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Previously, a group of private photos of 68-year-old Wang Jianlin appeared at work and flowed out, which attracted everyone's attention.
It turns out that this figure who is well-known on the rich list gives people a strong contrasting image in reality.
On the same day, Wang Jianlin wore a blue shirt with ordinary pants of the same color, which gave people a simple and simple feeling overall.
Some netizens also found that Wang Jianlin drank a cheap sugar water that day.
Wearing affordable shoes on the feet is only 1238 yuan.
It can be said that these details are very different from the image of the rich people imagined by netizens.
No wonder many netizens joked that if it were not for Wang Jianlin following other staff, it would be no different from the ordinary old man he met on the road.
As a business personality, Wang Jianlin's wealth is beyond reach.
But in life, he was never wrapped up in materialism, but focused on the way he really wanted to live and work.
Zhou Guoping said: "As long as a person is willing to restrain his desires and is satisfied with living a relatively simple life, the territory of life will be broader." ”
Temper unnecessary materialism, let life be less decorative, more ideal, and your life will be more advanced.
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Previously, Guo Jingjing's 75-year-old rich father-in-law, Huo Zhenting, was shopping alone in a cheap shopping mall.
In the video, Huo Zhenting wears a blue coat and a baseball cap, which is very low-key.
After entering the mall, Huo Zhenting walked directly to the area where the storage box was placed.
After carefully looking at a round of storage boxes, Huo Zhenting picked two miscellaneous shelves, paid by mobile phone and left the store.
Some people have probably estimated that Huo Zhenting's total cost of shopping in the store is only more than 300 yuan.
As a business tycoon, Huo Zhenting usually appears on high-end occasions, and now he personally selects daily miscellaneous items in affordable stores, which can't help but be amazing.
Despite his success in the mall, Huo Zhenting lived a simple and simple life in private.
Remember what Chen Daoming said:
"I think temperance is the greatest enjoyment of life, the release of materials and the release of the spirit are very easy, but the difficulty is temperance. Therefore, the highest state of mind of being a human being is moderation, not release. ”
Really powerful people are never willing to let themselves indulge in materialism, on the contrary, they believe that Su and Jian can make themselves more sober and let themselves go further.
In the final analysis, a person who lives to the extreme is to exercise moderation in places that others can't see.
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3 tips to help you temper your desires and have a high-level life.
1. Understand the choice paradox
There was an experiment: a supermarket laid out 24 kinds of jams. Customers are free to taste and purchase these products at a discount.
On the second day of the test, the supermarket only put out 6 types.
The result? The next day sold 10 times more jam than on the first day.
The reason is simple, when faced with too many choices, many customers will instinctively be at a loss, and they have a delusion in their hearts: these 24 kinds of jams must have the best and most cost-effective. If you choose the wrong one, isn't it a loss?
Instead of that, don't buy it.
This is the choice paradox, where happiness means having freedom and choice, but more freedom and choice does not lead to greater happiness; on the contrary, the more choices, the less happiness.
In an era when food and clothing were in question, our choices were very limited, there were very few dishes on the table, and everyone wore a limited number of styles of clothing. Therefore, when we enter the market economy and the material changes from scarcity to abundance, our happiness has increased significantly.
It's just that these days don't take long, too many choices, new problems arise, and happiness does not increase, but decreases.
Stop believing that more choices can bring more happiness, subtract appropriately, temper your desires, and you will be faster.
2. Be vigilant against supporting effects
One day, a friend gave the thinker Diderot a finely textured, well-made, and elegantly patterned burgundy robe, which Diderot liked very much. So he immediately discarded the old robe and put on the new robe.
But soon after, he became troubled. Because when he was pacing around the study in his luxurious robes, the more he paced, the more he felt that the desk he had used for a long time was worn, and the style was not right.
How can such a thing match this beautiful robe on his body?
So Diderot summoned a servant and asked him to go to the market to buy a new desk to match his new robe. When the desk was bought, Diderot looked at his new study with a big look.
But he immediately discovered a new problem: the stitches of the carpet hanging on the wall of the study were frighteningly thick and did not match the new desk.
Didroma sent servants to buy new tapestries. However, it was not long before he found that the chairs, statues, bookshelves, alarm clocks and other furnishings seemed to be incompatible with the room after the new tapestry was hung and needed to be replaced.
Slowly, the old objects were updated one by one, and finally Diderot got a palatial study.
This is the matching effect, which refers to the phenomenon that people constantly configure the corresponding items to achieve psychological balance after they have a new item.
The Diderot story is the origin of the supporting effect.
Because the matching effect is very common, many people have similar experiences:
When I went out, I just wanted to buy a shirt, but after buying the shirt, I felt that it didn't match the pants, so I went to buy a new pair of pants. Put on your pants, and feel that the style of leather shoes is not a good match, and then go to buy a pair of leather shoes.
Originally, when I went out shopping, I only wanted to buy one thing and spend a few hundred yuan, but when I came home, I found that I bought many pieces and spent thousands of yuan.
That is to say, the matching effect reflects the "more and more insufficient effect": people are very stable in their hearts when they do not get something, and once they get it, they are not satisfied, and they need more and better support.
Adults who are dominated by the matching effect will only end up sinking deeper and deeper into the abyss of desire.
3. Do not give up self-realization
Michelle, the American moon lander, in the Apollo lunar landing warehouse, from the universe to see the beautiful earth from afar, get the peak experience.
Suddenly, he knew that "the universe has its own meaning and direction, and after that tangible creation there is a level that human pursuits must be elevated to global resource sharing in order for the world to be sustainable."
After Michelle returned to Earth, he gave up his space career to devote himself to environmental and ecological sports.
This is the process of self-realization, that is, the process of giving full play to the various talents and potentials of individuals in an appropriate social environment and realizing personal ideals and aspirations.
Maslow's hierarchy of needs theory divides the needs from low to high into 5 levels, the highest of which is self-realization and self-transcendence.
If the self-actualization needs are not met, even if the income is rich and the worldly view of success, it will feel that the meaning of work and life is insufficient, and from time to time it will feel empty.
Therefore, to put the goal on the pursuit of a meaningful life, you should find your ideal ambition and strive to achieve it.
The grand pianist Horowitz's performance is fascinating, and he believes that there is only one secret: self-control.
The whole time he played, he didn't have any superfluous expressions and movements, not even any fancy ones. But the music seemed to be natural to him, and listening quietly couldn't help but make people cry.
Horowitz later had an epiphany: "It took me a lifetime to understand that simplicity is the most powerful. ”
Don't let your heart get lost in prosperity and be enslaved by things.
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