When asked "What advice do you have for young people", he was blunt:

There is only one life, so work hard for the life you want.

But at the same time, life is a marathon, and it can't stand the daily sprint.

Blindly burying one's head in despair will not bring about sustainable growth, but will overdraw limited energy and let life go downhill ahead of schedule.

A really smart person knows how to restrain his "desire for diligence" and does not work blindly.

Blind efforts are ineffective, and stopping is progress.

"Didn't find the right direction, nothing is right. From the starting point to the end point and back to the starting point, the whole person is only confused. "

A few words have spoken the hearts of countless adults.

The epidemic situation keeps repeating, and the market keeps iterating. Facing the uncertainty of the future, we can't help asking ourselves:

Tossing and turning can't get a definite answer, and people are more and more confused.

Hard work seems to be the only way to relieve anxiety.

But the complexity of this world is that you don't have to do your best to get the answer you want.

In the recent hit TV series "A Year of Unemployment", there is such a love affair.

After graduating from college, Yu He went from a bank teller to a sales specialist.

/kloc-for 0/0 years, I haven't asked for a day off, and I even wear work clothes when I go shopping with my boyfriend, so that I can go back to the company to work overtime at any time.

Arrive at the earliest and get off work at the latest every day, the temper of the leader and the difficulties of the customers are all tolerated by her.

Despite the hard work, the company gave the position of the new director to a newcomer who had just been employed for a month, just because she was the daughter of a friend of the chairman.

The new supervisor even proposed performance reform, which directly invalidated Yu He's sales commission of more than 200,000 yuan.

Yu and angrily resigned. When she pressed the work pause button, she began to think:

How to make the right efforts to get the maximum results.

She used her spare time at home to learn professional knowledge that she neglected to consolidate because of hard work.

At the same time, through the contacts accumulated through work, I actively understand various industries and seek opportunities that suit me.

In the end, she found a new company that advocated fair competition, and achieved stable and sustainable development with her professional ability.

Professor Yi Zhongtian once said:

Everyone hopes that their efforts will be rewarded.

Blind efforts, on the one hand, make people tired, on the other hand, people can't see the return, and finally fall into a vicious circle of "the harder you work, the more anxious you are".

A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step, provided that you know where the road is.

Compared with running blindly, it is more likely to get out of the smooth road of life by slowing down and watching while walking.

Instead of rushing to the track, it is better to choose the right track efficiently.

Remember Einstein's words:

Being a man is the same.

Only by keeping careful thinking and choosing a sustainable direction can we form an effective accumulation of experience and ability.

Joe girard, a famous salesman, was born in a poor family in Detroit.

In order to change the poverty situation, Gillard dropped out of school to work at the age of 16, but as soon as she heard what industry made money, she immediately flocked to it.

For 20 years, Gillard worked as a boiler worker, opened a casino and even worked as a pickpocket.

I was busy until I was 35 years old. I didn't reap the expected wealth, but I suffered from severe asthma and was in debt of 60 thousand dollars.

Gillard began to reflect on herself and put down the idea of making quick money.

He came to a car dealer and started as an intern.

He used a loose-leaf book and a pen torn off at random to slowly accumulate sales contacts and polish his mentality and communication skills in repeated bumps.

Three years later, Gillard became the best-selling model of the year with sales of 65,438+0,425 vehicles. Since then, it has been continuously 12 years, breaking the Guinness record of automobile sales.

Think of such a sentence:

A successful life is essentially a process from precipitation to transformation.

Only through enough study and accumulation can we objectively recognize ourselves and make the right choice in the ever-changing external environment.

Many times, life is stagnant, not because of insufficient efforts, but because of internal drift, leading to external development bottlenecks.

The most direct way to destroy a person is to let him work hard for immediate interests and eventually lose himself completely.

Investor Charles Munger once said:

The trajectory in front of us, though within reach; Beyond the horizon, there are infinite possibilities.

The correct method never requires excessive efforts.

There is a saying in the book Ascension:

In this world, what is scarce is never effort, but thinking.

Knowing how to do things correctly is far better than doing 10 right things.

3 suggestions to help you avoid blind efforts and find a direction that suits you.

I once watched the experience of college student Song Xiaosheng on a program.

After the freshman course, Song Xiaosheng decided to become a traveler, so he dropped out of school without telling his family.

In the following three years, he lived in the wind and slept in the open air, trekked more than half of China, spent more than 80,000 yuan and took tens of thousands of photos.

After completing this arduous journey, he intends to join the top travel agency in China and turn his dream into a job with his own experience and works.

Who knows that all the works he sent were returned, and an editor replied to him:

Song Xiaosheng regretted it. If he had done enough shooting analysis from the beginning and sought feedback regularly, he wouldn't have wasted three years' time and energy.

No one can guarantee that he will always be on the right path. Only through regular resumption can we adjust the direction of progress at any time.

Everyone's energy is limited. Only by balancing efforts and rewards in a planned way can we avoid efforts becoming self-consumption.

Some time ago, a schedule of top students in Tsinghua became popular on the Internet.

After lamenting the intensive schedule, netizens followed suit, thinking that if we work hard like this, we can become as good as Tsinghua and top students.

After half a month, many netizens who copied the work schedule did not get the ideal effect, but instead appeared insomnia, headache, chest tightness and other conditions, and the whole person was depressed.

Later, Tsinghua's students clarified that this was only his arrangement in the final sprint stage, and it was not suitable for making a long-term class schedule at all.

There is a good saying: "Only shoes that suit you can take you farthest."

Everyone has his own mode of thinking and work habits, and the method that suits others may not suit you.

Instead of copying the trajectory of others and finding your own rhythm, you can be stable and far-reaching.

I don't know if you have had such an experience:

Half of the study books I paid for were found to be nonsense, but I forced myself to finish reading them;

I can't get development in a company, I'm confused all day, and I never try to make changes.

Hard-working projects have been losing money, but they have never had the heart to stop. ...

Thinking about what I have paid, I hope to increase my efforts to recover the losses, but the result is getting deeper and deeper in the wrong direction.

Many times, people don't want to face the loss directly, just because they are afraid to accept their own failure.

But as Edison said:

In this changeable world, whose life is not crossing the river by feeling the stones?

The difference is that some people can make clear their goals without hesitation, and some people can get out immediately after finding mistakes.

Stop loss in time is not cowardice. With the courage to start again, life will usher in a bright future.

I like a sentence by writer Wu Jun:

The sorrow of life is nothing more than working hard in the wrong direction and then euphemistically calling it "diligence."

It is better to stop thinking if you work blindly; It is better to have a long-term ambition than to aspire to it.

The top wisdom of adults is to walk on the road that suits them, advance and retreat freely and calmly.

For the rest of your life, learn to put aside your anxiety and work hard without delay.

Life will not always have an echo, but time will always give you the answer you want.