"The torrent of time is rolling forward. Every moment, you are faced with a choice. The alarm clock when you wake up rings. Should you sleep longer or go to work quickly; for dinner with friends in the evening, choose this hot pot or that Japanese food ; Finally it’s a holiday, whether to stay in the city or go out to travel...by the side of the sunken boat, thousands of sails have been read, countless bits and pieces of choices have made your life unique scenery. When it comes to the last moment of life, look back at your each This choice, will you regret it?"
Tomorrow is like chocolate candies in a box, you never know what the next one will taste like.
Think about it, where will your growth target be in the next ten years?
Choice is more important than hard work?
But this is not absolute, it needs to be viewed dialectically. Therefore, the correct statement should be to add three words in front: " Sometimes, choice is more important than effort ."
Some people have picked sesame seeds and lost watermelon because of too many choices. Being confused with too many choices is sometimes not a good thing, but instead becomes impetuous and forgets to work hard. So for these people, don't worry too much and lose your way, always think that the others are good and that good. Find the direction you want to study well, and continue to deliberately practice to stick to it. At this time, what you need is persistence and dedication. What you need is to give great meaning to what you are doing and do what you think is right and meaningful, regardless of what others say or think.
Don't think about thousands of roads at night, get up in the morning and walk the same way. As the saying goes, everything is difficult at the beginning, but the difficulty is to take the first step. The first step is the most important and critical. Many people are often awed by this step and give up their thoughts. This first step is like a threshold. If you really step into it, you may find that everything is not as difficult as you think. So sometimes you don’t need to struggle too much to change. Famous investor Charlie · Munger said : " If you do not do some very difficult things and very easy to make mistakes, you will not be able to live a successful life is the nature of the game, if you try to avoid every failure, you will. Will not have enough courage".
Here I will only discuss why it is said that sometimes choice is more important than effort, and what is more important than choice. Rather than entangled in the meaningless war of words about who is more important than whom.
Why is choice more important than effort? Because the wrong choice will lead to sorrow, no matter how hard you try, you will stay in place.
How can we make better choices? What is needed is a vision and pattern to understand the trends of the next ten or twenty years. How can we do this is a question worth thinking about. One thing is certain, that is, never forget to learn and get used to thinking, receive new knowledge and information every day and make changes different from yesterday.
The most taboo thing is day after day, because that will be year after year, and the final thing will be your dull life.
How can we make better choices? Need to work hard to improve their abilities and cognition. Never stop making progress and insist on doing what you think is right and meaningful.
How can we make better choices? What is needed is a source of self-reflection, the pursuit of improvement, and the pursuit of progress. Zeng Zi said: "My day and my body are three times." We also need to constantly reflect on ourselves and review ourselves, and adjust our state and direction in time. Ask yourself, have you persisted? Are you working hard? Are you better today than you were yesterday? What about ten years later? Are you standing still? Don't underestimate the strength of persistence and accumulation. Without accumulation of silicon, there will be no steps, and without accumulation of small flows, there will be no rivers. The strength of persistence, dripping water can penetrate the stone.
How can we make better choices? We need to have some excellent qualities. Such as self-confidence, such as perseverance, such as strong, such as independent thinking, such as interest, such as love to read and study and think. Maybe you don't have these for the time being, but there is one thing you need to have, that is, you have to be able to introspect, discover your own shortcomings and make improvements. In fact, no one has these qualities at birth. People have a subjective sense of self and are affected by the environment. You never know where you will go tomorrow, and what other unusual things you will come into contact with. For example, one day you happen to see a certain sentence or a certain book, or a certain information that a colleague talked to you, the opinions in the book or a certain sentence of them may affect you and change the trajectory of your work. Why is the environment important? You go to a good university and integrate into a good circle. In fact, the root cause is that a good environment can affect you and open your eyes. If you don't see or hear it, it may be another result. But one thing is certain, if you don't keep this heart in mind, even if the information from the outside is valuable, it may not leave your heart.
Why can these good qualities be cultivated?
For example, self-confidence. If you are not self-confident, it is because your previous environment may have affected you and caused your inferiority complex. If you read more books and think more, you may open your heart knot and regain self-confidence.
I recently watched a movie "McFarlane". This story shows that hope and faith guide light and survival, while despair and decadence guide darkness and death. Everyone can be the master of his own destiny, it depends on whether you want to, dare you, believe it or not, try or not.
For example, persistence. If you can't persist, then look at the great people. Everything is the most important thing in persistence, the difficulty is persistence, there is nothing difficult in the world, as long as you are willing to climb. In May 1965, the author set foot on Jinggang Mountain again and reviewed his past 38 years. "Thirty-eight years have passed, with a single flick. You can go up to nine days to capture the moon, you can go to the oceans to catch turtles, talk and laugh triumphantly. There is nothing difficult in the world, as long as you are willing to climb."
Take independent thinking, for example, you must have the ability to think independently, and don’t lose your subjective judgment by believing in authority.
If you don't like to read and study, then listen to what others say, why do you want to read and study. Yang Shoubin, founder of Fenghou Capital, said: "Diligence and hard work are not sufficient conditions for success. The root of the gap between rich and poor lies in cognition." A person's cognition of the world and things determines his actions and determines his success or failure. "Most people's cognition is in the stage of ignorance throughout their lives. Only by continuous learning can they gradually move towards enlightenment and eventually become the owner of wisdom." People have paid for cognition all their lives. Only by actively seeking changes and accepting new ideas and new things can we continue to make progress and improve our cognition.
Why is there a saying that listening to your words is better than reading ten years?
Is the effect of a certain sentence or a certain message sometimes better than ten years of reading? Indeed it is. Because the biggest change in people, the most miraculous change, is a change in thinking. And this remark may change your thinking, improve your cognition, and affect your actions. Reading and studying is the fastest and most effective way to absorb the thoughts and nutrition of others. Books, why do you want to read more? Because the book, it is the essence of other people's thoughts. The book that can be published and sold to you must have its advantages. Absorbed and processed by your own brain is your own wealth. Can you surpass the author of the book? Maybe not for the time being. So read more and learn from the best of others. Precipitation, accumulation, for my use. Gradually, it can be achieved, green, out of blue is better than blue. Ice, water is colder than water for it.
Maybe you would say that I am not interested in these, and interest needs to be cultivated. Being interested in something is more conducive to our growth, because interest is the best teacher. Cultivating interest is also easy, the key is whether you are willing to devote time and energy to the interest.
Continuous growth is what you need to do in your heart.
Keep your feet on the ground, and do it to change. Believe in your own efforts, instead of believing that there will be pie in the sky.
Read more books, study and think, the wider your knowledge boundary, the more potential opportunities.
Be self-disciplined, reflect often, and cherish time. The time after get off work is a battlefield that widens the gap between each other.