What is more important than hard work is "hard work" and thinking

In the inspirational chicken soup articles in recent years, the word "hard work" is what I see most. Yes, "hard work" has indeed inspired many people's fighting spirit and brought everyone one step closer to their dreams.

However, there are still many people who seem to be busy every day, working and studying very hard, but there is no improvement in their lives. Therefore, many people complain about the injustice of God: Why do I work so hard? , but they are not reused, and some people do not work so hard, but they get promotions and salary increases?

In fact, these people who are busy every day and seem to be working hard, are they really working hard?

Why do you always fail to achieve results despite your efforts?

In 1984, at the Tokyo International Marathon Invitational, the little-known Japanese runner Yamada Motoichi unexpectedly won the world championship. When a reporter asked him why he achieved such amazing results, he said this: defeating his opponents with wisdom.

At that time, many people thought that the short player who accidentally ran to the front was playing tricks. Marathon is a sport of physical strength and endurance. As long as you have good physical fitness and patience, you are expected to win. Explosive power and speed are secondary. It is indeed a bit reluctant to say that you can win with wisdom.

Two years later, the Italian International Marathon Invitational was held in the northern Italian city of Milan, and Yamada Motoichi represented Japan in the competition. This time, he won the world championship again. The reporter asked him to talk about his experience again. Yamada Motoichi has a dull temperament and is not good at talking. His answer is still the same as before: defeat the opponent with wisdom. This time the reporters did not ridicule him in the newspaper, but they were puzzled by his so-called wisdom.

Ten years later, the mystery was finally solved. He said this in his autobiography: Before every game, I have to take a bus to look at the game route carefully, and Draw the more eye-catching signs along the way, for example, the first sign is a bank; the second sign is a big tree; the third sign is a red house...and so on until the end of the race. After the game started, I rushed towards the first goal at a speed of 100 meters. After reaching the first goal, I rushed towards the second goal at the same speed. The more than 40-kilometer race was broken down into several small goals and I finished it easily.

He said, at first, I didn’t understand this. I set my goal on the flag on the finish line more than 40 kilometers away. As a result, I got tired after running more than ten kilometers. It was unbearable. I was intimidated by the long journey ahead.

It can be seen how important the direction of efforts is to the success or failure of something.

If a person wants to achieve something, the core thing is that he must have his own direction and goals.

In life, the reason why many people fail to succeed is not because they have no talent or opportunities, but because they do not work hard in the right direction, and the result is the opposite.

In the company I used to work for, there was a young man in charge of sales. Although he didn’t have much work experience, he was very serious about his work. Every day, he did everything from morning meetings to making phone calls to invite customers to home visits. Full of passion, like a shot of chicken blood, it can be said that he is one of the most hard-working members of the company's sales team. However, such a hard-working young man always ranks last when the sales performance is announced at the end of the month. There was a period Time, I am also deeply confused about this, but seeing how hard he works, I think he should wait for another two months. After another two months, his performance will definitely improve, because I have always believed that hard work will definitely yield results. In this way, after half a year, his performance still showed no improvement, until one day, he asked me for help.

That day, he suddenly told me that he wanted me to accompany him to a client’s home for a home visit. At that time, I also wanted to help him very much, so I readily agreed.

So, from calling to invite the client to going to the client's home for a home visit, I accompanied him all the time. On the way to the client's home, he told me that he always felt that he worked very hard, but his sales performance could not improve. He was very distressed about opening one or two or three orders. Sometimes he would go to the beach alone and stay there for an hour or two. He was extremely disappointed with himself. If there were no results again, he was afraid that he would not be able to persevere. Will leave the company. At that time, facing a man who worked so hard, I couldn't think of any other way to comfort him other than encouraging him.

But after following him for a day, I found out the reason why his performance has not been very good. From making the invitation call to visiting the customer for the first time, his ability to speak and adapt during conversations is what he lacks the most. Every day, we just see a young man who is dedicated to his work and comes to the company very early to make phone calls to many customers, and then he is busy doing home visits. He works hard every day, but every time the success rate is very low, and the performance is only low. It's correspondingly terrible.

Therefore, I found that the problem in his work was not that he did not work hard, but that his efforts were in the wrong direction. As the name of a sales company suggests, whether it is a promotion or a salary increase, everything depends on performance. There is nothing wrong with everyone pursuing high performance as always, but how can we achieve high performance? The more phone calls you make and the more customers you visit, the better your results will be. Before that, the most important thing is to practice your basic skills well. Therefore, the direction of his efforts at that time should be to improve himself through learning in the shortest possible time, improve the quality of his phone calls and the success rate of visiting customers.

From then on, I would listen to his phone calls when I was free, and correct his language on the phone, while simulating communication with him, in order to exercise his reaction ability, and often accompany him During the home visit, it didn’t take long for his performance to improve. A few months later, he even ranked among the top three in the company’s performance.

If you feel that you have put in too much effort but always get no results, you might as well think about it in the dead of night, are you working in the wrong direction?

The president of Tsinghua University once sent a message to graduates: "In the future world, direction is more important than hard work."

Indeed, goals are only set, but the correct goals are not determined. The harder you work, the farther away you will be from your goal. When you have the right direction, you will find that the route to your goal is so clear and clear, your motivation is so majestic and strong, and your efforts will turn into tangible results.

I once read an article on "", called "You work hard, but don't pay attention." In the article, the author listed three interns recruited by the company, and in the end she kept the one who looked stupid The article also uses a lot of space to write about the case of a stupid but attentive intern. The author himself worked "hardly" and continued to get promotions and salary increases. In the end, he was better than his colleagues who joined the company with him but had better academic backgrounds than him. Several levels of examples illustrate the importance of "mindful" work.

Yes, whether in work or study, hard work is more important than hard work.

Check my son's homework over the weekend. This week's homework is to correct mistakes in the test paper. The teacher requires that each wrong question be copied down on A4 paper and then corrected. When it came to math, I gave him a new question based on the question my son got wrong. As a result, he thought about it for a long time before he slowly finished it in the notebook. Moreover, the way he did it at first was wrong, and he felt that he did it wrong. Problems were corrected later.

The test paper has been taught by the teacher in class. The reason why students are asked to come back and correct it again is to allow everyone to truly understand and consolidate the knowledge. However, looking at my son’s performance, it seems that I worked very hard to finish the homework, but I didn't really understand the knowledge point. Therefore, when I changed the topic, it was still easy to make mistakes. To put it bluntly, I just didn't have "intention".

This reminds me of when I was in school. There was a girl in the class. She remembered her notes neatly and carefully. If the teacher failed to keep up with the notes in any class because the teacher was too fast, she would definitely find a way after class. Complete your notes. Her notes are often a model for the teacher. Not only are they beautifully written, but the content is the best remembered in the class.

However, even for a girl who remembers notes so well, her grades always hover around the middle and lower reaches of the class every time she takes an exam.

Later I discovered that the reason why she remembered notes so well was because she spent almost all of her class time taking notes. Sometimes even if the teacher talks about very important knowledge points that need to be understood carefully, she will not stop writing and seems to want to write down every word of the teacher in her notebook. Sometimes because the teacher speaks quickly, the previous knowledge point (the teacher thinks that she has studied it many times and does not need to analyze many knowledge points) has not been written down, and the teacher has jumped to the next point, but at this time she is still stuck on On the previous point, I missed important knowledge points.

Another very important point is that the main function of notes is for review. Therefore, notes are not taken just for the sake of taking them. The ultimate purpose of taking notes is to keep the knowledge in our hearts. As for this girl, she only took notes for the sake of taking notes. She felt that the handwriting was beautiful and neat, and she could remember all the contents. However, after taking the notes, she put them on the shelf. She occasionally read them and was borrowed by other students to make up for them. This was hard work. Are the notes that she took with "effort" but "carefully" really useful to her?

Although some students did not remember their notes perfectly, they listened to the teacher attentively during class and knew what should be memorized and what should not be memorized. They used class time to explain what the teacher said. Digest the knowledge points as much as possible and transform them into your own knowledge. Isn't this kind of learning more effective?

Zeng Zi said: "I examine myself three times a day." In modern society, teachers often tell students that in-depth summary and thinking are needed at every stage of study and work.

The so-called summary is to analyze and study the study and work within a certain period, affirm the achievements, identify problems, draw lessons and explore the development laws of things, and use it to guide better work in the next stage. study and work. The central question it wants to solve and answer is not what to do in a certain period, how to do it, and to what extent it is achieved, but a general appraisal and general conclusion of the results of a certain kind of learning and work implementation. It is a review of past learning. A rational understanding of work practice.

If we want to achieve our goals, we must not only have the right direction, but also be diligent in thinking and good at summarizing.

If you want to achieve an in-depth summary, you cannot do without in-depth thinking. In-depth thinking is not a sporadic, superficial, superficial perceptual understanding of a thing, but a comprehensive, systematic, and essential rational understanding. Through in-depth thinking, we can find out the laws of the development of things, so as to master and apply these laws. This achieves the effect of getting twice the result with half the effort.

Summary and reflection are important links in doing all kinds of work. Through it, we can comprehensively and systematically understand the past work situation, correctly understand the advantages and disadvantages of previous work, and clarify the next step of work. direction, avoid detours, make fewer mistakes, and improve work efficiency.

Whether in work or study, people with excellent grades have one thing in common, that is, they are good at summarizing and thinking.

Just like the young man from the original company I wrote earlier in the article, his performance has been poor, not because he didn’t work hard, but because his efforts were in the wrong direction. To find the right direction, summary is indispensable. And thinking, I helped him find the problem while accompanying him on his home visit. Therefore, in his subsequent work, his performance improved by leaps and bounds, and he eventually became an outstanding employee.

If you want to achieve your goals, just working hard is not enough. It requires us to use our "heart" to summarize and think deeply.

Dear you, are you ready to study and work with your "heart", and to summarize and think deeply with your "heart"? Let’s work hard together!