9. Being too serious is counterproductive
Chinese do things, pay attention to the right place, just right, as "Caigen Tan" said: "The article is done to the extreme, there is nothing strange, just just right; The character is extreme, there is no difference, just natural. "Sometimes, if you take it too seriously or focus on one thing, you get the opposite result.
IMG has an energetic female business representative who is responsible for discovering the stars of tomorrow among the newcomers on the golf and tennis courts. There was a young tennis player on the West Coast of the United States who was particularly valued by her, and she decided to recruit him to join the company.
Since then, even though she has been busy 12 hours a day in her office in New York, she still keeps calling California to care about the fighter's training. When he goes to Europe to compete, he will also take advantage of his business trip to visit and take care of everything for him. On several occasions, she had not closed her eyes for a week, busy flying around, tracking the progress of the contestant, but she still had a large pile of reports at hand.
One time the young player was playing at the French Open. According to the original schedule, the female sales representative was not required to attend the competition, but she convinced her supervisor that she should be there in order to maintain her relationship with the young player. The supervisor reluctantly agreed, but on the condition that she get some urgent business done before she left. As a result, she didn't close her eyes for a few more nights.
On the day she arrived in Paris, at a dinner for the players, the press and special guests, she kept her eyes on an American and acted like a competent hostess, constantly introducing him to dignitaries. It was the time when the Swedish tennis star Berg, who happened to be their client and the idol of the young player, so it was natural to introduce them to each other, and Berg was chatting in the corner of the room with some Eurosport reporters as she and the young player stepped forward. When the other person looked over here, she said, "Berg, let me introduce this ......" Oh my God!
She had forgotten the name of the player she was most proud of!
Later, the young player became a world star, but he no longer had anything to do with IMG.
This female business representative is indeed admirable, if she is lucky enough to meet a sensible young man, her mistake is not a big mistake, because in that case, as long as the young man introduces himself, there is no problem, regardless of it, there is nothing wrong with it. But if she works so hard and pays too much attention to the people she serves, she will always make mistakes of one kind or another.
Since winning the Nobel Prize, Japanese writer Yasunari Kawabata has been burdened by his fame, and has often been dragged by the government and the private sector, including TV advertising merchants, to do this and that. Literati are inevitably naïve, not good at socializing, kind-hearted and soft-faced, and will not shirk; He was too serious about doing things and didn't know how to be perfunctory, so he fell into the hectic mundane encirclement, didn't know how to get rid of it, and finally committed suicide and lived his life. According to the report, before his death, Kawabata was exhausted and depressed in order to raise funds for the PEN Club, which may have contributed to his suicide due to his misanthropy.
Of course, for a writer to win the Nobel Prize, this well is already dug deep enough. But if he had not been involved in the trivial things that had tired him, and had been able to live in peace, with his rich oriental wisdom, perhaps more philosophical creations would have been passed on to the world.
People often sigh that life is hectic and burdensome.
Of course, there are many burdens in life that cannot be shaken off, but many of these burdens are unnecessary, because people are too extravagant, too demanding or too eager, and they will take care of one thing and lose sight of the other.
Don't think that just because you're often being pulled into doing this and that, it's a great opportunity to show off your talents or expand your career. A person's energy is limited, time is limited, and "those who can work hard" is a praise for a talented person, but it is also a kind of compassion for him. In your lifetime, you can only achieve something by grasping your true interests and talents, and doing them single-mindedly.
In today's China, such tragedies often occur between parents and children - parents' excessive attention to their children causes resentment and dissatisfaction among their children, which cannot but make people reflect on the fact that it is still appropriate to do things.