greatest wisdom book

Chapter 90
If you grasp the opportunity, you may not win at the end; but if you lose the opportunity, you have already lost the starting point.Life is like a game, and many times you need to seize the opportunity. While giving yourself a spiritual encouragement, you will also have the courage and motivation to persevere to the end.Maintaining an advantage at the starting point is a way to win.

Quick response is the best policy
Therefore, soldiers are more expensive than victory, not long-term.

In the digital age, everything is speeding up. All kinds of things are like boulders rolling down from high slopes, rolling faster and faster. Once any organization or individual cannot improve their own speed, they will be ruthlessly crushed by it.Someone once used a cartoon to explain the importance of speed: a slow-swimming big fish and a fast-swimming small fish swim opposite each other, the big fish and the small fish cross each other, the big fish becomes a fishbone, and the small fish becomes a fishbone. big fish. The survival of the fittest method of "big fish eats small fish, and small fish eats dried shrimps" is no longer applicable everywhere. In this era of "fast one is king", "fast fish eats slow fish" is becoming the mainstream.Speed ​​has become the booster for the survival of relationships in all competitions.

In the workplace, we must have the ability to respond quickly in order to gain a firm foothold.Speed ​​is a prerequisite for efficiency and for success to be achieved.Always believe that quick wins, one step later, slower, the result will be very different.Everyone should take speed as a spur and encouragement to themselves. Only by reminding themselves from time to time can they respond quickly to problems and walk ahead of others.

Only with keen insight and quick response ability can we have superior performance.If each employee improves a little bit on the original speed, the efficiency of the whole company will be greatly improved.Only high efficiency can occupy a place in the market and further gain a dominant position, which is the requirement of this fast-paced social development.

In today's society where every second counts, it is especially necessary to improve speed and efficiency and respond quickly.This kind of response not only refers to being ahead of others in speed, but also includes a sharper mind and faster reaction ability than others.The following example illustrates the importance of "soldiers are expensive and fast".

Once, a lot of chickens of the villager Ah San were killed by weasels.Ah San, who never killed the weasel, was forced by the weasel to have no choice but to use the clue of the female weasel returning to the cave to nurse, and he and his son found the weasel cave.As the sky gradually faded, a female weasel poked out half of its body from the reed field, looked around, jumped out of the reed field, and quickly ran to a hole in the northeast direction, and plunged into the hole.

The dog brought by Ah San immediately rushed to the entrance of the weasel's cave, and saw it rushing into the cave with its teeth and claws waving, retreating, and rushing in again, but it didn't dare to go too deep.The female weasel was inside an egg-shaped hole with a diameter of [-] to [-] centimeters. She frantically attacked and defended to the death. She bit the thick dog's neck that was stuck into the hole, and then leaned out half of her body to fight the dog desperately. .

Seeing the situation, Ah San raised the iron bar with both hands and threw it at the weasel's head.The weasel reacted extremely quickly, and before the iron rod fell halfway, it had already retracted its head.Soon the weasel bared her teeth and rushed out again, and Ah San threw down another iron rod, but missed again.Several times, several times, several times back and forth, the female weasel dodged quickly without being slapped, and was still fierce and crazy. When the dog rushed in, she quickly jumped up and bit the dog's chest hard. With blood on his chest, he had to back out of the hole, his eyes were red with anger.

Ah San suddenly remembered the dog pole, and immediately turned around and picked it up from the ground, trying to set a trap for the weasel.He put the semicircular noose noose over the hole.As soon as the weasel rushed out of the hole, he would pull the pole horizontally and twist the rope, choke the weasel, and then pull the weasel out of the hole, the son's iron rod would be able to exert all its strength, and with the dog, it would definitely kill the weasel.But unexpectedly, before he had finished setting the trap, the dog was bitten by the wolf again and forced it to retreat. The dog's two hind legs messed up the noose all at once.Immediately afterwards, the weasel rushed out of the hole, but the noose was stepped on by it.When the weasel saw the dog pole and the leash, it shrank back into the hole as if stepping on a leaking wire, and never showed its head again.Ah San was extremely frustrated: Fighting the weasel, the reaction is really fast, even if it is too late!
In this duel between Ah San and the weasel, the quick action of the weasel was the main reason for Ah San's failure.In other words, Ah San lost because of his speed.

Even in the ancient era of cold weapons, speed is an important link that cannot be ignored. The famous sentence in "Sun Tzu's Art of War" "An old soldier is more expensive than a long time" is exactly Sun Wu's view of speed.He has a very clear understanding of the purpose of fighting: over time, the army will be exhausted and its spirit will be dampened; when the army is attacked, the army is already weak, and if it is fought outside for a long time, the country's financial resources will be insufficient.According to research by historians, in Sun Wu's era, wars usually lasted for one day.Sun Tzu has repeatedly emphasized the need for a quick battle, because he considers that fighting a war will consume financial resources and hinder the country's economic development.It's no wonder that "soldiers are precious and quick" has become the principle of combat advocated by military strategists, and it's no wonder that Sun Wu would propose that offensive operations should be resolved quickly, and "clumsy speed" is better than "skillful for a long time".

If you want to remain invincible in the competition for a long time, you must make quick responses and judgments to every event and every opportunity, and rely on your own advantages to act first.

(End of this chapter)