Why Successful People Are Long-Termists?

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Amazon founder Bezos once said: 'If you do one thing, if you look three years into the future, you'll be competing with a lot of people; but if you can look three years into the future, you'll have very few people to compete with. Because few companies are willing to make such a long-term plan.'

For individuals, it's the same, isn't it? The road to success isn't crowded, because few people persevere for a long time.

As long as our vision is longer than our peers, and we use the right methods to continue doing the right things, we'll leave behind a large number of peers.

It's not easy to be a long-termist, it requires great forward momentum, patience, and finally, a burst of results.

01 Forward Momentum

There's a saying: maintain foolishness, maintain thirst.

I've observed that those who achieve success are able to think about peace and danger, demanding high standards of themselves and constantly making progress, otherwise they feel guilty internally.

For example, the debate champion James Qian from 'Variety Says', she says: 'My ideal life state is a poetic and hardworking state, feeling like I'm progressing every day, and then I'll take a relaxed time, that's when I'm most satisfied.'

I can't stand my time being wasted, even if I can spend an hour drawing or writing, but I have to be in a state of positive life.

Life for some is a gamble, full of passion and challenges, with many unknown things waiting to be explored, challenged, and solved.

Li Xiao came to mention the concept of 'Personal Growth Curve' in 'The Road to Freedom'.

When a person crosses the cost line and reaches a growth inflection point, there are two situations: one situation is that it continues to grow with the passage of time, and the other situation is that it declines with the passage of time.

The reasons for the two different situations are: the former continues to grow after crossing the cost line, and the other is to stop growing.

The sense of crisis forces us to continue to progress and grow. Conversely, if you are in a greenhouse, you can only become a lamb that is slaughtered. Only continuous growth can maintain invincibility.

02 Endurance

A poet said: patience and persistence are better than intensity and frenzy.

Everyone has heard the story of the tortoise and the hare. Why did the tortoise eventually surpass and win against the rabbit?

It's not that the tortoise is smart, it's that the tortoise knows it's slow, so it doesn't give up and step by step towards the goal.

The proud rabbit thought it would surely win, relaxed and complacent, and lost the opportunity to win.

Life is a marathon and a long-distance race, it is a endurance race, some people were slow in the first half, but won in the second half.

Wu Guanzhong, a famous Chinese painter and educator, studied in Paris, returned home after graduating, hoping to create unique Chinese-style paintings.

But after returning to China, domestic concepts were completely opposite to his ideas. He believed that art was part of culture, but at that time, domestic people thought that painting was political screws.

In 1964, he was transferred to rural Hebei to live, and during this period, he was sick due to lack of adaptation to the local environment, and he suffered from illness.

After getting sick, he didn't eat or drink, saying that if he couldn't paint, he would rather end his life by painting desperately. After he really did this, miraculously, his illness got better.

But at that time, his classmates who had stayed in France had already become famous painters.

Meanwhile, himself was still an obscure artist, which undoubtedly created a huge gap in his heart.

At that time, someone asked him: 'If you and your classmates stay in France, life conditions are not bad now, do you regret coming back?'

He said: 'I don't regret it.'

This is because he painstakingly cultivated for 30 years, wholeheartedly loved painting, even willing to sacrifice art for life, in 1980, he ushered in the spring of his artistic career, surprising the world.

Believe that the greatest achievements come from the longest and most patient time.

03 Burst

The ancients said: 'Without accumulation of small steps, you cannot reach a thousand miles; without accumulating small streams, you cannot form rivers and seas.'

A person's final result comes from the accumulation of their everyday lives, without accumulation, there is no burst; if you chase pie in the sky, you will only look inadequate.

Recently, I'm learning Mandarin, and someone asked the teacher: 'I've followed your method, practiced dozens of times, I feel like I've made a big progress, can you listen to me?'

The teacher patiently said: 'Learning Mandarin is a continuous accumulation process, not to practice dozens of times today and complete homework, then don't practice after class and expect to learn it. It's a continuous deliberate practice process that can lead to qualitative changes through quantitative changes.'

It's really true, now many people pursue speed, they want to eat a fat in one day, they look at falling from the sky, it's too difficult.

The presentation of burst comes from quantity to quality.

There is a saying: practicing 1000 times a day is not terrible, the terrible thing is to practice 1000 times a day without constantly doing it.

Just like, one of my friends, she was a person with no life feeling before. Later, she wanted to change this living state.

So, she started to get up at 5 o'clock every day to create, study, and make reasonable time schedules, so that everything fell within the scope of time, and she didn't miss it. She insisted for 3 years.

It's believable, now many people pursue speed, it's too difficult.

Believe that heaven won't fail a truly hardworking and diligent person, the result won't let you play along.

Lu Zhengyuan mentioned in his New Year's speech: 'The efforts of ordinary people will accumulate into miracles under the long-term effects of time. Time helps them, and they become friends with time.'

Let's all persevere to be long-termists, empower our lives, and cheer for our lives, and create our own personal life miracles.