Chapter 88 Business Way 87 The habit of the rich choosing to be rich

The essence of business: Good habits allow us to reduce the time for thinking, simplify the steps of action, and make us more efficient; bad habits make us closed, conservative, self-righteous, and stick to the rules.Good habits are the cornerstone of success, and good habits are the ladder of success.If a person wants to be successful, whether in business or in life, he must develop good habits.Wen businessmen are well aware of this. Someone once did an experiment: the experimenter put a very heavy stone on the back of a turtle. At first the turtle struggled desperately, but because the stone was really heavy, the turtle could not bear such a heavy pressure, and finally had to Lying on the ground, motionless, watching the experimenter.Then within a short period of time, the experimenter moved the stone away, and the tortoise reacted very quickly and immediately crawled forward, which it had to do in order to survive.Then the experimenter put the stone on the tortoise's back again, this time for a little longer, and the tortoise's reaction became a little slower.After repeating this many times, the reaction speed of the tortoise will be inversely proportional to the time the stone is placed on it.When the experimenter removed the stone for the last time, the tortoise did not respond at all.

Three days later, the experimenter found that the tortoise was still lying there.A week later, I found that the poor tortoise was still lying on the familiar floor. If the tortoise could talk, it would say, "I'm still here because I'm used to being stressed." Russian educator Ushinsky said: "Good habits are the moral capital stored in the nervous system of a person. This capital is constantly increasing in value, and a person enjoys its interest throughout his life." No one can deny the great power of habit, which accompanies people's development for life.There is a proverb abroad: "Man is the slave of habit." Wilde also had such a famous saying: "In the beginning we make habits, and then habits make us."

What exactly is a habit? Habits are actually the result of behavior repeated many times, a relatively fixed behavior pattern.It is human nature to develop habits unconsciously all the time.According to scientists, a behavior can become a habit if it is repeated 21 times in a row (generally 30 days is the standard), and if it becomes a habit, it becomes natural and lasts for a lifetime. Hu Zhiwei, a psychological counseling expert, found that 20% of a person's work and study are related to intellectual factors, and 80% are related to non-intellectual factors. Among non-intellectual factors such as confidence, will, habits, interests, and personality, habits are the most important. occupies an important position.He once did such a test and asked three people to complete the same thing. Unexpectedly, the result was unexpected because of the different work habits of each person.There are countless examples of this around us.

There is no doubt that man is a creature of habit.Habits pervade every aspect of our lives, whether we like it or not.Few realize how powerful a habit can be. There are many reasons for the difference between the rich and the poor in real life, but habit is also one of the important factors.A large part of the reason why the rich are rich is that they have good habits. Good habits allow us to reduce the time for thinking, simplify the steps of action, and make us more efficient; bad habits make us closed, conservative, self-righteous, and stick to the rules. Good habits are the cornerstone of success, and good habits are the ladder of success.If a person wants to be successful, whether in business or in life, he must develop good habits.

Good habits make people invincible, and bad habits pull people down from the altar of success.Paul Getty knows this well. For a period of time, Getty, the richest man in the United States, smoked a lot of cigarettes.One day, he was driving through France on vacation. It was raining heavily and the ground was extremely muddy. After driving for several hours, he stayed overnight in a hotel in a small town.After supper he returned to his room and soon fell asleep. Getty woke up at two o'clock in the morning and wanted to smoke a cigarette.Turning on the light, he naturally reached out to find the pack of cigarettes on the table before going to bed, and found that it was empty.He got out of bed and searched everywhere, but found nothing.He knew the hotel's bar and restaurant were closed long ago, and it would be unthinkable to have to wake up the impatient concierge at this time.The only way he could get a cigarette was to get dressed and walk to the train station, but it was at least 6 streets away.

The scenario does not look rosy.It was still raining outside, and his car was parked in a garage some distance from the hotel, and he was reminded that the garage closed at midnight and opened at 6:00 the next morning, and he could call a taxi Also equal to zero. Apparently, if he really wanted a cigarette so desperately, he could only walk to the station in the rain.He was fully dressed and reaching for his raincoat when he stopped suddenly and started laughing, laughing at himself, suddenly realizing how illogical, even absurd, his actions were. Getty stood there wondering: a so-called businessman, a man who thought he had enough sense to give orders to others, would leave his comfortable hotel in the middle of the night and walk several blocks in the rain, just to get a cigarettes.

Getty noticed the problem for the first time in his life, and he had developed a habit he couldn't help.This habit is obviously not beneficial. Making up his mind, he crumpled up the cigarette case that was still on the table and threw it into the wastebasket, then took off his clothes, put on his pajamas again and went back to bed.With a sense of relief, even triumph, he fell into a deep, contented sleep within minutes.Since that night, he has not smoked a cigarette, nor has he had any desire to smoke. Getty said he wasn't one to use the incident to blame cigarettes or vaping.I often recall this incident, just to show that in his case, he was so overpowered by a bad habit that he almost became its prisoner!

Habits are so powerful that they can even affect a person's life.The force of habit seems at first to be so feeble, so feeble as a drop of water, that it is often overlooked.But water drips through stone. When people feel the great power of habit, it is difficult to change it.The power of a good habit can give you unlimited motivation and lead you to a good destiny.Conversely, if a bad habit spreads all the time, it will affect your progress, and in many cases, it will be the root cause of your entrepreneurial failure. One of Napoleon's golden rules is to harness the power of cosmic habits.Sow behavior, reap habit; sow habit, reap character; sow character, reap destiny.Repetition is the mother of habit.You should let your habits serve you, not limit your opportunities, patience, confidence and enthusiasm.Any bad habit can be broken and replaced with a good one, which is the core of success learning.The power of habit is the most effective means of integrating the laws of success into your life.

Hartung, a Jew, was a Jewish businessman from Shanghai in the old China. He came from Mumbai, India. He once lived under the door of Sassoon Matheson and managed tobacco and real estate for Sassoon Matheson. , after years of struggle, it has become the No. 1 merchant in the Far East. Hartung had close contacts with Sun Yat-sen, Zhang Taiyan and Cai Yuanpei.In terms of social activities, he set up education, developed philanthropy, funded and organized academic and cultural activities, and played a certain positive role in the cultural and educational undertakings of old China.In terms of personal life, he is diligent and thrifty, keeps himself clean, avoids whoring and gambling, and does not smoke opium. He has become a model of personality in Shanghai's business circles.

After Hartung became a millionaire, multi-millionaire or even a billionaire, he has always maintained the old habit of thrift and housekeeping, never paid attention to extravagance and luxury, and often lived in seclusion.His own living room and sleeping and eating are also very simple.A few slices of bread and a glass of milk are a breakfast.If you eat lunch at home, it is nothing more than two dishes and one soup.The office environment is also very modest. In the cold winter months, there is neither fire nor heating in the office.In terms of life, he also has his own rules and regulations.Although he was engaged in the opium business, he never took a puff of opium; although he was rich, he never appeared in the Shanghai Beach Casino.In addition, Hartung also abided by the Jewish concept of family and marriage. He never took concubines to marry children, and never flirted with women, or molested or seduced the maids at home.This is extremely rare in the old China where polygamy was legal, and in the feasting and feasting of Shili Foreign Market.

In addition, the Hartungs are also active in education and philanthropy.They did not have a single child in their lifetime, but they adopted more than 40 orphans successively, and more than 20 of them were adopted as adopted sons and daughters. In 1938, after Hartung International Co., Ltd. took back the Guohuo Building, it was changed to "Cishu Building", which was specially used for charity, and Hartung gave generously to various fundraising activities. In 1902, through the connection of Huang Zongyang, Hartong and his wife established the Patriotic Women's School affiliated to the Patriotic Society of the Revolutionary Group. Luo Jiling was the chairman of the school, and it was maintained until the beginning of liberation.Patriotic Girls' School is one of the earliest girls' schools in China. After the founding of New China, it was renamed Patriotic Middle School and became a famous middle school in Shanghai. This is Hartung, a rich man with good habits. Rich people in Wenzhou have always developed the habit of being good at discovering wealth and have a very sensitive sense of smell for wealth. Therefore, in the eyes of rich people in Wenzhou, wealth is everywhere.Fortune lies in discovery, not in waiting. Poor people have the habit of rejecting money since childhood. They hope to get wealth very much, but they only know how wealth is squandered.In the eyes of Wen Shang, those who can squander their wealth are the real rich, not those who have accumulated earning power and skills. People who can own wealth always have a strong desire to own wealth, have a good habit of discovering wealth and controlling wealth, and are always looking for wealth carefully and managing wealth at the same time. So, being rich is a habit, and being poor is also a habit. As the saying goes: "Sow an action, and you will reap a habit; sow a habit, and you will reap a character." Bill Gates believes that good habits mainly rely on people's self-discipline, or in other words, people's denial of self-desires.But bad habits, like reeds and weeds, grow everywhere and everywhere, and at the same time they hinder the growth of the flowers of virtue, and turn a beautiful garden into a weedy reed.Once those bad habits are sown, they are often hard to get rid of in 10 years. When a person is 25 or 30, it is difficult to see any changes in them, unless his life has changed dramatically from his youth.But it is consoling that when one is young, though it is easy to acquire a bad habit, it is almost as easy to acquire a good one; Similarly, good habits will be consolidated and developed in good behavior. The force of habit is a law that subjects all living beings and all things to the influence of circumstances.This law may work in your favour, or it may work against you, depending on your choices. When you apply this law, along with a positive attitude, the power is enormous, and it's what drives you to think about getting rich or achieving anything you desire. Maybe you don't have a good talent, but once you have a good habit, it will definitely bring you huge benefits, and it may exceed your imagination.