Opportunity Cost of life (Game Theory tricks)

Chen Cheng of the Eastern Han Dynasty, Zi zhongju, once studied abroad during his teenage years, living in a room alone, reading and making friends all day without worrying about the house, the yard is full of weeds. At one time, his father's friend Xue qin came to visit him and asked him, "Why didn't you clean the courtyard to meet the guests ?" Chen Fan smiled and said: "When a big husband is in the world, will it be safe ?" Xue qin angrily retorted: "How can I scan the whole house without scanning ?"

 

This story has been told by ordinary people. Most people begin with doing a good thing to declare that it is necessary to do a good thing. However, if you do not know the future, it is easy to regard Chen as a negative model.

 

As a matter of fact, there are a lot of things that can be circled by Chen, who is called an extraordinary device in history. The first sentence at the beginning of "Shi Shuo Xin Yu" is: "Chen Zhongyan is a scholar, acts shifan, boarding a car, and has the ambition to clarify the world ." It means that his speech is an example for readers. Behavior is the norm of the world. In addition, he went to taifu as an official officer and became straight-forward. He dared to stick to the principle and collect talents widely. Scholars and talented people boldly tried to use it and made political affairs a new one. It can be said that Chen has swept the world well and left his name in history.

 

However, Xue qin, who left "one house without scanning, how to scan the world" because of criticism of Chen, did not know what he did later. Even if we know this name, it is still because of Chen. This is a wonderful irony. Why can't Chen make a career without a house scan, while Xue qin is familiar with the principle of courtyard cleaning, but eventually by unknown?

 

The answer is simple: there is an opportunity cost for doing everything. The opportunity cost for doing things is to complete things, and the opportunity cost for doing things is to do everything perfectly.

 

In economics, opportunity costs are defined as the value of a sub-optimal solution that is abandoned by choosing the best solution. From a broader perspective, the opportunity cost is the average value of the possible benefits of choosing other feasible solutions abandoned by a specific solution. For example, if you invest 0.1 million yuan in real estate, you can get a profit of 0.2 million. If you invest 0.15 million yuan in real estate, if we get 0.15 million from the stock market, it is the opportunity cost. If we invest 0.1 million yuan in the stock market, then the opportunity cost will be 0.2 million of the real estate investment.

 

In fact, the opportunity cost does not really appear in any financial book, but it is one of the key factors when we choose a plan, direction, and path. Wang Dingding, an economist, once said that the more opportunities available, the higher the cost of choosing a specific opportunity. Because the opportunity to be abandoned increases with the increase in the number of opportunities.

 

In life, resources are scarce. When a few things are incompatible with each other, we will choose the biggest net income thing. The so-called "fish, I am also the bear's paw, and I am also the same: the two cannot have the same, the fish and take the bear's paw ". The premise that we are willing to do anything is to think that the benefits of this matter are higher than the cost, but there are many such things, and we need to make a choice.

 

So how can computers make costs in this trade-off process?

 

For those who do not want to give up anything, it is often very painful to let them choose. They would rather have no right to choose. Because of this, they often make various choices to escape and do things that follow the rules. They do not want to give up many small things, so they cannot choose things that really benefit their lives.

 

However, everything, including things worth doing and not worth doing, will give themselves life, and gradually evolve from a simple accidental behavior to a regular activity. After a while, people will say, "we should not let it disappear. We have been doing this for so long ." This is like some people do not like their lover, but they still need to be together, because they have been together for a long time and are used to making people unwilling to make other choices, what's more, the opportunity cost of this sentiment will increase over time. Note: giving up and reducing the pursuit of other successes is a kind of cost. It is also a cost that cannot be ignored to decline the pursuit of others and give up the idea of loving others. In the end, a person has to pay a price for something that is not worth doing for himself. The more time it takes, the more involved it is. The more "content" is, the more expensive it will be.

 

The American philosopher Emerson once said: "Stupid persistence is the heart of a narrow-minded person, and is admired by many small politicians and philosophers. With this persistence, a great mind will have nothing to do ."

 

China Human Resources Development Network once took the lead to carry out a "Job Happiness Index Survey" nationwide. The results are as follows:

(1) more than 60% believe that the management system and process of the Organization are unreasonable.

(2) over 50% of users are not satisfied with the salary.

(3) over 50% of people are dissatisfied with direct superiors.

(4) nearly 50% of people lack confidence in their development prospects.

(5) nearly 40% do not like their jobs.

(6) 40.4% of users are not satisfied with the work environment and working relationship.

(7) 33.6% of the workload is unreasonable.

(8) 26.3% of people have conflicts between work and life.

(9) 19.6% of employees have unclear responsibilities.

(10) The relationship between 16.4% of people and their colleagues is not harmonious.

(11) 11.6% of employees do not receive support from family members and friends.

(12) 1.5% of people cannot help their jobs.

 

Knowing what we are doing is useless, and the value is very low. It may even corrode our energy and spirit, but we cannot get rid of it. There is nothing to do, not to say that nothing is done, because we stick to nothing, but have paid the opportunity cost to complete our own business. Is there a higher cost in this world?