The Evolutionary Biology Research Group of Hokkaido University in Japan once did an experiment.
They tracked three black ant colonies each composed of 30 ants to observe their division of labor.
It turns out that most ants are very diligent, cleaning their nests, carrying food, and taking care of young ants, almost without stopping.
However, there are a small number of ants who do nothing, look around the colony all day long, and never work.
Biologists call these few ants "lazy ants" and mark them.
Interestingly, when the research team cut off the food source of the ant colony, the diligent ants immediately became a mess.
The "lazy ants" are not in a hurry and lead the colony to a new source of food.
It turns out that lazy ants are not lazy, but spend most of their time on reconnaissance.
They seem to be idle, but they haven't stopped thinking in their minds. This is the famous "lazy ant effect."
A few days ago, I communicated with a senior, and he told me a story.
In the first year of graduation, he and a classmate entered the same company for an internship.
In order to make a good impression on the boss, he is the first to come to the company every day and the last to leave.
During the internship, he worked overtime until 12 o'clock almost every day.
And his classmate, every day pinches a little bit, and then a little bit walk away.
Two months later, the company's assessment turned positive, and he thought he was stable.
As a result, he failed to become a regular member, but his classmates managed to stay in that company.
He was very angry, and sent a comment on Moments: "60 days of hard work is just a joke!"
After seeing this, the leader of the department sent him two business reports, one for him and one for the classmate.
His report was densely packed with thousands of words, but the content was quite satisfactory.
In contrast, the other report, although only more than a thousand words, is clear in logic and focused, which makes it clear at a glance.
The most important thing is that in the column of strategic analysis, he only briefly mentioned;
However, his classmates pointed out the advantages and disadvantages of the company, as well as the opportunities and risks hidden in the market, in a profound and simple way.
It turned out that when he was so busy with trivial matters, his classmates had thoroughly studied the issues of strategy.
On Douban, there is a group called "Killing Pseudo-Diligence", and there is a particularly heart-warming sentence in it:
"Behind the mechanical effort is just a habitual movement of muscles. This seems to be hard work, but it is actually a lazy brain."
The biggest gap between people is not the degree of effort, but the depth of thinking.
Without in-depth thinking, all diligence is useless.
Just like my senior, he was paralyzed by his own superficial efforts. He understood diligence superficially as "after 12 o'clock every day," while ignoring the diligence in thinking.
It wasn't until the end that I realized that I was just using tactical diligence to cover up strategic laziness.
I read "The Speed of Thinking" before, and there is a story in the book that impressed me very much.
In a small town in California, there lives a young man who loves to write.
He keeps working hard every day and aspires to become an excellent novelist.
But the novels he wrote are always unsalable, and no one appreciates them.
He was very distressed, so he went to the church and asked the priest: "Please tell me, why I am writing day and night, but there is no progress in my work?"
The priest did not answer directly, but instead asked: "What are you doing this morning?"
He was a little puzzled: "I'm writing a novel."
The priest asked again: "What about the morning?"
He replied: "I am also writing a novel."
The priest continued to ask: "What about the afternoon?"
Hearing this, the young man became a little impatient: "In addition to eating and sleeping, I spend the rest of the time writing novels."
"Then when are you thinking?"
Looking at the young man who didn't know what his problem was, the priest said patiently:
"What you call diligence is just repetitive and long-term endless busyness, and there is nothing difficult. As long as the conditions are met, most people can do it.
The hard part is thinking. Without thinking, your novel will have no soul; without thinking, your diligence will be meaningless. "
Yes, taking painstakingly writing as the only creative method, without thinking about summarizing, why should we improve?
There is a passage in the article "The Confusion of Our Generation":
"Most people seem to be diligent, but it is caused by laziness in their thinking.
Why stay up late to read a book until dawn, sleep only a few hours for a few days in a row, and how long it has not been for vacation? If these things are also worth boasting, then anyone on the assembly line has worked harder than you. "
A person who is confined to chores and lazy to think is destined to fall into a dilemma of mediocrity.
Getting rid of low-quality diligence and forming the habit of thinking is the first step in your life.
"MacArthur Genius Award" winner Seidhill Mulinathan has a famous saying:
"For any organization, a certain amount of free time is very important. It is not a waste of resources, but to make the system run more efficiently."
Similarly, for individuals, we also need to leave a certain amount of free time for ourselves to think about recharging and improve ourselves.
The writer Li Shanglong used to be a teacher at New Oriental.
In the last year of working there, he made a request to the class leader: no class on weekends.
A colleague persuaded him: "This way you will make less than four to five thousand yuan a month!"
He gritted his teeth, but still said, "Don't line up."
After that, every weekend night, when other colleagues are busy rushing to the company to take classes to earn money,
He stayed at home to read, watch movies, write reading notes, thinking about his personal value and life direction.
As a result, the education and training industry has declined, and his colleagues either have no choice but to lose their jobs or are forced to switch jobs.
And he has become a best-selling author, earning one million every year.
When he recalled this incident in the article "Busy, but Don't Be Busy", he bluntly stated:
"No matter how busy you are, you have to give yourself some free time. These time, you have to give yourself time to think about whether there is a better direction and whether there is a better way.
Just like in a team, there are always one or two leaders who are idle, because they are responsible for thinking and for better setting direction. "
The depth of a person's thinking determines the height of his life.
Just like Li Shanglong, he was not like his colleagues, and he was busy working in a whirlpool every day.
On the contrary, he separated himself from his busy life, leaving time for himself to think, and constantly searching for new paths in life.
The French thinker Pascal wrote in The Caprice:
"Man is just a reed, the most fragile thing in nature, but he is a reed that can think."
Cogito ergo sum.
People, only by leaving room for thinking in their busy life, can they listen to the voices deep in the soul and find the most valuable path in life.
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