Ten steps are required for success, and the three or five steps are the most difficult to follow.

A friend told me about his recent puzzles:

He has been working very hard, moving forward step by step, and stepping up a step after a while; but over the past few years, suddenly one day he found himself and every step he was walking crowded with people, and everyone knows that there are just a few positions on the top of the pyramid, but they admire the height of the pyramid. Suddenly they are very frustrated and desperate.

This is the norm of life. I have two stories to tell him, and I can also tell all the people who are on the road. It would be nice if someone had told me this way.

The TOEFL essay library has an interesting question: "Some famous sports stars or entertainment stars earn millions of dollars each year. Do you think they really have that high salary? Use specific reasons and examples to support your opinion ."

The figures that can finally stand on the top of the pyramid are not standing there in thin air, nor can they go one step by one. Almost none of the athletes like Liu Xiang are not hurt-of course more than one is hurt. For more than a decade, they did not know how many companions gave up and had to quit. In any system, it requires not only talent (if it does exist), but also effort and luck. In the end, only a few people reach the destination. What is the proportion of a few people? There is an old saying in China that "success will be a success ".

Among the numerous explanations that people can make a lot of money, there is a more reliable economic explanation: "countless people have paid the price (or" cost ") however, as it did not reach the end point, the harvest was nothing or even nothing. A few people finally reached the end point and finally got a part of all the benefits." -- In fact, it seems that those stars do not earn enough, because more profits are not in their pockets, but are consumed by their systems.

If ten steps are required from the start point to the end point, it may be about three or five steps. The first step is often not "difficult to start with everything" as the saying goes-in fact, many people have taken the first step with ignorance. Or, in the first two steps, it is often the most vigorous time, but I still don't know what is hard work. If we do go to Step 8, it will be difficult to give up, because the "sunk cost" has reached the point where it is hard to give up. The three or five steps are the hardest time, not so young, not so prosperous, knowing the hardships of life and the helplessness of the world, at the same time, I am more confused because I have some practical experience for reference as the basis for thinking-because although there is more information than there is, it is less than enough. There will always be an unknown, there will always be an accident, there will always be a lot of things that can't be clearly understood-it takes a lot of courage to move forward in the unknown.

Once we "Find another way out" in three or five steps, it is likely that the cost has been paid but there has been no gains. Without knowing it, we have become cannon fodder and think we are "still working hard ". Sometimes success is like moving from the south pole to the North Pole. In fact, the direction is not important, because the start point of the South Pole is actually "North ", wherever it is oriented, a straight line will go to the North Pole and be the shortest route. I am afraid that I will change the direction of walking because of "Confusion". The distance will be extended and the direction will be changed more, so I may return to the starting point.

I told my friend that you are so uncomfortable because you just walked three or five steps and walked forward. You have to go seven or eight steps to see hope.

I often drink coffee. The brand is "Maxim", and it is packed in plastic strips. Each time one end is split and the powder is poured out, the first is the coffee, then the sugar, and the last is the coffee companion (or in reverse order ). How can we separate these powders through packaging? A little strange, right?

If you look for a capsule such as "kangtek", you will find that the particles of different colors are not mixed together, but the particles of the same color are together. How can we separate these powders through packaging? A little strange, right?

Canned beans are often seen in supermarkets in the United States. There are several kinds of beans in the canned glass bottle, the largest of which is the brown Brazilian beans. This kind of canned glass bottle is nice to put on shelves, because those beans are not mixed together, but each color layer, the largest brown Brazilian bean particles are always on the top layer. How can we pack beans of different colors?

Before Farming, farmers need to plow the land-remove the big stones from the farmland. However, the next year we had to plow it again, and we came up with a lot of big stones-where did these stones come from? Isn't it because it has been flushed?

Physicists noted this phenomenon in the 1930s S and named it the Brazilian nut effect ).

The explanation is very simple: Originally, different sizes of particles are mixed together. In the slight shock process, small particles will "sink" along the gap of large particles, as a result, large particles will gradually "float" up. (In recent years, more explanations have begun to appear, except for the size of particles, the weight and quality of particles, air between particles and other media are important factors to form this phenomenon ......))

Instant coffee, cold capsules, Canned beans are also the same, in the transportation process will be slightly affected, so slowly various particles are arranged by size layer by layer. The same is true for the farmland of farmers, with the rotation of the Earth and various kinds of crust activities, the "slight shock" is that the originally deep underground rocks slowly "float" to the ground ......

What is the inspiration of the "Brazil bean effect" in the personnel structure? As an individual in a system, it is like one of the numerous particles in the system. As long as a particle is large enough, it will gradually "float" to the top, while other particles will "sink"-because no system can be stable, there must be a "shock", while the "Brazil bean effect" only needs a "slight shock ".

Therefore, as an individual in the system, the most important action is not to "Climb up", but to "concentrate on making yourself bigger", as long as "big enough ", it is possible to "naturally" float "to the corresponding location-just a matter of time. This is also one reason why I think "building a network of contacts is better than building myself.

Footnotes: of course, this is just an analogy, not exactly. Scientists have demonstrated through experiments that the shape of the container will affect the result of the Brazilian bean effect. After a slight shock in a cube, a cylinder, or an inverted cone container, the largest particles will be at the top layer; however, in the cone (I .e., cone at the top of the Cone) container, the largest particles will eventually be at the bottom layer. If a person is unfortunately in a container like this, leave as soon as possible ......