At the beginning of the I Ching, it is said that "the hidden dragon should not be used."
At the beginning of the metaphorical matter, when the time is not yet ripe, it should accumulate latently, gradually strengthen the potential energy, and cannot act rashly.
How to apply this easy way law to work and life?
This article shares a lesson in practicing the I Ching: if you know how to "don't use the hidden dragon", you can win more with less.
1. Holding on to oneself is the foundation.
Whether a person can do things or not is not to grasp the size of the resources, but to his mind and decision-making, whether he can keep the resources he already has, and at the same time, he can continue to expand the resources.
Many people, do not succeed in doing things, do business to fold the cost, because there is a gambler psychology - eager to achieve, immediate results.
The psychology of giving a beating, a bicycle into a motorcycle, and a desire to get rich overnight is the temptation of human nature, which is contrary to the laws of nature.
The natural laws of the I Ching are gradual. In other words, a natural, positive development path is slowly advancing.
If you have 100,000 in your hand, the initial stage, the potential dragon does not use, you may need to invest a lot of human, financial and material resources, lay a good foundation, the early stage is definitely not a return, the return is negative is also possible.
After surviving the incubation period, you have laid a good foundation, the foundation is firmly established, the business ability is also skilled, and the income is slowly coming back, from 100,000, 110,000, 120,000... Slowly accumulate. There will be a surplus in the middle, but the overall is slowly upward.
When you do things and do business according to this natural rhythm, you must be stable and your career can be done for a long time.
On the contrary, people who are eager for success and quick profits, have the idea of gamblers. With 100,000 in his hand, he may give it a fight, the bicycle becomes a motorcycle, a throw in, he wants to earn a double, the result is half folded, leaving 50,000; lost half of the money, the heart is very unwilling, and wants to fight back; in the end, all his own capital, all lost.
Money does not enter the door. Impatient people, his thoughts and decisions, led to his failures.
This is the reason why people can't keep their wealth, and thought determines success or failure. Many people, when they come and go, make a lot of money, but they can't last for a few years, and they all lose money.
2, stable and lasting, is the trend.
The real winner, the one who laughs at the storm, must abide by the laws of nature.
The laws of nature should be slow, they should be gradual, and I would firmly abide by them and keep my existing resources. Would rather miss than make a mistake.
In a person's life, there will always be opportunities, but your resources are limited, and when they are spent, there will be no more.
Stable and lasting, is the real reliable.
The I Ching says, "The house of good deeds will have a remnant of celebration; and the house of the unkind will have a remnant of misfortune." ”
Good little things, accumulated for a long time, there will be yuqing;
Small things that are not good, if you do too much, will also bring disaster.
Albert Einstein once said that compound interest is the eighth wonder of the world.
In fact, positive accumulation of goodness is also a kind of compound interest, do not look at the size when starting, as long as you can stick to it, stable, lasting, time will bring miracles.
3, with less to win more, in the trend.
Our population of more than a billion, the truly wealthy, the upper class, is only a minority. According to the principle of two eights, they have almost 80% of the resources of this society.
The vast majority of us are civilians, and we have very few resources. Complaining about the unfairness of fate is the behavior of the weak. Self-improvement people do not make excuses, but find ways.
Historically, our great men have set a precedent for us to "win more with less."
Protracted war is the key to winning more with less.
Although my resources are small and my strength is weak, as long as what I do is positive and in line with the laws of nature, then no matter how small the force, it can develop and grow. The spark of a spark can ignite the plains.
Those who can win to the end must be able to afford to lose.
Xiang Yu and Liu Bang are the best examples. Liu Bang repeatedly lost battles, I don't know how many defeats he had suffered; Xiang Yu had innate resources and advantages, but unfortunately he could not afford to lose, and once he was besieged, he had no face to see Jiangdong's father and elder, had the opportunity to escape, and refused to cross Jiangdong.
Therefore, the choice of history, the choice of nature, is correct.
No matter how I lose, I can always keep my resources, and at the same time, do everything I can, little by little, little by little... Time will surely make something positive, show its value and results.
Of course, it is important that you first have the vision and wisdom to evaluate objectively. Some things, if not positive, the more you insist, the more you lose.
In this life, people are most afraid of insisting on what should not be insisted on, but giving up what should be insisted on.
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