Please give success a direction

As long as you identify your selling point and seize the opportunity to constantly change and reinvent yourself, there is no reason why you should not succeed.

He was a talented student at a well-known local high school, but dropped out of school for financial reasons, and then applied for a job as a reporter at a well-known newspaper. But two years later, he found that he was not suitable to be a journalist, and he really did not make any impressive achievements, so he naturally became the first target to be laid off.

One day, he came to a soy milk shop and sat at the dining table with a blank face, thinking about how to live his life in the future...... The soy milk on the table was already cold, and there were no other customers in the shop, but he was still sitting there. At this time, the old man who opened the soybean milk shop came over to him and asked, "Sir, do you still need any more services?" He glanced up at the old man, and felt that he was kind, so he said to the old man, "I want to talk to someone, will you sit with me for a while?" The old man sat down across from him, listened to him for more than half an hour, and then said, "I'm just a soy milk seller, and I don't know much about anything other than making soy milk, so I'll tell you about it." Soy milk was originally made from grinding soybeans, and most of the soybeans that were ground into soy milk were actually not sold in the market, so I ground it into soy milk. More than half of the soy milk was sold, and I made the remaining soy milk into tofu and asked my wife to take it to the vegetable market to sell. I couldn't sell all the tofu, so I pickled the rest of the tofu and made it into fermented bean curd. After many changes, I finally sold all the soybeans in a different way. Actually, my soybeans haven't changed in quantity or quality, I just made them change when I sold them. ”

After listening to the old man's words, he suddenly became enlightened. Yes, soybeans can be turned into soy milk, tofu, and then bean curd, why don't you know how to change? Since then, he has worked in a variety of industries, such as a newspaper courier and a welder salesman, but he felt that none of these were his ideals. Later, he also worked as an editor for a literary magazine, but he also felt that it was just a sideshow for his ideals. Eventually, he picked up the pen and began to write in the true sense of the word.

A few decades later, he became world-renowned for works such as The Chronicle of the Monastery, History of the Siege of Lisbon, and Blindness. He is the famous Portuguese writer and 1998 Nobel Prize winner José Saramago.

Rejection is the best respect

During the Warring States Period, Su Qin and Zhang Yi were both students of Guiguzi. Su Qin and Zhang Yi's majors are not popular majors such as Confucianism and Legalism, but a relatively remote major-Zonghengxue, because they understand that in the war era, Zonghengxue is the most suitable and best job.

After several years of hard work, Su Qin single-handedly contributed to the merger of the six countries, and Su Qin, who had reached the pinnacle of his career, was matched by the six countries, and the study of vertical and horizontal studies became a popular major at that time. Just when Su Qin reached the peak of his career, Zhang Yi also graduated from Guiguzi at this time. Zhang Yi, who has just graduated, began to look for a job, but due to lack of experience, she still did not find a suitable job after looking for a long time, after all, no one is worried about handing over the future of a country to a fledgling young man. Zhang Yi naturally thought of Su Qin, a senior brother who was already famous all over the world.

Zhang Yi soon came to join Su Qin, and Zhang Yi thought that Su Qin would definitely arrange a pretty good job for himself in front of his master Guiguzi. But what Zhang Yi didn't expect was that Su Qin was very cold to himself, not to mention arranging work, and he didn't even see him. Zhang Yi, who went to Su Qin's mansion, Su Qin just asked the housekeeper to arrange Zhang Yi and his subordinates together.

At the beginning, Zhang Yi thought that maybe Su Qin had other intentions, maybe he was testing himself, so Zhang Yi persevered. But what Zhang Yi didn't expect was that at a banquet, Zhang Yi saw Su Qin for the first time, but Zhang Yi was arranged at the back and could only see Su Qin from a distance.

Just in the middle of this banquet, a guest suddenly shouted, it turned out that the piece of jade he was wearing was suddenly missing, and this guest was sitting next to Zhang Yi, so everyone focused their eyes on Zhang Yi. Zhang Yi couldn't argue, and the subordinates didn't know that Zhang Yi was Su Qin's junior brother, so Zhang Yi soon tied him up and beat him violently.

When Zhang Yi was lying in the firewood room to recuperate from his injuries, Su Qin sent someone to preach; A talented person like Zhang Yi has been reduced to relying on a friend to recommend him to get a job, so he would rather not recommend him, and he will not take Zhang Yi in again. Zhang Yi was very angry about this, he didn't expect Su Qin to be so ruthless to him, Zhang Yi vowed to make Su Qin pay for it, so Zhang Yi came to Qin with the help of one of Su Qin's disciples.

Because the alliance of the six countries at that time made Qin very jealous, and Zhang Yi's arrival made Qin Huiwenjun very happy, especially Zhang Yi's plan to crack the alliance of the six countries made Qin Huiwenjun overjoyed, and Zhang Yi was soon reused by Qin Huiwenjun. Sure enough, through the efforts of Qin Huiwenjun and Zhang Yi, more than ten years later, the Six Kingdoms that Su Qin painstakingly managed were all collapsed by the Qin State.

At this time, Zhang Yi was very proud, he finally avenged the revenge of many years ago, but what Zhang Yi didn't expect was that Su Qin's disciple who accompanied him told him that all this was done by Su Qin intentionally at that time, Su Qin knew that Zhang Yi's talent was far above him, so he didn't want Zhang Yi to lose the opportunity to show his talent under his protection, so Su Qin humiliated him in front of so many people, and the jade incident that Zhang Yi regarded as a great shame was also arranged by Su Qin. But Su Qin didn't help Zhang Yi, but he had been helping him silently, and the person who accompanied Zhang Yi to the Qin State was specially arranged by Su Qin.

Zhang Yi suddenly realized that Su Qin's rejection was the best respect for himself, and if it wasn't for Su Qin's rejection, then he would never have today's achievements.

3. Dare to swallow elephants

When he was 8 years old, he immigrated with his father from Shanghai to New York. Before, he had always thought that the United States was a paradise on earth, but when he actually arrived here, he deeply realized that this was only the beginning of hard times. Because he didn't know English, he was forced to drop from the third grade to the first grade; Because of the unfair treatment of his parents, his income was very low, and he often had a full meal and a hungry meal; Because he was of the yellow race, he was discriminated against by white people at school, which caused him to suffer in ways that others could not imagine. However, the hardships he experienced as a child sharpened his iron will and allowed him to develop a strong and independent character.

After graduating from Queens College, he did not choose to further his education and went straight into society. Because he doesn't like traditional education in the United States, he thinks it's a waste of time. Of course, there is another reason, his academic performance is very unsatisfactory, and his parents no longer have any big hopes for him. Despite this, he still wants to make a career and prove with practical actions that he is not worse than others.

Soon after, he landed a job as a programmer at Columbia University's Electronics Research Lab, and although he was only a beginner, he was very serious about his work and developed a keen interest in programming. After a period of study and study, he mastered the art proficiently. Subsequently, he decisively left Columbia University and came to Standard Data, where he specialized in software. In the process of developing software, he suddenly had the idea of starting a business, and he wanted to become the second Bill Gates.

In the spring of 1976, the long-awaited opportunity finally came, and an international Swiss software company called CA was looking for an agent in the United States to market their large-scale computer software. However, due to the uncertainty of the future of this product, several companies were found to cooperate, and an agreement was reached in the future. Under these circumstances, he volunteered to take the job and co-founded CA International Software with three other friends, which became a subsidiary of CA in Switzerland.

The road to the first business was arduous, and in an office on Madison Avenue in Manhattan, there was nothing but a signboard, two computers, and four people. To pay his rent, he had to earn extra money by laying carpets in the building's lounges and hanging mirrors in the hallways. Although the conditions of the company were unsatisfactory, this did not stop him from starting a business. Through market research, he was pleasantly surprised to find that although Microsoft is the leader in computer software, they mainly operate the operating system of PCs, and do not involve the application of enterprise management software in the field of mainframe and client servers, which undoubtedly reserves a certain space for his company's survival. So, he seized this opportunity and quickly occupied the market, growing his customers to more than 200.

In the past four years, his CA software company has become well-known in the United States, and he has made a lot of money from it. However, he is not satisfied with this small achievement, as a software manufacturer, he knows that there are many well-known software companies in the United States, and in this fiercely competitive IT industry, they are either swallowed up by others or swallowed up by others. If you want to survive in the long run, you can only strengthen your own strength, become a giant like Microsoft, and firmly hold the initiative in your own hands. In order to break free from the control of others and have his own independent software company, he made a bold decision to buy the head office in Switzerland for $2.8 million (and successfully went public the following year), realizing the great dream of swallowing an elephant. This move caused a huge sensation in New York, and people in the industry were impressed, and they did not dare to underestimate its strength. Of course, this is just the beginning, after swallowing the first elephant, his appetite became bigger and bigger, using the company's issued shares, has acquired more than 20 famous software companies, such as: Capex company, Uccel company, ADR company, Cullient company, Online company, ASK group, etc., quickly developed from a worthless small company to the world's fourth largest software developer, standing side by side with Microsoft.

This legendary figure is Wang Jialian, the founder of the International United Computer Corporation (CA), who is known as the IT iron man. Although his personal assets are not as good as Bill Gates, when it comes to IT elites, people are always used to compare Wang Jialian with Bill Gates. Wang Jialian's story tells us that as long as a person has the ambition to swallow an elephant and dare to take on all kinds of challenges, even if you have nothing, you can achieve something earth-shattering.