Han Feizi is a very complex historical figure, and he has as many labels on his body as he has passed down famous works, such as legal family heirs, essayists, philosophers, thinkers, aristocrats of the princes Han, students of Xunzi, brothers and sisters of Li Si...
However, such a talented person was not born at the right time, and eventually died tragically at the hands of Li Si and Qin Shi Huang, not only could not save the princes Han, but also could not save himself.
In 293 BC, the Qin army completely annihilated the 240,000 combined forces of the Wei state and Korea in the Battle of Yique, which was a historical inflection point for The fall of Korea, when Han Feizi was 13 years old.
In 260 BC, Qin decided to take Shangdang County in Korea, and the prince Han, in order to protect himself, planned a conspiracy to blame the Zhao state: at the same time, he gave Shangdang to Qin and Zhao, intending to provoke a war between Qin and Zhao, so that they could lose both and Korea could survive.
The plan of the princes Han failed, Bai Qi commanded the "Battle of Changping" in shangdang, annihilated 400,000 Zhao troops, and the Zhao state could not be stopped from then on, and Korea became qin's next target, that year Han Fei was 43 years old.
In this context, the erudite thinker Han Feizi was still excluded from the core of the political arena of the princes and Han, and in order to vent his helplessness, Han Feizi wrote more than 100,000 words of works such as "Lonely Anger", "Five Beetles", "Inner and Outer Reserves", "Saying Lin", and "Saying Difficulty" during this period.
With nowhere to go, Xiangguo Zhang Ping (Zhang Liang's father) gave King Han a cruel idea: because King Yingzheng of Qin admired Han Feizi's talent, he should send Han Feizi to qin as a hostage and persuade him to abandon the idea of annexing prince Han.
Han Feizi, a prince of the Korean royal family, was on a mission to the Qin state, where he was attacked by his brother Li Si and was given his death in 235 BC in a Qin prison.
At the end of the Warring States period, a generation of thinkers withered away, and Han Feizi, who was full of talent, not only failed to complete the mission of saving Korea, but also failed to save his own life, and died in the defense and exclusion of his fellow brothers.
Two years after Han Feizi was poisoned, in 233 BC, Han An, the last prince of Han, presented his seal to the Great Qin general Nei Shi Teng, and Han perished.
From the perspective of history, Han Feizi can be called the greatness of life, because he left a bunch of brilliant works of philosophical thought, so that future generations in the past two thousand years can all look up.
From the perspective of the princes Han, Han Feizi can be called a humble death, because he is powerless to stop the giant wheel of history by his own strength.
We often talk about "reading history wisely", reading Han Feizi's personal history, but then reading Han Feizi's works, you will understand a sense of romance and pragmatism in the depths of your heart.
What exactly is "Speaking Hard" about?
At that time, after a young and ignorant high-achieving student joined Huawei, he wrote a "Book of Ten Thousand Words" to Mr. Ren, and finally not only lost Huawei's brilliant rice bowl, but also was defined as "abnormal".
Coincidentally, Ma Yun famously said: Whoever makes strategic suggestions to me at Alibaba will be fired.
The case known to both of the above people is "saying that it is difficult": lobbying and peddling their own views and suggestions to others to achieve some of their own goals, which is a very difficult thing, and may even turn into a disaster.
When Han Feizi wrote a big stroke of the pen and wrote the famous passage "Saying Difficulty" for thousands of years, he shouldered the mission to go to the Qin Kingdom, and as he said in "Saying Difficulty", this lobbying eventually became his disaster.
Below, the series of views in Han Feizi's "Speaking Difficult" article are listed as follows, if you often have a big head in your work or life for how to persuade others, then this article will definitely help you open your mind, help you grasp the key points, and master the skills.
Han Feizi believes that the most difficult place to persuade upwards is not limited by talent, eloquence and courage, nor is it skill. Han Feizi believes that the core skill of enjoying lobbying is to understand the psychology and concerns of the people above, and then find the right angle to cut in, and need to be careful in using words.
1, the lobbying object is obviously very concerned about reputation, but you lobby from the perspective of interests, which is bound to fail, because in his view, you are a despicable person with a copper smell.
2, the lobbying object is obviously very concerned about interests, but you use the perspective of fame to persuade, then you will fail, because in his view, you are an unrealistic person, and what you say is false.
3, the object of lobbying is obviously very interested in interests, but it pretends not to be profitable, to want fame, and you have not understood, to lobby from the perspective of reputation, then even if the heavens use you, it is also pretending to be a façade for yourself.
4, the object of the lobbying is obviously very interested in interests, but pretends not to be profitable, to want fame, and you understand all this, to the point tell him how to help him get the benefits, then even if you are reused, this is also a temporary phenomenon, will soon be abandoned.
The above four phenomena are typical of failure, so what should be done to be considered correct?
Han Feizi answered this basic question very frankly: in the process of lobbying, it is necessary to point to the end, not to break through the layer of window paper, and not to explain the minds of the people above. Not only that, but even the shortcomings, shortcomings and pains of the above people cannot be broken, cannot be said thoroughly, otherwise it is a stop.
Many people read this, it seems to be "suddenly enlightened", this is not to express their own thoughts in a euphemistic way, this common sense contemporary people understand.
If you look at it this way, then Han Feizi will tell you: you are wrong, things are not like this.
1. If you are a colleague or colleague in private, you are likely to be labeled as "divisive";
2. If others privately discuss colleagues or colleagues with lower ranks, they may be labeled as "using their authority to suppress those below";
3, if you others privately discuss his personal interests and hobbies hot spots, then it is likely to trigger the disgust or vigilance of the people above, he will think that you are patting the horse's ass, is trying to use him;
4) If you privately discuss with others about people and things he hates because you know them, you may also be defined as "doing what they like" or "testing him";
5, if you communicate with others in the process, always concise and concise, then it is easy to be crowned with the hat of "only shallow and shallow";
6. If you deliberately use words and sentences when communicating with others, it may also be defined as "unpagtical saliva" of "rhetoric";
7, if you are always in line with each other's thoughts and views in the process of communication, it is easy to be defined as "lack of opinion" and "timidity";
8, if in the process of communicating with others, some opinions have been adopted and have been successful, then your credit may soon be forgotten;
9, if you put forward some suggestions, were adopted and implemented, but the result failed, then you may become the back of the pot;
10, if you suggest a thing, others highly approved, but also said that he also thinks so, this thing eventually succeeded, and you are involved in this matter, then you are likely to be eliminated from the team;
11, if you understand some situation, persistently suggest others to do something, and he is unwilling, just hindered by the face of the situation to do it, then sooner or later you will be liquidated;
12, if you put on the banner of "for his own good" and stubbornly dissuade others from doing something that he can't put down at all, then your ending is the same as above, and sooner or later you will be liquidated.
Since everything is not as simple as euphemisms, what should be done?
In the face of this most difficult question, Han Feizi gave the most honest answer: the method is indeed important, but the more important thing than the method is trust, and before you gain trust, all your methods are castles in the air.
Regarding the understanding of "Speaking Difficult", Boil History asked to share so much.
Now, we finally understand one thing: the reason why Han Feizi died in Exile in Qin was only because with his origin, he could never gain the trust of The King of Qin; with his talent and thoughts, it would never be difficult to avoid Li Si's suspicion and persecution, so there was only one way for him to die, which was the conclusion of history, the fundamental reason for his great life and the humility of his death.