Author: Insight Xu Chaodu
Habits separate social classes from each other and do not mix with each other.
One year, Yu Minhong went on vacation to Hainan Island.
Most visitors sleep until the sun shines, wake up on the beach and enjoy the sea breeze, before flocking to the bar until late at night.
But he woke up at half past six in the morning, worked for hours on end, and stayed alone in his room at night to read.
Others felt strange and asked him: It's rare to have a holiday, why don't you relax?
"These habits are part of my genes," he says. It is thanks to good habits that I have a better life. ”
Indeed, what kind of habits a person has, what kind of life he will live.
The amount of wealth depends not only on education, ability and luck, but also on the accumulation of daily behavior.
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Lifestyle habits
Thomas Corey, an American scholar, spent five years doing a study.
He found 177 self-made billionaires and 128 poor people and observed their life trajectories one by one.
In contrast, he was surprised to find: "Your daily habits will reveal whether you can be successful in life." ”
It turns out that the so-called success is nothing more than doing the right thing day in and day out.
At any time, we are not overly enthusiastic about anything, nor do we relax our self-management and improvement.
Spend your time on what matters, put your mind to what matters, and you'll be close to getting things done.
1. Keep moving
Blogger @陈溥江 took a video: At 6 o'clock in the morning, in the most prosperous area of Hong Kong, there is a gym with bright lights.
Most of the people who come here for fitness are financial elites with an annual income of one million.
Eating abstaining from diet and exercising all year round has made their mental state unusually full.
While others are drowsy at their workstations, they're getting their day off to work.
You see, exercising and not exercising are destined to live a different life.
Taylor, a lecturer at Harvard University, once said: Exercise is the most powerful psychotropic drug.
Not only does it charge your body, but it also stores power for your mind and makes you strong from the inside out.
A person who insists on exercising will always maintain a strong vitality and overcome obstacles on the road of life.
2. Temper your desires
Have you ever noticed that the poorer people are, the more they love to spend money?
They can't resist their desire for pleasure and are busy eating, drinking, and traveling as soon as they get paid, and they can't resist the temptation of promotions, and they buy and buy without thinking, and their wallets are soon empty.
Thomas Stanley, author of "Wealth Freedom," interviewed a wealthy couple.
The couple had a lot of money, but they only drove an old-fashioned car, and their home was simply decorated and they would think about each item for a long time before buying it.
With their desire to temperate, they saved their first pot of gold, and later seized the opportunity and became millionaires by investing.
The poor follow their instincts and enjoy low-level indulgences, while the rich delay gratification and experience advanced pleasures.
From today onwards, learn to restrain desires and pursue higher pleasures:
Use other people's time for leisure to think about problems and pay attention to current affairs, and spend other people's squandered money on studies and long-term investments.
Turn over and become the master of desire, and you can catch the fortune.
3. Read for a long time
After Musk became the richest man in the world, he gave a speech at Tsinghua University.
The dean of Tsinghua University's School of Economics and Management asked him how he did it? Musk's answer was simple: "Because I read a lot of books." ”
Writer Zhou Ling said: Every time a person reads a book, he is conducting an interview with a celebrity and communicating with top experts.
The more a person reads, the more he will naturally be able to accumulate wisdom and effectively solve the problems of life.
Reading biographies of celebrities can open your mind and provide you with ways to get out of life's difficulties;
Historical classics can enhance your cognition and let you understand the operation law of all things;
Reading magazines and magazines can also keep you up to date with current changes and opportunities.
The more elite they are, the more they will use books to enrich their minds and expand the boundaries of their experience.
Every time you read, it will become a step up and help you leap to a higher level of life.
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Habits of mind
We all know that the Jewish nation is the richest nation in the world.
This is inseparable from their education.
In the Talmud, every Jewish child is asked the question: "If one day your house burns down, what will you take with you?"
If the child is going to take away valuables, the mother will tell him: "What you are going to take away is not money, not diamonds, but your knowledge, your way of thinking." ”
The essence of wealth is actually the realization of thinking.
Thinking determines the way out, the way of thinking is right, and wealth and fortune will come continuously.
1. Leverage your thinking
I've seen a cartoon where the poor and the rich carry gold at the same time.
The poor man used all his strength to pick up a small piece of gold and move it slowly and staggeringly.
The rich man, however, chose a large piece of gold and, with the help of a stick, easily pushed it forward.
The gap between the two is clear at a glance.
If you blindly bury your head in hard work, even if you are tired and tired, you can only exchange for basic food and clothing.
People who can really make money put their energy into thinking and looking for all available resources.
Or borrow from the platform, or borrow wisdom from experts, or borrow power from tools.
Know how to bless yourself with the power of the outside world, and you will reap rich results at the lowest cost.
2. Shift to thinking
Stanford University did a campaign to give out $5 to each of 14 groups of students to see which group could make the most money in the allotted time.
Some people buy small commodities at cost price and sell them for a second time, and the profit is pitiful.
Some people bought tools to repair bicycles for others, and after working hard for most of the day, they barely returned to their original costs.
And the most powerful group, what they see in their eyes is not 5 dollars, but the signboard of "Stanford".
They first went to gather information and learned that a company wanted to come to Stanford for recruitment, hoping to promote it in the classroom.
They sold the first three minutes of class to the company and made $600 at once.
"Zhou Yi" says: Change is common, and general is long.
In this world, the reason why most people are poor is because they stick to their inertial thinking and hit the south wall all the way.
Tear down the wall of inertia and think in a different direction, and you can find real opportunities to make money.
3. Sense of distress
Kazuo Inamori once said: Whether a person sits on a luxurious giant ship or a simple ship, the crisis will not treat him differently.
This means that when a crisis comes, you won't greet anyone, you can only prepare in advance.
More than 30 years ago, Japan's semiconductor industry suffered a technological blockade from the United States.
Most Japanese companies think that there will be no problems for the time being, but Kazuo Inamori has been preparing in advance.
He invested a lot of manpower and financial resources in Kyocera's independent research and development, and worked tirelessly to lead employees to develop their own chips.
When the crisis struck, other businesses were hit hard, but Kyocera was unharmed.
There are too many people who are unwilling to endure the momentary efforts for the sake of future happiness.
Wealthy people know how to plan when they have enough time and strengthen their reserves when they have no worries.
In this way, regardless of the ups and downs of the times, we can always be invincible.
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Habits of mind
We see a lot of rich people living at ease, always thinking that their money comes easily.
In the documentary "The Legend of American Business Tycoon", it debunks a truth: anyone's money-making process is full of frustrations.
But unlike the poor, the rich can always adjust their mentality in time no matter what difficulties they encounter.
Becoming better in life starts with having a positive and open mind.
As Charles Dickens said, "A sound mind is more powerful than a hundred wisdoms." ”
1. Affirm yourself
You know, what's the biggest difference between a rich and a poor?
Writer Cai Fuqiang said: The rich always say "I can" to themselves, and the poor always say to themselves, "I'm afraid I can't".
There is a blind man named Cai Yongbin, who has been advised by the people around him since he was a child: "Massage is your only way out in the future." ”
But he didn't believe in his fate, buried himself in self-taught programming, and became an information accessibility engineer with his efforts.
Later, he also developed a software for the visually impaired, and set up a company and became the boss.
His experience proves a truth: "The quality of life comes from the power of the heart." ”
What you believe in your heart will attract you and thus what kind of life you will live.
In other words, you have to believe that you can achieve things before you can have a prosperous life.
2. Be good at controlling emotions
Master Liang, the author of self-media, encountered a customer with a very poor attitude when he was doing sales in his early years.
Hearing that the other party kept belittling his products, he was angry for a while, and replied that the other party didn't know the goods.
After his temper was over, he was happy, but the business collapsed, and his job was almost gone.
Only then did he realize that venting his emotions was the most useless behavior in the world.
Therefore, the more outstanding people are, the more they understand the importance of managing emotions.
If Lei Jun was publicly complained about by his peers, there would be no Xiaomi's subsequent breakthroughs again and again.
If Dong Mingzhu was indignant about the mess left by his colleagues, there would be no Gree Iron Lady today.
Everyone can encounter unreasonable customers, uncooperative colleagues, and unpleasant changes.
But this world is like this, and in every penny you earn, there are unspeakable grievances and hardships.
If you want to be chosen by wealth, you must learn to let go of your emotions and put your goals first.
3. Believe in long-termism
In life, there is no shortage of such people:
I heard that others were making money from the media, so I quickly turned on the computer codeword, but I didn't write it for a few days, and I hated it as too boring;
saw that live streaming has become a trend, and I also followed the trend to register an account, but I was disheartened when I saw that there were few viewers;
found that the roadside stall business was booming, and immediately went to learn the craft, but before he got through the novice period, he lost interest again.
After a round of tossing, time, energy, and money were spent, but in the end, nothing was gained.
How do you make money? Actually, the answer is only four words: long-termism.
Warren Buffett, the former richest man in the world, is like this, identifying a direction and continuing to accumulate, and finally earning 90% of the wealth in his life after the age of 60.
And the impetuous person just wants to take advantage of the immediate advantage, which seems to be looking for a shortcut, but in fact he is taking a long detour.
They always don't want to believe that it's hard to get rich overnight, but it's much easier to make money slowly.
Settle down in a field, work hard, and fate will give you everything you deserve sooner or later.
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The philosopher William James said: Habit separates social classes from each other.
Life is a marathon, and every step you take now determines the direction of the future.
Life is not out of control, thinking is not limited, and mentality is not negative.
When you get into the habit of being rich, good luck and wealth will come uninvited.
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