7. Pursue the success of the little people by "starting a new line".
In real life, maybe you are a person who has always been missing the "first place", and you will feel a little unbalanced when you see others perform well, but you will always be behind? In fact, you don't have to worry about this, there are many different criteria for judging a person's success, as long as you are willing to change the perspective, you can also rank first.
Yun Shouping is one of the most famous painters of the Qing Dynasty, he painted landscapes in the early days, but after seeing Wang Shigu, he thought that landscape painting could not surpass him, so he changed to specialize in flowers and became the master of the sea. In the Tang Dynasty earlier, there was also a famous Zhang Nanben for painting fire, it is said that he originally studied painting with the painter Sun Wei, and because he thought that he could not surpass Sun Wei, he changed to painting fire, and finally got his own way.
Artists pursue perfection, it is inevitable to have arrogance, shame for the second best in the world, do not want to fall behind, like the first two are really talented, give up the path of others, find their own way, and create a unique family is the best. But if you can't recognize your own abilities, you will give up learning just because you are ashamed, and you can't find the right direction, and you will inevitably fail in the end.
Meng Yu is a talented young man who is often a high-profile hotspot in the club, and almost everyone who knows Meng Yu can feel his enthusiastic dedication. After learning that he had a girlfriend, one of his friends jokingly asked him, "So what am I in your heart now?" He didn't think about it, so he replied, "First." The friend looked at him in disbelief and asked:
"How is it possible, your girlfriend should come first." Meng Yu smiled slyly, and then said, "Of course you are in first place, but you are just starting a different line." ”
What a good thing Meng Yu's words were! In life, in all walks of life, everyone expects to get the first position, in fact, it is easy to get the first, it depends on whether you are willing to change the angle - as long as you "start another line", everyone is the first, and this world, naturally there are many less inexplicable status disputes, isn't it great?
Zhou Ping is a strong nature, unwilling to be mediocre, but he is a plain little person, his ideal is to become an uncrowned king - a journalist, but after graduating from college, he became a high school teacher, and he is not very popular with students in school. Seeing that his former classmates have all ascended to high positions today, Zhou Ping felt extremely awkward. When the virtuous wife saw him like this, she persuaded him: "People are more angry than men!" Anyway, now that the situation is already like this, why should you use your own shortcomings to compare the strengths of others? Can't you just look for your own strengths? His wife's words woke Zhou Ping up, and he decided to break out of the world with his smooth writing. Zhou Ping chose a local influential newspaper, and then submitted a large number of articles to that newspaper, regardless of the level of the manuscript fee. Because this newspaper has a lot of columns, Zhou Ping carefully studied them, and tailor-made them for them, so almost all of his works have been adopted, and even created such a miracle: at one time, their supplement had only eight articles in total, and four of them were Zhou Ping's "masterpieces", but the signatures were different.
Zhou Ping's works were contested by the editors of this newspaper, and often just after finishing the errand of the literary edition, the essay edition came again.
Sometimes he was a little slower to write because of something at school, and the editors would call in a hurry to urge him to write the manuscript. Finally, one day the leaders of the newspaper could not sit still, and they called Zhou Ping - as long as Zhou Ping wanted, he could go to work at the newspaper office now.
Zhou Ping won, we can get a very important enlightenment from Zhou Ping's experience: there is more than one way to live, if you are not willing to be mediocre, you can start another line and get the success you want.
In ancient and modern times, there are many celebrities who have made remarkable achievements by repositioning themselves:
Asimov is a popular science writer and a natural scientist. One morning, as he sat in front of a typewriter typing, he suddenly realized, "I can't be a first-rate scientist, but I can be a first-class science writer."
As a result, he devoted almost all his energy to popular science creation, and finally became the most famous popular science writer in the contemporary world.
In life, everyone wants to maximize their abilities. However, for a variety of reasons, you can't achieve satisfactory results in your own industry. At present, there are many people who are in positions that they do not like or even dislike, and do jobs that they do not want to do, so people's hearts are unstable. In this case, don't be in a hurry, the so-called life is actually like writing an article, when you find that the sentence in the pen is not your most satisfactory words, or even failure, then you will temporarily stop writing and think about it, and wait until the wonderful chapter rushes to the tip of the pen, you might as well start another line and re-write until you are satisfied.