Chapter 10 self positioning is important

The final moment has come. In February 1857, two of the most talented military generals in the Taiping Army: Chen Yucheng and Li Xiucheng, both entered the Huaihe River.The combination of these two people is invincible in the world. The Qing army on the Huai River completely collapsed. Chen Yucheng chased and killed Li Hongzhang with great interest. Li Hongzhang took his mother and abandoned the army. The house was burned down. Since then, Chen Yucheng's Taiping Army has used Huaishang as its base, echoing Nanjing.Although Huaishang is big, there is no place for Li Hongzhang to gain a foothold since then.It wasn't until this time that his teacher Zeng Guofan discovered that Li Hongzhang's tossing and tossing during this period was completely wrong, and his method of doing things was wrong.

So Zeng Guofan wrote to Li Hongzhang, asking him to train Huai Yong by himself:...to recruit new brave men, not to mix up soldiers, not to recruit indiscriminately. The meaning of this letter is to say: Li Hongzhang, you are wrong, and your mistake is that you always want to find a ready-made platform for you to become famous.But you don't want to think about it, is there any reason to hand over the platform built by others to you?What's more, every platform that has been built is already crowded with black and white people, all of whom are vying for each other and squeezing each other.It doesn't matter that you, Li Hongzhang, can't squeeze up, even if you do, the first person to be squeezed off on this platform must be you.Because you have ability, and your ability is the negation of others.If you want to achieve a career, then you must build this career platform yourself.

Building a business platform is hard and stupid.But other than that, there is no second tricky way.This is because, in this world, no one will give you a chance to succeed except yourself. Let's get started, Li Hongzhang, what are you still hesitating about?Start building your career platform now. But Li Hongzhang shook his head, and shook his head again.Building a career platform is easy to say, but Li Hongzhang knows that it is difficult, too difficult.He has no soldiers, no money, no support above, no influence below, how do you let him build this platform? Poor Li Hongzhang never dared to imagine in his dreams that although the world is vast and there are countless people, there are only four people who are capable of building such a huge career platform. The first is Hu Linyi, the second is Zeng Guofan, and the third is Zuo Zong Tang, the fourth one is Li Hongzhang.These four people are the so-called ZTE Four Heroes, and there have been legendary stories about the meeting of the four ZTE Heroes in history.

But the terrible thing is that Li Hongzhang just couldn't realize his own potential. The vast majority of people in this world are prone to make the mistake of overestimating themselves, and try things beyond their ability without knowing the heights of the heavens and the earth.Li Hongzhang, on the other hand, is just the opposite. He always positions himself as a character who eats more and takes more. He firmly believes that this platform should be built by others, and he can just eat what is ready-made.The reason is that Li Hongzhang's philosophy of life has serious problems. The so-called philosophy of life sounds like it is too far away from our real life.For these mysterious theories, normal people can hide as far as they can.But in fact, this knowledge is closely related to our daily life, and it is nothing more than answering three life questions that anyone must consider.

Question 1: Who do you think you are? The second question: What do you think the laws of human society are? Third question: What do you think the natural world is like? Everyone, even the mentally handicapped or the mentally abnormal, acts according to their knowledge of these three issues.Mentally handicapped people are mentally handicapped because of their thinking on these three issues; abnormal people are abnormal because of their abnormal thinking on these three issues.No matter who it is, if he doesn't think clearly about these three questions, he will live a bit confused in this life, and confusion is inevitable.

Li Hongzhang suffered repeated failures in his second start-up, and he failed to achieve anything in his late forties. The mistake was in thinking about the first question.That is to say, there was a serious mistake in his self-cognition. He was obviously an eagle, but he was steadfast in the chicken coop; he was obviously a person who could build a career platform and rebuild social order, but he was exhausted. Running around waiting for someone else to do the job for him. Seeing this record, we suddenly realized: No wonder Li Hongzhang went to fight in Huaihe River, leaving only a laughing stock for others, but he failed to make a decent name.The Taiping Army was too powerful and the external environment was unfavorable. This was only one reason for the problem. More importantly, Li Hongzhang did something wrong.

Li Hongzhang was wrong. He didn't think that he was a person capable of saving the country. He was too cunning. All he thought of was to gather a few people quickly, go to the battlefield to experience it, and then write a glorious line on his resume. Give people an impression of both civil and military skills, and you can use this as capital to find a good boss, and you will not have to worry about food and clothing in the future. This obviously unreliable life goal is the root cause of Li Hongzhang's failure in Huai.If he had heeded Zeng Guofan's advice and changed his course, instead of looking for a backer, he would settle down and start anew, imitating Zeng Guofan's method to train Huaiyong in his hometown, the result would be completely different.

To use an analogy, Li Hongzhang is like a person who can start from scratch and build a large international company, but he went to a small company to apply for a job as a marketer, and went to the front line to fight the bayonet.No matter how well he performed, the business he was relying on was too small to withstand the impact of the market, and Li Hongzhang fell into failure again and again.What he got was a beautiful job resume, and this is the goal of his life to be complacent. He never thought of success at all, so how could he succeed? He did not consider getting support from Zeng Guofan, establishing a private shogunate on the Huai River, and driving the Taiping Army to the river.In fact, no matter who, as long as they do this, they will be able to get the support of the imperial court and Zeng Guofan immediately.But at that time, Li Hongzhang was the only one who could really accomplish this.But he didn't think he had the ability, and he just wanted to make some money to join the army.He was eager to fight and neglected to build, just to add a line of glorious words to his resume.The wrong starting point determined that he could not get a correct result.

He delayed himself. It also delayed the country. In fact, due to the problem of his philosophy of life and the serious mistake of self-positioning, this will cause him to miss all possible opportunities in life and see no possibility of prosperity.