greatest wisdom book

Chapter 86
To guard against lapses in time, build an iron wall and copper wall with details
If there are dangerous obstacles, yellow wells, reeds, mountains and forests, and scorpions near the army, they must be carefully searched for, and this is where treacherous people lie.

"Throw a nail and break a shoe; lose a shoe and lose a horse; lose a horse and lose a general; lose a general and lose a battle; lose a battle and lose an empire .” This is a widely circulated folk song in the West. From the loss of a nail to the destruction of a country, the importance of every detail is self-evident.

Sun Wu, who paid great attention to every aspect of the war, also paid great attention to the details. He reminded the soldiers to be cautious if they encountered steep defiles, lakes, swamps, reeds, mountains and forests and places overgrown with water and grass during the march. Search repeatedly, because these places are places where ambushes may be set up and enemy troops may be hidden.Paying attention to every dangerous place is nothing more than attention to detail.After all, on the battlefield, swords and guns have no eyes, and a momentary negligence is the difference between yin and yang.

In the Falklands battle between the United Kingdom and Argentina in 1982, the Argentine submarine had at least three excellent opportunities to break through the defense circle of the British Navy, and successively launched six SST-3 wire-guided torpedoes, but none of them hit.The post-war investigation found that when an officer was maintaining the fire control system of the submarine, he mistakenly reversed the polarity of the dual-phase DC plug in the launch tube that provides power for the torpedo, causing the torpedo to lose its course reference and the opportunity to attack the target.

All accidents are caused by negligence of details.Often due to the negligence of some people, vehicles overturned, houses burned, and many precious lives were lost.A small crack in the rails or something wrong with the wheels can cause a car to overturn and many lives to be lost.Because of accidentally throwing a lit match or a cigarette butt, the result is that a single spark can start a prairie fire, causing houses in cities and towns to be burned down.People often pay attention to the big things and neglect the details, but it is the important details that cause the big trouble!

Some people can climb a tree that is hundreds of feet high, but stumble and fall on a small tree that is less than one foot high.When climbing a high place, because you know the height and are fully prepared in your heart, you are not easy to be negligent; a small tree makes people lose their vigilance against it and relax their minds, so it is inevitable to be careless.The so-called danger does not lie in the height of the tree, but in the tension of the spirit.Just like on the marching road, almost everyone will raise their vigilance when they go to a place that is easy to be ambushed, but when they reach a flat and open place, people will always subconsciously let go of their vigilance, but sudden changes often occur at the moment when they relax their vigilance. for a moment.Therefore, the proportion of factory workers who have been injured for a year or two is much higher than that of newcomers.

The consequences of a catastrophe caused by negligence are shocking.

There is a man who is a good driver and has been driving for many years, but he always makes small movements when driving, such as lighting a cigarette, changing CDs, saying hello to acquaintances who are riding, and so on.Others said that he still didn't listen, and instead said: "I'm a brave man, I'm fine." As a result, once, he rushed out of an overpass with a car and a person. At the same time, he reached out to support the mineral water bottle that was about to fall.

Don't think that those bad habits are just trivial things, and don't think that the dangerous things in the eyes of others are no big deal. One day, it will find you and attack you.

If you want to be a person with outstanding achievements, you should learn to work hard on the details.

Take a common trivial matter as an example. It is normal for the company executives to book tickets for the boss, but it can reflect different people's different attitudes towards work and their ability to work. It can also roughly measure the employee's future work prospects. future.There are two secretaries like this, one bought the ticket and handed it in a lot, which is messy, easy to lose, and difficult to find out the time.Another put the ticket into a large envelope, and wrote the train number, number, departure and arrival time on the envelope.

Buying a bus ticket is just a simple task, but a serious worker must think of what to do, and how to do it will make people more satisfied and more convenient.It's also a matter of paying attention to detail.Paying attention to the details of the work must be far better than perfunctory work. Even if it cannot attract people's attention at the time, as time passes, this working attitude will definitely bring you huge benefits after it becomes a habit.

The so-called details and trivial matters are far from the things that need attention listed by Sun Tzu, and they are far more than things like buying tickets. They exist in every corner of life and work.There are many small things that can be done by one person, but also by others, but the results are very different, and often the difference lies in the details.

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