I heard a joke: " The most terrifying thing in the world is that people who are better than you work harder than you."
I think this is also a kind of motivation for myself. Since childhood, I have had mediocre qualifications, no talent, and no specialties. I am an ordinary student in school.
I remember that I was not good at junior high school, and I scored 40-50 points in each exam. Those big questions that followed were dizzy at first sight and had no idea of solving the problem.
even so, I didn't give up. I get up at around five o'clock every day. At that time, there was no electricity in the classroom, so I lit a candle to read and recite the text.
I remember that in high school, mathematics is still not good. Others understood it as soon as they listened to the teacher's explanation, but I still don't understand and dare not ask the teacher all the time.
Fortunately, my deskmate is very good at math. I often ask her to explain to me questions after class. Every time she will say, haven’t this been told to you?
I could only say with a smile, I forgot again, but I still don’t understand it very much. Others learn it once, and it may take me four or five times to fully master it.
I am stupider than others, so I need to put in more time and energy than others. I get up earlier and go to bed later than others, and use all the time I can use because I want to go to college.
Mom said: Only by going to college can you change your destiny, walk out of the mountains, and escape from the environment facing the loess and facing the sky.
Finally, we passed the line of five people that year, and I was one of them. The harder you work, the luckier you are. I am the one who is favored by fate.
Every road leads to Rome, and the industry produces top scorers, but there is never a path that is simple and easy to do.
Recalling the more than ten years I studied, it was difficult, but fortunately, I persevered, maybe I also have a kind of perseverance.
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What is that perseverance?
author, Dr. Angela Dakovos, is a psychologist who focuses on the research of outstanding people and a well-known TED speaker.
She has conducted research on different successful people in different fields in 2007 to explore the reasons for their success. Later she discovered that success was not what people always thought of as talent, but perseverance.
Angela's definition of " perseverance" refers to the love and perseverance of long-term goals.
Speaking of perseverance, Zeng Guofan must be mentioned.
This person's life starts very low but reaches a very high height.
Zeng Guofan’s IQ is normal, and a scholar took the exam seven times.
has poor physical endowment and is accompanied by many serious diseases throughout his life.
is also very common, and his ancestors have been ordinary people for hundreds of years.
When I was young, I still had many problems in my personality, such as poor self-management ability.
Through unremitting personal efforts, he completed the transformation of transformation and extraordinary and saints, and reached the state of immortality of meritorious service, morality and words.
Zeng Guofan is an ordinary person who has achieved a counterattack in his life through hard work.
As the saying goes: You have to work very hard to look effortless.
Zeng Guofan is a very hardworking person. He advocated "clumsy" throughout his life and used "clumsy" to create his brilliant life puzzle.
A story about him : A thief sneaked into his house, hid on the beam, and after they fell asleep, he came down to steal.
At that time, Zeng Guofan was reciting an article "Yueyang Tower Notes", but he couldn't recite it anyway, so he kept reciting it.
The thief on the beam of the room has woken up twice, but he is still carrying it. So the thief came down and said to him: You are so stupid and still studying, I can memorize it.
The thief was in his back and slammed the door after carrying it.
Just like Nietzsche said: Those who can't kill me make me stronger.
Zeng Guofan experienced repeated failures, repeated reflections, fell 6 times, and got up again for the seventh time.
With diligence, hard work, and hard work, we can achieve excellence with hard work.
He became a scholar at the age of 23 and a Jinshi at the age of 27. From then on, I realized the story of seven migrations in ten years and leaping at level ten in a row.
Recently, the word "growth mentality" has been frequently mentioned. Zeng Guofan is a person with "growth mentality". He believes that he can change his life through hard work.
Many people do not lose because of their efforts, but because of their failure to believe in their efforts.
Most people will say that I am very busy at work, so I don’t have time to read books, and I don’t have time to write. Even if I read books, what’s the use, and I won’t raise my salary immediately.
Rome was not built in one day. Sowing and harvesting are not in the same season as .
Why Zeng Guofan was able to move seven times in ten years depends on his efforts.
Zeng Guofan's example is in line with Angela's summary of two formulas about success:
Talent × effort = skill, skill × effort = achievement. Among the two formulas
, effort was calculated twice. The effort first produced skills, and then converted the skills into achievements.
That is to say, even if an ordinary person is of average talent, as long as he is determined enough, the effort factor will be amplified twice, and the chance of success will be greatly improved.
Let's take a look at the story of Bob Mankoff, former editor-in-chief of the American comics .
Bob liked painting very much when he was a child. Due to the fierce competition, after graduating from high school, Bob gave up painting and chose other subjects, but in his spare time he still regarded painting as a hobby and painted whenever he had time.
One day, he found out that he was humorous, so he decided to start over and be a cartoonist, and to become a comic columnist for The New Yorker.
And the New Yorker comic column is the best in the United States. As long as you can join this team, it means you become the best cartoonist.
Therefore, from 1974 to 1977, Bob painted one or two works every day, creating more than 2,000 paintings to "The New Yorker", but all of them were rejected.
Bob said that there are so many rejections that he can be used as wallpapers in his bathroom.
Faced with the mountain of rejection letters, Bob did not give up. Instead, he checked all the comic works published by The New Yorker since its establishment in 1925, and after observing and summarizing thousands of works, Bob finally succeeded.
In 1978, he published 13 works in "The New Yorker", followed by 25 and 27, an increase year by year.
40 years ago, he has been a creative celebrity in "The New Yorker".
When someone asked him: Why can he last for 40 years?
He said: He loves comics and he wants to be the best comics.
As Ancient Roman Politician Cicero said: "No matter how fragile a person is, as long as he devotes all his energy to the only purpose, he will achieve something. "
This book tells us:
perseverance is to walk step by step;
perseverance is to firmly grasp the goals that he is interested in and meaningful;
perseverance is to devote himself to challenging exercises day after day, year after year;
perseverance is to fall 7 times, stand up again for the 8th time.
