How to improve thinking and decision-making ability? Maybe you can read more history books.

Before the outbreak of the epidemic, I went to Serbia and Bosnia-Herzegovina to play alone, saw the historic sites in Serbia-Bo, remembered a lot of history of Southeast Europe, and reflected on the significance of reading history books for so many years. Now I share the following four thoughts:

First, increase the dimension of seeing things and the world;

Second, give up the dual world outlook of black and white;

Third, a large number of case studies to enhance decision-making ability;

Fourth, better predict the future;

See things in three dimensions: me, you and him;

I just look at the problem from my own point of view, which everyone will do;

You just look at the problem from the other side's point of view, which involves empathy and empathy, and few people will;

And he, neither on our side, nor on the other side, is only regarded as a third party objectively.

For example:

Suppose you are a married man and your wife often asks you to buy a bag.

From your point of view, making money is not easy, it is too expensive;

From your wife's point of view, women only have a few hobbies. What's wrong with buying a bag This is a sign of love for me.

If you only start from your own point of view, you may quarrel every day and get divorced sooner or later;

If you look at it from your wife's point of view, you will buy it, but you will be depressed and sulky, and it will break out sooner or later;

But if you think from the perspective of a third party, you will have different views:

Simply give a few angles:

1, deep psychological thinking:

A woman buys a bag through her husband, providing instant pleasure and satisfying a sense of security. Apart from the bag, is there anything that can make both parties happy and fully satisfy the woman's instant pleasure and sense of security?

There are such things as eating, drinking and having fun or high-quality slapping;

2. Shallow psychological thinking:

Satisfying vanity is the influence of consumerism, and you can subtly change her recognition of this concept. For example, replace consumerism with fitness and minimalism, first take her to exercise in the name of losing weight to make her gradually fall in love with sports, and so on;

3, objective and pragmatic thinking:

These bags are really beautiful and practical. You can study whether there are bags with beautiful prices within your acceptable range, and some celebrities use them in a more popular way and have a topic with your wife.

There are many angles, and the above are not necessarily correct, nor are they universal. They just want to explain the diversity and importance of thinking from the perspective of a third party.

And reading history books can exercise the third-party perspective well.

A rigorous, reliable and good history book generally explains the development of history from the perspective of third-party statements and rationally puts various factual bases. When reading deeply enough, it is easier to switch to a third-party perspective when encountering something.

For example, during the Warring States Period, in the battle of Changping between Qin and Zhao, most people would think that Wang Zhao and Zhao Kuo were so stupid. One is easily alienated, and the other is desperate to go out and deliver the head.

However, in-depth reading, in fact, the confrontation between Qin and Zhao in the battle of Changping was a war in which the two countries raised the strength of the whole country. Zhao's national strength is not as good as Qin's and it can't be consumed. At the same time, the state of Qin has reached the end of its tether, and/kloc-men over 0/5 years old have all contributed (including logistics). If you are the prince of Zhao, if you go on like Lian Po, the country will soon run out of food and the war will naturally fail; According to Zhao Kuo, from the past performance of father and Zhao Kuo on paper, at least it provides a different way of thinking. Anyway, Qin is also a spent force, so you may choose to gamble.

If you look deeper and know more information, you may choose to compromise the Xiongnu strategy first, and it is more reliable to pull Li Mu back than Zhao Kuo; Or find a way to instruct Chu to send troops to stab Qin (this Zhao tried) and so on.

This is the advantage of history. If you read too much, you will often think from the perspective of a third party, jump out of yourself and the other party, and explore different thinking angles.

Black-and-white dual world outlook is human intuition, which is convenient for people to know the world.

However, this is a very immature world view, which leads many people to fail to fully understand people and the world. Everything with people can only be simply divided into black and white.

It's hard to get rid of this dualistic world view, because it's counterintuitive.

Reading history books is a good training method. Through a large number of historical events and figures, your black-and-white worldview will be constantly hit in the face, thus establishing the concept that people and the world are gray, black or white depending on the situation.

For example, there is such a person in history: in middle age, he is still wandering around and being laughed at by his sister-in-law;

The enemy threatened to cook his father's food, and he said he wanted a piece of it.

Kick the child out of the car during the escape;

There are also bad tastes such as letting Confucian scholars drink their own foot washing water.

Such people are completely hooligans and scum, right? It completely meets the standards of bad people in everyone's mind.

This man's name is Liu Bang.

In the view of Guan Zhong's elders at that time, he cited three chapters of the teacher of benevolence and righteousness;

In the eyes of the people of the whole country at that time, he was a good emperor who ended troubled times and abolished Qin's harsh laws.

In the eyes of modern people, our country name comes from the dynasty he established.

Are such people good or bad? There is no definition.

When you see more history and get used to not defining a person or a thing by its quality, when you look at various things in your work and life, you will gradually give up the dual world outlook, so that you can know a thing and a person more comprehensively.

Choice is more important than hard work, and making a good choice requires strong decision-making ability.

Under the current education system, most people have a serious shortage of decision-making ability during their growth. Many people's important decisions, such as volunteering, graduation, marriage, etc. They are all made in a muddle (but many people delude themselves into thinking that they are well thought out).

Reading history books with your brain and thinking while reading them is to create a large number of scenarios for yourself to simulate decision-making and give timely feedback. Turn over a few pages and you will know what the decision of the characters at that time was. You can quickly reflect by comparing them.

For example, if you look at the Ming Dynasty and see that Sun Chuanting was completely annihilated and Li Zicheng entered Beijing, you can stop and think about it. If you are Chongzhen, what should you do?

If you were Li Zicheng, what would you do?

What would you do if you were Dourgen?

After thinking about it one by one and comparing the behaviors of the three parties, you will find that there are loopholes in your thinking and information, as well as great differences with historical figures in thinking and decision-making.

Comparing decision-making with historical celebrities and outstanding figures will greatly improve their decision-making ability.

From the perspective of time, there are only three perspectives: past, present and future. History is the knowledge about what the past was like and why the present is like this. When people understand what the past was like and why it is like now, they will naturally predict what the future will be like.

For example, only from the historical development process, it is also a minority regime. The establishment of the Yuan Dynasty largely depended on Mongolian armed forces and the armed forces of the landlords in the Northern Han Dynasty. The Qing Dynasty effectively integrated Manchu and Liaodong Han forces into the Central Plains, and then integrated Manchu, Mongolian, Han and Tibetan forces, making Junggar (that is, Xinjiang) its capital. From the establishment process to the behavior after the founding of the People's Republic of China, it can be predicted that the Yuan Dynasty was definitely not as good as the Qing Dynasty.

Another example is the most famous history lover, Taizu of this dynasty, who predicted the failure of Germany reasonably and accurately soon after Germany invaded the Soviet Union, which stems from his understanding of Napoleon's invasion of Russia and the history and current strength of western countries.

The development of people and things has its own laws. By observing the past and present, we can sum up the laws and effectively predict the future.

Here are two simple examples of myself:

1. When I left tencent games at the beginning of 20 17, I received offer from different industries, including games and internet finance (games and mutual funds were very profitable in 20 17) and live broadcasts (just entered the white-hot period of the live broadcast of the Hundred Regiments War, and made money).

At that time, the short video industry: micro-vision was dying, Mei Pai and Aauto Quicker worked for several years before they lived for millions of days, and volcanoes and Tik Tok just came out less than a year ago.

At that time, I analyzed the time and dividends of the rise of Internet, 2G and 3G (such as typical companies and individuals under this technology), and predicted that short video would be the most promising industry under 4G, and individuals could also get greater benefits, so I chose short video, chose headlines and gave up the good discount of Guangzhou and Shenzhen to go to Beijing.

Although I made many mistakes afterwards, I have to say that this choice brought me a huge bonus.

2.20 16 a good brother of Tencent's same department is leaving, and two well-known internet finance companies, A and B, are compared. ..

Based on my understanding of the personnel composition of Company A (mainly from the Banking Department and Tencent Department) and the people of related product teams, I think the struggle between the two factions will last for some time, which will affect the rapid development of business. Moreover, the leaders of the relevant teams he joined treated their employees very differently, and they were not small groups (all of them were familiar with the history of China), so I suggested my buddy go to Company B.

Unfortunately, he finally went to A, and another buddy went to B earlier in the same period. In my opinion, at that time, their abilities were similar, but today there is a big gap between their level and income, so their ability to make decisions and predict the future is still very important.

In fact, any basic subject can effectively structure the underlying thinking and improve the thinking ability. Compared with physical chemistry, the history is readable and the threshold for ordinary people is low, which is very suitable for lazy us to start.

It is recommended not to read the history books written by unofficial history and various unknown authors. You can read the following books first, or check the authors when reading history books, and read books written by reliable authors.

Recommended books (personal taste only, please don't spit):

Start by cultivating interest:

Up and down for five thousand years;

Those things in the Ming dynasty;

Global general history;

Cambridge history of China;

Advanced:

A series of works written by Mr. Qian Mu and Mr. Huang Renyu, such as Fifteen Years of Wanli and China's Political Gains and Losses.

Advanced again:

Historical records;

Zi Tongzhi Jian;

Advanced again: