The title of this volume is the son-in-law of the demigod family, and it was successfully completed in the end.

According to the original outline, after killing Andre, he married Palos and put the plot of Su Ye's power in Hell at the end of the fifth volume.

Later, after thinking about it, I found that it was too hasty to write, and the fifth volume would be too delayed, so the plot of the early hell period was included in this volume, and combined with the plot of finding Theseus, the plot would be more reasonable.

The next fifth volume, as the name says, is "God Slayer of the Wizarding World".

Well......

Volume 1: Ancient Greek gourmets, the death of the gladiatorial arena, and a slightly sad ending.

The gladiators of Sparta in the second volume, many kings Su Ye, are all happy.

Volume 3: The Bell Ringer of the City of Athens, the Bell of Euclid, with a slightly sad ending.

In the fourth volume, the son-in-law of the demigod family, marries Palos, and everyone is happy.

Volume 5 The God Slayer of the Wizarding World, huh...... I'm not going to talk about it, you guess.

The general plot after that is in my mind, but whether to merge the last two volumes or whether to divide them into volumes six and seven is under consideration. As you should guess about the plot, from the fifth volume, the battle of the gods will begin.

At the beginning of writing this book, I was hesitant to write about "the path to godhood of a magician" or "a magician with the power of gods".

As you can see, I chose the latter.

In fact, the former is easier to write, and the latter is challenging.

Whether it's DND-like or mythological writing I've seen, the protagonist eventually becomes a deity, a deity that is essentially indistinguishable from all the previous deities.

I believe in philosophy, I believe in science...... No, it's magic, so I still firmly believe in my bones that the mortal body is comparable to the gods, not only a grand wish, but also achievable, a possibility for the future, even a great possibility.

This road, from ancient times to the present day, the sages have been building.

I have always disliked pessimistic human futurism, and I think that those who hold this view are still inherently distrustful of the great sages of the past, present, and future.

If we jump out of the limitations of the stage and look at humanity on a scale of millions of years, we will find that humanity has been progressing, progressing, progressing.

Since the birth of a diverse civilization by human beings, no force has been able to stop the progress of mankind except for super-large-scale cosmic disasters.

No.

Even if the world-destroying meteorite falls on the earth again, we terrifying Homo erectus will definitely be able to surpass the previous generation of earth overlord dinosaurs and live tenaciously.

Uh, that's a long way off......

From the next book onwards, I will focus more on the story itself and less on other things, so in the summary of each volume of this book, I will be a little more willful and talk about it a few more sentences.

In the future, it should be rare to talk about personal things in the chapter.

It's New Year's Day soon, and it's just right to talk to you about my year.

The content is quite weird, and it seems that there is no author to talk about this......

Since 2019, I have been looking for a purpose in life, and it was really difficult to be blind at first.

Later, I searched again and again, and from time to time I thought about what I thought was the most important thing and what the ultimate goal of life should be.

Eventually, I found my direction in life.

A vague life plan was made this year.

In the current plan, the next ten years will be the accumulation phase.

There are basically three themes for this decade.

First, delve into writing.

At present, there are three small directions in writing.

1. Read the classics in depth.

Read the classics repeatedly, for example, I recently re-read "Dream of Red Mansions", and I am currently reading it slowly word by word, reviewing it after reading it, and then reviewing what I read yesterday in my mind before reading it the next day. When you're ready to read it, keep reading it over and over again, taking notes to refine the characters and details.

In short, give up the previous extensive reading and carry out more valuable and in-depth reading. It was only in the past two years that I realized the importance of repeated in-depth reading, ashamed, ashamed.

2. Expand the breadth of knowledge.

Repeated reading of the classics is depth, and extended reading is breadth. There is no contradiction between the two, and they are not contradictory.

3. Practice basic skills.

There are two directions to good basic skills.

The first is to repeatedly organize one's own writing system, not to say how high the level is, but to carry out perfect iterations and build a more solid writing system in the continuous construction and crushing.

An important part of this process is learning from other writers.

The second is to carry out basic deliberate practice of writing.

It is easy to practice the basic skills, but in fact it is very, very difficult, not the difficulty itself, but the difficulty is that it takes at least two or three years of training to see obvious progress and results.

Children may have experienced two or three years of training in ignorance, but for adults, especially adults like me, who think they know a lot, are actually lazy, ignorant, impatient, lose energy, confused thinking, difficult to concentrate, and so on, it is very difficult.

I remember Lei Jun once said that many adults have not lost the ability to learn, but have lost the willingness to learn.

I am especially glad that these two years have reinvigorated my willingness to learn.

I believe that I can persist in two or three years, five or six years, or even more than ten years of long-termism to sharpen my basic skills.

This time I really didn't always aspire, but I found that this year I did a lot of things that I couldn't do before.

Second, do a good job of self-management.

It's December 30, 2020.

Around October 2018, that is, two years ago, I started to record time, that is, to record what time to what time I did, and then classify various time statistics, such as working time, study time, health time, rest time, waste of time, etc. That's right, it's the famous Lyubichev method of time recording.

As a result, I often missed the memory, often forgot, and at the same time felt a lot of pressure, and after persevering for more than half a month, I gave up completely, which was too difficult......

The good thing is that it allows me to see what I am like......

I thought I would never do this painful time recording again.

In the blink of an eye, in September 2019, I began to challenge time management again, but not time recording, but the class schedule method, which is to set a time for myself and do something within the specified time, just like I took classes when I was a student.

I persevered for four or five months, and from September to December, I felt that this method was not good and gave up.

Then, in November 2020, that is, last month, I seemed to be controlled by the devil Su Ye, and I slapped my head inexplicably, feeling that I could do it again.

So, I started to keep track of my time two years ago, and I kept a detailed record of what I did every day.

At first, I thought I would give up halfway, but after a month, not only did I not give up, but instead there was an uncontrollable expansion, and that's it?

It's so easy, isn't it? Go on!

Let's record it for ten years.

It smells so good!

At this point, I didn't realize anything yet.

Until the other day, I slapped my head again and ran in minus 15 degrees Celsius.

Grinding and grinding when you go, and coming back after running, that's it?

I suddenly realized that two years ago, I ran for a few minutes, no, I ran for more than 30 seconds and I was gasping as if I was going to pump.

A year ago, when the temperature was below 0 degrees, I made all kinds of excuses, what were the shoes for running in winter, what was the serious smog, and what was after the winter......

Now, just find a pair of thick shoes, put on thick down pants and run in minus 15 degrees Celsius with frosty eyelashes.

Not only did I not feel difficult, but I felt so good!

It smells so good!

Through these two things, I suddenly understood.

This year, I have cultivated various habits, there are interruptions, but I don't get angry or give up when I break them, I continue to use them, and then, the more I use them, the more comfortable they are.

I now turn on the computer every morning, record the time, meditate, then open the form to make a list of goals for the morning, write down what to do, then read the habit training card to clarify the direction of my goals, and then write the simplest identity diary, the content is one yesterday's mistake plus three yesterday's small successes, and finally write a review.

Complete the self-management above, start thinking about what you should write today, and after thinking for a while, start writing.

I'm now completely used to morning self-management, but I've spent more than two years stumbling and stumbling like a toddler.

Around October 2018, I began to learn time management in self-management, and then I have been exposed to energy management, emotion management, goal management, etc., which I collectively refer to as self-management, because it is essentially self-management.

Looking back over the past two years, I see that my growth is very similar to the famous tech maturity curve.

At the beginning, it is a trigger period, exposure to self-management, humility of heart, and serious study.

After that, I entered the second stage of the bubble inflation period, thinking that I had learned new knowledge, thinking that I had mastered it thoroughly, and thinking that I had the ability.

After that, the bubble burst and entered the third stage of disillusionment.

From the peak of self-feeling in life, I fell directly to the bottom.

Pain Pain Pain Pain ......

At this time, I realized that I only knew the so-called new terms, and did not grasp the knowledge and transform it into ability, but all kinds of anxiety, and my life was confused and gloomy.

At this point, most people will give up, but I'm sometimes stupid and reckless, and I don't give up.

I firmly believe that what I have learned is valuable.

So, keep learning and stick to the methods and tools.

In 2020, keep going, huh? Self-management seems to have improved a little bit.

This means that I entered the fourth stage, the recovery period, and my abilities began to slowly climb.

I looked back and saw that I wasn't quite sustained.

For example, cultivating habits, often failing, intermittently and intermittently...... Continue!

For example, time logging, monocore work, identity journaling, daily meditation and meditation, sports running...... It's all intermittent.

If we look at it on a microscopic scale, we will find that these so-called habit formations of mine are simply a joke, because they are often interrupted, often changed, often replaced, and often failed.

Today, however, I look back and look at it on a one-year scale, and the situation has changed.

These methods and habits are intermittent and intermittent...... Continued!

It dawned on me.

The efforts I started in October 2018 were not in vain.

My hundreds of failures in the past two years are not useless.

Every time you fail, you are preparing to succeed.

Our life is not a knockout game, it does not mean that we have done something wrong today, and if we fail today, our life will be over, and the whole person will die socially.

Life is a round-robin race.

If you lose one, there are countless more to win.

What I'm doing is I'm constantly improving my win rate.

Looking back now, even for a child, two years is not too slow to develop a multi-mixed morning self-management habit.

I, as mentioned earlier, am an adult who is lazy, ignorant, impatient, with lost energy, confused thinking, difficult to focus, and so on.

A few days ago, a friend gave me a screenshot, and some people said that I had experienced the previous twists and turns, decadent, gave up, and began to pursue an ethereal spirit, learn useless philosophy, and be full of principles, essences, and logic.

In fact, after my mind travels through the "world of truth", my body can move smoothly and steadily in the "real world".

This is something that many people don't believe, because my statement is beyond "instinct" and "experience".

In fact, if you know a little bit about neuroscience and brain science, and a little bit about the principles of the brain, you will understand that I am actually growing up in a scientific way that the brain likes.

If I hadn't come into contact with those philosophical, spiritual, and metaphysical things, I might not have been able to sharpen myself in a down-to-earth and willing manner like I am now, with three or five or even ten years as the time unit.

In fact, it is not very useful to say this, because no one can convince others, and every time we change, we are convincing ourselves.

I'm not in a hurry, I'll do a ten-year review in ten years to see what changes I have.

3. Think about the principle and essence.

This is my third theme of the decade.

Because this thing is too deep, and my level is limited, I can't use simple language to make everyone understand, or rather, I only know a little bit about it.

The reason why I did this was that I decided that the principles and essence of thinking would work for me, based on a few very simple lines of logic.

The first logical line:

If I hadn't gone through an independent, longer period of time to think about a problem, and just a quick judgment would have been able to get the right result, or even decide that someone else was wrong, then I would have been one of the best hundreds of people in the world of my age.

But I'm not, so there must be something wrong with the way I think about problems and the way I think about things in the past.

The second logical line:

If I stick to my past mistakes, then I can't improve, so I need to change the way I think about problems and my mindset.

The third logical line:

In this world, there are already a large number of outstanding talents, who are all over the world and in various fields. Instead of thinking and looking at everything in the wrong way in the past, it is better to learn from the bigwigs of all eras first, mainly to learn what those bigwigs have in common, and to learn the behaviors, laws, knowledge, and so on that they all like and adhere to.

Based on these three logics, as well as other implicit logics, I began to continue to learn from various bigwigs and find what they had in common.

I found two main things in common.

The first is the common denominator of behavior.

For example, they all like to read, and they read the same high-value books many times, not only the bigwigs of the past and present, but even those excellent authors in the online literature industry, they will say that they have repeatedly read high-value literary books many times.

The second is the common ground of thinking.

For example, whether it is the current business people, or the thinkers, scientists, philosophers and politicians of the past, they are all pursuing the essence and principles of various fields, advocating the first principle, and calling it "Tao gives birth to all things" in the East, they are all pursuing the essence, and they are all pursuing the most basic laws of all things, even the laws of laws.

I'm really stupid, but it's the most effective way I've found to grow at the moment.

I may not be able to create the theory of relativity like Albert Einstein, who began to think about light and time at the age of 16, studied and worked hard until he was 26 years old, and spent ten years pioneering the special theory of relativity.

However, I can learn from him who has been thinking, has been learning, and has been working hard.

I may not be able to create a great company that will tear the world's number one empire apart, like Ren Zhengfei and Ren Lao.

However, I can learn from what he said, using a dissipative structure to resolve entropy increase.

I may not be able to become the richest man in the world like Warren Buffett.

However, I can learn from what he said that investing in yourself is the best investment, and I can also learn from his long-termism.

I may not be able to build a Microsoft empire like Bill Gates.

However, I can learn from him, read more books, read good books.

I may not be able to ponder the principles of writing, deduce the essence of writing, and spend a lot of time thinking about it like an angry banana.

However, I can learn from him to read the same book over and over again, and I can also learn from his thinking path and pursue the essence and principles of online texts.

My current path may seem wrong many years from now.

But it must be more correct than in the past.

It's as simple as that.

There are three main reasons why I am suddenly saying this today.

The first is joy.

I am delighted with the remarkable growth this year.

The second is sharing.

Share my joy.

Third, set up silent overseers.

When I published this year-end summary, I formed a kind of contract with everyone who read it.

This contract is that I, the Eternal Flame, will spend at least ten years studying online writing, self-management, deep thinking, and self-improvement.

Everyone who sees this is my witness.

From today onwards, I will get a kind of anxiety, or spur, or burden.

If I suddenly give up on myself, I will definitely think of today's contract, and of the countless silent overseers.

So, I'll think, Xiaohuo, how can you explain to those silent overseers that you blow such a big cow and then give up?

Go back and learn honestly! Step up your game! Improve!

This is not a promise to readers, nor to relatives and friends, nor to the immortals.

I'm making a promise to myself.

I enjoyed writing this summary, but posting it put me in an uncomfortable panic zone, which I don't really like.

However, I like to take the initiative to change and progress, and I want to be more proactive in change and progress, so I still send it out.

Today, I changed my fan title.

From now on, my fan title will be "Hehuo".

Each and every one of my readers is not only my silent watchdog for ten years, but also my partner in the growth of my life.

I said too much big things today, and in the next year, I will do more small things to make up for it, and then, next year, say even bigger things!

Finally, ask for a monthly pass, ask for a subscription, and ask for more Hehuo people to join!

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Tomorrow we will continue to update the fifth volume, the God Slayer of the Wizarding World.