Confidence
(1)
There was a little boy wearing a ball cap, holding a bat and baseball in his hands, and walked to his backyard fully armed. "I'm the greatest hitter in the world." He said confidently, then threw the ball in the air and swung the bat hard, but missed. Undeterred, he continued to pick up the ball, threw it into the air, and then shouted: "I am the most powerful hitter." He swung the bat again, but unfortunately still missed. He was stunned for a while, then carefully inspected the bat and baseball. He tried three more times, this time telling himself, "I'm the best hitter." However, his first attempt failed.
"Wow!" He suddenly jumped up, "I am really a first-class pitcher."
(2) The former General Electric CEO of the United States, who is known as the "world's number one CEO" CEO Jack Welch once famously said: "All management revolves around 'confidence.'" With this kind of confidence, during his 20 years as CEO of General Electric, Welch showed Extraordinary leadership skills. Welch's self-confidence is inseparable from his family education. Welch's mother's concern for her son was mainly reflected in cultivating his self-confidence. Because she understands that only by having confidence can everything be possible.
Welch has suffered from a stutter since he was a child. He has a lisp when he speaks, so he often makes jokes. Welch's mother found ways to turn her son's flaw into an inspiration. She often said to Welch: "This is because you are so smart. No one's tongue can keep up with a brain as smart as yours." So growing up, Welch never had the slightest concern about his stuttering. worries. Because he believed his mother's words from the bottom of his heart: his brain turned faster than other people's tongues. With his mother's encouragement, Welch's stuttering did not hinder Welch's academic and career development. And most people who noticed this weakness of his had some respect for him because he was able to overcome this flaw and excel in the business world. Michael, the president of NBC News, admired Welch very much. He even joked: "Jack is so powerful and efficient that I wish I could stutter myself."
Welch is not tall. But he has loved sports since he was a child. When he was in elementary school, he wanted to sign up for the school basketball team. When he told his mother about this idea, her mother encouraged him and said: "Just do whatever you want to do, and you will definitely succeed!" So, Wei Erqi joined the basketball team. At the time, he was almost three-quarters the size of the other players. However, due to his full self-confidence, Welch was never aware of this. Decades later, when he looked through the photos of his teenage sports team with other teammates, he was surprised to find that he had almost always been the whole person. The weakest one on the team.
Experiences on school sports teams as a teenager were important to Welch's development. He believes his talent was developed on the court. He said: "Everything we experience will become the cornerstone of our confidence." Throughout his school years, Welch's mother was always his most enthusiastic cheerleader. Nearly all the relatives, friends and neighbors had heard a story told to them by Mother Welch about her son, and at the end of every story she would say how proud she was of her son.
While cultivating her son's self-confidence, she also told Welch that life is a struggle with no end. You should be confident, but you don't need to care too much about success or failure.
Unless a person has confidence himself, he cannot bring confidence to others; only those who are already convinced can convince others.
----Matthew Arnold
(3)
Nixon is the president of the United States that we are very familiar with, but he is such a big man, but because of a Mistakes caused by lack of self-confidence ruined your future. In 2001, Nixon ran for re-election. Because of his outstanding achievements during his first term, most commentators predicted that Nixon would win with an absolute majority. However, Nixon himself was very unconfident. He could not get over the psychological shadow of his past failures and was extremely worried about another failure. Driven by this subconscious mind, he did something stupid that he would regret for the rest of his life. He assigned his men to sneak into the Watergate Hotel, the headquarters of his opponent, and installed bugs in his office. After the incident, he repeatedly blocked investigations and shirked responsibility, and was forced to resign shortly after winning the election. Nixon, who was guaranteed victory, suffered a disastrous defeat due to lack of confidence.
The other is the story of Seiji Ozawa who is better than self-confidence. Seiji Ozawa is a world-famous symphony conductor. In a final competition of a world outstanding conductor competition, he conducted the performance according to the score given by the jury, and keenly discovered the discordant sounds. At first, he thought the band had made a mistake, so he stopped and played again, but it still wasn't right. He thought there was something wrong with the music score. At this time, the composer and the authorities present on the jury insisted that there was absolutely nothing wrong with the score and that he was wrong. Facing a large number of music and authority figures, he thought again and again, and finally said loudly and categorically: "No! The score must be wrong!" As soon as he finished speaking, the judges on the judges' bench immediately stood up and gave warm applause and congratulations. He won the competition.
It turns out that this is a "trap" carefully designed by the judges to test whether the conductor can stick to his correct opinions when he discovers errors in the music score and is "denied" by authorities.
(4)
A young man said to the wise man: "Teacher, I feel like I can't do anything well. No one values ??me, what should I do?"< /p>
The wise man said: "Child, I sympathize with your situation, but I can't help you because I have to deal with my own problems first." The wise man paused for a while and then said: "If you are willing to help me, I will I can handle the problem quickly, and then maybe I can help you.”
“Okay,” the young man said after hesitating for a while.
So the wise man sat down, took off a ring from his finger and gave it to the young man, saying: "You go to the market and take this ring because I need money to pay off my debt. The more money I get in exchange, the better." Okay, no matter what, it can’t be less than 1 gold coin.”
The young people arrived at the store, but after hearing the young man say that the lowest price of the ring cannot be less than 1 gold coin, some people in the store laughed loudly. Laughing, some said that the young people were dizzy. Only a kind old lady told the young people that the price he was asking was too high. Young people walked through the market, selling rings everywhere, but no one was willing to pay a gold coin. The young man returned dejectedly. He wished he could have 1 gold coin, so that he could give the money to the wise man to help him pay off his debts, and the wise man could give him advice and help.
The young man said: "Teacher, I'm sorry, I failed to meet your requirements. Maybe I can get two or three silver coins, but I feel that that should not be the real value of this ring."
"Young friend, you are so right." The wise man said with a smile, "If you go to a jewelry store again, no one will know its value better than the jeweler. You tell the jeweler I want to drop the ring and ask him how much he can pay, but I don’t want a real ring. After asking the price, you can bring the ring back.”
The jeweler looked at the ring carefully and said, “Tell your teacher.” , if he wants a ring, I can give him up to 58 gold coins."
"58 gold coins!" the young man exclaimed. "Yes." The jeweler said, "If you are not in a hurry, I can offer 70 gold coins, but if you are in a hurry..."
The young man ran back excitedly, and what will happen will happen Tell everything to the wise. The wise man said, "You are like this ring, precious and unique. Only experts can truly determine your value. How can you expect just anyone in life to discover your true value?" The wise man said and put the ring back on. on fingers.
After we enter the field of life, we hope that inexperienced people will affirm our value. In that way, real value is often easily destroyed and buried.