In today's information environment around us, we have to say that the popularity of the mobile Internet has extended people's access to information, but thus limited the depth of our access to information. Our everyday horizon is filled with the problem of the "over" of fragmented information-that 99% of the stuff has nothing to do with us, or is of no value to us in the "over and above" mode of thinking.
McLuhan once said: we create tools, and tools in turn shape us. Now, the same is true: once you get used to the "low cost, high return" stimulus, it's hard to do the "high input" stuff, so you become an "inefficient worker" -- seemingly busy every day, but ultimately fruitless.
Why is that? Because you're tactically diligent, you're actually avoiding the really difficult but more valuable parts of strategic thinking and decision-making. And this kind of "strategic thinking is lazy" behavior, can cause you finally strategic decision error, fall into the trap of low growth.
In fact, the greatest tragedy of life is to spend a lifetime of wisdom on physical diligence. To be a truly "high-growth person" and prevent you from "going against expectations," learn and maintain the ability to think deeply. I hope this article can enlighten you. The following, Enjoy:

The following story is often used to illustrate execution.
In fact, we only know one, we don't know the other.
Zhang SAN and li si are employed by a shop at the same time, with the same salary. After a period of time, zhang was promoted and got a raise, but li si didn't.
The boss say to him: "li 4, you now help me to go to the bazaar once, see what sell this morning."
After a while, li si came back from the market and reported to his boss, "only a farmer brought a cart of potatoes to sell." "How many?" asked the boss. Li si did not know, so he hurried to the market, and then came back to tell the boss: "there are 40 bags of potatoes." The boss asks him again: "the price?" "You didn't ask me to inquire about the price," said li.
So the boss told li si to sit down and rest first, and called zhang SAN to tell him to do the same thing. Zhang SAN came back and reported to his boss: "there is only one farmer selling potatoes in the market today. There are 40 bags of potatoes. I looked at them. They are good quality and cheap. According to our previous sales, we can sell all 40 bags of potatoes in a week or so.
Now the boss turned to li si and said, "now do you know why zhang SAN's salary is higher than yours?"
From the perspective of executive ability, li si has no sense of responsibility. However, on further analysis, there are problems with his way of thinking, and he is inferior to zhang SAN in two aspects:
First, I do not want to use my head to think deeply. Second, I adopt a low-grade way of thinking, which is unexpected in many aspects.
Bertrand Russell said:
"Many people would rather die than think, and in fact they don't even think until they die."
Observe many people around us who seem to be diligent, but they can't get by. Why?
Because they are "slow workers".
There are two characteristics of "low-efficiency hardworking people" : they are unwilling to think deeply and adopt low-level thinking. This leads to low productivity, low productivity and slow growth.
The reason why the "low-efficiency hardworking people" are reluctant to think deeply and adopt low-level thinking is that these people do not think deeply.
The difference between low-achieving students and high-achieving students is deep thinking.
The difference between the average employee and the excellent employee is also about deep thinking.
The difference between a small boss and a big boss is more about deep thinking.

大Most people, from the start of school, are used to being led by the school and the teacher's teaching plan. When I arrived at work, I was driven by the instructions and supervision of my superiors. This is called passive learning and passive thinking. Li si in the story at the beginning of this article is such a person.
People who adopt this passive way of learning and working follow others' thinking without being lazy and tired like dogs. And do what do not do well, do not reach, the heart is full of pressure.
That's not the case with active learning. I noticed that some of the students who did well in the school had their own learning plan and learning rhythm, which was dominated by self-study. In their eyes, the school's uniform learning plan and teachers, is just one of the auxiliary means. I met a high school student who did well in high school.
When I started working as a young man, I wondered why my boss wasn't as educated as I was, but when he criticized me, he would see problems I couldn't see and come up with solutions I couldn't imagine.
A colleague explains, because the leader is more experienced than me. I defy this evil, then, I decided to become active instead of passive:
First, I forced myself to pay attention and settle down to my job.
Secondly, based on the understanding of job responsibilities and department goals, I made my own higher goals, professional ability systematic learning plans and work plans.
Then, I will find problems by myself and carry out extensive learning and concentrated thinking in and out of the department and the industry. At this time, the key is to be able to devote spare time to study and work.
This way, after a period of time, I quickly found a feeling, see the problem, think of ways to do things, can step on the point.
In the scope of work I am responsible for, I have mastered the information, knowledge and my opinion, can walk ahead of the leader. This will not only significantly improve your performance and win your boss's appreciation, but also make you feel genuinely interested in your work and happy, not as stressed as you used to be.

During the boom of mass entrepreneurship in the last few years, a fellow villager I know, who is in his thirties, was also overwhelmed by the enthusiasm.
He opened a restaurant and spent more than $1 million on the money he was planning to buy his own home and crowdfund it with friends and family.
I met him by chance at dinner. When I finished, he asked me, how was the restaurant?
I'll be honest with you, you have two strategic problems: one is that the location is remote, and the other is that although the dishes have features and tastes good, according to my understanding of the surrounding crowd, your positioning is a bit inaccurate.
This fellow villager heard a little bit unhappy, with me talk about what craftsman spirit, to strive for perfection to create a first-class lai pin. 'it's a bit out of the way, but the rent is cheap,' he says at the end. 'I can use the money I save for advertising, publicity and branding, and it's still a good deal.'
Later I heard that he made great efforts in advertising and promotion and many actions, such as WeChat promotion, in-store prize promotion, discount promotion, sending people to spread advertising flyers at the intersection, to the nearby community and office paste advertising. It can be said that he almost used all the promotional techniques mentioned in the book of the marketing course. But eventually he was unable to recover and closed down after half a year.
I find that many people have a blind confidence that the strategic shortcoming can be remedied by correct tactics and increased tactical resource input.
This is essentially tactical diligence to cover up strategic laziness. You're tactically diligent, but you're studiously avoiding the really difficult but more valuable parts -- strategic thinking and strategic decision-making. And this kind of "strategic thinking is lazy" behavior, can bring about your strategic decision error finally, the result may be to lose one's head to become an old grudge.
The choice of "low growth area" or "high growth area" mentioned above is all tactical thinking. You have made the right choice and done the right thing, but it is not enough.
More important than tactical depth thinking is strategic depth thinking.
You must make strategic decisions that determine the overall outcome of your career and the long-term success or failure of your business a top priority.
Be patient, be ready, create opportunities, but don't act rashly.
If you are the boss of a company, you must choose a good industry, a good business model, and seize opportunities that match your core competencies, key resources, and values. Then, develop the company's development strategy.
If you are a professional, you should choose a career when you pay attention to choosing a good industry and company platform, and make these choices suit your major, character potential and values. Then, according to the environment and the company's future development trend, future opportunities to develop their own long-term career development plans and new capacity learning plans.