If you refuse to work, you can't eat: what are the benefits of doing useful work for people's body and mind?

What is the most attractive and inspiring thing in a person's life? That's career.

The Bible clearly points out: "If someone refuses to work, he can't eat."

This tells us that it is very necessary to do some useful work regularly for one's happiness and happiness. No matter how beautiful things are, only by paying corresponding labor and sweat can people understand how hard-won this beautiful thing is, and therefore cherish it more, and people can enjoy happiness and happiness from this "possession", which is an eternal truth. Even if it is a kind of leisure, it is not sweet if it is not through our own efforts. It's not something you bought with your own labor and sweat. If you don't pay for it, you are not entitled to enjoy it.

An idle person, no matter how amiable, excellent and famous, can't get real happiness. Life is labor, and labor is life. Loving and respecting labor is the premise of maintaining good moral character. Only by loving and respecting work can we resist the erosion of all kinds of despicable and decadent ideas and resist the temptation of all kinds of low tastes. Even in terms of pure personal enjoyment, it is absolutely necessary to engage in beneficial labor properly. If you don't work, you won't enjoy the happiness brought by labor. Early Christian priests were proud to take part in all kinds of hard manual labor in person.

Sao Paulo advocated: "People who don't work can't eat." He worked hard all his life to support himself. He is honored to live like this and proud that he has never owed anyone a penny. When Ray Boniface arrived in England, he had the gospel in one hand and a carpenter's ruler in the other. Later, he moved from England to Germany and still lived by his own woodworking skills. This is especially true of Luther. Luther did many jobs in his life. He is engaged in gardening, construction, lathe work and clock making. No matter what he does, he is very diligent. He always gets bread by his own labor.

Therefore, it is very necessary for a person's happiness to engage in some beneficial undertakings regularly and habitually. Once you leave this regular and beneficial job, women will feel bored, listless and idle, and then they will be dizzy and have a nervous system disorder. Over time, their bodies will naturally collapse inexplicably. Caroline Persia once kindly warned her newly-married daughter Louisa that she should never give in to laziness and boredom:

"When the children go out for a half-day holiday," she said, "I am as listless, upset and monotonous as an owl in the daytime, and my young wife will feel a little monotonous, bored and bored. Don't fall into this state. The best way to overcome boredom and depression is to work diligently and confidently. Once a person takes part in labor, happiness will naturally come to you, and the boring and monotonous feeling will run away. Work hard; Work, work happily, and always do something useful in one way or another. Laziness is a trap set by the devil for all people, big and small. Once you fall into this trap, you fall into the hands of the devil. This is what your grandfather said, and it is indeed a wise saying. "

It can be seen that people who have formed work habits are always restless, and laziness is unbearable pain for them. Even if they have to stop their accustomed jobs because of the situation, they will immediately engage in other jobs. Those industrious people always find new jobs quickly, because they can't stand the pain brought by leisure time.

There is indeed a lot of work that is very monotonous and boring. Working too hard is always painful. However, if there is not much work, even monotonous work is better for most people than doing nothing.

According to the nature of labor and the ability of workers, work can be divided into different levels, from just boring relaxation to the deepest happiness. The work that many people do is not much fun in itself, but even this kind of work contains some great benefits. First of all, a person doesn't have to decide anything. Work can make him kill a lot of time in a day. Many people can arrange their time at will, but they can't think of anything happy to do. No matter what they decide to do, they always feel that there must be something happier to do, which makes them very upset. Russell pointed out: "Being able to enrich leisure time consciously and wisely is the final product of civilization, but few people can reach this level at present." Secondly, the choice itself is very annoying. Except creative people, many people like to be told what to do every hour of the day, as long as the order is not too offensive.

So work is first praised as a means to relieve boredom. A person will feel bored when he is engaged in necessary but not very interesting work, but this kind of boredom is nothing compared with his boredom when he is idle all day. In addition, there is another advantage of work, that is, it makes the holidays extraordinarily full and enjoyable. If a person doesn't have to make efforts that are detrimental to his physical strength, he is likely to find more enthusiasm in his spare time than an idle person.

In addition, work also gives people opportunities to succeed and realize their ambitions. In many jobs, the measure of success is income. People's desire to increase their income is actually a desire to achieve success, and a desire to gain a comfortable mood with more income. No matter how boring the work itself is, if it can become a means to gain fame, it will become tolerable, no matter whether the reputation is worldwide or in your own small circle. Persistence in goals is one of the most basic factors of long-term happiness. For most people like Akio Morita, this is mainly achieved in the course of work.

At first, Akio Morita put up an advertising signboard with the words Sony at the airport in Tokyo. Then, he paved the way for himself at the expense of ten years of unprofitable, opened the American market, and took the lead in realizing the dream of internationalization of Japanese enterprises. As a result, Sony has become a huge international electronics manufacturer, the fourth largest electronics company in the world after Panasonic of Japan, Siemens of Germany and Philips of the Netherlands. For this reason, Akio Morita was awarded the Albert Medal by the Royal Academy of Sciences and appeared on the cover of Time magazine in the United States.

It is such an excellent entrepreneur. His demands on himself have always been to cherish time and work hard. Not only that, but also his requirements for employees. He said: "When you leave our company after 30 years, or leave this world, I don't want you to regret wasting your most precious years here;" Otherwise it will be a tragedy. "

Akio Morita was born into a brewer's family in Nagoya, Aichi Prefecture. When he was a teenager, he liked electronic products very much. Japan was defeated in World War II, and just after the war, he wanted to go to Tokyo for development. His father said, "Why plant flowers from the ruins of the empire?" Akio Morita wouldn't listen to his father. He came to Tokyo with his teacher and started his own business. They started with $500 and set up Tokyo Telecom Industry Company on the ruins of the war. This company is the predecessor of Sony.

During the development of Sony, Akio Morita focused on creating the market rather than winning it, which is the main difference from other operators. General operators are market-oriented, but Akio Morita is not. The goal of his efforts is to bring his products into the market and make the market move for his products, not his products move with the market. It is very difficult to do this, but Akio Morita is not discouraged at all. He believes that as long as his employees are willing to work hard and pay more, they will be compensated.

When there was a demand for new products in Akio Morita, Akio Morita had succeeded. Akio Morita told employees to constantly develop and research new products, and in the whole process, let new products continue to increase.

Akio Morita always pays a lot for innovation. For example, Akio Morita plans to lead the trend with products, and he must be ready for new products. Companies in Akio Morita want to produce products that have never been sold in the market, that is, products that have never been produced by other companies. Under the leadership of Akio Morita, Sony keeps 6% of its expenditure on research and development of new products every year, and even reaches 10% in some years. In the most one year, the company's budget for research and development is as high as 1, 65,438+0 billion US dollars. According to statistics, companies in Akio Morita can actually launch four new products every day and one thousand products every year. Akio Morita has never been afraid to spend a lot of money on creating and launching new products. In addition to capital, Akio Morita also has a huge scientific and technological team, that is, high-tech forces, which undertake the task of development and creation. While Sony is expanding its sales, other competitors are paying close attention. Therefore, it is often after Sony monopolizes the market for a year or more that other companies will believe that this product will succeed, so similar products of other brands will also be listed. During this period, Sony made a lot of money, and new innovations and new products came out, and it will reoccupy the market with new products. Akio Morita found some information in his life and work, and then processed this information, always found some new inspiration, and then used it in his own products.

Hard-working entrants always associate what they see and hear with their work at any time, as Akio Morita did. When American radio and TV stations started broadcasting, Akio Morita realized that people should be able to use it at home, so Akio Morita thought that the large-size video recorder used by radio stations was inconvenient and very expensive. If this machine is introduced into the home for work, there will be an infinite market. Although television has given people a brand-new world, it also has shortcomings. No matter how beautiful and interesting TV programs can save information, people have to change their schedules. If employees are required to know some outside information in the company, watching TV and those original methods are somewhat unreasonable after all. If there is a small pocket video or something else that can replace these, it will definitely be a new project.

Once Akio Morita has his own idea, he will immediately study its feasibility with technicians. Akio Morita told the technician that he wanted a product the size of a pocket, but its function was the same as that of a large product. Soon, such products appeared, which also brought huge profits to Akio Morita and the company he managed. These products are the pocket cameras and video recorders we use today.

Akio Morita always tells his employees: Work hard and never be satisfied with the status quo. Change is not only in the technical field, but also includes people's ideas, opinions, fashions, hobbies and interests. If any enterprise is not good at understanding the significance of these changes, it cannot survive in the business world, especially in the field of high-tech electronics. Masaru Ibuka, the former president of Sony, is a golf fan and a music fan, dreaming of one day producing a product that can listen to music while playing golf. In this way, those who go out for a walk, hurry or ride a bike can also do other things while listening to music. Ibuka drew the idea on a piece of paper and told the R&D staff in the lab. The research team immediately made a hard study according to his ideas. With the joint efforts of the whole company and the electronic department, he finally overcame the difficulties and realized his dream. The cassette player has been successfully developed.

In addition to constantly developing new products, Akio Morita has a new explanation for cherishing time and hard work, that is, a reasonable judgment of future work and a grasp of the present. The success of an entrepreneur is determined by many aspects. Akio Morita's goal is simple, but it is also difficult to achieve. For example, the pocket-sized cameras and video recorders we just mentioned are not easy to develop, but it is even more difficult to hit our own market. On this issue, pocket cameras and video recorders have also taken many detours.

The United States is the most developed country in the world, and Akio Morita understands that any enterprise has the ideal of opening the American market. Based on this ideal, Akio Morita decided to gain a foothold in Japan first and then enter the American market. When Akio Morita really entered the United States, he was immediately favored by Browa, a big American company. They asked Akio Morita to produce a small radio and ordered100000 sets, which was their first appearance in the United States. However, according to the regulations, these radios were finally sold under the brand of Browa.

One hundred thousand units is undoubtedly a very attractive figure for Sony, which has just set foot on this land in the United States, and its income is also very considerable. However, Akio Morita is not interested in this. He thinks that Browa Company is an old company by itself, and big companies bully small companies. Browa threatened: "We are a famous company with a history of 50 years, but no one in America knows your brand." Akio Morita said to him, "Your company was no different from ours fifty years ago, wasn't it? I am now taking the first step to 50 years with our company's new products! " In the end, their deal was not reached, and Akio Morita did not regret it.

Akio Morita thought his product would sell well, but he didn't expect that when this product was put on the market, many people didn't know what it was and what it was used for. Akio Morita began to put a lot of energy into the promotion activities. He uses cars to pull products and show new products to companies, schools and shops. People were surprised when this strange-looking answering machine was used to record people's conversations and then play them out. However, surprises are surprises, but few people buy them, because everyone has the same feeling: although it is good, it seems too expensive as entertainment.

So Akio Morita began to study how to make people accept such products. Later, one thing inspired him: that time, Akio Morita saw a customer buy an old jar without hesitation, and he thought, why did he buy this old jar because it was too expensive? Akio Morita asked the man, and he said that although it was expensive, in his opinion, the jar was worth buying. Akio Morita understands that the question is not whether my things are expensive or not, but whether they are worth it in people's eyes. So Akio Morita changed the way of publicity, and he found some valuable people to promote it for him. When Akio Morita learned that many court stenographers had to work overtime due to lack of manpower, he immediately brought an answering machine to perform at home, and the court soon placed a large order. Later, Akio Morita turned the focus of sales promotion to schools, because under the control of the US troops stationed in Japan, Japan began to vigorously carry out English education, and there were insufficient English teachers, especially poor conversation and listening training conditions, which just needed answering machines.

In the whole process of product promotion, Akio Morita's efforts made him understand that when a new product comes out, it is necessary to find out where it is used. When people realize the use of this product, the promotion of this product is completed. Only such promotion can make the enterprise more dynamic.

Looking back on Akio Morita's commercial road, we find that success is not achieved overnight, but the result of hard work.

Therefore, when you are engaged in a useful job, it is full of fun, and the satisfaction it can give is much greater than the satisfaction brought by just avoiding this boring job. The satisfaction of success from a great and constructive career is the greatest happiness that life can provide. Biblical proverb

Work hard and live a carefree life; Chatting all day.