In 1838, a gray-headed Xiangxiang man set foot on the hot land of Jingshi, he spoke a southern dialect that was difficult for others to understand, and his body was short and thin, and he grew before he grew old. Although colleagues who read the moral articles opened their mouths and closed their mouths not to judge people by their appearance, this Xiangxiang person could still feel the laughter coming from behind his head.
Zeng Guofan
However, this Xiangxiang man was not half annoyed, for a person who had been teased enough since childhood, there was no way to provoke him by being ridiculed, the more he mixed up, the more courageous he had to climb up, this no, hadn't he succeeded in throwing those people in his hometown who made fun of him all day far away?
Sure enough, this strange man named Zeng Guofan actually rose seven times in a row in the next 10 years like his ass was greased, from a small one from seven pins to zheng er pins, and seven promotions spanning ten grades, which was unprecedented in the entire braided dynasty. What did he do right to rise so fast?
In the one or two hundred years since his death, countless campers who have been wandering in Shilin have always tried to crack the secret of his promotion, and most people have concluded that he won with thick black and old gangsters, but many people think that his low IQ is mediocre and unskillful. From this point of view, his ten years and seven migrations may not have much to do with Houhei Zhimou, and after combing through his promotion process, you will find that the most important thing is that he insists on doing three things.
The first thing is to "make the right friends", the second thing is to "use the right talent", and the third thing is to "be a stupid person". The first two things are actually everyone doing, except for the third thing that no one wants to do, but these three things Zeng Guofan spent his life to do, and the way he did it was different from ordinary people, first of all, let's see how he "made the right friends".
Zeng Guofan makes friends who prefer to be better than himself, but he is not a person who climbs to a high position, he means that he is stronger than himself in some aspects, maybe he is worse than himself, but if there are some aspects that he is better than himself and is worth learning, he can be included in his circle of friends, so that you can achieve "threesomes must have my teacher", and make friends as a teacher.
Stills of Zeng Guofan
In addition, people with virtue and people with a wide range of interests are worth making, friends with good moral character can not let themselves take a crooked road, people with a wide range of interests must have a lot of knowledge and rich life experience can make themselves take fewer detours, these two kinds of friends can make themselves walk the right way not to take crooked roads, less detours; and people who can reach out and pull a hand when others are in trouble are more worthy of friendship, he really treats you as a friend rather than because you mix well.
For a person who is in Shilin, no one under him is probably the most uncomfortable, the light rod commander can never do big things, but if the people under him are all bad guys, it is better to be a light rod commander. But talent is always difficult to find, Zeng Guofan never expects the world's capable people to use for his own use, so he never uses a high vision to choose talents, but uses the right people to do the right things. The most important criterion for employing people is to be loyal, otherwise they may be sold by their subordinates one day, so virtue is the first thing to consider talents.
Everyone wants to be a smart person, why does Zeng Guofan want to be a stupid person? This "stupidity" is actually not "stupidity", but the "stupidity" of "great wisdom and foolishness", which is the disguise that looks like "stupid" is actually "wisdom". Everyone thinks that you are stupid and will not beware and suppress you, and you will have the opportunity to slowly exert your wisdom. Another meaning of "stupid" is actually "to suffer losses", smart people always take advantage of the opportunity to get the best, which inevitably offends colleagues and enemies, and the stupid people who are willing to suffer losses have stupid fortunes, which is called "stupid" and not "stupid", so "smart" people often make "stupid", and "wise" people look "stupid".
The more a person is mixed, the more he must remember these three points that Zeng Guofan insisted on doing, would you?
(Text: Passing by)