1. Linklater, a well-known American host, interviewed a child one day and asked him: "What do you want to be when you grow up?" The child innocently replied: "Well... I want to Be the pilot of the plane!" Linklater then asked: "If one day, your plane flies over the Pacific Ocean and all the engines stall, what will you do?" The child thought for a while: "I will first tell the person sitting in the plane The people on board fastened their seatbelts, and then I hung up my parachute and jumped out." While the audience was swaying with laughter, Linklater continued to watch the kid, trying to see if he was a smart guy. Unexpectedly, the next two lines made the child burst into tears. This made Linklater realize that the child's compassion was far beyond what words can describe. So Linklater asked him: Why are you doing this?" The child's answer revealed the child's sincere thoughts: "I'm going to get fuel, and I have to come back!!!"

Enlightenment: This is the "art of listening". First, don't listen half-heartedly. Second, don't project your own meaning onto what others say. Learn to listen with your heart and listen with an open mind.

2. There is a toothpaste factory with excellent products and exquisite packaging, which is loved by customers. Its turnover has increased for 10 consecutive years, with an annual growth rate of 10% to 20%. However, in the 11th year, the performance stagnated, and it continued to do so for the next two years. The company managers held a high-level meeting to discuss countermeasures. During the meeting, the company president promised that whoever could come up with a solution to the problem and increase the company's performance would be rewarded 100,000 yuan. A young manager stood up and handed the president a piece of paper. After reading the note, the president immediately signed a check for 100,000 yuan and gave it to the manager. The note said: Expand the current toothpaste opening by 1 mm. Consumers will squeeze out the same length of toothpaste every morning. If the opening is expanded by 1 mm, each consumer will use 1 mm more toothpaste, and the daily consumption will be much greater! In the 14th year, the company's turnover increased by 32%.

Enlightenment: In the face of changes in life, we are often accustomed to the past way of thinking. In fact, as long as you expand your mind by 1 millimeter, you will see that changes in life have a positive side, full of opportunities and opportunities. Challenge.

3. When one of Confucius' students was cooking porridge, he found something dirty falling into the pot. He quickly picked it up with a spoon and was about to pour it away. , suddenly thought that a porridge and a meal were hard-earned, so he ate it. Confucius happened to walk into the kitchen, thinking that he was stealing food, so he taught the classmate who was responsible for cooking a lesson. Confucius said with emotion: "What I saw with my own eyes is not accurate, let alone hearsay. ”

Enlightenment: Sales promotion business is an organizational business, because there are many people, and there are many personnel problems. From time to time, we hear words that are difficult to distinguish between right and wrong, such as one company attacking another company, which often It confuses people and affects confidence. Therefore, if you find out the truth of the matter, don't believe the rumors easily, so that the career you have worked hard to build will not be ruined.

4. There was a mute in the Northern Song Dynasty. Every time a new magistrate takes office, he comes to offer a wooden stick, which inexplicably provokes a beating from the government. This year, when Bao Zheng took office, the mute came to offer a stick again. Bao Zheng thought, this person must have a grievance, otherwise, he would be beaten every time. , why did he come to offer the stick? But the mute could neither speak, nor read, nor write, so he could not know the reason.

So, Bao Zheng told his men not to do it no matter how hard the mute tried. Beat him. On this day, the mute came to offer the stick again. Bao Zheng asked his men to apply pig blood on the mute's body, making it look like he was beaten severely, and then tied up the mute and paraded him through the streets. , if someone complains about the mute, he will be brought back for questioning. Sure enough, an old man shouted that he was wronged while he was parading.

The old man said: "This mute is from our village." Shi Mute, he has not been able to speak since he was a child, but he can hear. His brother Shi Quan annexed his Wanguan family property and kicked him out of the house. Every year the mute goes to the Yamen to file a complaint by offering a stick, but he is beaten with the stick every year, and today he was beaten until he was covered in blood. I really can't stand it today, so I cry out for the injustice on the mute's behalf. ”

Bao Zheng immediately sent Shi Quan to the Yamen, but Shi Quan refused to acknowledge his brother. No matter how much Bao Zheng tried to persuade him, it was in vain, so Bao Zheng came up with a plan. He first let Shi Quan go, and then taught him Tell the mute: "In the future, if you bump into your brother, hit him.

"The mute looked at Bao Zheng in surprise, blinked and shook his head again, looking very scared. Bao Zheng said: "Don't be afraid, just fight, I will make the decision for you. "

A few days later, Shi Quan, who was beaten to the head and bleeding, came to complain, accusing the mute of disrespecting etiquette and beating his own brother. Bao Zheng asked: "Of course it cannot be done if a younger brother beats his own brother. Qingrao, but it would be a different matter if he was not his biological brother. Shi Quan didn't know what the plan was and insisted: "He is really my biological brother." After Bao Zheng heard this, he shouted loudly: "Since he is your biological brother, why do you take all the family property and not give it to him?" "Only then did Shi Quan realize that he had been deceived. It turned out that all this was arranged by Bao Zheng.

Don't be fooled by superficial phenomena. Everything has its ins and outs. As long as you observe carefully and think carefully, You can grasp the essence of the problem.

5. There are two monks living in temples on two adjacent mountains. There is a stream between the two mountains. They would go down the mountain to fetch water from the stream every day, and over time they became good friends. Five years passed unknowingly, and suddenly one day the monk on the mountain on the left did not go down to fetch water. , the monk on the mountain on the right thought: "He probably overslept. "So he didn't take it seriously. Unexpectedly, the monk on the mountain on the left still didn't go down to fetch water the next day, and the same on the third day. After a week, it was still the same, until after a month, the monk on the mountain on the right finally couldn't stand it any more. , he thought to himself: "My friend may be sick, I want to go over and visit him and see what I can do to help." ”

So he climbed up the mountain on the left to visit his old friend. When he arrived at the temple on the mountain on the left, he was shocked when he saw his old friend, because his old friend He was doing Tai Chi in front of the temple, and he didn't look like someone who hadn't drank water for a month. He asked curiously: "You haven't gone down the mountain to carry water for a month. Can you not drink water?" "The monk on the mountain on the left said: "Come on, come on, I will show you. So he took the monk from the mountain on the right to the backyard of the temple, pointed to a well and said: "In the past five years, I have taken the time to dig this well after finishing my homework every day. Even if I am very busy sometimes, I can dig as much as I can." How many. Now that I have finally dug out the well water, I no longer have to go down the mountain to fetch water, and I can have more time to practice my favorite Tai Chi. ”?

Enlightenment: No matter how much salary we receive in the company, it is just carrying water. But we should seize the time after get off work to dig a well of our own and cultivate our own strength in another aspect. In the future, when we As I get older, my physical strength is no longer that of a young person, but I still have water to drink, and I can still drink it leisurely.

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Famous aphorisms

1. Phenomena are not seen as clues to the truth, but we don’t seem to have any other clues. --Evie Compton

2. Don’t take the bark as it is. Come to a conclusion based on the tree. --British proverb

3. Look at the fruit first, and then what kind of tree it is. --Kazakh

4. Change the rose. The name is still fragrant and attractive. --British proverb

5. Don't judge a product by its packaging. --European proverb

6. We understand the wind through the swing of the reeds. ; But the wind is still more important than the reeds. --Gide

7. Black chickens lay white eggs. --British proverb

8. The eggs of crows are as white as snow. , a hedgehog’s baby is soft and soft. --Uyghur proverb

9. Even though it is a black cow, its milk is still white. --Afghan proverb

10. Not all things are gold, and not all beautiful words are good words. --Shakespeare

11. Not all larks spend the night under the roses --Uygur proverb

13. Subterfuge requires disguise, and truth loves sunshine. --British proverb

14. Every vice is more or less disguised as a virtue, and all benefit from this disguised similarity. -- La Bruyère

15. Being unmasked is a problem. It's a kind of failure, but taking off the mask is a kind of victory. --Hugo