Do you feel useless and unable to find the way forward? Is it a suffocating feeling to live in this competitive and stressful space? Is it puzzling to see the growing gap between others and yourself?
Don't worry, let's have a look. Kazuo inamori, a famous Japanese business manager and life mentor, published a book called Advice for Young People. In view of the current young people's life confusion (meaning of life, career choice, attitude towards life). Give us methods and suggestions, and let us cultivate our self-cultivation. Face life, life and work with a good state, mentality and personality.
Kazuo inamori founded Kyoto Ceramics Co., Ltd. (Kyocera) at the age of 27 and Second Electric Co., Ltd. at the age of 52. He used his unique philosophy of life and management to make these two enterprises become the top 500 in the world. He is the most respected business owner and life mentor of Ji Xianlin, Ma Yun, Zhang Ruimin, Yu, and other famous people.
Kazuo inamori spirit includes life attitude, philosophy, thought, ethics and other factors. He suggested that the criteria for leaders to select talents should be higher than talents, that is, people who live above others should put personality first, courage second and ability third. Now there are works: Dry Method, Autobiography of kazuo inamori, Why People Live, Passion for Success and so on.
This book is divided into two parts, life and career. Let's read the truth and essence of the book.
Life chapter
1 mentality determines life.
Tell a case or story first:
This is a very common story, but it is worth thinking and studying. Three workers are building a wall on the construction site. Someone asked what they were doing. The first man said grumpily, didn't you see the wall? The second man smiled and said, we are building a tall building. The third man was all smiles: We are building a new city.
10 years later, the first person is still building a wall, the second worker becomes an engineer, and the third person is the boss of the first two.
When I first learned this story, it was a confused teenager many years ago. At that time, I didn't understand: it was all building walls, an ordinary job. Why is the difference so big? Do some people have psychic powers?
Later, I learned why the same working environment and the same starting point are so different. The reason lies in one's own heart, that is, one's mentality and attitude towards things.
The same thing, different people, because of different attitudes, the result is naturally different. Your attitude towards things and work determines your life. A positive attitude allows you to see hope, plan work goals and enhance the value of life. Negative attitude, like the first person to build a wall.
10 years later, the wall is still under construction and nothing has changed. Because of my negative attitude, I can't seriously think about how to improve my work efficiency and ability, so I stand still and stop.
"kazuo inamori" analyzed our life and quality improvement from different angles in the book. Everything is related to mentality. Only with a positive attitude to think, to change themselves, to improve themselves.
2 Overcome yourself and surpass yourself.
In real life, each of us has advantages and disadvantages. Gold is not enough, no one is perfect. In this world, no one is perfect, and everyone has shortcomings. My strength may be your weakness, and your strength may be my weakness.
But we can always see the shortcomings of others, but we can't see our own shortcomings. Also, many people can't face up to their shortcomings.
Shorter feet and longer inches. In fact, it is not terrible to have shortcomings. As long as we face our shortcomings correctly and try our best to overcome them, they will become advantages. Face your own shortcomings and correct them wherever they are.
Let's give an example:
Case 1 For example, modesty makes people progress, while arrogance makes people fall behind. If you have the habit of arrogance, you must convince yourself to be modest. Because of modesty, you can learn more and be more respected.
Case 2: Treat people sincerely and be honest and trustworthy. Only sincerity can get sincerity. Only sincerity can make more friends.
Case 3, let yourself learn to be grateful and be grateful for everything that happens in your life. For better or worse, learn to be grateful. Because it is experience that makes us learn to reflect and grow. As long as you learn to be grateful, you won't complain about all unfairness.
Case 4: "Desire" is good or bad for life. Good positive desires can set goals for our lives. And that insatiable desire is a bottomless abyss. We can't live without desires, but we must learn to control unrealistic desires. We can't be slaves of desire, but masters of it.
We should be most aware of our shortcomings. All we have to do is find it and try to overcome it. We can't let it become an obstacle in our life. Only by constantly removing these obstacles will our life get better and better.
3 Success = mode of thinking × enthusiasm × ability
If a person's way of thinking is positive and has no negative influence, then the direction is correct. Whether the direction is correct or not is directly related to the causal relationship between success and failure.
A person's enthusiasm is the degree of desire we talked about in the last chapter. How eager you are to achieve a certain goal or accomplish something. The higher your desire and enthusiasm, the higher your efforts.
And ability refers to your strength. Some people are strong, others are average. This is related to the individual's learning ability and IQ.
Because different thinking direction, enthusiasm and ability will lead to different results. Let's give examples one by one:
Example 1: There is no problem or deviation in one thinking direction. And have a strong desire for this matter, full of enthusiasm, there is a state of not dying until the Yellow River. If you have strong abilities at the same time. This matter will be more efficient than others. As long as the output continues, the dawn will not be too far away.
Exodus 2: If a person's way of thinking is wrong, the direction of formulation is wrong. Then even if you have enthusiasm and ability, you will miss success. Because the direction is wrong, no amount of efforts will be in vain. It can be seen that the success of one thing requires the right direction. And the right direction needs the right way of thinking. Therefore, the way we think is very important to success.
Exodus 3: A person's way of thinking is impartial and powerful. But I just don't have enough desire and enthusiasm for it. It's hard to succeed. Because it doesn't matter whether it is successful or not. People with this mentality will not be very active. Because there is no such passion for success.
Strong desire and enthusiasm are directly related to one's efforts. The biggest gap between people lies in their efforts. The harder you work, the crazier you are, the better you are than others, and the easier it is to succeed.
From the above analysis, it can be said with certainty that you want to succeed or achieve something. The correct thinking direction and the degree of enthusiasm for desire are the most important.
Even if a person has few abilities, his qualifications are average. But as long as you think in the right direction and have a strong desire to succeed. I will try my best to make up for my lack of ability. The harder you work, the more you pay than ordinary people. Success is no longer far away.
Through the study of several chapters of life. We understand the help of thinking and mentality to life. At the same time, constantly overcome your own shortcomings and don't constantly optimize yourself.
Take the hardships and setbacks of work and life as a test and test for yourself. First polish yourself into a set of qualified products.
Professional articles
1 Significance and value of work
I want to ask you, why work hard? Perhaps most people will answer, in order to earn wages, in order to support themselves and their families. There is no denying that one of the reasons why we work is for wages, because we need wages. This is the most direct reason.
So there's no other reason to work for wages than to earn wages? This is a question worthy of our deep thought and consideration.
Take a workplace case as an example: he was born in a poor mountainous area and went out to work after graduating from junior high school. 1July 1997, worked as a settlement clerk in a real estate company. The basic salary is 3000 yuan, not including food and clothing. Only when a single business is completed will there be a little commission.
Go out at 6 o'clock every morning after work, and hand out leaflets on the roadside at 12 in the evening. I worked hard for three months in a row, but I didn't make a deal. In order to cheer himself up, he wrote the sentence told by his boss, "Don't make excuses to find a way, ability is the last word" on the card to remind himself at any time.
Later, the business gradually increased, and the company promoted him from a ticket drawer to a salesman. He was secretly happy, thinking that he would make achievements soon. However, two months later, he didn't sell a suite.
He constantly encouraged himself and began to practice communication skills. Take the initiative to chat up pedestrians on the street and introduce real estate. His grades have been very poor, and he can only sell one or two suites a month, which is relatively poor among salesmen.
Later, the company implemented the last elimination system. At this time, he began to learn from other people's exchange experience and bought many books about marketing skills to learn. Mastered the customer's psychology, found the law, and the performance began to rise steadily.
Continuous efforts, sales quota company first, successfully run for deputy director of sales. My ass is not hot yet, and I was fired because the sales team's performance declined. Unwilling, he returned to the position of deputy director through his own adjustment efforts.
This time, he began to carefully train employees. The team he led has always been among the best. My income is above 6.5438+0 million every year. His name is Hu Wenjun, and the boss who told him that "ability is the last word" is Pan Shiyi.
Through this case, let's analyze the significance and value of work to our lives:
First, labor exercises people's hearts. Through unremitting efforts and hard work, we have not only achieved our career, but also shaped our own personality. Our hearts have also been exercised and sublimated.
Second, work is good medicine. When we devote ourselves wholeheartedly to our work and career, we will forget our troubles and stop being confused and sad. As long as you are willing to invest, you won't hate and hate labor. However, labor cured me of more and more troubles and idleness. Because you devote yourself wholeheartedly to your work, you have no time to be sad and upset.
Third, work can improve a person's ability. Through hard work, constantly reflect on the difficulties encountered in the work. Then combine your own abilities, make changes and constantly reflect on yourself. Let's deal with the problem with a positive, active and optimistic attitude. Let our ability be improved, especially spiritual nutrition.
Fourth, work embodies the value of our life. Through hard work, we constantly change the quality of our life. Because I got rich fruits, I felt the fullness and joy brought by labor. At the same time, it also reflects the meaning and value of one's life through work. Without work, we are worthless, worthless.
Kazuo inamori and Advice to Young Relatives tell us that we should face life positively, how to face ourselves and improve ourselves: the importance of mentality, overcoming our own shortcomings, success requires thinking and enthusiasm, and understanding the significance and value of work. They are all knowledge points closely related to us, and they are also the truth of life that we need to understand and comprehend now.
The biggest gain from this book is that life is a kind of practice. No matter from life or work, we are constantly honing and improving ourselves. We start from cultivating our own mentality, change our own conduct and gradually improve ourselves. Then understand the significance and value of work to us. Work is a kind of practice, through which you can achieve yourself, change yourself, improve yourself and show your value.
Life is a practice from beginning to end, and everything is for tempering, achieving, changing and shaping yourself.