Why do you want to be high first and then low?

People often say that "low is not good, high is not good", although it is only a word order change, but the meaning is quite different. "I can't go up high, I can't go down low", that is, I want to do big things, but I don't want to live in small things, so I don't do anything. It is related to "low can't do it, high can't do it". If you want to be high, you must start from "low". Especially in the competitive contemporary society, the inversion of this proverb has more practical significance and tells the secret of many people's success.

Rockefeller, the oil magnate, was born in poverty. When he first entered the oil company, he had neither education nor skills, and was arranged by the company to check the automatic welding quality of the fuel tank cover, which even a 3-year-old child could do. After half a month, Rockefeller couldn't bear it, and found the supervisor to apply for another job, but he was rejected. So, he began to carefully observe the welding quality of the tank cover and carefully calculate the dripping speed and dosage of flux. He found that 39 drops of flux were needed for each tank cover, but after careful calculation, only 38 drops of flux were needed to completely weld the tank cover. After repeated experiments and experiments, Rockefeller finally developed the "38 drops" welding machine. Using this welding machine, one drop of welding flux can be saved for each can cover. However, a year later, it saved the company hundreds of millions of dollars. Rockefeller took the first step to success. In this way, he succeeded step by step by being good at discovering and daring to try.

As the saying goes: no accumulation, no miles; You can't become a river without accumulating small streams. Rockefeller's story just fulfilled an old saying of China: "A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step." In fact, careful observation will reveal that many successful people often start from small things. In the competitive modern society, sometimes, when your career is in full swing, an accident may take you to the bottom of your life. This time depends on whether you have the courage to start from scratch.

As early as the early 1970s, McDonald's headquarters in the United States was optimistic about the market in Taiwan Province Province and planned to formally enter Taiwan Province Province. Therefore, the first thing to do is to train a group of senior managers in the local area, so open recruitment. However, due to the high standards required, many young entrepreneurs failed the exam.

Later, after many exams, a company manager named Han Dingguo stood out. Before the last interview, the president of McDonald's talked to Han Dingguo and his wife three times and asked him an unexpected question: "If we let you wash the toilet first, would you like it?" At that time, Han Dingguo had become a minor celebrity in the business world. Wouldn't it be insulting to ask him to wash the toilet? While thinking deeply, Mrs. Han replied humorously, "He washed all the toilets in our house!" " "Hearing this, the chairman decided to admit Han Dingguo on the spot. He believes that a successful entrepreneur should not only do great things, but also do small things cleanly. Afterwards, Han Dingguo learned that the first lesson of McDonald's staff training is to start from washing toilets, because the basic concept of the service industry is "not to be nobody, but to serve people". Only by putting down your identity and starting from humble work can you understand the truth of "customer-oriented"

So we know that if we want to achieve great things, we must start from small things. Han Dingguo succeeded because he was able to start from humble things at the beginning and do things that others didn't want to do. At the same time, you must not forget your goal, as American steel magnate andrew carnegie said: "The first condition and the greatest secret of success is to concentrate your energy and resources completely on what you are doing. Once you start a business, you must be determined to become famous and improve it bit by bit. " He used to be an office cleaner himself. In fact, many famous entrepreneurs have gone from small things to success. Honda, the motorcycle king, was an ordinary repairman when he was young, and Wang Yongqing, the plastic king, was just a millet vendor when he was young. ...

It can be seen that no matter what you do in life, you can't aim high. If you want to reach high, you must aim at low first. High-rise buildings rise from the ground, laying a solid foundation is the first, towering trees struggle hard, laying a solid foundation is the first, Xiaomi looks down at thatched grass with a smile, raising children is the first, and people with lofty ideals make contributions and enrich themselves are the first. However, it often happens in life that some people are ambitious, but a little ambitious, and they are always daydreaming, unwilling to study honestly and do things in a down-to-earth manner. In the long run, you will become a visionary and accomplish nothing.

Ambitious people make big mistakes in successful operation methods, go straight to the finish line without taking the process, go straight to elegance and not vulgarity, abandon small and go straight to broad, skip near and go straight to far. This result can only be a dream. The more you hate being humble and aiming too high, then you can only squat on the grass forever, but you can't get close to the edge of the elegant carpet. High will always make you out of reach, out of touch, and you can't do anything.

There is a saying: "The low-lying person becomes the sea, and the low-lying person becomes the king." Being low-key is not cowardice and retreat, it is not only a realm, but also an idea and a philosophy. For example, the life style of "the eagle stands like a sleeping bird and the tiger walks like a disease" reflects an art of life. Sometimes, we might as well think in the opposite direction, just as the monthly Law, edited by Mr. Tong Zhiwei, tells readers that "this magazine is welcome or not", and the famous economist Mr. Lang Chengping has repeatedly mentioned "feasibility report and infeasibility report". Mr. Xu Guodong, an expert in Roman law and civil law philosophy, wrote "When talking about the philosophy of civil law". It is also necessary to build a high-profile life. "If you want to be high, you might as well be low first", "If you want to be superior, you should try to be inferior first". In fact, this principle of being a low-key person is not stagnation, nor is it a failure to step into the abyss of life, but a starting point for success and a profound art of life.

In fact, there are many such examples in history. Napoleon started as an artillery, Chaplin used to be a walk-on, Jordan used to take clothes for the players, and Stephen Chow and Andy Lau, popular movie stars, all of whom have been honed by the world and become household names after the baptism of time. Just like building a building. The first step is not to build it, but to dig it.

So do many business people. They can change from a poor little person to a millionaire big man, all of which are accumulated slowly by a little capital. In life, people who cut hair and nail shoes ... can do anything. Their low level is not always low, but once they have accumulated experience, they can get high and develop.

In order to cover up the ultimate goal, it is a wise choice to start from a low place and be a low-key person.