Why can't you insist?

The answer is: cognition.

If someone showed me kazuo inamori 10 years ago, I would scoff: What does business management have to do with me? I don't want to start a business. What? Integrate work and life and devote yourself wholeheartedly? Stop joking. I live to enjoy, not to suffer. I think, at that time, I will hum a sneer from my nostrils: chicken soup! Poisonous chicken soup!

Later, in my barren world, I realized the word "cognition". In short, cognition can be divided into nine levels:

At the bottom, I only know likes and dislikes.

The second layer, stick to the rules.

Third, recognize the limitations of the rules.

The fourth layer, know right and wrong, know the overall situation.

Fifth, recognize the limitations of right and wrong.

Sixth, recognize the limitations of real resources.

The seventh layer is to realize human development.

Eighth, recognize the unchangeable human nature and social laws.

The ninth layer is to realize the highest meaning and value of life.

So "it's hard to communicate with different people." Different cognition, different circles.

10 years later, with my mentality today, I read kazuo inamori's most respected "Dry Method", and finally I can understand what kind of philosophy of life is behind his seemingly shallow language. The book is still that book, because his cognition has changed and his understanding has changed. Qian Fan has read all of them, from "Looking at a mountain is a mountain, water is water" to "Looking at a mountain or looking at a mountain, water is water". The scenery remains the same, but the understanding is very different.

0 1? The meaning of work: hard work or practice?

Some time ago, I met a new friend who asked me about my attitude towards work and life. He said: Are you confusing work and life? Then, he explained his outlook on life to me: work is to make a living, and I want to live a better life.

I thought about it and replied: I used to think that work was hard work, but I yearned for "poetry and distance", so I like to do everything unrelated to work: cooking, planting flowers, traveling, reading ..... But now I think work and life are the same thing, and "poetry and distance" are not far away, but in work and life.

The other person frowned and said, I think you are a person who confuses life with work. Work is for a better life and should be completely separated from life.

I smiled and said nothing.

Yes, in my initial belief, I should be "free" and work is the "enemy" of freedom. I have to bow to the hateful "work" for five buckets of rice. On Friday afternoon, I excitedly put on my makeup in advance, fantasizing about where to get together after work and where to look at the weekend. From Sunday afternoon, I fell into depression. Until Monday morning, I either went to work in tears and full of grievances, or made up various reasons to delay being late.

I am the same as the Japanese young people listed in kazuo inamori's preface: they scoff at hard work, are keen on buying stock funds, look forward to "getting rich easily", fear labor, and regard work as slavery that deprives people of their humanity. Even if I start a business, I just want to put all my eggs in one basket, grab a fortune through listing, and then leave my job at a young age and enjoy my life. ......

However, Mr kazuo inamori gave the opposite answer: the purpose of work is to improve one's mind. Devote yourself to your work, concentrate on it, be tireless and strive for perfection, which in itself is the practice of tempering personality, which can temper our minds and promote our growth. And through this mental improvement, the life value of each of us can be improved accordingly.

In the final analysis, what kazuo inamori advocates is a belief about labor: labor is not bitter. On the contrary, labor is the most valuable thing. People find the value and meaning of life in labor, experience the bitterness and joy of sharpening their minds, practice their hearts in labor, and acquire a heavy personality. When you have a stable personality, people will get the key to ultimate happiness in life: your heart is no longer wavering like duckweed, but firm, peaceful and full of faint joy.

Therefore, the essence of work is a monastery of spiritual cultivation.

Some people may scoff: what is spiritual cultivation? Invisible and intangible, my survival is a problem, but also to cultivate my mind and wisdom, just kidding!

Yes, no one can tell you how heavy your heart is, but if you are willing to observe its growth, you will get the ultimate happiness, and those "successes" that you yearn for and never forget are actually just by-products. From this point of view, the mind is the Tao, which is the highest state of cognition, and if you don't care about the Tao and only pay attention to the technique, you are bound to hit a wall repeatedly at a low level and get farther and farther away from your expectations.

Kazuo inamori didn't have this kind of consciousness from the beginning. When he was young, he was also a disgruntled young man. When his parents told him that "you should pay the price when you are young", he disdained to retort: "Bitter? Just sell it. " . He hasn't worked in the company for a long time, so he wants to change his job because he can't see the future. Fortunately, he realized the significance of work, braked in time, and chose a bright road that few people took: he made the greatest efforts in his work and finally changed his fate.

When he changed his attitude towards work, his life changed dramatically and created many miracles that others could not reach:

Kazuo inamori has served three companies in his life, all of which are Fortune 500 companies. At the age of 27, he started Kyocera and became KDDI at the age of 52. This company is now the second largest communication company in Japan after NTT. In 20 10, kazuo inamori, who was over 70 years old, suffered from gastric cancer, and two thirds of his stomach was removed. At this time, he was ordered to take over JAL, and it took only one year to turn the company around and make it return to the top 500 in the world.

Such a miracle is inseparable from kazuo inamori's life philosophy.

To some extent, it was his philosophy of life that changed his fate.

02? The secret of success: love leads to success

Children can squat on the ground for an hour and watch ants move. Adults find it boring, but children enjoy it. Psychologists have long studied that the only thing that can keep a person motivated is love.

A friend of mine runs a gym, and the biggest headache for him is that no matter how attractive the reward mechanism is, the stimulation to those young employees is limited. So a strange phenomenon has formed: on the one hand, young employees complain that life is hard and it is not easy to make money, but on the other hand, they are unwilling to work hard and earn high commission. They said: if life is just work, there is no point in earning more.

Psychologist Edward? l？ Desi, a famous scholar of social psychology, put forward the famous "self-determinism", which overthrew the long-standing belief that "reward is the best way to motivate behavior". In this theory, the core concept he put forward is "intrinsic motivation". There is no doubt that love is the generator of internal motivation.

When it comes to love, most people think of spontaneity, just like interest, which is naturally formed. However, according to kazuo inamori, in order to have a full life, everyone has only two choices: to do what he likes or to enjoy it. The probability of the former is too slim, and only the latter can realize reality. Therefore, love is actually a choice. At first, there was even some compulsion, but soon I really found pleasure in my work. Later, I went beyond the level of "like it or not" and gradually realized the great significance of the work.

From this perspective, kazuo inamori believes that "duty" is not met by chance, but created by himself.

A story happened in kazuo inamori: He once studied an experiment successfully. He was so excited that he jumped for joy. And a colleague next to him, with a strange expression, said disdainfully to kazuo inamori: It's rare for a man to jump with excitement when he says rude words. You are always dancing, even asking me to be happy with you. I mean, are you light and thin? Is it better to be rash?

This colleague's words were like a pot of cold water poured on kazuo inamori, who had just worked for two years at that time, but he retorted with an epiphany: How nice it is to feel happy and moved by a small success. If you want to stick to this boring research, then when you have the research results, you should sincerely show your joy. This joy and emotion can inject new impetus into our work, especially under the current conditions of insufficient research funds and harsh research environment. If we want to carry on the research, we should.

Later, the job left and disappeared into the sea of people, while kazuo inamori made Kyocera bigger and bigger, becoming the first Japanese company with market value.

If a person doesn't love his job, just like this colleague, and keeps an indifferent attitude towards it, I'm afraid he will never realize the passion for hard work, the motivation for struggle, the joy of victory, and the value of life from his work.

In the final analysis, work is just a carrier, but it is a person's mentality.

03? Driven by "high goals": continuous efforts are "no less than anyone's efforts"

Have you ever experienced the love and struggle of trying your best not to leave a trace of reservation? Do you think that no matter when you come, people should leave a retreat for themselves? Do you agree that "never give 100% whether in love or work, or you may lose miserably and be deeply hurt"?

With the deepening of my understanding of psychology, I find more and more that the so-called success is the return of fate to the brave. If a person refuses to let go of his own precautions and seemingly shrewd "small abacus", ta will never get the ultimate happiness, spiritual epiphany and real success.

This is fully reflected in kazuo inamori's work philosophy.

He is almost the most important point, that is, to pay "the same effort as anyone else." Even, he has a chapter with special psychological significance: "Infiltrating desire into the subconscious".

Kazuo inamori believes that to achieve high goals, the premise is to constantly embrace the strong desire that permeates the subconscious.

When he founded Kyocera in kazuo inamori, there were only 28 employees, but whenever he got the chance, he said to the employees: We want Xijing Haramachi to be the first, then Nakai Shinji, then Kyoto, then Japan and finally the world. But the actual situation of their company at that time was that it was even more difficult for Xijing Haramachi to reach the first place.

However, kazuo inamori believes that "even if it is an unreachable dream and a seemingly unreachable goal, we should firmly establish this goal in our hearts and persistently show it to our colleagues" because "people have great potential to make their dreams come true".

I used to think that all one's wishes were idealism, but now I know that it is impossible for a person to "get things done" if he doesn't even dare to think about it. Why not think about it? There are many psychological factors, such as the most typical Jonah complex. Therefore, from this perspective, although we ordinary people often fall into daydreaming's fantasy, few people really dare to have kazuo inamori-like imagination.

However, if you look at any biography, you will find that their roads to success are different, but they "dare to think" when they have nothing, but they are almost the same.

As for "no less than anyone's efforts", many people may have misunderstood it. Its real meaning is not "only to this extent", but endless efforts. Constantly advance the goal and make unremitting efforts.

This is beyond most people's imagination. Because almost everyone thinks that "continuous hard work will be exhausted", but kazuo inamori said: "Running a marathon at a speed of 100 meters will worry that someone will fall behind on the way, but in fact, once you run, it will become a habit to run with all your strength.

This passage gave me a great shock. Because I am a person who never gives 100% efforts, I always lie that I have "tried my best", but rarely question what percentage is "tried my best". I think most people's "best efforts" can't stand scrutiny, but only those who work hard 100% can work miracles.

Some people may say: why do you want to create a miracle? I just want to be an ordinary person. Yes, I used to think so, and even thought that a person who gave 100% was a "fool", but now I understand that a person who dare not give 100% is not qualified for the ultimate experience, the most beautiful fruit in the world, and the most amazing beauty, whether in feelings or in work.

Like daring to dream, daring to give 100% is actually a psychological quality that only people with mature personality have. Behind this is a sense of security. Just like in group development training, a person who has no sense of security and can't trust others is absolutely afraid to turn his back and fall from a height.

Unloading the shell of defense is a game for the brave, a by-product of mature personality, and a prerequisite for obtaining the ultimate experience and creating a miracle of life.

Most people are afraid to get out of this shell all their lives. Therefore, the road to success is actually very spacious, because few people have the courage.

Write it at the end

Before the cognitive iteration, I would regard kazuo inamori's philosophy of life as an unattainable "chicken soup for the soul". Because I don't realize it, I will discredit it in various ways, distrust it, and think that I am smart and have not been brainwashed by chicken soup.

From this perspective, successful people are lonely, and they are difficult to be truly understood by the secular.

The dry method was recommended by three people at the same time: Ma Yun, Zhang Ruimin and Yu. Their recommendation, on the other hand, also shows that only people with the same cognitive level can appreciate each other.

Gan Fa seems to write about work, but in fact it is a philosophy of life: find value in work, make extreme efforts and struggle for it, and find the ultimate meaning of life in work.

This book has a great influence on me, because in the past, I really regarded my work as an enemy. Not only that, I also have fierce competition with my close partner because of his work: if you work overtime, it means you will spend less time with me.

I've been playing this game for more than ten years, but I stopped playing it in recent years.

Unfortunately, youth is fleeting.

Now I have become a "workaholic", just like at this moment, the night is already deep, approaching 1 1, and I am still coding. But I don't feel hard at all, because I wrote this. If these words can move even one person, it has completed its mission and value.

Work is not slavery, but the practice and blooming of life.

If you have any psychological confusion, please feel free to talk to me backstage.

I write for myself, hoping to meet "fellow travelers" who pronounce * * *.