Wonderful reading time - the secret of success

~Reading time~

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Continue reading "Control Habits" today, share a passage that I saw, I like it very much, excerpted below:

"Whenever I felt powerless, I would go to see the stonemason chiseling the stone, maybe he chiseled it 100 times, but there was no sign of cracks in the stone. However, by the time he chiseled it to the 101st time, the stone had broken in half. I knew it wasn't the result of the last chisel, but the result of successive chisels before. ”

This is a quote from the social reformer Jacob Riis.

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Coincidentally, in the previous learning process, the teacher once told us an impressive example, which roughly means:

A very good master was invited to a venue to give a lecture on the secret of success.

The speech began, the master stepped onto the stage, but without a word, walked to a large bronze bell placed in the middle of the stage, and began to strike the huge bell with a particularly small hammer, once, twice, three times... Countless knocks went down, and the big bell did not react at all.

At this time, the audience began to turn their heads and ears: We have come to listen to the speech on how to succeed, now what is the show for us? ......

The audience was full of discussion, and the master on the stage was not moved, still persevering to ring the bell.

The audience grew impatient, and some had begun to clamor for a refund. The master on the stage still insists on ringing the big bell, once, twice, three times... N down.

The inexplicable audience became more and more excited, and a large part of the audience complained about being deceived and began to leave the scene in anger...

The master was still unmoved, and continued to strike the big bell with the small hammer, and just when the few remaining spectators were about to leave, a miracle occurred, and the big clock, which had not moved at all, began to move slightly, and then the amplitude became larger and larger, bigger and bigger... This huge bell was actually shaken by a small hammer!

At this time, the master said the only words after taking the stage: This is the secret of success!

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Develop a good habit, complete a difficult task, harvest a good harvest, learn a new skill... The development/success of anything is never achieved overnight, and perhaps in the whole process, for a long time you do not feel any major progress/development, and may even be an occasional regression.

However, as long as you continue to work hard every day, make a little progress every day, until one day, you break through the critical point, and you will step into a new realm from now on.

"A common feature of any compound interest process: the most potent outcome is always late."

So, work hard, move forward, little by little, day by day... One day, everything will be different!