To unite, we will prosper; if we divide, we will decline.
Section 1: Cooperation is power
Helping others is the foundation of happiness.
1. Cooperation of Canada Geese
Hartrell Wilson is a high-level speaker. He once said that when he was a child in East Texas, he once had a conversation with Two friends were walking together on an abandoned railway track. One of them was of average build and the other was a fat man. The children competed to see who could go the farthest on the tracks, and Hartrell and his skinnier friend only took a few steps before falling off. But the fat boy went even further.
Finally, driven by curiosity, he wanted to know the mystery. The obese friend pointed out that Hartell fell because he was looking at his feet while walking on the tracks with his friend. So he explained that he was so fat that he couldn't see his feet, so he could only pick a goal (a long-term goal) far away on the railroad tracks and walk toward it. When he got close to the target, he picked another target (you can go as far as you can see, and when you get there, you can see further) and walked again towards the new target .
Fat Boy philosophically pointed out that if you look down at your feet, all you see is rust and smelly plants. Instead, you can actually see your goal being achieved when you see it travel some distance along the rails.
In addition, I would like to say one more thing: If Hartrell and his friend walked hand in hand on two different railroad tracks, they would be able to keep walking without fall. This is the value of cooperation. As George Matthew Arden said: "He who helps others climb the ladder climbs highest." If you help others get what they need, you will get what you want, and the more you help, the more you will get. The reason why I repeat this sentence is because many young people have been indoctrinated with this garbage idea: you have to trample on others, ruin others, and use others to climb to the top. In fact, the opposite is true.
Canada geese instinctively understand the value of cooperation. No doubt you'll often notice them flying in a V-shape, with one side of the V being longer than the other. (The reason one side of the V is longer than the other is because there are more geese). These geese will regularly change the leader goose, because the leader goose in the flock is in the leading position and can help the geese on the left and right create a partial vacuum. Scientists found in wind tunnel tests that a group of geese flying in a V-shape can fly 12 miles farther than a single goose flying alone.
The same goes for humans, who tend to fly higher, farther, and faster when they cooperate rather than fight each other.
One of the best sources of help (and, unfortunately, the most overlooked) is family, especially a spouse. If your wife or husband can work alongside you instead of just winging it, you'll be able to achieve your goals faster and easier, and you'll have more fun doing it. Don't be too surprised or disappointed if your spouse doesn't share your enthusiasm at first. Sell ??your idea well and let your spouse know how important his or her cooperation and interest are, and you'll both reap huge rewards in the process. This close connection and shared interests is important because it allows you to build a more meaningful relationship. This is a beautiful goal in itself.
2. Cooperation produces strength
Cooperation is the beginning of all joint efforts. A group of people banded together to achieve a specific goal. Napoleon Hill called this cooperation "working together."
The three most important factors in the "Working Together" process are:
Dedication, cooperation and coordination.
You can take the industry or profession you are engaged in as an example. After analysis, you will find that its only limitation is that it does not play the role of alliance and cooperation. We can take the legal industry as an example.
If a law firm only has one kind of thinking, even if it has a dozen highly capable people, its development will be greatly limited.
The intricate legal system requires a variety of talents that no one person can provide.
Therefore, simply organizing people is clearly not enough to ensure outstanding success. Each person included in a good organization must be able to offer a special talent that other members do not possess.
A well-organized law firm must have people with special talents for preparing a variety of cases, as well as people with imagination who know how to incorporate legal provisions and evidence into a good plan. A person with these abilities may not necessarily also have the ability to handle cases in court. Therefore, law firms must hire people who are familiar with court procedures. If we analyze further, we will find that there are many different types of cases that require different experts to prepare and handle the cases in court. A lawyer who specializes in corporate law may be completely unfamiliar with criminal cases.
If a lawyer understands the principles of "organization and cooperation" and is looking for a partner in a law firm, then he or she will look for a lawyer who understands what he or she wants to implement. Lawyers specializing in law and procedure. People who have no concept of this principle may adopt the usual "leave it to fate" approach when choosing a partner, looking for someone who has a similar personality or knows them well, rather than considering their special talents in law.
In almost all areas of business, at least three types of talent are needed - buyers, salespeople and people familiar with finance. When these three types of people coordinate and cooperate with each other, they will jointly exert power that they cannot exert individually.
Many businesses fail primarily because their employees are salespeople, finance people, or purchasing people. Essentially, the most capable salespeople are optimistic and enthusiastic, while the most capable finance people are generally rational, thoughtful, and conservative. Both types of people are essential to any successful business. But if they can't influence each other, it won't make much difference to any business.
Three promoters and managers
In modern enterprises, whether in industry, commerce or finance, we can find two kinds of talents, one is usually called " Dynamic" talents, and the other type is called "balanced" talents. ".
One of the most famous law firms in the United States was founded as a partnership between two lawyers. One of them had never been to court and was responsible for preparing all litigation materials for the cases the firm took on; the firm The other lawyer is in charge of court cases. Both are very active actors, but they each show their behavior in different ways.
If you want to have a place in this world, first. You should analyze yourself to see if you are a "driven" person or a "balanced" person, and then choose a "clear goal" that is of the same nature as your own talents. With other people doing business, you should also analyze them and try to let each person do the job that best suits their nature.
In other words, people can be divided into two categories: facilitators and managers. A promoter can be a competent salesman or an organizer. A manager can be an excellent custodian of the company's assets after they are acquired.
A "manager" employee will happily manage a company. A "promoter" is assigned to manage a set of books, but he will feel sad if he is assigned to manage a set of books. books, he will feel sad; his personality requires him to engage in active and intensive activities; passive action cannot satisfy his ambition, and if the work he is engaged in does not enable him to obtain the kind of action his personality requires, then he will is a loser. We often find that people who embezzle public funds are "collaborators" who would not do it if we offered them the job that best suits them.
If a job suits his personality, he will do it wholeheartedly.
The greatest tragedy in the world is that most people never engage in a job that best suits their personality.
People often make the mistake of choosing or engaging in the most lucrative career or job from a financial perspective, without considering their own personality and abilities. If money alone brings a sense of accomplishment, there is nothing wrong with such a choice. But the noblest sense of accomplishment is peace of mind, enjoyment, and happiness, which can only be achieved by those who do work they love.
4. Cooperation has double rewards
Off the coast of Norway, there is one of the most famous and irresistible whirlpools in the world. The maelstrom spins endlessly and is so terrifying that anyone caught in it will never be able to escape.
Similarly, those who do not understand the principle of cooperative efforts will also move towards the whirlpool of life, and they will inevitably encounter unfortunate destruction. Evidence of "survival of the fittest" is everywhere in our world. The "fittest" here are those who have power, and power is cooperative effort.
Unfortunately, some people, through ignorance or arrogance, mistakenly believe that they have the ability to sail a fragile little sailboat into the dangerous sea of ??life. These men will discover that some eddies are far more dangerous than any dangerous sea.
When people are engaged in an unfriendly battle, no matter where they are, and no matter the nature and cause of the battle, we can find such a vortex waiting near the battlefield. These fighters.
Only through peaceful and harmonious cooperative efforts can we achieve success in life. One person cannot achieve success alone. Even if a person runs into seclusion in the wilderness, far away from all kinds of human civilization, he still needs to rely on forces other than himself to survive. The more he blends into civilization, the more he must rely on the power of cooperation.
Whether a person relies on hard work during the day or interest income, as long as he can cooperate friendly with others, his life will become smoother. Moreover, those whose life philosophy is based on "cooperation" rather than "competition" will not only be more likely to live a good life, live a comfortable and luxurious life, but also enjoy the extra "happiness" of others. "This is something that others can never enjoy.
Wealth obtained through cooperation will not leave scars on the owner's soul; but if wealth is obtained through conflict and competition, it will inevitably leave a scar on the owner's mind. The possessor is miserable.
Whether it is striving to accumulate material wealth in order to survive or to obtain a luxurious life, these efforts occupy most of our time in this earthly life. If we cannot change our human nature. This materialistic tendency can at least change the way of pursuing wealth, that is, "cooperation" can be used as the basis of the method of pursuing wealth.
"Cooperation" can bring double rewards: on the one hand, it can give us. Brings everything we need in life; on the other hand, it gives us inner peace that a greedy person can never get
It cannot be denied that a greedy person may accumulate. Huge material wealth. But he will sell his soul for a small profit.
Five divisions lead to destruction
We live in an era of cooperation. Businesses all operate under some form of cooperation.
We only have to glance at the newspaper news of the day and we will surely see the unparalleled results created by the merger of companies under the same management agency. Power reports.
Today there is a group of bank mergers, tomorrow there is a group of railroad companies, and a few days later there are several steel company mergers. All these alliances are designed to take advantage of a high degree of unity and unity. Cooperate to develop unparalleled power.
Knowledge is not real power because it is dispersed and unorganized; it is only a potential force from which any modern power can be developed. Libraries contain the legacy of our time - all the precious unorganized knowledge, but this knowledge is not power because it is not organized and united.
Every form of energy and every form of animal and plant life must unite if they are to survive.
After those huge animals became extinct in ancient times, their remains were filled in every corner of nature. They disappeared without a trace, but left behind very conclusive evidence that if they did not unite, they would be doomed to extinction.
From electrons to the smallest protons, to the largest planets in the universe, these substances all prove that one of the original laws of the universe is "organization." The luckiest people are those who recognize the importance of this law and are familiar with the various ways of using it to their advantage.
The most difficult thing is that people must not only realize the importance of the law of unity, but also use this law as the latitude and longitude of their own strength.
It is well known that one of the most difficult tasks of any entrepreneur is to get the people with whom he works to contribute their strength and wisdom in a harmonious spirit.
In any enterprise, it is difficult to encourage employees to continuously contribute their wisdom and labor. Only the most capable leaders can achieve this ideal. But occasionally a great leader emerges who becomes famous in his profession and his name spreads around the world. Such as Henry Ford, Thomas Edison, Rockefeller, Harriman and Napoleon Hill.
Strength and success go hand in hand. Therefore, anyone who develops strength by mastering this knowledge and ability - the principle of harmonious unity of thought - can achieve success in any industry.
6. Cooperation is the basis of leadership
If a person can guide others to cooperate, carry out effective team work, or inspire others to become more active, then his enthusiasm will not No less than one who provides effective service in a more direct manner.
In industry and commerce, there are some people with strong abilities who are able to inspire and guide their subordinates to achieve greater achievements than would be possible without such guiding influence. Carnegie was known to steer some of his personal staff around, making many of them wealthy as well.
Every sales manager, every military leader, and leaders from all walks of life understand the necessity of "a spirit of understanding and cooperation." This spirit is necessary for success. This spirit of harmony among the masses can be achieved through automatic or enforced discipline. In this case, individual thoughts will merge into a "think tank", that is, individual thoughts will be transformed and each other's thoughts will be integrated.
There are many ways to bring about this convergence process, and just like the ways to place individuals in leadership positions in all walks of life, each leader has his own way of coordinating the minds of his followers. Some people use coercion, some use persuasion, and some use punishment or reward, all with the purpose of reducing the number of individual ideas in the group and integrating them into a whole. Readers don't need to delve deep into the worlds of politics, business, or finance to understand the techniques their respective leaders use in fusing their individual ideas into a collective one.
However, the world's truly great leaders were born of an idea that had the property of attracting other ideas. The most obvious example of this is Napoleon Bonaparte, who had a mind like a magnet that attracted the thoughts of everyone he came in contact with. Napoleon's soldiers were able to sacrifice generously for him without flinching because they were attracted by his charisma.
Any competent leader who understands the spirit of cooperation may temporarily integrate the thoughts of any group so that they represent only one collective thought; however, once the leader leaves the group, the integrated collective thought will Will split and collapse immediately.
The most successful life insurance sales organizations or other sales groups hold weekly meetings, or even more than once. What is the purpose of this? That is to integrate the thoughts of all individuals into a think tank and continuously inspire individual thoughts over a period of time.
The leaders of these groups may not realize what happens at these meetings, known as "encouragement meetings."
The routine agenda of these meetings usually includes conversations from the group leader or others, and sometimes input from people outside the group, where individual ideas are exchanged and encouraged.
The human mind can be compared to a battery. The battery's power will be exhausted or decay, leaving people feeling frustrated, discouraged and lacking encouragement. Who can avoid this feeling? The human brain must recharge during times of frustration, and to do this it must be in contact with a more energetic brain. Great leaders understand the need for this "recharging" process and how to achieve it. This is the main difference between leaders and followers.
Don’t forget to try this experiment.
You cannot talk to others in a positive and enterprising spirit unless you have a strong desire to do so. Every word you say to others using the principle of autosuggestion will leave an extremely deep impression on your subconscious mind, regardless of whether what you say is true or false.
Seven: Collaboration accelerates success
In the process of developing self-confidence and leadership skills, you must also cultivate a collaborative spirit.
No one can achieve lasting success without the assistance and cooperation of others. When two or more people join together in any way, in a spirit of harmony and understanding, each person in the alliance increases exponentially their ability to achieve.
This principle is most evident in companies where a perfect team spirit is maintained between bosses and employees. Wherever there is this team spirit, there is prosperity and amity on both sides.
The word "cooperation" is considered one of the most important words in English writing. In family affairs, in the relationship between husband and wife, in the relationship between parents and children, the word "cooperation" plays a very important role. Because the principle of "cooperation" is so important, any leader who does not understand and apply this principle in the leadership process cannot become a strong and lasting leader.
More business ventures fail due to lack of collaboration than any other combination of reasons. In Napoleon Hill's 25 years of business experience and observation, he has witnessed various enterprises fail or even be destroyed due to conflict and lack of cooperative principles. In the course of his legal work, he has seen numerous cases where families have been broken up due to a lack of cooperation between couples. While studying the nation's history, he discovered that a lack of cooperation has been the bane of humanity throughout the ages. Looking through these histories and studying these histories, people will have a deep impression of cooperation, and this impression will be automatically engraved in your consciousness and will never be erased.