In the past two days, the epidemic in Beijing has been fiercely fighting back, and many people are hoarding grain and hoarding vegetables.
I sent a circle of friends and asked if I wanted to hoard vegetables, because I didn't hoard vegetables and felt silly, and hoarding vegetables also felt quite stupid.
As a result, everyone suggested that I should stock up on some dishes, after all, there is a lesson from Shanghai.
To be honest, I had a long time and didn't look at the circle of friends much.
Because, there are too many negative energy things in the circle of friends.
Under the epidemic, the city pressed the "pause button", and everyone's life has been seriously affected.
However, I want to tell you that although the epidemic is terrible, what is more terrible than the epidemic is that you have an "epidemic mentality".
Be wary of the "epidemic mentality"
What is the "pandemic mentality"? It is that you blame the epidemic for all the lack of effort, carelessness, and failure.
Unemployed, unable to make money, blamed on the epidemic; the community is sealed, the work efficiency at home is low, blamed on the epidemic; the operation is not good, the company is about to go out of business, blamed on the epidemic...
This is clearly misattributive.
Because, for enterprises, the epidemic is only a change in the external operating environment, it is the external cause of the crisis of the enterprise, but management is the internal cause, and the ability is the fundamental.
For individuals, the same is true, what determines a person's achievements is not about the external factors of the epidemic, the most important thing is their own heart.
Why is it that under the epidemic, some companies have fallen, and some companies have taken a leap?
Why do some people live in depression, while others can bravely climb the peak and create one miracle after another?
The key is what attitude you have towards the epidemic.
Do you see it as an obstacle on the way forward, or an opportunity to grow?
Let me give you 3 small examples.
The first one, Cui Jian. Ten days ago, Cui Jian opened an online concert on the video number, and more than 40 million people watched his performance online.
I've always thought that Cui Jian was an idol of our generation. But the internet that night, regardless of age group, was talking about him, and everyone was swiped by him.
At a time when the new crown epidemic is spreading at many points, some people are shaking the sky, but Cui Jian planned a unique online concert to announce to the world: "Lao Tzu has not changed at all." ”
The second, Liu Run. Do you know what Teacher Liu Run has done in these days when the epidemic in Shanghai has been closed?
Since the beginning of April, he has maintained more than 10,000 words of writing every day, and as a result, he has completed a book in 7 days.
On April 7, he sent the manuscript to the publisher. According to his statistics, the finished text of the book is 80,000 words, plus 90,000 words of appendices, including 100,000 words of punctuation.
After writing the book, Shanghai did not unseal, and the sealing was more severe. What to do?
Teacher Liu Run began to do live broadcasting on the video number to accompany everyone to read. Planned on the 8th, broadcast on the 9th, and shared a book with everyone online on time every night, so far there has never been a break.
You see, excellent people always regard excellence as a habit. No matter how chaotic the outside world is, they can always maintain their inner purity and do things at their own pace.
The third, Liu Qihong. In the past few days, Liu Qihong is on fire, absorbing 30 million powder a week, and the whole network is competing to be "Liu Qihong girl/boy".
A lot of people, like me, have never heard of this guy before. Why did he catch fire? He did one thing. During the period of shanghai sealing, as a "fitness expert", he took his wife to broadcast live on Douyin and danced to exercise.
Under the influence of the epidemic, everyone went out to exercise under many restrictions, Liu Qihong's online live broadcast of fitness just hit everyone's fitness needs, so it broke the circle in an instant and became the top stream of more than 50 million fans.
Opportunity, hidden in change.
Changes in the external environment have broken a lot of habitual cognition, and if you can recognize this change and seize the opportunity, you can make a leap forward.
Strengthens three types of immunity
The waves are sandy, and the naked runners are numerous. When the epidemic comes, the resistance of a person to the difficult situation can be seen most.
Some people are very fragile, frightened by difficulties, simply "lie flat", unwilling to progress and work hard, but there are also some people who are very brave, often able to face difficulties and make extraordinary achievements.
How not to be defeated by the epidemic? How to break through the predicament? You have to constantly strengthen yourself and strengthen your three immunity.
1. Psychological immunity
Many people are not defeated by difficulties, but by their own fragile mentality.
Everyone will always encounter all kinds of sufferings and setbacks in life. When faced with an uncertain environment, it is inevitable to fall into uneasiness and fear.
But when you're afraid of something, it's easier for that thing to find you and hurt you.
For example, if you are afraid that if you are not physically healthy, negative emotions will affect your health; you are afraid that if you can't complete your performance, this anxiety and pressure will crush you and make you really unable to perform.
Therefore, you must enhance your mental nature and enhance your psychological immunity.
So, how do you do it?
The first is to have a philosophical awareness of using difficulties as opportunities for growth. You have to have a conditioned reflex of thinking that difficulties are opportunities. Opportunities to grow and leap forward are hidden in difficulties.
The second is to start with the end. When you feel like you can't go on, think about why you started and what it meant to fight for it.
Always remember what your original intention is, what kind of person you want to be, what kind of things you want to do, and what is the meaning of what you do.
Third, to cultivate the truth through falsehood and to cultivate people through deeds. What is fake? What is true? The difficulties you encounter will always be overcome, they are all fake, it is really what you have gained from the difficulties and what you have grown.
You know, everything you experience is for one purpose: to cultivate yourself.
2. Value immunity
Value is the source of a person's strength. How much value you can provide determines whether you will be eliminated or not.
Therefore, at any time, you must continue to add value to yourself and enhance your value immunity.
Under the epidemic, the pace of life has slowed down, which is a good opportunity to achieve self-improvement.
So, what to do? You have at least two things to do:
First, read more.
As I said in the article the other day, reading is the lowest cost and highest return investment for a person.
Make good use of your free time and read more books. The thinking of predecessors is the ladder of progress.
Every book you read opens up your cognitive blind spots.
The more books you read, the more you understand, the more you discover the logic of the world.
Second, be good at learning.
You might as well learn one skill and master one more skill. Whether it's going to an online training course or learning to cook, you don't want to sit idle anyway.
When you improve your professional skills through learning and improve professionally, your ability is stronger, you have anti-fragility, and you can hedge some uncertain risks.
After the epidemic, there may be other crises, crises are the norm in life, so you must enhance your value immunity and make yourself irreplaceable.
3. Body immunity
In the second half of life, the fight is health. Without a good body, everything is a floating cloud. Therefore, you must constantly enhance your body's immunity.
The body is the capital of the revolution, everyone fights to the end is physical work, whether the career can go far is also physical work, and the level of professional achievement is also physical work in the end.
Why? After you are not in good health, your brain is not good, and after your body is not good, your mental strength will also be haggard.
I have a friend who was the chairman of a listed company before, and he used to have a very strong aura and was a fierce person. But then she fell ill and removed a part of her guts, after which she lost all her strength and did not have the courage to do things. This is the physical strength is not good, the physical strength is not enough, the mental strength will decline.
If your physical strength is very poor, your mental and mental strength will definitely be affected.
Therefore, no matter when, you must develop good living habits, exercise more, exercise more, cherish your body, and keep your physical strength abundant.
Finally, to sum up: although the epidemic is terrible, what is more terrible than the epidemic is that you have an "epidemic mentality" and blame all the lack of effort, carelessness, and failure on the epidemic. How not to be knocked down by the pandemic and find opportunities for growth? You have to improve your mental nature and enhance your psychological immunity; you have to read more and learn more to enhance your value immunity; finally, you should also exercise more and exercise more to enhance the body's immunity.