Text/Liang Wendao
I am most afraid that the word "successful person" mentioned by others will give me goose bumps. What is a successful person? Why are we so eager for success? Woolf? The Great Loser written by Xu Nida tells you that losers can be great.
Rommel is a very powerful loser. He was a world-famous German star during World War II. He is a Nazi field marshal, nicknamed "Desert Fox". At that time, Rommel was fighting against Britain in North Africa, and the Germans were completely in a weak position, and their numbers and equipment were far less than those of the British. However, Rommel was able to use the "blitzkrieg" technology in a mysterious way, concentrating a large number of tanks on the front line. This momentum alone shocked the British army, which was defeated and fled in several battles.
His extraordinary military talent is admired even by his opponents. When he led the German army to beat the shit out of the British North African Legion, the British press gave him a title-"Desert Fox". Churchill also publicly praised in the British Parliament: "Rommel was a great commander in chief. Although he frightened us in the war, I still want to say this sentence! "
But he was later transferred back to Germany and disagreed with Hitler on many things. Later, some of his men wanted to launch a coup to assassinate Hitler. Rommel disapproved, but of course he knew. This aroused Hitler's suspicion and made him commit suicide by taking poison when he was seriously ill and undergoing surgery. Looking at the ending, Rommel is also a loser.
But such a failure may not be the most pitiful. The book also mentions a British chemist Rosalyn? Franklin, she was only 37 when she died. We all think that the discoverer of the double helix structure of human genetics is James? Watson and Francis? Crick Watson also wrote a book, The Double Spiral, boasting about how great his discovery was. Actually, Rosalyn. Franklin was the real discoverer of the double helix structure.
Franklin is a chemist who takes experimental data very seriously. She did experiments with X-ray diffraction analysis for nearly a year, and found that the model deduced by Watson and Crick was wrong. Then she continued to study around the clock, and finally successfully made a perfect X-ray diffraction analysis photo for the first time in July 1952. In this picture, we can clearly see the double helix structure of gene DNA. She was the first to take a photo and proved that the structure was real.
But this photo was secretly shown to Watson by one of her colleagues without her permission. Watson saw this photo and suddenly realized that it inspired his whole research. 1953 In April, Watson and Crick published a paper in the authoritative magazine Nature, claiming to have discovered the double helix structure.
Is this stealing? Just like Bill? Gates' inspiration for stealing apples is the same as Apple's inspiration for stealing mice from the laboratory. Franklin endured all this silently until 1958 died of cancer. When Watson and Crick won the Nobel Prize in 1962, they said nothing about Franklin's contribution. Even in their later autobiographies, they constantly belittled her, saying that she was just a "mechanic" and a woman with "messy hair and sloppy clothes". In short, this description is very unbearable.
In this world, we often think that many important and great things are done by successful people. Many successful people are often just cunning, cold and heartless. On the contrary, many losers finally laughed.
What kind of person do you want to be? I believe that most people will succeed. There are too many people in this world who are encouraging and educating people on how to succeed. In fact, most people are just losers in the end. Therefore, instead of learning how to succeed, it is better to learn how to be a smiling loser first.
Don't be intimidated by imaginary difficulties.
Text/Zhou Li
10 years ago, he worked in a depressed state-owned enterprise with only a few hundred dollars a month. Even if he scrimps and saves, life is still stretched. For several years, the three of them have been confined to a single dormitory less than 15 square meter. Apart from a 25-inch color TV, there is hardly anything valuable at home.
Faced with such a dilemma, he also complained and thought about finding another way. However, he flinched at the thought of the unpredictable future. After all, it is still barely passable. The unit bought "five insurances and one gold", which will guarantee the old. And what can I do except turn? Lane is bad, even the home can't guarantee food and clothing. On the whole, he still thinks it is better to maintain the status quo.
Although I usually complain and curse in my heart, I still engage in the work at hand day after day and year after year. He thinks that as long as he works hard and behaves well, he will definitely get a raise in salary in the future. When you have saved enough money for the down payment, you can open the commercial house and simply decorate it, so you can live a more comfortable life.
However, even such a small dream cannot be realized if it is not successful. 200 1 due to poor management and serious losses, the unit had to lay off employees to alleviate the immediate crisis. Unfortunately, he was included in the list of the first laid-off workers. Being laid off is like a bolt from the blue for a man with a senior and a junior. In order not to lose this job, he took out what little savings he had, bought two bottles of good wine and a good cigarette, and went to the leader's house. He desperately begged the leader (he just didn't kneel down to the leader), hoping that the leader would sympathize with his difficulties and leave him behind. The leader said helplessly after listening, there is no way. If we don't lay off staff, the factory will lose its job. In the end, he said all kinds of things, but he still couldn't keep the job.
That day, he came home with no strength, as if the sky were falling and despair was extreme. He dare not imagine how miserable life would be after losing the only energy in life. During that time, he felt particularly lost, confused and panicked, and didn't know where the future was. Of course, pain returns to pain, helplessness returns to helplessness, and life has to go on. In desperation, he had to face the reality and find another way out. Not long after, he and his wife packed their bags and went to work in Guangdong.
Unexpectedly, ten years later, the desperate laid-off workers not only solved the problem of food and clothing, but also got luxury villas and luxury cars. Today, he is the boss of a group company, which owns five enterprises with assets of several billion yuan. Every time he recalls the past, he is always filled with emotion. If it weren't for the layoffs in his company, I'm afraid he would still be a mediocre skilled worker and lead a life of discontent.
It turns out that the driving force behind mediocrity and failure is not others, but ourselves. The biggest enemy in life is not failure, but a heart that is content with the status quo. On the one hand, people long for a happy life, on the other hand, they are afraid of change. People are always used to the existing living conditions and are unwilling to make new attempts. The result is stuck in the same place all my life, and I can only sigh and watch others succeed. In fact, changing the status quo is not as difficult and terrible as imagined, it only takes a little courage.
Don't trip over the grass.
A famous saying about not being afraid of difficulties
All the difficulties are to make us stronger.
Smart people work hard.
Wen/zhong butterfly
Xu Lei is a graduate of a famous university of political science and law. Under the extremely severe employment situation, Xu Lei has excellent conditions in all aspects and passed the judicial examination. Therefore, when others were busy at work, he easily went to a law firm as a paralegal.
This law firm is very famous, and all the people who can work in this law firm are elites in the industry, with considerable income. With him is a man named Zhang Qiang, who graduated from a third-rate university and failed several judicial examinations. Therefore, Xu Lei looked down upon Zhang Qiang very much in his mind. Although when applying for a job, he said that the probation period was three months, and two people could only leave one, but Xu Lei didn't take Zhang Qiang seriously at all.
When they first entered the company, Xu Lei and Zhang Qiang were arranged to sort out the documents and distribute the tasks equally. Xu Lei looked at the mountain of papers and thought: When will it be finished? Zhang qiang word, silly to dry up. The most ridiculous thing is that Zhang Qiang read the contents page by page when sorting out the documents. Finally, he took notes with a notebook, and from time to time asked some questions that Xu Lei thought were stupid to the extreme. Therefore, he is called a big idiot behind his back.
Lawyers in the office don't spend much time in the office, and they spend most of their time running outside. So, most of the time, there are only two of them in the office. Whenever this time, Xu Lei threw the file in his hand to Zhang Qiang, and he went to investigate how to be a high-paid lawyer.
Xu Lei tried his best to finally know that to be an excellent lawyer, the most important thing is to have a strong business development ability, so that there is a lot of room for development. So he found Guo, the most qualified lawyer in the firm, and asked him to take himself to handle the case. Lawyer Guo agreed.
When following Mr. Guo to meet the parties, see the judge or appear in court, Zhang Qiang is slowly processing the case file, packing things and serving tea.
When Xu Lei was writing a complaint, a lawyer's letter, a contract, and went out to put on record, Zhang Qiang was still slowly working on the file, and at the same time doing cleaning and serving tea.
Xu Lei laughed at Zhang Qiang. You are so stupid. It seems that you have been working for others for three months for nothing. Zhang Qiang smiled and said, "No, I learned a lot." Xu Lei thought, what a fool! What can you learn by sorting out documents, cleaning up and serving tea and water?
The three-month probation period is coming soon, and the director is coming to see Xu Lei for the first time. Xu Lei thought, the director is here to talk about treatment. I have to ask for more.
However, what the director said made him angry to the extreme. The director said that the institute had studied it, and he was going to leave Zhang Qiang and let Xu Lei find another job.
The director looked at Xu Lei dumbfounded and asked him, "Do you think you are better than Zhang Qiangqiang and more capable than Zhang Qiang? Is it you who should stay the most?"
Tone & justo nodded.
The director then asked, "What have you learned in these three months?"
Xu Lei said: "I have followed more than a dozen cases and have mastered all the handling procedures. I will soon be able to handle cases independently."
"Do you want to know what Zhang Qiang has learned?" The director asked.
What can that idiot learn from doing chores all day and failing the judicial exam? Xu Lei was unconvinced.
The director took out a statistical table and said it was Zhang Jianggan. Xu Lei took a look, and counted the types, objects, sources and other aspects of the pile of cases compiled by Zhang Qiang, and even analyzed the cases and handling characteristics that each lawyer was best at.
The director then took out five big notes: "Look, this is Zhang Qiang's notes on each case study. What he doesn't understand is marked in red, and he also indicates who can consult and the direction of future efforts. "
Xu Lei bowed his head and finally admitted that he really lost to Zhang Qiang in this battle. It took him three months to learn the experience of more than a dozen cases, while Zhang Qiang learned the experience of hundreds of cases in the most stupid way.
Xu Lei used to feel that he was short of something, not smart, not diligent and not practical. It was not until he met Zhang Qiang that he realized that what he lacked was this spirit of hard work. Zhang Qiang taught him the most important lesson in his life: truly smart people know the stupidest kung fu, and it is often such people who go farthest over time.
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