money and life

Chapter 19 Details determine success or failure (1)
A stable and comfortable life comes slowly from doing small things well; as long as you care more about your family and friends, you will feel the love of your relatives and friends.

—Hanna?Moore
If you know where to spend money and where not to spend money, then you will never encounter the embarrassment of having nothing left in your pocket.People who don't pay attention to how they spend their lives on the little things end up ruining them.

— Proverbs of Solomon
no small matter
Many people will encounter setbacks and failures in life. The root of this problem is because they ignore some small things.A person's life is made up of little things one by one.Taken individually, every little event is not very important and not enough to affect a person's whole life.However, how to deal with these small things determines a person's life.And personal character is also slowly cultivated from small things one by one - we must strive to do every small thing well in order to cultivate a person's good character.Many business people, their success is because they have handled some small things well.If you take care of all the little things at home, then you will feel very comfortable.The government is the same as the family. To be a good government, it can only arrange every little thing to meet the needs of the people one by one.

"If you don't accumulate steps, you can go a thousand miles." It is from the accumulation of a little knowledge and experience that we can have the most valuable knowledge and experience.Some people have no ability themselves, and they don't like to learn and summarize, so they are destined to be a loser all their lives.The reason they fail is because they ignore the little things.However, the losers themselves may not see it that way.They themselves think that they are not lucky enough, or that God is against them, but in fact it is themselves who are against them.Many people have always believed in "luck", but this concept has been slowly abandoned by some people, just like some popular concepts may be abandoned at any time.People believe in diligence more and more, and only through diligence can people get the favor of good luck.In other words, a person's success in life is directly proportional to his efforts, diligence, and whether he takes small things seriously.The lazy, careless and slack people will not be favored by good luck.Because those who don't work hard will never get the fruit of luck.

It is not luck that makes people successful, it is labor that makes people successful.An American writer said that luck is waiting for something to appear, but labor is to discover something by one's own efforts and research and analysis.Luck is lying in bed and hoping the postman will deliver good news about your inheritance; labor is getting up at 6 in the morning and using your day's labor to lay the foundation for success.Luck often complains about the unfairness of heaven, while labor has been working silently.Luck is based on chance, and labor depends on long-term perseverance and personal good character.Luck does not have strong self-discipline, but labor hopes to be independent, and it has been working hard and persisting.

Everyone must be familiar with housework. It is indeed a trivial matter, but it is related to the health and happiness of our family.For example, do you keep your home clean?Do you often wipe the floor, chairs, tea sets and other items at home?These seem trivial things, but if done well, they can create a comfortable environment for us, both mentally and materially.And only in a comfortable environment is it conducive to the cultivation of the most noble character of a person.

The air circulation in the room is also a small thing.And because air is invisible, we feel that it doesn't matter.However, if we do not keep fresh air in the room, our health will suffer.Maybe there is a dirty spot in the room, and it doesn't look so obvious, but we are likely to get sick from this small spot of dirt.After I got sick, I realized that the dirt was to blame, but it was already too late.Therefore, the slightly dirty air and a small piece of dirt are not small things, but a kind of extremely harmful things to the human body.And housework is made up of these little things, and the combination of these little things may affect your life.

Among the accessories we wear, a pin is very inconspicuous, but we can see a person's personality traits from the way a person wears a pin.There was a young man who was smart and old enough to marry, and wanted to find a wife.To do this, he took gifts and went to some houses with young girls.One day, he met a very beautiful girl, but he found that the pins on the girl's clothes were not fastened properly, and her hair was a bit messy.Therefore, before he entered the house, he chose to give up and not go to the girl's house.You may think that such a young man seems to have no ability, but in fact he is a smart person, and later he became a model husband after he got married.He judged a woman by the little thing of the pin, and he was obviously right.

A pharmacist who wanted an assistant announced the news.Afterwards, many young people applied to be his assistants.He invited all the people who had written the application to the store, and then began to test these young people.However, he tested them on a very simple subject - just put a penny's worth of salt in his pocket.When the young men had done this, he announced who would be his assistant--the man who was the quickest and most skilful at putting a penny of salt in his pocket.From this small matter, he infers a person's comprehensive ability and whether this person can do things.

Small loopholes lead to big disasters
When we ignore little things, there are often serious consequences.

A freighter sank on its way back home, full of cargo, because of a very small hole in the bottom of the ship.The staff on board discovered this tiny hole before the freighter set sail, but thought it would not affect the sailing of the freighter, so they did not repair it, which led to the tragedy.

If a nail is broken, it means that a horseshoe is scrapped; if a horseshoe is scrapped, it means that a horse cannot go to the battlefield; Kill; without this counselor, the commander-in-chief of this army may make wrong strategic planning without the counselor's reminder, which will lead to the annihilation of the entire army.This army was destroyed in this way, traced back to the source, but because a small iron nail on the horseshoe broke!

Those who ignore the little things always say things like: "It's no big deal!", or "Almost!" Because of this sentence, many ships have been swallowed by the sea, many houses have been destroyed by fire, and countless buildings and research projects of human beings have been destroyed. Was buried in an instant.It is a stumbling block on the road to success, always hindering or delaying our success.It's not "almost", the crux of the problem is how to do it is the best choice!If a person often says "almost!", then he has handed himself over to failure, and we can no longer have any expectations of him, because he is destined not to be a successful person.

The French political economist Say also told an example of ignoring small things that lead to serious consequences: There is a fence around a rural farm, and the function of the fence is to prevent poultry from running out of the farm.On this day, the gate of the fence was always not closed tightly because of the lack of a latch. Whenever someone came in or out, it would dangle.Buying a latch is simple, takes a few minutes and is inexpensive, a penny or two.Because the door was not closed tightly, some poultry sneaked out.One day, the owner of the farm found that a little pig had run away, and immediately ordered everyone in the family to put down their work and find the little pig.So the gardeners, cooks, and milkers on the farm all put down their work and started looking for the piglets together.The gardener was lucky, he was the first to see the little pig when there was a ditch between him and the little pig, and he jumped across it immediately.The jump sprained his foot, and he lay in bed for two weeks before getting up.The cook was drying the damp linen by the fire before going to the pig, and when he returned he found the cloth already burned.The milker was milking the cow before looking for the pig. When he heard the owner's request to find the pig, he did not fasten the rope used to tie the cow in a hurry, so that the cow ran amok and broke a horse's leg.The linen burned, the gardener rested fortnight with an injury, and a pony with a broken leg, all caused infinite times as much damage as a bolt.

In life, there are many examples of this kind of small loss.When you habitually ignore some small things, big disasters may come at any time.

If you want to get rich, you have to rely on your own pair of hardworking hands, and you must treat small things as seriously as you do big things.Because, although some things seem small, if they are not done well, they can affect the overall situation. Therefore, it is very necessary to pay attention to small things as much as big ones.

From the little things

When someone makes a new discovery, some people think it is accidental, but after careful study, they will find that there is no accidental factor at all.These factors that we originally thought to be accidental have the possibility of inevitable occurrence.These serendipitous discoveries are just chances seized by geniuses.

Newton's discovery of the law of universal gravitation is the best example used to illustrate "chance".But we need to know that Newton did not think about this problem for a day or two at that time, but for many years. For the subject of universal gravitation, he did a lot of complicated and patient investigations, and only then did he discover the law of universal gravitation when the "apple fell to the ground" of anecdotes.The scene of the apple falling to the ground made him suddenly understand this law, but the premise of his understanding was the research he had done before.Therefore, the falling apple is actually a flash of his years of research.There are many similar examples. When smoking, puffs of smoke will rise. Many people will see colorful soap bubbles passing through the smoke, but they don’t realize anything. They think it’s normal. Dr. Yang thought of the "interference" theory from this.Starting from this theory, he also discovered the related principle of light diffraction.

Although great people can always do great things, Dr. Newton and Dr. Yang only observed the great discoveries in the world from the most common and simple facts.Their greatness lies in their attention to some very ordinary things in life.

Each of us is different from others, and this difference is mainly due to the difference in each person's observation ability.For those who are not very observant, a Russian proverb describes them like this:
"He walked through the whole forest without seeing any firewood."

"The eyes of a wise man are good at seeing new things," said Solomon, "but the eyes of a fool never see the light."

Once, a gentleman who had just returned from Italy bumped into Johnson.Johnson said to him: "Sir, those who travel to the various countries of Europe sometimes know less than those who take the Halmsted stage."

There are many things that cannot be seen with the eyes only, but must be thought with the brain.Those observers who can't think can actually find nothing; smart people are different, they can always combine what they observe with their previous research, and then discover the essence of things through comparison.

Many people have seen things that sway left and right, but before Galileo, no one realized anything from this phenomenon. Only Galileo was the first to use this phenomenon to discover something that changed the world-clocks.

A logistics worker at the Pisa cathedral let go after oiling a chandelier.The chandelier was swinging in the air.Galileo, who was only 18 years old at the time, became interested in swinging chandeliers and immediately intended to apply this phenomenon to measuring time.So Galileo spent a full 50 years researching this subject, and finally invented the pendulum.This invention is of great significance, since people can measure time, so its importance can be imagined, and its invention also provides tools for astronomical calculations.

Once, Galileo heard that there was a Dutch spectacle maker named Ripasser, who gave an instrument to an earl in Nassau.That kind of instrument can shorten the distance by seeing things in the distance.Galileo began to think, why does this phenomenon occur?The result of thinking is - he invented the telescope.The invention of the telescope is also of great significance, marking the beginning of modern astronomical research.Such an invention would be impossible for a careless person, or a careless observer.

Captain Brown, who later became Mr. Samuel, thought when he was concentrating on the study of bridge construction, could he build something that would allow people to cross the Tweed River easily?One dewy autumn morning, he was walking in the yard and saw a small spider.The little thing was straddling his walk.At this time, an idea suddenly appeared in his mind - to use iron chains or tools similar to iron chains to link together to build on the river. This is the invention process of the suspension bridge.

James?A similar thing happened to Watt.At the time, he was researching how to build a device that could transport water through pipes in the rough-looking riverbed of the Clyde.When he was eating that day, he saw the shell of a lobster, and using it as a model, he thought of using iron pipes to transport water.Sure enough, the plan to transport water with iron pipelines was a great success.

Isam Bird?Brunel noticed that the worm was punching holes in the wood with its solid skull.It hits first in one direction, then in the other, and doesn't stop until the archway is formed.When the archway is completed, it also has something like varnish on top.From this, he thought of the way to build the Thames Canal, and built his shield by imitating the bug.It was this method that helped him complete a great project.

A careful observer has a pair of keen eyes, so he can discover the essential phenomena hidden in the surface things.

Seaweed is floating beside the boat, which is the most normal and small thing in real life. Columbus used this incident to quell the internal strife among the crew.He said to those desperate sailors, don't make any more noise, we are almost to the New World, you see, this kind of seaweed has never appeared before.

Any little thing is worth observing carefully and connecting with what we are thinking about.Because many small things can always show its value in a certain way.Who would have imagined that the famous "Albion English Limestone" was built by insects, which are so small that they cannot be seen with the naked eye.What is even more surprising is that the law of formation of coral islands is the same as the law of their construction!Therefore, we can no longer doubt the power of small things, because these small things always lead us to the greatest success.

Another secret to success is the close observation of small things.There are not a few successes who have used this recipe, whether in business, art, science, or otherwise.Human knowledge is the accumulation of cognition of small things from generation to generation.The knowledge they accumulated bit by bit, finally condensed into a huge pyramid.These facts and observations may not seem very useful at first, but in the end they can be very useful if you get the right entry.

(End of this chapter)