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Don't be defeated by difficulties

Failure happens to everyone

By xllkPublished about a year ago 5 min read
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There was once a novelist, severely depressed, who spent his days in the sparsely populated outer suburbs of New York. I got tired of cooking, tired of using my left hand and my right hand, and I hitchhiked all the way to New York, and I found the number of a popular actress in the Yellow Pages, and I called, and I said, this is Salinger, who wrote Catcher in the Rye, and I want to sleep with you. Then he slept with the movie star. It's -- it's amazing, but it has nothing to do with money.

People from small to big, there are a few basic questions, can not avoid, such as: what is love? What is sex? How should one spend one's life? Where do people come from? What is out of time? Why do ethics look like this?

Because you are the son of the God of wealth, and you were born with your mouth full of bank cards, because you were born with money that is not money to eat and do whatever you want in the normal sense, but money that allows a lot of people to eat whatever they want and do whatever they want. So compared to other ordinary people, you had another problem early on. There is no hiding: What is money? I think you must have asked your father the god of wealth, he must have his side of the story, I am now with you nagging, convenient for you to compare. You should know that there are no right answers to all of these questions that can't be avoided. In the future, if you meet those who insist on only one standard answer, the vast majority are fools, very few are big rape big slip, wash your brain as underwear, turn you into a fool. In short, the more you understand a new way of saying things, the more powerful your universe is.

On the one hand, money is nothing, you have money is nothing.

A lot of greatness has nothing to do with money.

For example, there was once a poet who got up one night to urinate. Seeing the moon, he was sad and wrote twenty words: "There is a bright moonlight in front of my bed, but I wonder if it is frost on the ground. Look up at the bright moon, bow down and think of home." Two thousand years later, hundreds of millions of elementary school students pee at night, see the moon, all think of these twenty words. It's -- it's amazing, but it has nothing to do with money.

There was once a novelist, severely depressed, who spent his days in the sparsely populated outer suburbs of New York. I got tired of cooking, tired of using my left hand and my right hand, and I hitchhiked all the way to New York, and I found the number of a popular actress in the Yellow Pages, and I called, and I said, this is Salinger, who wrote Catcher in the Rye, and I want to sleep with you. Then he slept with the movie star. It's -- it's amazing, but it has nothing to do with money.

For example, there was once a painter who fought fiercely against the ancients when he was young. He imitated all the famous ancient masters worth imitating and was confident that his fake painting could fool all the experts for 500 years. Later he went to Japan, see Japan known as the collection of stone Tao first person, pointing to the person's most cherished a set of stone Tao landscape volume, that he was practicing twenty years ago. Collectors firmly do not believe, the painter said, you ask the framer to open the fourth page on the lower right corner, the back has my Zhang Daqian private print. It's -- it's amazing, but it has nothing to do with money.

For example, there was once a businessman who led a computer company that had never made mobile phones to make iPhone after nearly 20 years of semi-monopoly production by Nokia, MOTOROLA, Ericsson and other giant enterprises. "Why would I want to make a phone? Look at the phones in your hands. How can we live with ourselves using such a bad product?" It's -- it's impressive, but it's not directly about money. For example, I have seen a stranger driving in Beijing on a rainy day. A pedestrian crossing the street dropped a bag of peaches in his hurry in the middle of the street in front of the man's car. The man pressed the emergency light, jumped out of the car, and helped pedestrians pick up the peach as quickly as possible. It's -- it's amazing, but it has nothing to do with money. A more succinct argument is that even though money is great, it's not so great that you have it, because you didn't earn it.

Money, on the other hand, is a good thing. Money is a kind of power. If you use it well, you can become great.

For example, cultivate a quiet voice. Pick a hundred places around the world where people are not mainstream and life is rich. Rent a room in each place, provide three meals, Internet and a bed. Every year we find ten poets, ten novelists, ten painters, ten photographers, ten house designers, ten composers, ten singers, ten dancers, ten monks and ten people who think about the moral laws of time and space. Not hot sellers, not long established, not mainstream positions. The 100 men lived in the 100 houses for a year without any requirement for production. They could think, create, read, touch themselves, eat, drink, gamble, do anything not prohibited by local laws, or do nothing at all.

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