In order to have a better life, I usually work hard, but the future of my life is always flat, and even in decline, I don't know what year and month I can survive.
If you also have such troubles, then it is obvious that you need a breakthrough to open up the space for your future.
So how do you break through?
The experience of Carnegie, the king of steel, is very worth learning!
Carnegie was the most formidable opponent in the life of the oil magnate Rockefeller, who repeatedly pulled Rockefeller from the throne of the richest man, and rotated with Rockefeller to become the world's richest man for decades.
Carnegie's family is poor, he began his first job at the age of 13, he did not have much education, but he was very perceptive, relying on the "wild way" he realized, he was invincible in the workplace, invincible in the mall, and eventually built the world's largest steel empire.
Carnegie is the most perfect example of Di Si counterattack into a huge wealth, he is the best at grasping the turning point in life, in Carnegie's own book "Carnegie Autobiography" he revealed two extremely important principles in his life, the two principles correspond to two important turning points in his life.
If you are also distressed by your tepid future, you may wish to take a look, maybe it has a lot of reference significance for your life breakthrough.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="6" > principle one: learn something new</h1>
When you work hard and still have little success, it proves that you are going in the direction you are now, and you have already paid a lot of money and gained little.
At this time, you must adjust the direction of your efforts appropriately.
So how do you adjust the direction?
Is it to change jobs or replace existing businesses?
Unless you can be sure that the job or business you have at hand is really not for you, you may not be able to guarantee that it will work after changing careers.
Therefore, the best way to adjust the direction is to start from yourself, increase your knowledge structure, and change your strength to change wherever you go.
It was Carnegie who contributed to the first turning point in his life by adding new knowledge.
At that time, the young Carnegie had been a messenger for 3 years, and he secretly thought that he would always be a messenger if he continued like this, and he wanted to find a way to break through the limitations of his future, so he took aim at the telegraph machine.
Messengers and telegraph transmitters belong to the postal system, but telegraphers belong to higher ranks.
As soon as Carnegie had free time, he deliberately chatted with the telegraph operator or rested near the transmitter, on the surface he was wandering around blindly, in fact, he was secretly learning the technology of sending the news, and gradually he mastered the technology of using the transmitter.
This gave him an advantage: he was the only one in the messenger who could receive telegrams.
When the telegrapher was away, the post office asked him to occasionally take over the telegrapher's job, and slowly everyone regarded him as a telegrapher rather than a messenger. Soon after, there was a vacancy for a telegrapher in one of the post offices, and he was transferred to fill this vacancy and became a telegrapher, his salary more than doubled, and the future space was opened.
Sometimes adding a new piece of knowledge may be the beginning of a breakthrough in your life.
What if you don't know what you should learn?
Then you can copy Carnegie's method; in the workplace you see which position is promising, you learn the same knowledge as him. In business, when you see who makes money, you learn the same knowledge as him.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="48" >principle two: Differentiate yourself</h1>
Whether in the workplace or in the business field, in fact, everyone is competing, and the winner of the competition will get more income and resources.
So how do you differentiate yourself from the competition?
At this time, you can refer to Carnegie's second turnaround principle: turn your original advantage into a unique feature that makes you different among many people.
We just got to know Carnegie, the first turning point in his life, and then we talk about his second turning point in life.
His second turning point came from creating an advantage for himself to differentiate himself.
Telegraphers are a very idle job, except for sending and receiving messages, there is almost nothing to do at other times, and many telegraphers pass the time by chatting and reading newspapers.
Carnegie, unlike other telegraphers, spent his free time studying telegraphs in depth.
So he developed a skill—he could listen to the sound of a telegraph machine with his ears alone and know what he was receiving.
This ability made him a telegrapher with a difference
Coster, a railroad tycoon who had business dealings with the post office and often went to the post office, saw Carnegie's unique ability, so he offered a higher salary to invite Carnegie to the railroad company and became his telegraph operator.
This was the most important turning point in Carnegie's life, and the reason why it was important was not that Carnegie's salary rose by half, but that he jumped to a larger platform, and his life set sail.
Differentiating yourself often gives you special competitiveness and more opportunities.
So how do you create a differentiating advantage?
This aspect can also be copied from Carnegie; digging deeper into your current job or interests and increasing your professionalism in this area can form your own unique advantage.
Carnegie's learning of new knowledge and differentiating himself led to two important breakthroughs in his life, completely opening up his future space.
The method of success has always been replicable, and I hope that Carnegie's successful experience will help you achieve a breakthrough in life.
I am A Xing, focusing on sharing life wisdom and wealth thinking.
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