Chapter 20 Chapter 20 The Secret Door to Success

Whether it is the workplace or the officialdom, it is nothing more than the sum of interpersonal relationships. As long as human relationships are involved, the success laws of human society will work quietly.This means that there is a secret back door above the officialdom, which is easier for people to succeed than to work hard and endure hardships.No matter what your attitude towards this secret door is, the law is the law, and the law is independent of human will, and you can only accept it passively. We often mention a word: unspoken rules.It means that in the officialdom, some things are not reflected on the surface, but are ups and downs under the rules of the game on the surface, which cannot be said, but quietly play a decisive role.This kind of power is actually just the law of interpersonal relationship at work. Since it exists, there must be reasons and reasons for its existence.

So, what is this kind of power that plays a decisive role in silence? This is the resultant force of the interpersonal game in the officialdom.In the officialdom, everyone is striving for the best interests for themselves, or through various influences, to expand the rules of the social game that are more suitable for them, or to take the initiative to suppress the rising space of competitors... and so on. When the power gathers together, it forms a huge vortex that no one can predict its direction of travel, and people in the officialdom are involved in it, up and down, unable to control themselves.

It is precisely because this power is so mysterious that people in the officialdom often lose their confidence in the future of success.Shen Yue, a historian of the Liang Dynasty in the Southern Dynasty, wrote "Book of Songs", in which there is a sentence: "The prime minister, Cangtou, is called Yilu." The mysterious ups and downs in the officialdom made future generations feel amazed and sighed when they read history. This story is about a vagrant in the Northern Song Dynasty named Yu Qing.This person has no skills, can't lift his hands or shoulders, doesn't work in production, and spends his time in the capital.In desperation, Yu Qing went to find an old Confucian scholar who lived in seclusion, and asked him to calculate for himself whether there was still a chance to stand up. If not, he would just hit him to death.

The old Confucian scholar said to Qing: "Let me tell you this. If you only talk about your fate, there is absolutely no hope. You will starve to death on the street within ten or eight days at most. But if you will listen to me , if you change your name, I guarantee that not only will you not starve to death, but you will be able to rise to the top and make a fortune." After hearing this, Yu Qing said, "It's just a name change. It's easy. Tell me, old man, what name should I change?" The old Confucian scholar pointed out: "If you want to change it, change your name to Ding Yilu."

After hearing this, Yu Qing shook his head and said, "Old man, it doesn't matter if I change my name to this one, but how can you guarantee that if I change my name, I will be successful?" The old Confucian scholar said with a smile: "Let me tell you this. Now in the capital, there is a man named Ding Wei. This man is very knowledgeable. I think he will become a prime minister in the near future. But there is a problem. Ding Wei You have been staying in the capital for a long time, and you have become restless and impatient. If you change your name to Ding Yilu, you go to Ding Wei and are willing to be his servant, then Ding Wei will be elated when he hears your name. It will also stabilize you because of this, and maybe you will become the prime minister soon. If he becomes the prime minister, will he lose your fame and fortune?"

After hearing this, Yu Qing said happily, "Okay, I will do what you say." Sure enough, he changed his name to Ding Yilu, and went to seek refuge with Ding Wei himself.Ding Wei looked at his name: Ding Yilu, doesn't this mean that I, Ding Wei, are destined to be a high-ranking official and make a fortune?Overjoyed, he immediately accepted Ding Yilu, and from then on he was regarded as a confidant, with great favor. As expected by the old Confucian scholar, since Ding Yilu arrived, Ding Wei's mood has stabilized suddenly, and his mind has become very bright, and he wrote several memorials to the emperor, all of which are just right for the emperor to read. Overjoyed and unable to put it down, within ten days, he ordered someone to draw up an order and appointed Ding Wei as prime minister.

If we analyze Ding Wei's successful promotion method, we will find that the hidden laws in the officialdom are as invisible as the horns of antelopes, and they are no longer under the control of manpower. Once we reach this conclusion, we are close to success itself.You must know that Jufan laws must have their specific objectivity, and they are independent of human will.Since the law of promotion in the officialdom does not depend on your will, for the ancients, resigning to fate is a way to save worry and trouble. However, if we are willing to spend a little time thinking about these laws deposited under the officialdom, we will suddenly understand.The reason why people are swayed by laws is because we have not recognized the laws and failed to grasp the laws.On the contrary, if we master the law through thinking, then we can cater to the law and push the situation to develop in a direction that is beneficial to us.

So, what are the hidden rules in the officialdom? As we have already said, the so-called laws of officialdom, to put it bluntly, are nothing but the laws of interpersonal relationships, the basic laws of social games and group games. There are three important places of activity in a person's life.It is in these three occasions that human beings complete their three major life tasks. The first place is the family, in which we fulfill our love mission.It is in this process that we find someone we love, and from then on we spend our lives hand in hand, supporting each other in adversity, never abandoning the poor and humble, and living together forever.

The second is a social place, we have to complete our mission of making friends in this place.We must find friends with similar temperament and habits to ourselves, talk about everything, and change our hearts, so that we will no longer feel lonely about life, so as to comfort the loneliness of our hearts. The third is officialdom.Compared with the previous two places, this place is not so elegant, not so noble.This is because the first two places are the "consumption places" of our lives, and only the officialdom is the only source of our survival resources.Therefore, people in the officialdom will never be full of love for you like your family members, let alone help each other like you and your close friends.On the contrary, the officialdom is a place of competition, where everyone wants to realize their personality expansion and life ideals. Resources are limited and passages are narrow. If your competitors win, you will get nothing.Although it is a little exaggerated to say that officialdom is like a battlefield, it is just wishful thinking of young people to imagine officialdom as a happy place full of sunshine and warmth.

Competition in the officialdom is a conflict of interests between people, and it is often a game with many participants.The situation, process and results of their competition always reflect the universal law of group games. To elaborate on the basic laws of officialdom, it is nothing more than four rules. The first rule, the iceberg rule in officialdom: It means that the interpersonal relationship in officialdom is so intricate that no matter how hard you try, you can only see the tip of the iceberg. The second rule, the law of diffusion effect in officialdom: It means that when a person is in the officialdom, the power of the group will deliberately ignore the positive news of competitors, and expand and strengthen the negative news.

The third rule is the law of similarity in the officialdom: it means that people in the officialdom have a fixed role impression. If you appear to be out of tune, you will be rejected by the group. The fourth law, the law of instinct pleasing: This is what we call the hidden side door of officialdom, which is actually the main door to success in life, but this door fits the instinctive weakness of human nature, so it is always hidden , so it is called partial door. Based on these four rules, there are six official admonitions, that is to say, they are the laws that govern the fate of official competitors, but these laws are unknown to you, so they are called admonitions. The six precepts are: First, ability is unreliable. Second, cleverness will mislead you. Third, words will hurt people. Fourth, flattery must be scientific. Fifth, it doesn't matter whether you do something or not. Sixth, to lose is to take advantage. What needs to be explained is that the above six unspoken rules are all derived from the four rules of competition in the officialdom.Specifically, the four rules are the way, the theory, and the foundation; while the six unspoken rules are techniques, the basic essentials of operation, and the specific application of game rules in practice. Moreover, both the rules of the game in the officialdom and the specific operating skills are based on the intersection of the broad and profound Confucianism and the thick black theory. technology.Now let's unravel these hidden laws one by one, and let us see how these laws govern our destiny.