Mrs. Lf. Lanche, | Wen
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The French scientist John Farber liked to place caterpillars that followed their kind on the edge of a pot and make them end to end in a circle.
He sprinkled some caterpillar favorite pine needles in the pot, the caterpillar, and began to walk around the pot one by one, in a circle.
An hour passed, a day passed, and the caterpillars continued to circle and circle, for seven days and seven nights, and the caterpillars eventually died of hunger and exhaustion.
This is the "caterpillar effect."
In life, many people are like this caterpillar, without their own independent way of thinking and behavior, and without the spirit of innovation, always love to follow the footsteps of their predecessors. They have no clear goal, but they just follow the crowd and go with the flow, so they lead to their own lifelong inaction.
There is a saying in "Kazuo Inamori's Advice to Young People": "If you want to achieve a certain cause, you should always describe the ideal state of the cause, and then elevate this ideal to a strong desire." The meaning of this sentence is that we must have our own clear direction of walking, that is, a goal.
Those who have a mediocre and inactive life are not the result of no background, no education or no luck, but the most fundamental reason is that they have no clear goals, they always want to copy the success of others and follow in the footsteps of others.
Success cannot be replicated because each of us has a different birth background, family situation, and education level.
So the way those who succeed will succeed isn't necessarily right for us. Even if we try our best to go through the ups and downs they've experienced and try to succeed in doing so, it's just a repetition of what he was right the last time.
This is not a great ideal that you can achieve on your own. Such success is not valuable and meaningful, and you cannot reach the peak stage where the successful person is by copying the success of others.
We spare no effort, rack our brains, and do our best to open up a path of life of our own. And then the success achieved is definitely a peak state that others can't reach, and can't reach it.
To be a pioneer, not a follower, an imitator, a replicator, success is not accidental, only inevitable; your pattern, thinking, goals determine, how big your achievements will be, how great the chances of success.
If you blindly follow the footsteps of your predecessors to the peak, you will never experience the extraordinary sense of achievement, joy and happiness that you have given after a thousand times of effort and experienced countless ups and downs.
To be a person is to dare to do what others dare not do, to take the road that others dare not take, and to have their own clear goals. That way you have the potential to succeed.
Take a look at the story in Kazuo Inamori's Advice to Young People
A man passed by a construction site and asked what the workers there were doing? The three workers had three different answers.
The first worker: "I am doing the breadwinner", the second worker: "I am doing the best stonemason work in the country", and the third worker: "I am building a cathedral".
The first worker is only to meet the basic needs of life, without lofty ideals and ambitions; the second is what kind of person he wants to be, without considering the final purpose and requirements of the construction work; the third worker is a creative goal, he clearly knows what he wants to achieve, not only that, he also combines his "work goals" with "organizational goals".
In a sense, such people are more likely to succeed.
All people whose careers are relatively successful have two characteristics, one is to clarify the goals of the cause, and the other is to continuously advance towards the goals. The meaning of the goal is not only the goal itself, it is like a beacon on the sea, a signal for us to discern the direction, a sign to guide our success.
On the road to success, we have identified a goal, and we should unswervingly follow it. During this period, we may encounter many difficulties and setbacks, but we should not easily lose.
With a positive attitude and a tenacious spirit, we must examine the problems existing in the goals and methods we have set in the past, and on this basis, choose a new way forward, and through other ways, reach the other side of success.
If you don't want to go through this life in a sloppy way, then don't be like a caterpillar, have your own clear goals and creative way of thinking.
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