Kazuo inamori replied without hesitation: "The way of thinking."
Later, he specifically explained this statement in the book "Dry Method":
"In my opinion, the result of life = way of thinking × enthusiasm × ability.
In this formula, the scores of enthusiasm and ability range from 0 to 100, but the way of thinking ranges from negative 100 to positive 100.
It is of course necessary for a person to be successful, with high enthusiasm and strong ability.
However, if there is a decisive factor that can greatly change life, it is the way of thinking.
Because no matter how enthusiastic and capable, as long as the way of thinking is negative, everything is negative. "
This is the famous Kyocera method.
The simpler the way of thinking, the lower the level.
On douban, there is a group called "thinking rewriting", and there is such a sentence that comes from the heart:
"The biggest gap between people is not emotional intelligence, not IQ, but the way of thinking. Without rich thinking, no matter how hard you try, you will be poor; Without upper thinking, no matter how hard it is, it is also the bottom. So we have been fighting our own way of thinking all our lives. "
What really limits our life is never economic poverty, but cognitive hardship.
God wanted to change the fate of a beggar, so he became an old man to enlighten him.
He asked the beggar, "If I gave you 1000 yuan, what would you do with it?"
The beggar replied, "Great, I can buy a mobile phone!" " "
God was puzzled and asked him, "Why do you want to buy a mobile phone?"
"I can contact all parts of the city with my mobile phone. Where there are many people, I will go begging. " The beggar replied.
God was disappointed and asked, "What if I gave you 65,438+10,000 yuan?"
The beggar said, "Then I'll buy a car. It will be much more convenient for me to come out and beg again in the future, and I will arrive soon. "
God felt very sad. He said mercilessly, "What if I give you100000 yuan?"
The beggar's eyes lit up and said, "Great, I can buy all the most prosperous areas in this city."
God was glad to hear the news. Then the beggar said, "At that time, I can drive all other beggars out of my site and prevent them from taking my job."
God listened and said helplessly, "You always think so, and I can't help it." Then he left sadly.
The story illustrates a truth: thinking determines fate.
A person's thinking determines his pattern, and a person's pattern determines his ending.
The higher the level of thinking, the bigger the pattern.
Zhu, a famous neo-Confucian in the Southern Song Dynasty, once said, "If you want to be soft but not restrained, you will be deaf."
This sentence won my heart.
If everything is stuck in a rut, stuck in a rut, stuck in a rut, always thinking in a fixed way, what can life do?
When dealing with people, you should know how to be flexible, and don't let fixed thinking fix your life, so that you can "fall off the corner and reap the mulberry."
Because people are most afraid of setting themselves up.
After watching the wonderful performance of the circus, a little boy asked his father, "Dad, elephants are so powerful, why only tie a small chain on their feet?" Aren't you afraid that they will break the chain and escape? "
His father smiled and explained, "It's not that elephants really can't get rid of that thin chain, but that they think they can't get rid of it."
The little boy was more puzzled and asked, "Why?"
"When the elephant was a child, the animal trainer now tied it with this chain. But at that time, the elephant was still small and not strong enough to earn the chains. "
His father paused and continued: "After several attempts, the elephant gave up the idea of breaking free. When the baby elephant grows into an elephant, it will be satisfied with being bound by that thin chain and no longer want to break free and escape. "
Elephants are like this, so are people.
Many times, it's not that we can't be what we want to be, but that we are bound by the "chain" of fixed thinking. Over time, we become elephants tamed by life.
With the constant blessing of fixed thinking, the "chain" that was originally free with a little effort has gradually become a cage that traps us, making us say to ourselves "I can't" and "I can't do it", and even become the hardest chain that locks up the redundant possibilities in our lives.
Faced with the problems encountered on the road of life, many people, like elephants who are willing to be bound by chains and no longer try to break free, are used to following experience and thinking about new problems with fixed thinking, and the result is to close themselves up.
So, don't let fixed thinking fix your life.
Sticking to the old thinking is to imprison your life, and in the end it will only be difficult to move on the road of life.
Only by being flexible and jumping out of fixed thinking can everything go smoothly and the road be smooth.
Your way of thinking determines the upper limit of your life
There is a saying in the American inspirational bible "The Magic of Big Ideas" in the 20th century: Man is the product of thinking.
A rich mind breeds rich people, and a poor mind breeds poor people.
Before reading The Logic of Making Money, I was particularly impressed by a story in the book.
In a small town in Los Angeles, the mayor entrusted two young people to deliver milk to the people in the town and paid them a year's fee.
The former young man immediately took action and ran to the pasture 5 kilometers away to bring back the milk, and then delivered it door to door.
Although he is busy every day, there are always cases where the milk is not delivered in time or the milk is not fresh.
Another young man disappeared after getting the money.
Just when people had different opinions, he returned to town with some workers and some cows.
It turned out that in the past period of time, he bought a cow, registered a company and hired a milkman.
After that, he spent half a month making a business plan and got the investment.
Since the day he came back, the business of that young man has been depressed.
Later, he hired a former young man to deliver milk.
Three years later, his business grew bigger and bigger, not only delivering milk to the residents of the town, but also expanding to other States.
He made a lot of money and became a local rich man.
The old boy is still delivering milk.
Rockefeller, the oil king, has a famous saying:
"Even if you strip off all my clothes and throw them in the middle of the Sahara desert, as long as a caravan passes by me, I will become a new billionaire."
A person's way of thinking basically determines the upper limit of his life achievements.
If you want to change your destiny, you must first change your way of thinking.
There is a question in Zhihu: How can a person redeem his own destiny in essence?
A highly praised answer is:
"People's fate is often dominated by the way of thinking. Only by bravely jumping out of the original pattern and thinking about the problems encountered on the road of life with a new way of thinking can we truly redeem our destiny. "
Thinking determines the pattern, and the pattern determines fate.
When your way of thinking changes, so will your life.