Chapter 86 Commercial Road 85 Add more firewood and the fire will burn

The essence of business: There was a Wenzhou businessman, when someone asked him the secret of his success, he only said a short sentence: "Add more firewood." In fact, sometimes success is only one step away from us. It's time for another firewood.Add another handful of firewood, and water at 99°C will reach its boiling point! Life is like a battlefield. Without a victorious general, everyone will experience failure.In the face of repeated failures, not everyone can identify their goals and continue to struggle until the day of success.Faced with repeated failures, many people are disheartened, negative and decadent, and finally choose to give up.They were completely strangled by their own weak will. In fact, they may be only one step away from success.

Psychologists have done such an experiment: put a hungry crocodile and some small fish in the same tank, separated by transparent glass.At first, the crocodile will not hesitate to attack the small fish.After failing again and again, it was not discouraged, and always launched a more violent attack on the small fish.Once, twice, three times... After numerous attacks without hope, it stopped attacking.At this time, the psychologist removed the middle partition, but the crocodile remained motionless, letting the small fish swim back and forth under its nose, and finally starved to death. In fact, if the crocodile had a little more persistence and hard work at this time, it would be able to keep its own life!Often, with a little more effort and persistence, unexpected success can be reaped.All the efforts and hardships made before will not be in vain.It is regrettable and sad that in the face of repeated failures, most people choose to give up and never give themselves another chance.In real life, success often comes from a little more persistence and a little more effort after the failures and pains you can't bear!

Have you heard the exciting and moving deeds of Hayes Jones?He was the man of the 1960 high hurdles, winning race after race, breaking many records and making a splash.He was a logical candidate for the Olympic Games held in Rome that year.He competed in the 110-meter hurdles and the world thought he could win gold. However, unexpectedly, he did not get the gold medal, but only got the third place.It was of course a great setback, and his first thought was: "What to do? I should probably give up the competition." The Olympics would be four years away, and he had already won all the other high hurdles. Why another 4 years of hard training?It seemed that the only reasonable path was to forget about the game and start pursuing other careers.

This is of course very logical, but Hayes-Jones cannot rest on his laurels. "You can't be logical about everything you pursue in your life," he said. So he started training again, three hours a day, seven days a week. The 70-meter high hurdles project set a series of new records. On February 22, 1964, at Madison Square Garden in New York, Jones participated in the 60-meter hurdles.Before the game, he had announced that this was his last indoor competition.Emotions were tense, and everyone's eyes were on him.He won, breaking his own previous record for the highest.In the old Madison Square Garden at that time, after the runners crossed the finish line, they turned into a curve that was invisible to the audience.After Jones finished his run, he walked back to the track and stood with his head bowed for a while, thanking the audience for their cheers.Then the 17,000 spectators stood to pay tribute. Jones was moved to tears, and many spectators also shed tears.A man who once failed still keeps going.He doesn't give up, and people who love him love him for that.

He participated in the 1964 Tokyo Olympics, ran 13.6 seconds in the 110-meter high hurdles, won the first place, and finally won the gold medal.He later worked for an airline as a sales representative. He volunteered to help promote the strength and conditioning program in his city, and his events turned out to be outstanding. In the 1970s, the world boxing champion Ali faced the bad luck of saying goodbye to the boxing world because his weight was more than 20 pounds more than normal, and his speed and endurance were not as good as before. In September 1975, the 33-year-old Ali, who had not entered the boxing ring for four years, had his third fight with another fighter, Fraser.By the fourteenth round, Ali was exhausted and on the verge of collapse.He could go down at any moment, and barely has the strength to fight the fifteenth round anymore.

However, Ali did not fall, but persisted desperately, refusing to give up.He knew in his heart that the other party was also exhausted just like himself.At this time, it is not so much a competition of strength as a competition of perseverance. The final victory depends on who can persist for a while longer than the opponent.He knew that if he overwhelmed the opponent mentally at this time, he might win, so he tried his best to maintain a resolute expression and an imposing manner that would never bow his head, his eyes like lightning.Fraser shuddered, thinking that Ali still had strength.Ali noticed this subtle change in Fraser's eyes, and he was refreshed and persisted even more tenaciously.Sure enough, Fraser said he was willing to bow down.The referee immediately raised Ali's arm and declared Ali the winner.At this time, Ali, who had retained his title of boxing champion, had not yet reached the center of the stage when his eyes were dark and his legs knelt on the ground weakly.Seeing this scene, Fraser regretted it too much, and regretted it all his life.

Ali's victory was due to his persistence at the last moment, while Frazier's failure was due to his giving up at the critical moment. "Rome was not built in a day." For example, houses are built brick by brick, and the final victory of a football match is accumulated by scoring one after another; the prosperity of a store is also caused by customers one by one. .So every major achievement is the accumulation of a series of smaller achievements. Wenzhou people believe that doing things step by step is the only smart way to achieve any goal.For example, the best way to quit smoking is to stick to it "hour after hour". Many people use this method to quit smoking, and the success rate is higher than other methods.This method does not require them to resolve never to smoke, but only to resolve that they will not smoke during this hour.When the hour is up, just change his resolution to another hour.When the desire to smoke gradually diminished, the time was extended to two hours, then to one day, and finally quit completely.Those who want to quit smoking all at once will definitely fail because the psychological feeling is unbearable.It is easy to endure for an hour, but it is difficult to never smoke.

Every lecture by a professor, every experiment by a scientist, every meeting of a business executive, and so on, is an opportunity to take a step forward, to a higher level. Sometimes someone seems to become famous overnight, but if you take a closer look at their past history, you know that their success did not happen by accident, they have already invested a lot of hard work and laid a solid foundation.Those who rise and fall suddenly have reputations that come and go quickly, and their success is often just a flash in the pan. Magnificent buildings are all made of individual stones, bricks and tiles, but the stones and bricks themselves are not beautiful, and so is a successful life.

The road of Wenzhou businessmen creating wealth cannot be smooth sailing, and they will encounter various setbacks and difficulties. However, for determined actors, every setback and difficulty hides another opportunity for success.Here, the key lies in the attitude of the wealth creator.If you become discouraged because of this and lose the will to continue to act, then you will never be able to get up again and become an eternal loser.However, if you can deal with setbacks correctly and inspire greater courage, confidence and wealth creation intelligence in the blows, a bright future will appear in front of your eyes.

People who are not firm in their will generally have this kind of situation. No matter what they learn or do, they only have enthusiasm for three to five minutes, and then spend three days fishing and two days drying the net. They cannot concentrate on learning or doing it. , that's an excellent excuse to take advantage of the opportunity to sneak away. This kind of person is obviously hard to accomplish. On the other hand, those with a strong will are the complete opposite. No matter what they learn or do, they always maintain full enthusiasm. They persist for several years.In a word, if those who create wealth lack the word "persistence", they may retreat at any time.Because in the process of creating wealth, there will never be few setbacks and difficulties to be encountered. If you retreat once you encounter them, you may die and change your family after switching a few industries, and your enthusiasm for creating wealth will follow suit. The east flow.

In fact, as long as you dare to face all kinds of setbacks and disturbances, there is nothing in the world that cannot be resolved.Don't people often say this sentence: "Success is often in the hard work of persistence." As long as you persist, there will be bright flowers after the willows are dark, and a smooth road will appear after the mountains and rivers recover. Persistence in action is the secret medicine to cure all difficult and miscellaneous diseases on the road to wealth creation. The difference between power and incapacity, between hard work and laziness, between success and failure, the difference between them is like a thin paper. Please think about it carefully, the salesman whose performance is twice as much as yours, has he worked 16 hours compared to your 8 hours?That is of course impossible.You visit customers 10 times a day, and he doesn't exceed you once more.And while you spent 10 hours thinking about work, he only spent 1 hour more. Things like these show that with a little extra effort, extraordinary results can be achieved.But most people stagnate after self-satisfaction, and thus fall into the trap of difficulties and failures. On the road to success, persistence is the key to achieving your goals.No matter how many rejections you get, how many difficulties or obstacles you face, you have to develop the attitude of never giving up and sticking to the end. Wen Shang knew that the poor must not be afraid of difficulties and failures in order to succeed, because the richer the experience of failure, the greater the chance of success.As long as you have the determination to make progress, you will be able to find the key to success in failure; if you are discouraged, you will never taste the fruit of success. If you look closely at an ant, it's an incredible creature because it never gives up.If you put a leaf, a stick, or a brick in front of an ant, it will definitely crawl over it, crawl under it, and bypass it until it reaches its goal.We should all learn from the experience of ants, work hard, and keep pursuing goals.No matter what problems you face, or what difficulties you find yourself in, never give up. "Life is like the ocean, and only those with a strong will can reach the other shore." Marx said.