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Part 1 of a five-minute speech on the mentality of an empty cup
Once upon a time, there was a famous Zen master named Nan Yin. One day, a local celebrity came to him for Zen meditation. The celebrity chattered endlessly. , Nan Yin remained silent and just treated him with tea. He poured tea into the guests' cups. He didn't stop when it was full, but continued to pour it in, watching helplessly as the tea overflowed out of the cup. The celebrity said anxiously: It's full, don't pour it anymore. Nan Yin said: You are like this cup, filled with your own opinions and thoughts. If you don’t empty the cup, how can I preach Zen to you?
What about this story? It is talking about the empty cup mentality. Its most direct meaning is that it is difficult for a cup full of water to accept new things. To empty the psychological cup, you must empty out the many things you value and care about and the things you once were glorious about. The past must be completely cleansed and emptied mentally. Only when the heart is emptied can there be external letting go, greater success, and the whole world. People are often like this. How can I listen to other people's words and advice when my whole brain is filled with my own thoughts? Regardless of whether the other party is right or not, you should first empty your cup, listen to the other party's thoughts, understand them with your heart, and feel them with your heart.
Whether a person can succeed or not depends most fundamentally on his mentality. Different mentality can lead to different results in dealing with things. When a person does everything with a humble, prudent, realistic attitude and is willing to learn from past experiences and lessons. Then he can face problems calmly and persevere in the face of difficulties. On the contrary, when a person handles a problem with an inflated mentality, he will be arrogant, insist on his own way, and finally make the same mistakes again. In fact, there are many factors that lead to psychological expansion. For example, high education, profound knowledge, rich life experience, rich work experience, etc. It will lead to expansion of people's hearts. How can we get rid of these psychological factors and reach the state of empty cup. It is really not easy to do. It requires us to let go of our excellent past. Listen carefully to other people's opinions and suggestions. Only by learning from each other's strengths can we integrate more advantages into one.
It is also very important to apply the empty cup mentality to the management of modern enterprises. An employee may have a high degree of education. But when he just graduated from school and entered the society, everything was strange. If he does not go to work and study with an empty cup mentality and only thinks about himself as a graduate of a prestigious university and how excellent his grades are, all the brilliance in the past may become obstacles to his mentality. This leads to mistakes such as having high ambitions and low ambitions, having no practical work experience, but not being open-minded to learn, etc., which will also become a stumbling block for his progress, so people who are new to work need to have an empty cup mentality.
When a person has been working in the company for a period of time, performed well, and is approved by his superiors for promotion to a higher rank, he still needs to face his future challenges with an empty cup mentality. Any arrogance about previous work will affect his future development. He should learn and improve with an empty cup mentality. Because at any time, there is a "position".
When a person reaches the highest level in a certain field, an empty cup mentality must also accompany him, because the higher he stands, the more he hates the fall, and people feel miserable at high places.
When this person retires from this field as time goes by, if he does not have an empty cup mentality, he will feel doubly disappointed and unable to face the gap in life. In fact, the waves behind the Yangtze River push the waves ahead, and the development of the times has also created batches of outstanding talents. No one will always be at the highest point. At this moment, we must face and live with an empty cup mentality.
The true meaning of the empty cup mentality is letting go. External letting go comes from inner letting go.
Only by mentally letting go of the past can we have a better future, see things around us more clearly, and live a better life! Empty Cup Mentality Five-Minute Speech Part 2
Dear judges Teacher, distinguished guests, dear students:
Good evening, everyone!
The title of my speech today is: Empty Cup Mentality.
When you hear this question, you will definitely ask what is the empty cup mentality.
Speaking of the empty cup mentality, there is a meaningful little story. In ancient times, there was a man who had profound attainments in Buddhism. He heard that there was an enlightened monk in a temple, so he went to visit him. He was received by a young apprentice, and the visitor seemed very arrogant. He thought to himself, I am a person with profound attainments in Buddhism, and you are a young disciple. Who do you think you are? The old Zen master met him. After seeing him, he poured tea for him. When the water was full, he continued to pour it. The visitor asked in confusion: Master, the water is full, why are you still pouring it? The master said: Yes, the water is full, why are you still pouring it? The implication is that since the visitor already thinks that he has profound attainments in Buddhism , why come to visit?
This is the origin of the empty cup mentality. The empty-cup mentality is a kind of humility and magnanimity, and a positive and enterprising attitude towards life that means "live and learn".
When you change your working environment and start a new life, your past achievements and honors will be reset to zero.
Because a glass of muddy water will remain chaotic no matter how much clear water is added, but after it is poured out, no matter how much water is added again, even just one drop will be crystal clear.
Some people can’t help but ask, if you return to zero, wouldn’t there be nothing? You can’t let your efforts go to waste!
However, I want to say that the empty cup mentality is to let You stand at a new height, re-examine yourself and plan yourself from a new perspective.
World football king Pele has played on the court more than a thousand times and scored countless goals. When he scored his 1,000th goal, a reporter asked him, which ball do you think is the best? He didn’t have any idea. Without hesitation, he said, next! His answer was humorous and thought-provoking. On the road to success, whenever you achieve a short-term goal, you should never be complacent. Instead, you should use your previous success as your new starting point. We should have a zeroing mentality, so that we can constantly surpass ourselves and sublimate our shining youth. Everyone is born with an empty cup, it may be a small wine cup or a goblet. According to your own ability, continue to thicken the bottom of your cup and continuously increase the body of your cup. Use the mineral elements in the water to cast your own thick cup bottom, step by step, start your own journey of success at new heights! At the same time, use your own abilities to increase the height of the cup, so that you can inject more water, thereby Master more skills.
The empty cup mentality is a kind of improvement of foundation, treating your most precious experience as the bottom of the cup. Keep filling your cup with clear water, and at the same time pour out your own turbidity before filling your cup with water next time, to make room and thicken the bottom of the cup with your own real accumulation. Don’t forget to use your own abilities to make the cup taller!
In the future, I will use the mentality of an empty cup to adjust and motivate myself. What about you? Five-minute speech with an empty cup mentality Part 3
Since ancient times, people have divided the experience of studying and becoming talented into three processes to inspire themselves or others. Among them, the most influential one is Wang Guowei of the Qing Dynasty who quoted three ancient words to describe the three states of becoming a great scholar. The first state is: "Last night the west wind withered the green trees, and I went up to the tall building alone, looking at the end of the world?"; the second state is: "My clothes are getting wider and wider, but I don't regret it, and I feel haggard because of the beauty."; The third state is? The crowd looked for him thousands of times, but suddenly looking back, he found that person in a dimly lit place.
The first realm of the three realms summarized by Wang Guowei is the realm of learning and determination. This is the great realm of knowledge. The second realm is the realm of "action", which is to persevere in order to realize lofty ideals. The third realm is the realm of "achievement", where success comes naturally.
Later, some people followed the "Three Realms" division method and summarized many "Three Realms", listed as follows: Some people studied Confucius's discussion on learning and discovered the three realms of learning: The first realm It is the state of knowledge; the second state is the state of good; the third state is the state of happiness.
Some people summarize the three realms of reading as: for knowledge, for oneself, and for others.
Some people use language full of Zen inspiration to explain: The first realm is? Seeing mountains are mountains, seeing water is water?; The second realm is? Seeing mountains are not mountains, seeing water is not water?; The third realm is? Is it? Looking at mountains or mountains, water or water?
There are also literati who summarize the three realms of reading as written in "The Peach Blossom Spring": "The beginning is extremely narrow, and then the ability to understand people", "Repeating dozens of steps", and "Suddenly enlightened". There are also three realms that are cited as the great realms of entrepreneurs: the first realm is "great wisdom"; the second realm is "great ambition"; and the third realm is "big generosity".
When people read Chairman Mao’s poems today, they group them into three realms: The first realm is? Where are we going? Where is the wind and snow on the Ganjiang River, where the order was issued yesterday, and one hundred thousand workers and peasants went to Ji’an?; The second realm is? The four seas are churning with angry clouds and water, and the five continents are shaking with wind and thunder. Want to wipe out all pests and become invincible? The third realm is? Thousands of years have passed since the past, Wei Wu whipped his whip, and there is a posthumous chapter on Jieshi in the east. The bleak autumn wind is here again today, and the world has changed.
After thinking about it, the various three realms are to tell people: first, we must be determined and establish the goal of life; second, we must work hard to achieve the goal; third, hard work pays off. It will succeed in the end.
2. Never be complacent.
In his more than 20 years of football career, world football king Pele has participated in 1,364 games and scored 1,282 goals. And set a record for a player to score 8 goals in a game. His extraordinary skills not only fascinate thousands of spectators, but also often make his opponents on the court applaud. Not only is he a superb player, he is also an extraordinary talker. When his personal goal record reached 1,000, someone asked him: "Which ball do you play best?" Pele smiled and said meaningfully: "The next one." ?His answers were subtle, humorous and thought-provoking, just as wonderful as his golf skills.
3. Try to get back to zero.
When the president of Harvard University visited Peking University, he talked about his personal experience. One year, the principal asked for a three-month leave from the school, and then told his family, "Don't ask me where I am going. I will call home every week to make sure I am safe."
The principal went to the rural areas of the southern United States alone, trying to live a new life. In the countryside, he worked on farms and washed dishes in restaurants. While working in the fields, smoking a cigarette behind his boss's back or secretly talking to his co-workers gave him an unprecedented pleasure. The most interesting thing was that he finally found a job washing dishes in a restaurant. After working for four hours, the boss called him over and paid him the bill. The boss said to him: Poor old man, you are too slow to wash the dishes. You are fired.
The poor old man returned to Harvard and his familiar working environment, but he felt that the East and West County, which he was so familiar with in the past, had become new and interesting. Work becomes a new enjoyment.
The experience of these three months was like a naughty child playing a prank. Fresh and interesting. More importantly, after returning to a primitive state, it is like the world in the eyes of a child. Everything is so interesting, and the garbage that has been accumulated in the heart for many years is unconsciously cleared away.
This story tells us that if we can reset ourselves to zero regularly and clear away the pollution in our souls, we can enjoy work and life better.
4. Keep pouring out the muddy water in your brain.
We all know this phenomenon: if there is turbid water in a cup, no matter how much water is added, it will still be turbid; but if an empty cup is filled with water, it will always be clear.
In actual work, many of us, once we have worked in a position for a period of time, will feel that we are very skilled at work and do not need to accept new learning. We always feel that some leadership, management, and marketing theories are not relevant. I have almost learned it, and business knowledge is constantly being applied in my daily work. Although I also want to continue to learn something and enrich myself, but because I have old knowledge? That is, "muddy water in the cup", I can't learn it anymore. The things cannot be used well in actual work, and then slowly become "resting on one's laurels".
As everyone knows, society is moving forward every moment, and the surrounding environment is constantly changing! If we have an "empty cup mentality" and everyone regards themselves as new students and humbly learn from colleagues, peers, customers, etc. around us, we will It will better adapt to the current competitive social requirements.
People should have an empty cup mentality and a sponge mentality, and let themselves move forward from the mentality of an apprentice. If you always hold on to your half bucket of water, swaying and swaying, and have a corresponding sense of accomplishment---I think it's nothing more than that. On the one hand, the sense of accomplishment generated at this time helps us enhance our confidence in learning new things, but on the other hand, it is worth noting that our impetuousness and pride grow together with the increase in confidence. As a result, the desire for knowledge is reduced, the self-confidence is strengthened, and the motivation to learn is lost. So there is a half glass of water and a half bucket of water, and no more knowledge can be incorporated.
The only way to maintain an empty cup mentality is to pour out the original water in the cup. The human brain is like a computer. Only by constantly deleting outdated knowledge and experiences can you continue to accept new things. Otherwise, your brain and heart will be filled with useless garbage and freeze.
5. Success is the mother of failure.
A horse won the marathon championship at the Forest Games, but since then it has lost its peaceful and comfortable life. Its social activities are by no means less than those of the Olympic champion. Everyone Give it the best courtesy and praise.
The monkey's rich man gave him golden horseshoes, which were big and thick, each weighing a kilogram. After he put them on, he could make moving music with every step he took; the fox governor gave him a saddle It was replaced by a gorgeous saddle woven with pearl gold threads, draped on the back and sparkling. It also felt that it was no longer an ordinary horse. It asked a blacksmith to make a round iron box to put the medal in, and hung it around its neck with colorful brocade ropes! It is this kind of scenery that makes it come and go in various places. A grand occasion.
Soon, one year passed, and the Forest Games began again. Ambitious, it entered the competition again, but not long after, it was out of breath. The saddle on its body, the golden horseshoes on its feet and the iron box on its neck made it unable to run. There were only horses whizzing by.
In the early days of liberation, Mao Zedong once talked with Zhou Gucheng. Mao Zedong said: Failure is the mother of success. ?Zhou Gucheng replied: ?Success is also the mother of failure. ?Mao Zedong thought for a while and said: ?You said it well. ?
Indeed, people are familiar with the saying that failure is the mother of success, and the truth is recognized and accepted by most people. However, Zhou Gucheng came up with a new idea in front of the leader and was affirmed by Comrade Mao Zedong. , it makes a lot of sense to show that success is the mother of failure. Failure is the mother of success. People focus on failure to inspire people, and can be targeted in future practice to avoid repeating the same mistakes and usher in success. From this point of view, people who have experienced failure are more likely to achieve success. It is very correct that failure is the mother of success. However, when people achieve success and become complacent and high-spirited, they will relax their vigilance and give up making progress. Once an opponent takes advantage of the situation, failure will come in an instant. From this point of view, isn't it true that success breeds failure and success is the mother of failure?
Since childhood, we have been taught that "failure is the mother of success". A typical example is Sun Yat-sen who led the revolution that overthrew the feudal dynasty of the Qing Dynasty. He did not lose heart after the failure of six armed uprisings, and finally won the victory of the Revolution of 1911. The example of scientific and technological development is Edison, who tried and failed 1,000 times in order to find a suitable filament. After many attempts and perseverance, the tungsten filament light bulb was finally invented. The process of exploring scientific principles and engaging in major technological breakthroughs is always full of risks. "Failure is the mother of success". This famous saying can inspire us to persevere and overcome all difficulties to strive for the final victory. However, in an era of "tenfold change" characterized by globalization, networking, and fierce competition, any person or enterprise that is intoxicated by the flowers and applause of success and attempts to replicate the successful experience of the past will inevitably fail.
Ford I, the founder of Ford Motor Company, is an example of "success is the mother of failure". He broke into the world at the age of 16 and relied on outstanding management experts and mechanical experts to make Ford the largest company in the world. car companies.
But the old Ford forgot about the glory after success, thinking that everything was his own credit, and gradually became unable to listen to other people's opinions. A group of talents left one after another, causing the company to go from bad to worse and on the verge of bankruptcy. In 1945, Ford II took office and took over the mess left by the old Ford. He worked hard to improve the company, hired a group of management elites, reorganized the company, revived the company, and reached new heights. But Ford Jr. made the same mistake again, acting arbitrarily and regarding himself as the supreme emperor in the company, which put everyone in the company in danger. In the early 1980s, Ford II had to hand over power and was removed from the company.
An explorer sets out for the North Pole, but ends up at the South Pole. When others asked him why, he said: "I was carrying a compass and couldn't find the North Pole." The questioner said: How is this possible? Isn’t the North Pole opposite the South Pole? Just turn around. ?Microsoft President Bill Gates said: ?For successful companies and entrepreneurs, the biggest threat to their careers does not come from competitors, but from themselves. Wang Xuan, chairman of the board of directors of Founder (Hong Kong) Company, also warned that success is the mother of failure. Many losers were not crushed by their opponents, but were dazzled by their own success, leading to defeat. This sentence is very worthy of our deep thought. There is no permanent glory in life. When the moon waxes, it loses, and when the water is full, it overflows. The first thing a successful person should do is to have a clear mind and a bright vision. Like Confucius, he should constantly "examine himself three times" and descend from an irrational height; like Emperor Taizong of the Tang Dynasty, he should constantly "look at himself in three mirrors" and constantly correct the navigation mark of life. Think about doing things and being a person from a new angle and standpoint; like a calculator, constantly reset the keyboard to zero, launch new programs, and design and calculate the latest and most beautiful pictures. Only by getting rid of the baggage of success can you achieve greater success.
6. Continuously challenge yourself
Challenging yourself is dissatisfaction with a certain existing situation, a pursuit of a certain ideal state, and a step-by-step approach to perfection. . A writer once said: "To convince oneself is a kind of intellectual victory; to be moved by oneself is a kind of spiritual longevity; to conquer oneself is a kind of maturity in life." ?Anyone who is convinced, moved, and conquers himself can conquer all setbacks, pains, and misfortunes.
There are two 70-year-old old ladies. One thinks that reaching this age is the end of life, so she starts to take care of the funeral; the other thinks that what a person can do does not matter. It depends on your age, but on your thoughts. So she began to learn mountain climbing when she was 70 years old. Several of them are still famous peaks in the world. Finally, she climbed Mount Fuji in Japan at the age of 95, breaking the record for the oldest person to climb this mountain. She is the famous old lady Huda Cruz.
It is a miracle that I started to learn mountain climbing at the age of 70. But miracles are created by people. The first sign of a successful person is his way of thinking about problems and his spirit of constantly challenging himself. The feat of Huda Cruise proves this point.
7. Create a future full of diamonds.
One night, when a group of nomads were about to camp and rest, they were suddenly enveloped in a bright light. They knew God was coming. With eager anticipation, they waited for important messages from heaven.
Finally, the voice of God spoke: Collect pebbles as best you can. Put them in your saddlebags. Travel for another day, and tomorrow night you will feel happy and regretful at the same time. ?After he left, these nomads were disappointed and angry. What they look forward to is the revelation of great cosmic truths that will enable them to create wealth, health, or other worldly purposes. But instead they were ordered to do this vile and meaningless thing. Nevertheless, the light of the visit made them each pick up some pebbles and put them in their saddlebags, although they were not very happy.
They walked for another day. When night came and they started to set up camp, they found that every pebble in the saddlebags had turned into diamonds. They were overjoyed to get diamonds, but regretted not collecting more pebbles. So I want to say to you, try to collect the knowledge and skill pebbles that prepare you for success, and you can look forward to a future full of diamonds.
So, how should professional managers prepare themselves? Pebbles? The following are some simple methods and techniques:
1) Learn from your own and others’ success, learn from yourself and others The failures of others. Read, read people, read things.
2) Insist on half an hour of study time every day, and half an hour of sitting and thinking time every day.
3) Browse three websites, read three magazines, read three newspapers, and read as many as three books every month.
4) Pay attention to learning and communication. Share your learning experience and thoughts through lectures, chatting with friends, etc.
5) Make a few study friends or netizens. Join a managers club or manager salon.
6) Pay attention to learning with your brain. Make a few high-level friends, such as successful people, industry experts, professors and scholars, etc.
7) If possible, try to go abroad once a year, visit a developed area, participate in more than one senior leadership or management forum, participate in an industry summit or annual meeting, and participate in a special charging learning training class .
8) If you are interested, try to write some articles and publish them, or try to be a guest speaker.
The greatest sorrow of people is that they always live in the past. People who live in memories can only choose endless complaints and complaints when facing the current situation.
If a person cannot learn to forget the past, then he cannot create the future.
We have only one best choice? Release all the past and face real challenges and opportunities with an empty cup mentality.
Forget the past and leave an empty cup for tomorrow.