Chapter 10 2. Don’t say it’s difficult, first ask if you’re doing your best

A friend complained to me: the unit arranged for him to go to the bank to get a loan, which he thought would be easy to do, but he ran many times, but still failed. He laughed at himself and said: There is a poem that says: Mountains and rivers are full of doubts, and there is no way out, and there is another village with dark willows and flowers.But for me, I often feel that the will is clear, but in fact there is still no way out.He said frustratedly: I really tried my best, and I really don't want to do it at all! I asked: Did you really try your best?Do you really know what it means to do your best?

He stopped talking and looked at me quietly.So, I told him a story I heard during my investigation in Japan: Shiguang Toshio is a well-known figure in the Japanese economic circles.When he reorganized Toshiba, he encountered difficulties with insufficient funds.It was just after the war, and it was not easy to raise funds.He went to a bank to apply for a loan, but the minister in charge of loans was very cold to him.After his continuous efforts, the minister's attitude improved slightly, but he never let go of the loan issue. Finally came the day when if there is still no funding within two days, then the company will have to shut down all operations.Shi Guangminfu decided to do everything he could: no matter what, he had to force the minister to submit!

He asked his secretary to find him a big bag, bought two boxes of lunch on the street and put it in it, and then rushed to the bank.As soon as he saw the minister, he began to grind hard, hoping to give him a loan.But the other party just didn't let go. The two sides launched another verbal war, and before they knew it, it was almost the time to get off work in the afternoon.When the sales department's off-duty bell rang, the minister felt relieved and picked up his briefcase to go home for dinner. Unexpectedly, Shi Guangminfu took out two boxes of lunch from the bag: Mr. Minister, I know you have worked hard, but in order for us to have a long talk, I specially prepared the meals.I hope you don't dislike this shabby box lunch.After our company gets better, we will thank you, your great benefactor.

Faced with his rogue spirit, the Minister is really helpless.But it was also the perseverance he showed that made the minister have confidence in his loan and finally approved his loan application. I asked this friend: Compared with Shiguang Senfu, can you say that you have tried your best? The friend laughed and said: We often only try our best for ourselves, but in fact we don't try our best! So true.The reason why we say that things are difficult is often because we have not tried our best!We say we did our best, when in reality we are not living up to our full potential!Therefore, when facing problems and difficulties, we should never say that it is difficult first, but first ask ourselves: Have I tried my best?

(1) Push yourself into a situation where you have to Difficulty is the number one reason we refuse to work hard.But is the problem really that difficult to solve? Car magnate Henry.Ford, known as the man who put America on wheels.Once, he wanted to make a V8 engine.When he communicated this idea to engineers, the engineers thought that it could only be designed on drawings, but it was absolutely impossible to manufacture it in reality.Still, Ford insisted: find a way to make it. Reluctantly, engineers began to try, and after a few months, their answer to Ford was: there was nothing we could do.

But Ford still said: keep trying! More than a year has passed, and there is still no result. All engineers feel that they should give up anyway.But Ford still insisted it had to be done. At this moment, an engineer had a sudden inspiration and found a solution. Ford finally created the never-before-successful V8 engine. Why did the engineers think that it was impossible to solve the problem under the pressure of Ford? The key point is to put aside the impossible precepts first, and just think about whether I am doing my best, whether I have tried everything and exhausted all possibilities.

If you focus your mind on the difficulty, your mind will run faster, and you will find thousands of reasons to prove that it is really difficult, and it will be easy for people to succumb.Because fear makes it impossible for people to deal with problems calmly, and even leads to paralysis of action. However, if you don't ask whether the problem is difficult, but only ask yourself whether you have done your best, you will travel lightly and try your best to tap your potential, but it will be easier to solve the problem. Push yourself to the point where you must, and you will create unimaginable miracles!

(2) Why don't you try your best? Don't discount your life. It is difficult for people who love to discount to succeed. Carter, a twenty-four-year-old naval officer, was called to see Hyman.General Lee Cofer.During the conversation, the general let Carter pick whatever he wanted to talk about.Then, I asked Carter some more questions, but every time the general asked him, he broke into a cold sweat. Finally, Carter began to understand: he thought he knew a lot, but it was far from enough.At the end of the conversation, the general asked him about his academic performance in the Naval Academy, and Carter immediately said proudly: General, in a class of 820 people, I am ranked 59th.

The general frowned and asked, "Why aren't you number one? Have you tried your best?" This remark was like a slap in the face, affecting Carter's life.After that, he tried his best in everything and later became the President of the United States. To do our best is not to give yourself any excuses for being lazy and perfunctory, and to put yourself through the greatest test of life. To do your best is to focus your consciousness on how to solve the problem, reduce the anxiety of solving the problem, travel lightly, concentrate your mind, and create the miracle of life. (3) Liberate myself from the illusion that I have done my best

The reason why people can't do their best often comes from the illusion that I have done my best and I can't take a step forward. In fact, this is just an excuse for not wanting to accept the challenge. Kazuo Inamori is hailed as the saint of management by the Japanese economic circles.The Kyoto Ceramic Company he founded is one of the most famous high-tech companies in Japan.Not long after the company was founded, it received an order for U-shaped insulators for picture tube parts from the famous Panasonic Electronics.This order is of extraordinary significance to Kyoto Ceramics.

However, doing business with Panasonic is by no means easy, and the business community even has such an evaluation of Panasonic Electronics: Panasonic Electronics will pluck the hair off your tail. For new start-up companies like Kyoto Ceramics, although Matsushita Electronics took a fancy to the quality of its products and gave them the opportunity to supply them, it was not ambiguous about the price at all, and asked for price cuts every year. In this regard, some people in Kyoto Ceramics are very discouraged, because they think: We have tried our best, and there is no potential to be tapped.If you continue to do this, there will be no profit at all, so it is better to just give up.However, Kazuo Inamori believes that the problems of Panasonic are indeed difficult to solve, but if he succumbs to difficulties, he may make excuses for not tapping his potential enough. So, after repeated explorations, the company created a management method called amoeba management.The specific method is to divide the company into individual amoeba groups, as the most basic independent accounting unit, and implement the responsibility of reducing costs to everyone.Even an old lady who is in charge of packing knows the original price of the rope used for packing, and understands how much loss a waste of a rope will cause.In this way, the company's operating costs are greatly reduced, and even under the strict conditions of Panasonic Electronics, the profits are spectacular. Some problems are indeed very stubborn, and many methods have been tried, but they still cannot be solved.So some people think that it is the limit, and it is useless to try harder.In fact, when you have really worked hard, you will know that the so-called difficulties are actually just the shackles of your own mind.As long as we continue to work hard, the potential of development will become greater and greater.If you don't work hard enough, you certainly don't know how big your potential is. Free yourself from the illusion that I've done my best!If you work harder, you will find that you still have a lot of untapped potential!