I have heard of such a story.
Every year, there is a good harvest of walnuts. Crows of crows gather in the small villages to pick up walnuts left by the fruit farmers.
It pecked at the big mouth, but the walnut shell was too hard and could not be opened no matter how hard it was, so it could only look at it with its eyes.
Seeing the vehicles passing by on the highway, the crow had an idea, picked up the walnut and threw it on the highway. A car passed by, the walnuts were crushed away, and it easily ate the delicious food.
People will face many difficulties that cannot be broken through in this life. Even if I grit my teeth and endure it, there will be no change.
A true wise man is good at making the most of resources and seeing the huge benefits contained in it with a long-term perspective.
As the classical teacher said in " Jump ":
Based on the individual's diligence, only by taking advantage of the situation to leap can we catch up with the speed of this era.
People who are good at taking advantage of the situation and those who only know how to work hard live a different life.
The wrong choice is made, and efforts are in vain
There is a cartoon that is both ironic and realistic:
A group of people desperately pulling the pointer against the direction of the clock running, but no matter how hard the pointer is, it doesn't move.
Unthinking brute force is doomed to be futile.
In the documentary "The Poor Busy People", there is a group of ordinary people who work hard to survive. They do not lie down but live in a difficult situation.
There is a 34-year-old young man named Xiaoshan Liangren.
After he graduated from high school, he changed more than 20 jobs, but he was all hard-working temporary workers.
When you are lucky, when you are relatively idle security guards, they are often the guy who "runs his legs".
Even if you save money, you will not be able to make ends meet. In the end, he couldn't even afford the rent, so he had to stay on the streets.
The last time I was looking for a job, the employer heard that he did not have a fixed residence and thought that the person was at a high risk and turned him away again.
Xiaoshan Liangren’s work is not easy at all, and he is no less busy than anyone else.
However, reality is cruel, not to distribute wealth according to hard work.
Classical in "Leap" says:
Not necessarily the most successful person is the hardest working hard.
Those who live unsatisfactory life have not been less hard to deal with.
meaningless busyness, hard work is just in vain. If you are in the wrong direction, you will be busy no matter how busy you are.
As the classical teacher said: "What brings these huge differences is not only hard work, but also choices again and again."
What really determines the gap between people is not the degree of diligence, but the direction of choice.
A Japanese biological team conducted an experiment:
When Ant "moved", most ants worked diligently and hard to follow up.
. Some ants lowered their arms and looked around. The researchers marked them as " Lazy Ant ".
Interestingly, when the food was taken away, the diligent ants panicked on the spot.
And the "lazy ant" confidently carried the banner and led the team to find new food.
It turns out that under the appearance of "lazy", they never stop investigating and thinking.
This is the famous "lazy ant effect".We cannot just bow our heads and "work hard", remember to look up at the road.
is a low-quality busy work, which will only make people numb and lose their ability to rebound.
Once there are variables, it will only be as helpless as an ant who has been taken away from the food and will be difficult to adapt to new challenges.
And people who are good at thinking will keep pace with the times, pay attention to changes in the overall environment and field trends, and discover and seize fleeting opportunities.
If you have tried your best but still gained nothing, it is better to stop and think about the direction of the future.
For example, learn new skills or develop new fields, rather than letting busyness become an excuse to resist everything.
Good to take advantage of the situation and achieve twice the result with half the effort
A little boy is building blocks by the beach.
The father encouraged him: "Child, as long as you try your best, you will definitely be able to build the building blocks."
But the sand is dry and thin in the sun, difficult to form, and cannot be built for a long time.
The child complained aggrievedly: "I have tried my best."
But the father said, "No, you didn't. Because you didn't ask for my help."
After saying that, the father carried a small bucket of sea water and wet the sand. The sand became sticky and the building blocks were easily built.
In many cases, the problem you think is just a small task for others.
Everyone has blind spots in their perspective and fixed thinking patterns.
Sometimes the problem that even if you knock your head out, it may just be a dead end of your thinking.
At this time, we must know how to ask for help. Even if we are not a professional, we will wake up like a dream because of the mutuality of everything.
Only by knowing how to use the power can you successfully break through the bottleneck.
As long as you don’t let dependencies become a habit, seeking help will become a helping force with half the effort.
leverage is not lazy or opportunistic, but a kind of wisdom in life.
In addition to borrowing power, we also need to know how to borrow power.
The neighbor has a pair of brothers. After graduating from high school, both of them are engaged in welding balcony railings. I don’t earn much, I just have enough food and clothing.
Once, my younger brother heard from the news that the welder needed to take the exam, so he wanted to take the exam with his brother.
brother said sarcastically: "What are you doing with that thing? It's a waste of money. I heard that you have to write a test paper. Do you think you are a college student?"
my brother disagreed and ran to sign up by himself.
Although he never read and studied after graduating from high school.
However, in order to test, I still brushed the written test questions several times and finally passed the exam successfully.
happens to be a forklift company recruiting welders. Not only is the salary awesome, but it also gives five insurances and one fund .
My younger brother has work experience, and an welder certificate is like a "trump card".
stands out among many candidates and is favored by employers.
Several years have passed, and my younger brother took the senior welder certificate after work.
has both qualifications and ability, and has become the welding supervisor in the factory, and his salary has increased several times.
But my brother is still working alone, and his life is no different from a few years ago.
A certificate is not the only proof of strength, but it is like leverage . It skips the threshold of filtering, giving us the opportunity to play our abilities on a larger stage.
If you want to improve your current situation, it is far from enough to rely on one step at a time.
has been authoritatively certified, which means making good use of resources and making it easier to achieve what you want.
Classical saying in "Leap":
The nonlinear growth and jump-to-step rise of experts in the era is the result of appropriate use of laws to amplify efforts.
A drop of sweat and a portion of harvest is not a master's strategy.
Really powerful people are good at magnifying their achievements exponentially by taking advantage of the situation:
Show your talents with the appreciation of Bole.
Borrowing a high-quality platform, it has greater influence.
Use an active market to realize personal value.
" Sun Tzu's Art of War " says: "The three things cannot be obtained, the right time, the right place, and the harmonious people. Even if they are better, there will be disaster."
Only by knowing how to take advantage of the situation and follow the trend can you shine.
Keep focusing and strive to be the top
Harvard has spent 25 years conducting a follow-up survey of graduates.
They found that most of the students who work hard in one direction after graduation have become social elites.
And most of the students who have no direction and frequently change industries live a bad life.
If a person wants to achieve something in any field, he needs to focus on it and take the lead in continuous deepening.
As the classical one says:
The strategy of an expert is to find a high-value zone, focus strategically, and win in the most confident way.
Find a field that you are good at and have promising, keep focusing and constantly improve your skills.
In "Leap", classics gave two pertinent suggestions:
Method 1. Become an expert in the industry
When we are jealous of other people's returns, we must see our own strength clearly.
Opportunities are for those who are prepared. If you are always "a little bit short" or are perfunctory about what you assigned, then even if you become a senior, you will only be transparent from childhood to old transparent.
Only by becoming an expert in the industry can you successfully attract others' attention and become an irreplaceable role.
It is a highway for ordinary people to succeed. Li Qingheng, a courier who was popular across the entire network before, was selected as the "Hangzhou D-level Senior Talent" with his top-level sorting ability in the industry.
How excellent is he? As long as you give a random address, he can immediately tell the corresponding city information.
The better you are, the easier it is to be seen. There is never a shortage of eyes in this world to discover "beauty".
Those who truly embrace talent will not fail to encounter opportunities. If you don’t meet, reflect on whether the self-assessment is objective.
At the same time, we must also actively participate in public occasions. If you just work behind closed doors and refuse all opportunities to show your talents, it will be difficult to hit you even if you fall from the sky.
Method 2. Stay focused for a long time
Society is full of temptation, and many people are tired of chasing the wind, but lose their direction in the wind.
And experts see a path, focus on it, and can endure loneliness.
Henan guy Feng Sanfeng, only has a high school education.
He and the noodle restaurant master learned to make ramen. He did not respond negatively because of the fact that the ramen cost a few dollars a bowl, and did not accumulate wealth quickly enough, but instead determined to "practice" this skill.
It doesn’t work for a day, just one month or one year, until I learned the ability to “pass 20 noodles through one needle hole”.
The students laughed at him: "What can you do with this time? Who can see how many noodles you can wear?"
But he said, "I only know how to make ramen, I want to make it well."
Once, the 7-star hotel manager abroad found that he was so skilled, so he hired him as the hotel's chief pastry chef with an annual salary of 400,000 yuan. It took Feng Sanfeng 6 years to go from being a world-class pastry chef to be a top dough chef.
Focus on the goal and be able to withstand the temptation of desire.
For example, if you go out with friends, you will spend less time browsing your phone and TV series.
According to the direction you want to work hard, formulate a week, month, and year action plan and do your best to complete it.
Time is silent, but it will give the best answer.
Classical says in "Leap": "Concentration is the moat of experts."
Excellent people always stick to their own fields and are always ready in the face of opportunities.
at the end
Cao Xueqin said: "The good wind will send me to the sky with its strength."
In order to live a happy life, a person must not only work hard in a selective way, but also have the wisdom to leverage.
People who don’t know how to borrow power are easily trapped in the deadlock they set.
Only by looking at the right direction when striving for progress, knowing how to take advantage of the situation in difficulties, and striving to take the lead in normal times can we improve the height of life.
