Want to turn your side hustle into a career? You need 4 meta-models.

I've heard that the open rate of WeChat public accounts is not good anymore. Is it still meaningful to write a public account?
Should I spend time trying to make videos on Bilibili?
From 0 to 1, how should I acquire traffic?
Should I start with Zhihu, or the public account, or do both?

To put it bluntly, your thinking habits are still stuck in the perspective of a frontline soldier or a department manager.

Your awareness has not yet switched to the CEO perspective of seeing the big picture, finding the focus, and addressing the main contradictions.

You are not yet accustomed to leading the overall situation, focusing on the big picture while letting go of the small details.

Invest your limited time, money, and resources in areas that can bring benefits.

A qualified CEO has a series of thinking tools stored in their mind.

These tools are used to identify problems, analyze issues, focus on the key points, make trade-offs, and solve problems.

They are commonly referred to as thinking frameworks or models.

There are 70 classic thinking models, and counting the new ones invented each year, the number is even greater.

It is unrealistic to expect you to remember each one and master the usage scenarios and limitations of each model.

Moreover, this contradicts the principle of not spending too much time learning to use tools; instead, time should be spent using tools to solve problems and produce results.

Fortunately, all thinking models are derived and combined from four meta-models. They are:

Balance Wheel
Timeline
Four Quadrants
Pyramid

Taking the first character of each, you get the mnemonic: Ping Si Si Jin

Mastering them will help you, in the initial stage of your side business, to use CEO thinking to dissect problems like a professional consultant. Just with this, you can outpace the vast majority of people who are just blindly working hard.

A long article will help you thoroughly explain these four meta-models.

The goal is to reduce the number of all side business-related questions you raise by 50% and improve their quality by 50%.

PART 1 Balance Wheel

PART 2 Timeline

PART 3 Four Quadrants

PART 4 Pyramid

PART 5 Case Study: Combined Use of Four Meta-Models

The entire text is 9,000 words.

Estimated reading time: 15 minutes.

PART 1 Balance Wheel#

The Balance Wheel is a graphical tool I often use, commonly applied in coaching dialogues and one-on-one mentoring.

▌Usage Scenarios

In the following situations, you can use the Balance Wheel:

You have multiple issues to handle in your main job, side business, family, friendships, etc., and it seems that each is important, but you don't know how to prioritize or how much to sacrifice.
You have been stuck on a specific issue for a long time and haven't found a point of action.

▌Tool Characteristics

Described with a set of keywords:

Graphical, holistic, balance, expectations, rational-emotional combination, leverage, thinking about the future, focusing on the present.

▌Usage Steps

The general logic of use can be divided into three steps:

(1) From a global perspective, look at the eight most important aspects of your life.

(2) Assess your satisfaction with each aspect and notice the gap between expectations and reality.

(3) Find the leverage points and start taking action.

Please prepare a blank sheet of paper.

As you look at the six steps below, follow along with my demonstration.

Step 1. Draw a circle and divide it into eight equal parts, representing the eight aspects of your life.

Step 2. For each area, summarize it with one keyword and label it outside the arc, representing the eight themes you value most in your life.

You don't need to get too caught up in how to express the theme words. You also don't need to worry about whether there is conceptual overlap between the theme words. Just write down the eight aspects that you currently believe most influence your happiness.
Don't overthink it; write down your immediate intuitive response.
No more than eight. If you can't fill in all eight, just leave the rest blank.

On January 1st of this year, I wrote down the following eight aspects:

Exploration. Continuously entering unknown fields, creating new value, and satisfying my strong curiosity is very important to me.
Money. I have quite high material demands, and only a sufficiently affluent life can support my continuous exploration.
Career. A career doesn't necessarily mean making a lot of money; making a lot of money doesn't necessarily mean it's a career. This aspect is very important to me, so I singled it out.
Love. I am still single and quite looking forward to a beautiful intimate relationship.
Friendship. Friends are an important source of my happiness and also my motivation for continuous growth. Maintaining long-term, deep relationships with a few close friends is very important to me. I have a good relationship with my family, so I merged "family" into "friendship."
Pleasure. I am a positive hedonist, and enjoying life is very important to me.
Writing. It is both my job and a means of creating value, as well as a way to express another self.
Health. No matter what I do, I need a healthy body and abundant energy to support it.

Step 3. Assess your satisfaction with the current state in these eight aspects, scoring from 0 to 10, and draw the score in each sector.

Purely subjective scoring; don't think too much, just score based on how you feel at this moment.
When drawing each sector, it is recommended to use pens of different colors to enhance the visual impact of the diagram, making it easier to provoke your thoughts in the following steps.

On January 1st, before the COVID-19 black swan event occurred, my satisfaction scores were:

Exploration: 7 points. After over 500 days of self-employment, I have made sufficiently diverse attempts in content, operations, and monetization models through practical operations, writing, teaching, and providing consulting services, and I am quite satisfied.
Money: 3 points. I made some progress last year, but I still feel there is potential waiting to be released. Currently, I can only say that I am not worried about making a living, but I am not at the point where I can buy whatever I want.
Career: 6 points. The growth potential is limitless; I am currently doing fairly well.
Love: 1 point. I am single, and throughout 2019, I was immersed in learning, working, and making money, without making any efforts in dating.
Friendship: 9 points. I have excellent close friends around me, and after resigning to work independently, I have also met many good friends worth deepening relationships through business connections, which is already very good.
Pleasure: 8 points. Just look at my social media; I have always been having a great time and never shortchanged myself.
Writing: 5 points. My writing achievements last year are evident, but I have high expectations for this aspect, and there is still room for growth in both quantity and quality, so I lowered the score a bit.
Health: 3 points. At the end of last year, my physical condition was not good, and a long-standing exercise habit was interrupted, leaving me not very energetic.

Before moving on to the next step, pause for a moment to look at your diagram and feel your current emotions.

Then proceed to the next step.

Step 4. Set goals. After three months, what score do you want to achieve for each aspect?

Label the target scores on the axis, and use a different color pen to draw the gap between the current score and the target score in the sectors.

Focus on the time to achieve the goal: three months. If this is your first time doing the Balance Wheel, you can also set a shorter time, such as one month.
Your time and energy are limited. For aspects where satisfaction is high or are not a priority in the next 1-3 months, you can set lower target scores. Maintaining the status quo is also acceptable.

The target scores I set on January 1st were:

Exploration: unchanged. I have tried enough last year, and my curiosity has been greatly satisfied, so I can take a break for now.
Money: increase from 3 to 7 points. I plan to open offline workshops (this was before the COVID-19 event, which is another story) to fill in high-ticket products and make my cash flow more abundant.
Career: unchanged. I firmly believe that I am doing valuable and worthwhile things, even if they may not necessarily be profitable at the moment, and I have a rough understanding of the long-term development goals and trajectory of the business, so I feel quite stable; there shouldn't be any major changes in the next three months.
Love: increase from 1 to 4 points. I should take some action, but I don't insist that something must happen within three months. In comparison, the happiness brought by my career is a bit stronger.
Friendship: unchanged. I am quite satisfied.
Pleasure: unchanged. I have already been quite indulgent...
Writing: increase from 5 to 9 points. Leveraging my strengths in systematizing and algorithmizing work, I can elevate both the quantity and quality of my writing.
Health: increase from 3 to 9 points. I know about healthy eating, exercise, and rest, and I used to have such habits; as long as I adjust back to my peak state, it won't be difficult for me.

Step 5. Find leverage.

Calm down and re-examine your Balance Wheel.

Ask yourself: starting from this moment, which one aspect's breakthrough within three months can drive the growth of the other seven aspects? Mark a five-pointed star next to that element. Write down today's date.

My answer is writing.

The other aspects that need improvement are money, love, and health.

For me, their synergy with "writing" is:

Money: To conduct offline workshops, I need to materialize my client cases and practical experiences from last year into text, images, and processes for use in the workshops. Operationally, this involves organizing past records and rewriting them.
Health: I interrupted my previous good exercise and dietary habits. Upon reflection, it was actually an emotional issue; I had too many thoughts that I hadn't expressed, leading to emotional fluctuations. It would be better to express them in writing. If it's not related to business, I can just open a separate account to write.
Love: It's important to externally signal "I am single," mainly through social media. Decorating my personal homepage and carefully designing the text and images is essentially a content creation task, which can also be considered a broad form of writing action.

In short, my leverage is: fully utilizing my professional ability in content creation and content marketing.

Step 6. List plans.

Plans don't need to be grand; they just need to guide action.

Write down 1-3 things you can do immediately.

I wrote down three things, and I have already completed them:

Use a mind map to break down my current sources of income, enlarging and designing the part that accounts for the largest share and has the most experience into an offline workshop.
Organize my writing algorithms/SOPs. Since this is to guide my own more systematic writing and content creation, and I don't need to show it to others, I can just sketch it out on paper; as long as I can understand it, that's enough.
Organize my room to clear out a space for exercise, starting with light workouts on Keep and gradually restoring my peak exercise volume.

▌Analogous Thinking

(1) In China, especially in first-tier cities, the pace of life is fast and changes are frequent. It is advisable to redo the Balance Wheel every three months.

Each time you do the Balance Wheel, your definitions of the eight aspects of life, satisfaction levels, and target scores will change.

This is the reality of life: change is the only constant.

(2) More valuable is the thinking of the Balance Wheel; practice transferring this wheel horizontally to apply it in other areas.

Your life can be a wheel.
Your network can be a wheel, including alumni, group friends, circle friends, clients, and family relationships...
Your team can be a wheel, including recruitment, training, incentive mechanisms, evaluation, and common goals...
Your product can be a wheel, including functional value, emotional value, packaging, channels, and rational users...

For any theme you value, if it is influenced by multiple factors and you can't figure out the relationships between those factors at the moment, you can use this thinking to address it.

Avoid getting stuck in place due to decision paralysis, which leads to things not moving forward and wasting time on anxiety.

PART 2 Timeline#

Using history as a mirror can help you understand rise and fall.

Using people as a mirror can help you clarify gains and losses.

▌Usage Scenarios

In the following situations, you can use the timeline:

Review and Reflect

After trying various side businesses for a while, you must find the intersection of your personal strengths, intrinsic motivation, and market demand.

Otherwise, it will be difficult for you to maintain a leading advantage and continuous innovation in a niche field for a long time, making it impossible to build a long-term career.

Awareness of personal strengths and intrinsic motivation comes from analyzing your important decisions, successes, and failures at each point in time.

Looking at all events through a timeline will make it clearer.

Analyze Benchmark Objects

If you want to continue growing, you need to find a suitable role model to imitate and learn from. This role model can be a person, product, or company, depending on your goals and business model.

Most people only see the surface of others' strengths and hastily attribute them to a one-sided or even incorrect conclusion. They lack the awareness to dissect the past of the role model, to see how others have progressed step by step, how they learned from successes and failures, and how they made decisions at critical junctures in life.

Business schools require students to read, dissect, and analyze a large number of classic successful/failed business cases to find patterns and rules from historical experiences to guide their own careers and reduce the probability of failure.

Deep Interpretation from a Professional Perspective

Every side business person who relies on their intellect needs to showcase their professional depth through content (writing, audio, video, images, etc.) to gain credibility.

To deeply interpret a theme, using the time dimension is a common angle of approach.

In an episode of "Qi Pa Shuo," the debate topic was "Should marriage consider social status?" Most debaters discussed it at the level of family background and parental status.

When Cai Kangyong commented, he placed the concept of social status in the past, present, and future on a timeline, reinterpreting the issue:

Past: Looking at "social status" from the perspective of parents' generation. Most debaters have discussed this, which is essentially about family background, the educational level of relatives, etc.
Present: Looking at "social status" from the perspective of the couple currently exchanging vows. Are their interests aligned? Can they have long conversations? Can they comfortably integrate into each other's social circles? Can they accept each other's bad habits?
Future: Looking at "social status" from the perspective of child education. If the couple plans to have children after marriage, are their educational philosophies and life plans aligned?

▌Tool Characteristics

Described with a set of keywords: history, rules, laws, patterns, predictions.

▌Case Study

I read the WeChat public account @Memory Carrier every day.

The main author, Bi Shu Xi Feng, is a post-80s professional investor who has achieved financial freedom through high-frequency trading.

He is quite a character:

During his master's program, he joined a top startup as a programmer. While others were busy with their thesis defenses, he became the leader of the R&D team, leading a fresh master's graduate and an engineer who had worked at Huawei for two years.
Within three years of graduation, he transitioned to an architect role. Programmers know the weight of this title.
At 27, he transitioned from a programmer with no knowledge of finance to an investor.

I am also a post-80s, but my achievements are quite far from his. Why is that?

Aside from calling him a big shot and idolizing him internally, what can I learn?

I went through all the articles on his public account, organizing his personal experiences by year and age.

I looked at how he thought and made decisions at each critical juncture in life. For example:

When he was about to graduate.
When deciding whether to take sides at work.
When considering whether to change jobs.
When contemplating a career transition.
When deciding whether to resign and become a freelancer.

Another case study is someone else's work.

Dissecting the life experiences of Tesla CEO Elon Musk.

▌Analogous Thinking

Returning to the first sentence: using history as a mirror can help you understand rise and fall. Using people as a mirror can help you clarify gains and losses.

How can timeline thinking be expanded?

First, realize that no matter how complex a problem seems, you can find clues to solutions in historical contexts from around the world. The answers may not be identical, but there will definitely be similar patterns and rules.
Then, consciously collect more cases and analyze them from the time dimension, observing how a person/project/product/team/company... succeeded (or failed) step by step.

I often spend money on case collections for this reason.

For me, they are training materials for dissection.

The more I see and dissect, the faster my response speed will be when facing new problems or being consulted by others, and my intuition will become stronger.

It's like an amateur Go player facing a professional Go master.

While you are still struggling with how to place a piece, the master directly tells you.

"Don't waste your time; you've already lost this game."

Why? Because they have seen historical games and know the patterns, allowing them to jump from the first step to the sixth step, skipping the intermediate steps.

While you are still "struggling," they have already been spoiled by the spoilers. Can it be the same?

PART 3 Four Quadrants#

You should know some thinking models and frameworks, such as:

6W2H, RFM, STP, KPT, fishbone diagram, storyboard, cross SWOT.

When facing problems, you are also aware that you should use some framework to dissect the issues.

However, you may have had the experience where:

When reading, you feel thoughtful and seem to have "learned" something.

When using it, either you forget everything or you don't know how to use it.

In the end, you lament that thinking models are really useless.

In fact, tools are like weapons; they need the right owner.

If you use them too little and are unfamiliar with them, you naturally won't be able to master complex tools.

So what should you do? You should have a viewpoint or a perspective when facing problems, right?

The answer: simplify first.

Using a vertical axis (Y-axis) and a horizontal axis (X-axis), divide the theme into four quadrants, allowing you to quickly grasp the structure of the problem and at least find a breakthrough point.

▌Usage Scenarios

In the following situations, you can use the Four Quadrants:

To position personal, career, project, or product.
When you have collected a bunch of scattered, seemingly valuable information that needs to be organized, categorized, and summarized for commonalities.
When you have a complex problem that requires consulting an expert, and you want to bring your analysis to the expert to point out your blind spots, rather than rudely throwing a vague big problem at them.

▌Tool Characteristics

Described with a set of keywords:

Binary, two-axis division, simplification, positioning, organization, clustering.

▌Usage Steps

Divided into three steps.

Step 1. Formulate a hypothesis and identify two factors related to the theme.

The purpose of using the Four Quadrants to divide the theme is to simplify the problem.

Assume that only two independent, unrelated factors will affect the outcome of the theme.

For example, if the theme you care about is:

How should I establish connections with influential people through value exchange?

You might be thinking of a long list of potentially relevant factors:

My time, network, exclusive information, intellect, money...

To move forward without getting stuck, you might boldly hypothesize: whether I can successfully complete a value exchange with influential people is only influenced by two factors:

My intellectual strength.
How much I can pay them.

Step 2. Use the two factors as the horizontal and vertical axes, and draw four quadrants according to their levels.

To help yourself understand, you can give the four quadrants arbitrary names.

Continuing with the previous example:

Strong intellect, can pay a lot: Wise millionaire.
Weak intellect, can pay a lot: Foolish rich person.
Weak intellect, can pay little: Foolish poor person.
Strong intellect, can pay little: Talented but poor scholar.

Step 3. Place the information you have collected into these four quadrants.

For example, in the "Foolish rich person" quadrant, you can include practices you have seen:

Widely purchase access to various paid communities of influential people, with diverse themes.
Actively ask questions to influential people without fear of embarrassment, and generously give red envelopes or gifts after receiving answers.
Actively pay influential people to consult on your questions.

Similarly, in the "Foolish poor person" quadrant, you can include:

Actively spend time helping influential people with tasks, especially valuable tasks they haven't thought of, such as organizing information or providing leads.
If you have small projects, such as a web scraping tool, give it to the influential person. Whether they use it or not is one thing; showing your attitude and sincerity is another.
Actively think about what the influential person needs and what you can do to help them achieve their goals, such as earning more, becoming more famous, or saving time, etc.

In summary, your positioning will start to become clear, and you will quickly be able to lock in your general position.

Then, choose the approach that suits you and take quick action.

Decisively abandon approaches that do not suit you, and do not waste time and energy on futile efforts.

▌Analogous Thinking

The four quadrants formed by two straight lines are the most suitable thinking tool for ordinary people with zero foundation to master.

Use it more to form a thinking habit.

In the future, when you look at any issue, it will be as if you have added a "binary filter."

You can quickly form your own general viewpoint and judgment.

Since it is a simplified model, there will definitely be biased viewpoints.

However, facing problems with a confused mind, lacking viewpoints, attitudes, and ideas, isn't that more terrifying?

With your initial judgment and clear viewpoint, you can start taking action. It also gives others a chance to point out the flaws in your thinking.

PART 4 Pyramid#

Problems need to be decomposed to be solved.

Goals need to be broken down to be executed.

Anyone can talk about this.

However, the vast majority of people face situations where:

They want to "systematically" solve problems, but they don't know what this "system" looks like in their minds.
It seems that after painstakingly breaking down long-term goals, when it comes to actual implementation, it is easy to lose direction, gradually forget their original intentions, and ultimately leave things unresolved.

Do you not want goal management to become mere talk?

You need the Pyramid model.

You may have heard of the book "The Pyramid Principle" in writing courses.

In fact, this classic training material from McKinsey is not just about writing.

The full title reveals this:

The Pyramid Principle

Logic in Writing, Thinking, and Problem Solving

(The Minto Pyramid Principle)

Well used, the Pyramid model can become a powerful tool for logically decomposing and solving problems.

▌Usage Scenarios

In the following situations, you can use the Pyramid:

When you need to break down abstract, broad problems or goals into quantifiable, executable actions.
When you need to rigorously consider important issues, which are not suitable for emotional decomposition using PART 1's Balance Wheel.
When the problems and goals are something you have been focusing on long-term and constantly adjusting, similar to "increasing annual income from side businesses." Using a mind map to break it down would seem too chaotic and fail to show the hierarchical structure.
If you work in a company or team that uses OKR to manage goals, the KRs (key results) you are responsible for need to be further broken down to the execution level.

In the above scenarios, the unique value of the Pyramid model lies in:

Strong sense of direction. After decomposition, execution starts from the bottom and moves up layer by layer. You will always be clear about how seemingly unimportant and uninteresting small tasks contribute to the goal, making it less likely for you to give up halfway.
Strong sense of structure. Each element at every level of the pyramid has several branches below it, helping you maintain a god's-eye view of the overall situation, focusing on the big picture while letting go of the small details. When you encounter obstacles in multiple attempts to get things done, it is also easier to find new solutions from other branches without getting stuck.
Start with the end in mind. Layered decomposition guides action.

▌Tool Characteristics

Described with a set of keywords:

Conclusions first, top-down, from abstract to concrete, inductive grouping, logical progression, decomposition, implementation, direction, system, structure, logic tree, guiding action.

▌Usage Steps

Step 1. Place a theme you care about at the top of the pyramid.

Generally, this is an important but not urgent issue or a long-term goal.

Step 2. Use the MECE principle to decompose this theme and place the decomposed elements in the second layer.

MECE stands for Mutually Exclusive Collectively Exhaustive.

It means mutually independent and completely exhaustive.

For a significant issue, achieve classification without overlap or omission.

This is an easily overlooked point in "The Pyramid Principle."

Striving to follow the MECE principle when decomposing themes is the most crucial step when using the Pyramid model.

The quality of decomposition depends on how many classic dissection formulas you have in your mind.

The accumulation of formulas is determined by your depth of knowledge in a particular profession/discipline/business field.

In short, the more practical experience you have in a niche field, the deeper your essential thinking, and the richer the frameworks from classic books you absorb, the more formulas (angles for dissecting problems) you will have at your disposal.

From this perspective, the Pyramid is the most comprehensive and least easy-to-use thinking tool among the four foundational models.

Step 3. For each element decomposed in Step 2, use the same method to further decompose it and place it in the third layer of the pyramid, continuing this cycle...

Until the elements at the bottom layer are clear enough, quantifiable, and capable of guiding action.

▌Analogous Thinking

(1) Pyramid thinking is closely related to dissection thinking and can also be used for benchmarking and innovative imitation.

(2) The article you are reading, PART 1-4, is also structured using the Pyramid model.

PART 5 Case Study: Combined Use of Four Meta-Models

Let's review the four meta-models mentioned earlier:

Balance Wheel: Engaging emotions, overlooking the big picture.
Timeline: Time travel, learning from history.
Four Quadrants: Two-dimensional division, simplifying problems.
Pyramid: Layered decomposition, turning the abstract into the concrete.

Finally, let's use a case study to demonstrate the interspersed use of meta-models.

People who want to start a side business often encounter the confusion of:

Facing the vast opportunities on the internet, I am at a loss and don't know where to start. What should I do?

▌First, step out of the problem and look at your life from a god's-eye perspective.

What role does the side business play in your life?

Use the Balance Wheel to find the leverage factor that can move everything.

Assuming that after your own analysis, the breakthrough point is writing. Because:

Clear writing represents clear thinking; whether in your main job or side business, this is an essential skill.
Any business requires gaining the trust of others. This is built on the ability to influence others. Writing is one of the most suitable ways for ordinary people to enhance their influence.
There is a synergistic effect between language expression ability and reading comprehension ability. Improving written expression will also enhance the ability to quickly and accurately understand information, helping to grasp new knowledge more quickly and accurately.

▌After identifying the leverage factor, assess the current situation and quickly draft an action plan.

If you were to ask for my opinion at this moment, I would typically guide you to find answers through a series of questions.

The questioning process uses the GROW model commonly employed in coaching.

Even if you are unfamiliar with the GROW model, you can still combine the four meta-models to solve problems.

Place yourself on the timeline, and you will see three nodes:

The accumulation of your past experiences. Corresponding to the current situation (Reality).
The state you envision reaching in the future. Corresponding to the goal (Goal).
The gap you are currently preparing to address. This is the gap between the goal and the current situation.

For example,

(1) Goal: To write one article per week like a certain influential public account.

(2) Current situation: You have posted some fragmented posts in knowledge circles, with inspiration being sporadic, and the length and quality being unstable, etc.

(3) Gap: Use the Pyramid model to further dissect the issues into categories.

For instance, a good article = good topic x good framework x stable output cycle.

Topic: Inspiration is unstable; when in a good state, I can have many themes to express, but when in a bad state, my mind is completely blank.
Framework: I used to write things spontaneously, without a framework.
Efficiency: I am busy at work, with only 30 minutes of free time each day, writing slowly, often only managing to squeeze out 200-400 words.

▌Alright, the problems have been listed. What should be done? What solutions can be considered?

Based on the three factors of topic, framework, and efficiency, continue to dissect and find alternative solutions.

For example,

Topic:
- Look for inspiration from trending questions on Zhihu.
- Choose a textbook in your professional/business field and use the subheadings in the table of contents as topics.
- Use web scraping to gather popular themes from benchmark public accounts and write about them.
Framework:
- Use the framework from "The Pyramid Principle."
- Choose from the "Business Framework for Problem Solving."
- Find a relatively satisfactory article I wrote in the past and summarize the writing template.
- Find a good article, dissect its structure, and apply it to my own writing.
Time:
- After determining the topic and framework, write 200 words each weekday and post them in the knowledge circle to seek feedback from group friends, then piece together a long article to publish on the public account over the weekend.
- Ask friends in the group who update long articles and maintain stable quality how they improve their writing efficiency.
- Deliberately time each writing session.

▌At this moment, the solutions to the problems have emerged, and you are eager to take immediate action. Which plan should you execute first?

Consider the resources at hand and place the above plans into:

High effect VS low effect
Existing resources VS no resources

In the resulting four quadrants, you should prioritize the action plans that have a good effect and are supported by resources.

Assuming you have joined Bai Yimiao's knowledge circle and know that I have shared experiences on fragmented writing, have case studies, and there are other writing experts in the group who can provide feedback, you might choose the plan of "determining the topic, setting the framework, writing 200 words each weekday, posting in the knowledge circle for feedback, and piecing together a long article to publish on the weekend."

Looking back at the entire process, the GROW model (Goal, Reality, Options, Will) can be completely seen as a combination of the four meta-models.

Mastering these four models can help you gain a deeper understanding of other frameworks and thinking models.

You can solve many problems on your own without being misled by others.

I wish you a happy application of these concepts.