Chapter 18 Success is achieved in stages

Are you wallowing in the frustration of being powerless?I like publicity work, but I realize that I don’t have enough ability to interact with people after I finish the work; I like advertising work, but the more I do it, the more I feel that I have no creative talent.Have you ever had this thought?As time goes by, but you can't see your own progress, so you think you are not professional and demoralized?However, if you like a job, it means that you are capable enough to do the job.But the question is how much patience you have to keep going.Will you exercise your endurance while feeling the joy of small successes?

Yaxiu, who specializes in product design, got her wish to become a daily necessities designer.However, her first proposal after entering the company was rejected, and for several months, none of her works were adopted by the company.She almost has no face to carry on with the title of designer anymore, which makes Yaxiu, who has been working tirelessly, lose confidence.When she was considering whether she should change jobs, by chance, she couldn't resist a friend's request, and she went to a course in Oriental painting together.Their first lesson was to learn to draw shadows, but it was not as easy as they thought.At the same time, friends who started studying were repeatedly praised by the lecturers, but they were repeatedly criticized by the lecturers. This was a big blow to Yaxiu, who was born in art, and it was also a matter of hurting her self-esteem.From that night on, Yaxiu spread out newspapers at home and began to practice drawing shadows.However, no matter how much I practiced, there seemed to be no progress.Unconvinced, Yaxiu insisted on practicing hard every day, until one day, in the Oriental painting class, the lecturer stopped beside Yaxiu.The lecturer looked at her drawing paper and said to everyone: "Look, everyone, this is the way to draw shadows. Are the few lines here and these lines forming a perfect balance? I have been teaching shadow drawing for so many years. It’s the first time I’ve seen such an excellent work.” At this moment, Yaxiu felt a sense of accomplishment that she hadn’t seen for a long time, and she once again believed that hard work can bring success.At the same time, she also remembered something she had forgotten.That is, as long as you practice persistently and hard, your strength will improve, and success is such a process.It was the same when I was learning piano when I was a child, and it was the same when learning to swim.At this point, she realizes that she is not far away from getting design inspiration.She began to work hard without any distractions.Sure enough, it didn't take long for her creation to go into production.Now, she works as a design director in an excellent company.

If the process of strength improvement is drawn graphically, it is not a smooth curve that increases monotonically, but a stepped curve.It's not that you can see a little progress every day if you keep practicing, but you suddenly feel that you have reached a new level one day.People who have not experienced it will not understand this truth. Therefore, it is easy to give up efforts where they are about to reach a new level.All success seems to be "realized suddenly one day", so people who don't know this truth will think that "success or failure in life is only once".People who become rich overnight because of the sudden rise of stocks are actually people who have mastered the trends and principles of the stock market after long-term study; At the cost of this, he gained insight into the orientation of popular culture.Luck exists, and those who can grasp luck are those who have stepped up to a new level after long-term hard work.