This reminds me of a popular inspirational short film "Where will you be in the next ten years". The short film begins with grandpa and granddaughter jogging in the sports center. Grandpa talks about her granddaughter's graduation next year and it's time to get ready for work. He asks her if she will be nervous. The granddaughter said yes, and grandpa said, "Don't worry, just be serious."
These words sound good. You see, the world is severely rewarding serious people. Seriously, Jason Wu made Wolf Warriors 2 with his life, and the box office is almost 5 billion.
But is this really the case? Many times, we will have a question, I have been so serious, why doesn't the world reward me? Grandpa said it's good to be serious, really?
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The world rewards those who are serious and win.
The female CEO who started a business continuously, single at the age of 40, looks very beautiful and works very hard. The hardest time is to start a business for the first time.
Money was tight then. She just opened a new store and needs a large order. It is said that there is a film in which Nicholas Tse is involved, and the crew needs 1000 boxes of lunch every day. So she rushed to the crew with her resume and told others that I was starting a business. I really need your order. Give me a chance.
After hard work, she won the order. It is already three or four o'clock in the morning. She took the staff to the vegetable market and went back to the kitchen immediately after buying. She didn't come home for a week in a row and slept for two or three hours every day. In order to deliver the box lunch to the crew on time, she can't spill it, let it cool, deliver it early or late. After that, she said that her stress index soared.
However, this attempt failed. After closing the store and dismissing employees, she still owes 300 thousand rent. In the evening, she hid under the covers and held back a little tears, thinking about why she was so sad. She studied abroad and worked as an executive in a foreign company, so she had to live so hard.
There are many serious people like her who have worked hard for a long time and have not seen the return. A friend with a house and a car, a virtuous wife and a clever daughter, resigned at the age of 38 and worked hard to start a business from five to ten. Last year, the company closed down and the salary could not be paid for two months. Many employees go to court for arbitration, and he may be blacklisted, unable to fly, unable to go abroad, or even unable to take the second-class seat of high-speed rail.
"The world rewards those who are serious and win." A friend said, look, Luo Yonghao said, "I don't want to win or lose, I'm serious." Others will ask, if you are serious enough, why can't the products of past dynasties solve the problem of lagging market response? If you are serious enough, why can't you think of a product that isn't even good? ...
The world doesn't see how serious you are, but whether you win or not. Today, when we talk about Ang Lee, we always have admiration and reverence. Before he won the prize, he interviewed countless companies and revised the script countless times, but nothing happened for many years. Finally, when I made a movie, I didn't have enough money, so I moved the furniture to the studio as props, and I couldn't afford a child star, so I let my eldest son play it.
If you don't win, these earnest looks worthless. Nearly 40 years old, this director genius is considered to have accomplished nothing, and talking about ideals is considered a joke. It was not until the pusher became an instant hit and he won that his seriousness was mentioned.
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What the world rewards is
People who don't know how serious they are
Many times, when you realize that you are serious, you are actually in a serious mood, not a serious state.
A friend who joined the startup company said that at the monthly sales meeting, the team had to stay up until two or three in the morning. This desperate atmosphere often makes him want to cry, but he still tries his best to chase and block customers. The director attributed this to the fact that sales were not serious enough to focus on customers, and he was not driven to despair. He lowered his basic salary, held a mobilization meeting every morning and worked overtime for 996 hours. Unexpectedly, the company closed down after half a year.
"In fact, product sales at that time were very difficult. We all worked hard, but we still couldn't get the result, because the product was still immature. The company's cash flow is tight, not because there are few orders, but because the team is too big and needs layoffs. " In retrospect, he said that everyone was desperate and no one stopped to look at the real problem.
Serious emotions will bring self-hypnosis, making you feel that staying up late is serious, and it is serious to invest all your money in starting a business. This kind of emotion will make you ignore many risks.
Serious emotions sometimes make you mistakenly think that you have reached the upper limit. A few days ago, I complained to my friends why I have always been a big fan (the amount of manuscript reading), but I can't be a big fan like 5 thousand, 10 thousand, 100 thousand and 1 million ... I feel very serious, do interviews and write stories seriously, and change them twice after I finish writing.
While writing this article, I thought of a friend, Ray, who also works in the media. I used to see his circle of friends leave the company at one or two in the morning. Many stories took several months from topic selection, interview, writing to publication, and revised the manuscript more than ten times, but I never saw him say how serious he was.
People who really devote themselves wholeheartedly never think that they are serious, but feel that they have not done enough. The world rewards those who don't know how serious they are. Classmate Lei, under 30 years old, has already raised money for two rounds.
When you start to think that you are serious, what you actually think is "I have tried" and "I am very tired". And those who don't know how serious they are and think "nothing" and "can do better" are already 10 thousand steps ahead of you before you know it.
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The world will not reward people who are serious and perfunctory.
There must be many such students around us: they take beautiful and serious notes, never sleep in class, never hand in their homework neatly every day, run around in various cram schools on weekends, and finally go to ordinary universities.
There are many now. Seriously go to work and get off work on time every day. The work assigned by my boss never delays. KPI is very good I do things that can be easily done day after day, and then I still get a salary of 10 thousand yuan when I am 35 years old.
You think you are serious, but in fact you are just repeating it seriously. Seriously, you are not smart enough and creative enough. When a junior started her internship, she once met a senior. He turned over a few pages of magazines and said, What a terrible job! Is this your real strength? Of course not, but I only get paid in 800 yuan, she said. Colleagues' salaries are much higher than mine, and they don't do things as seriously as me.
What's the point of setting limits on yourself by comparing others like this? Really serious people break through the conventional thinking limitations and habits.
The boss of the family trust business of a wealth management company said that when she first joined the business, the leader asked to call 100 customers every day. She knows very well that the ultimate goal of making a phone call is to get customers, rather than simply going home from work after making 100 calls. So she talks on the phone for at least three minutes or even half an hour. Although it is harder, it is far more valuable than those who seem to be serious and polite to call 100.
Xiao Ran's seriousness is methodical and creative, but most people's seriousness in the workplace is a serious repetition and perfunctory, and they often regard the passage of time as the growth of skills. Some people claim to have XX years of experience in a certain industry, but they can't produce any bright skills.
Some people are serious. They are constantly breaking through the border. Deng Fei, my college brother, turned from an investigative reporter to a public welfare worker seven years ago. At the beginning, he was nothing more than a warm-hearted person in the eyes of many people. No one thought that he was constantly breaking through the limits of his original ability. Recently, he went to the United States to set up a foundation to help African children eat free lunch.
The world will never reward people who are serious and perfunctory. What's the use of staying in the comfort zone for ten or twenty years if it's just serious repetition? Seriously, you should step out of your comfort zone, get in touch with the unknown, break your limitations, love what you do and do things creatively.