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There is an old Chinese saying called "heaven rewards diligence". The so-called "diligence" is hard work. For thousands of years, "Reward for Diligence" has been one of the core values of Chinese.
However, in a speech, cartoonist Cai Zhizhong said: "In fact, effort is useless. Afterwards, he explained that he wasn't trying to make everyone stop trying, that it was only a little better to try than not to try. He believes that the law of success in life is actually very simple, that is, to find what you love and are best at, and do it to the extreme. As long as you master this, no matter what you do, there is no unsuccessful.
Cai Zhizhong is one of China's most famous cartoonists, and his experience is legendary. At the age of 4, he set the direction of his life; at the age of 16, he began to create comic strips; at the age of 28, he founded a cartoon company; and at the age of 36, he achieved financial freedom. His masterpieces such as "Zhuangzi Said", "Lao Tzu Said", "Liezi Say" and so on, accompanied generations of Chinese young readers to grow up, becoming the earliest philosophical enlightenment books for Chinese children. In the process of creation, he also accumulated a huge wealth.
In Cai Zhizhong's view, it is the most important thing for people to find what they love the most. His favorite thing in life was drawing cartoons. In order to draw manga, he used to not go out for 42 days; in order to draw manga, he traveled to Japan for 4 years and drew 40 zhuzi hundred manga; in order to make a 4-minute animation title, he could sit for 58 hours without moving.
Cai Zhizhong believes that finding what he loves most and throwing himself into it is far more important than blind efforts like a headless fly. When a person does what he likes the most, he will enter the realm of unity of body and mind, and forgetfulness of both things and things.
This state is called "flow" in psychology. The first person to propose the concept of "flow" was the famous psychologist Mikhari Chiksen Mihalai. After 30 years of research, he found that it is easy for people to experience flow when doing what they love most and are best at. People in a state of flow can do something with so much concentration that they don't even feel the presence of time. After doing the work, a feeling of peace and joy will arise in the heart.
Whether it is Cai Zhizhong's "effort is useless" or Mihaly's "flow theory", in the end, it emphasizes concentration. When a person does what he loves most and is best at, his concentration is bound to be very high.
On this point, the Indian spiritual master Sadhguru has made a similar point. In his masterpiece "Three Truths of a Happy Life," he wrote, "When you reach the pinnacle of achievement, you become inactive. ”
The book gives an example. At the beginning of the twentieth century, the Russian dancer Vaslav Nijinsky once shocked the Western dance world with his superb ballet skills, and was called the "god of dance" by the Western world.
Like Cai Zhizhong, Nijinsky's experience is also quite legendary. At the age of 10, he entered the best ballet school in Russia. By the age of 18, his ballet skills were already well known in Russia. Later, he wrote and directed his own ballet masterpieces such as "The Afternoon of the Pastoral God" and "The Festival of Spring", which became famous in the world.
Nijinsky's dancing skills fascinated the audience. Most admirably, he has an amazing bouncing power and can jump to heights that any scientific theory would consider impossible. People asked him how he did it. He replied, "I can't do it myself, it only happens when Niginsky doesn't exist." ”
Sadhguru believes that when one gives oneself completely, one transcends one's limitations and enters a state of inaction. After a while, this state of inaction will stabilize. At that time, your inner talents will be fully bloomed, and you will not need to work hard to succeed easily.
After reading the words of Cai Zhizhong and Saguru, I was deeply touched. Tell me about my experience.
Four years ago, I quit my job from my last company and started working as a self-media person. Looking back now, objectively speaking, the owner of that company was good to me, and he admired my ability to work. However, I resigned later. The process of resignation is a bit tortuous. I resigned, and for the first time, he kept me. Three months later, I offered to resign again, and he saw that he couldn't keep me anymore and let me go.
The years of being a worker are mostly tears. The reason why I am determined to resign is not a matter of money, but a matter of mood.
At that time, the mood of going to work every day was the same as that of the grave. When you leave work, you are as happy as if a prisoner is out of prison. Every day when I sit at my desk and twist my neck, I make a "clicking" sound, and several times I scare myself.
What I can't stand the most is the various infighting in the company. I like a simple working atmosphere, as long as the interpersonal relationship is simple, I will be very happy and efficient. On the contrary, once the company's interpersonal relationships are complicated and forced to get involved in interpersonal struggles, I am like an idiot, often being used by people and carrying a black pot for people.
However, any company has a scheming side. I really can't stand that atmosphere, I think, if I continue to do it, maybe I will be out of the terminal illness, and the money I earn is not enough for medical expenses, that is not worth it. It was still important to save his life, so he resigned decisively.
After resigning, the biggest feeling is that I can sleep until I wake up naturally every day, I am doing what I love every day, my body is better than before, and my smile is more than before. Even if you are in a bad mood occasionally, it does not last long. Most of the time, very fulfilling and happy.
Here, it is recommended that professionals pay more attention to their physical and mental health. If you find that your body is always hurting and the smile on your face is getting less and less, it must be something wrong with your work. You have to consciously decompress yourself and make your life easier and more comfortable. In fact, the choice of life is always in our own hands. Workers also have the right to change their own destiny, and it is more beneficial to their lives to make some appropriate changes.
Sadhguru said, "If you are willing to throw yourself into anything, it is your paradise; if you are unwilling to do anything, it is your hell." Effort means perseverance, but also pain. Life is useless by hard work alone. Do what you love and do best, immerse yourself in it, and enjoy the process of doing things, and the results will be better than blind effort.
A person, if he knows very well who he is, what kind of person he wants to be, and what kind of life he wants to live, then he will not be disturbed by any outside world and can wholeheartedly do what he wants to do.
May you find the love of your life and immerse yourself in it to reach your divine potential. One day, health, money, and happiness will all line up to find you.
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