Why do you do what you love?

If you and I are anything different, it's that I wake up every day and have the opportunity to do what I love most, every day. If you want to learn anything from me, this is my best advice to you.

——Warren Buffett

There is a doctor who has made great contributions to medical research. Others said he was a genius, but he said sadly: "I have worked hard for 27 years, but they say I am a genius." In one sentence, all his 27 years of hard work were wiped out.

Qi Baishi, a great master in the painting world, never considered himself a genius. Qi Baishi is famous for painting shrimps, but he also put a lot of effort into painting crabs. He started to draw a crab shell with only one stroke, but after many strokes he was not satisfied, so he changed to two strokes, but still not satisfied, and finally used three strokes to draw a crab shell. The crab shell drawn in three strokes shows a sense of layering. In this way, Qi Baishi spent 20 years just painting the crab shell, and he did not mature until he was 70 years old.

Edison said: "Genius is 1% inspiration and 99% perspiration."

In other words, for success, IQ is only 1% important. The remaining 99% comes from hard work.

In fact, it is not easy for a person to shed 99% of his efforts for his career. Otherwise, why are there always only a few successful people in the world? Most people in this world have unsuccessful careers. , not because of intellectual problems, just because they cannot devote themselves wholeheartedly to their careers.

The founder of Japan's Sakkawa Rapid Transit Company, Kiyoshi Sakkawa, started from scratch. In just 30 years, he created the largest company in Japan's commercial transportation industry with an annual turnover of more than 300 billion yen. Someone asked him the secret of his success, and his answer was simple: "Because I have been working hard." Zuo Chuanqing used his diligence to write an epitaph: "Here lies a man who has worked hard with sweat on his forehead all his life." People."

There is also Napoleon. The book said that he was very energetic and only slept five or six hours a day. He was never tired. He had four secretaries working with him, but he felt overwhelmed. With such energy devoted to work, what great achievements cannot be achieved? So Napoleon said that there is no word impossible in his dictionary.

There are many, many examples like this. The real successful people in this world are often workaholics. They are full of energy and seem to have endless energy in their bodies. But how can a person achieve such a working state? I don't believe that people can achieve this with perseverance alone. To be able to work like crazy, you must first love the work you are dedicated to.

Einstein once said: "The emotional state that makes me suitable for my work is like the emotional state of a devotee or a lover."

Just imagine. , if we can also put in work like Einstein, Napoleon, and Zuokawa Kiyoshi, how can we fail?

So, success is difficult to say, and it is not difficult to say it is not. . Yang Zhenning said: "If a person wants to produce results, one of the factors is to follow his own interests, and then develop his own expertise in conjunction with the needs of society. With interests, 'suffering' is not suffering, but happiness. At this point If you are in a good situation, your work will be more likely to yield results."

I have never heard of a person who works for his hobby being unsuccessful. Because of his hobby, he can devote himself wholeheartedly to it. And the size of a person's achievements at work often depends to a large extent on the amount of emotional investment you have.

Daniel Goleman, a psychology professor at Harvard University in the United States, published a book called "Emotional Intelligence". In order to compare the level of intelligence, people introduced the concept of "IQ". In contrast, Goleman introduced the concept of "emotional intelligence" and determined that this is more important than IQ. Now people not only accept the concept of "emotional intelligence", but even think that "emotional intelligence" marks a cultural shift.

When talking about modern education, American educator Neil Postman said that students "are like a question mark when they enter school and like a period when they leave school." This is the tragedy of school education. In this kind of education, students' personality is wiped out, their talents are drowned, and their wisdom is frozen. This kind of education has no songs or poems. The spiritual home is desolate and desolate, the tree of creation withers and withers, and the bird of imagination no longer soars.

In education, we always force students to study, never paying attention to their emotions and hobbies, and blindly emphasizing the role of intelligence, ability, and knowledge, which inevitably makes students think that learning is hard, so We vigorously promote diligence and perseverance, such as "learning the sea and working hard", "hanging on the head, stabbing the buttocks", etc. However, a person who has no hobbies and no emotional investment will not be able to achieve the highest achievements no matter how hard he works. !Is there any person in the world who has achieved outstanding achievements who is not engaged in a career that he loves?

In modern management, everyone is keen on time management. Humans are not machines, so how can they not consider emotional investment and only manage time mechanically?

Edison originally spent more than ten hours in the laboratory every day. Others asked him: "What makes you work so hard?" Edison said: "Have I worked? I have never worked. I am just doing what I like."

Liking your job and being passionate about your work is actually the best time management and can create the best work efficiency.

Perseverance and diligence can only help people complete their work. Only emotional investment can enable people to achieve great things, so "emotional intelligence" is more important than "IQ".

Financial legend Warren Buffett advises: "When you go out to work, work for an organization with people you admire, because that will excite you."

Be for you Work for people you admire, and do the work you love. If you work and don't love your job, it's like getting married for money.

A handsome young man married a rich old lady. When faced with people's confusion, he revealed the answer: "When people want to use banknotes, they never look at the date of issuance."

It’s okay to marry for money. You get one thing you want - money, but at the same time you lose another more important thing, your emotions and the warmth of your family. If your requirements for life are very low, you can marry for money. If you are full of longing for life and have higher requirements, then why not strive for the best of both worlds?

The same is true in life. Making money is important, but happiness is more important, and reflecting one's own value is more important.

In fact, the lifestyle of ordinary people usually puts the cart before the horse. They want to have more money and more things first, and then do what they want to do. They say: "I really don't like this job, but I am going to do it in 10 years. After I have the foundation, I will continue to do the work I like, and then I will become a happy person.”

This approach is destined to fail, so the order must be reversed. First of all, you must be your true self, do what you love most and what you need to do, so that you can radiate all your enthusiasm, persist to the end, succeed, have what you want, and become a happy person. people.

In the journey of life, the worst situation is often not poverty or misfortune, but a state of unconscious mental and mental exhaustion. Everything that has moved you can no longer move you, everything that has attracted you can no longer attract you, and even everything that has angered you can no longer irritate you. At this time, you need to find another scenery.

The saddest thing in life is losing enthusiasm and passion for life.

In life, you must constantly challenge yourself and keep moving forward. What is the greatest happiness in life? It is to invest in your passion. If success requires the help of a god, that god is enthusiasm. Zeal means inner god in ancient Greek.

Emerson said: "Any great or glorious moment in human history is the triumph of passion."

I am a very lazy person. The partners of Penghe Culture Company impressed me very deeply. They are a group of people who are very dedicated and enthusiastic. This feeling stimulates me and puts pressure on me. I feel that I will be pushed by their enthusiasm. Go crazy. But I really feel that everyone should have some dreams, a goal, and devote your enthusiasm to it. I have said that only when people are passionate, endorphins will be secreted in the brain, and you will feel happy.

I like people who are enthusiastic, and I like people who are passionate about what they do. Any difficulty will bow before enthusiasm, and enthusiasm can achieve all things.

Bill Gates defines success this way: “The key is to have fun doing what you do every day. For me, that fun is working with very charming people. , dedicated to solving new problems. Especially software development, is the most interesting job. I think I have the most satisfying job. Every time we achieve a little success, I feel happy and successful.”

Guo Tuna, the miracle worker who saved IBM from crisis, once talked about an experience that affected his life:

In the last year of studying at Harvard Business School, Guo Shi Na went through several recruitment interviews to find a job, and finally focused on McKinsey & Company and Procter & Gamble.

At that time, he was a 23-year-old young man with great plasticity. During the interview process for Procter & Gamble, the senior manager in charge of recruiting asked him a question: "Suppose it is Friday night and you get the latest market research report and find that the market share dropped by 20% last month. At this time , will you cancel all the scheduled activities the next day, Saturday, and come to the office to come up with a solution?"

Maybe some of our candidates will lie, but Westerners The culture of applying for jobs is honesty, so Gerstner was confused by this question at the time. Although he did not answer the question directly, his reaction was: I don’t know.

After graduation, he went to McKinsey & Company.

But this incident made Gerstner know that enthusiasm for work is the basic element that a successful person should prepare. From then on, Gerstner not only deliberately cultivated his enthusiasm for work, but also prioritized whether he was "passionate about pursuing success" in his subsequent talent selection process.

Gerstner said: "Great institutions are not managed, but led; they are not the result of administrative processes, but the rising achievements of people who eagerly pursue success. The result of hard work driven by a sense of gratitude.

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Enthusiasm and passion are the power source of a good quality machine. It can make the machine run, enliven it, and make it willing to work harder and better.

If you compare a person to an engine, then your IQ, talent and knowledge are just the rated power of this engine, the power you can achieve, but whether you can actually exert this power, your output power How big it is depends on your enthusiasm, your commitment, and your mobility. Only by radiating all your enthusiasm and dedicating yourself to it can you convert all the rated power you have into effective output power. It can even stimulate your incomparable potential and make the output power exceed your rated power.

Enthusiasm and passion are the source of motivation for people's success, and enthusiasm and passion come from people's desire to pursue success. It comes from people's sense of mission and responsibility, from people's interests and hobbies.

Set some lofty goals, radiate all your passion, and work with all your heart, and you will feel that life is full of enthusiasm. You will also enjoy the romance of realizing your dreams in life.

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Passion is the basic ingredient for success in life.