A heart that is not willing to be poor

Message: People can't decide the first half of their lives, because it's given by their parents. But the second half of life is one's own, people's fate is in their own hands, and everyone has the opportunity to choose happiness.

A person can choose their own lifestyle, choose their favorite career, and choose where they live. However, there is one situation that cannot be chosen, and that is one's own origin. Some people are born into rich families, many more are born in poor families, some people are born in rich and civilized countries, and many people are born in war-torn countries. However, a person's living conditions can be changed, and those who do not want to make progress will fall from wealth to poverty; People who come from poverty will get rid of poverty and become rich through hard work, as long as you have a heart that is not willing to be poor.

"I was born into a poor family," Wilson, a former vice president of the United States, often said, "and poverty took on its hideous face when I was still babbling in the cradle." I know what it's like when I ask my mother for a slice of bread and she doesn't have it in her hand. I know my family is very poor, but I am not reconciled. I told my mother that when I grew up, I would change this situation through my own efforts. ”

Wilson's mother could not afford to send her son to school, and when she was 10 years old, she left home to work as an apprentice. Little Wilson was willing to go on an apprenticeship because the factory stipulated that apprentices could get one month of schooling a year. He worked as an apprentice for 11 years, and not only did he spend one month a year mastering the rudimentary knowledge of culture, but he was also paid a cow and six sheep.

In the first month after his 21st birthday, Wilson, who had grown into a young man, led a team of men into the inaccessible forest to harvest the large logs there. "I have become a man who stands up to the sky, and I can change my survival situation with my hard work and wisdom!" He told himself. He wakes up every day before the first light of day in Skyrim and works until the starlight appears after dark. Every day when he went home, he dragged his tired steps on the endless winding mountain road, and many times because he could not support himself, he begged his companions to go first. However, every day he stubbornly returned home. "The pain and fear is hard to describe, but when I think about it, it's a change in my poverty, and it suddenly empowers me," he said. At the end of the first month, he was paid $6. He was ecstatic and ran home to tell his mother. At the time, this was a huge sum of money for the Wilson family! In Wilson's eyes, every dollar was as silver as the moon in the night sky.

Wilson, with his mother's permission, left a few cents for himself and went to the bookstore to buy a few of his beloved books. Then, I went to the library and got a library card. He put all his spare time to work and plunged into the ocean of knowledge.

Winter arrived, snow covered the mountains, and logging stopped. He trekked 100 kilometres to Nédick, where he learned the trade of a cobbler. He also joined the local debate club in between studies, using what he had learned from books to express his views on politics and economics. A year later, the young Wilson had risen to prominence in the local debate club. Later, he was elected to the state legislature for his famous anti-slavery speech, and became a well-known democrat.

Twelve years later, Wilson, who had just passed his 33rd birthday, entered Congress on an equal footing with the famous social activist Charles. In Congress, he remained unstoppable and became a well-known member of Congress. Later, Wilson successfully ran for vice president, becoming the youngest vice president in U.S. history.

A heart that is not willing to be poor

Wilson was born into poverty, he was born poor, but he had an indomitable heart that was unwilling to be poor. It was under the light of this unwilling heart that he got rid of poverty step by step and reached the pinnacle of success.

habit

The father and son lived in the mountains, and every day they had to drive ox carts down the mountain to sell firewood. The old father is more experienced, sitting in the drive, the mountain road is rugged, there are many curves, the son has better eyes, and always reminds when he is about to turn: "Dad, turn the corner!" ”

Once, the father did not come down the mountain due to illness, and the son drove alone. When he reached the corner, the ox refused to turn, and the son tried all kinds of methods, got out of the car and pushed and pulled, lured it with grass, and the ox remained motionless.

What the hell is going on? The son was puzzled. In the end, there was only one way, he looked left and right at no one, and cried out close to the ox's ear: "Daddy, turn around!" ”

The cow responded.

Cattle live by reflex, while humans live by habit. A successful person knows how to cultivate good habits to replace bad habits, and when good habits accumulate more, he will naturally have a good life.

The story of the porridge

Seven people used to live together, sharing a big bucket of porridge every day. Sadly, porridge is not enough every day.

In the beginning, they drew lots to decide who would divide the porridge, one each day. So at the end of the week, they had only one day when they were full, and that was the day they shared their porridge. Later, they began to elect a person with high morals to come out and share the porridge. Power will produce corruption, and everyone will start to find ways to curry favor with him and bribe him, which will make the whole small group smokeless, and the noble people will also be corrupt. Then everyone began to form a three-person porridge committee and a four-member selection committee, but they often attacked each other, tearing down the skin, and the porridge was cold in the mouth. Finally, I came up with a method: take turns to divide the porridge, but the person who divides the porridge has to wait for everyone else to pick the last bowl left. In order not to let himself eat the least, everyone tries to divide it evenly, even if it is not even, he can only admit it. Everyone is happy and harmonious, and the days are getting better and better.

The same seven people, different distribution systems, there will be different atmospheres. Therefore, if a unit has bad work habits, it must be a problem of mechanism, it must not be completely fair, just and open, and there must be no strict rewards and punishments for laziness. How to formulate such a system is an issue that every leader needs to consider.

infinitesimal

During the Warring States Period, King Wei Hui wanted to send troops to attack Qi because King Qi Wei violated the covenant. As the minister of state, Hui Shi, in order to persuade the king of Wei to stop his army, invited a wise man from the national capital, Dai Jinren. Dai Jinren saw the king of Wei and asked, "Does the king know about snails?" The king of Wei said, "Yes." The Depp said, "The snail has two antennae. On the left corner there is a country called the Touch; On the right corner there is a country called the Barbarians. In order to fight for the territory, the two countries exchanged troops and went to war, ambushing tens of thousands of corpses, and the victor chased for ten and five days before collecting his troops and returning to the camp. King Wei smiled disapprovingly and said, "Isn't this all false? Dai Jinren said: "It's not a lie, if you don't believe it, let me argue for you: In the eyes of the king, is there an end to the four directions?" The king of Wei said, "There is no end. Dai Jinren asked again: "After the human heart travels through the endless universe and returns to the human world, can it be said that the human world is so small that it seems to be nothing?" The King of Wei said, "Yes." Dai Jinren followed and asked: "Since the human world is so small that it is dispensable, and the Wei State is only a very small place in the human world, the national capital is a very small place in the Wei Kingdom, and the king is a very small body in the national capital, then, compared to the endless universe, what is the difference between it and the king of the barbarian country on the right corner of the snail?" King Wei said, "There is no difference. ”

Dai Jin left. The King of Wei seemed to have been introduced into the empty space, unable to see the world, let alone the Wei State, realizing the insignificance of the human world and the country, feeling the boredom of conquest and expansion of territory, and realizing that fighting for victory and gaining nothing more than a snail's corner of the land, it really didn't make much sense. So he praised Dai Jinren as an "adult", thinking that he had such a vision, far more than a saint. (from Zhuangzi)

Inspirational true stories

The power of courage

One autumn night, when the moon was dark and the stars were sparse, and the cold wind was blowing, I was walking on a remote country road when I came home from school. Passing through a dense wood, another vast cemetery. The graveyard was uneven, the phosphorus fire was extinguished, and the owl howled from time to time.

Although I have learned the story of Mr. Lu Xun kicking ghosts and don't believe that there are ghosts, I still can't help but panic, my legs are weak, and my scalp is numb. All the demons and gods and monsters that I have heard of are scurrying around in my head, and I always feel that something suddenly appears in front of me, and something behind me always follows me. At this moment, an adult's voice suddenly came: "Don't be afraid, child! Unbutton your clothes, show your chest, and stride with your head held high! "It turned out to be an old revolutionary soldier in my village, and Director Huang of the school's poverty management committee caught up with me.

With an adult as my companion, and doing as he said, I suddenly felt majestic and bold, and I was not afraid at all. He told me that this is courage, and that there is nothing to be afraid of when you have courage, and you will not scare yourself.

So, he told me a story about his own past.

During the War of Liberation, after a big battle, he and his troops were separated, running out of ammunition and food, and wanted to find some water to drink from a ruin. Unexpectedly, two bandits with bayonets emerged from behind a large tomb and were approaching him step by step. It seems that the bullets of these two bandits are gone, and they can only engage in hand-to-hand combat. When the narrow road meets, the brave wins. Although Director Huang was short and exhausted, he was resolute and tenacious, and he still mustered up the courage to take off his padded jacket in the winter, and he was naked, and he resolutely fought the last life-and-death battle with these two bandits. After circling around the big tomb for 3 times, the two bandits saw that Director Huang was powerful and courageous, so they fled without a fight.

Director Huang said that it was two against one, and if one of them was as vigorous as him, then he would definitely die. That's the power of courage!

Director Huang's story touched me and inspired me. I think courage is indeed a person's head held high, his spine straight, his fists clenched. If people lack courage, everything cannot be accomplished, but with courage, people are invincible. This is also what I have deeply felt from my study, work, and life experience since then.

You haven't failed enough

When I was a child, I learned to ride a bicycle, and my father taught me not to be afraid of falling on my heels, and you can learn it after you have fallen more than 140 heels. However, by the time I got on the bike, although I didn't fall one hundred or forty times, I really suffered a lot.

Life is like learning to ride a bicycle, and every success must be preceded by many heels. Victory is the accumulation of defeat, and this saying is always true.

There is such a young man, he graduated from college at the age of 20, due to various reasons, he was rejected by more than 30 companies in the application process, he couldn't find a job, and he was disheartened so he wanted to become a police officer, because it should be easy to enter the police department as a college student at that time, but among the five people shortlisted for the interview, he became the only one who was eliminated. At this time, he wondered if he should start from the grassroots level and engage in some of the most basic work to hone himself, but when he applied for the first five-star hotel in Hangzhou and wanted to be a waiter, he was still brushed off. Later, he applied for KFC Hangzhou with 23 other people, but among the 23 admission lists, the only thing missing was the name.

This young man who is always associated with failure is Ma Yun, but he is no longer young now, and with him he is no longer a failure but a victory.

It was not until the age of 66 that Mr. Haarand Sanders achieved a real triumph in his career. The founder of KFC, the world's largest fast-food chain, has achieved nothing until the age of 66, and has always hesitated on the road of failure after failure.

Sandoz lost his father when he was 5 years old. At the age of 14, due to a difficult relationship with his stepfather, he voluntarily dropped out of Greenwood School and began a life of wandering. At first, he did chores on the farm, but he was unhappy with it, and he was soon fired by the farmer, and then he worked as a tram conductor, and he was soon fired.

Desperate, he lied about his age at the age of 16 and joined the army, but he wanted to be a soldier and was assigned to the logistics department and never touched a gun.

At the end of his one-year service, he went to Alabama, where he opened a blacksmith shop, but soon it closed down.

He then worked as a locomotive stoker at the Southern Railway, which he liked so much that he thought he had finally found his place, but soon after the recession hit and he was fired again.

When he was 18 years old, he got married, but only a few months later, on the same day that he learned that his wife was pregnant, he was fired by his new employer, and then one day, when he was busy looking for a job, his wife sold all his wealth and moved back to her parents' house.

A lifetime is the sum of failures, and it is full of more than 1,000 failures in life and work. Finally, one day, the government's pension check came in the mail with this $105 check to announce to him that he was old.

The letter attached to the check said to him: "You didn't hit the ball when it was your turn, and it's time to give up and retire when you don't play anymore."

【Walk before the point】

When Xiao Chen and Xiao Wang walked into the door of the unit, the sign-in book had just been put away, usually they were like this, and the leader turned a blind eye and signed it, and the leader of the secret visit team was here today, of course they couldn't sign it. They shouted that they weren't late, that is, it was a matter of seconds.

So, the leader of the undercover investigation team said: "Don't say a few seconds on the field and on the battlefield, even a few tenths of a second, you are doomed to failure." Besides, you must have come to work at the same time, and if you leave the house five minutes early, even if you leave the house two or three minutes early, you won't be late. Step on the time, walk a little faster, just right, walk a little slower, you will be late. ”

That's not a bad thing to say, it reminds me of mountain climbing. I am a mountaineering enthusiast, and I always go to the mountain with friends every holiday. And my physical strength is not so good, every time I climb the mountain, obviously I set off with my friends, and if I am not careful, I fall behind them, and I naturally have to chase them. Seeing that I was left behind, they stopped and waited for me while admiring the view...... In the next part of the journey, I was always panting to catch up with their footsteps, and the mountaineering became a chase, and there was no fun of touring the mountains and rivers at all. Later, I learned wisely, made an appointment for the day of climbing, and before everyone set off, I started climbing. When I got away from them, I started to rest, while enjoying the blue sky and white clouds, and the strange peaks, and when my friends caught up with me and they started to rest, I had already rested and started the next part of the journey...... In this way, the fun of mountain climbing comes out, and there is not only calmness but also time to enjoy the beautiful scenery.

I remember when I was in college, I was going to report early so that I could see what the school I wanted to look like one day. So, I arrived at school two days before I registered, thinking that I must be the first among the new students to arrive at school. When I went to the dormitory that had already been divided into the school, I saw that a distant roommate had arrived three days ago. He said he didn't just want to see the school, he wanted to welcome new students. New students still welcome new students?

When we were preparing for the graduation project, he began to use the leisure time of his senior year to work everywhere, and when we were concentrating on graduate school, he used his experience in various jobs to start a small company while studying for graduate school...... When we were looking for jobs everywhere, his company was already making a profit, and when we were working hard for car loans and housing loans, he took the money he earned and went to the poor mountains to distribute his money. In his university dormitory, he often talked about his ideals, he saw a lot of reports about poor places, he was determined to "come back after his money was gone", and now, he has begun to realize his ideals.

It may not be wrong to step on the point, but when you step on the point, you will always be panicked, the strings in your heart are tight, and you will miss the point if you are not careful. Chen Wenqian has a sentence in "The Tree, It's Gone": "We can choose to stay, but others will choose to run." And the world has inadvertently changed in the running of others. We can also say, "We choose to walk on the point, but others will go before the point." And the world has inadvertently changed in the way others are moving forward. ”