Life and luck determine a person's life.
Transport is temporary and highly random;
And life is lifelong and plays a decisive role.
This time, the recommendation is Wu Jun's "Insight", former vice president of Tencent.
This book is not about fatalism or birthism.
Rather, the book is meant to shake off the old notion that birth determines destiny.
A person has a moment of good luck, but it does not represent a good life for a lifetime.
Fate is influenced by objective environmental factors on the one hand, and more importantly, it depends on the way a person looks at problems and does things.
We often say that "character determines destiny".
01
"But let the dragon city fly, don't teach Huma to cross the Yin Mountain."
Li Guang, the "flying general" of the Han Dynasty, frightened the Xiongnu and left a reputation for immortality.
However, Li Guang, as the elder of the Three Dynasties, fought against the Xiongnu more than 70 times and killed countless enemies, but in the end he failed to take the throne and worship each other.
In 119 BC, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty launched the Battle of Mobei, hoping to defeat the Xiongnu in one fell swoop.
However, Li Guang, who is in his 60s, got lost in the desert and delayed the fighter jet. Wei Qing sent someone to comfort him and ask him how he got lost. However, Li Guang "did not want to be insulted by the pen collector and drew his sword to commit suicide."
Even Wang Bo, the fourth master of the early Tang Dynasty, lamented in the "Preface to Wang Tengting": Feng Tang is easy to grow old, and Li Guang is difficult to seal.
The reason for this is that Li Guang's knowledge model of interacting with people restricts his upward space.
The amount of water a river is determined by its length, width and depth.
The same is true of life.
If you want to go deeper, you need to improve your knowledge and broaden your patterns;
If you want to be more extensive, you need to recruit talents and make good connections;
If you want to get longer, you need to cherish your health and live well.
02
In real life, there are many levels in any country and any society.
It is not easy for an ordinary person to successfully fight back against his superiors.
Most of us want to study hard in the cold window and change our lives once and for all. In fact, this is very unrealistic.
Because society is always in a long-term, systematic competition, you will not "open up" because you are a "211" or "985" graduate.
To go to school, you must take the ranking, apply for a job, pass the selection, go to work to perform performance appraisal, buy a car and buy a house, queue, make an appointment for hospitalization...
We need to be clear that fate is the result of the interaction of many variables, and cold window hard reading is one of them, just like being handsome and born into a wealthy family.
We cannot expect to achieve our goals once and for all with one thing and a period of effort.
But we cannot be self-pitying and sad because of the reality of class solidification, because the downward passage is always wider than the ascending passage.
When we lie flat at a critical crossroads, it can take us ten, twenty, or even half a lifetime to catch up.
Imagine if a person is terminally ill, either he wants to live a fulfilling and meaningful last day, or his family wants to go bankrupt and continue his life, and no one wants to lie down and give up.
In fact, our life is like this, always thinking of fighting at the last moment and wasting the good years of the past.
If we stand at the peak of life and strive to live every day well, we will not care too much about the ups and downs in front of us, and life will be more exciting.
03
It's human nature to like to get rather than give up, to like to increase rather than decrease, but often giving up and reducing will make us live better.
Having it doesn't necessarily equal happiness.
Although it is against human nature to give up, those who can do it will get more opportunities.
A lot of people are too focused on being an exquisite egoist.
They spend a lot of time every day choosing which platform to shop on, which cosmetics to compare which cosmetics are better to use, researching how to get cheap discount coupons, thinking about how to lie comfortably...
We spend too much energy on low-level choices, resulting in more and more entanglement in chai rice oil and salt, and more and more wandering to the low level.
Once people are accustomed to these simple, repetitive, fast-paid, low-value, and brainless things, it is difficult to break through the shackles of thinking, create greater value, and achieve class counterattack.
Zhuangzi said: My life has a limit, and my knowledge has a limit.
Although our lives are finite, our knowledge is infinite.
Not only to learn, but also to do things. If you want to think outside the habit of thinking, you can get something you give up.
Only by being freed from trivial constraints can we have the energy to improve the pattern of knowledge and pursue what we want.
04
If we focus too much on one thing, we will have a scarcity effect on energy, which will lead to neglect of other things, which in turn will lead to adverse consequences.
Some people suffer from poverty from an early age, and their main energy is focused on increasing their wealth.
Lack of money can easily lead to a lack of knowledge, rules, and dedication.
Some people will become calculating and stingy, some people will work hard for rice, oil and salt all their lives, and some extreme people will even commit corruption, theft, robbery and other crimes.
However, the children of rich families may have similar problems, some of them pay too much attention to their sense of superiority in wealth, but neglect the cultivation of dedication and a sense of rules.
These will all become obstacles to our knowledge, growth and progress.
Today, high-speed information technology has basically eliminated the resistance to learning, and the heavy responsibility of improving knowledge lies entirely on ourselves, not entirely on objective factors