wolf road

Chapter 39 The Wolf Pursuit (7)
50 years ago, I was just entering society and got a job at a hardware store for $75 a year.One day, a customer bought a large quantity of goods, including shovels, tongs, saddles, plates, buckets, baskets, and so on.This customer is going to get married in a few days, and it is a local custom to buy some living and working utensils in advance.The goods were stacked on the wheelbarrow, and the cart was full, and the mules had some difficulty pulling it.Delivery is not my job, but entirely voluntary - I am proud that I can deliver such a heavy cargo.

It went smoothly at the beginning, but the wheels accidentally got stuck in a quagmire that was not deep or shallow, and they couldn't push it with all their strength.A kind-hearted tradesman drove by, and on his horse drew my wheelbarrow and goods, and helped me deliver them to customers' homes.When delivering goods to customers, I carefully counted the number of goods and did not return to the store with an empty cart until late.I'm happy with what I do, however, I don't get compliments from my boss for my extra work.

The businessman called me the next day and told me that he found me to be very hardworking and enthusiastic, and he especially noticed my care and concentration in counting the items when unloading.So he offered to offer me a position with a salary of $500 a year.I took the job, and the road to riches began here.

In our work, we should cultivate our own spirit like the businessman in the story, starting bit by bit, accumulating slowly and developing gradually.

You have to do it yourself bit by bit. If you are a freight manager, you have to find every error in the shipping process; if you are a postman, you have to ensure that the letter is delivered in time...but these It is not enough, if you want to be successful, you must also find every mistake that has nothing to do with your responsibility, but you can see.Let some unnecessary losses of the company not happen.If you do this, you will take the first step to success.

To learn the survival rules of wolves, you must act consciously and spontaneously, otherwise you will starve.People who work harder without their boss around will be rewarded more.You'll never reach the pinnacle of success if you only perform well when others are watching.In many cases, it is you who decides everything about yourself.

When a salesman failed to sell a car, he complained to the manager of the company that there were too few colors of cars, a single type of car, and insufficient bonuses. Then he raised his head and asked the salesman: Jack can earn five thousand dollars. Could it be that the products he sells are different from yours, and the bonus system is not as generous as him?But you can only make a thousand dollars, what is the difference between the two?The salesman bowed his head in shame.

In fact, the reason is still in the salesman himself.When everyone is doing something, he must first conform to what he wants to do. If he wants to make things better, he must become better.Most people always complain about others when they encounter difficulties, but how helpful is complaining to solving problems?If the help is not very big, then why not let yourself do well, the effect may be better.

The people who are said to become famous overnight have actually worked hard in obscurity for a long time before becoming famous.Success is the accumulation of hard work. No matter what kind of industry, if you want to climb to the top, you usually need a long time of hard work and careful planning.

Doing things bit by bit, taking responsibility for everything you do, the most fundamental difference between those who achieve great things and those who muddle along is that successful people know how to take responsibility for their actions.

No one can make you succeed, and no one can stop you from reaching your goals.

initiative
The principle of the wolf is that if you don't take the initiative to live, life will abandon you.At work, we should also have this wolf spirit.

Let's start with a story:
In 1965, a Korean student went to Cambridge University to major in psychology.He often went to the school cafe or teahouse to listen to some successful people chatting while drinking afternoon tea.These successful people include Nobel Prize winners, academic authorities in certain fields, and some people who have created economic myths.After a long time, he found that when he was in China, he was deceived by some successful people.In order for those who are entrepreneurs who quit and start his own hardships generally exaggerated, that is to say, they use their own success stories to frighten those who are not successful.As a student of the Department of Psychology, he believes that it is necessary to study the mentality of successful Koreans. in 1970, he "Did not look like Success You To imagine That Difficultly" took the graduation thesis, the founder Professor Will who Braden the submission gave the modern economical psychology.

After Professor Braden read it, he was very pleasantly surprised. He thought it was a new discovery. Although this phenomenon is common in the East and even around the world, no one had boldly proposed and studied it before.Surprised, he wrote to his Cambridge alumnus - Park Chung-hee, who was sitting in the top position in South Korean politics at the time.I dare not say how much this book will help you, but I am sure it will shake more than any of your decrees.This is what he said in the letter, and it turned out that this book made South Korea's economy take off.Many people have been encouraged, because they tell people from a new perspective that success is not necessarily related to working hard, starving the skin, lighting up the chickens at the third watch, hanging the head from the beam, and stabbing the buttocks.As long as you are interested in a certain cause, you will succeed if you persevere for a long time, because the time and wisdom given to you by God are enough for you to complete one thing satisfactorily.Later, this young man also achieved success and took the position of president of Panye Automobile Company in South Korea.

Many things in this world can be done as long as one wants to do them, and the difficulties that should be overcome can also be overcome.

The key is to see if you have a heart to live actively.

It is because we dare not do things that they are difficult, not because they are difficult and we dare not do them.This requires us to be proactive in our work and life.Being proactive means being ready to take advantage of opportunities, outperforming others, and possessing the wisdom and judgment to break the rules when necessary to get things done.In the natural world, there is no wolf who sits back and enjoys what he gets, and there is bound to be no room for growth in life if he sticks to the rules and sits and enjoys what he gets.To have the initiative of a wolf, you must do the following:
One is to challenge yourself

In fact, what hinder us from discovering and creating are only our psychological obstacles and stubborn stones in our minds.

Believe that you are an eagle.

A man caught a young eagle in the eagle's nest on the top of the mountain. He took the young eagle home and kept it in a chicken coop.This young eagle and chicken peck, play and rest together.It thought it was a chicken.The eagle gradually grew up and its wings were full. The owner wanted to train it to be a falcon, but because it was mixed with chickens all day long, it had become exactly like a chicken and had no desire to fly at all.The owner tried various methods, but to no avail, and finally took it to the top of the mountain and threw it out.The eagle fell straight down like a stone. In a panic, it flapped its wings desperately. Just like that, it finally flew up!

The same is true in real life. Most people are frightened by the routines in life, and dare not face themselves and challenge themselves.I have the idea of ​​going down the mountain to climb the mountain in my heart, but I can't climb the mountain.If your world is dull and hopeless, it is because you are dull and hopeless.To change your world, you must first change your own mentality.With a proactive attitude, success is not far away.

Of course, it takes more than courage to challenge yourself.In the process of our step-by-step growth, we must lay a good foundation for ourselves, and face every life subject we want to involve, we must take it seriously, and learn and understand it with a sincere heart.There must be an active learning spirit and exercise an active attitude in learning.

Confidence is the essence of self-initiative. Confidence is also one of the essential qualities of all successful people. If you want to be successful, you must first build up self-confidence. If you want to build up confidence in yourself, you should face it like a brave fighter. to myself.Then plant confidence and strengthen it.Once confidence is built, new opportunities will follow.Opportunities in life are not something you wait for, but something you grab yourself.

The second is to cultivate awareness
The cultivation of consciousness should be diversified, and a relatively sound consciousness is the key to success.Most of the employees in China are relatively introverted. They are not active enough in their work and can only do things when they are told.

In terms of consciousness, wolves are more determined than us humans. For their own survival, wolves can imagine countless ways to obtain the food they want, even at the cost of their lives.

If you want to succeed in modern society, you must work hard to cultivate your own initiative consciousness: you must be brave enough to take responsibility in your work, take the initiative to set work goals for yourself, and continuously improve methods and methods; in addition, you should also cultivate the ability to sell yourself. Ability, in front of leaders or colleagues, you must be good at expressing your own strengths. After you have research results or technological innovations, you must share them with colleagues or peers through speeches, presentations, exchanges, papers, etc., and you must have the courage to admit mistakes in your work.Only those who are good at presenting themselves can get real opportunities at work.Only proactive people can succeed in the ever-changing competitive environment.

There is such an article:
When Su Fang was in elementary school, once the teacher asked who could be the class monitor, Su Fang raised her hand voluntarily.As a result, Su Fang became a study committee member for 3 years.

Su Fang, 20, fell in love with a tall and handsome boy. She thought about it for 3 days, and then ran to tell the boy what she thought.So, that boy became her boyfriend.A few years later, they got married.

When Su Fang was 35 years old, she wanted to change jobs to a foreign trade company. The foreign trade company wanted undergraduates, but Su Fang was only a junior college student.Su Fang took the initiative to find the manager of the company and explained her reasons. As a result, the company hired Su Fang.

Su Fang just took the initiative to do what she wanted, and then she has been succeeding.

Actively work, each of us has a chance to succeed, the key is that you have a sense of initiative.

Everyone is familiar with competition.In fact, there is competition in the whole world, and human society, including nature, is the survival of the fittest.The sense of competition in society is an ability we must have.

The two children went to the forest to play, and they were having a lot of fun when they suddenly found a bear in the distance. Child A hurriedly said to B: Let's run.B puts on his running shoes unhurriedly.A asked: Can you outrun a bear wearing running shoes?B said: I can't run a bear, I just need to outrun you.

This little story is actually used as a metaphor for the law of competition in business society.The law tells people: Competition is for survival.But on the other hand, this law clearly tells us: Beyond competition is development!

This sounds so unreasonable, so bad, this is competition, this is society.

In fact, before going up the mountain with our friends, we don’t need to look for running shoes everywhere. In addition to focusing on survival, we use more energy to seek development, even if we will suffer failure for a long time.If we could stand consciously on top of a mountain, let our playmates wear their running shoes when facing an incoming bear with our playmates, perhaps we would have gotten far on our motorcycles.

One day, Zhuangzi and his students saw a towering ancient tree on the mountain that was saved from being cut down because it was tall and useless, so Zhuangzi sighed and said: This tree can enjoy its longevity just because it is not mature.In the evening, Zhuangzi and his students visited a friend's house again.The master was hospitable and hospitable, so he told the servants at home: There are two geese in the house, one can call and the other can't, kill the one that can't call to entertain our guests.

Zhuangzi's students were very puzzled when they heard this, and asked Zhuangzi: Teacher, the giant trees in the mountains have been preserved because they are useless, but the wild geese at home have lost their lives because they can't sing. What attitude should we adopt to deal with this complicated and useless situation? orderly society?

Zhuangzi replied: It is better to choose between usefulness and uselessness. Although the scale between this is too difficult to grasp and does not conform to the laws of life, it can avoid many disputes and is enough to cope with the world.

There are no hard and fast rules in the world.In the face of different things, we need different criteria for judging.This is especially true for talent management.A person who is quite useful to other companies may not be useful to you, but putting a seemingly useless person in place may create unexpected benefits for you.

Smart leaders should learn to discover the advantages of talents, make the best use of their talents, and try to avoid wasting talents.

At the same time, in this story, we can also see the competitive side. If we can't keep up with the times, we will be eliminated.

The running water does not rot, and the door hinge does not moth.Inertia is inherent in human beings. If there is no competition, you will be complacent and sleep on the credit book.The geese that could call lived well in the end, but the geese that could not call were killed and eaten.This is society, and this is survival of the fittest.Failure to adapt to the development of society, being eliminated by society is an inevitable result.

People are unconscious.Many times, we are doing sika deer in the park.All we lack is a sense of putting ourselves ahead of the competition.

Let's live actively! !
The American Institute of Business Administration's admissions test GMAT exam has a feature of the grammar test, which is the right and wrong of active voice and passive voice.In general English grammar, active voice and passive voice are both considered correct expressions, but in the GMAT test, if a sentence can be expressed in active voice and passive voice is used, it is considered an absolute error .For example, if the homework is finished by me, it must be said that I have finished the homework.The passive voice can only be used when the active agent cannot be found, just like a window has broken a hole but whoever broke it does not know, so the window can be said to be broken.The sensitive difference between active and passive voice in this test hides a major proposition behind it, that is, the difference between whether the person taking the test uses active thinking or passive thinking when facing what happened.A person who is accustomed to passive thinking will unconsciously answer questions in a passive way, while a person with active thinking will always consider actively solving problems.Students entering the School of Business Administration must enter major companies or institutions to do management work after graduation. One of the most important qualities in management work is to have the ability to actively communicate, coordinate and solve problems.Anyone who has a proactive mindset is more likely to become an excellent manager.So what the GMAT test is not a pure grammar problem, but a person's mentality problem hidden behind the grammar.

For some people, living passively has become an unconscious behavior of life.We are led by the nose or turned in circles like cows.But because we have been led for too long, we forget that we are led by the nose in life.Sometimes it feels uncomfortable not to be held.

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