Entrepreneurship such as creation, from the beginning of the first step to the final sprint of the high light moment, applause and attention, more is lonely long-distance running. Can support your teeth insist, in addition to love, I am afraid there is no other way.
As we all know, entrepreneurship is hard. It is both inevitable and necessary for all who are successful to maintain a love for the work they do.
At the end of February, Millet Network team moved into the whole new millet Qinghe General Staff office area, from Headquarters is only hundreds of meters away.
Small partners to decorate the new office area has become a super large open work gallery. The designer team put the masterpieces of art and design history in the office environment, and they use the names of the great artists such as Rembrandt, The Grass, the Van Gogh, Wu, the eight great hermit and so on to name the conference room.
I am a designer, I like art, when I look at the artist's work album, I see a far more than the art itself story and emotion. I think that the efforts of the partners are not just to make the office environment more comfortable and elegant, and not just let the employees in various positions more artistic accomplishment, the most important thing is that these immortal artists of the works itself contains the love of creation, the good things and ideals of love and quest.
Years ago, a journalist friend asked me what I hope to see in the future. My answer is, I hope I can keep loving all the time.
Today, I would like to share with you a little sentiment about the word "love", and look at the stories of the Great masters.
37 years of Rodin's "Hell Knocks"
Rodin was hailed as the greatest realist sculpture artist of the 19th century and early 20th century. His most famous work is "thinker". The sculpture was placed on top of the unfinished door of the gates of hell. and "The Gate of Hell" has a total of 186 images, the department based on Dante's "Divine Comedy Inferno," The idea of creation. "The Gate of Hell" This work, Rodin created for 37 years, until the year before Rodin died, he continued to modify. Indeed, if it were not for love, it would be difficult to imagine what supported Rodin until his death to continue working for a sculpture that had lasted for 37 years.
(The Thinker and the Gates of Hell)
Monet does not take denuding water lilies
Monet is one of the representative figures and founders of the Impressionist painter. By the age of 1920, Monet had become a world-famous painter, and his paintings began to be collected by the state, and he had the money to build a large studio. But this time, his eyesight also began to appear problem. His eyesight began to get worse in 1923, when Monet underwent two eye surgery for cataracts. But even so, Monet continued to paint. In his later years, Monet likes to sit on the lake to draw water lilies, he insisted on creating a lot of water lilies as the theme of the painting, and the more pictures, the more rich painting. In the end, Monet was nearly blind, but he persisted in painting until December 5, 1926.
(The water lily of Monet's later years)
Reno-Wheelchair adherence
Renault is also an important representative of the French Impressionist painter. Renault is famous for drawing characters, which is also in the painting sweet, leisurely atmosphere and plump, bright face and hand most classic. The characteristic of Renoir in Impressionism is that it depicts a charming feeling, from which you seldom feel pain or religious feelings, but you often feel the warmth of the family, such as the mother or the sister's smile. But Renoir in about 1892 years, suffering from rheumatoid arthritis. During the last 20 years of his life, severe arthritis severely limited the activity of Reno, who had to sit in a wheelchair and rely on his assistants to pass the paintbrush to his hands before he could continue to paint.
(Two sisters)
Wu "Burning buildings" only to stay true love
Wu is a famous painter in contemporary China. As early as 1989, his painting, "Gaochang Ruins", set a record of 1.87 million Hong Kong dollars for the works of a living Chinese painter. In the 2007, Wu's work, "Jiaohe Cheng", created a new record of contemporary artists ' Chinese painting auctions with 40.7 million yuan. Wu's paintings are priceless, but he lives a simple life in an old residential building in Fangzhuang, Beijing. When he and his wife were walking in the neighborhood, the people around didn't know it was a big painter who painted a picture to sell tens of millions of yuan. By the time he wu his family's paintings in September 1991, he burnt hundreds of of his own paintings that were not satisfactory enough. Because his paintings were priceless at the time, his painting was called "Burning the House".
(WU "Jiaohe cheng")
In fact, there are a lot of things like legends. When I learned the stories behind these artists ' lives, I felt that they loved their careers. A man's success in his career is inseparable from his devotion to the cause. If you don't love it, how can you devote yourself to it? If you don't devote yourself to it, how can you achieve a superior achievement?
From another point of view, if we can maintain the love of what we do, because of love, we will be willing to continue to learn, continue to study, and continue to do the best of every thing or big, or small things.
I've seen a lot of good internet companies like Alibaba and Tencent, and many of their employees work late into the night to solve a problem. Some people puzzled: why to work overtime? Not pay overtime. Without him, just a love of work, so that these employees are willing to be tempered with their work.
Our love comes from self-realization, it is about desire, such as fulfillment, honor, and introspection, such as the pious faith in the art of excellence, the pure longing for the more exquisite and precise principle. So, this love is driven by self, self immersed, let us return to the source, or forget the gains and losses, but it is the most important driving force that may lead us to excellence.