The famous playwright Bernard Shaw once said a very philosophical sentence: "People always blame their present situation on luck, but I don't believe in luck. In my opinion, anyone who gets ahead is lucky enough to find his own goal on his own initiative; If they can't find it, they will create luck. "
Indeed, luck (opportunity) is neither expectation nor waiting. Many times it depends on our own initiative to discover, explore and even create. Opportunities never fall from the sky. Whether you can get an opportunity depends mainly on your working ability, determination to act, imagination and experience. In fact, sometimes, life is not only one chance. The most rare thing is to have the courage to recognize your weaknesses and look for a second chance after losing the first opportunity. Only by constantly exploring and striving to create can we succeed. There are two American girls named Sylvia and Cindy, and their completely different experiences and results in job hunting illustrate this point well.
Shiovia was born in a very good family background. Her father is a famous plastic surgeon in Boston and her mother is a professor in a famous university. Her family gave her a lot of help. For some people, she has every chance to realize her dream.
Shiovia's ideal is to be an excellent program host. She fully believes that she has the ability to do this job well, because she feels that when she gets along with others, everyone is willing to talk to her, and she is willing to express her inner thoughts. She often says to others, "As long as someone can give me a chance to be on TV, I believe I will succeed." After graduating from college, Shiovia waited for 1 years, and no one ever offered her the opportunity to be on TV.
So she became anxious, depressed and irritable, and she kept begging God to give her a chance. However, the opportunity did not come after all.
Cindy's situation is very different from Sylvia's. Cindy's family condition is very poor, and her parents are very ordinary people. They run for their lives every day and don't care about Cindy at all. Cindy has no fixed source of income from her studies. So she works during the day and goes to night school at UCLA. The only thing they have in common is that they have the same ideal, and Cindy also wants to be a program host.
After graduation, Cindy didn't wait endlessly like Sylvia did. In order to get a career that suits her wishes, she traveled to every radio and TV station in Los Angeles. However, she got disappointing answers everywhere: "We only recruit people with work experience." However, for Cindy, how unreasonable this requirement is, how can you gain experience without giving opportunities? Cindy argued with everyone she met. Although Cindy got the same result as Sylvia, she didn't just wait unrealistically like Sylvia did.
She began to create opportunities for herself. For several months in a row, she carefully browsed various magazines on radio and television, and she also asked people to inquire about various possible job opportunities.
Finally, one day, she found an advertisement in the newspaper that excited her: a small TV station in North Dakota was looking for a girl who predicted the weather. North Dakota is in the north of the United States, where it is very cold and often snows. Cindy doesn't like snow very much, but she can't care so much. She urgently needs to go there. She thought, "I will do anything as long as it has something to do with TV." It doesn't matter if it snows or hurricanes. "
So, after working in North Dakota for two years, Cindy has accumulated rich work experience. When Cindy applied for a job in Los Angeles TV again, she found a position almost easily. A few years later, Cindy was promoted and became a famous TV presenter. She finally realized her dream.
From Cindy and Shiovia, we can clearly see the different life trajectories of excellent people and mediocre people. Cindy keeps practicing and accumulating experience to create all possible opportunities for her success. Shiovia, on the other hand, has been immersed in fantasy, waiting for the opportunity and expecting a big pie to fall from the sky. However, times have changed and she has accomplished nothing. Compared with Sylvia, Cindy is obviously a strong person in life and an example for us to learn.
Mediocre people have a little taste, and excellent people insist.
Mediocre people are mostly people who have tasted the sweetness, are content with the status quo and do not make progress. They are often satisfied with doing things, so they seldom make any great achievements. Excellent people often have lofty goals, they expect to achieve great things, always surpass themselves, broaden their thinking, expand their knowledge, open the door to life, and hope to go further than the people around them. At the same time, they also have strong enough will to motivate themselves to make greater efforts and strive for better results.
As mentioned above, it is easy to go from excellent to mediocre. As long as you slack off your life, you will slide to the edge of mediocrity. From mediocrity to Excellence, we need a firm goal, take perseverance as the hoe, and dig down bit by bit until the water comes out. In fact, no one really wants to live a mediocre life, and everyone has the desire to pursue Excellence. However, many people are at a loss because they don't know how to climb the excellent "Normandy" or know the path, but because of lack of courage, fear of hardship and fatigue, they finally give up halfway.
I remember the 30th President of the United States, johncalvin coolidge, once declared, "Nothing in the world can replace persistence. Talent won't: there is nothing more common in the world than empty, talented and unhappy people. Genius won't: being talented without doing anything is almost a matter of knowledge. Education won't: educated homeless people can be found everywhere in the world. Only persistence and determination are omnipotent. Perseverance', the slogan has been solved, and it will solve human problems forever. "
If dabbling and sticking to the end are compared to two brushes with different colors, then different people will draw a picture of life with different colors with different brushes. To illustrate the difference more vividly, here is an example of drilling a well. If you are a well-digger, but you can't get water after hitting a certain depth, will you choose to continue digging deep and big holes or choose a new site to drill wells? Why?
Some people say that persistence is victory, so they choose to continue to deepen and expand this hole, thinking that if they give up halfway, they are likely to lose the results they are about to get. In addition, if you choose a new location, you may not find water. Since you chose this address to drill wells, you must have done sufficient investigation and research in advance. It is better to persevere than to start all over again.
Some people think that since the water source has not been seen after drilling so deep, it is likely that the wrong well has been chosen, or there is no water underground at all, or it is necessary to dig deep to dig water. Instead of wasting time in such a place, it is better to find another place that is easier to get out of the water, even if it is worth taking the risk of failure again, and maybe there will be new discoveries.
Mediocre people are often people who dig wells everywhere and don't dig deep in every pit. In practical work, he has been to most industries and left his traces everywhere. He dug many deep and shallow holes, but none of them came out of the water, and there was no industry he stayed in for a long time. The result of a little taste is that there is no skill and it is eliminated in the environment of survival of the fittest.
What kind of well drillers should we be? Obviously, after setting an objective ideal goal in combination with the actual situation, we advocate sticking to it! In daily life, maybe everyone has some unfinished things, such as unfinished clothes, unwritten manuscripts and so on. So please find them out and tidy them up, and settle down and continue to finish them. You will find that once it is finished, you will feel very happy. When they are not finished, they are just rubbish, and after you have paid half or even one tenth of your effort and strength, they have become beautiful finished products or proud achievements.
It's not that we can't do many things, but that we don't want to continue doing them. With more efforts and time, you will find that you actually have many potential advantages. Do things well from beginning to end, individuals will not be unemployed, and enterprises will not be eliminated. If you blindly hold the idea that "the next job will be better" and work anticlimactic, you will always be in the state of digging the next well, and you will not enjoy the beautiful scenery of "clear water gurgling out". Of course, if the actual situation changes, it is also important to learn to change your mind in time and know how to "drill wells in different places". If you don't know how to be flexible, mediocre people will welcome you with open arms.