150 Wisdom Stories to Build Good Habits

Chapter 20 Changing a Perspective, Changing the Sky—Seizing Opportunities with New Thinking (2)
To cultivate associative thinking, the most important thing is not to think about how to be different, but to start from the small things around you and cultivate your ability to break the rules from the most subtle.For example, you find that familiar roads have different ways, familiar dishes have different recipes, and the evening newspaper you read every day has new information... You will gradually find that your vision becomes different and you can discover Potential possibilities that cannot be seen by other people's eyes can take a different path from ordinary people.

To seize the opportunity, we must first seize the things around us
There is a story in India about Ali Hafeet, a well-to-do farmer.

One day, an old man visited Ali Hafeet and said: "If you can get a diamond the size of your thumb, you can buy all the land nearby; if you can get a diamond mine, you can also let your son sit on the throne. "

The value of diamonds is deeply imprinted in Ali Hafeet's heart.From then on, he was satisfied with nothing.

That night, he stayed up all night.Early the next morning, he called the old man and asked him where to find the diamond.The old man wanted to dispel his thoughts, but Ali Hafeet couldn’t listen to him, he was obsessed with his obsession, and kept pestering him. In the end, he had to tell Ali Hafeet: “You are looking for a river with white sand flowing in a very high mountain. .If you can find it, there must be diamonds buried in the white sand."

As a result, Ali Hafeet sold all his real estate, let his family board in the neighbor's house, and went out to find diamonds by himself.But he walked and walked, but he never found the treasure he was looking for.He was finally disappointed and threw himself into the sea at the end of Spain and died.

However, the story doesn't end there.

One day, the man who bought Ali Hafeet's house took the camels into the backyard and wanted the camels to drink.There is a small river in the backyard.When the camel put its nose into the river, he found a strange light in the sand.Immediately he dug up a gleaming stone, brought it home, and set it on the grate.

After a while, the old man came to visit the family again. When he entered the door, he found the shining stone on the hearth, and he couldn't help running forward.

"It's a diamond!" he exclaimed in amazement. "Ally Haffert is back!"

"No! Ali Hafeet hasn't come back yet. The rock was found in the backyard creek," replied the new homeowner.

"No! You're lying to me." The old man couldn't believe it. "I knew it was a diamond when I walked into this room. Don't look at me nagging, but I still recognize that this is a real diamond!"

So they ran out of the room, went to the little river and dug, and then revealed a stone that was more lustrous than the first one, and many diamonds were later excavated from this land.The famous 100-carat diamond dedicated to Queen Victoria was also sourced there.

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Nowadays, many teenagers have the bad habit of looking far away, always thinking that opportunities are far away, and that distance or strangers will be a little different, so they have made a lot of efforts, but all of them are in vain.In fact, "diamonds are in your backyard", and "seeking far away" will often make you miss opportunities and throw your efforts in vain.Therefore, if you want to seize opportunities, you must first grasp the things around you, control them, and then go elsewhere to discover greater opportunities.

A trick, the same bar can be exchanged for different values

The 2006 World Cup in Germany is about to start, and the bar has become a good place to watch the football.However, the arrival of opportunities also means the arrival of fierce competition, and every bar has tried its best to attract customers.Most of the bars in China are taking the route of reducing the price of drinks, but the number of fans will not increase in the short term, and they will also face competition from new bars. A simple price reduction can only bring about a small amount of sales growth.How can we really make a profit in the competition, we can refer to the practice of German bars.

A bar in Germany came up with a new trick, specially learning the special dishes of each participating country in the World Cup final stage, and launched a "World Cup themed set meal". The set menu combining Argentinian dishes and Argentinian specialties allows customers to taste the delicacies of these two countries while watching the games of these two teams.When dining in normal times, customers can also freely order and combine specialties from various countries.This trick really worked. Before the World Cup officially started, there was an endless stream of customers who came to try and book the package.

In addition, this bar has added special family seats, customers can bring their families to eat together, which also solves the contradiction between many male football fans watching the game and taking care of their families.In order to cheer for their own country, the bar even ingeniously researched and prepared cocktails with three layers of black, red and yellow, symbolizing the black, red and yellow colors of the German flag.These moves have won the bar a local jackpot.

Originally, it was mainly a consumption place for football fans, but with the addition of family seats, it can welcome customers other than football fans; cocktails in the three colors of the national flag can be sold at high prices, but the raw materials are still the original wine and drinks.After changing the pattern, the same material is exchanged for a different value.

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Maybe we don't have enough resources in our hands, but what does it matter?As long as we dare to think, dare to do, and have creativity, we will have a successful day.

It is not how many resources, but how to use them.Brazil is very rich in mineral resources, but its gross national product is far inferior to that of Japan; Switzerland can be said to be a tiny place, but it has created wealth that attracts worldwide attention.Resources are indeed limited, but the way to use resources is unlimited, and this infinite possibility comes from infinite creativity.

Blue Ocean Thinking believes that infinite value is contained in limited resources.People who complain about the lack of resources all day long will not have innovative ideas, let alone carry out innovative practices, and of course they will not be able to discover the infinite value in them.They will only be passive in the competition, gradually fall behind, and eventually fail.

We often encounter the problem of lack of resources in our work, but as long as we are willing to use our brains, be good at innovation, and stimulate the infinite creativity in our brains, we will be able to solve the problem satisfactorily. This is another strategy in Blue Ocean Thinking: let the limited Resources generate infinite value.

"Heretics" is also a road to Rome
In 1956, Matsushita Electric Co., Ltd. established a joint venture with another electric appliance manufacturer in Japan to establish Dagu Boutique Electric Appliance Co., Ltd., specializing in the manufacture of electric fans.At that time, Konosuke Matsushita appointed Chiaki Nishida of Matsushita Electric Co., Ltd. as the general manager and himself as a consultant.

The company's predecessor was specialized in electric fans, and later developed civil exhaust fans.But even so, the product is relatively single.Nishida Chiaki is going to develop new products and try to ask for Panasonic's opinion.Matsushita said to him: "Just do wind business." At that time, Matsushita's idea was to make Matsushita Electric's subsidiary companies as professional as possible in order to make a breakthrough.However, Panasonic's electric fan manufacturing has done quite well, and it is fully capable of developing new fields.But loose

The answer given to Nishida was negative.

However, the wise Nishida was not discouraged by Matsushita's answer.His thinking is extremely flexible and alert, he stared at Panasonic and asked: "As long as it is related to wind, can any product be made?"

Matsushita didn't carefully appreciate the true meaning of the words, but what Nishida asked was very consistent with his instructions, so he replied without hesitation: "Of course."

Five years later, Panasonic visited the factory again and saw that heaters were being produced in the factory, so they asked Nishida, "Is this an electric fan?"

Nishida said: "No, but it has something to do with the wind. The electric fan is cold wind, this one is warm wind. You said you wanted us to do business with wind, didn't you?"

Later, the "wind family" of Matsushita Seiko, which Chiaki Nishida single-handedly managed, was already very rich.In addition to electric fans, exhaust fans, heaters, and blowers, there are also frost-proof ventilators for orchards and tea gardens, temperature-regulating ventilators for cultivating shiitake mushrooms, and temperature-regulating systems for sheds in poultry farming.

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Different people have different ways of dealing with the same problem.In dealing with many things, we only need to be more flexible and learn to "go through the back door", even if we "go the other way", we may get completely different results.

Post-Chapter Test: Do You Know How to Seize Opportunities?

People say that opportunities are only for those who are prepared.No one knows when the opportunity will come, but you should always be ready to meet it in order to be the winner of the competition.Do the following test to see if you are a person who knows how to seize opportunities?
The test begins

A young man of the opposite sex asks you for directions, and it happens to be in the same direction, what will you do?

1. Tell her that the direction is the same and you can walk together
2. Tell her in detail, and then follow from behind
3. You will silently lead her to her destination

4. Tell her how to go, and go another way
Test Results
1. Select "Tell her the same direction, we can walk together"

Where in life do not meet, this is a kind of fate, you can use this to walk together, you can be said to be a person who is good at taking advantage of opportunities.You are responsible for things, and you can also think about others in a cultivated manner and know how to respect others.

2. Select "Tell her in detail, and follow from behind"

You clearly separate your own affairs from other people's affairs, but you don't just tell others how to get rid of it yourself.You like to follow others for safety, perhaps because of this reason, so that you get many opportunities for success.

3. Select "You will take her to the destination silently"

He is a self-satisfied person who only cares about himself.You ignore the difficulties of the other party and insist on pressing, so you will create enemies; but because of your tough attitude, many people will follow you, and you are a politician.

4. Choose "Tell her how to go, and go another way"

Weak-willed, resents being misunderstood or underestimated.Once being entrusted by others, I feel that it is a burden and I feel bored.You have neither congenial friends nor enemies, and you are quite unique in style.

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