After listening to the story of this 50-year-old taxi driver, I am convinced that the circle determines life

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Tell the story of an old driver.

Some time ago, I was on a business trip out of town, and my friend couldn't pick me up because of something temporarily, so I took a taxi. I was also worried that I would not be able to get a taxi. I didn’t expect that after leaving the high-speed rail station, there would be a long line of taxis, and I immediately got into the first car.

This is an old driver, but very stylish, with tattoos on his arms. I was nervous in my heart, this guy is not a bad person!

But think about it, he looks at least fifty, I should be able to handle it. As soon as I started chatting with him, I asked him, "How old are you this year?"

"It's over 50 this year," he said.

I asked him, "You are so old, have you been renting for many years? It's time to take a break!"

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After chatting, I learned his story:

In the early years, he worked in the south. Although he was a part-time job at that time, he made a lot of money in those years.

When he was almost 30 years old, he felt that he had been outside for a long time, more than ten years, and then returned to his hometown to settle down. After returning to his hometown, his family helped him find a job. The work in his hometown can be imagined. He earns too little money. After working for a period of time, he found that it is too boring, so he earns so little money and spends his time on it every day. This work is a little interesting, a little There was no future, so he quit his job and started working at home.

What are you doing at home? Just idle. What are you doing in your spare time? When I have nothing to do, I wander around, and then I meet some people who have nothing to do. What can a group of young people doing nothing do together, and how do they consume time? Playing cards and gambling, after a period of time, everyone is familiar with it. I feel that we are just a few friends. Playing and playing, you win my money and I win yours. Everyone wins and wins. Still that money. No one has won much, and no one has lost much, this is not right, aren't we wasting our time? Presumably they didn't know about zero-sum games, but they were aware of the problem.

So, they want a way to make money. What way can a bunch of idle people come up with? Well, let's find some unfamiliar people to play poker. What happened next can be imagined. They started to play games, pulling some people who like gambling, local and foreign, and searched for dozens of kilometers around, so they started to make money, although this money is not the right way to make money. .

Of course, this kind of money comes quickly. They are used to being idle, and they don't think about saving money, spending as much as they can, and then they are drunk and start to eat and drink. This money came too easily, and they stopped treating it as money, so in the end, they didn't actually have any money left. Later, for a long time, he lived on this, but no one was a fool. Finally, they were basically able to cheat and cheat. People knew their routines, and no one played with them. In the end, they again Nothing to do.

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Afterwards, this group of people gradually became boring. Some people went out to work, some started small businesses, and some went to factories and gradually dispersed.

He also felt that he was in his 30s, and he wasted his time on gambling every day. He slept until noon every day, started playing cards after dinner, and ended at eleven or twelve in the evening, and then went home and went to sleep. The day was actually pretty boring. After all the friends who were playing with him left one after another, he suddenly had nothing to do.

Next, he began to want to do some business, and he still had some money left from working in the early years. Then he started to open a shop, a hardware store, a restaurant, a tea shop, etc., and finally found that it was just to make a lot of money, and the money was not much. Later, he found out that when others open a store, they make money, and when he opens a store, he can make a living, and more than ten years have passed. People will soon be 50 years old, and the youngest son is almost 20 years old, and he is ready to go to college.

Fortunately, just in time for the previous few years, the house price has not fully risen, so I quickly bought three houses. The eldest son got a house, got married, and then had a grandson. Family life is normal. But he can't be idle. He has to pay the mortgage. What should he do? When you are old, there is really no suitable job, especially when your education is limited. Later, he decided to buy a taxi and started running taxis.

He said that at the beginning, when he saw other people's taxis running on the road all day without stopping, he thought it was quite profitable. When he started running, he found that it was not the case. It turned out that taxis are not Then make money.

We started talking about this topic. I said that there is no problem with renting in big cities now, but small cities themselves are not big, and the people around me around our hometown, I also came from small cities, and they all Buy a car, no matter how much the salary is, even if the monthly salary is 3,000, they also buy a car, it doesn't matter if they can get a loan, they can pay it back slowly. You can pick up a car for 10,000 or 20,000 yuan. Who do you think is still short of cars now? I told him that today is because a friend can't pick me up because of something temporarily, otherwise we really can't meet, it's fate!

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The life experience of this taxi driver can be divided into three stages:

In the first stage, he was in the part-time job circle. Everyone was poor, and they were more economical about money. If you wanted to gamble, no one would play with you, and no one would gamble with their hard-earned money. You want to go out to play, no one is with you, and everyone is on the construction site for food and lodging, so the money is basically saved.

In the second stage, he was in the circle of homeless people, the circle of gambling, and the circle of friends who were drunk, but unfortunately he was destined to not be able to make a name for himself. This kind of low-level circle would not bring much value, nor would it achieve any achievements, it would only make him waste time.

The third stage is the circle of mixed businessmen, but most of them are small businessmen and hawkers. Basically, the value brought to him is not large. After ten years of tossing, no one earns much, and there is too little communication with others, and it is difficult to learn It's hard to change your situation when you get too useful information, because everyone's level is actually similar.

In the fourth stage, the circle of taxi drivers may not be as promising as the circle of small businesses and hawkers, but fortunately, as long as you work hard, you can make money. There is no way to do it. If you can, who wants to run a taxi for more than 50 Woolen cloth.

In fact, after careful analysis, we found that he never broke through his circle level from beginning to end, and the result can be imagined naturally.

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From his story, we find that different circles produce different life outcomes.

If a person wants to achieve something, he must optimize his circle.

How to optimize your circle?

First of all, you should stay away from those low-level circles.

For example, stay away from the circle of negative energy, stay away from the circle with unrighteous views, stay away from the circle of unmotivated people, stay away from the meaningless dinner party.

Second, squeeze into high-level circles.

It's not easy to squeeze in, why should others accept you?

First, you have to cultivate yourself. For example, reading, this circle may not be as high-level as you think, but the people in this circle are all motivated, and if you contact this circle more, you will always gain something.

Second, you have to be able to provide value to the people in the circle and find your own position, so you can easily enter that circle.

Third, find that noble person who can pull you into the circle, someone will say something for you, and the people in the circle will at least accept you on the surface, and then rely on yourself.

The experience of a taxi driver, the last piece of advice, we must be motivated no matter what, so that we can have the opportunity to enter the high-level circle, instead of being in the low-end circle.