The American psychologist William said that anyone who is too smart and too calculating is actually a very unfortunate person, even sick and short-lived. Indeed, according to modern medical research, more than 80% of overcalculated people suffer from heart disease.
In addition to his own health damage, excessive calculation can also lead to dissatisfaction and resentment among relatives, friends, neighbors and employees, although he may gain personal benefits in the short term, but in the long run he has lost family, friendship and team support, and his career will not last long, and eventually be completely damaged.
If a businessman is too calculating, no one will dare to cooperate with him. Why are some seemingly silly bosses doing so much business? Because everyone is deceived and afraid, they are willing to do business with those who are honest and honest and do not care about the pattern. The so-called "great wisdom is foolish" is also.
There is a difference between great wisdom and small wisdom in human wisdom. Small and clever people do their best to calculate and compete, regardless of the overall and long-term, blindly pursuing immediate interests. Their biggest problem is self-righteousness and never knowing how to reflect.
In "Dream of the Red Chamber", there is such a "smart person" who works in calculation, she is Wang Xifeng——
Wang Xifeng is indeed extremely intelligent and talented, not only sharp teeth, but also witty and flexible, especially the calculation of kung fu is not leaky. Unfortunately, she is too small, her vision is too short, and she is too good at making personal calculations and chasing personal interests. With Jia Mu's love and trust in herself, she has great power in her hands and is tyrannical and vicious. Whoever has been calculated by her will either die a tragic death or a violent death. And she was too narrow-minded and not tolerant enough.
For example, her husband Jia Lian had another woman, You Erjie, outside, which was also a legal and normal thing in ancient times. Even if you don't agree, the most you can do is to get people away, so why do you have to torture them to death? There is also a student Who likes himself, Jarry, even if people have low status and are not worthy of you, but look at the point that people like you, they will not elaborately design the "Acacia Poison Bureau" to kill people. If you are so scheming and clever, the end will be very tragic. Therefore, Wang Xifeng finally landed a "white expanse of land is really clean."
The only person she did not ask for generous charity was Liu Grandma, although it was to coax Jia Mu to be happy, but this generous grace was later rewarded - Wang Xifeng was seriously ill and dying, her daughter Qiao'er was stolen and abducted, and it was Liu Grandma who saved and raised her. You see, a generous, uncalculated life will sooner or later bring you to unexpected surprises.
It can be said that it is precisely because of Wang Xifeng's small calculations and cleverness that the demise of Jia Fu has been further accelerated. For Wang Xifeng, the evaluation in the book is "smart is mistaken by smart, and it is wrong to miss Qingqing's life", which is really to the point!
Everyone praised Wang Xifeng for being smart, but in fact Wang Xifeng's cleverness was only a little clever. Her pattern and insight determined the outcome of her eventual failure. She lacks a global view and a big picture view, short-sighted, like playing chess, seeing only one or two steps, winning the present and losing the long term. Such a person can be called "smart for a while, confused for a lifetime."
Businessmen like Wang Xifeng, who have a narrow pattern and pay attention to the immediate situation, abound, and many businessmen, in order to make huge profits, do not hesitate to sell fake and shoddy products to the market, some even mix toxic substances into food and medicine, and some pit deception, and do everything to the extreme.
Whenever businessmen are mentioned, the unanimous statement of Chinese is "no business, no adultery.". Why would someone say you are "adulterous"? It is because you are too calculating, calculating about customers, and unscrupulous and unscrupulous for personal gain.
In fact, the chinese saying is "no sharp, no business". In ancient times, rice grain trading was often used as a measuring tool. When people come to buy, the rice shop owner likes to pile another "tip" in the sheng bucket as a gift after the last two pounds are determined. If you buy cloth, the merchant will "put three feet" to meet the customer's psychology of taking advantage.
It can be seen from this that "no sharpness and no business" is really in line with the way of big business and no calculation, and the "no business and no adultery" that is too calculated will make your business road more and more narrow, until there is no way to go.