1. Profits

During holidays, various merchant promotion activities come one after another. It is really lively when you sing and I come on stage. If you look at the merchant's sales manual, the first lesson always says that what you are selling is not the product, but culture, fashion, an advanced symbol, etc., to name a few. In short, what the customer is buying is not the product. , but a more grand meaning, and commodities are nothing more than a carrier.

I soaked these dazzling things in water, floated away the floating debris, recrystallized and purified them, and after drying, I got an item: profit.

The bustling world is all for profit, and the bustle in the world is all for profit. But if there is any benefit, ants and flies will gather together. The power of profit is great, commanding the east and west, mobilizing the north and the south. Since ancient times, those who have died in this way have piled up their corpses and formed rivers of blood and tears, especially those who have succeeded them in an endless stream.

Confucius said that profit is the source of chaos. In order to obtain benefits, they will do anything they can, without regard to any system, laws, conscience or morality. Moreover, in order to benefit, one has to use wisdom. Once wisdom is out of the cage, it will be more powerful than tigers and wolves. Furthermore, shopping malls are like battlefields, and the art of war is used. A soldier is a murderous weapon, so how can he avoid chaos? This is just like the preface of the hexagrams in the Book of Changes: when necessary, there will be litigation, and when there is litigation, there will be teachers. A teacher is a soldier.

However, this is understandable, because greed cannot be eliminated from human nature. The people in the country of gentlemen who do not fight for profit have only appeared in "Flowers in the Mirror". But if we want to expand the benefits and reach a state where water can benefit all things without any competition, it seems to be as difficult to find as a gentleman's country.

However, it seems that pursuing unlimited profits may not be enough. Sharpening a knife is not good, but a sharp knife hurts one's fingers. The power of profit is by no means inferior to the power of a sharp knife. It can also hurt people. It will cut off other beautiful things in people little by little, so you should keep an appropriate distance from it.

King Hui of Liang asked Mencius: "Is it beneficial to my country that I have come all the way?" Mencius educated him and told him, I am not a profit-maker; Those who sell benevolence and righteousness. With benevolence and righteousness, there is benefit. To say benefit directly is too obvious. If you use benevolence and righteousness as a packaging, you need people, wealth, and fame. The benefits are huge.

A saint is a saint. He really knows how to sell. In this way, he sold himself for a good price. In other words, doing this is a good way to seek profit.

2. Talk about Kong Ming

Whenever Liu Bei and his gang win in "The Romance of the Three Kingdoms", they will shout that Mr. Kong Ming is a true god. I also unconsciously think that Liang is a true god. If it weren't for the great care of God, it would really be a god descending to earth.

But after thinking about it later, I felt that Zhuge Liang was more lucky. As usual, for career success, we must first thank the organization. Without Liu Bei, could he have achieved such great achievements?

Liu Bei was completely obedient to him and obeyed his advice. In fact, from my naked eyes, he no longer had the dignity of a leader. In this way, Mr. Kong Ming is so bold in doing things, and macro-control is so easy and unstoppable. But this matter is still the root cause of trouble from the three visits to the thatched cottage. At the beginning, Liu Bei was weak and it was difficult to hire consultants and experts, so he had to condescend to hire them three times. People also knew that he was in urgent need of recruiting people, so he just sat there and raised his prices and acted like a big name. Therefore, from beginning to end, he must be three points lower. Fortunately, this reputation was not obtained by copying papers and hidden rules, but by experts with real skills. Liu Bei tolerated it well and gained a reputation for being a virtuous person. Before he died, he expressed his worries again, saying that his son could not be replaced by Liang. These words are tantamount to censorship, which freezes Zhuge Liang.

Although Zhuge Liang is famous all over the world for his talent, if he had not followed Liu Bei, he might not have achieved good results. If you were under Cao Cao, you wouldn't be able to do it well. Cao Cao was already talented, but now a higher-ranking subordinate came to compete with him, which made life difficult. If you go along with the boss, you will suppress your talents. If it doesn't go well, you won't get the external environment to display your talents, and there will be no benefits except internal friction. In short, in the end, you will either break up on bad terms, run away for your life, or be killed like Yang Xiu. If your life is not guaranteed, how can you be famous throughout the ages? When he goes to Soochow, people may not necessarily welcome him. The Sun family has a strong family business, so there is no shortage of manpower, and there is no need for a housekeeper to take care of the master. Therefore, only Liu Bei is weak and has the opportunity for salary increase and promotion. Kong Ming was very good at promoting himself, gained power quietly, and was very successful in his job search.

However, he did not thank the organization, but the organization thanked him. This kind of personal heroism rarely works. The only ones who can be compared slightly are Le Yi and Wang Meng. Therefore, later on, Zhuge Liang would never be born again.

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Everyone has a love for beauty, and everyone hopes that beauty will last forever. If beauty is too short, I hope it will be extended. If it cannot be extended, I will continue it artificially. For example, women prefer those cosmetics. It is said that they are the spear and shield against the years. Even if time changes the equipment and uses advanced weapons such as lasers and pollution, it is also a psychological comfort. There is makeup on the face, but there is no panic in the heart.

However, the things that are continued are not as good as the original ones. Although they are not as nondescript as snake feet, they are still old cucumbers with green paint, and there is always the suspicion that the dog's tail is followed by the mink.

A piece of work, whether it is literary and artistic, architectural sculpture, or a certain product, or even a cross-stitch embroidered in leisure time, when it is completed, it has already given the original design. All thoughts at the time.

After it is completed, whether it is success or failure, perfection or imperfection, it is over. Therefore, if it is forcibly continued, it will be another thing, not this one. If they must be forcibly connected, I am afraid it will cause rejection and weaken the two phases. Because we can connect an object, but we cannot connect its feelings. Therefore, the sequel to the TV series is not as good as starting from scratch.

If we don’t like things, of course we hope they can exterminate them. However, contrary to expectations, they are still prosperous and prosperous. For example, "The Appearance of Officialdom" and "The Strange Current Situation I Witnessed for Twenty Years" are neither the beginning nor the end. There are still colorful sequels being staged to this day, and there will probably be no finale. The aftermath of these events is surprisingly consistent with the past, with both inheritance and development.

In this way, beauty is unique and evil is continuous.

Using unique beauty to resist the continuous evil head-on, there are many sighs of broken jade.

IV. Asking what love is in the world

Asking what love is in the world, the true teaching is life and death. This time-honored saying about having no questions really stumps people. For the sake of "love", many false and true stories were created.

Most of it is the emotions generated in the writings of the literati. Needless to say, the elegance in the poems, everyone knows that the bright moon was there and the flowers were fragrant. Even in operas and folklore, the most talked about things are nothing more than this love and that love. Even having an affair is so reasonable. To this day, lace things are still alive and well. These things are always like the five flavors of a meal, which cannot be done without it.

Some are very free and easy, such as Ruan Xian. In order to get his aunt's girl, he put his father's funeral aside and rode on the donkey to express his condolences to the guests. Probably Sima Guang felt that riding a donkey was unsightly and unsightly, so Sima Guang generously lent the horse to Ruan Xianqi in "Zi Zhi Tong Jian", and Prince Charming embraced the beauty. This is a beautiful scene. As for the father, the dead have long since passed away, and the living must continue.

Romantic stories such as Sima Xiangru and Zhuo Wenjun started well, and they were in an open era. Fortunately, they were not labeled as immoral. But the letter from one to ten thousand and Zhuo Wenjun's poem always tell us that a good beginning will not necessarily lead to an end result.

The fantasy of being independent and flying together is better than the haggard thoughts of Yi Xiao. I don’t know where the human face has gone, but the peach blossoms still laugh at the spring breeze, which is just the poet’s obscenity. Lu You's helplessness left endless regrets to future generations. If you don’t get it, it becomes eternity.

5. Borrowing

When people themselves are always in poverty, they have to borrow money and things from others to make a living. Therefore, there are many lending rules, including borrowing and repaying, and others. You don't have to pay it back if you borrow it. Zhuangzi wanted to borrow some grain but failed, so he came up with the fable of the fish in a rut, which makes us still think about it. It is probably appropriate to borrow, but it is abominable to be rich and refuse to lend. We just borrowed it for a reason!

People always have areas where they cannot achieve what they are capable of, so they need help from others, which is to borrow strength. With this expansion, everything in the world can be borrowed, even if it is not available to oneself at the moment. For example, Ji Cheng's "Yuan Ye" says that "there is no pattern in constructing a garden, but there is a reason for borrowing scenery." Gardens can borrow scenery, paintings can also be borrowed, and businesses can borrow chickens and eggs. No wonder Xunzi said that the gentleman's nature is not different, but he is good at pretending to things. It turns out that the gentleman is also borrowed.

A gentleman can not only borrow, but he can borrow in a high-sounding way, with confidence and level, and with a large set of theories. The emperor can use the majesty of God to rule the world, the saint can use the divine to summon the world, and mortals can fake the majesty of others and achieve their own goals by borrowing the majesty of others.

Therefore, literati use famous quotes to enhance the authority of their speech, and celebrities to enhance their reputation. Otherwise, there will be "people in Luxiang" as Sima Qian said. Although they are virtuous, their "names will be destroyed and their names will be lost." Not weighed” anymore. But what about celebrities? It was only after he borrowed many dazzling names that he became glamorous.

In order to succeed, you must look for relationships and items that can be borrowed at all costs. Every success is a brick paved on the road to success and fame. Every time you become famous, you raise the base of your monument to a higher level.

Because borrowing has such origins and such a market, it can be said that it is very mature from theory to practice, and institutions that specialize in providing borrowings have emerged. For example, banks, college students trained in universities, various packaging companies, publishing houses, and the editorial department of Who's Who in the World, there are many social resources waiting to lend you everything you need, as long as you are willing to borrow. They will be more than happy to provide services to you.

In this way, there will be many shortcuts, and it will be much easier to achieve your goals. It's just that when we look at those who have achieved success and fame, we always feel a little strange.

6. Return

It is easy to borrow and return, and it is not difficult to borrow again. This is common sense among common people. Things borrowed must be returned. But there are also things that don’t need to be returned, such as the borrowed water and the purple clay pot for boiling medicine. There are also those who don’t want to return it, such as Jingzhou that Liu Bei borrowed.

Those who deliberately fail to repay borrowed goods and unpaid wages are old people. For such people, it is not an exaggeration to list their crimes, criticize them verbally and write them, and curse them viciously. But as Mr. Lu Xun said, cursing and cursing like this is not fighting. Besides, since the old scoundrels dare to scold, they are no longer afraid of these things.

So, let’s stop being angry and advocate something better. The ancient Chinese believed that if you give someone a peach, you should repay it with a plum. If you receive a drop of water from someone, you should repay it with a spring. It seems that this repayment is no longer simply returning the jade intact to Zhao and returning the original object, but the method must be changed and interest added. Needless to say, borrowing money has a clear interest rate, and paying interest according to the interest rate will clear both sides. But other things are not as easy to settle as money.

Knotting a grass ring can be regarded as sincere repayment. When a scholar dies for a confidant, it is also to repay the kindness of knowing him. This kind of repayment is the repayment of life and death. He really gave everything he had to repay. For this, how many knights, loyal servants, dead soldiers, and famous ministers have made an explanation with their lives.

Every support we receive from others must be repaid. Therefore, we should always have a heart of repayment and gratitude. Even so, there is no need to be as clear-cut about grievances and grievances as Fan Ju's. If there are kindnesses, they must be repaid, and if there are grievances, they must be repaid.

But there are always things we have forgotten to pay back, and there are also many things we cannot pay back. If you keep it in mind, there will be no danger. Otherwise, if you forget about Lao Gui like Tang Monk did, you will suffer another kind of retribution.

What Confucius said is contrary to you is contrary to you. If it is something we have done, it will be returned. The way of heaven is not easy to deceive, let alone easy to deceive, but the way of heaven is easy to return. Whatever you sow, you will reap the fruit, so you must be careful. It's not that you don't repay the bad things you did, because the time has not yet come.