The swift that strayed into the seagull's nest: losing ourselves is the main reason for our failure

Swifts are the fastest flying birds.

What would you think if I told you that there is a swift that cannot fly?

In the movie "Nice Adventure", it tells the story of a swift that cannot fly. Of course, it's not that it really can't fly, but because the method of flying is wrong.

Swift Manu accidentally entered the home of a seagull when he was just born. The seagull regarded him as his own child and adopted him. Although the Seagull couple later had children of their own, they still regarded Manu as their own. Let it be the Seagull Flight School. Whether it is learning to fly or learn to float, it will fail without exception...

But because he accidentally fell into the water, he met two swifts. The two swifts told it: You are not a seagull, and of course you cannot fly like a seagull. You have to spread your wings and flutter like us.

Yes, swifts fly by flapping their wings rapidly, while seagulls fly by gliding. Therefore, even if Swift Manu tries hard to learn the flying skills of seagulls, he can only become a drowned swift.

After mastering the correct flying skills, Manu was not only able to fly faster, but also won the championship in the seagull family flight competition.

In recent years, the words "entrepreneurship" and "freelancer" have been frequently heard by the public. Countless people have begun to fantasize about the success of their own business, and countless people have fantasized about the freedom they will have after realizing freelancing.

However, the entrepreneurial success they imagined was to rely on luxury cars, champagne and fine wine, luxurious villas and outdoor swimming pools; the freelance work they imagined was to get up at any time they wanted, and You can go to bed at whatever time you want, and you can take a trip anytime, anywhere...

They only see the aura of success of entrepreneurs and freelancers, but they don't understand the success behind it. Hard work and effort.

The official entrepreneurial success rate in the past two years is less than 3%—for every 100 people, less than 3 people have successfully started a business. However, there are still countless people who have taken this road.

Open the web page to search for successful cases, and there are more than 20 million search results. But the top ranking is always advertising, the purpose is to tell you: come to us, pay and you will gain success.

Everyone knows the example of Chu Shijian, but if you apply this model to start a business now, can you still succeed?

Not necessarily.

The past year 2019 was a particularly difficult year, both for young people at work and for those who grow fruit trees.

On a certain shopping platform, the price of apples is as low as 9.5 kilograms/15.9 yuan. Excluding express delivery costs, how much profit can be made?

You don’t need to know the cost of express delivery to know that it will be very low.

Under such circumstances, it still takes 3-5 years to wait for a tree to bloom and bear fruit. Is it doomed to failure before it even starts?

Unfortunately, various industry conferences are still in full swing. Countless people who don’t know the inside story of the industry think that they have obtained the industry’s popular license by buying a ticket, but they don’t know that this is just a waste of money. The beginning of money.

There is an old saying in China: Three hundred and sixty years of practice will lead to the number one scholar. But it didn't tell us what we need to do to become the number one scholar. Nor did they tell us that there is only one champion.

At the beginning of the movie "Three Idiots", Farhan introduced himself: The moment I was born, my father announced in front of the entire family that I would become an engineer. .

But the fact is that although Farhan was admitted to the best Imperial University of Technology, his favorite thing is photography.

When the results came out, Fahan asked Lanche: Why can’t I get good results?

Rancher took out a letter from his bag that he had written long ago but had not dared to send, and told him: Because what you love is not machinery, but photography.

Farhan lives in the expectations of others, but never dares to ask himself: What do I really love?

Until the end, he did not dare to send the letter to his favorite photographer. But his friend Rancher helped him. Rancher sent the letter and received a reply from the photographer, inviting him to be his assistant.

However, in real life, it is impossible to just make a friend of such a person and tell you what you are suitable for. More people will only accuse you of not doing the thing at hand.

Why can’t swifts fly?

Because it doesn't realize it's a swift and instead uses the flight pattern of a seagull. In life, it is not difficult for us to find such people.

Many people have started their own side jobs one after another, hoping to earn some pocket money after work. Actually there is no problem. However, you can’t just do whatever industry makes money.

A friend of mine is a Taobao operator. He heard that selling snacks at the night market can make money, so he rented a stall and started selling late night snacks. In the beginning, business was not very good and we were still losing money. Later, my skills got better and better, and my business got better and better, but because the traffic in the store became less and less, I was fired.

When he left, the leader told him: I don’t forbid you to make money after get off work, but you must do things well when you go to work.

After he was fired, he originally wanted to make money by setting up a stall, but found that if he really made a living from this, he would not be able to do it alone. Hire a part-time worker, the money you earn is not enough to pay your salary; find a friend, none of your friends are in this field...

A long time ago, two people had a dinner date, and he told me: Actually, I shouldn't have set up a stall at that time. If I can open a Taobao store myself, or run other Taobao stores on behalf of others, my main business and side business will get better and better.

I asked him: Do you still think setting up a stall is profitable?

He shook his head.

Who in this world doesn’t want to succeed? But only those who recognize what they love can succeed. For them, success is not an accidental result, but an inevitable outcome.