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Chapter 60: First things first: Achieving effective self-management 2
Volume Three Chapter 3 First Things First: Achieving Effective Self-Management 2
Without focus, life will be a mess

There should be harmony and unity between personal ideals and missions, roles and goals, work priorities and plans, desires and self-control.

-- "The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People"

With only one watch, you can know what time it is. If you have two or more watches, if there is a difference in the minutes and seconds of the watches, it will be difficult for a person to determine the exact time.Two watches cannot tell a person a more accurate time, but will make the person who watches the watch lose his judgment on the exact time. This is the famous "watch law".

In real life, many people have been involved in multiple industries, or have many fantasies about the future, but in the end they achieve nothing.They don't lack dreams or abilities, but they are not focused enough to concentrate all their energy in one direction.In fact, the process of accumulating experience in life is the process of rolling a snowball. If you focus on rolling a snowball, the snowball will get bigger and bigger as your life goes on; but if you want to roll several snowballs at the same time, it is very difficult. Probably wait until the snow has melted before making much progress.

In this regard, ants are our best role models.Although an ant is small and weak, as long as it encounters food, even if it is several times larger than itself, it will drag the food forward. Food is dragged to the mouth of the hole.

Determining the goal is tantamount to clarifying the most important thing in life, always focus on this focus as the direction of struggle, and focus all the energy of the individual on how to realize it, only then can good results be obtained.

Gauss is a famous German mathematician.When he was young, his extraordinary talent often aroused the envy of others.One day, Gauss was intercepted by a group of people on his way to school.The leader of the boy said provocatively: "I heard that you are a genius. Now I have a question to test you. If you don't answer correctly, you don't want to go to school today." After he finished speaking, the person next to him took out a glass bottle and put it on the On the ground, there is a silver coin hanging by cotton thread in the bottle.

The leading boy said: "Please break the cotton thread, let the silver coins fall to the bottom of the bottle, but never open the cork."

Gauss knew that the other party was trying to make things difficult, but he had no choice. If he wanted to go to school smoothly today and completely get rid of the entanglement of this group of people, he had to solve this problem and convince them.So he faced the glass bottle and began to think seriously.

Ten minutes later, Gauss was still frowning, helpless.The group of people who came up with the question became proud, and they called the people on the side of the road over, hoping that more people would see this child prodigy making a fool of himself.

There are many, many people are surrounded on both sides of the road.The sun gradually rose, and under the scorching sun, beads of sweat kept dripping from Gauss' forehead.A kind old man held up his cloth umbrella to shield Gauss from the sun.When Gauss looked up to thank him, he saw the reading glasses worn by the old man, and suddenly had an idea.

He borrowed his eyes from the old man, squatted next to the glass bottle, raised the reading glasses to make an angle, and then adjusted the distance between the glasses and the bottle.The sunlight falls on the glass bottle through the presbyopic glasses, and shines on the cotton thread in the bottle through the glass.The people around suddenly fell silent, staring at the shiny glass bottle.

After a while, a wisp of smoke suddenly came out of the glass bottle, and then there was a "ding" sound, and the silver coin tied with cotton thread fell to the bottom of the bottle without being touched or cut.

Amid the cheers from the surrounding people, the group of troublemakers left in despair.

Gauss used the principle that parallel rays converge at the focal point through a convex lens.People should get enlightenment from this story: if you concentrate all your energy on one thing, you can achieve your goals better and faster.

The experience of countless losers in the world proves that most people fail not because they are not talented enough, but because they cannot concentrate and do their best to complete their work. Their energy is wasted here and consumed there. Some.Focusing on one correct goal is more valuable than having ten kinds of thoughts. If you cut off those distracting thoughts one by one and concentrate all the nourishment in your life in one aspect, you will definitely get results that surprise you.

(End of this chapter)