Success is the epitaph of the successful.

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Despicableness is the passport of the despicable, and nobility is the epitaph of the noble.

Poet Bei Dao's famous line criticizes the despicable people for relying on their despicable means to do whatever they want without hindrance, while the noble people are put on the spot because of their own nobility.

I don’t have Bei Dao’s character and sentiments, so I don’t want to discuss moral justice. I just want to use Bei Dao’s poems to talk about the success of vulgarity.

You may question me: Talk about success? First let’s talk about whether you succeeded!

I can tell you immediately and confidently... No!

However, who says that one is not qualified to be successful without success?

Look at the football officials in China, how many of them know football? They might as well directly lead football!

Besides, Lu Xun also said it early: You don’t have to be a cook to taste and evaluate food.

Okay, let’s get back to the topic.

In the new year, I am afraid that this group of successful people will encounter Waterloo because of their complacency, affecting GDP, and at the same time affecting my life plan to become well-off in 2017.

Therefore, I carry forward the humanitarian spirit of the emperor who is not anxious as the eunuchs are, and duty-boundly help these batches of successful people sum up a warning -

Success is the winner. 's epitaph.

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To understand that "success is the epitaph of the successful", we must first know how successful people succeed? What is the biggest thing that successful people have in common?

Plato said that the only secret to success is to persist until the last minute.

Newton did not dare to bet so big, and he safely increased Plato's one minute to five minutes: the winner often succeeds by persisting in the last five minutes.

Jack Welch, President of General Motors, said that once you have a simple and firm idea, as long as you keep repeating it, it will eventually become a reality.

Jack Ma likes to show off: Today is cruel, tomorrow will be even crueler, and the day after tomorrow will be wonderful! Many people will die tomorrow night and will not see the sun the day after tomorrow.

These people are all talking about the same thing - to succeed, you must persevere and have a firm belief.

When it comes to faith and perseverance, I only obey Bismarck, Germany’s famous iron-blooded prime minister.

He once said coaxingly: For those who persevere, there is no such thing as failure!

I'll do it! Every time I see this sentence at night, I have the urge to get out of bed immediately and go out to climb Mount Everest!

After listening to the experience introductions of the experts, the truth about success is already clear: successful people are obsessives.

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Yes, determination, perseverance, and perseverance are the reasons why successful people succeed.

So how come "Success is the epitaph of the successful"?

Because there are two vital gates to success.

The first vitality gate is persistence.

You read that right, it’s persistence.

Didn’t you just say that you are successful because of persistence? How come it has become a destiny again in an instant? Isn't this causing trouble?

This is really not causing trouble. Attachment is a double-edged sword. It can lead you to heaven or push you to hell.

If you think about it, if a persistent person is determined about what he wants to do, no matter how many cows he has, he won't be able to pull him back.

Just like a traveler lost in the vast desert, if there is an oasis ahead, his persistence can save him. If there was still an endless desert ahead, wouldn't he just...just explain it?

The second most important life gate, the side effect of success.

You thought you were going to the hospital to prescribe medicine, but why did you get side effects?

Success really has a side effect - thinking that the past practices are also suitable for the future!

Successful people will automatically realize two self-verifications subconsciously because of their success.

First, I am the best, no one is as good as me.

Second, my method is universally applicable. If I had to add a shelf life, I hope it would be 10,000 years...

After completing the above two verifications, successful people will continue to develop two principles:

First, I am always right.

Second, if I am wrong, please refer to the first one.

The illusion of success, coupled with the persistence of obsession, if a successful person is not careful, he will move forward, forward, forward toward the bottomless abyss...

At this time, even if the people around him wanted to rush to dissuade him, they failed.

Just as you cannot wake up a person who is pretending to be asleep, you cannot persuade a person who is successful but obsessed with it.

There are so many cases like this that I don’t even bother to give examples.

Let’s give an example. (Haha, cover your mouth)

I usually like to watch the NBA, so let’s talk about Coach D’Antoni, who holds high the banner of attacking tactics.

During the 2004-2005 season, D'Antoni was appointed as the head coach of the Phoenix Suns.

The next year, in the 2005-2006 season, D'Antoni unexpectedly led the Suns to the league's first record of 62 wins and 20 losses in the regular season. Reached the Western Conference Finals in the playoffs.

D'Antoni's trump card, the bombardment tactic, also became popular with the Suns, and it was unparalleled in the NBA for a while and became famous.

In 2012, D'Antoni continued to use his reputation for bombardment tactics to become the coach of the Lakers.

With full confidence and unlimited expectations from fans, D'Antoni once again resorted to the bombardment tactic, leading the Purple and Gold Army with the four kings of Kobe, Nash, Howard and Gasol. Intending to kill everyone.

I never thought that after one season, not to mention that the fans couldn’t even see SHOWTIME, which the fans were eager to see. Good guy, the NBA’s largest team actually managed to set the worst record in team history, 27 wins and 55 wins. burden!

Overnight, D'Antoni changed from a sexy and charming cheetah to a street rat that everyone yelled at.

On the day D'Antoni sadly dismissed get out of class, the media reported this - yesterday morning, the Lakers officially announced that the team's head coach D'Antoni had voluntarily resigned as coach due to the poor performance of the team. At this point, the Purple and Gold Army completely bid farewell to the extremely failed bombardment era and took the first step towards revival.

This means that D'Antoni's failed bombardment tactics are almost hindering the Lakers' revival!

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So, why?

It’s the same D’Antoni, the same bombardment, why doesn’t it work this time?

This requires talking about the X factor in objective conditions.

When I was with the Suns, they had Nash, the best point guard at his peak, Stoudemire, a center who specialized in bullying Yao Ming and was good at running and dunking, and someone who kept Tracy McGrady from crying. Marion, a spring-loaded player, and Joe Johnson, who has excellent offensive skills.

Each and every one of them is born for bombardment, and coupled with D'Antoni's carefully designed bombardment system, of course, a fight will be like mercury pouring down the ground and the wind rolling into the clouds.

Looking back at who is on D’Antoni’s Lakers team?

Old Kobe Bryant, disabled Nash, slow sister-in-law, useless World of Warcraft.

If you insist on driving these old, weak, sick and disabled uncles to run around the field and play bombardment, who is bombarding whom?

D’Antoni, who was once famous and obsessed, only remembered that he had a special chef certificate stamped with the “Bombardment” gold seal, and relied on his previous experience as a seven-star Sun Hotel executive chef. He completely ignored the shortage of meat, salt, rice and oil in the warehouse, and insisted on preparing a full table of meat and vegetables for both Manchu and Han Dynasty, and refused to listen to advice.

The result? The cannon hasn't even fired yet, so I'll blow myself up first!

D'Antoni's big fall was due to the two fate gates of "side effects of success" and "persistence".

After people achieve success, they will expand rapidly. They only remember their own subjective initiative and forget the objective boost at the time.

He even attributes all the credit to his own wisdom and greatness, completely ignoring the time, location, and people, the combined force of these little brothers who are also charging forward.

Then he upgraded his past successful experiences infinitely, and then made random mistakes. In this way, it is inevitable to encounter Waterloo at the next stop.

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If successful people want to go further, they must be wary of the two fate gates that can put you to death.

In fact, it’s hard to say how much of your success comes from “you”.

Regarding this point, France’s La Rochefoucauld gave a judgment that you probably don’t want to admit.

La Rochefoucauld said: No matter how people boast about their great actions, they are often just the product of opportunity rather than the result of a great intention.

Lao La’s words were like a wave of ice water, bitingly cold, but they could cool down the feverish brain.

The success of something is of course full of your wisdom and sweat, especially your persistence and perseverance. There is no doubt about this.

Otherwise, why is it you who succeeds and not me?

But at the same time, success is also the product of opportunity, not entirely the result of your intentions.

Therefore, when you succeed, you must be alert to the two vital gates of success; when you succeed, you must think more about Lao Lao’s unpalatable but beneficial words.

Because only by keeping yourself calm and rational can you win all the way.