“The success or failure of an achievement depends on human power and destiny in the third place and destiny in the seventh place.”

This sentence tells us that success is not something we can determine. Whether something is successful or not, "fate" accounts for seven percent.

Success cannot be forced, but with the "three-point" manpower, we can achieve continuous success.

What is success? To put it simply, finish what needs to be done.

For example, if someone checks in for the daily update last week, and he completes the daily update as planned, it can be said to be a success. But there is a lot of luck involved in how many people like the daily articles and whether they are on the ranking list.

So it can be said that achieving success is the foundation of success.

People who succeed may not necessarily succeed, but success must be the result of continuous success.

Therefore, if you want to succeed, you must first achieve something.

But unfortunately, many people now don’t know how to achieve success, so how can they talk about success?

The book "Feng Tang's Ways of Success" that I share with you today is a practical guide that tells us how to succeed, continue to succeed, and continue to succeed in great things.

The author of this book, Feng Tang, has published many novels and was listed on the rich list of Chinese writers in 2013. He is a real writer. But he is not only a doctor of medicine, but also a global managing partner of McKinsey, the world's top consulting firm, and the founding CEO of China Resources Healthcare Group.

He said that he summarized the hardships he has endured, the thunders he has stepped on, the mountains he has climbed, and the people he has met in his twenty-year career into this book, "How to Succeed in Success."

Today we focus on sharing the three principles in the book for continuous success: ambition, knowledge, and perseverance.

Ambition means ambition, ambition, in a larger sense, means having ideals, in a smaller sense, having goals.

Without ideals, there is no motivation; without goals, there is no direction.

For example, Sima Qian’s ambition was to write a history book “for future generations”, Zhou Enlai’s childhood ambition was to “study for the rise of China”, and Hawking made up his mind to engage in physics and astronomy research at the age of thirteen.

Therefore, with ambition, a person has a reason to continue to succeed.

However, some people often mistake desire for ambition.

They seek fame, profit, power, and sex, and the purpose of doing things is to satisfy their personal desires.

Those who are ambitious seek eternal articles, peace in the universe, insight into human nature, and creation of the most beautiful world.

Desires are not ambitions, but we are born with "seven emotions and six desires". The existence of desires is inevitable, and how to properly handle desires and ambitions is the key.

To manage desires, you can start from the following three aspects:

First, respect desires and maintain moderate desires.

People who want to succeed must have a certain degree of competitiveness. When there is a competitive mentality, there will be desire. Appropriate desires can stimulate us to achieve success.

Therefore, if you have desires, don’t cut them off with one knife. You must respect your desires and regard them as your own source of energy.

But the premise is to be moderate and have a bottom line.

The bottom line is that you cannot harm yourself or others because of your desires.

For example, if you like to eat cakes and occasionally eat to satisfy your appetite, there is no problem, but if you eat without restraint and become a diabetic, that is excessive.

For another example, if you like to buy brand-name bags, it is good to work hard to earn money to reward yourself, but if you defraud other people's money and use it for your own high consumption, it will break the bottom line, because your happiness is based on On top of the pain of others.

Therefore, you can have desires, but they must be moderate.

Secondly, we must be good at skillfully combining desires and ambitions. Turn a certain hobby into a way to make money, and pursue profits as a matter of course.

For example, the goal of Olympic diving champion Quan Hongchan is to win glory for the country and to earn money to support her family. Everyone was moved by the simplicity and kindness of this 14-year-old girl.

Another example is the author Feng Tang. He has the desire to make money and the ambition of "immortality". "Immortality" means that there are still people who can remember him many years after his death.

So he continued to write books. According to his own statement, writing books not only brings him continuous fame and fortune, but also helps him achieve his ideal of "lasting fame" if he accidentally writes a classic. What's not to enjoy?

Finally, if you really can’t control your desires, the author recommends going to two more places.

One is the intensive care unit and the other is the cemetery.

In the intensive care unit, you will see the old, weak, sick and disabled with more than a dozen tubes inserted into their bodies, unconscious; in the cemetery, you will see a person no matter how rich and powerful he is. , the final destination is a box.

Money, power, and profit will not be brought to you during life, and will not be taken away after death. Why should you be so persistent?

Therefore, if you want to achieve something, you must not only have ambition, but also distinguish between desire and ambition, learn to respect desire, manage desire, grasp the sense of proportion, integrate desire into ambition, and let desire help ambition.

It is not enough for a person to have ambition, he must also have knowledge to go far.

How to develop knowledge? There are three methods:

Read thousands of books, know thousands of people, and do all kinds of things.

"Reading thousands of books" is easy to understand. It means to expand the breadth and depth of one's knowledge through reading more, and to build oneself into a T-shaped talent that adapts to the needs of social development.

T-shaped talents are a collection of specialists and generalists.

This type of people not only have a relatively extensive knowledge base horizontally, but also have a deeper understanding and unique insights in vertical professional expertise.

Everything in the world is interconnected, and only with a relatively extensive knowledge base can we analyze problems comprehensively and systematically and draw correct conclusions.

Otherwise, we can only treat the headache and the foot, failing to grasp the essence of the problem.

If you want to become an elite in a certain field, you must be an expert in that field. You must work hard and study in depth in a certain aspect.

For example, the author Feng Tang started his own creation after reading nearly 100 English novels.

Therefore, if you want to read more, you should not only read more miscellaneous books in various categories, but also study in depth books in your own major.

The second way to increase your knowledge is to "know all kinds of people."

Everyone who lives in the world inevitably gets along with all kinds of people in society and makes friends with all kinds of people.

People who want to succeed must not only be good at discovering the strengths in each person and use their strengths to make up for their own weaknesses, but also know how to fully understand each other and know who is suitable for making friends and who needs to be kept away from.

Confucius said: Friends who are straight, friends who are forgiving, and friends who are knowledgeable are the best. If you have friends, you will be brave. If you are friendly, you will be gentle. If you have friends, you will be sycophantic, which is a loss.

Therefore, you should make more friends who are upright, honest, and knowledgeable, and stay away from those who are good at flattery and are inconsistent with their appearance.

Especially those in leadership positions need to lead the team to achieve success. They must know people well and put the right people in the right positions to maximize the team's combat effectiveness.

The last and most important thing is to "do all things".

"What you see on paper will eventually make you realize it is shallow, but you will definitely know that this matter must be carried out." No matter how knowledgeable a person is, if he has not experienced actual combat, he can only play in front of the mirror - bragging.

If you want to transform from a novice to an elite in an industry, the book lists a practical three-step plan.

The first is to lay a solid foundation. Understand one hundred keywords in the industry, carefully read at least three professional books, and communicate with at least three industry experts.

The second step is to advance to an intermediate expert by doing things repeatedly for three to five years.

The third step is to continue to do things, find experts, and read monographs. It will take another three to five years to become a top expert in the industry.

Practice is the only criterion for testing truth and the best way to acquire wisdom.

Wisdom in life can only be obtained by doing things in the world.

Only by doing things, struggling in society, and actually falling into pits and falling over, can a person deeply understand,

What is "it is better to have no books than to believe in books" , what is "things in the world are impermanent, impermanence is permanent", and then we know that when dealing with people, we need to "know what can be done and what cannot be done".

Therefore, to be knowledgeable, you must not only read tens of thousands of books, but also be able to recognize people with a keen eye, do things in a down-to-earth manner, and accumulate the capital to settle down in practice, waiting for the moment of blockbuster success.

"Permanence is the first virtue in life." This is the famous saying of Zeng Guofan, the first famous official in the late Qing Dynasty.

The word "constancy" here means "persistence" and persistence. The meaning of this sentence is that if a person can persist in doing things with perseverance in his life, he will have the highest cultivation.

Zeng Guofan rose from an ordinary commoner to fight monsters and became the first of the four famous officials in the late Qing Dynasty. He had no family background to rely on and no inherited natural beauty. He relied on the strength of "constancy" .

If the handwriting is not good, practice it every day, whether you are an official in the court or on the march; the same goes for writing a diary. Zeng Guofan started writing a diary at the age of thirty, and he reflected on himself every day and never stopped until he was old. .

With constant stupidity, Zeng Guofan, who had mediocre qualifications, achieved a great turnaround in his life and was hailed as the saint who "has three immortal qualities: virtue, meritorious services, and words."

Life is a marathon. Reading, being a person, and doing things mentioned before are all lifelong things and require a lifetime of hard work.

Persevere in doing one thing and never stop doing it in the face of adversity.

Some people give up easily when they encounter adversity. In fact, most adversities are not desperate situations. As long as you learn to practice in adversity, adversity will become the best opportunity to advance in life.

Wang Yangming "enlightened the Tao in the dragon field" after being demoted, and Zeng Guofan also understood "the inner sage and the outer king" after he was demoted.

The author points out that when practicing in adversity, you must cherish every uncomfortable and painful moment.

Every time we feel uncomfortable, we must learn to get out of ourselves and realize why we feel uncomfortable, whether it is worth it, what we should do or improve, etc.

To be wise, one must be good at seizing every uncomfortable moment to better understand oneself and gain insight into society.

It is not terrible to be defeated repeatedly. What is important is to be able to fight repeatedly.

Don’t give in to difficulties, continue to do things in adversity, and look for opportunities for breakthroughs.

So is there any secret to sticking to something?

There are two, some habits and some rules.

Having a habit is to develop good habits, let the habits become natural, and let the things you insist on go naturally.

"A habit will be formed if you persist in doing it every day for three months. Once a habit is formed, it will take three to six months to eliminate it."

For example, those who like to stay up late When people try to force themselves to go to bed early, it will definitely be difficult at first, but after they gradually adapt to it and form a habit, they will become drowsy after the specified time point. If you want to stay up late again, first of all, your body's natural reaction will disagree.

Developing good habits can help us stick to things more smoothly.

Another method is to have rules, which means that things must be planned in order to continue to advance in an orderly manner.

For example, if you want to use your spare time to read, you need to first make a monthly and annual reading plan for yourself, write down the books you want to read, and follow the plan.

Otherwise, it is easy to become popular for three minutes and forget one’s former ambitions due to various external temptations.

Therefore, to continue doing things, you must not only have perseverance, but also have the perseverance to continue practicing in adversity, and be good at using good habits and good plans to support perseverance.

Today we studied "Feng Tang's Way of Success", which focused on analyzing the three criteria for continuous success and success: ambition, knowledge, and perseverance.

If a person is compared to a tree, then,

Ambition is the root, and only by aiming high can it be deeply rooted;

Knowledge is the branch, and only by being well-informed can The branches are luxuriant;

Persistence is the backbone, and only by perseverance can we achieve towering ancient trees.

The book "How to Succeed in Success" was written by the author at the beginning of 2020, when he was unable to go out due to the COVID-19 epidemic and spent a month at home.

In contrast, do you still remember what you did during that time? How many dramas have you watched? Are you spending your days hanging out on a certain treasure or a certain music? Or are you lamenting the impermanence of the world and letting time fly by?

Therefore, stop lamenting the success of others. If you want to continue to achieve success, start from now on, strengthen your ambition, increase your knowledge, continue to work hard, and do everything well.

Finally, I end with a sentence from the book,

"If I only start from one thing, then start with perseverance and develop a good habit. If I only have to choose A habit, then choose the habit of getting up early.

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