The most inspiring and serious story of infinite power

Lead: Earnestness is a quality, but also a persistence. Doing such a thing is not like learning. After reading the following inspirational stories, you will understand that seriousness is a terrible force.

1in the winter of 944, the allied forces completed the siege of Germany, and the collapse of the fascist Third Reich was imminent. The whole of Germany is shrouded in doomsday atmosphere, with economic collapse, shortage of materials and serious difficulties in people's lives.

For ordinary people, food shortage is a matter of life and death. To make matters worse, because Germany is located in the middle of Europe, it is very cold in winter. If there is not enough fuel at home, it can't survive the long winter at all. In this case, the local government had to allow ordinary people to go up the mountain and cut down trees.

Can you imagine how the Germans cut down trees on the eve of the collapse of the empire? When people's lives are threatened, forestry personnel of government departments do not plunder, but trawl in the snow field near the sea to find the old, weak, sick and disabled trees, mark them and warn the people that if unmarked trees are cut down, they will be punished. In the eyes of some people, such a rule is simply a joke: the country is about to die, who will carry out the punishment?

In Germany at that time, because Hitler was dying, almost all government officials were transferred to the front, and there were no policemen, let alone judges. The whole country is in anarchy. Incredibly, however, until the end of World War II, there was no case of illegal felling of unmarked trees by residents in Germany, and every German faithfully implemented this non-binding regulation.

This is a story told by the famous scholar Ji Xianlin in his memoir Ten Years of Studying in Germany. He was studying in Germany at that time and witnessed this scene with his own eyes. So more than 50 years later, he is still lamenting this matter, saying that Germans "have the conditions of anarchy but not anarchy."

What kind of power makes Germans show self-discipline beyond ordinary people's imagination in such an extremely harsh environment? The answer is only two words: serious. Because seriousness is a habit, it goes deep into a person's bone marrow and melts into a person's blood. Because of these two words, the German nation miraculously rose rapidly after two devastating world wars in the middle and early last century.

Tell another serious little story about the Germans.

Anyone familiar with the diesel engine manufacturing industry knows that there is a saying: the noise of domestic diesel engines can be heard several kilometers away, and dozens of square meters around diesel engines are covered with oil stains; The diesel engine produced by Germans can be placed on the carpet in the office, and it will not affect the people in the next room at all.

Therefore, in 1984, Wuhan Diesel Engine Factory hired Gehrig, a retired German entrepreneur, as the director.

Gehrig's first meeting after taking office was attended by leaders of relevant municipal departments. Without any ceremony, Gehrig cut to the chase: "If quality is the life of the product, then cleanliness is the key to the quality and life of the cylinder." As he spoke, he grabbed a handful of iron sand from the jar placed on the conference table in front of the leaders of relevant parties, and said with a livid face, "This jar was a sample that I randomly sampled in the production workshop before the meeting. Please have a look. What did I get from it? In Germany, the impurities in cylinders can't be higher than 50 mg, but the data I know is that the average impurities in cylinders produced by your factory are around 5000 mg. Imagine, if you can grab an iron sand cylinder at hand, how can the impurities not exceed the standard? I don't think this is a technical problem, but the responsibility of producers and managers, which is the result of extremely careless work. " In a word, the relevant managers sitting in the conference room are fidgeting and embarrassed.

Two years later, when Gehrig resigned for various reasons, the impurities in the cylinders produced by Wuhan Diesel Engine Factory had dropped to about 100 mg on average. After returning home, Gehrig came to China many times and visited Wuhan Diesel Engine Factory every time. In the factory, he sometimes holds a magnetic head inspection handle and finds that there is iron powder in the cylinder, forgetting that he is no longer the factory director, and angrily growling at the people around him: "How can you be so careless!"

If a strong Germany is a terrible nation, then seriousness is also a terrible force, which can make a country strong and a small country invincible. We should really learn from the German spirit of being serious and almost rigid, and conscientiously implement it in our own dribs and drabs. Once the word "serious" goes deep into your own bone marrow and melts into your own blood, you will also glow with a power that scares everyone, including yourself.

And a piece of gauze.

In the operating room of a big hospital, a well-known doctor is undergoing major surgery, and a young girl is a responsible nurse for the first time. The operation has been completed and the wound will be stitched up. The young nurse suddenly found a problem: "Doctor, you took out 1 1 gauze, and we used 12 gauze."

The doctor said impatiently, "The gauze has been taken out, so sew it quickly!" " "

"impossible." The little nurse carefully counted the gauze on the plate. "Only 1 1 block, there should be another block."

"I have the final say here." The doctor said sternly, "sew it up!" "

"No, you can't do that! You are responsible for the patient. "

The doctor smiled. He raised his hand to the little nurse. The piece of 12 gauze is in his palm. He has been looking for an assistant, and he thinks he has found it.

Stick to what you think is right, and be able to openly oppose what you have confirmed is wrong without hesitation. This is the quality that an upright person should have. Seriously, it is not easy to really do this in life. This is the beauty of that little nurse!

At the age of 26, he left his hometown of Hunan and came to Hong Kong with longing for life and dreams. However, due to his limited English in different places, he didn't understand Cantonese and had no background. After hitting a wall many times, he found a job as a handyman in a company.

It's a low-paying job, and all I have to do every day is sweep the floor and clean the toilet. This is a heavy blow to him who came to Hong Kong with the dream of changing his life. But he had no choice. Because he has no money at this time, if he doesn't even do this job, he will have to starve.

The normal working day in this company is five days a week. On Saturdays and Sundays, other office workers can't wait to go shopping, play and relax. He is also very eager to enjoy the local scenery. However, considering that people often work overtime on Saturdays and Sundays, it will be messy if the sanitation is not cleaned. When other office staff went out, he stayed alone to clean up. Although this is only an "extra" job, he is still meticulous. One Sunday after half a year, the boss of the company was very surprised to find that he was a hardworking handyman. Knowing that he does this every weekend, the boss talked to him the next day and promoted him to an office employee. Since then, he has been promoted continuously. After several years as the general manager of the company, he let his boss start his own business. The boss readily agreed and took a stake in his company, and he began to pursue his dream faster.

He is Yu Pengnian, a Hong Kong billionaire who initiated the "Peng Nian Guang Ming Action" in 2003. He plans to donate 500 million yuan in three to five years to provide free cataract surgery for cataract patients in poverty-stricken areas of China.

No one is born with wealth, but responsibility can be cultivated from an early age. Everyone longs for the chance to change their destiny. Sometimes the opportunity is simple, they just need to do meticulous work every day, not just complete the so-called regulations. For example, sweeping the floor seven days a week can also sweep out hundreds of millions of wealth.

Walton received an admission notice from the famous Yale University. However, because the family is poor, they can't afford tuition, and they are facing the crisis of dropping out of school. He decided to use his vacation to work and become a painter like his father.

Walton got a job painting a big house. Although the owner of the house, Michael, is very picky, he is well paid. Walton jumped at the deal. At work, Walton was born meticulous, and his serious and responsible attitude satisfied Mike's foreign exchange market several times. The day is coming to an end. Horton painted the last door panel and hung it to dry. After all this, Walton breathed a sigh of relief and wanted to go out and have a rest. He didn't want to trip over the bricks under his feet. This is terrible. Walton knocked down the propped door panel. The door panel fell on the newly painted white wall, and there was an obvious trace of red paint on the wall. Walton immediately cut off the paint marks with a knife and added some paint. But after all this, he felt that the color of the paint was different from the original one, and the new one was out of harmony with the surrounding area. What shall we do? Walton decided to repaint the wall.

It took Walton about half a day to finish painting the wall. However, the next day, Walton was dismayed to find that the color of the newly painted wall was different from that of the adjacent wall, which became more and more obvious. Walton sighed and decided to buy some more materials and repaint all the walls. Although he knew it would cost him twice as much money and not make much money, Walton decided to repaint them. What he wants in his heart is to be responsible for his work.

No sooner had he bought the materials he needed than Michael came to check the work. Walton apologized to him and truthfully told the story and his inner thoughts. Instead of getting angry, Michael gave Wharton a thumbs-up sign. As a reward for Walton's responsible attitude towards his work, Michael is willing to help him finish his college studies. Finally, Walton accepted the help. Later, he not only successfully finished college, but also married Michael's daughter after graduation and entered Michael's company. Ten years later, he became the chairman of this company. Now everyone knows the world's largest Wal-Mart retail company, but not many people know that the chairman of the company was the poor boy who painted the walls. A wall changed Walton's fate, or his responsible attitude towards his work changed his fate.

When reviewing his business and success, the chairman of Perdue Breeding Group, the fourth largest poultry company in the United States, told his story:

When I was 10 years old,

My father runs a chicken farm. After he eliminated high-quality chickens, he gave me 50 bad chickens to feed and sell eggs for free. This is a kind of work that must be done seven days a week. Add rice, clean up, pick up eggs and grade them every day. In addition, we must pay attention to feed consumption and market in order to buy 50 kilograms of new feed in time. Under my careful care, these lame chickens have made progress and thrived. Soon, the laying rate of my chickens exceeded that of my father's high-quality chickens. My average monthly income is about 15 dollars, which was a lot of money during the Great Depression. My father didn't believe me at first, but he didn't praise me until he saw me selling eggs. Later, I began to help my father manage some of his chicken farms. My father gave me more income from the chicken farm than he managed himself. 1984, my father gave me the management of his whole chicken farm. His evaluation is that he can focus on small things that can be used as swords.

In fact, part of the reason for my success lies in my careful observation. I was arrested for these inferior chickens.

I know nothing about living habits, so watch carefully. I found that when there are fewer chickens in a coop, the more they eat, the faster they grow. But few people are too wasteful, so I found the best combination point and raised 40 chickens in each cage. And I succeeded.

Everything that happened to me later

Wisdom is actually nothing more than thinking or working hard on this basis. And focus on a small thing that you can do well, and you will accumulate a grasp of the whole thing.

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