Chapter 69 Periodically reset
A friend from Peking University told me a story: When the president of Harvard University came to Peking University, he told a piece of his own experience.One year he asked for a three-month leave from school, and then told his family, don't ask me where I am going, I will call home every week to report that I am safe.Then the principal went to the countryside in the southern United States to work on the farm and wash dishes in the restaurant.When working in the fields, smoking a cigarette behind the boss's back, or having a few words with one's co-workers in secret, I feel very happy.Finally, he found a job washing dishes in a restaurant, and only worked for four hours. The boss settled the bill with him and told him: Old man, you are too slow to wash dishes, you are fired.After the principal returned to Harvard, he returned to his familiar working environment, but felt that he had changed to another world: it turned out that being in this position was a symbol and an honor.During these three months of life, I changed my view of life again, allowing myself to reset and clear the zero once.
In this world, it is a very difficult process for a person to give up what he already has.A few years ago, when a few of us young people went to sea and set up companies, we took advantage of Mr. Deng’s southern tour to make us a group of people who got rich first, completed the primitive accumulation of capital, and had a relatively large "stage".In just a few years, the scale of capital has expanded rapidly, and it has become a miracle that everyone is talking about in the business world.Accompanied by various honors, flattery, and open and secret struggles between partners.One day I suddenly realized that as a person in his early 30s, I should get rid of this state, leave this company, put myself in the most primitive state again, and let myself start again.Another reason is that before that, someone attributed my success to good luck, and quantitatively summed up six good luck.In the early days of reform and opening up in China, success did not seem to come from power, but must come from good luck.What I value more is the improvement and cultivation of my ability, so I am determined to let myself return to the state of having nothing, exercise my ability, and prove my ability.
As soon as I left, many things changed drastically, completely beyond my expectations.My partner held a critique conference for me, the theme of which was to get to the bottom of the matter.I immediately protested, and the partner was also very frank, saying to me: "Lend me your name, and I will scold you for a year. After my prestige is established and the company stabilizes, I will never I scolded you." It seems to be my mistake, I am too stingy, and I don't want to lend a small name to others.The cowardly colleagues dare not communicate with me anymore, and the sycophant is even more far away from me.I didn't feel much pain during the day, but every night, I kept repeating a dream. I dreamed that many people were crying, not letting me go, and constantly shouting: "We need you!" Constant tears.When I wake up, I always find that there are many tears on the pillow.
Recently, I told this dream to a friend who studies psychology.She explained that having this dream is not that they need you, but that you are so alone and you need them.This dream was repeated for many nights, and finally one day, I fell ill, sweating profusely, and collapsed in the bathroom in shock.After I woke up, my physical strength recovered a bit. I called my wife who was abroad, and she immediately notified an elder sister named Wang in Beijing to take care of me.This experience gave me a feeling of being reborn mentally, and I was truly brave enough to return myself to the most primitive state of human nature.Mentally strong, will become strong.
A few years ago, I wrote a booklet "The Tea Is Full". Several friends asked me, why is the tea not full?Why is it that the more things are deposited in the human brain, the worse it is?I said that only by keeping ourselves in an ethereal state, in a state of no burden, and in a state of no pollution, can we fill the cup with wisdom and creativity like an empty cup. force.If a cup is full and there is no room left, it becomes a useless cup.