150 Wisdom Stories to Build Good Habits

Chapter 5 It is important to do things in advance and take control of the initiative in life (2)
It's time to start hunting.Holding up the shotgun, the boss glanced left and right at a pheasant running past in front of him, and suddenly his eyes were attracted by the wild fruits on the forest. He hesitated, and the pheasant ran away.

The second child wanted to shoot a hare. When he was aiming with a shotgun, he was thinking about what prey his father, elder brother, and younger brother would catch, and how embarrassed he would be if he didn't get as much as they did... When he pulled the trigger , The hare has long disappeared.When he returned home, only the third child had the most harvest, and he couldn't even move his prey by himself.

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Whether the goal can be achieved depends to a large extent on whether you can stick to your goal without distraction.Whether you can focus your energy on one goal is extremely important to success.

Be aware of your main goal and don't let other things distract you from your focus.Before achieving your goal, you must be able to concentrate on it, keep your eyes on your goal, make up your mind, persevere until it is finally achieved, and never give up in the middle.

If young people want to achieve excellent grades and take control of the initiative in life, they must develop a good habit of focusing, doing important things first, and keeping their eyes on the goal without letting go.

Advertising signs
After a young man graduated from business school, he planned to open a hat shop. The first thing he did was to make a beautiful signboard and write a suitable advertisement.He drew up such a sentence: "Song Zhenshuai, a hat maker, makes and sells hats for cash." A hat is drawn below.

He asked his friends for their opinions in order to revise and perfect his advertisement louder and his business better.

The first friend looked at it and thought that "hatter" is a duplicate of "manufacturing" in the back.Therefore, delete "hatter".The second friend said: "The word 'manufactured' can also be removed. If I were a customer, I don't care who made the hat. As long as the hat fits and is of good quality, I will buy it." So he added " The word "manufacturing" is deleted.

He asked a third friend for advice, and the advice given by the friend was: the word "cash" is meaningless, because there is no custom of selling on credit in the local area, and the word was deleted again.In this way, only "Song Zhenshuai sells hats" remains.

"Hats for Sale!" Another saw the ad and said, "Nobody thinks you're giving it away for nothing! The word 'for sale' doesn't mean anything." So the word "for sale" was also dropped.

Finally, simply delete the word "hat", because there is already a hat drawn on the billboard, why bother adding more to it?As a result, only the words "Song Zhenshuai" remained on the signboard, with a hat painted underneath.

And this simple advertising sign has brought a lot of business to this hat shop.Because its name is simple and easy to remember, many customers passed it on by word of mouth, and soon it became a well-known store, and the scale of the store also expanded.

Because of its simplicity, people remember the store name; although it is simple, it leaves a deep impression on people.

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Generally speaking, when people do things, they always try their best to make them perfect.However, sometimes the pursuit of comprehensiveness can lead to "superfluous" or "overwhelming" situations.In addition, due to changes in the environment in which things are located, some functions or performance elements that make up things become outdated and become redundant.At this time, you need to use the sickle in your hand to cut off the useless things and keep only the essence.

The principle of doing things is also somewhat similar to this. In life, we will face many things, but we cannot do them at the same time. We must distinguish between priorities and develop important habits of doing things in advance, so as to ensure the quality of life.

"Prescribe the right medicine" to solve the problem to find the key points
A nuclear power plant encountered serious technical problems during its operation, which led to a reduction in the production efficiency of the entire nuclear power plant.

The plant's engineers, despite their best efforts, were unable to find the problem.So they brought in one of the country's top nuclear power plant construction and engineering consultants to see if he could pinpoint the problem.The consultant put on a white coat, took a clipboard, and went to work.For two days, he walked around the control room, checking hundreds of gauges, taking notes, and making calculations.

Before leaving, the consultant took out a pen from his pocket, climbed up the ladder, and drew a big "X" on one of the instruments. "That's the problem," he explained. "Fix and replace the device connected to this meter, and the problem will be solved." After the consultant left, the engineers took the device apart and found that there was indeed a problem inside.After troubleshooting, the power plant fully restored its original power generation capacity.

About a week later, the plant manager received a $1 "payment for services" bill from the consultant.

The power plant manager was surprised by the amount on the bill.Although the equipment is worth billions of dollars, and the loss due to the failure of the machine is huge, in the eyes of the plant manager, the consultant came here, just walked around for two days, and then drew an "X" on a meter I went back.$1 seems like a lot to charge for such a simple job.So the plant manager wrote back to the consultant saying: "We have received your bill. Could you please itemize the charges in detail? Seems like all you did was draw an 'X' on a meter ', $1 relative to
This amount of work seems to be a relatively high price. "

A few days later, the plant manager received a new list from the consultant, which read: "Put an 'X' on the meter: $1; find which meter to put an 'X' on: $9999."

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Concentrating energy on important issues and seeking breakthroughs from key issues is an important habit of successful people.

Traditional Chinese medicine pays attention to "prescribing the right medicine" to treat diseases, and the same principle is used to solve problems. We must grasp the "crux" of problems and find the right key points.Otherwise, if you don't know how to start with the key issues, it means that you don't have the main goal, then you will have no clue when doing things, and no matter how hard you try, it will be in vain.On the contrary, if he grasps the key, it becomes much easier to solve the problem.Therefore, young friends, when you encounter difficulties in your studies and are unable to do anything, you might as well calm yourself down, analyze the problem carefully, find the "crux", and prescribe the right medicine, and the problem can be solved smoothly.

Doing what you can do is the best improvement
There is a man who works as a manager in a large retail company.He thought the salary was too low, so he went to work as a manager in a telecommunications company.However, since he himself knew nothing about the telecommunications industry and had not received basic training, he worked hard and failed to achieve results.As a result, when the company laid off employees, of course he became the first victim, so he had no choice but to find a low-paying job on the spot to survive.

A lightweight boxer, overthinking his capabilities, challenged an opponent who was one level higher than himself. In less than one round, he was beaten black and blue, and fell to the ground.

There was a man who didn't know how to cook, and accidentally saw a restaurant that was being sold with a good location and promising development prospects, so he thought it was an excellent opportunity to make money, so he rushed to invest.However, because he couldn't find a suitable and competent cook, and he couldn't cook and cook, he lost his fortune!

There is also a young surgeon known as "Shanghai Yidao".Like many candidates, he studied the TOEFL test and got a high score in the English test. He applied to the most famous medical university in the United States and received a full scholarship.But after arriving in the United States, he couldn't understand English at all in class, and he failed every class.Soon, the foreign student advisor told him that all scholarships for the second semester would be cancelled.His life immediately fell into a difficult situation, he could not enter or retreat, so he had to drop out of school to study English first, and then fell into overseas employment!

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There is always a way to success, and there is always a reason for excellence.Looking at those who have achieved something, they are all self-aware, able to distinguish priorities, those things that should be done, and those things that are suitable for them.And those who always fail and never succeed, they are often people who misassess their abilities and do things that are higher than their abilities. Not everyone can do "four or two thousand catties". Cultivating the habit of doing important things in advance and doing things within your ability is not only an improvement for yourself, but also an opportunity to achieve a better future.

Post-Chapter Test: Are You a Focused Person?
Answering "yes" or "no" to the following questions will give you an idea of ​​how focused you are.

1 When you are playing a certain game, do you often lose due to inattention?
2 Do you fool your acquaintances?

3 Can you do something while listening to another person's conversation?
4 When crossing the road, do you look around carefully?
5 Have you ever found money or keys on the street?

6 Can you recall the detailed plot of the movie you watched yesterday?
7 Are you angry when someone suddenly interrupts you?
8 Do you count your change when shopping in a store?

9 Can you quickly find what you need in the room?
10. Someone yells at you unexpectedly on the street, do you tremble?

11 Do you often mistake one person for another?

12. Have you stopped at a stop because you listened to others?

13 Can you name the birthdays of people who are close to you?

14 Can you fall asleep easily?
15 Can you find a place in a big city that you visited on a certain day in the last year without the help of others?

scoring method
对2、3、4、5、6、8、9、13、14、15题回答“是”，对1、7、10、11、12题回答“否”均记1分。

Test Results
11 points or above (including 11 points): You are a person with strong principles and amazing concentration, and your memory is enviable.

5 to 10 points: Your attention is concentrated enough, although you can't keep everything in your head, but you won't forget anything important.In order to prevent omissions, you should concentrate when you are responsible to avoid mistakes.

4 points or less (including 4 points): You are very loose, which is the root of most of the bad things you encounter.Although everyone around you suffers because of your carelessness, you still stubbornly don't care about small things.You must train your attention.

(End of this chapter)