Author: Mizuki Ran
This article is selected from Mizukiran's new book "Human Wakefulness"
An accomplished person must be a person who sees through the nodes of his life.
Everyone's life is a flower, but the flowering period is different, and the time of blooming is different.
The blooming flower is the visible part, and the roots buried deep in the ground are the invisible part. The invisible determines the tangible, the invisible determines the visible, and when the roots are deep enough and absorb enough nutrients, the flower will bloom. Some bloom in spring, some in summer, some in autumn, and some bloom in the cold winter, such as plum blossoms.
Life is the same, the so-called success, is the result of energy accumulation to a certain extent.
There are also many people who are young and ambitious, but how many people can be wonderful to old age? Many people rely on luck to succeed, and the result is to rely on strength to fail, and one day they will have to pay it back, so it is often more reliable to be a late bloomer and accumulate thin hair.
In short, stepping on your own rhythm in life is king. Just like all things, each has its own growth law, and it must go through the four processes of birth, growth, harvest and storage. Spring planting, summer length, autumn harvest, winter storage, each stage has its own characteristics.
At the stage when the hidden dragon is not used, you should bury your head and work hard; When it's time for you to recuperate, don't rush to get ahead, if people understand the logic of the development of things, they will know when they can make a move, this is their own "node"!
It's interesting to think about the many legends of the world:
Huang Zhong was 60 years old and mixed with Liu Bei; Tokugawa Ieyasu fought the world at the age of 70; Jiang Ziya is 80 years old as a minister; She Taijun is 100 years old and becomes handsome; Monkey King 500 years old Xitian learned the scriptures; Bai Suzhen was more than 1,000 years old before she went down the mountain to fall in love; Young man, you say you are in a hurry?
But then again:
Gates became the richest man in the world at the age of 39; Chen Tianqiao became China's richest man at the age of 31; Sun Yat-sen founded the Xingzhong Association at the age of 28; Sun Quan occupied Jiangdong at the age of 19; Ding Junhui won the world championship at the age of 14; Kangxi ascended the throne at the age of 6; Beethoven composed music at the age of 4; Huluwa fights monsters as soon as she is born; Do you say Lao Tzu is in a hurry?
Does achievement have anything to do with age?
Look at the comparison of Alexander, Caesar, Napoleon, the three legends:
Alexander went on the campaign at the age of 21, never lost a war in his life, and spent about 10 years building an unprecedented empire spanning Asia, Europe and Africa, but his life ended at the age of 33.
Caesar did not start the campaign until he was in his forties, and in his 50s he established the merits of the world.
Napoleon, who became the leader of France at the age of 30 and the emperor of continental Europe at the age of 35, ended his political life at the age of 46 and his biological life at the age of 52.
It doesn't seem to have a necessary relationship...
When I was a child, I grew up in the countryside, and I was very impressed by one thing: farmers must step on the right node when planting land, which is often consistent with the 24 solar terms, such as "the autumn equinox is the right time to plant wheat", which means that planting wheat at the autumn equinox is most conducive to its growth.
That is to say: sowing is not about the sooner the better, the sooner the better, but the better the timing.
This also tells us a truth: many things do not come as soon as possible, and the faster they are done, the better, but they happen best at the most opportune time.
Life is not to drive ducks to the shelf, always have to compare with others, always have to be ahead of others, everyone has their own development time zone, understand that they are the node of life, it is much more important than blindly catching up with others every day.
When it's your turn to be low-key, don't be ostentatious, this is also called don't use the hidden dragon.
When it's your turn, don't hesitate to strike when it's time to strike.
Man stands at 40 and knows his destiny at 50. What is knowing the destiny of heaven? It is to know your mission and feel the rhythm of your life's development.
However, the pace of modern society is developing very fast, and people are generally precocious, so many people know the destiny of heaven before 50, and the sooner people know the destiny, the better.
Eileen Zhang said before that success should be achieved early, and this sentence is definitely misleading:
First of all, a person who becomes famous too early, with his own aura, will live in the external compliments, often wear down his will to work hard, thus limiting his development.
Secondly, a person becomes famous before he has enough cultivation, and it is easy to be young and frivolous, not to put others in his eyes, so as to suffer losses and fall down, and it is difficult to get up again after planting.
This world seems unfair, some people rush to the sky as soon as they gain power, and some people are diligent and hard but are buried without a trace.
For example, since 2004, housing prices in Beijing, Shanghai and Shenzhen have risen by more than 10 times, so anyone who can stand in first-tier cities, no matter how mediocre your ability, is at least a multimillionaire.
Look at society from another perspective:
Since 2004, the life of countless manufacturing companies has become more and more difficult, and many entrepreneurs have gone from being worth hundreds of millions at that time to being heavily indebted today.
But if we stretch the time a little longer, we will find that the world is really fair:
1: All those who used to profit by means of not seeing the light have basically dispersed over the years;
2: All those who have relied on resources and backgrounds to make a fortune before have basically become worse and worse in the past two years;
3: Everyone who has become rich overnight has been looking for a way to get rich overnight, but has never found it again;
4: All those who make a fortune from the house basically do not have the ability to make money in other ways;
5: Those who make their fortunes by speculation are often unsatisfactory in other areas, such as family and health.
In contrast:
1: Those who are down-to-earth, although they have been unknown in previous years, are beginning to gradually show their heads;
2: Those who have never become rich overnight often have their own fixed earning ability and work step by step;
3: Those who have been relying on themselves, the road is getting wider and wider, and there are more and more places to be accepted;
4: Those who have a clear positioning and a skill have a stronger sense of happiness and a calm and stable life;
5: People who insist on not speculating in houses, stocks, and speculation seem to have a turbulent life, but often have harmonious families, healthy families, and full lives;
The world seems unfair, but in the dark, there is a force of fairness that controls the operation of society.
In a word: life has ups and downs, ever-changing, no matter how good the opportunity, no matter how powerful the skill, it is only a human calculation. People have a thousand calculations, and heavens are counted. A thousand calculations of people are not worth the calculation of the sky, so what is the sky?
Bottom line: The value that a person ultimately creates determines the end of his life.
Many people's end point is the same, but some people do roller coasters, ups and downs, and some people insist on moving forward down-to-earth;
Some people first raise and then suppress, some people first suppress and then rise, and some people step by step.
Life really doesn't have to be so anxious, do yourself down-to-earth, the less in front will naturally make up for the back, and the less here and there will naturally make up.
Life will return to the mean, no matter how high the peak you experience, you will always return to your true self in the end, many people seem to have a lot of wealth, but these wealth are just a sweet dream, once it reaches the value reshaping period, everything will return to the mean.
Life development is often divided into two ways:
The first way is called step by step, step by step, which requires us to be patient and not affected by the impetuous environment of the outside world.
The second way is called: three steps forward and two steps back, that is, every three steps forward to take two steps back, in fact, it is still step by step, but it consumes more energy and energy.
Most people are actually moving forward in this way, because everyone is generally anxious and impetuous, always afraid of falling behind, but although this way consumes three times the energy and energy, the actual progress efficiency has not improved.
In fact, the progress of many enterprises and countries is also carried out in this way, and we would rather go wrong than slow down, which leads to our energy being consumed on constant rework and useless work.
For example, we have now formed a law that every time a new concept comes out, it must be used by a wave of scammers to defraud money, and then a wave of speculators emerges, using it to speculate to make money, and finally it can be the turn of a wave of idealistic people to do it.
For example, blockchain, P2P, too... Originally, it was all a good concept, and we had to make them mess up first, and then pick them up and do it again.
So many times, we seem to put in a lot of effort, on the surface to read the book and take three steps, but in fact two steps are backwards.
There is only one success in life, and that is to live your life at your own pace.
Finally, I think of a little poem:
New York time is three hours ahead of California time, but California time is not slowing down.
Some people became CEOs at the age of 25 and died at the age of 50. There are also people who don't become CEOs until they are 50, but live to be 90.
Obama retired at 55, and Trump became president at 70. Park Geun-hye was elected president at the age of 60 and sentenced to 24 years in prison at the age of 66.
Everyone in the world has their own time zone for development. Some people seem to walk ahead of you, others seem to walk behind you.
But in fact, everyone is in their own time zone, there is no need to envy or ridicule them, life is waiting for the right time to act.
So, take it easy. You're not behind, you're not ahead. In a unique time zone arranged for you by fate, everything is on time!
The most rare thing in life is "sobriety in the world"
The master is deep and relaxed, the mediocrity is superficial and painful!
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