Why not overestimate yourself?

If you overestimate yourself, you will be more likely to fail. If you evaluate yourself realistically, you will be more likely to succeed in doing things. You will be calm, practical and of course happy.

A person must have confidence and self-confidence in doing things, but self-confidence is not arrogance or hubris. Overestimate yourself, expect too much, and sooner or later you will get into a fight.

The eagle couple came to the depths of a dense forest. They planned to settle here, so they chose a tall and leafy oak tree and began to nest on the highest branch, preparing to hatch their offspring here in summer.

The mole who burrows under the tree every day knows that the roots of this oak tree are going rotten. So it advised the eagle: "This tree is in danger of falling down at any time. You'd better not build a nest here. "

The eagle thought: hey, this is really strange! Do you need to be reminded that you can shoot an eagle in the sky? Are your eyes as sharp as eagles? The eagle didn't listen to the mole's advice at all, and immediately began to build a nest and move, and later added a nest of cute little guys.

One day, the eagle went out hunting and flew home with a big breakfast. However, the oak tree fell and the eagle's family died. Seeing the destruction of this family, the proud eagle was deeply saddened. It cried regretfully: "I am too self-righteous, I respect myself too much." I hurt myself! " "

As I said before, people should believe that they are the best, but self-confidence should also be self-aware and based on an accurate, objective and calm understanding of themselves. Confidence and self-knowledge are like the relationship between strategy and tactics. From the development of life, we must believe that we will succeed, but we should be careful not to overestimate ourselves when doing a specific thing.

Overestimating yourself and being so confident in everything is blind conceit, and it is not far from a fiasco. At that time, Shi Yuzhu was on cloud nine because of its smooth operation, and thought he was really an omnipotent super giant. Therefore, when he was building the Giant Building, he changed the design plan again and again, and increased the floor of the building from 38th floor to 70th floor, which required more than one billion yuan, and the investment exceeded ten times the financial strength of his own enterprise. And finally? But the giant fell, and the story became a super joke.

The unique inscription on the temple of Tepel in ancient Greece has the only motto-know yourself. But it is very rare for people to know themselves correctly, because overestimating themselves is a common problem of people, and everyone has deliberately expressed their own problems.

When recruiting talents, Panasonic requires candidates to give their own scores truthfully. Strangely, the company usually refuses to hire people who have a self-evaluation above 70. They think that this kind of person who overestimates himself has many weaknesses: either his eyes are high and his eyes are low; Or self-righteous; Or vanity; Or out of control; Or high job-hopping rate and so on.

A few years ago, many domestic enterprises were slightly larger, so they were easily complacent and blindly engaged in "diversification", "chain operation" and "leap-forward development". After a little success, they were dizzy and made a decision to expand rapidly. In addition, they lack scientific strategic planning and do not attach importance to basic management, so failure is inevitable.

Three died of the rhetoric of "striving to be the largest taxpayer in China"; The giant fell into the grand blueprint known as "building the highest landmark building in Asia"; Qin Chi even died in the joke "An Audi drives into CCTV and a Mercedes-Benz" ... The common reason for their failure is that they overestimate their own strength, that is, they regard ignorance as courage.

Everyone's ability, big or small, is almost shameful. Belinsky once said, "If you can't get the marshal's scepter, take the shovel." A soldier who cannot be a marshal can still be a good soldier. It is shameful to think too highly of yourself and be arrogant in doing things. Some people have published a little work, won an honor, been on TV several times, and then they are complacent, domineering, putting on airs, playing down a peg or two, and really forget who they are.

A philosopher said well that it is impossible for a man to fly a bird, swim a fish, run a leopard and hit a bear ... what is there to be proud of?

A student asked the teacher when he could get his degree. The teacher said: when you think you know everything, you can get a bachelor's degree; When you think you know nothing, you can get a master's degree; When you think you know nothing, you will be awarded a doctorate.

This is not a joke, but it shows a truth: only when people know themselves accurately can they know the world correctly.

If you overestimate yourself, you will be more likely to fail. If you evaluate yourself realistically, you will be more likely to succeed in doing things. You will be calm, practical and of course happy.