Why do we persist?
We persist not because we see hope, but because we persist so that we see hope.
Once upon a time, there was a young man who had achievements in his youth.
Many reporters ask him how you can make such a big achievement at an early age.
The young man said:
"When I was a boy, I was a boy who easily loses my patience, until a story happened."
The young man told his story to the reporter who interviewed him. Because of his impatience from childhood, doing anything is a brief period of enthusiasm.
Then one day, his father called him and gave him a plank and a knife, and told him:
"Every day you use this knife, scratch once on this plank, and tell me when you cut the plank in half."
At first, he thought the game was very interesting and scratch once on the plank every day.
But after a while, he found the game particularly boring, he went to his father, and told his father:
"Dad, can I scratch a few more on the plank at once?"
His father said in earnest: "No, you can only scratch once on this plank every day."
He understood what his father meant, and then went on to the same spot on the plank and scratch it every day.
After a while, the plank was cut off by him.
He took the plank which was cut into two pieces and went to his father, and his father asked him:
"How did you do that?"
He was happy to tell his father: "I just follow the instructions you gave me, every day scratch the plank at the same position."
The father smiled and said to him, "Can you cut off this plank at one time?"
"Not at all.”
His father said: "Isn’t this just like our life?" It's not how much strength you use at once, it's that you choose a direction and stick to it.”
After hearing this story, the reporter who interviewed him gave his father a thumbs up.
This is the story I heard when I was in high school, at that time due to the college entrance examination, the teacher told us this story, and tell us:
"The college entrance exam now is your only expectation. You do not have much time to go to the college entrance examination and hold on for a while, time will give you the answer you want.”
At that time, the story touched me, and help me hold on to the end.
Although the test results are not ideal, at that time, it really became a guide to my direction.
Because at that time, we only have the college entrance examination, no matter how tired we are, our hearts are very happy.
So, is there a need for "persistence" for us now?
Some people after graduating from college was thinking to properly restrain themselves so that they can become the eyes of others successful youth, but after a while, they did not see the results, began to indulge themselves.
Everyone has a "crash" mentality: When doing anything, they want to see the results fast.
But they did not think that anything, is step-by-step, it is impossible to "crash".
There is a " thousand hour law" that says:
A man who wants to be an expert in a field must devote himself to it and spend 10,000 hours.
For this 10,000-hours, it is too abstract, to be specific:
Work 8 hours a day, 5 days a week, which means 10 years or so.
Just imagine, did we spent 10,000 hours doing something?
For us now, persistence is too important for us.
If you want to have a different life, then you have to pay a little more than others.
After writing so much about the importance of "persistence", I would like to share with you some of the "how to stick to do one thing" methodology to help you in times of helplessness.
1) Digitize your goals
Use the numbers to indicate your goal whenever you complete a phased goal, take a pen and record it down.
This, I believe that everyone is trying, but will also enjoy, because I see a lot of friends wrote: My fifth wake up early in the morning; my fourth exercise this week.
This number approach lets you know for sure how much you've done today and how much has not been done;
You can also fulfill your vanity and show off to your friends.
Like myself, I will give myself a target to write how many words, have a target on how many kilometers to run, and so on.
Only if we digitize our goals will we have a greater incentive to stick to the task.
2) Do it together with like-minded partners
Everyone has the same weakness, that is: lazy.
If there is a person is whipping you, then you will be better, at least in this respect, you will not easily give up.
I have a friend, he wants to learn Spanish, that is, some sentences, and some oral expression, he called a group of friends who also want to learn Spanish, and they studied together, learned from each other, so that the original boring Spanish learning, became a very interesting thing.
This is the two ways I want to share, as long as your execution is strong enough, then you will grow faster and much better than other people.
In fact, everyone has a lot of thought about persistence, and it is also a topic that can be kept on talking about.
So, choose a good direction and stick to it and be consistent.
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