Chapter 36 Success should not create blind spots

Thanks to the reform and opening up, following the trend of most Chinese people actively striving for a happy life, I seem to be a successful business in the eyes of outsiders in the past 20 years.But I always reflect on myself: Am I successful?Can my experience be shared with other friends and be useful to them?The editor of this book for me said: Mr. Pan, write this book, many people need your successful experience.But the first thing I think of is: successful experience cannot become a dogma, and cannot become a constraint on innovation ability.A person succeeds in a certain field, his experience cannot be magnified to any field.Zen saying: Like a person who drinks water, he knows whether he is warm or not.Wear your own clothes to fit yourself.My past 20 years can be summed up in four words, which are "sorrow and joy mixed".But there seems to be no way to say a thousand words.I feel like I've been trying to be optimistic, at peace, and in harmony with most people.Most of my success comes from the help of friends, why should others help me?I think mainly that I myself have always made myself useful to others.

When I achieved certain results, I never dared to regard myself as a successful person in my heart.Because a person who has a sense of success will put pressure on others and hurt their self-esteem.From the perspective of development, a person who sticks to past achievements has many blind spots.For example, many successful people today were born in the 1960s and 1970s. They cannot see or understand the thoughts, viewpoints and lifestyles of people born in the 1980s and 1990s.And once the new forces become the mainstream, they will face the fate of being abandoned. There is another source of conservative thinking, also from people who have achieved something.They are afraid that new changes will endanger their own interests, and they are also afraid that new ideas will erode their authority.But this conservatism is bound to be hurt, because new changes are always coming.The back waves of the Yangtze River push the front waves, and the front waves die on the beach.Those who die on the beach are conservative thinkers.If you are not conservative and have the courage to let go of your old ideas, you won't die on the beach.

Entrepreneurs of our generation have used the market environment of their own era to create necessary wealth, but if these wealth are transferred to the next era, can he still use his past business experience to operate?I don't think so.Maybe SOHO companies will not even sell their houses one day in the future.Maybe many years later, the funds of SOHO enterprises are still there, but they are running completely different projects.At that time, Pan Shiyi's real estate experience should not necessarily be useful. What can be passed down is more spiritual, and the specific experience will definitely not be applicable in the future.

All this is to correct a mentality for myself, and to be fully prepared to face my achievements in the past.The successful model of one stage will always be surpassed by the next stage, and even what was called an achievement in the previous era will be regarded as a ridiculous example in the next era. To understand many things is to transcend, and only when you understand can you have a better attitude to meet changes.