Maybe you are on your way to success.
Once, Clarence Thornton, who lives in Memphis, Tennessee, went to a new fast food restaurant to eat. He saw that business was booming here, and people lined up to eat here. Suddenly, he had a brainwave: can you also take this form of letting customers choose packaging at random in the grocery store? Then he told the boss about this idea, but he was scolded loudly by the boss: "Take back your stupid idea, how can customers choose and package it themselves?"
But Thornton refused to give up, thinking that it would make customers feel more relaxed and comfortable in shopping. So Thornton quit his job, opened a small grocery store and introduced this brand-new business philosophy. Soon, his shop attracted many customers and its business was booming. Later, he opened a number of branches one after another, which also achieved great success. This is the pioneer of supermarkets that are popular all over the world today.
A young manager with an annual salary of $654.38+20,000 told a story about himself: When I was appointed as the director of the development department, the company only gave me two people, and the company did not have a specific goal to guide me how to do it. After a lot of market research and analysis, we have determined a promising project. But in the specific operation process, the ensuing difficulties made me give up several times. Then I suddenly remembered the letter from the chairman, who asked me to open it at the most difficult time. So I opened the letter and there was only one sentence in it: Young man, if you have determined a path at this moment, go on unswervingly. There has never been a successful path for you.
The young manager said that it was this sentence that not only helped me get through that difficulty, but also helped me get to where I am today. We once flashed the spark of wisdom like Thornton, and we may go through the difficult road like young managers. The difference is that we finally quietly put out that spark, leaving the bitterness of failure.
Legend has it that when God created man, he also created a road to success for everyone. Later, many dead people found God and said that God deceived them because they didn't succeed until they died. God smiled and said to those people, look back, your countless footprints are on the road to success, but you changed its direction countless times in the middle.
It's that simple.
Try to find something suitable for you to do
A boy was born in a poor Jewish family in Prague. His personality is introverted, cowardly, unmanly, sensitive and sad, and he always feels that the surrounding environment is oppressing and threatening him. The concept of disaster prevention and avoidance can be said to be deeply rooted in his heart and hopeless.
The boy's father tried his best to cultivate him into a standard man, hoping that he would be aggressive, indomitable, resolute and brave.
Under his father's brutal, stern and conceited Spartacus-style cultivation, his character has not become strong and brave, but has become more cowardly and inferior, which has fundamentally lost his self-confidence, resulting in every detail and little thing in his life, which is a minor disaster for him. He grew up in confusion and pain, watching everything all day. Often a person hides in the corner, quietly chewing the pain of being hurt, and carefully guessing what kind of damage will fall on him. Seeing him like that, I was desperate to the extreme.
It seems that his cowardice and introversion is really a tragedy of life, and even if he wants to change it, he can't change it. Because of his father's efforts, it seems hopeless.
However, what people didn't expect was that the boy later became the greatest writer in the world in the first half of the twentieth century. He is Kafka from Austria.
Why did Kafka succeed? Because he found shoes that suit him, his introverted, cowardly and sentimental personality is just suitable for literary creation. In this artistic kingdom he created for himself, in this spiritual home, his weakness such as cowardice, pessimism and negativity made him have a sharper, more sensitive and deeper understanding of the world, life, life and destiny. He created a brand-new art school in the history of literature-stream of consciousness with the theme of life's anguish and depression. In his works, he dissected the absurd world, twisted thoughts and deformed personality more incisively and vividly, thus leaving many immortal masterpieces such as Metamorphosis, Castle and Trial to the world.
From 65438 to 0904, Kafka began to publish novels, and his early works were influenced by expressionism. 19 12 one night, he wrote a short story "the trial" overnight, and established his own unique style. He published seven singles and collections of novels before his death. After his death, Braud max brod, a good friend, went against his last words, sorted out his manuscripts, published three novels, letters and diaries, and made a biography for him.
Kafka is an amateur writer who writes in German. Together with French writer Marcel Proust and Irish writer James Joyce, he is called the pioneer and master of western modernist literature. Kafka struggled in obscurity and loneliness before his death. With the passage of time, his value has been gradually recognized by people, and his works have caused shocks around the world, and Kafka fever has formed around the world, which lasted for a long time.
Critics of later generations often overemphasize the dark side of Kafka's works and ignore its bright and interesting places. Milan Kundera tried to correct this in the Old Testament. In fact, according to Braud's memory, Kafka likes to read his own works in front of his friends, and he can't help laughing when he reads proud paragraphs. Kafka is an amateur writer who writes in German, and his nationality belongs to Austria-Hungary. Together with French writer Marcel Proust and Irish writer James Joyce, he is called the pioneer and master of western modernist literature.
Kafka's works in his life are few, but they have a far-reaching influence on later literature. Auden, an American poet, said, "His relationship with our times is similar to that of Dante, Shakespeare and Goethe recently."
Kafka's novels reveal an absurd and irrational scene, and personal, melancholy and lonely emotions use symbolic means. The surrealist guerrillas in the 1930s and 40s regarded them as equals, the absurd in the 40s and 1950s took them as pioneers, and the American "black humor" in the 1960s took them as models.
Yes, people's character is irreversible, just like our feet, the size can't be chosen.
Stop complaining about your feet and choose a pair of shoes that suit you! It means trying to find something that suits you! Better than sitting at home moping and being pessimistic!
A successful life consists of countless ups and downs.
It was a primary school teacher who brought Liu Feng to the road of invention. The teacher, a veteran, started a small production class and asked Liu Feng to set up an electronic doorbell, a small battery, a small speaker and a music sounder. These three things are put together and can ring at the press of a button. "It was amazing for me at the time. When I was a child, I never saw anything ring and scream like this. " Since then, Liu Feng has been fascinated by electronic inventions, participated in various interest groups related to electronics, and published many small products in many related magazines.
In middle school, Liu Feng obtained four invention patents. For example, when he was learning bamboo flute, he would wear gloves and practice fingering on the handle every day when he took the bus. He would think, "How interesting it is to make such a sound." So he made a pair of special electronic organ gloves with many sensors integrated on them. When you press them on any plane, you can hear the sound from the speakers connected to the gloves. But ten fingers can only play ten notes, which is not enough to play music well, so he installed a tone sandhi button in his palm, and then pressed it with his finger to play another note, so that one hand can play twenty notes.
One of Liu Feng's most proud inventions is the "ultrasonic road obstacle warning device". At that time, roads were being built everywhere in Nanjing, and cyclists fell into manholes from time to time. After reading more reports like this, Liu Feng thought, can you invent an early warning device, put it in front of a sewer without a manhole cover, and use ultrasonic waves to give sound and video warning to passing vehicles? He spent a long time studying the ultrasonic circuit, but he really threw it away. This product has attracted a lot of people's attention, but it was still young at that time and there was no concept of commercialization. This product has not been put on the market.
Because he spent too much time on invention, Liu Feng's academic performance was not ideal, and his failure in the college entrance examination was a heavy blow to him. Fortunately, a vocational and technical college in Nanjing noticed him and accepted him.
In college, Liu Feng continued his journey of invention and won thirteen patents successively. Some things that Liu Feng tossed about made the students feel very cool. For example, a small toy called "telepathic device" helps boys pursue their favorite girls-a heart-shaped led with two electrodes on it, and boys and girls put their hands on it respectively, which won't light up at this time; When a boy holds a girl's hand, the heart-shaped light lights up. In fact, this is using the human body as a current loop. The principle is simple, but many girls think it's amazing.
In 2008, Liu Feng, who was still in college, began to study the intelligent scooter. His graduation project also chose this field, but it took only five years for the sketch of this design to be really perfect and become a reality.
After graduation, Liu Feng was invited by some TV programs because of a large number of invention patents and invention competitions, and appeared in CCTV's I am an Inventor and Dragon TV's Dream Cube.
On one occasion, a Zhejiang businessman saw Liu Feng's idea of inventing a "high-rise escape device" on TV, immediately found him, and proposed to set up a company with him, with Liu Feng as a shareholder. Liu Feng took out tens of thousands of dollars accumulated in his previous work to buy equipment inventions, gave them to Zheshang, and then waited for dividends after listing. It's just that he has just left the society and has never experienced a sinister heart. He believed the businessman's verbal promise and didn't sign a contract with the other party in black and white. When he made the prototype and handed it to the other party, he contacted the other party, but the phone couldn't get through.
Liu Feng was disheartened by this cheating experience. He thought, let's try a big company first. In 20 12, he came to Shenzhen, which was described as "a paradise for hardware entrepreneurs". At an IT exhibition, his eyes were suddenly attracted by the smart scooter on the booth. This is a new means of transportation. It can run more than 10 km on a single charge, and it is not difficult to use. The electric unicycle has no brakes, so the car follows it. Tilting forward means moving forward, tilting backward means stopping, and tilting left and right can adjust the direction. The more you lean forward, the faster your speed will be, and you can accelerate by leaning forward all the time.
After the experience, Liu Feng felt amazing. Isn't that what he wants to do when he graduates from school? For young people, this is definitely a street painting product, which is convenient and fast to carry and very practical in crowded city streets.
But seeing the price on the exhibits, Liu Feng sighed. The price of intelligent scooters produced in the United States is 70,000-80,000 yuan, and the domestic production price is generally 20,000-30,000 yuan. It's too expensive, no wonder it's hard to see young people playing this kind of unicycle in the street.
Liu Feng has made a preliminary study on the structure of this smart unicycle, and thinks that there is still a lot of room for price reduction by using the current open source software. After thinking for a night, he had a firm idea in his heart: go back to Nanjing to start a business, and develop a cheaper and smarter unicycle with the help of friends in the maker circle, making it an affordable fashion for everyone.
20 13 Nanjing legway intelligent machine co., ltd was established, specializing in the research and development of intelligent transportation products. At that time, Liu Feng was poor, with no money, no team and only creative inventions. But there is a popular saying that as long as you have an idea, the whole world will help you.
Liu Feng went to a venture capitalist with a creative specification. With his thick stack of invention patent certificates and reputation in Nanjing Maker Circle, coupled with the market potential of unicycle, he quickly got an angel investment of 654.38+100,000.
What about the team? Of course, he also called * * * a partner through the Maker Forum. He posted his experiences and ideas online, which quickly attracted the attention of hundreds of developers. Everyone thinks that the development of unicycle has the potential to set off the trend. These technicians cover many colleges and universities. Liu Feng screened out three full-time software and hardware development partners, and the rest as * * * partners to jointly develop a new "somersault cloud" intelligent one-legged vehicle on the open platform.
With the team and funds, Legway has accelerated the pace of research and development. The self-balancing core technology of unicycle was quickly solved. Each scooter has two sets of gyroscopes and an acceleration motor controlled by the gyroscopes. If a gyroscope fails, the scooter can still be used normally. The average two-wheeled vehicle weighs about 50 kg, and it takes three hours to charge once, but their "somersault cloud" is less than 10 kg, and it takes one and a half hours to charge once. Office workers carry it with them, or put it in the trunk of a car, and they can ride it when they need to go. On the first day when the product came out, Liu Feng rode the "somersault cloud" all over the "blocking points" such as Longpan Middle Road, beijing east road, Jiming Temple and Zhujiang Road in Nanjing, and it only took less than 40 minutes.
The future market of green and environmentally friendly intelligent scooters is huge, and many companies at home and abroad are actively researching and developing them. How can they stay at the forefront of the market? This is what Liu Feng and his team are thinking. Since their original intention is to make unicycle a fashionable product to brush the streets, it is necessary to integrate real scientific and technological factors. In the communication with the makers in the circle, Liu Feng found that now all wearable hardware devices have started to introduce mobile Internet technology, which makes the devices more intelligent, so the "somersault cloud" can't fall behind this trend.
It is not easy to integrate the "somersault cloud" into the wisdom of human-computer interaction and make it affordable for ordinary people. Therefore, it only took them four months to develop the body hardware, but it took them a whole year to develop the mobile phone APP, and now they have 30 patents of all kinds. Many of these ideas are collected through unicycle enthusiasts' clubs and IT development forums. This mobile phone application named "LOPO" supports docking with Bluetooth and "somersault cloud". Users can adjust the pedal sensitivity and lighting color with their mobile phones, and record the driving speed and mileage. The state parameters of vehicles can be observed at any time in LOPO; At the same time, you can also "sun" the driving record in the circle of friends, share it with friends, and participate in the appraisal. Considering that most people who play the balance car are smartphone enthusiasts, Liu Feng also added a USB interface to the "somersault cloud" to directly charge the mobile phone.
When a brand-new "somersault cloud" appeared in front of him, Liu Feng was a little fondle admiringly. 20 14, 14 in June, Liu Feng invited media reporters and unicycle friends from all over the country to watch the "somersault cloud" on the spot, and was cheered by many unicycle enthusiasts as soon as it appeared.
Liu Feng limited the price of "somersault cloud" to 2,000 yuan to 5,000 yuan, allowing ordinary people? Panken's material "Yimei" is boring and interesting. Although it will take several months for the product to be mass-produced, Liu Feng is not worried about its market prospect, because when the first new product comes out, Nanjing * * * has already purchased 60 vehicles, which have been used for patrolling crowded subways and will be used by a large number of venue volunteers during the 20 14 Youth Olympic Games. With the east wind of the Youth Olympic Games, the "somersault cloud" will be seen by more people and become popular in more places.