Opportunities are rare but rare. Once an opportunity comes, you must seize it, otherwise success will elude you. There are many little things in our real lives that may trigger our inspiration and create opportunities for us to succeed.
The success of Geely, the safety blade king, is a good example.
Before Geely invented the blade, he was a salesman for a bottle cap company. For 20 years, he has been living frugally and spending all the money he saved on invention research. But 20 years later, he still has accomplished nothing.
In 1985, Geely went on a business trip to Boston and bought a train ticket one day in advance. The next day, he got up a little late, washed himself in a hurry, and then shaved. The hotel waiter hurriedly ran in: "Sir, the train will leave in 5 minutes!" When Geely heard this, his hands began to tremble with nervousness, and he accidentally scratched his mouth.
This incident made Geely start to think, "It would be great if we invent a knife that is not easy to hurt the skin. It will definitely be very popular."
So he started working on it this research. After tens of millions of tests, Geely finally invented the safety blade, which we are still using today. Geely has therefore become the world's safety blade king.
There is a poor painter named Jin Puman in Florida, USA. His painting tools are extremely simple, only a pencil that has been sharpened to a very short length.
One day, Jin Puman was drawing. When he wanted to revise, he couldn't find the eraser. He found it with great effort, but he didn't know where he put the pencil. He started looking for the pencil again, and after he found it, to prevent this from happening again, he simply tied the eraser to the end of the pencil. But after a while, the rubber fell off.
Later, he came up with a good idea. He used a small piece of thin iron to wrap the eraser and pencil together. Sure enough, this method is quite effective and brings great convenience to Jinpuman. He applied for a patent for this small invention and sold it to a pencil company, thus earning $550,000. Since then, his living conditions have greatly improved.
Sometimes an accidental mistake may bring you an opportunity for success.
Junburn Burt is a pharmacist living in Atlantic City. He painstakingly developed a syrup to treat headaches and dizziness. After he prepared the recipe, he ordered his helpers to dissolve it with water and make a syrup.
Once, his helper was careless and poured soda water into the formula as plain water. Unexpectedly, when he poured it in, the "syrup" began to bubble. This frightened the helper. He was afraid that the boss would know about it, so he wanted to drink it. He took a small sip first and tried to taste it. The taste was not bad, and he continued to drink it. After a few sips, the more I drank, the better it tasted. Thus, Coca-Cola was born, and as soon as it was launched, its sales volume was astonishing and it became a best-selling beverage known around the world. It was invented by accident.
Sometimes, opportunities will come to you.
Hongwei Hongchi is one of the top ten chaebols in Osaka, Japan, but he was an unknown small businessman at first.
One day, Hongchi had a dispute with his servant. The servant casually grabbed a handful of stove ashes and raised them, most of which fell into the wine barrel. (Japanese sake at that time was all cloudy, and there was no sake like the sake we drink today).
The next day, Hongchi discovered that there was a layer of sediment at the bottom of the barrel, but the wine above was unusually clear. This phenomenon surprised him. He tried a taste and it tasted very good. Later, he repeatedly studied and demonstrated this phenomenon and found that lime has the effect of filtering turbid wine.
After this discovery, Hongchi made sake, which created the opportunity for him to become a millionaire later. This is also thanks to the servant who quarreled with him! But the most important thing is that Hongchi did not let go of that special phenomenon. The ultimate success was due to his unremitting research!
There are many such examples, and the invention of roller skates is also one of them:
Zach, who lives in New York, is a local civil servant and does nothing all day long. His biggest hobby is skating.
In winter, ice can freeze everywhere in New York. Whenever he has free time, he has to go outside to skate, and he has a crazy hobby for this. But when summer came, he couldn't skate anymore, so he got bored.
There is an indoor ice rink in New York, but it requires money to enter. For Zach, who has such a hobby of skating, one or two skating cannot satisfy him. However, as a civil servant, his income It's also extremely limited, so I can't go often, so I have to stay at home. The feeling of having nothing to do is very uncomfortable.
One day, he suddenly had an idea: "If wheels are installed under the shoes, they can replace skates. Then just an ordinary flat road can be used as an ice rink."
p>So, after several months of preparation, he collaborated with his friends to open a small factory manufacturing roller-skate. To his disbelief, the product was welcomed by people as soon as it was put on the market, and gradually expanded its sales area. It was eventually accepted by people all over the world and became a very best-selling product. Within a few days, he became a millionaire.
The above facts prove that opportunities are very important for a successful person, but opportunities are not encountered by everyone. They only favor those who are diligent in thinking and good at observing. . Otherwise, there are millions of people shaving and using pencils, but there is only one person who invented the safety blade and eraser-tipped pencil.
Pay more attention to life, the next winner may be you!