How do those who succeed in counterattack start the first step?

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One of my father's favorite stories to tell me is about his colleague, Mr. Lin. I have heard it more than a hundred times over the past 20 years.

More than forty years ago, Mr. Lin was assigned to his father's factory and mine to become a worker. It is a large state-owned enterprise, stable and well paid. The workers in the factory and mine, like my father, work coolies at work, and have fun when they get together to play cards and chess at rest or after work.

It can be said that everyone is content to be assigned to work here, but Mr. Lin seems out of place. When everyone was playing cards and chess, Mr. Lin always looked at high numbers and memorized English words in the corner of the lounge. His behavior was inevitably laughed at, but he still went his own way.

His own brother was very gregarious, so he came to the factory and mine to play with everyone. Dad said, in the impression that Mr. Lin reprimanded his younger brother once, to the effect that he did not study quickly at such a good time, you will regret it later.

After resuming the college entrance examination in a few years, Mr. Lin was admitted to his ideal university. You can probably guess the rest of the story: after graduating from university, he went to Oxford to study for a PhD. After graduation, he stayed at a well-known university in the UK and became a leading figure in the field of research. His younger brother, as a worker, spent his whole life in that factory and mine, suffering until he retired and living on a meagre pension.

You must have heard a lot about this kind of counterattack, but when it really happens to you, you will sincerely sigh: in the same era and family background, two people like Mr. Lin and his brother are at a low ebb at the same time. Why is the fate so different?

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Ambition determines the level of the platform.

There are many factors for a person to succeed in counterattack. effort, determination and ability depend first and foremost on your ambition, because ambition determines how you view the current platform. A trough is flat ground for some people and an abyss for others. For a person who realizes that he is at a low ebb and wants to get out of it, he must have a bigger picture than the most powerful person in this trough.

It's like competing with your aunt to see who can get more discounted eggs in the supermarket. If your ambition is limited to this, even if you are a champion, you will only win an egg race with your aunt. But if your ambition is not here at all, you won't go into the supermarket at all.

Therefore, do not compete for the sake of competition, do not work hard for the sake of hard work, all your competition and efforts should first of all aim at setting a larger pattern and higher goals for yourself.

There is such a question on Zhihu: if you are now the manager of a convenience store, and you love writing since childhood, have a certain foundation of writing, and want to be a writer, what can you do?

You may say that I can use my spare time to lay a good foundation, such as increasing the amount of reading, practicing my writing, and taking my time from long-term thinking. But the best way is to live directly in the state of a writer: have a fixed writing time every day, have your own fixed work output platform, actively invite and submit contributions, and get yourself an electronic business card to introduce and show yourself. write in-depth and innovative articles like a real writer.

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Every gorgeous counterattack is inseparable from silly persistence.

After setting goals higher than those currently on the platform, the most important thing is to insist that it is not a step-by-step persistence in good times, but a persistence that will not be shaken and changed because of changes in the environment and doubts from others.

In this respect, I only accept Liu Bei. Because when he was down in life to sell straw sandals, he was still thinking about how to restore the Han room, rather than how to become a brother in the field of straw sandals.

Throughout Liu Bei's life, you will find that he spent most of his life running around, living a life of vagrancy, and did not occupy a piece of land and have no career until the age of 48. You know, at that time, the age of 60 was already a long life, and Liu Bei's state was equivalent to that of a person who had struggled for most of his life now. By the age of 60 or 70, he still had no industry, and then the thief said unremittingly that he wanted to kill Alibaba and surpass Jack Ma.

It sounds silly, but it is precisely because of this unswerving commitment that he found Guan Yu and Zhang Fei while selling straw sandals and plotted the most famous Taoyuan knot in history. After that, a series of stories about Qingmei cooking wine, talking about heroes, taking care of thatched cottages and becoming the founding emperor of Shu Han in the period of the three Kingdoms will happen.

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However, when we make up our mind to stick to something, don't forget to tell ourselves that persistence may not be rewarded.

I have a friend who quit his job and started his business. He works hard every day except for four or five hours of sleeping with his eyes closed. Unfortunately, he failed to become a pig in the tuyere and lost more than a hundred thousand in the first year. When he was nearing the end of his life, he heard Jack Ma's famous heroic words of cruelty today, crueler tomorrow, and beautiful the day after tomorrow, and held on for another year.

As a result, he lost more than a hundred thousand a year later. In the end, he became the golden sentence of Jack Ma, but most people died tomorrow night and failed to see the beautiful sun the day after tomorrow.

Reality is not a warm-blooded cartoon, and it is very difficult for a small character who has no sense of existence to become the protagonist of public attention after the author has painted two special issues. Reality is not a fairy tale and there is little happyending. The reality is that you may not be rewarded after a lot of hard work and persistence. Only those who recognize this reality and are willing to move forward will it be possible to achieve a counterattack.

Silly efforts and persistence do not advocate recklessness, but insist that doing something should include anticipation, attempt, feedback, adjustment, deepening, and so on, forming a spiral trajectory.

For the matter of counterattack, from the spiritual level to the actual combat level, my favorite two sentences can be fully summarized.

The first sentence is a line from the Matrix. I don't know the ending. I really don't know. I just believe it.

The second sentence is the May Day A Xin said in an interview that people should embarrass themselves a little bit.