Make a high wish, make a medium bond, and enjoy the inferior blessings; choose a high place to stand, find a place to live in peace, and walk to a wide place.
It is rumored that li Ka-shing's office has such a couplet.
I used to like this sentence a lot, but then I slowly felt that this was actually to get all the benefits of the world, too greedy.
But I think this couplet really contains the truth of life.
In fact, the most important revelation I have received over the years is that life must "choose a high place to stand."
The ancients had a saying that "seeking the highest is the best", which means that people have high ambitions and big ambitions. This is not to persuade people to be ambitious, but a strategy to maximize the value of life.
Whether it is "making a wish to be superior, choosing a high place", or "seeking the high", it reveals a truth, that is, small things are not as good as big things!
"If your dreams don't scare you, you're doing it wrong."
Musk said, "Aim for the moon, and even if you fail, you can at least fall on the clouds." ”
His success is the evidence of this truth, if not very early on the dream of "saving mankind and becoming a superhero", Musk would not have a strong entrepreneurial motivation.
Although most people are just busy all day "carrying crumbs" and living mediocrely, there are some people who dare to think and dare to do it, but the difference between these people and Musk is that they are often "ambitious" and difficult to achieve.
Why? Because the hearts and visions of the two are different, the ambitious and talented people are often opportunistic, greedy, emphasizing the self, or narrow selfishness.
And Musk, even if he is a superhero, is a praiseworthy individual heroism.
Continuing to say that "small things are not as good as big things", Schwarzman, who first saw Blackstone, said that "the difficulty of doing big things and doing small things is the same", which had a great impact on me.
In Schwarzman's view, there is actually little difference between big things and small things, "both of which will consume your time and energy, so if you are determined to do things, you must do big things, to ensure that your dreams are worth pursuing, and future gains can be worthy of your efforts." ”
Some friends may question Schwarzman's statement, how can the difficulty of doing small things and doing big things be the same, just like you go to open a small restaurant, and Ren Zhengfei takes Huawei to the world first, the two can be the same.
But have you ever thought that "doing big things" does not mean that you have to do a lot at the beginning, in fact, Ren Zhengfei's entrepreneurship is also a process from small to large.
That is to say, the so-called "big things" are also composed of small things, the difficulty has a superimposed process, and the big success is also composed of a combination of small successes. Ren Zhengfei once said that the world's first is the accumulation of small things.
Therefore, do not ignore the growth of people, do not use the limitations of the present to bind their future.
You know, the same decades of life time, rather than dedicating it to a "small thing", it is better to dedicate it to a "big cause".
In this way, you can maximize the value of your life.
Life is a long-term, continuous process of self-improvement, what you do will affect you in turn, I often tell my friends, you can do what you want, you do what you do. The coming and going of life is involuntary, but the drama of life is indeed composed by oneself.
Whether it is a small thing or a big thing, it requires us to devote ourselves wholeheartedly. For example, according to Schwarzman, the difficulty of starting and running a small business is almost the same as that of a large enterprise:
"The founding of a business, no matter how big or small, has a process from scratch, and you will bear the same financial burden and psychological pressure. It's just as difficult to raise money and find the right talent. ”
It is this truth that we must set ourselves a big goal worth pursuing, so that the harvest and the effort can match, so that we will not live up to our own life.