Life never takes anyone lightly

Chapter 10 Don't give up, don't give up, the world is yours (1)
1. Have a clear goal and stick to it for a lifetime

The chemists have told us that if all the powers of an acre of plants were concentrated in the piston-rod of a steam-engine, they would be sufficient to drive all the mills in the world.However, since these energies are dispersed, they are of little scientific value.

Dr. Matthews once said that if a person is distracted, his energy and morale will be drained.

If you teach your child to walk with one eye on a goal, he'll keep his balance and get there.But if he gets distracted, he falls over.

Make a plan and a goal, then do your best to learn what you need to do for it, and work hard, and you will succeed.

Clarity of purpose is the common characteristic of all great works.

A painter in oil would not be a great painter if he put all his ideas on a single canvas, giving all the elements of the picture the same embellishment.An excellent painter will use the best expression to draw the core elements of the picture, and simply describe the rest of the secondary elements to set off the core part.

A person with a well-balanced life, no matter how many talents and knowledge he has inherited, should have only one clear central goal, and the rest of the goals should support this core goal in an appropriate way.

In fact, if the goals you set are clear, your energy will not be wasted.Even though every leaf, every flower, every crystal, every tiny atom, they all have a definite and unwavering purpose to finally blossom.

Young people are often told to aim high.However, the goal we set must be a goal that can be achieved through hard work.Similarly, the goal should not be ambiguous. For example, the arrow that is shot will not care about any obstacles encountered on the way, but will directly hit the final goal.

Although all the stars in the sky are attractive to the compass, it does not point to each star, but to find the one it likes most.The sun is shining brightly, the meteor is calling, and the stars are shining. They all want to attract the needle to point to themselves.But the compass remains unmoved, and always follows its own instinct, whether it is sunny or stormy, it will firmly and accurately point to the Big Dipper.So, for thousands of years, all the other planets orbited around themselves, constantly changing directions.And more than 25000 years have passed, only the Big Dipper has maintained a fixed shape, moving around its own orbit with slow changes that are imperceptible to people.

The same is true of human life, our adherence to ideals should be a lifetime, not just a short day.

Although there are all kinds of temptations in the journey of life to lead us away from the goal, the truth and the duty.Although the moon can reflect beautiful moonlight and the stars can shine, they cannot guide people.Nor can we let the compass of our purpose in life be deflected by the temptations around us.

2. Focus on your most important goals

Once, I received a letter from a young friend who wanted to study law, but before studying law, he planned to do another thing first.I don't know how many young people are delayed by such bad ideas and habits!

Many people are doing jobs that do not meet their interests every day. They complain about their bad luck and hope that when the opportunity comes, they can do the job they want.But time is like an arrow, time is gone forever, if you just let it go today, and wait a little longer tomorrow, when all the most precious youthful years have been wasted, it will be too late to learn some new skills again.

This inertia of procrastinating and muddling through is tantamount to chronic suicide.Young people usually don't pay much attention to the factors that contribute to their career success. They often take their careers too simply and refuse to concentrate all their minds.What they don't know is that experience in a business is like a snowball that gets bigger and bigger over time.Therefore, everyone should concentrate all their energies on a certain cause, and work hard in this regard anytime and anywhere.The more effort you spend on it, the more experience you gain, and the easier it is to do things.

Everyone must understand the preciousness of time, "time is gone forever".When you enter the society and start working, you must be full of energy.You should use all this energy in one career. No matter what career you are in, you must work hard and work hard.If you can keep doing this, then one day, you must be surprised at the fruitful results this habit brings to you.

Goethe said: "You should stand where you are most suitable." This is the best advice to those who are half-hearted.

No matter who you are, if you don't develop the good habit of concentrating your energy in the prime of life, then he will definitely not have any great achievements in the future.The greatest waste in the world is the waste of precious energy.People have limited time, limited ability, and limited resources. It is difficult to be proficient in everything. If you want to achieve something in any field, you must keep this rule in mind.

For most people, if they are good at using their energy when they enter the society and don't let it be wasted on some meaningless things, then there is great hope for success.People who learn a little from the east and a little from the west will not have any specialties after a busy life, and in the end they will not accomplish anything.

In this regard, ants are our best role models.They carried a large piece of food, and pushed and dragged it forward with concerted efforts. They encountered many difficulties and somersaults along the way, and they had to work hard to get a piece of food to the door.This tells us: as long as we continue to work hard and persevere, there will always be gains.

At the same time, you must also know how to concentrate all your energy on one thing, only in this way can you achieve your goal.Smart people are also good at relying on indomitable will, indomitable determination and persistent endurance, and strive to win in the competition for survival.

Experienced gardeners will cut off many fruit-bearing branches on trees, which is often considered a pity by ordinary people.However, gardeners know that in order for the tree to grow vigorously and to make the future fruit fuller, these side branches must be cut off painfully.Otherwise, the total harvest in the future will definitely be reduced a lot.

Experienced gardeners are also used to cutting off many buds that are about to bloom.Why is this?Don't these buds also produce beautiful flowers?Only gardeners know that cutting off most of the buds allows all the nutrients to be concentrated on the few remaining buds.When these few buds bloom, the rare and precious flower can be produced.

Doing business is like cultivating flowers and trees. Instead of wasting energy on many meaningless things, young people should focus on a career that suits them, concentrate all their energy, work hard, and go all out, and they will definitely achieve outstanding results. score.

If you want to be a person who everyone admires, you must clear those messy thoughts in your mind.If you want to achieve great achievements in one aspect, then you must boldly raise the "scissors" and completely "cut off" all trivial, ordinary, and unsure wishes. , Even those things that have already been planned must be "cut off" with pain.

The main reason why countless losers in the world are not successful is not that they are not talented enough, but because they do not concentrate and do their best to do the right job. They waste a lot of energy on unnecessary things, and their own They have never realized this point: if they cut off those distracting thoughts in their hearts and concentrate all the nourishment in their vitality to one point, then they will also be surprised in the future-their careers can bear such beautiful and rich fruits!
Having one specialized skill is more valuable than having 10 thoughts. People with specialized skills are working hard in this area anytime and anywhere, trying to make up for their own shortcomings and deficiencies. They always want to Make things perfect.And a person with ten kinds of thoughts may be overwhelmed. He has to take care of this and that one. Due to the excessive dispersion of energy and thoughts, he can only do everything "fairly", and the result is of course nothing.

The competition in modern society is becoming increasingly fierce, so we must concentrate on our work and go all out for our work, so that we can make outstanding performance.

3. Knowledge is the greatest productivity in any era

In real life, there are many people who are originally very talented, but they have been in extremely mediocre positions all their lives, and there is no day when they stand out.Why is this?

It turns out that although they have good qualifications, they have not been able to cultivate and develop well, do not keep pace with the times, and do not seek progress.Therefore, their future is bleak and hopeless.

Some people feel powerless to do things because they are not educated enough, just as untrained workers are not competent for technical work.

knowledge is power.

At work, no matter how low your salary is, if you can always pay attention to reading some books to acquire some valuable knowledge, it will definitely be of great help to your career.Some apprentices in shops and clerks in companies work very hard despite their meager salaries. What is especially valuable is that they can take advantage of their free time, such as going to cram schools to study in evenings and weekends, or to buy books by themselves Self-study to enhance their knowledge.

The more knowledge a person has, the richer his talents will be, and the more fulfilling his life will be.

I knew a young man who spent more time away from home than at home, sometimes by train and sometimes by steamer, but wherever he went, he always carried a pack of books with him to read at any time.The books he often brings with him include abbreviated versions of ancient Chinese, or homework from correspondence schools.He can use the bits and pieces of time wasted by ordinary people for self-study reading.As a result, he has considerable insights into history, literature, science, and other important knowledge of various countries, and finally becomes a learned man.

That young man has contributed to his success in life because he is good at using fragmentary time.However, most people are wasting their precious piecemeal time, and even doing things that are harmful to their body and mind in these time.

The spirit of self-improvement and seeking progress at any time is a sign of a person's excellence, and it is also a sign of a person's success.

How a young man spends his spare time, how he spends his winter evenings, can often predict his future.

Some people think this way, the salary they get is quite meager, no matter how much they save, they will never reach a large amount, and they will never be rich.In the same way, they think that they will never get much knowledge and achievements by using limited piecemeal time to study.But the fact is that on the contrary, many people who use their free time to study have also reached the level of college education.

For a person's livelihood, the value of knowledge in human history is higher than today.In today's society, competition is intensified and life is more difficult, so people are required to be good at using time and improving their knowledge.

Many people want to achieve great things in an instant, which of course cannot be done.In fact, everything changes gradually. Only the spirit of perseverance and the practice of increasing knowledge step by step can contribute to a person's final success.

Most young people do not intend to read more, think more, and do not intend to absorb all kinds of knowledge from newspapers, magazines, and books. Instead, they spend precious time on unnecessary things, which is really the most regrettable and painful thing .They do not understand that knowledge is a priceless treasure that enables people to obtain unlimited wealth.

4. When your talent cannot support your ambition, please calm down and learn

I know a farmer who bought a field from a lazy man.But it was late May when I bought the land, and the previous owner of the land did not sow any seeds in early spring, but only planted some vegetables.After the farmer bought the land, his neighbors said, "Spring has long passed, and it's too late to grow food. We can only grow some vegetables." But the farmer is a very judgmental and thoughtful person. He believes that it is not too late to plant late-maturing cereals.So he did what he had in mind, plowed the field well, sowed some late seeds, and tended it afterward.

Later, he actually got a very good harvest, even better than his neighbor who planted in the early spring.

This example also has profound enlightenment for being a human being. If you really have the ambition to make progress, really desire to improve yourself, and are determined to make up for the lack of schooling in the early years, then you must realize that no matter who you meet, they will help you and make you better. You gain some knowledge and experience.If you meet a printer, he will tell you a lot of printing techniques; if you meet a mason, he will tell you about construction methods; if you meet a farmer, he will teach you various agricultural knowledge .

The only condition for extensive knowledge is to absorb knowledge from every possible avenue.Those who can absorb knowledge through various channels and benefit from the knowledge of others can make their knowledge more extensive and profound, broaden their minds, broaden their interests, and make them more capable. Cope with various problems by yourself.

Most people have the psychology of overemphasizing college education, and those who have never received a college education are even more so.Those who cannot go to college because of family difficulties or poor health often regard this as an irreparable loss, a defect that cannot be repaired in a lifetime.They even think that no matter how much self-study they do in the future, it will not help, and they will not be able to reach the same level of education as university education. They think that the knowledge gained through self-study is always limited.

But what they don't know is that there are many famous scholars in the world who have never entered any university, and many people have never even entered the gate of middle school!
I knew a young man who didn't even finish his primary education, but he became a historian after reading a lot of historical works and biographies of famous people.Many people who met him were full of praise for his knowledge, thinking that he had received advanced school education.He is diligent in self-study and well-read. Although he is not proficient in the rules and regulations of grammar, his English is excellent.Because he has been immersed in many famous works for many years, he has developed a very beautiful writing style invisibly.

Relying on self-study, he had such achievements, which was really rare at that time.Moreover, there are better books in today's publishing industry, and quite a few books are available for self-study. Don't those who are ambitious have more opportunities?

If you can use your free time to choose courses in correspondence schools, you can also get a good education.Many people who dropped out of school in their early years still choose to take courses in correspondence schools in their later years. Through this way, they acquire all kinds of knowledge and help them succeed in their careers.

Most unfortunate adults believe that the opportunity for schooling is lost once the most precious years of youth have passed, and even less so in old age.

In fact, people have the opportunity to learn anytime, anywhere.As long as you can seek opportunities, use all your free time, study hard, and concentrate on acquiring knowledge, you can completely remedy the lack of schooling in your youth, and even make yourself rich in learning.

In fact, throughout one's life one has the possibility of being educated.After reaching the prime of life, learning in many aspects is even more beneficial than when he was young, because he has more experience and better judgment, and because he knows the preciousness of time, he prefers to use every opportunity to learn.

There are many who are young and do not work hard in school, and do not get much benefit from book knowledge.But after reaching middle age, in order to make up for the lack of knowledge, he began to study hard, and the results turned out to be astonishing achievements.

(End of this chapter)