Will those who strengthen themselves succeed?

Carnegie said: "For a person who has struggled all his life but failed, could it be that the true essence of his life is thought to be 'not the best' and has never been shown?" Everyone always has a fixed pattern of thinking or aesthetics, and they are unwilling to break it. Therefore, in many cases, it is not others who bury the genius, but yourself. If this road is not working, you should try another way."

In a very authoritative lifestyle photography competition, Joe Leeson finally won the gold medal, standing out from thousands of photography enthusiasts.

When he came to the stage surrounded by music and applause, when talking about his feelings about winning the award, Joe Leeson said: "That's not my best work..." The audience was in an uproar, thinking he was crazy, but who knew he was Tell the truth. Six months ago, there was a fire in his home, and all the negatives of the photos were burned. The one that participated in the competition was eliminated because it could not be included in the album, and it survived because his wife took it to her mother-in-law's house.

Everyone was impressed by his talent and imagined how good the "best" would be if they were reduced to ashes in the fire.

A gold medal doubled his confidence. Before the next competition, he selected and selected the works he was most satisfied with, but he did not win.

The next time, and the next time, every time he tried his best, but in the end he failed to win again.

Some people think that before he won the gold medal, he participated in the award evaluation several times, but returned empty-handed. His only gold medal may have been because "it was not the best." If he had not been eliminated by the big fire and had to always follow his own "best" standard, he might never have been able to win the gold medal.

This story cannot but be said to be a very successful coincidence. It may be what we usually call reverse thinking; for a person with a self-reliant spirit, things like Joe Leeson's sometimes appear naturally in life. It gives us a hint from the other side. You know that this road is a dead end, but it is often a joke - it can really lead to success.

Bill McGowan started working night jobs on the railways as a teenager to earn money to pay for school and college tuition. He always did as much work as possible, and he earned a lot of money from various jobs. The money often added up to more than what his teachers made. After taking a year of basic courses, Bill served in the army as required, and then returned to college to study chemical engineering. Seeing that chemists had few opportunities to become senior corporate executives, he turned to business, eventually earning a master's degree in business administration from Harvard University. McGowan favored small businesses, first running a widescreen production business with Mike Todd, and then working as a management consultant for struggling companies.

In 1959, Bill opened his own company "Pavatron", which specialized in ultrasonic equipment and was quite successful. In 1962, McGowan entered the U.S. equipment service industry and produced machine maintenance equipment. By 1968, he was looking for a new direction when he met some business people who were planning to break AT&T's patent on long-distance microwave systems, called Microwave Communications Corporation (MCI). ) organizations are in need of help working with the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) and raising funds. McGowan joined and provided a large amount of expertise and technology, which put MCI on track in 1972, thus opening up a new industry and greatly changing the long-distance communications industry.

For a person who has a spirit of self-reliance and is passionate about pursuing and developing his career. Social needs are the most realistic motivation. Once people realize this, they will take it as their responsibility to meet the needs of society, and then have a creative motivation. But once this creative motivation is no longer needed by the market or is inconsistent with the market, then you have to make readjustments, which is what we usually say - there is no way to go, and there are thousands of roads to success.