How to learn to "put yourself to death and survive"?

When faced with a difficult situation, mediocre people always make negative choices and live a humble life; while "scheming" people always make positive choices and achieve success in adversity. Nirvana in life.

When a Chinese student originally from Beijing first arrived in Australia, he rode a bicycle along the Australian Highway for several days in order to find a job that could make a living. During this period, he cut grass, herded sheep, and washed dishes for others. As long as someone could give him something to eat, he would temporarily stop his tired pace.

One day, while he was washing dishes in a restaurant in Chinatown, he happened to see a recruitment notice from Telstra in the newspaper. He was worried that his English was not authentic and professional, so he chose to apply for the position of line supervisor.

After passing five levels and winning six, he was about to get the position with an annual salary of 35,000 Australian dollars. The recruitment manager asked him an unexpected question: "Do you have a car? Can you drive?" He often has to go out for a job, and it is difficult to move around without a car. "

When he first arrived, life was a problem. Can he have a car? But in order to get that very attractive position, he answered without hesitation:

"Yes! I can drive it too!"

"Then, you can drive your car to work in three days!" said the supervisor.

It was not easy for him to buy a car and learn to drive in three days when he was almost penniless. However, in order to survive, the international student borrowed 500 Australian dollars from a friend and bought a car at the flea market. An old Beetle that couldn't be any older.

On the first day, he watched his friend drive;

On the second day, he drove crookedly on the grass with trembling hands;

On the third day , he drove the classic car, swinging from side to side, and went to work.

Today, this Chinese student is already the business director of that telecommunications company.

We have to admire his courage.

If this Chinese international student had hesitated for a moment when applying for the job, had not shown a little bit of risk-taking energy, had not put himself on the edge of the cliff, and given up his own way out, he might have I am still washing dishes in a restaurant or shearing sheep for a farmer.

It is precisely because of facing this situation of no retreat that this international student can concentrate on moving forward bravely, maximize his potential, and win his own place in life.

In life, you can often hear others admonishing yourself: don’t talk too much, don’t put yourself on the edge of a cliff, leave yourself a way out, etc. This is undoubtedly correct, because there are no absolute things in the world, and all possibilities exist before things have results. For example, when we make a certain promise to others, we cannot be too full of words. Otherwise, when the possibility that is not conducive to your promise becomes a reality, we will have no room for maneuver, but will give others a sense of dishonesty. bad impression.

But when we face a dilemma, we must have a positive attitude, make positive choices, and obtain good results. We must not be rigid in our thinking and copy the life strategies that are suitable for that time and place without thinking. Otherwise, we will live a mediocre life and will not be able to survive in desperate situations and achieve a leap in life like people with "scheming" .

When faced with a dilemma, when something develops to a life-or-death moment, people need to have a bit of the spirit of "burning the boat, risking death and surviving" in order to gain new opportunities for survival.