How can ordinary people change their poor and busy lives? Just look at this 'critical opportunity'
Liu Cixin, the author of "Three-Body Problem", wrote a novel called "Supporting Human Beings", in which he described this passage:
In the days of my great-grandfather, 60% of the world's wealth was in the hands of 10 million people;
In my grandfather's time, 80% of the world's wealth was in the hands of 10,000 people;
In my father's day, 90% of the world's wealth was in the hands of forty-two people;
When I was born, Earth's capitalism was at its peak, 99% of the world's wealth was in one person's hands, and a world of the rich and two billion poor was born.
In reality today, although it is impossible to have a phenomenon of rich people and two billion poor people, it is an era when the rich get richer.
How can ordinary people counterattack and change their destiny?
The most reliable way is to seize key opportunities.
Although life is long, the key is only a few steps; there are many choices in life, but only those few are the key.
Liu Qing, a Chinese writer, once wrote in the book "History of Entrepreneurship":
No one's life path is straight and without forks. There are some forks, such as political forks, life forks, personal life forks. One wrong step you take can affect a period of your life, or it can affect your entire life.
The key fork in life is just a few steps, and if you go wrong, you will miss an opportunity. But if you grab the key points and go right, you can change your future.
To get from the bottom of the tower to the top of the tower, you must desperately seize every key opportunity in your life.
How can ordinary people change their poor and busy lives? Just look at this "critical opportunity"
To seize the "key node" is to control the fate
I found that young people like to ask such a question:
If you had a time travel machine, when would you most like to go back?
The answer for most people is to go back to the third year of high school. Re-gaokao, re-choose a major.
You see, the college entrance examination is a very important key point in life. It is crowned with the title of changing the fate, as long as you catch it, you can change the fate and deeply affect the future life.
The children who have taken the college entrance examination are also well aware of the importance of this "critical moment" to themselves and their families.
Remember that Hengshui squad leader Li Song who shouted "Get 1 more point and kill a thousand people"?
Back then, he faced the camera and said:
"The college entrance examination is very serious. If you get one extra point, you can overwhelm a thousand people or more in the whole province, so every minute is important to us."
10 years later, although Li Song did not get admitted to his favorite Tsinghua University, he became a diplomat.
How can ordinary people change their poor and busy lives? Just look at this "critical opportunity"
You have to admit that the college entrance examination is a lever at a critical moment in life. If you grasp it, it can pry you to a farther place.
Charlie Munger once said:
"Make the biggest bet when the probability of success is high, and stand still the rest of the time."
Many things in the world are not equal, we can't all work equally, we must learn to find the event with high probability of success, then firmly grasp him, and use all our energy and resources to get him.
The hardships of the college entrance examination children today are the biggest bets in their lives, but this is the only way for them to lead to higher life goals.
Only by grasping the "key nodes" can we control the future destiny.
When a critical opportunity arises, seize it desperately
Byte Zhang, from going online to having tens of millions of users, only took 90 days.
But before its establishment, the Jiujiu Real Estate Network, founded by Zhang Mou, has done a good job, and if it continues to cultivate, it will have good prospects.
But at that time, Zhang saw the bigger prospect of the Internet, and he had to seize this crucial opportunity.
Therefore, he quit Jiujiufang, which was on the right track, and founded Toutiao, Douyin, and other legends one after another.
Buffett said, "Life is like a snowball, the important thing is to find very wet snow and very long slopes."
It was Zhang who discovered this track that could accelerate success, and desperately seized this key opportunity, which led to today's legend.
How can ordinary people change their poor and busy lives? Just look at this "critical opportunity"
Different people have different pursuits, and some people seize the opportunity to be more successful. And some people, when the opportunity is in front of him, are also indifferent.
Once, in the backstage, I chatted with a fan for half an hour. While comforting her, I also felt deeply:
Let's call this fan Xiao A for now. She has a good friend who works for a big company.
One day, a friend's company just happened to be short of a job title for Xiao A.
So, my friend wanted to push Xiao A to go to this big company for an interview.
The friend said to Xiao A: "I think your strength is fully qualified for this position. Come on."
"Then I'll try it." Xiao A said.
The interview process in large companies is more complicated and rigorous. After reading your resume, you will be given an "interview question". After you pass it, the face-to-face communication session will take place at the end.
There is no problem with Xiao A's resume, but she failed the "interview questions" given by the company. Not because of her incompetence, but because she can't stand constant revisions and adjustments.
Friends really want to help her: help her review her resume, and give her advice on "interview questions". But Xiao A felt troublesome, and finally submitted "interview questions" that his friends thought could be optimized. As a result, Xiao A failed to enter the big company that could change her destiny.
After 2 years, her friend's salary is three times hers. Regardless of salary or personal growth, Xiao A is far inferior to her friend.
In fact, there are many people like Xiao A. When the opportunity comes, they don't know how to cherish it and watch the opportunity slip away.
As said on the Internet:
A common scene in martial arts novels is that a certain person fell off a cliff and picked up a martial arts book, and after three years of hard training, he became the number one martial arts master.
But for many people, even if they pick up martial arts secrets, their fate will not change, because they can't even practice hard for three days.
Many people are capable, but they don't know how to seize a critical opportunity when it arises. Some people always lose their chains at critical moments, picking up sesame seeds and losing watermelon.
How can ordinary people change their poor and busy lives? Just look at this "critical opportunity"
And some people are always waiting for the opportunity to appear. Zhao Liying is such a person, who has played a supporting role for 7 years and is now a top star because she always waits for the opportunity to appear and then firmly grasps it. As she herself said:
"I swear in my heart at that time, don't let me seize the opportunity, if there is one, I will try my best to seize it!"
How do real masters seize the opportunity to change their fate?
In this rapidly changing era, there are actually many opportunities for us to change our destiny. But you have to learn how to catch it, not just watch it go by.
The following three methods are the three key factors for those masters to seize the opportunity to change their fate, I hope to inspire you:
- Act fast and be efficient
In this era of great change, opportunity is fleeting. You must "seek fast", act faster than others, and be more efficient than others.
You know, slow fish will be eaten by fast fish. One step behind, the opportunity is not yours.
Don't think that everything is ready to seize the opportunity.
Because you can never wait for the perfect time, just do it first.
- Have the courage to change yourself and change the status quo
Those who have the courage to change themselves will complete the challenge time and time again to change their destiny.
Changing yourself is painful. Because you have to quit laziness and take the uncontrollable risks that change brings.
Like the fan in front of me who was interviewing for a big company, because of her laziness at the time and the courage she couldn't bear to fail, she eventually missed a key opportunity to change her destiny.
To seize key opportunities, you must have the courage to change yourself and take the initiative to change yourself at any time, in order to leap to a greater level.
- Accumulate more and learn more to improve professional ability
Some people do not lack opportunities, but only lack the strength to seize opportunities.
There is a saying in the West: "God helps those who help themselves". It means that God always helps those who try to help themselves.
So God always leaves opportunities to those who are prepared.
Therefore, if you want to seize the opportunity, you need to accumulate and study more and work hard to improve your professional ability.
How can ordinary people change their poor and busy lives? Just look at this "critical opportunity"
Ordinary people change their fate, complete the counterattack, and go to a higher level, they have to use 120% of their efforts to seize that key opportunity.
Of course, you can also choose to "lie down". But if you don’t actively choose life now, you will have to be chosen by life in the future.
There is only one way to win in this world that can change the fate of ordinary people, and that is to desperately seize key opportunities.