In the difficult year of 2020, many people are experiencing pain, fear and anxiety.
00 1 People without fear and anxiety can hardly achieve great things.
I saw a message in the community of Evolutionary Island the other day and asked me what I thought.
He said: if something happens, you should have a timely attitude of satisfaction, and you can keep your initial heart without being trapped by pressure.
I said: If I have the mentality of timely satisfaction, I can't write Five Minutes Business School.
Satisfaction helps you, and anxiety makes you progress.
People without fear and anxiety can't achieve great things.
Fear and anxiety are great necessities.
We often say that anxiety can be alleviated and cured.
But what is anxiety?
Anxiety is a symptom.
Just like a cold and a fever. Fever is not a disease, but a symptom.
What you should really cure is a virus infection, not a fever.
When the virus infection is cured, the fever will naturally stop.
We only treat the symptoms, but let us ignore the cause.
Therefore, unless it is an organic disease such as depression, proper fear and anxiety are the powerful driving force for human progress.
You're not afraid to do nothing? Aren't you ecstatic about doing something? Don't reflect after the pain?
That's probably the end of your life.
Only pain can make you grow.
As a business consultant, I often meet with investors.
That night, the weather in Shanghai was fine. A small cafe in front of my house.
Opposite me is Feng Li, the founding partner of Fengrui Capital.
Feng Li is one of the famous young investors in China.
It has invested in three squirrels, Handu Yishe, Pig Bajie, Bili Bili, Yixin, Didi Carpool, 360 Finance, Club Factory, Ceramic Art Development, Onion Mathematics and other projects.
Even among investors, Feng Li's profound thoughts on macroeconomics and micro-business are few and far between.
In these projects he invested, I want to share with you the experience of Zhang Liaoyuan, CEO of three squirrels.
During the nine years from the age of 18 to the age of 26, it can be said that Zhang Liaoyuan has made no achievements, but fortunately he is not in debt, but he has almost finished tossing his family.
He went to Dongguan to work, hoping to find a big boss to do big business like the characters in the TV series.
I have been to Hanzheng Street in Wuhan, hoping for the same scenery as the self-employed people in Hanzheng Street at that time.
Seeing that other people's fast food restaurants are crowded, I taught myself to cook and open a restaurant.
Of course, all these attempts failed without exception.
But he thinks that this is "God will be a great responsibility to Sri Lanka" and it is a test of God. He kept tossing until he was 26 years old.
Everyone is telling him, please wake up.
Everyone is telling him that you should give in to fate.
You're just an electromechanical family planner. You should be an electrician.
At that moment, he admitted that he had failed because he had no fighting spirit.
He began to doubt those inspirational stories and suspected that business was not for people like him at all. He began to admit that not everyone can break his own class.
He began to feel: it's good to have a stable job.
At that moment, he gave up.
Give up starting a business and return to an ordinary life track. He thinks this decision is correct.
Later, it turns out that even God will not let go of the decisions made by others for you.
What really drives you to become stronger is pain.
Zhang Yiming's experience in the perception and choice of "pain" is also quite representative.
I was a software engineering major in college, a typical technical otaku, but also a restless technical otaku.
He especially likes challenging things.
In an interview, Zhang Yiming said:
Many people start businesses for money. I have started my business four or five times. So many people think that I was born to start a business for money, but this is really not the case.
Maybe others start businesses more to get the first bucket of gold in life or to find opportunities to make money.
If I also start from this perspective, I will start a business to make money.
Then, I will definitely not choose such a difficult entrepreneurial project. Or do things that are slow to realize business.
Wouldn't it be better to choose something short, flat and fast?
So, from this perspective, I am different from others.
The starting point of choosing a project mainly depends on whether the business is challenging and whether it can provide value and convenience to many people, rather than measuring it by making money.
Take the initiative to meet the pain, take the initiative to choose fear and anxiety, only pain can make you grow.
As Liang Ning said: "Pain is a more important talent than happiness, and great pain will drive a person to make great achievements."
When you are no longer in pain, maybe you are beyond it, maybe you are mediocre.
For people with great pain, happiness is short and cheap.
Because what really drives you to become stronger is pain.