All kinds of inspirational books are dazzling, yes, successful people like to preach the truth.
And we never thought, why do they like to reason? ……
They really experienced the magic of truth and carried it out seriously, and then they became successful people.
90% of the pain and anxiety in life are rooted in the fact that people don't understand how to live the meaning of life, how to ignite the enthusiasm of life and how to succeed in their careers. Fortunately, kazuo inamori provided the answer in Living Law.
This book is divided into four chapters:
First, realize the ideal
Second, consider the problem from the principle.
Third, spend your life with altruism
Fourth, hone the soul and improve the mind
First, realize the ideal
The pointer that kazuo inamori said in his answer is what we call "philosophy" of life. He believes that the more talented people are, the more they need the guidance of life, because if they lack this kind of "philosophy", they will not be used in the right path, which will not only be impossible to succeed, but may also bring disaster to the world.
? 1. Change the way of thinking, and life will turn 180 degrees.
Kazuo inamori summed up the relationship between philosophy and life into two formulas:
① Personality = personality+philosophy
② The result of life and work = mode of thinking × enthusiasm × ability
The first formula shows that the innate character, plus the philosophy learned and understood on the road of life, add up to form a personality. The so-called philosophy, to put it bluntly, is people's answer to "what is right as a person".
Everyone has a chance to have a solid philosophical basis, because in our childhood, parents and teachers taught us not to lie, not to cause trouble to others, to be honest, not greedy, not selfish and so on. It's just that when people grow up, they are fascinated by the inertia of society, gradually forget it and become disapproving.
The second formula shows that a better and happier life outcome depends on the multiplication of three elements. Note that it is multiplication, not addition. This coincides with the opinion of Fukuzawa Yukichi, a famous Japanese thinker and educator. Fukuzawa Yukichi once said: A philosopher with far-reaching thoughts, a noble and upright mind, and a warrior of Yuan Lu, plus the talents of petty officials and the body of the local people, can become a hero in the industrial circle.
In fact, the ability and enthusiasm, no matter what kind of people, the score is above 0. People who are capable but lack enthusiasm are likely to have bad results in life. But the ability is relatively weak, but because they are aware of their own shortcomings, they work hard and are full of enthusiasm in life and work. Such people may achieve results far ahead of the former.
The most important of the three elements is the way of thinking, that is, the philosophy of life, which determines the upper and lower limits of life results, because it is positive and negative, and its score interval is negative 100 to positive 100. Even with high ability and enthusiasm, as long as the way of thinking is negative, the result is negative.
2. Mind determines fate
At the moment of changing one's mentality, life took a turn for the better. It turns out that fate is not fate, but can be changed with the change of mentality. Therefore, oriental philosophy pays attention to "establishing life".
? Only what you actively pursue can be obtained.
? You can do it if you want it. It is important to "think first" in everything. Desire is the beginning of everything. A very important meaning contained in the realization of one's wishes is that the mind does not call for things, and things do not arrive. Desire is the seed, the beginning of everything and the most important factor. Strong and unusual wishes can give birth to the power of action and break the so-called "common sense". Many people regard a strong desire as a very simple thing, thinking that they just don't want to, as long as they want to. But in fact, being able to continue to be enthusiastic about something is itself an important quality similar to talent.
4. The state to be realized is presented in the mind in "color"
Many people regard the statement that strong desire equals the mother of success as spiritualism and think it is not scientific enough. But when you are always passionate about one thing, it means that you are thinking about it continuously and thoroughly. You may have "seen" the result before it happened. In the most extreme state, the realization of this dream, such as in front of us, is extremely vivid, and the details and pictures are even colorful.
If you can describe the process and scene of success and form a clear and logical impression, your probability of success is extremely high. The so-called "impossible" is only impossible for you now, but it is possible for yourself in the future. As long as you persevere, make persistent efforts every day.
? 5. Always pay attention to life and keep working hard.
? Continuous thinking is not aimless thinking, but always paying attention. The so-called intentional attention is to "intentionally" condense one's consciousness and focus on a certain detail of something, which is the opposite of conditioned reflex relying on inertia.
Intentional attention means continuous efforts, and it also means focusing on every ordinary moment. When many people think about the future picture, they often find the huge gap between dream and reality disturbing. However, life is the continuous accumulation of "today" and the continuous continuation of this moment of "now". No matter how eager for quick success and instant benefit, it is impossible for tomorrow to come ahead of today. Earnestly live an ordinary today and work hard for tomorrow, and you can recognize an extraordinary tomorrow.
? Kazuo inamori said, I don't appreciate talented people very much, because talented people often rely on their own talents and ignore today with their specious understanding of the future. On the contrary, ordinary people, with the power of tirelessly and silently focusing on one thing, desperately live today and make a little progress every day. When they look back, they find that they have unconsciously stood on the top of the mountain. Of course, the premise is to constantly improve yourself consciously, rather than casually repeating.
Second, consider the problem from the principle.
We tend to consider things too complicated, but in fact, the essence of things is extremely simple. Just like a very complicated problem in physics, it will be transformed into a very basic knowledge point by decomposition. Everything in the world is like this. At first glance, a complex thing is just a combination of several simple things. Grasping the simple essence behind complex phenomena is an extremely important way of thinking. Getting used to thinking from the principle is the most important way to understand the essence in a thousand things.
1. It's only meaningful to implement it if you know it's not working.
As mentioned above, for life, the so-called principle is, in the final analysis, an answer to a question: what is right as a person? The answer is familiar to everyone, that is, since we were children, we have been listening to what teachers and parents have been saying, to be honest, not to lie, not to be greedy ... Everyone knows the correct answer, so why do most people deviate from the route?
As Lieutenant Colonel Frank, the protagonist of Scent of a Woman, mentioned in his popular speech in the film: At the crossroads of life, I know which way is right, but I never take it. Why? Because it's too bitter.
Acting according to philosophy needs to restrain and standardize one's behavior and desire, which is accompanied by a lot of pain, sometimes bringing temporary losses and suffering to oneself. But even so, kazuo inamori suggested that we choose the road of "not smooth" and "not to the point", because the behavior under the guidance of correct philosophy, even if there is a temporary loss, will be rewarded later.
The key for kazuo inamori to avoid the trap is that he always believes that only by sweating on his forehead, the money earned by his own efforts is the real profit. Under the guidance of this belief, he never wavered in the face of huge profits.
People are very fragile, not deliberately alert, self-alert, even if they know the truth, they will unconsciously become prisoners of desire and temptation. Principle is the source of correctness and strength, but at the same time it is easy to be ignored. If you don't think about it all the time, it will be easily shelved.
2. Listen to the "voice of the gods" at the work site.
Experience is more important than knowledge, which is an important principle in life. "Knowing" does not necessarily mean "meeting". Just like recipes, you can understand them as long as you can read them, but you may not be able to make delicious dishes according to the recipes, because only in the process of repeated experiments on the spot can you gradually realize the subtle essentials. Everything needs knowledge and experience to "know". Before that, it was just "knowledge". In the information society, knowledge is readily available to everyone, but not everyone will "know", because this gap can only be filled by on-site experience.
Indeed, experience is at your job site, otherwise, it is just the experience of others. There are gods at the work site. At the scene, you may try your best to try again and again, but you keep hitting the wall until you are at the end of your rope. But stick to it and you will find that when you think you are desperate, things have just begun.
Kazuo inamori concluded that the answer is always on the spot. But to get the answer from the scene, first of all, you must be as enthusiastic about your work as anyone else, and secondly, you must spend every day extremely seriously.
3. "Like" kindles enthusiasm
Only people with spontaneous combustion can persist in making no less efforts than anyone else and achieve their career. The so-called spontaneous combustion type, that is, people who can burn their passion by themselves. In the world, substances can be divided into three types according to their combustion characteristics: combustible substances that can be burned by ignition; Incombustible substances that can't be burned by ignition; Spontaneous combustion substance that can burn by itself. People are the same.
Some people can burn with enthusiasm without any encouragement. Some people can burn slowly under the encouragement and request of the outside world. Some people are very indifferent, and they are incombustible. For the organization, the incombustible type does great harm. It not only numbs itself, but also takes away the energy of others. And the person who is most beneficial to the organization and most likely to achieve himself is the spontaneous combustion type. They not only burn themselves, but also transfer energy to the people around them.
However, people are different, how can they become spontaneous combustion people? Kazuo inamori said that the most effective way is to like your job. Liking will release powerful energy and urge people to go all out to get things done, thus generating a sense of accomplishment and self-confidence, so as to form a virtuous circle.
However, some people can't like their work, so what should we do?
Kazuo inamori said, let's just stay focused and work hard. In this process, pain will give birth to joy. "Like" and "devotion" are two sides of the coin, and there is a causal cycle between them. You will like it because you are good at it, and you will be good at it because you like it
4. Abandon selfish interests and simplify complex problems.
There are often disputes between Kyocera employees and departments about work. Although they are serious about each other, they are always arguing endlessly, which slows down the pace of work.
Whenever they disagree and are at loggerheads, they will say, then go to the president, put the problem in front of kazuo inamori and let him decide. Kazuo inamori listened carefully to both sides' statements, and the answers he got were always unanimously recognized by both sides, and each of them returned with ease and satisfaction.
In this regard, kazuo inamori said, this is not because his subordinates are hindered by his authority, and the second is not because he is smarter than everyone else, just because he can transcend entangled interests and calmly analyze problems. Disputes between departments seem complicated, and many times they are only caused by small reasons, mostly because of self-interest. Make the problem clear and return to the essence of "what is right as a person", and the problem can be solved easily.
Hironaka Heisuke, a famous mathematician, once said that seemingly complex phenomena are actually just projections of simple things. He once solved a problem that has puzzled the mathematics field for hundreds of years by raising a dimension. For his own problem-solving ideas, he explained that "suppose there is a crossroads with a plane crossing, there is no signal light, the car comes from all sides, some have to turn, some have to go straight, and it is in chaos." From the binary view, there is no solution to this confusion. But what if you add the yuan "height"? If the intersection is turned into a three-dimensional intersection, the traffic can be unimpeded without traffic lights. "
To make a fair and accurate judgment, the key is to have a pair of pure and unbiased eyes, not be blinded by details, and go straight to the root of the problem. Observing problems from this perspective can not only be used to manage enterprises, international problems and family disputes, but also be properly resolved.
When people get rid of the shackles of selfishness and egoism, get out of the circle of interest and persistence, and start from altruism, they can do this.
Third, spend your life with altruism
The word "altruism" sounds a bit serious and sublime, but it's just a very common thing. I want to create a good living environment for my children, buy a massager for my mother, and make my wife's anniversary happy, all of which are altruistic performances. Any behavior, as long as it is out of love for the people around it, is already altruistic.
1. The difference between heaven and hell is determined by mentality.
A Buddhist elder once told kazuo inamori the story of heaven and hell, which we all heard. The elder said that the difference between heaven and hell is not as big as people think. From the appearance, the two are even identical. They are all a group of people, holding long spoons and surrounding the cauldron with delicious and hot food. The difference between the two is only the difference of people's hearts. Everyone in hell wants to eat first, scrambling to hold the food, but the spoon is too long to reach his mouth, and as a result, no one can eat the food, and he is dizzy with hunger. In heaven, on the contrary, everyone gives food to the people around them, and as a result, everyone can eat delicious food.
2. Meet the beauty of people's hearts in begging for alms
? People will be filled with deep, pure and ultimate happiness at the moment when altruistic behavior bears fruit, not at the moment when selfish desires are satisfied.
Altruism is the starting point and end point of business.
The reason for the emergence of business is to meet the needs of others, exchange what they don't have, and achieve a win-win situation for both people and me.
4. Japan's rich countries have moral and personality education.
? In the adolescence of physical and mental growth, children must learn how to live as human beings, which can give them the opportunity to think slowly and seriously, but they must carry out comprehensive personality education.
Fourth, hone the soul and improve the mind
Whether it is educating children or guiding the people, it is actually based on the question "What is the meaning of our life?". If the answer is different, the strategy adopted will be the opposite. Kazuo inamori believes that the answer to this question is: improve the mind and temper the soul. Being trapped by desires is the nature of human beings as animals, but as human beings, we didn't come to this world to live like animals. Of course, life needs plenty of food and clothing, and the yearning for a better life is also the driving force for progress. These should not be completely denied. But those are just external things. When we face our hearts and death, we need a purer soul than before and when we come.
1. The requirement for leaders is that virtue is more important than talent.
In this world, sometimes we really need to emphasize ourselves and stick to our own ideas, but it is also incredible that the corresponding modesty is completely discarded.
2. "Six Diligences" to sharpen your mind
How can we avoid the outcome of these leaders? Is to use a variety of methods to hone the mind and purify the mind.
Pay as much as anyone's efforts
② Modesty and arrogance
③ reflect every day.
(4) be grateful to be alive.
⑤ accumulate good deeds and think altruistically.
6. Don't have emotional troubles.
? Get into the habit of being grateful at any time.
? In addition to being grateful at any time, you should also show your joy frankly. No matter how small things are, as long as you are happy and grateful, you should express it frankly, without beating around the bush or pretending to be deep.
We are indeed controlled by the power called fate, and fate is not equal to fate, so we need to learn the living method to change our own destiny and benefit others' destiny. Pretending to do what people should do and carrying it out in the right way will surely usher in a brilliant future.