Change until the world gives way to you

Chapter 13 Confidence, even if you are not perfect (4)
At the same time, the Americans irrigated the local farmland with the sugar-rich wastewater produced during the potato processing process, and collected the horse manure produced by feeding the potatoes to the war horses as materials for biogas power plants.Throughout World War II, his potato line was valued at more than $10 billion, with profits exceeding $6 million.He is JR Simplot known as "Potato Rich".

For a small potato, Simplot has developed to the extreme.A person is sometimes like a potato. Some abilities, like the core of a potato, can be used for larger purposes, while others, like the skin of a potato, can only do relatively small things.Think of yourself as a potato and make full use of its every potential to go beyond.

The apprentice who had just started working came back to the master full of grievances and complained: "The people in the company don't understand anything. Tell me, how can I work when I spend all day with a group of people who don't understand anything?" The apprentice leads into a house.The windows of the room were covered by thick curtains, and it was pitch black inside.

The master turned on a lamp, and the room became brighter.The master asked: "Can you find the brilliance of this lamp?" The apprentice felt strange, and asked back: "Isn't this room full of the brilliance of this lamp?" The master turned on three lamps one after another, and the room suddenly became brighter.The master said: "Can you still find the brilliance of the first lamp?" The apprentice was dumbfounded.

The master said: "In the company you are working for now, there are people who don't understand business. As long as you make achievements, the credit will belong to you. Isn't that good?" The apprentice went happily.

A year later, the apprentice returned to the master full of grievances.The apprentice complained: "I did a good job there, but I suddenly recruited three people with similar abilities. Isn't it obvious that I don't trust me?" The master silently took the apprentice to that room again .

The master turned on four lights at the same time, then turned off one of them, and asked, "Is it brighter just now, or is it brighter now?" The apprentice didn't understand what he meant, and didn't say anything.The master turned off another lamp, and asked, "Is it brighter just now, or is it brighter now?" The apprentice saw it clearly now, and said, "There were many lights that were turned on before, so of course they were brighter earlier." The master turned off another lamp. cup.There was only one lamp left, and the room was suddenly darker.

The master said: "No matter how many capable people there are in the company, your performance will not be affected, because if there is one less lamp, there will be less brilliance!" The apprentice thinks the master's words are reasonable, but he always feels that something is wrong.He said: "When I am the only capable person in the company, you turn on these few lights in this room to educate me; These few lamps are here to educate me. Is the reason the same no matter how many lamps are turned on?"

The master said: "In this world, everyone is a lamp. One lamp will not affect the brilliance of another lamp. What really affects the brilliance is the oil in the lamp. Only by persevering and working hard, can the lamp shine. The president’s light never dies! In the same way, no matter how many talented people you have around you, as long as you keep learning and working hard, you will shine your own light!”

yes!How well this master said, everyone is a lamp, and one lamp will not affect the brilliance of another lamp, but the way each lamp emits light is different: Liu Xiang and Yao Ming gallop on the field; Jay Chou and Jolin Tsai Catwalk on the stage; Bill Gates and Tang Jun became famous in the mall; Qian Xuesen and Yuan Longping contributed to science and technology...Everyone is a lamp with their own unique way of shining, and they have made great achievements in their different positions. grades.

A person is a lamp, and life is the oil in it, and the power source in it.Only by burning your life can you release light and illuminate your life.What really affects the brilliance of your life is not your lamp, but whether there is inexhaustible oil in your lamp, but whether your lamp has sufficient electricity.In order to keep our own light from going out, and to make our own light emit the greatest light, we have to keep refueling and recharging!As long as we work hard, as long as we do our best, even if we fail to realize our dreams, the process of our efforts and our hard work will emit the most dazzling light.Work hard, struggle, even if you fail, it is wonderful.

Tolerance of a short tail does not mean a low profile
The low-key approach basically tends to be feminine, similar to Tai Chi, and advocates using softness to overcome rigidity, just like a seedling being crushed by a boulder. It is not destroyed, but grows curvedly, avoiding the boulder, and finally becomes a towering tree. Made a detour and reached far.

When you learn to keep a low profile, you will have a real sense of peace and happiness. There will be less gunpowder and gunpowder in your life, and you will find that enjoying life is not an empty slogan.Let us have fewer conflicts and disputes in our life journey, and use our energy on the improvement of life, physical health, maturity of interpersonal communication and perfection of thought.A life of glamor always belongs to those who treat it well.

Loving the high profile is the fashion of our time.Before things start to be done, let’s talk about it first; there is only a small possibility of success, so let’s describe a beautiful blueprint first; there is really nothing worth talking about, and we need to hype, because our only purpose is to attract all eyes and attract All attention, use an illusory "prospect" to gain the support of others, pull others in, and invest in a thing that even you are not sure of!

Perhaps in our age, everyone is too eager for success, and everyone hopes to find a shortcut to success!Everyone is so eager that it even leads to a distortion of mentality, from "eager" to "impatient"!
Our reason for focusing on low-key is that it may actually be a smarter strategy than high-key.In our modern times, low-key is not very "favorable".According to the dictionary's interpretation, low-key means "to hide one's ability and not show it", which implies a premise that low-key people must be capable, but they just don't show it.There is a similar saying in the Zen language of Buddhism: "Stand on the top of a high mountain, walk deep in the sea".

Being low-key does not mean living in peace and contentment, nor is it the so-called "simplicity" in a single period of shortage, nor is it Ah Q's "spiritual victory method". Only when you have accumulated enough wealth can you keep a low profile in terms of material enjoyment.Only when you have accumulated enough in the spiritual realm can you keep a low profile in your spiritual life.

Low-key means open-minded.Bill Gates once said: "Without openness, there is no relaxation. No matter how successful you are, no matter how high the mountain you climb, no matter how much leisure you have, no matter how many beautiful goals you have, without tolerance, you Still suffering from inner pain. The widest thing in the world is the ocean, the wider than the ocean is the sky, and the wider than the sky is the human mind." Low-key means a kind of self-confidence, self-confidence is strength, self-confidence is courage, self-confidence can Make people eliminate troubles, self-confidence can make people out of trouble.

Low-key represents maturity and rationality.Being high is just impulsive, and doing things eager for quick success can easily lead to bitter results.It takes youthful passion to sing a high note, but after going through vicissitudes, the high note will be reduced to a rich bass.With a mature attitude, after rational thinking, they no longer pursue the broader and infinite, and they value the most ideal results in the simplest and most secure way.

The Chinese emphasize on implicitness, that is, to reflect the things that are not expressed from the limited things that are expressed, that is to say, implicitness can stimulate your association and thinking.Low-key is just like this, it is an important means to enhance the "artistic conception", even if you show a certain fragment or partial thing, it can make people who see you "think about it and think endlessly".A low-key permeated with a profound "artistic conception", leaving people with room for deep thought and reverie, rich reverie and strong resonance.Low-key also means elegance, like after a period of accumulation, independent, natural, and self-disciplined, it can radiate brilliance for a long time and complement each other, but it is not dazzling.If you use material to represent low-key, low-key is like a pearl-round and delicate, but without losing the breathtaking brilliance.

Not all successful people keep a low profile.Of course, there is nothing wrong with wantonly enjoying success in front of people. Xiang Yu said that if you are rich and do not return to your hometown, you will be "walking in brocade clothes at night". Even if you put on good clothes, no one will see you. Most of us have this mentality. After all, people who have achieved great success are generally unlikely to be willing to keep a low profile.There are always a small number of people who really refuse to accept the Nobel Prize like the famous French existentialist philosopher Sartre.Of course, Sartre's low-key is a bit extreme, and it is impossible for us ordinary people to do it.

However, to be a low-key person is not to blindly endure, but to do things in a high-key manner, so as to better display the brilliance of being a low-key person.

So high-profile work, how should we do things?
First, when accepting any job, you must think of three aspects: What to do?How to do it?How to do better?Don't underestimate these three aspects, they are the basis for you to do a good job.

A small story can be used to illustrate: "Zhang San feels that he has worked for many years and his salary is low, but Li Si, who is a latecomer to the company, has a good salary. Later, Zhang San talked to the company manager and asked the manager to raise his salary. The manager didn't say anything, so Zhang San went to the vegetable market to see if there was any potato seller. Zhang San went, came back after a while, and said to the manager, "Yes", and the manager asked, "How much is it per catty? "Zhang San couldn't answer, so he asked again. When he didn't want to come back, the manager asked about the place of production. Zhang San wanted to ask again. The manager said: "Wait a minute, let Li Si go there." After a while, Li Si came back and reported to the manager: "I have visited all the vegetable markets. There are two places that sell potatoes. The ones from Heilongjiang are 2 cents a catty, which is better. The ones from Jilin are 1 cents, which are smaller." .I inquired carefully again, and there are not many products in the two companies. It is estimated that they will be out of stock after they are sold out. It is autumn now, and many families and hotels are purchasing. According to the purchase situation I just saw, the stock may be out of stock tomorrow or the day after tomorrow. I called the local wholesale market, and the potato harvest is not good this year..." The manager did not comment on the investigation, but at this time, Zhang San bowed his head in shame, and no longer mentioned the salary increase.

The second is whether there is any wrong direction in doing things?Otherwise, it will be the opposite.What interferes with the process?Objective, man-made, subjective, irresistible factors, etc., analyze any factor that can affect the goal, and formulate a countermeasure in advance, so as to ensure the successful completion of your work.Many people don’t do their work well, and they always have such and such excuses in the work report. Even if it’s a good excuse, your boss will think, if so-and-so came to do this thing, it wouldn’t be like this It turned out, because he had experience, even if he didn't, he could think of it in advance.So, thinking in advance is often more useful than finding 100 excuses after you fail.

How to make a satisfactory report?Reporting work is actually an art. After the work is completed, no matter the result is good or bad, you must make a report. After all, the leader entrusts you to do such important things, so you should reply and report after completion!In actual work, the difficulties you encounter must be much greater than what the leader imagined. If you understate or even don’t say it, the leader knows so many good ways of you, so you have to say it, and you must say it at the right time. Leaders know your intellect.

How to use cleverness to promote yourself?A person is a brand, and the smell of wine is still afraid of deep alleys?You must know how to promote yourself, promote your brand, and establish a good brand image and reputation. A good brand image is not something you say, but something you do.When things are done well, we must know how to publicize. The publicity is not only in our company/unit, but also in other companies and units, and even our professional circle.Don't blow yourself up!
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