Return to zero

Have you ever interviewed a long-distance runner and asked him what is the secret of his outstanding performance in the competition? He closed his eyes and thought a little bit and said, "It is zero."

Return to zero? Seeing that we don't understand, the long-distance runner takes out a pocket calculator and says that no matter how big the number you press with the button, you have to go back to zero first. Just like we are in the ring stadium, no matter how many medals you have in the past, no matter how unpredictable your long-distance running record is, you have to stand on the starting line, return to zero, and then start again from zero. .

I also interviewed a successful entrepreneur and asked him what his unbeaten magic weapon was for decades. The old man who had spent the year in this year quietly thought for a long time and then sighed and said: "I will tell you a story!" He said that it was the first time he sat on the throne of the chairman and general manager. At that time, he was in his 20s and was very young. It can be said that it was a time of prosperity. At that time, he was full of ambitions, a series of colorful and magnificent dreams, and the billions of assets left by his fathers. He was full of ambition and thought that there was nothing in the world that he did not succeed. After his father knew his mind, he said nothing. He only gave him a big zero on a piece of paper: "This is what I want to send you." He stared at the sheet of paper for a few days, but how Thinking, I can't understand the meaning of my father's zero. He asked his father for advice. His father said, "Look everything that I have left for you as zero. Think of the life you just started as zero. Do you find out what you have now?"

He pondered for a moment and suddenly realized: "I have nothing, I only have one zero." Realizing that he is zero, he is very cautious when he does things. He knows that his company has a lot of assets, but that is the father left For himself, it is zero. He knows that his company is well-known and has a reputation in the three places, but he knows that all the glory belongs to his father, and for himself, it is only a zero.

For decades, no matter how successful he is, no matter how much he has failed, he always remembers to return to zero. Returning success to zero, so he has never been arrogant for success; he has zeroed his failure, so he has not been discouraged by failure. Not arrogant, not discouraged, he did his own life step by step, and finally built a successful giant tower with a piece of successful brick.

He is very old now, but he still insists on his "zeroing" philosophy, and he always feels that he is starting again, so he lives very calmly and very stable. He smiled and said: "For tomorrow, everything is zero, so everything must start from scratch every day!"

Later, I occasionally heard a talk show from a US aerospace scientist on TV. Facing the space shuttle on the launch tower that made the world look good, when the reporter asked the scientist, he was going to fly to the universe and his future is uncertain. Space Shuttle, when he wanted to say what he wanted to say, the scientist pondered for a long time, then he raised his head in tears and said, "Return to zero!" Not only many TV viewers, but even the female reporter who was interviewing was paralyzed until the scientist explained slowly: "The so-called zeroing is to pray for it to start from our planet, travel in space, and complete all the work on Jupiter. Then return to our planet safely. "It turns out that his return to zero is a great perfection!

In the colorful and long life where the goal is far more than one, the journey is far more than a period of time, have we let our failures and successes, laughter and tears go back to zero in time? Let the failure return to zero in time, then you will not have the shadow of rain and snow in life; let the success return to zero in time, then you will not have the arrogance and arrogance of life...

Let all things in life go back to zero in time, then you will have a successful result, and a new beginning with hope and hope!

Excerpt from "Opening a flower for others"