Introduction to this issue
Before falling asleep, pillow the Analects and sleep better yourself. (The content of this article is excerpted from "Sleep and Sleep Peace" Issue 037).
Treat everything with respect in your heart
What we're going to talk about in this article is – how can you get a thing to work well?
Many times, we are entangled in too many specific matters, and even before going to bed, we are "cutting and messing up". Nowadays, each of us opens our mobile phones to read WeChat, Weibo, and then forwards it to whom, @ who, is not the same as the previous emperor said to ask the Guozi Supervisor to take a look, please guozi supervisor to take a look at the wine, please Comrade Zhang Juzheng to take a look... Is it the same?
We are anxious every day about Sino-US trade, the oil crisis, the direction of currency flows, real estate policies, etc., so it seems that we are dealing with national affairs.
In the past, I joked that some friends were the heart of the sea of earth—eating the life of gutter oil and the heart of Zhongnanhai. Now you find that the world situation is really a whole body: watching the United States sanction Iran, you know that in a few days the price of oil may rise, and your wife will tell you, "Don't drive, take the subway." Then you might meet a girl in the subway who makes your heart beat...
U.S. sanctions on Iran could have a profound impact on your life, because we all live in a giant system of "one world."
How can it be good to face such a huge system? Some people say that half of the Analects rule the world. When Confucius talked about this, he mentioned a question - in the face of a very complex system, what principles should we grasp well?
The Son said, "The kingdom of a thousand multiplications, honoring and believing, thrifting and loving others, and making the people timely."
"Tao" here refers to governance. "Ride" is an ancient chariot carried by four horses. The "country of a thousand multipliers" refers to a country with a thousand chariots, which is a relatively large country. The "kingdom of a thousand multipliers" is a great power that manages many chariots. Nowadays, it seems that similar to the kind of person who has a thousand friends and has to brush hundreds of circles of friends and microblogs every day, his thinking dimension may be similar to that of the monarch of Confucius's time.
If you are such a person, you must grasp the five principles to live safely.
The first principle is "respect" - be cautious about everything, have respect in your heart, don't go against the grain, and think clearly before you shoot.
So I was thinking, it's a strange world: a rebellious country (and I mean the United States) can run so well. Is the Analects wrong, or is the United States wrong?
Let the president speak at will on the Internet, say today he wants to meet, tomorrow he says he is not ready to meet, and the day after tomorrow he will see him again; today he says that our trade problem can be solved, tomorrow he says to fight again. This is indeed a very overdraft of a country's credit.
Although I am only a puppet, from a macro point of view, such a world superpower can make some kind of voice so rashly and change at any time. I was thinking, this thing must not last.
Everything is worth taking seriously before we do it, or even when we start thinking about it.
Do you know? Xiao Liang's decision to systematically talk about the Analects in Sleep and Sleep was also repeatedly considered and tested, and even after several issues of Mengxi Pen Talk, we still put it down. Because you have to choose a longer path.
And we think that in the foreseeable future, sleeping on the Analects and sleeping out of a better self is a thing that can be persevered, and it is worth doing.
If after a year you regret doing something, don't do it now, it's called "honor."
Keep believing
It's the real reason to manage a thing well
The second principle is "faith." Sima Guang said, "Believers, the great treasure of the king." That is, if everyone says that they want to eat hot pot, then they must eat it together; if they say that they want to achieve this goal, they must do it. Therefore, if Xiao Liang easily makes a commitment in the future, please remind my colleagues to remind me: "Teacher Liang, if you can't do it, don't say it." Yes, it is better not to commit and not to betray your promises as much as possible.
Since it is said that "housing is not speculated", then it is firmly supported, and it must not be speculated. Investment is not the same as speculation, investment is at least five years and ten years, and then see if the situation is suitable for sale; speculation is to buy and immediately prepare to sell.
Xiao Liang later discovered one thing, but those who want to buy today and sell tomorrow, or buy today and sell next month, can't make money. Because we can calculate faster than the machine of high-frequency trading? People have no feelings, according to that node, directly place orders to buy and sell. We want to sell, but at the same time we are worried about whether we will lose money, fear, greed mixed together; sometimes the telephone signal is not good; sometimes it is inconvenient to place orders in meetings... It has long been cut by others stubble after stubble of "leeks".
In the face of the era of high-frequency trading, I must keep my inner commitment – I want to be an investor, not a speculator. For an ordinary person, to adhere to your trust in this industry, company, product, this is called investment.
Many friends know that Xiao Liang mentioned in programs such as "Winter Wu Relativity" and "Liang Zhu Zhuangzi" before "Sleep and Sleep Peacefully" that Haitian Flavor Industry and Guizhou Moutai are two good stocks.
Why do I think they're good? Not because they're good stocks, but because I, as a consumer of them, see that their quality has always been good. And I also believe that in another five years, people will still stir-fry vegetables with Haitian soy sauce, or they will feel that they will have to drink Maotai with their best friends. There are also people who will like them, who need them, and who will like them more and more, and they will build value with inflation.
If you're going to invest in a company's stock, I highly recommend becoming a consumer of it first. Because the price of a stock will always go up and down in the short term, if you are not its consumer, do not really understand its value, you do not believe it, then you can not hold.
Therefore, faith is not just a credit to others, it also contains the real believe of what you have done to yourself. You have to be convinced that you're doing the right thing, not self-deception after talking too much.
Just like Xiao Liang has been doing Zheng'an Chinese medicine in the past eight years, frankly, it is not easy to do Chinese medicine, especially if he is not a medical student. Prices and rents are rising, good herbs will become more and more expensive, good doctors will also become more and more expensive, because demand will increase, and supply will not increase exponentially. So, what sustains me? It's also that word—faith.
One day, a colleague was unwell, and we took out a silver needle inside the medical center and taught each other to practice, and it was useful. When you believe in one thing more and more, you are more and more convinced that what you are doing, although there are risks and difficulties in the short term, but in the long run it will definitely win.
Therefore, keeping "believing" is the real reason to manage a thing well. Many times the reason why we can't manage things well is not technical problems, but in our hearts we have given up our firm belief in this matter. Therefore, whether it is investing in stocks, or starting your own business, even if it is a marriage relationship, children's education, and what you do, it is the same.
One day, a classmate came to me for an interview, and I asked him, "What is your ultimate ideal?" He said that he just didn't want to do PR anymore, because doing PR often had to scare people on the Internet, delete posts, and deal with big vs... He felt that these things didn't make sense.
I said, "So what do you want to do?" He was silent for a moment and said, "I want to be a farmer, it's better to have a piece of land, plant something on it, and watch the fruit grow slowly." I said, "Why don't you do it now?" He said, "The conditions are not ripe yet."
I said, "No, no one can stop you from being a farmer." Have you seen a short film? Two great old Chinese men, one blind and one with lost arms, the two of them helped each other, planted a forest, and touched the world.
So, as long as you believe, no time is too late, and no time is too early."
Maintain positive cash flow
Keep the heart of the lover
The third principle is "frugality" – no extravagance, no extravagance, no waste. Some people like to overdraft, such as Mobike originally did a good job, but because it overdrafted the pre-deposit, it had to find someone to take over, so there was a variety of later things.
Over the years, because there are many financing tools, many entrepreneurs can easily get a lot of money, but I still firmly believe in the old-school Guangdong businessman's saying: "Collect money first, spend money later, collect more money, spend less money, and maintain positive cash flow." That's what frugality is all about.
The fourth principle is "loving others"—maintaining a conscience. What is conscience? It is not a simple moral term, but has a material basis.
When a woman gives birth, she secretes oxytocin, and oxytocin makes her feel that everyone is good and everyone is cute - a sense of compassion. It is said that in the United States, some people feel that injecting oxytocin is an addictive thing. But a friend of mine told me, "Recently, legislation has been enacted in some parts of the United States to prohibit excessive injections of oxytocin." This kind of oxytocin will make people grow something called "mother's heart", which is roughly equal to conscience, that is, compassion, parental heart.
The kind of "heart" that parents have for their children is true love. That kind of love that comes from the heart, even if you don't have it, you have to give your child such a sense of voluntariness. If you think that "it's better to have a child than a dog", then you don't have children, because raising children is really expensive and not cost-effective.
The last principle is to "make the people timely" - to do things that respect the time node and do not abuse the people's power when the farmers are busy.
Maintain a sense of humility at all times
The above five points are actually enlightening for us today. In a word, it is to manage our huge and complicated "country of a thousand multiplications", because each of us is almost a master of the "country of a thousand multiplications" in the circle of friends. At the same time, we must maintain "respect, faith, moderation, love, and time for the people", in fact, behind them all refer to one thing - a sufficient sense of humility.
Because only by remaining humble will you know that you are not infinite. That's when all the "reverence, faith, feasting, love, and time for the people" have a foundation.
Where does humility come from? Humility comes from people who have seen a lot more powerful than you. So when many people showed his pride in front of me, I sympathized with him —this child was so miserable that he had lived to this age, and he had never even seen a strong man. If you have developed arrogance, you can also ask yourself if you have such a problem.
When you become humble, you find yourself floating in the universe, and you can fall into deep dreams.
【 Interaction 】
Think about the humbler around you.
When I was with him,
What kind of feeling do you have?
Source: Zheng'an Friends Association