Never allow yourself to feel sympathetic, as this will make you lose motivation to move forward and not succeed.
There is a true story. A person develops a disease at a very young age that, although life-saving, leads to paralysis of the lower limbs. His father was a post office clerk, so after he graduated from high school, he was given a job where he could sit still, just knocking on stamps every day, with the same salary and various benefits as everyone else. He has worked in this position for three years, and although he has a physical disability, he should be satisfied to have such a stable and secure job.
Many of his healthy classmates didn't get such good jobs and were still running around for a certain career, but he quit. At the time, a good job wasn't easy to get. Many people asked him why he resigned, and he said that he could not stand the sympathetic, pitying and contemptuous eyes of others, and his self-esteem was hurt again and again in these eyes. Therefore, even the beatings of his parents and the crying of his friends did not prevent him from leaving his job.
After resigning, he opened a small bookstore, but it was forced to close due to the demolition of local houses. Later, he co-rented a small printing house, but after only a little more than a year, his partner reneged on his promises, causing the factory to close, and he was hit hard by two business failures. Later, he chose to open a restaurant, this time he learned the lessons of the previous two times, and in one year, his small restaurant made a net profit of more than 20,000 yuan, so he opened two more chain stores. Ten years later, his chain of restaurants had blossomed not only in his city, but also in other cities, and he naturally became a successful businessman, married a young and beautiful wife.
When someone asks him the secret of success, he says a lot, but he said that the most important thing is never to make yourself feel sympathetic, because it does not matter that others sympathize with you, if you sympathize with yourself, you will become cowardly, lose the motivation to move forward, and success will be impossible.
