One of the ways beyond free is to increase the scarcity of goods and services. The promotion of an individual's "value" can also be achieved by increasing its own scarcity.
Before I explore ways to increase my scarcity, I would like to ask myself one question: Why does ** increase my scarcity? **
Many people may want to be more competitive by finding ways to increase their own scarcity and find a decent, decent job. And I think that life should not be limited to just one job, but it should also include many things. A good job is only a means of achieving the goal of life. Just as you mentioned in the first letter of the previous quarter, "Do Not Pseudo-Workers": May you enjoy the scenery around you while you are away from work.
Understand why you want to increase their scarcity, the next step is to work hard to improve!
Scarcity theory was first proposed by economist John Rowe, after which Marshall integrated utility, cost, and scarcity to form a new economic value system that led to the realization that the value of commodities should not be seen as objective Costs or subjective effects of a particular aspect of the decision, but by the utility, cost and scarcity of three elements of the common decision.
If an article is useless, no effect on consumers, no use value, it does not have any economic value. Nobody wants to pay for it, nor does anyone exchange it for anything of economic value. In addition, if an item has a merit, usefulness, usefulness or value, but not scarce, anyone can freely get, do not need to use it in exchange for this, then this item is not economically meaningful The value, such as air, sunshine.
Scarcity in economics is also instructive for how individuals can increase their value.
** It's a good idea to measure whether the increased scarcity is worthwhile by value. To judge whether it has scarcity can see it is useless, to give an extreme example, the normal person is a finger ten fingers, there are exactly eleven individuals, the scarce conditions are established, but it does not help, instead Will bring a lot of inconvenience to life. Another example is the study of a programming language, such as the niche of Elixir, there is scarcity, but the single language barrier is very low, once the demand rises easily poured into talent, so that the value of the original disappear.
Economic value theory mentions that value is determined by utility, cost, and scarcity. If an individual creates his own scarcity, he or she can also increase his or her own worth by using a multidimensional combination strategy to increase his or her scarcity. For example, in doing a good job of their own work while improving their writing skills, communication skills, management and organizational skills, although in some aspects is not necessarily the best, but on the whole their own scarcity or increased, At the same time also enhance their own value.
With the guidance of economic theory also needs the support of the times. ** Discovering trends and following trends ** is also a way to increase individual scarcity. You mentioned in the "Top of the Wave" that for a company to catch up with a wave there is no guarantee that it will endure. But for one person, it is enough for one person to catch up with such a wave. I think that in order to raise one's own scarcity, we need to understand clearly that the situation adapts to changes in the environment so as to have the opportunity to be an age-governess.
Finding the tide and adapting to the trends require individuals to have the knowledge, abilities and resources to reserve in advance. No matter who, before the success has done ordinary people unimaginable accumulation. Here I would like to give you an example, read your presentation in Wikipedia, 84 years into the Department of Computer Science Tsinghua University until graduating from Dr. Hopkins in 2002, in the first 35 years of your life you spent more than half the time Deep plowing in the computer field, followed by explosive growth in the past eight years, has done the position of vice president of Tencent, until now it is downwind engaged in their own work of interest to do what they want to do, by the way also for our dedication such as "mathematical beauty" "The Top of the Wave," "The Mystery of Silicon Valley," "The Light of Civilization," "The Road to the University," and "The Smart Age," I would like to leave your year of accumulation of all this may also have no alternative .
When it comes to accumulation, many people may have the same confusion with me as I used to. I learned a lot but I do not know what is the use. I do not want to study again after a long time. Here I think that before you have a complete system to build their own knowledge can be awesome learning it! Whether it is liberal arts, business or science and engineering should be extensively covered, and each one should not be generalized on the past, we should see the internalization of the information correctly understood, you can give others the narrative knowledge. Just as you learned a lot of advanced mathematical knowledge you mentioned earlier, you did not know what it used to be, but it was very useful when it came to solving algorithmic problems. So seriously accumulate it, when the day of success will find all the accumulation is not meaningless.
In addition, making a complete career plan is critical to increasing individual scarcity. We often say that life is not only highly advanced but also profound. However, the "fourth degree of career" mentioned by classical teachers in "What is your life's possible" indicates that there are more dimensions to measuring life than these two aspects - - Height, depth, width and temperature.
The so-called height, that is, position, is the influence of life, power;
The so-called depth, that skill, that is, the degree of excellence and wisdom;
The so-called width, that is, the role, is the number of people who are taken care of and supported in life.
The so-called temperature, is a state of self-living self.
From the perspective of the super-individual to understand and increase their scarcity can also start from these four aspects.
From a height and depth, every individual who wants to increase their own scarcity needs to move toward the heights of their own values, just as Buffett refers to value investing as the first principle. The point you mentioned about reading a master is to increase your professional skills. Reading a Ph.D. is just a little bit of pushing the collective knowledge of mankind forward. It is more than enough for an individual to reach this height if they become a scarce talent.
Another tactic to gain scarcity in your career is the pursuit of the ultimate **, as you mention Iberian ham referring to the Spanish master ham cut Florencio Sanchidrián, Over the years he has focused on slicing ham, slicing ham for the Oscars, private Hollywood parties, and top racing team lounges, demonstrating what it takes to be successful.
As far as width and temperature are concerned, every individual in social life plays a different role. His work is a staff member. He is a husband, a son and a father at home, and a friend in the eyes of buddies. Increasing the scarcity requires individuals to pay love and harmony, balance the relationship between the various roles, access to their support and love to speed up their personal growth and enhance individual value. Individuals can be happy to do things can be done gloomily, you can use different temperature and state to work, we can see that the temperature is the measurement of the inherent measurement. To create their own scarcity of temperature can be given to create their own wonderful.
Finally, to sum up, to increase their own scarcity to have intrinsic motivation, conform to the trend of the times, either to do or do wide need individual continuous accumulation in order to achieve the value of the upgrade!
Finally, a handsome master Sandridge Delivered with a delicious knife Iberian ham.
