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Burn one's Bridges to win

"Ships of tens of thousands of tons are rarely overturned, but small boats with light foundations are often overturned. A ship is safest when she is laden; It is most dangerous when the ship is empty."

By JyyedgPublished 2 years ago 3 min read
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An old and experienced captain was returning from unloading his cargo on a vast ocean when a terrible storm struck. The sailors were in a panic. The old captain ordered them to open the hold and fill it with water. "Is the captain mad? Filling the hold of the ship with water will only increase the pressure on the ship and make it sink. Isn't that suicidal?" "Muttered a young sailor.

Seeing the captain's stern face, the sailors did as he was told. As the water in the hold rose higher and higher, and as the ship sank inch by inch, the threat from the still violent winds and waves diminished little by little, the ship became steady.

The captain looked at the relieved sailors and said, "Ships of ten thousand tons are seldom overturned. It is usually small boats with light foundations that are overturned. A ship is safest when she is laden; It is most dangerous when the ship is empty."

This is called the "stress effect". Those who muddle along without any pressure, just like a ship without cargo in a storm, will often be overturned by a storm of life.

Pressure, can make people in thoughts and feelings by multiple impact, from which the true meaning of life, so as to consciously grasp the direction of life. There is a middle-aged man who has been working in an important department for more than ten years. He has a little power in his hands, but he is not arrogant. He is upright and clean. When talking about this situation, he said: "It should benefit from the training of educated youth going to the countryside. Not to mention the hardships and hardships in the countryside, due to family reasons and political repression, I was not allowed to recruit or go to school. Among the educated youth who went to the countryside, I was the last one to return to the city. I know it didn't come easy. With the convenience of my job, it is easy to go astray, but I know the end result. Think of our peers who worked with the educated youth in those days. Most of them are still scratching in the earth with their backs to the sky. Therefore, I have always been able to maintain a sober and rational. In fact, if you want to do something, you have to do something. Do what should be done well, and never do what should not be done. A man must lose something to gain something. What should be lost should not be stingy, even reluctantly give up. What is gained is not always good, and what is lost is not always bad. Whether you can deal with these problems calmly and properly depends on your own self-cultivation and character."

On the contrary, if people are too lucky, they are often shallow without the "feeding" of pressure and sorrow. Lazy in thinking, I do not know the height of the sky, also do not know how much their ability, and eventually can only do nothing, become dust.

Rationally treat the moderate tension formed by pressure can enhance the exciting process of the brain, improve the physiological function of the brain, and make people think quickly and react quickly.

The story of burning Bridges is the best proof of turning pressure into motivation.

Xiang Yu led the Chu army to rescue the State of Zhao. When he saw that the Qin army was very powerful, the soldiers were afraid of war. Xiang Yu himself led an elite force to spearhead the battle against the main qin army. When the troops crossed the Zhanghe River, Xiang Yu ordered his men: "Cut through all the boats and sink them to the bottom of the river. Smash all cooking POTS and throw them away. The army marched with three days' provisions to meet the enemy." After the battle with the Qin army, because of losing the way to retreat, the Chu army bravely took the lead. As a result, they won nine battles and nine victories in succession, turning the tide of the war at one stroke.

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