Life does not begin at forty, but forty is the most critical moment in life. All successes and failures, successes and losses, gains and losses will have greater impact at this stage.

The nine commandments of successful people are important indicators in life. Before the age of forty, you may wish to learn and practice them as soon as possible and prepare early; after the age of forty, you should understand them deeply and use them as a reference.

1. You should learn the knowledge you need in your profession before you are forty years old. This is because first, it is already difficult to learn anything after forty. Second, experience has proven that most successful people after reaching forty are simply looking for better ways to apply what they already know. After forty, what really matters is judgment—a sense of how to manage others—and a reasonable set of life goals, not basic knowledge.

Basic knowledge should be mastered before the age of forty. If you are a successful person, you will not have time to learn these things after you are forty. Staying up late reading is something you should do in your twenties and thirties.

2. It is best to adopt a style that suits you best and is most beneficial to you before the age of 40. You’d better know what you like and what you feel comfortable with, no matter how you dress. way, or the method of daily work, or just a little bit of unique flavor that makes you different from others, etc.

By the age of forty, you should be a person who has completed your own special style. You can experiment with your own style when you are in your twenties and thirties, but when you are forty, you should not still hear someone ask you in the office: "What kind of fame is this?" In addition, regardless of men or women, as their careers progress, If you redesign your appearance style midway, it will give people a very unstable feeling. If you want to change, you should change it early. Once you establish your style, you should be firm. If you like dark gray suits, striped ties, suspenders, etc., there's nothing wrong with that. You should turn them into your own registered trademarks. If you like to wake up early, great, make it part of your personality. These things should become your identifying characteristics until you are forty years old.

3. You must arrange your emotional issues properly - if possible.

If you are working hard to achieve success, it is very beneficial to be able to put aside these "stresses of ups and downs" before the age of forty. This doesn't mean you can't get divorced or "love" after forty. It's just that when you are climbing up the ladder of life, it is more beneficial to live happily than to be trapped in a relationship crisis (which consumes a lot of time and energy). Furthermore, unhappiness, like a disease, robs you of interest in other things.

Therefore, if you want to divorce, please use the sword of wisdom to cut off the love. If you want to get married, you must make a decision immediately.

Four. You must understand your weaknesses.

At the age of forty, only idiots don’t know how to deal with their own weaknesses, and only sadistic people will continue to use their weaknesses to punish themselves. Don't show your weakness in public, and if you don't like oysters, don't make a fool of yourself by ordering them just to prove you dare to eat them.

If you don't like numbers, don't force yourself to accept a job that involves numbers, even if the pay is better. Find a job you really like before you turn 50, otherwise you will find that the decade or two after you turn 40 will be very difficult—and you may well have ruined your chances of truly succeeding.

5. You should know your strengths

It is best to know what you are good at before the age of forty, understand what you like to do, and do it better than others All kinds of things. No matter what role you play, before the age of forty you should understand who you are, what your strengths are, etc.

6. There is nothing more breathless than completely relying on others. You don’t dare to quit if you don’t dare to do it, you don’t dare to take the risk of changing your career, and you are stuck in the current situation and cannot extricate yourself.

You may never get a safety net, but there are always many "have to" situations in life. In these situations, the most appropriate response is: "Guys, I won't do it." "If you can't say this at the time, you will hate yourself later (and you will hate yourself for a long time).

7. You should successfully maintain good interpersonal relationships. If you don't build a group of friends by the time you're forty, you're in trouble. You have to build your own network of contacts, which means supporting their plans and listening to their problems so they can do the same for you.

8. You must learn how to authorize. Even if you don’t have anyone you can “authorize” yet, start thinking about it. A person who cannot delegate will find himself disabled if he reaches a high position. It is best to be good at delegation before the age of forty. The so-called delegation means that you have to select the right people and trust them.

Many people just can't or don't want to do this. By the time they are forty, it's too late. Delegation is half the battle.

9. You should learn when to use your mouth. Don't gossip, don't talk about your plans. Be careful to hold the cards as close as possible to avoid revealing your cards. More careers have been ruined by lip service than by any other cause.

In real life, having a reputation for being able to keep secrets is far more respectable than the superficial popularity gained from "retail" rumors. The further you get in your career, the truer this becomes. In top management circles, secrecy is Chrysostom.