A story of success because of self-confidence

Self-confidence is the secret of success

Helen Keller (1880- 1962), an American female scholar, was born in Tuscany, Alabama. /kloc-when she was 0 and a half years old, she suddenly fell ill, which made her blind, deaf and dumb. In such unimaginable life adversity, she embarked on a long journey of life. ...

People say that Helen came into this world with a studious and confident temperament. Although fate was so unfair to young Helen, with the help of her first teacher, Anne Sullivan, tenacious Helen learned to write and speak. Little Helen once confidently declared: "One day, I want to go to college! I'm going to Harvard University! " This day has finally arrived. Radcliffe Women's College of Harvard University arranged her entrance examination in a special way. I saw that she skillfully touched the raised braille with her hand and then answered the question with a typewriter. After 9 hours, I passed all the subjects and got excellent grades in English and German. Four years later, Helen graduated with honors from Radcliffe College with a parchment certificate in her hand. Helen loves life. She devoted her life to the welfare and education of the blind and deaf, and won the praise of world public opinion. She has completed my life's work.

Things and other 14 works have had a worldwide impact. Her self-esteem, self-confidence and indomitable spirit of struggle are known as the eternal pride of mankind.

1 0 Helen, who is blind, deaf and dumb at the age of half, could not have grown into a scholar praised by the world without strong courage and confidence to challenge her fate. Life will face one challenge after another. How do we face the challenge? If the ego does not shrink back, knows the difficulties and finally wins, then the ego will be more perfect and mature. In the face of challenges, we must first affirm ourselves, which means our strength and confidence; Self-confidence can make people constantly strive for self-improvement, overcome difficulties and explore their inner self-potential. Helen is a powerful example. Helen once said, "Faith is the master of fate". It is important to cultivate a confident temperament. But self-confidence is not innate, it is gradually formed and developed in personal life and practice. Seriously sum up your strengths and successful experiences, let self-confidence give us the strength to meet the challenges of life and learn from Helen.

Your mentality determines whether you succeed or not.

Why are some people more successful than others, earn more money, have good jobs, good interpersonal relationships and good health, and live a happy life with high quality all day? It seems that their life is better than others. And many people are busy with work but can only make a living. In fact, there is not much difference between people. But why can many people succeed, overcome all difficulties and make contributions, while some people can't?

Many psychologists have found that this secret is the "mentality" of people. A philosopher said, "Your mentality is your real master." A great man once said, "Either you control life, or life controls you." Your mentality determines who is the mount and who is the jockey. "

About 40 years ago, two brothers lived in a poor village in Fujian. Unable to stand the harsh environment, they decided to leave their hometown and seek development overseas. The eldest brother seems to be lucky, being sold to the rich San Francisco as a slave, and the younger brother being sold to the Philippines, which is poorer than China.

Forty years later, the two brothers were lucky to get together again. They are not who they used to be. The eldest brother became an overseas Chinese leader in San Francisco, with two restaurants, two laundries and a grocery store. His descendants were full, some inherited the mantle, and some became outstanding engineers or computer engineers and other scientific and technological talents.

Where's the younger brother? In fact, he has become a world-famous banker, with a considerable number of forests, rubber plantations and banks in Southeast Asia. After decades of hard work, they all succeeded. But why are there such differences in the career achievements of the two brothers?

When two brothers get together, they can't help talking about what happened after they separated. My brother said that since we China people have no special talents in white society, we can only cook and wash clothes for white people with one pair of hands. In a word, we China people have all taken on jobs that white people refuse to do, and there is no problem in life, but we dare not expect our own careers. For example, my children and grandchildren, although they have read a lot of books, dare not dream. They can only make a living by doing some intermediate technical work with peace of mind. As for entering the upper white society, I believe it is very difficult.

Seeing his brother's success, a brother can't help but envy his happiness. The younger brother said there was no luck. When I first came to the Philippines, I did some rough work, but I found that some locals were stupid and lazy, so I gave up my career, gradually acquired and expanded, and my business gradually expanded.

The above is a true story, reflecting the struggle history of overseas Chinese. It tells us that it is not only the environment that affects our lives, but also the mentality that controls our actions and thoughts. At the same time, mentality also determines a person's vision, career and achievements.

There are two 70-year-old ladies. One thought that this age could be regarded as the end of life, so she began to take care of the aftermath. There is also an idea that what a person can do is not his age, but his idea. So, at the age of 70, she began to learn to climb mountains, several of which are world-famous. Just recently, he climbed Mount Fuji in Japan at the age of 95, breaking the record of the oldest person to climb this mountain. She is the famous old lady Huda Cruz.

It's a miracle that I didn't learn to climb mountains until I was 70 years old. But miracles are created by people. The first sign of a successful person is his way of thinking. If a person is a positive thinker, practices positive thinking and likes to accept challenges and deal with troubles, then he is half successful. The feat of the old lady Huda Cruz just proves this point.

Whether a person can succeed depends on his attitude! The difference between winners and losers is that winners always dominate and control their lives with the most positive thinking, the most optimistic spirit and the most brilliant experience. The loser is guided and dominated by all kinds of failures and doubts in the past.

Some people always like to say that their present situation is caused by others. These people often say that their ideas cannot be changed. However, our situation is not caused by the surrounding environment. In the final analysis, how to look at life and how to grasp it depends on ourselves.

The hardest thing to be a man is to grasp a degree, no matter what you do.

As long as you can freely control the degree of doing things, then you have reached the highest level of life, or at least you can be regarded as a successful person.

The story of Seiji Ozawa's triumph over self-confidence.

Seiji Ozawa is a world-famous symphony conductor. In the final of a world-class conductor competition, he played according to the score given by the jury, and keenly found the discordant voice. At first, he thought the band had made a mistake, so he stopped to play again, but it was still wrong. He thinks there is something wrong with music. At this time, the composer present and the authority of the jury insisted that there was absolutely no problem with the score, but he was wrong. Facing a lot of music masters and authorities, he thought over and over again, and finally said firmly and loudly, "No! There must be something wrong with the score! " As soon as his voice fell, the judges on the bench immediately stood up and gave him warm applause to congratulate him on winning the game.

It turns out that this is a "trap" carefully designed by the judges to test whether the conductor can stick to his correct opinion when he finds that the score is wrong and is "denied" by the authoritative department. Although the first two conductors who participated in the final also found mistakes, they were eventually eliminated because they echoed the opinions of authoritative people. However, Seiji Ozawa won the world command contest because of his confidence.

In view of the pessimistic phenomenon that some industries are not suitable for cooperative sales for generations, Manager Du spent a hakodate to discuss the legendary story of Joe Gillard.

Story 3: Let go, anything is possible: joe girard's revelation!

Joe girard, the world champion of automobile sales in Gisenyi, is the greatest salesman in the world. He has been ranked first in the world in Gisenyi records for 65,438+02 years in a row. He kept the world car sales record: 12 years, selling an average of 6 cars a day, and no one can break it so far. Joe girard was listed in the Guinness Book of Records for selling more than 65,438+03,000 cars, setting a record for the sales of goods. He once became the person who sold the most new cars in the world for 15 years in a row, in which he sold 1300 vehicles on average every year for 6 years.

Joe girard is also the most popular speaker in the world. He passed on his valuable experience to many elites of Fortune 500 companies. Millions of people from all over the world were moved by his speech and inspired by his behavior.

Before the age of thirty-five, joe girard was a complete failure. He has a rather severe stutter. He has changed 40 jobs and still achieved nothing. He even worked as a thief and ran a casino. However, who can imagine that such a person who is not optimistic about anyone and is almost desperate for debt can reach the top of the world in just three years and be called "the greatest salesman in the world" by Guinness World Records.

How did he do it? Learning with an open mind, working hard, paying attention to service and sharing sincerely are the four most important keys to joe girard's success.

Sales is a business that needs wisdom and strategy. But in our opinion, confidence and persistence are the most important, because according to the forecast, no one will think of joe girard's later glory!

It can be inferred that if you are born better than joe girard and have never stolen anything, if you don't stutter, then you have no reason not to succeed, unless you have no confidence in yourself, unless you really have never worked hard and struggled!

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During the Warring States period, the Qin army surrounded Handan, the capital of Zhao. Zhao sent to Chu for help. Diners in Ping Yuanjun are very confident, recommend themselves and ask to go. As a result, he finally persuaded the king of Chu to agree to rescue Zhao. Later generations used "volunteer" to describe volunteer service and self-recommendation. This story also reflects that Mao Sui is a confident person.

(2) Yan Zili Chu.

During the Spring and Autumn Period, Qi and Chu were both big countries. On one occasion, the King of Qi sent a doctor, Yan Zi, to Chu. Relying on the strength of his own country, the king of Chu wanted to take the opportunity to insult Yan Zi and show the prestige of Chu State. Knowing that Yan Zi was short, the King of Chu dug a hole five feet high beside the city gate. When Yan Zi came to the State of Chu, the King of Chu told people to close the city gate and let Yan Zi out of this hole. Yan Zi looked at it and said to the receptionist, "This is a dog hole, not a city gate. Only by visiting the' Dog Country' can you enter from the dog hole. " I'll wait here for a while, and you'll find out what kind of country Chu is. "The receptionist immediately told this to the king of Chu. The king of Chu had to ask him to open the city gate and welcome Yan Zi in.

(3) latitude and longitude reclamation

After Emperor Yan's daughter drowned in the East China Sea, her soul became a bird named Jingwei. Although small, Jingwei is full of confidence in the face of the vast sea. He often takes wood and stones from Xishan to fill the East China Sea, vowing to fill it up.

Jack Welch, the former CEO of General Electric Company of the United States, known as the "world's first CEO", once famously said: "All management is centered on' self-confidence'." With this self-confidence, Welch showed extraordinary leadership skills during his 20 years as CEO of General Electric Company. Welch's self-confidence is inseparable from his family education. Welch's mother's concern for her son is mainly reflected in cultivating his self-confidence. Because she knows and has confidence, and then she can have everything.

Welch has suffered from stuttering since childhood. I have a lisp, so I often joke. Welch's mother tried her best to turn her son's defect into an inspiration. She often says to Welch, "This is because you are so smart that no one's tongue can keep up with your smart head." So since childhood, Welch never had the slightest worry about his stuttering. Because he believes his mother's words from the bottom of his heart: his brain turns faster than other people's tongues. Encouraged by his mother, stuttering did not hinder Welch's academic and career development. Moreover, most people who have noticed his weakness have given him some respect, because he can overcome this defect and stand out in the business world. Michael, president of NBC News, appreciates Welch. He even joked, "Jack is really good and efficient. I wish I could stutter myself. "

Welch is not tall, but he loves sports since he was a child. When he was in primary school, he wanted to sign up for the school basketball team. When he told his mother this idea, her mother encouraged him to say, "Do whatever you want, and you will succeed!" " So Welch joined the basketball team. At that time, he was almost three-quarters of the other players. However, because of his self-confidence, Welch never realized this, so that decades later, when he looked at the photos of himself and other teammates in the sports team, he was surprised to find that he was almost always the weakest one in the whole team.

The experience of playing in the school sports team as a teenager is very important for Welch's growth. He thinks his talents were trained on the court. He said: "everything we have experienced will be the cornerstone of our confidence." Throughout his student days, Welch's mother has been his most enthusiastic cheerleader. Almost all relatives, friends and neighbors have heard a story about her son told by Welch's mother, and at the end of each story, she will say that she is proud of her son.

While cultivating her son's self-confidence, she also told Welch that life is an endless struggle. You should be confident, but don't care too much about success or failure.

Success requires self-confidence. If there is no confidence that "one day, I will ride the wind and waves, raise my muddy sails and build bridges on the deep sea", "I was born useful, spinning a thousand silver coins, and they will all come back!" And "Go out and laugh in the sky, are we Artemisia people?" , there would be no generation of "poetry fairy" Li Bai. Without the self-confidence of "waving a bow like a moon, looking at the northwest and shooting wolves", there would be no generation of literary giant Su Shi. If there is no "self-confidence, if you live for two hundred years, you will hit the water for three thousand miles" and "count the romantic figures and look at the present", how can there be an endless mountain of money, which has created the glory of China and brought happiness to hundreds of millions of people?

Liu Bang and Xiang Yu witnessed Qin Shihuang's huge travel team, beautiful car account and awe-inspiring prestige in all directions. They were born with an ambitious self-confidence: "A gentleman should be like this" and "can replace it". As a result, Emperor Gaozu achieved the great cause of emperors for nearly a hundred years, and the overlord of Chu became a tragic hero in the past. Balzac was full of confidence, gave up the career chosen by his family and resolutely embarked on the road of creation. In the end, the earth-shattering "human comedy" will shine in the future.