/kloc-at the age of 0/5, he dropped out of the province and went to Taipei to draw cartoons alone. I drew 200 books, went to a TV station for five years, went to a comic book company for seven years, and won the Golden Horse Award for animation-in short, I got all the prizes I deserved.
36 years old, 2.2 million RMB, three houses. I said to myself, "I have earned enough money in my life. From now on, I won't cut off any life to make money. All the time is mine."
Then I went to Japan for 4 years and painted a hundred schools of thought. Nearly 20 books were painted before publication. I spent another three years studying Buddhism and drawing Buddhist cartoons after I thoroughly studied it.
Claiming to have ten specialties, the first specialty is physics. The second is mathematics. There are also bridges, animations, cartoons, Taoist thoughts, Zen thoughts, Buddhist thoughts and so on. There was a time when I thought, "Today is smarter than yesterday, this week is smarter than last week, and this year is smarter than last year. I don't know when I will become stupid." Decide to use the smartest time to challenge the hardest. So I spent ten years and forty days studying physics.
Throughout his life, it is legendary. In his own words, "I have lived for ten lives". However, there are many talented people, but few people can become legends like Cai Zhizhong.
Cai Zhizhong always said, "It's no use working hard. It is better to work hard than not to work hard. Learn to think. " Said: "Thinking is the first." So what's the difference in his way of thinking?
"You don't know where heaven is until you know whether you are a fish or a bird.
Or hell?
If fish are in the upper reaches of the sky and birds are flying in the water.
Those two people are dead. "
Cai Zhizhong once said, "Change your mind and you will be a hundred times better". He thinks that a person will become a great person, not because he works hard, but because he clearly knows what he wants to do, how to do it and how to do it well. We must first find out whether I am a fish or a bird. I know exactly what my heaven is and what my hell is. Most people don't know what they really like, just go with the flow. Of course, everyone should choose their own way of life, but before that, we must be clear: who am I? Where is the land I come from? where am I going?
Cai Zhizhong gets up every morning 1, and the first thing he does is stand by the window and think. Think about what this generation will do first, then think about what to do now, finally think about what to do today, and then sit down and start working. Listen to the voice of the universe, and your heart will tell you something you should have thought of long ago.
Then work continuously until 1 or 2 pm, have lunch, have lunch and take a nap. No communication before 3 pm. He didn't have a watch or a mobile phone, because he didn't want time to be cut into pieces, so he went to bed when it was dark. He said, "You may not know that when we wake up every morning, we don't read newspapers, news, TV or talk. Every day is like a new beginning. You will see the future. If it is implemented as a speech, it will fall into the dust and fall into yesterday. "
I didn't eat breakfast for 44 years, and I only ate one Chinese meal every day for nearly 4 years. Because I was too full, I became dull and tasteless, which affected my thinking. I want to be thinner, because I am too fat to stand for too long, which affects my thinking. Sun Simiao, the king of medicine, said, "Less words in your mouth, less things in your heart, less food in your stomach and less natural sleep. According to this, the gods can do. "
I once stayed in a deep mountain temple for ten days to observe meditation, nine of which were isolated from all information such as music books and words, and no communication was allowed, including eyes and gestures, which made me highly aware of my thoughts and trained me to concentrate on the present. There is silence from the outside to the inside, and there is a bell when you lie down and sleep.
That meditation trip had a profound impact on me. I suddenly realized from my personal experience that we have almost no moment at present, and our minds have been talking endlessly, but we can't hear them. I can clearly feel that the exchange of information and words we see will disturb our hearts. We are in the noise all the time. When I opened WeChat, the news poured down, and there were countless "thought bombs" in my mind. Every message is like lighting a bomb and detonating it instantly.
Oriental philosophy says that "the heart is fixed, but it is difficult to do it in theory." If you don't experience it through special training, it is difficult to find that your heart has always been noisy and restless. At this time, don't say that it is difficult to maintain the independence and concentration of thinking.
Cai Zhizhong created an absolutely quiet environment for himself, in which he could hear the sound of the universe. The noise of the world faded in his mind, and the story pictures in the depths of his mind surged out. He picked up the brush, and the images in his mind emerged on the drawing paper one by one.
Cai Zhizhong said that he almost never "exhausted his inspiration", but that doesn't mean that he doesn't cherish it. "When the inspiration comes, you should draw immediately, and you can't be choosy, because the inspiration is over." He has many drafts, from which he can choose to publish, and finally he can publish about 20%.
From 65438 to 0985, Cai Zhizhong won the honor of "Top Ten Outstanding Youth" as a cartoonist. Dad was sitting under the stage, and Cai Zhizhong invited him to stand up, holding the trophy in the spotlight and saying, "I especially want to thank my dad, because he didn't force me to go to school, didn't let me go to cram school, didn't let me go to computer classes, didn't let me fulfill his unfinished wish for him, and gave me a chance to draw cartoons. Thank you, Dad! "
Cai Zhizhong passed this freedom on to the next generation. My daughter got 58 points in the math test, and she proudly signed her name on the test paper. The next time she got a zero, she was invited to eat steak to celebrate. Tell my daughter: "in the end, we always have to make money with brushes, so we have to choose which brush is the best." It is impossible to learn six subjects at the same time and learn well. "
The children will live in the house tomorrow. Is it too outdated to adopt yesterday's design blueprint? Fish swim in the water, birds fly in the sky, and stones sit alone on the ground. They are not going anywhere, and no one needs to learn from anyone, and no one needs to look up to anyone.
Cai Zhizhong earned 2.2 million yuan in ten years, three houses, the company is in full swing, and its career is booming. Most people will choose to continue to earn six houses and 4.4 million RMB. He calculated that if he didn't gamble, take drugs and eat instant noodles every day in his life, the money would be enough for him to live to his old age and he wouldn't make any more money.
He chose to close the company at that time. He was 36 years old that year. He said that 36 years old was a turning point in his life.
There is a friend in his thirties who has no so-called pressure of leftover women at all, and is still in pure love, enjoying love itself. People think that love is based on pure spirit first. Then I met someone who suddenly "felt a little married" and began to think about getting married, but there was no pressure or importune.
I shared with her "female cases of psychological coaches", including those whose sons dropped out of school, those whose husbands cheated violently and those whose family life was painful. She said, "These events are all appearances, and they are all in my heart. Stepping into marriage before your heart is strong is like going into battle shirtless without armor, so you suffer the pain of reality. They are really warriors, I am not so brave. " To outsiders, she is brave and maverick, but what is really brave can be discussed from a long-term perspective.
Cai Zhizhong knew from an early age that money should be earned early instead of much. He has many friends who earn 654.38+0 billion at the age of 50. He thinks it's not good to earn 65.438+0 billion at the age of 50, because their lives don't seem to be very good. But earning100000 at the age of 20 is very powerful. If you have money early, you have the ability not to do what you don't want to do, but also to do what you want to do. Zhang Ailing said, "I became famous early, but I was not so happy when I was late."
Some people look crazy, maverick and different. However, if you look deeper, you will find that they are not crazy. They are not born maverick, but make the most rational and reasonable decisions based on independent thoughts and deep insight into the nature of life.
Cai Zhizhong's goal is not contemporary fame and fortune, but "let history remember me 1000". He paid attention to the famous figures in history and found that "the most important reason why those figures are so powerful that they will be remembered from generation to generation is that he once spent a whole period of time doing one thing."
Under his analysis, there are several points. First, we should love it. Secondly, we should spend some time doing one thing with all our might. Finally, we should be in one place, in one place. "When you are fully integrated into your focus, there is no time, no ego, no object. As Liezi said, "Eyes are like noses, noses are like ears, ears are like sounds, and sounds are like the wind". He walks against the wind, which is equivalent to crossing time and space. What can't he do? If you want to live deeply, you must give up. Most people want too much, this and that, and finally they get nothing. "
I realize more and more that the key to a person is to determine the direction of life first. Business form belongs to tools, with life direction as the main direction and tools as the supplement. And I, like most people, regard "tools" as the direction of pursuit, what to look at, what to do and what to do. Give up the root and chase the end. It is not excluded that many people start from opportunities, but they will eventually return to the essence and return to the direction of life.
If you don't find the direction of life, you will start in a hurry. You don't know if the direction is right or wrong. What's the hurry?
What is the essence? What is the most important thing in life? Ask yourself: If you had only a few minutes to live, what would you do with it? What if I can live for a few days? What about twenty years?
The only way to realize your dream is to wake up from it.
Cai Zhizhong said: "People should have dreams, but people don't have dreams, just like butterflies don't have wings. The only way to realize your dream is to wake up from it and then practice it with actions to make your dream come true. " Cai Zhizhong is a practitioner who is immersed in thinking and easy to fall into nothingness.
He once sat in a chair for 58 hours. Sitting in a chair only 5 cm, the posture is very positive, the hands will not be sour, the feet will not be sour, and the shoulders will not be sour. The only thing that can move is the finger. "You are in one place, in one place, and all can't be heard." I didn't open the door for 42 days and finished a job in the house. 58 hours, in order to finish a TV title. I have been to Japan to paint 100 schools for 4 years. I studied physics for 10 years and 40 days.
This is not perseverance and hard work. According to himself, he is crazy. I like doing what I like too much. And capable. If we think that Cai Zhizhong's success comes from hard work and persistence, then what he pursues is the destination. His success has many factors, which are rooted in wisdom in the final analysis.
"Everything you do should change your mind. Everyone said, I want to work hard, I want to work hard, I want to work hard. This is not right. Go to the street and see, no one is not trying. A man, riding a motorcycle at 3: 30 in the afternoon, braved the sun. Why did you ask him? He is trying to make money. Hard work will not achieve the best results. To turn it upside down, we must first think about what we want to achieve, then think about what conditions we need, and then design a road to achieve this goal. "
He said that there are four stages in life:
In the first stage, life is to find what you are best at and like, and make it to the extreme.
In the second stage, there must be self-requirements. If we do better than expected, we will be better. If we are faster than expected, we will be faster. We should do better and faster.
In the third stage, the quality is the highest, the efficiency is the highest, and the cost is the lowest, so there is no opponent, and the opponents are all dead. You will be integrated with nature, just to do things quickly and have no other pursuit.
In the fourth stage, you will find the biggest secret of life. It turns out that finishing things is not work, but the greatest enjoyment.
I'm glad to see life in Cai Zhizhong.
He has been determined since he was a child, never deviating, single-minded and living in the present; He was born to die and planned to be buried in Tallinn, Shaolin Temple, and hold a party. He operated on 60 people a week before he died. His material is extremely simple, and in order not to be tempted by fame and fortune, he maintains the greatest spiritual freedom.
When we see such a life, it seems that only self-realization is possible. However, the world is more wonderful because of him. He "recreated China's traditional philosophy and literature in an unprecedented way through cartoons".