Chapter 10 4.It is true that character determines destiny

"I can't see where he is." Roger always thought he knew himself well until he realized that he, too, had an imp living inside him. Independent, strong, daring to innovate, hardworking, indomitable in the face of difficulties, and brave to burn. It is indeed not easy. The problem is, he still doesn't know that there is another "Roger" co-existing in his body. Now, he seemed to have noticed the existence of such a "person", and tried to replace him to manipulate his own destiny. I took out the Pope card again, everything must start from the source. "He is me, I am him, and now, I finally feel that way, very strong."

I suggest that Roger take a closer look at this card. "Being suppressed, my chest is tight and heavy..." "Want to resist? Or, is it an outbreak?" "It's both, sometimes it's a little more resistant, sometimes it's a little more explosive." "The Pope card implies a relatively extreme personality state. He is condescending, even somewhat arrogant, conservative, stubborn, narrow-minded, self-respecting, and never compromises. In any case, he cannot tolerate others challenging his authority. Thinking and judgment are seriously inflexible."

"That's the kind of guy I hate." Roger still instinctively wanted to distance himself from the Pope. "But in fact, you are such a person." My tone is firm, there is no doubt that he has established a subconscious link with TAROT. Roger fell silent, this time, he didn't turn away like he did in the salon, he began to settle down, and began to rethink himself. "The Pope is a double-edged sword of character." "Because of his special status, he is in charge of the highest intelligence in the universe. This card implies that you also have some kind of natural authority and wisdom higher than others. Although you never confessed it, this card tells me that your family The background is by no means as simple as we imagined, your father is not an ordinary entrepreneur, he is probably the person at the top of the pyramid we are talking about."

Roger's eyes sparkled brightly, then dimmed immediately. What is the relationship between him and his father?This made me curious. He told me who his father was. Roger admitted that he knew Catherine purely by accident. So far Catherine doesn't know his real name. He only said his English name. When I really heard this name, I couldn't help but my heart beat faster. After all, it was a big man who no one could imagine getting close to. I cherished the opportunity to be honest with him, so I made a promise to keep his father's identity a secret forever. "So, you are not an ordinary rich second generation. Your father's blood flows in your body, just as you know the advantages of your character. In the salon, you gave us countless 'surprises', Everyone knows that you are unique. To put it more generally, you are born with the necessary elements of a 'successful person' in your personality. Maybe many people will envy you, but I must tell you honestly that this 'Unique' 'wealth' happens to be a double-edged sword.

"A person's strengths are too strong, which often leads him to ignore his own shortcomings, and the little devil in his personality hides more subtly. To put it more clearly, your strengths are also your weaknesses. They almost They are overlapping, and many times you cannot distinguish them, which is why it is difficult for you to cope and change." "You remind me of a sentence." Roger finally looked up at me. "What words?" "Character determines destiny." "You got to the heart of the matter." "Believe it or not, it is true that character determines destiny."

"Roger, can you tell me, how many years has it been since you left your father and wandered alone in the rivers and lakes?" "From the age of eighteen to the age of twenty-eight, exactly ten years." "I don't need to know how many projects you have talked about and how many companies you have opened in the past ten years. Business is not an area I am familiar with. Therefore, I cannot define the success criteria in the business. I just want to ask you, in the past ten years , have you ever had the kind of success you wanted, even if it was only psychological or spiritual?"

"No." Roger's tone was weak. "Not once." After speaking, he fell silent. I don't want to interrupt his thoughts, the current atmosphere has completely exceeded our mutual imagination.I felt that countless suppressed negative emotions were slowly and continuously flowing out of Roger, naked and unscrupulous, and the past scenes reappeared in his mind, but for the first time, he became A pure outsider, seeing things that have happened repeatedly so clearly.At this time, it is so inappropriate and lacking in strength to say the words "face failure", so we can only choose to remain silent.

The secretary came in to refill some tea, and she couldn't wait to slip out through the crack of the door. At this moment, Roger's office was filled with an atmosphere she was very unfamiliar with, and she seemed worried that the boss would suddenly explode again. "Do you watch your employees work through the glass every day?" I was the first to break the silence. "Any questions?" After a long period of silence just now, his tone became much calmer. "What did you observe?" "Do you mean work?" "Work does not belong to the scope of our discussion. What I want to discuss with you is the intertwined trajectory of fate between people. Every boss faces such problems every day. Cooperate with investors, form your own team, tell your dreams to everyone in the team, and then join hands to create, all of which are encounters and intersections of fate.”

"Oh, I usually just focus on what I'm going to do." Roger thought for a while, then replied. These words of mine are very new to him. He is used to only focusing on his own goals and needs. He is a king of phoenixes full of strength but never knows how to respect others. I must set up some more difficult problems for him. "Do you know your partners and your employees?" "Of course I understand, they are all the elites I personally screened." "Very well, when the elites make mistakes, do you think it is their problem or your problem?" "Of course it's their problem!"

I smiled slightly, and Roger seemed to feel a moment of awakening, but he couldn't express that feeling yet. "However, the final decision is in your hands. You think they have no problem." "No, you misunderstood me. I'm the boss. I invite them because I believe in their ability and value. If they can't meet my expectations, then there must be something wrong with them." "So what you mean is that even if you choose the wrong person, it's that person's fault. He knew he couldn't meet your requirements, so he shouldn't come to you and let you choose."

Roger couldn't answer my question.He obviously felt that my tone was getting sharper, but Roger didn't change his expression and his heartbeat. He was understanding what I said, trying to see the true face of the little devil, and understand himself from another angle. This kind of soul confrontation The feeling is great. "Roger, you observe everyone in your company through the glass windows of this office every day. As a boss, have you experienced what your employees' daily work and life are like? What are they thinking? They What do you want? What kind of expectations do you have for the company you work for? Do they think the internal environment of the company is good? What kind of person do they think you are? Is working for you a kind of learning and enjoyment, or a kind of The mental and corporal punishment that must be endured? Will such a team and boss make them have a strong sense of belonging and dedicate their loyalty without hesitation?..." "Loyalty?" Roger was sensitive to the word. "If I could harness loyalty, I wouldn't be fighting and failing so many times." It seems that "betrayal" and "betrayal" are the main reasons for Roger's ten-year career failure. "Then why do you keep making the same mistakes?" "I didn't!" He jumped up excitedly. "You know that I am a phoenix. I must burn for myself. It doesn't matter if I burn countless times. I must persevere. Without death, there is no rebirth. Without failure, there is no success. I want to succeed, and I know I will succeed!" Tears welled up in his eyes suddenly, he couldn't speak any more, his fingers were firmly stuck in the crack of the leather chair. "If one day, you can no longer burn, what should you do?" A phoenix that has lost its burning power is facing real death. I didn't go any further. There are too many problems that Roger has never seriously considered, and his solipsism has firmly imprisoned him in the shackles of the wheel of fate. "When you don't understand your own weaknesses, you let yourself go through fire and water for your destiny. You go all out, and you don't hesitate to break your bones. You always feel that this time you will succeed. When your weaknesses are exposed, you refuse to admit it. , always feel that it is someone else's problem, and then continue to repeat such mistakes unconsciously. The weakness will become your strength in a blink of an eye. Over time, you think it can be ignored, but in fact, the arrogance, domineering, self-righteousness in your character 1. Subjective fixation affects your life all the time. This is the vicious circle you have endured for the past ten years. You think you are strong, but in fact you are completely powerless against the crisis brought by fate. "A person who doesn't know his own weakness can't protect himself. If you can't even protect yourself, how can you talk about success? Arrogance and superciliousness are the Pope's fatal injuries. Even I know who the opponent who made you lose so badly. I don't believe you Draw a card." I asked Roger to focus on the partner he had mentioned who cheated him the first time he got into trouble, and drew a card. It is the inverted King of Swords. "As expected, a mere King of Swords with an inverted position can defeat you." "What kind of man is the King of Swords?" "The upright King of Swords is a very good partner, with clear thinking, clear organization, wisdom, rationality, fairness and reliability. Unfortunately, what you met was a reversed Sword King. I think you should know better than me What kind of person is he." "An unpredictable trap, unimaginable scheming and unscrupulous methods, and sudden betrayal." I nodded silently, and Roger couldn't help taking a deep breath, as if some lingering shadow that had been suppressed in his chest for a long time was finally released. "The question is, why do you always meet people like this and always fall for them?" Just as Roger was about to speak, I cut him off resolutely: "Don't say it wasn't your fault!" He was amused by my extremely serious expression, and couldn't help laughing out loud. The tug-of-war between us, which lasted for more than an hour, finally came to an end. "Well, I admit, this is my fault. My arrogance and ignorance of human nature made me a living target for the King of Swords to cash out." I let out a long breath in front of him, and Roger felt embarrassed, he knew he was killing me, and getting the pope to admit his mistakes was next to impossible. "Very well, now you finally understand who you are. "It's still the same old saying, if you want to change your destiny, you must first recognize 'who I am'." "But it's hard to get rid of my problem, I know it myself." "There is actually self-knowledge, our efficiency today is really high." My tone is exaggerated, one is to enliven the atmosphere that has been frozen for a long time, and the other is to give each other a step down. "So what if I recognize myself? How can I change it?" Roger began to fall into new troubles. I unfolded the cards he had just shuffled and encouraged Roger to use his intuition and draw a random card. The right hanging man. "Hanging means submitting. Submitting to the test of fate, releasing the emotional pressure from adversity, enduring real pain instead of deliberately avoiding its existence..." I stopped before I finished speaking, because I noticed a strange change in Roger's expression, as if a strange light flashed in my mind. "I know why I make mistakes repeatedly. I'm the kind of person who recovers easily from setbacks. I don't look back. I think it's meaningless. Life has to look forward. So, after every failure, I don't look back. I will be depressed, but I will immediately solve the problems that should be solved, finish the things that should be finished, and then immediately start a new round of struggle. As you said, with my identity and background, it will never be difficult to raise money But in fact, this kind of refusal to succumb to fate is not a kind of burning, but a kind of escape, an instinctive escape from the inability to face failure." I marveled at Roger's insight again, he saw through the essence of the Pope at a glance. "Therefore, I must emphasize that hanging a man is not a kind of 'passive resistance'. Hanging a man upside down on a tree is to see the world from a 'different angle'. His core meaning is to completely lower his posture and compromise with fate. , compromise with yourself so that you can see what you have never seen, and experience ignorance that you have never experienced. Sometimes, we have to admit defeat to ourselves before we can see where the light of wisdom shines .” "In retrospect, I have never surrendered to anyone in my life." "That's the arrogance in your bones. It can make you, but it can also destroy you." "My father was like that too, but he was very successful." "Oh, are you jealous of him?" "A little." At this moment, Roger's expression showed a rare childishness again. "Why do you say he is the same as you?" "He's also the Pope." I shook my head immediately. "You've never really paid attention to him, your cards have always been yourself." "I want to see who he is." I handed him the cards again. Roger pondered for a while, he needed to detach completely from the current personal theme of the moment, and concentrate on thinking about his father. "Relax and let the images about him in your memory emerge naturally." Later, he began to shuffle the cards. This time, he chose to draw a card by intuition instead of cutting it randomly. When I opened the cards, I felt Roger tense, as if it was a moment he had been waiting for for ten years.