Time: the first week of October
Title: "Excellent people dare to be cruel to themselves"
Reading duration: 1 day
I read this book because I'm a little confused recently, and I can't output anything, nor can I input it. So, we need some chicken soup for the soul. Perhaps this book is not very in-depth, but the author's experience is enough to give a bright light to many people who want to change. Below, according to some words read in this book, crossing one's feelings is a baptism of one's soul. After all, most of us need inspirational stories from others to tell us, and we can do the same. Hymn This is not a dry book, but more about personal feelings and experiences. Not recommended for people looking for dry goods.
Author introduction, Chen, jumping out of the system, thinking about Hong Kong, main business finance, amateur code word, LinkedIn columnist, self-media expert who uses WeChat to pull millions of investments. After graduation, the author became an English teacher and worked for four years. He has a car and a house, but he wants to change this situation. So, at the age of 28, he sold his house in Ningbo and went to Hong Kong to study. Now he is a standard slash youth, engaged in the financial industry, educating entrepreneurs and media people.
Life needs a strong medicine, not a bowl of chicken soup.
What you see is glamorous, but what you can't see is embarrassing.
"Toughness" means giving up stability, "Toughness" means not asking for possession, and "Toughness" means barbaric growth.
I think: I have always admired those who can do a lot of things, busy and full. I always feel that this is someone else's business. People like me can only do one thing at a time, and it takes a lot of time and energy. However, I gradually found that with hard work and the courage to change, everyone can do a lot of meaningful things, not just stay in the status quo.
Peng Xiaoliu, who is quite popular recently, to be honest, I really don't feel anything just by reading his title, chicken soup in chicken soup. However, as a worker in a third-tier city, he can update an article every day. No matter what the content is, I just sigh that people who work so hard should be blessed by God. Some time ago, I learned that Wu Huidong's resume is very rough, and her circle of friends sent every day seems to be as selfless as chicken blood.
I don't object, but these people who fight chicken blood every day really have their own "barbaric growth" than ordinary people. After reading this book, I began to realize that these people are often a strong medicine, not a bowl of chicken soup, to make them energetic every day and grow up for a hundred years.
Life function of consulting industry-upward or outward. If you can't get promoted after working for a while, you have to leave. They have seen many cases, and the accumulated industry experience and strategic vision are the bottlenecks that people who are purely engaged in entity enterprises cannot overcome, that is, they have seen a bigger sky.
"Most of the work of consulting companies is to help enterprises, that is, their customers, solve practical problems that enterprises can't solve, such as the company's profit bottleneck and the company's future strategy. You said that people have worked in this industry for many years and haven't figured out a way yet. As a result, a group of consulting companies with no business and no practical experience were parachuted in, and then they hit it off as problem solvers and took hundreds of millions of consulting fees. Why? "
The first paragraph above only replies to this sentence "Why".
I think: I have always been curious. Can consulting or strategic analysis work provide practical solutions without actual combat experience? I was asked to do new media operation and write marketing case analysis. I refused in my heart. How to write a lottery ticket without actual combat experience? Recently, I have been reading articles and books about operation, and many people have mentioned that they despise the false emptiness written without actual combat experience. I read this book today and found the answer.
I specifically asked a friend this question, and he said that this line of work depends on the number of years of employment. Five years and 10 are both hurdles, one grade. Although many enterprises are doing well, their management may be flawed. From the very beginning to the present, consulting companies have done many company management systems, and the experience is definitely much better than that of companies that only focus on business.
It turns out that the theoretical basis is higher than the actual combat experience, and only by systematically combing our own knowledge can we go further. This is why we read books in order to know more and clarify our knowledge framework. By studying in Hong Kong, the author changed from teaching English to a practitioner in the financial industry. It is also a theoretical way for many people to go to work. This reminds me of Li Jiaoshou's deep thought. Even though he lacks practical experience, he is still ahead of most people.
Wu Xiaobo said: My time is very expensive, so I have to waste it on beautiful things.
In the era of mobile Internet, it has reached the * * * knowledge theory: three months is one year.
Qian Jin said: This is an era of burning money. Once you make a mistake, you can never go back. Therefore, strategic correctness is too important. There are mistakes in strategy, and no amount of diligence in tactics can make up for them.
Mr Cai Zhizhong said: Time is a process of calculation. If one hour is worth 10 yuan, two and a half hours may not be worth 5 yuan, and four 15 minutes may not even be worth the players. On the other hand, continuous 10 hour is worth tens of millions.
In the movie Destiny, Liao Fan insisted on the person who was building the art building opposite, and said to Tang Wei around him: It's brave to do the same thing day after day.
They are great and touching experiences hidden in noble repetition, injecting the essence of time again and again, pushing themselves to the extreme, at least, they can't accept the roughness at the beginning.
I think: the choice of time has far-reaching significance for a person. What kind of person do you want to be in your life and where do you spend your time? Perhaps the author is talking about the importance of choice and even the meaning of life.
I am also a person who has taken some detours. After three years of graduation, I finally found my own direction in the third year. Although the current situation is not necessarily ideal, I feel that I have done my best to complete the extremely important task of determining my own direction within three years of work. I'm glad that maybe many people find their own way as soon as they graduate, and it's too late. But there are also people who are 60 years old and don't know their own direction. That would be pathetic. Perhaps choosing a career is not the most important issue for many people. But for me, what's the difference between being with a job I don't like and people I don't like all day, and dried salted fish?
The goal of the first three years has been achieved, and this year's goal is to find a well-known enterprise in the industry. I have been in large enterprises and entrepreneurial companies in traditional industries. Many people will think, why do you have to go to a big company? Perhaps, this is the same as the plot in which many people are famous for their schools and enterprises. There is a story at the bottom of this book, which gives me a deeper understanding of this.
Be the elite of the elite, give up the elite consciousness, and do everything perfectly and best.
No matter what you do, men can look at others from their perspective. They don't advocate that you lose and I win, but hope to achieve the harmony of * * *.
I think: I have some thoughts on these two issues.
Thinking 1: I don't deny the spirit of pursuing the first in everything, there is nothing wrong. I used to have this mentality when I was studying, but I grew up quickly. Later, this mentality gradually weakened, but it didn't grow so fast. I think people who always pursue perfection and first place are better than ordinary people. Recently, I was deeply moved by the official WeChat account, saying that I must do better than people in the same position in the department, even if I am an old employee who has worked for ten years. I admire this spirit. So there is nothing wrong with this, just be yourself. Without the sense of competition and the ambition of wolves, we will fall far behind in the long run.
Thinking 2: "Men are for others", I have to admire such people, which is very respectable. The article mentioned a super easy-going elective course professor, and later learned that this stupid old man graduated from Cambridge University, global linguistics and other famous scholars. Such people are really respected and broad-minded.
Thinking 3: I also want to express that there are really many excellent people in this world, and many people even have an insurmountable gap in our life. For example, Wang Yuheng, who recently watched Super Brain, is simply strangling other talented opponents. However, we should compare ourselves and even exceed our limits. There are many things, maybe if you do it, it will be more unexpected than you expected. This is a breakthrough again and again. Maybe many people will tell you that "there are really too many people who are better than you", but I want to borrow a line from Li Jiayang in The Translator:
When I am smooth sailing, when everyone is saying that I am good, I will tell myself that you are not as good as they say; When everyone is saying that I am not good, I will also tell myself that you are not as bad as they say.
Young people should build your resume, not your wealth.
This year in Hong Kong, like a clear dividing line in life, separated my past from my future. The previous story fades away, another new picture is unfolding, and the thick and shallow lines outline an uncertain future. This city bought my dream and let me find the state of everything. This feeling is very good.
I think: I envy the author's state and the future is full of hope. In big cities, we are under great pressure, but we still love the people here and the city. The author told a lot about his friends and excellent people. I remembered a friend who told me that all our efforts were to stay away from those scum. Maybe we didn't have a good start before, but we strive for every opportunity to be with excellent people. Although we are not as good as them, our hearts are upward. I remembered the article "I worked hard 18 to have coffee with you", and worked hard with excellent people to make ourselves better, even though we had to work much harder than those people.
Now we all live in the same world, but may be completely different circles. We need to use our brains to see the world, otherwise what you see is the world that others feed you.
"Thinking a few more layers" is a vertical excavation of thinking, and "thinking a few more steps" is a horizontal expansion of reality.
I think: one thing about deep thinking is to know how to choose. "Just like that popular saying, don't use tactical busyness to cover up your strategic laziness." Choice is more important than hard work, which the author has proved by action, that is, jumping out of the system and choosing to go to Hong Kong for further study. I believe that the author is also well thought out. After all, the same efforts under different platforms may have several times or even dozens of times of benefits.
Here, I think more is the importance of deep thinking. We can easily accept what the outside world gives us or get used to what we are used to. On the one hand, deep thinking opens another door for us, such as a rational attitude towards things and calmness. On the other hand, thinking a few more layers can make us stand out and work. Deep thinking can be tiring, but it can also be fun.
Some detours should be corrected as soon as possible, don't take youth as capital, there are thousands of roads, you can only choose one.
Jobs said in his speech: The only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven't found it, keep looking. Don't reconcile ... you'll never find it.
The only way to achieve great things is to love your career. If you haven't found a career you love, keep looking and don't give up. )
I think: the above two paragraphs are not contradictory. Encourage you to find a career you love, but you must choose your own path as soon as possible. Maybe the author can jump out of the system, which is cool. Maybe I was lucky enough to find the direction in three years, but I still have a lot of drama fields to think about in this general direction. If you have just graduated or haven't graduated, I suggest you try to determine your future path through various channels as soon as possible. I sincerely suggest that this question is something you must think about when you enter the university.
Real power lies not in the release of power, but in the control of power; Therefore, the real free man is not a hot topic of indulgence, but a person who learns self-discipline.
I think: It seems that for someone like me who wants to be a diagonal youth, I always remind myself to control myself.
If you don't do it for yourself, the city will do it for you.
Really malicious, we must add the dimension of time, that is, forcing ourselves for a long time and pushing our ability to the extreme of the ability boundary.
What scares a person is not how hard he works, but how long he can persist.
Either try to make money quickly, or try to grow quickly and realize high value. In recent years, it is impossible to complete the original accumulation of capital or self-worth, and the intelligence crawls on the road consistently, and it is impossible to complete the second round of take-off or transformation of life or workplace.
I think: insist on "self-abuse" for a long time, and at the same time develop the consciousness of cherishing time and seizing time!
Whether inside or outside the system, the most important thing to give up is constant self-growth.
Gao said: People think highly of themselves. Self-esteem is the armor and weakness of human evolution.
The lines in The Shawshank Redemption: Some birds can never be caged, because every wing of them is covered with the glory of freedom.
I think: This reminds me of Spider-Man's classic quotation: The greater the ability, the greater the responsibility. Do as many things as possible and see the farther scenery, no matter where we are. Just like watching an interview with Lei Jun, I am too busy to eat every day. His colleagues commented that it's terrible that such a smart person works harder than you! Yes, Lei Jun's heart is so unwilling. He has that ability, but he can't catch up. He just wants to do what he wants. Even if his entrepreneurial life is far from his "identity", he should stick to this entrepreneurial heart. Perhaps, no matter what will happen to Xiaomi in the future, this is his best explanation for himself. When we feel that something is wrong in our hearts, try to jump out! Just like I did, 99% of my colleagues have already started working in this industry, but I resolutely jumped out. Now my vision is broader, and I am glad of my choice. Listen to my inner voice!
Finally, extract a paragraph from the article as the end.
"This is the worst era: the economy is rapidly decreasing, the spread is narrowing, bad debts are rising, and over-regulation; This is also the best time: scientific and technological progress, market interest rate, unprecedented innovation environment. Perhaps the last thing we need in this era is anxiety. "
What I want to say is that this is really a great era full of opportunities. The author worked so hard to go to Hong Kong to study and sell a house just to see more of the world and broaden his horizons. Maybe, we don't have to go to big cities, but the focus is on ourselves. The cost of acquiring knowledge is low, and there are many people online. As long as you want to learn and do, you can get it, and you can get a bigger vision. Considering that Li Yanhong is telling his story, he is still not as knowledgeable as children in big cities, because he only has textbooks to study, which is one of the reasons why he founded a search engine. Therefore, this is the worst time and the best time. * * * Give it a pep talk.