When you are frustrated, you will practice hard, and you will work hard when you are proud.

This generation is under too much pressure, fierce competition and time constraints. Therefore, although it is not expected to be smooth sailing, I always hope that the road to life is straight. Even if there are any difficulties and setbacks in the middle, it is always going forward without detours and staying in the original. No waste of time. It’s just a pity that even if life is a movie, we don’t have big names to make a story, so accidents always appear. The most uncomfortable ones are often failures and frustrations, but powerlessness.

The so-called frustration is this feeling. It is not a failure after a huge challenge, but an opportunity that has no challenge at all. Whether the status quo seems good or bad in the eyes of others, there is no hope in itself.

I have had this experience before. At that time, I was an ordinary grassroots sales manager. I was inexplicably involved in the internal struggle of the group, and was dispatched to a northern industrial city with a total population of just over one million to be responsible for the local market. Due to the low level of local consumption, my material life is not necessarily poor, but I am very depressed.

First of all, the branch office I worked for has a very good information exchange mechanism. Through this exchange, I can learn a lot of new tactics and ideas, and at the same time verify my creativity through experiment and sharing. In short, this kind of communication can make people grow fast. And is conducive to the formation of a thinking system. However, in the place where I am now, not only is it a taboo with other companies in the same industry, but also the internal peers are too deep and rarely communicate. After staying in such a place for a while, I feel like I am a blind man and a blind man.

Secondly, with the information occlusion, it is the rigidity of the employee's mentality. On the one hand, this kind of rigidity is manifested in the status quo, not thinking about progress, no dissatisfaction with performance or income, no more pursuits and expectations for the future; on the other hand, it naturally shows that there is no shortage of the status quo. What is dissatisfied, naturally refuses to accept any change in the way of working.

However, as a newly appointed sales manager, especially as a young person who wants to do more, I no doubt hope that through some reforms, I can achieve better results than my predecessor. I pursue personal efforts to reverse the logic of the unfavorable environment. In the circumstances, I tried to make various efforts, including instilling new visions and values, establishing a new reward and punishment system to form incentives for behavior, and setting up pilot departments to drive results. Others, recruiting new employees to form new departments to use the squid effect to stimulate old employees. These methods are not ineffective, and the performance of the market under my jurisdiction is gradually rising; however, the sense of powerlessness still lingers. I finally found that I could not fundamentally change the entire company. As long as my driving force slightly subsided, the company immediately returned to its original state. . What is even more frightening is that I have not made any progress in my ability from this process. I feel that my way forward has stagnated at this station.

I finally admit that when people have nothing to do. All I can do is repeat the work that can't be done in vain, like Sisyphus. This waste of life is a huge torture for people like me, but I can't escape. Later, I looked back and thought that my state was almost depressive. Fortunately, I didn't know the term at the time, otherwise I might fall into a vicious circle of self-suggestion.

Interestingly, after a few months of this suffering, I began to come up with the idea that doing nothing is a growth in itself. Since I can't do more at work, then I can do my best to do the limit. So I spent more time on my own day to go out to work, go back to my place to study at night, go out for more than an hour before going to bed, smoke, think. In the past half of the year, my reading was not large, but the seriousness of reading was unprecedented. At the same time, regarding my own status and future, about my own heart, about the development of industry and career, I conducted a round of unresolved thinking. .

The value of this experience was not reflected at the time, but when I regained a chance to release my talent after a year of silence, I was pleasantly surprised to find that although I did not have much benefit in the specific work skills. However, the character has matured a lot, and there have been many changes in the comprehensiveness and softness of dealing with problems. It is also more able to understand the different positions and ideas of people in different roles at work. It can be said that the tricks are still those tricks, but the internal forces have risen.

Another role of a quiet year is that I will no longer take the opportunity to be the inevitable result of my talents and efforts, but to cherish it as a gift from heaven. I have perfected every detail of every job, and I have tried my best to help every colleague or client. I have to cherish any opportunity to take responsibility because I know that they may not come again. The release of the year after the accumulation has made me shine. I am like a newcomer just after the retreat. I have attracted a lot of attention from a lonely little character to a younger generation in the industry. people.

After that, I experienced some ups and downs, but I have already understood the true meaning between the ups and downs. The development of life can never be uniform or always accelerating, but stop and go, occasionally when detours and U-turns. The important point of the so-called self-knowledge is to clearly judge the state of his own stage, that is, to what extent he has control over the surrounding environment and the outcome of the matter. Many times we can't really change anything. At this time, we force ourselves to go against the trend. It is not only futile, but also makes ourselves more frustrated. It may also make our living environment worse. When we have the ability to influence the outcome of things. At the time, if you do nothing, it is the biggest waste of your life and talent.

In the frustration, hard work is not only because there is nothing to do with other things at this time, but also because it is a rare opportunity to study quietly. We have a lot of important and urgent things, because we are busy with transactional work and have no time to do it. In the rare free time, we just make up for this missing lesson. I saw that many successful people did two things when they were frustrated: reading and running. Because these two things have the following characteristics: First, it is very important; Second, there is no time to do when you gain power; Third, you can do it freely and the only thing you can do now.

Trying to bloom when you are proud is not only to make up for the time when you are frustrated, but also because it is a rare opportunity. One minute on the stage, ten years of work, and the stage of life. No matter how good the effort is, there is no chance to show it. Therefore, if you have the opportunity, you must do it wonderfully, leave no shackles, and take as many steps as you can in a limited opportunity. In addition, the impression of the bloom of the triumphant moment is likely to pull yourself out of the power of the next frustration.

A friend who made an investment told me that successful professional investors are not always accurate predictors of market changes, and they often make mistakes. The difference is that these people can maximize the results when they are right, and avoid losses as much as possible when they are wrong. Regardless of whether this statement is true or not, I feel that it can be applied to other aspects of life.