★ A career breakthrough guide for ordinary people
When technology replaces our livelihood skills, how should we adjust our path forward?
The author conducted in-depth interviews with 100+ senior professionals across industries, extracting transferable success models that transcend industries, job levels, and company sizes - replication is the first step to avoiding detours and achieving rapid breakthroughs!

★ Through replication, achieve comprehensive advancement in self-development and workplace social skills!
Builds a universal methodology for talent growth:
Cognitive transfer + Pattern replication = Overtaking on curves
Replicate: Learning ability × Social skills × Logical thinking × Decision-making × Execution × Leadership
Strategic growth accelerator: Practical experience + Deep thinking

This is an inspirational book for young professionals on how to go from ordinary to exceptional.
The author believes that for ordinary people, the most direct path to excellence is first to replicate, then create. Replication isn't plagiarism, but a learning method. True growth and leaps first require cognitive growth and elevation - this means finding enough outstanding role models.
Through interviews with hundreds of top performers, the book reveals their experiences, thinking patterns and methods, providing guidance in self-growth, interpersonal relationships, and workplace management. It helps readers refine cognition, distill methods, replicate experience, and avoid detours. First replicate, deepen yourself, then stand out, ultimately achieving success.

Cui Min, currently Senior Executive Editor of professional media "Cutting Tool World" under Beijing Dasan Technology Consulting, and Chief Editor of the "Tool Manufacturing" column. Over years of in-depth interviews with hundreds of senior professionals across industries, the author has distilled transferable success models that transcend industries, job levels and company sizes, constructing a universal methodology for talent growth.

Chapter 1 Replicating Learning Ability
The competency trap / 002
How to become a big winner in the information explosion era / 007
Don't "spoil" yourself / 012
Five steps to overcome procrastination / 017
Beware your "tomorrow" becoming worthless / 021
The fastest way to make money is replication / 026
Why unreplicable businesses can't scale / 029

Chapter 2 Replicating Resilience
Why emotional resilience is the most powerful weapon / 036
3 methods to overcome social anxiety / 040
How to quit addictive behaviors / 043
Accepting your "imperfect" self / 046
Your redemption is your motivation / 050

Chapter 3 Replicating Social Skills
Career transitions: Navigating professional changes / 056
The Bermuda Triangle of relationships / 060
Leverage: Building genuine connections / 064
Communication: How to speak so others listen / 068
Self-reflection: What value do I offer others / 072

Chapter 4 Replicating Logical Thinking
Why deep thinking beats hard work / 080
The power of 5Why analysis / 084
Elastic thinking: A brain SPA / 089
6 principles for low-risk entrepreneurship / 092

Chapter 5 Replicating Execution
100 screaming fans > 1 million "just okays" / 098
Techniques to reduce error rates / 103
GTD time management: Stop chasing tasks / 107
Details: Seeing yourself through clients' eyes / 111
Unmonetizable skills aren't real skills / 116

Chapter 6 Replicating Decision-making
Identifying true causation / 122
How decision quality determines life quality / 127
The 1+1>2 approach / 130
Achieving deep work states / 135
4 career pitfalls to avoid / 139

Chapter 7 Replicating Leadership
Lateral leadership: Leading without authority / 144
The 5-circle model for understanding people / 147
The coaching model: Questions as answers / 152
Empowerment: Right people+time+way+things / 156
4A feedback: Increasing team talent density / 160

Learning from Others to Polish Our Own Jade

In recent years, our employment landscape has suddenly turned harsh. Fierce competition, severe "involution," mass layoffs at major corporations, hiring freezes at smaller firms, and shrinking market demand have collectively intensified job-seeking pressures while diminishing upward mobility. These conditions create an undeniably hostile environment for professionals — especially newcomers to the workforce. Anxiety, unease, helplessness, confusion—these negative emotions arrive in waves. With skills stagnating and incomes frozen, we find ourselves trapped in a career impasse.
So how do we break through?
Replication stands as the most practical and efficient tool.
Why replicate? In order to learn more efficiently and to transform into a better version of ourselves. When we are stuck in one place due to the overall environment or various factors, learning from those who are more excellent will become one of the best ways to break through barriers and open up channels for advancement. It can help us achieve a significant improvement in our work abilities, thereby changing our unsatisfactory situation and achieving social mobility based on our current foundation.
This book contains no abstruse professional terms or flawless arguments and evidence. Instead, there are more suggestions and methods. At the same time, in order to more vividly present the implementation process of these methods, you can also see many real cases that have been organized based on real events. Through these cases, we can understand that when facing the same problems, what choices those people who started a step earlier than us made and what approaches they took.
Among them, there are people from ordinary families who graduated from ordinary schools and became middle and senior managers in enterprises through hard work; there are small business owners, professional managers in multinational companies, and professionals who run companies with technology. Their family backgrounds, educational levels, growth environments, and workplace positions are all different, but the only thing they have in common is their characteristic of continuously learning and actively pursuing excellence.
All their examples come from daily work and address specific problems that we are very likely to encounter in our jobs. The problems we face may be different in details or background environments compared to theirs, but the essence remains the same. All problems have solutions, but different outcomes will arise due to the different levels of understanding of the people solving them.
We draw on the experience of many senior colleagues in the workplace and refer to their thinking. First, it is to achieve an improvement in the cognitive level, and then to replicate their behavioral patterns. When a problem arises, the first thing we need to replicate before thinking of a solution is the attitude of those excellent people in solving problems — no shirking or escaping, only facing and confronting, thinking and solving. Once we take the most difficult first step, we will find that the subsequent matters are not as difficult as we imagined. Many seemingly insurmountable mountains actually only exist in our imagination.
It needs to be emphasized that the first step in replication is to find a correct target for replication. Can the other person's work experience, methods of dealing with matters, operational models, and core concepts help us get out of the current predicament or solve problems that may arise in the future? Can they help us open up a path for promotion? Can they bring us benefits in the shortest possible time?
Therefore, before establishing a complete problem-solving system of our own, let's start with replication. Through replication, we can explore, improve, and transform, and eventually make others' experiences our own. "A stone from another mountain can be used to polish jade." Using the experience of our predecessors, we can overcome our own restlessness, relieve our anxiety, and gradually shape ourselves into something better. Eventually, we can carve out a place for ourselves in the workplace, achieve financial freedom, and realize a true leap in life.