going to share 12 such rules and lessons with you. If you learn and apply it in your life, you can do a lot in your life, you can become an intelligent person. So let's start.
Lesson 1 "the cautions game of risk"
A long time ago, there is a blacksmith named Agarth who makes very good swords, he is famous in the whole village for his swords now his life is going well but suddenly an idea comes to his mind that I should do something better then he starts thinks of some unique idea that I can do like never happened before. An idea came to his mind to make the gold sword, which he likes the idea because it was very unique no one has made a gold sword before, if he makes it, then he will get the name in the whole world. Kings will praise him and buy his swords. With all his hard work, money and savings he finally makes a gold sword.
After completing this he was happy that he get praise from all over the world. He goes to the king when the king sees his sword he gets surprised, takes that sword from him, and starts checking, he likes that sword but the king says that the weight distribution of this is not equal and it is also very heavy this will not be useful to our warriors, this will not be good for them. king refuses to take the sword. This thing seems too bad to Agarth, he went back to the house, he thought that maybe someone else will take his sword. But after so much trying, convincing, no one takes his sword.
Due to this, such a time comes that Agarth doesn't even have money to eat and he has to sell his house too. Look, friends, the idea of Agarth's unique and was good but Agarth made the biggest mistake, that he didn't even test his idea didn't even see its weaknesses, he was so much in his confirmation bias. So on his thought, he invests his all money, took a huge risk which was not needed to do.
You must come across original ideas many times, that you think, if you work on this idea then I will be very successful. But before you ever do this, you must make sure that how much your idea is useful in the real world, in the real market, check how much it is the need of it The author said that "successful originals take extreme risk in one arena and offset them with extreme caution in another" most people think that people become rich when they take an idea and by working hard, investing their everything on it.
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They become successful with that idea, but in reality, it does not happen. In reality, successful people take risks, but after thinking a lot. You may have heard a lot that, Bill Gates had created Microsoft by dropping out of Harvard University, this thing is true but it is half true, truth is that when Bill Gates started working on Microsoft even after understanding for a long time that his idea is very good, it will work well in the market yet he did not take the dropout,
he took dropout when he got a hundred percent guarantee that yes now with this idea I can survive full time and I don't need for anything else then he took the dropout from the Harvard, similarly Warby Parker CEO Jeffrey Raider did the same He thought that yes I will take the risk and work hard on this idea but I will keep safe myself on the other side also and on the side keep preparing for the job. And these things are seen many times in intelligent people, that those people don't trust blindly Rather they understand reality and they take the risks but with caution, which you should always take.
Lesson 2 "Originality Underpin Fulfilling Careers"
There is a person named Michael houseman is an economist who has extracted 30,000 customer service agents' data and studied it they noticed a very interesting thing that is whosever people, customer service agents they have noticed the wired connection, they saw that they use the default browser which was given to them, are performing badly as comparatively who use customs browser means they used to download their browsers Chrome, Firefox and they used it only.
These customer service agents had more job satisfaction in them, and their customers who talk to them them they also satisfied. And these people move fast forward in their career now this thing seems weird to you and you will also think that how can it be? because of changing the browser that how a person's performance can be good? it does not make any sense, there is no connection but the truth is that there is a connection The author had noticed this thing that whoever uses pre-installed browser those people somewhere living their life in a pre-defined way which another person is giving them, telling them to do, they used to do just exactly But those people who used custom browsers, used to do things according to their own that people's attitude was different, they used to understand that whatever rules is made in the world is made by humans and no rules are perfect, that's why these people used to play a little differently from rules they used to experiment with things, those people always used to go towards better options Rather than just following pre-defined rules, given to following them. It is the common thing that is seen in the originals.
Lesson 3 "Quantity idea encourages quality idea"
you must have heard about traditionally and people used to follow it also "Quality over Quantity" Author sees that the highly intelligent people they focus on quantity rather than quality. For example, Shakespeare in 2 decades has written 37 plays and 154 sonnets Einstein who is famous for the theory of relativity his name was a 248-time publication registered in the different fields of science. Pablo Picasso is considered to be a world-famous artist If you look at their portfolio then you see 2800 ceramics,1800 paintings, 1200 sculptures and more than 12000.
According to Psychologist Dean Simonton's research those who are highly creative people sometimes create many ideas what happens is sometimes by creating many ideas, they able to gets get great ideas. A study related to this was also done between two groups.
One group was told, you are being given a month, you make a perfect pot while the other group was told, as much as you can Make a pot in one month and the results of both were compared. Guess what? That group performed better which make so many pots compared to that group that tried to make a pot with high quality. that's why you too Focus on quantity the quality will increase automatically.
Lesson 4 " procrastination can be productive"
You must have heard this thing many times that procrastination is always a very bad thing which you should completely remove from your life but according to the author, many genius geniuses can do their work best only when they procrastinate a little bit. For example, you know Leonardo da Vinci who painted the world's most famous painting Monalisa, he started that painting in 1508 and it took him a total of 16 years to finish it. when he had come at almost dying after that their paintings were completed. It was also a matter that it was not the only thing to do Leonardo da Vinci used to work in many different fields, he was an engineer, scientist, sculpture, architect, so like this he used to do many different works, used to work on Monalisa in between because of this he took so much time.
Similarly Martin Luther King Jr's story his famous speeches "I have a dream", is considered America's one of the most iconic speeches The speech was also written by Martin King Jr. a night before after which he has done many improvisations at the time of delivering the speech. Due to this, you can say that they talked from their heart, which also connected with people and became very famous.
It does not mean that if you have to become intelligent then you start doing procrastination, but you can use procrastination by the effect which is called the Zeigarnik effect. If I can tell you in simple words then If you want to use procrastination in a good way see, Zeigarnik was a Russian psychologist he says that whenever we start doing some work, then we get thought in our mind related to it but if we don't finish that work, we start doing some other work then consciously we're doing other work but uncon- sciously many thoughts and ideas keep running in our mind which helps us to do that first work well, if we go to do that work later, you can use this effect.
Especially if you are doing some creative work, you do that work, then give it some time then do your other work, important work then come back to do that work the next day or a few days after that you will get better ideas and that thing will also be better.
Lesson 5 "Higher Self Control"
In 2009 there was research done at Yale university in which the student was asked to take the IQ test. for which they were getting money as the reward While giving a reward they get two options, one is that you can take the money now second option was you will get a little more money after some time. The results of this study were, People who have the patience that they will take their money later that their IQ test scores of these people are more, comparative to those people which has less patience this thing shows that if you have high self-control inside you then this thing will help you to move forward in life intelligently, American author Marya Mannes If you can control your emotions with logical reasoning many times, you keep self-control then this thing shows that you are an intelligent person.
Lesson 6 "Natural observant"
You must have seen many such people who come to you and start doing their talks that I am like this and that, I did this, I did that they keep on talking about things related to them, many times people do not like such people well I'm not talking about the communication skills. people who are in the opposite spectrum of this, those people who talk less and observe more it is seen that those people were higher intelligence, how? there is a quote related to this which I read recently, When a person talks he talks only what he knows, but when a person listens, many times he comes to know such thing which he does not know about it. A Listener, listens to things, keeps on learning and observing Many times people's talk, their body language, their way of speaking and many more. He keeps putting these types of information in his mind, and his intelligence level keeps on increasing so if you do it instead of always talking, then this thing will also increase your intelligence and help you to move forward in life.
Lesson 7 "They are very specific"
In 2011 The pair of Research, start doing research they wanted to see how intelligent people are different from normal people and to do this they found one thing we do in our daily life is assumptions.
we do assume every day. they start researching and they got 2 categories, one is overfitting and the other is underfitting The oven fitting assumptions means when you have very good knowledge about a specific field then with that specific knowledge, you start assuming everywhere for example, a person has understood a physics-related concept what does he do now, he applies the same things everywhere tries to understand the things related to it.
What happens in overfitting assumptions When you specifically take deep knowledge about something then you start assuming everything with the help of it. There is a slightly different example that if you understand how to say Poem You have learned many things related to the poem in English class now it is fine if you are doing that thing in English class, but you start taking the same Poem on the road while bargaining with any vegetable seller you start using the poem then this thing seems weird this is called overfitting assumptions.
How are the underfitting assumptions? when you learn something general, then you talk about the general thing with everyone which sounds like normal. It isn't ever a matter of any work for example, understand that you had to do some research related to cats, so what do you do spend a lot of time, did lots of work hard, look at different types of cats and start assuming that every cat has their four Legs what you are saying is factually correct, but this thing is not useful it is general knowledge that everyone knows, this is said underfitting assumptions.
In Research these things are seen that intelligent People most of the time, always go towards the overfitting assumptions They always learn specific work, deep things that are related to knowledge, and talk about it. But on the other hand, those who are normal, those people most do in general things Well.
Conclusion
One important thing just because a person is intelligent, does not mean that he will always become successful On other hands, it is also not true that if a person is not intelligent then it does not mean that he will never be able to become successful in his life the most important thing is to be effective, if a smart person will be effective then he will also get many results. If a normal person will be effective then he will also be able to achieve many things in life. That's why you should become an effective person and to be an effective person, you have to learn 7 Habits.
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