Chapter 7 Seventh letter: the most frightening thing is mental bankruptcy

Motto: Failure is good as long as it doesn't become a habit. When you take advantage of the opportunity, you are depriving others of the opportunity to guarantee yourself. Once avoiding failure becomes your motivation to do things, you are on the path of laziness and powerlessness. (An optimist sees an opportunity in every calamity, a pessimist sees a calamity in every opportunity.) November 19, 1899 Dear John: Your mood has been too low recently, which makes me very sad.I can really feel the shame and shame you're still feeling over the investment that cost you a million dollars.So depressed and worried all day long.In fact, there is no need for this. A failure does not mean anything, let alone labeling you as an incompetent on your forehead.

Be happy, my son.You need to know that everyone in this world does not have a smooth life; on the contrary, they have to live with failure all the time.Perhaps it is precisely because there are too many helpless failures in this world that the pursuit of excellence becomes so attractive that people chase after it, even at the cost of their lives.Even so, failure will still come. Our fate remains the same.It's just that I'm different from some people. I regard failure as a cup of strong wine. What I swallow is bitter, but what I spit out is spirit. Just as I had sworn to step into the business world, kneeling down and begging God to bless our new venture, a catastrophic storm hit us.At that time, we signed a contract to buy a large amount of beans and planned to make a lot of money, but we did not expect that a sudden "visiting" frost shattered our dream, half of the beans we got were destroyed, and it was immoral Some suppliers also added sand and fine bean leaves and bean stalks.This is destined to be a bad business.But I know that I can't be depressed, and I can't be immersed in failure, otherwise, I will be farther and farther away from my goal and dream.

There is no free lunch in the world, and it is impossible to maintain the status quo. If you stand still, you will regress, but to move forward, you must be willing to make decisions and take risks.After that business failed, I borrowed money from my father again, though not very reluctantly.Moreover, to give myself an edge in business, I told my partner, Mr. Clark, that we must advertise ourselves and let our potential clients know by newspaper advertisements that we can offer large advances and supply large quantities in advance. of agricultural products. As a result, courage and diligence saved us. Instead of being affected by the "bean incident" that year, we made a considerable net profit.

Everyone hates failure, but when avoiding failure becomes your motivation, you're on the path to laziness.It's terrible, even catastrophic.Because it indicates that people may lose the opportunities they might have had. Son, opportunities are rare things. People get rich because of opportunities. Just look at the poor and you will know that they are not incompetent idiots, nor do they not work hard. They suffer from lack of opportunities.You need to know that we live in a jungle where the jungle of the jungle preys on the jungle, where you either cannibalize or get eaten by others, avoiding risks is almost guaranteed bankruptcy; and if you take advantage of the opportunity, you are depriving others of the opportunity and guaranteeing yourself.

If you are afraid of failure, you dare not take risks, and if you dare not take risks, you will miss the opportunities in front of you.So, my son, it is worth paying for failure and setbacks in order to avoid losing opportunities and keep the qualifications to compete! Failure is the beginning of progress to a higher position.I can say that I am able to achieve what I am today because I stepped up the spiral ladder of failure and rose through failure.I am a smart "loser". I know how to learn from failures, absorb the factors of success from the experience of failures, and use methods I never thought of to start a new business.So I would say that failure is a good thing as long as it doesn't become a habit.

My motto is: people must always maintain vitality, always be strong and persevering, no matter what kind of failures and setbacks they encounter, this is the only thing I can do.I can understand myself, what I do will make me happy, and what is worth fighting for.Fundamental expectations, like the broom in the cleaner's hand, will sweep up all the rubbish in your path to success.Son, where are your own fundamental expectations?As long as you don't lose it, success will come. An optimist sees opportunity in adversity, and a pessimist sees suffering in opportunity.Son, remember the formula for success that I believe in so deeply:

Dream + failure + challenge = the way to success. Of course, failure has its lethality. It can make people depressed, decadent, and lose their fighting spirit and willpower.What matters is what you see failure as.The genius inventor Mr. Thomas Edison did more than 10,000 experiments before lighting up Mr. Morgan's office with electric lights. In his place, failure is the experimental field of success. Ten years ago, a young reporter from the "New York Sun" interviewed him. The young man asked him: "Mr. Edison, your current invention has failed 10,000 times, what do you think about it? "Edison was very uncomfortable with the word failure. He said to the reporter in an elder tone: "Young man, your life journey has just begun, so let me tell you a revelation that will be very helpful to your future. I have not failed. Ten thousand times, I just invented ten thousand ways that don't work." The power of the spirit is always so great.

Son, you're going to declare bankruptcy and you're going to lose everything.You need to know that a person's career is like a wave. If you step on the wave, fame will follow; but if you miss it, you will be trapped in shallows and sorrow throughout your life.Failure is a learning experience, you can make it a tombstone or a stepping stone. There is no success without challenges, don’t stop just because of a failure, beat yourself, you are the biggest winner! I have great confidence in you. love your father