Wen Yicheng.
As the old saying goes, "Stand tall to see far." ”
Standing on a tall building and looking down, how small people are, and standing in the universe and looking down, the earth also seems so small.
The size of things is also determined by their own location, some people may be emotionally uncertain, as long as they encounter some trivial things, they will be angry, some people can see everything, even if they encounter big things, they can also deal with it calmly, because in their consciousness, people must allow all possible situations to happen as long as they live.
It can be seen that a person's vision and pattern determine a person's ideology, as well as the direction of attention, the heart is small and the matter is big, the heart is big and the thing is small, all those who have outstanding achievements are all people with a broad vision and a big pattern.
In layman's terms, the field of vision refers to the range of space that can be seen when the human head and eyeballs are fixed, and the objects in front of the eyes are called static vision, which we call the static field of vision, and what the eyes see when they turn is called the moving field of vision.
I think the meaning of shallow level mainly lies at the level of physical plane senses, and there is a word that is similar to vision, which is cognition, and cognition is the action of adding deep thinking to the field of vision.
If our vision is focused on getting a satisfactory job and getting a satisfactory salary, the ultimate goal may be achieved, that is, a satisfactory job and salary. If our vision is to start a business and be the boss, and the company is listed, with tens of thousands of employees, the final goal may be to be listed; If your vision is to be the global industry leader, maybe you can really become the industry leader in the end.
The field of view tends to be angles and directions, and the goal is the result of adding additional actions to the field of view.
If you are in a small county in the fourth or fifth tier, your goal is to become the richest man in the county, and the richest man in the county has assets of tens of millions of dollars, if you want to become the richest man in the county, you must have a little more money than the previous richest man.
But what if you take a long-term view? What if it's in a first- or second-tier city? Is he also the richest man in the county? It will take tens of billions to become the richest man in the region. You can see where you are, what kind of thinking you have, and how much you will achieve with comparison. Therefore, what kind of environment and circle you live in will also determine the upper limit of a person's development.
Let's talk about a modern history, the British Empire as an example, if you want to become the world's boss and become an empire, you must be strong in all aspects, if the British at the beginning is only the vision positioning to become the European hegemon, maybe the best result in the end is the European hegemon, but its vision positioning to become the global hegemon, may the final result is to become the world hegemon. In the end, the British Empire did indeed become the world hegemon.
The position of the world hegemon has been China for thousands of years, but it was broken by Britain in a certain period of time, and finally Britain became the global hegemon, of course, there are many reasons, I think it has something to do with their vision and the strategy they ultimately executed.
The most common strategy of the British Empire was the offshore balancing strategy.
As a country with a limited population and a limited territory, Britain wants to become an empire on which the sun never sets, mainly relying on offshore balance, and the main way is to divide and decompose. These policies have continued to the present, and the overall geopolitical pattern of the world is still affected by the offshore balancing strategy.
If you find the concept of offshore balancing difficult to understand, the simplest way to understand it is to tear large pieces of meat into small pieces and then eat each small piece of meat separately like an animal eats meat.
If you want to know more about this strategy, you can combine it with "Ten rules to encircle, five to attack, and multiple to fight, the enemy can divide it, if it is less, it can be defended, and if it is not, it can be avoided." ”The meaning of the text is: If I am ten times as strong as the enemy, I will encircle and annihilate, five times as many as the enemy will attack, twice as many as the enemy, I will try to defeat the enemy, and if I am evenly matched, I will try to scatter and destroy each of them. If the force is weaker than the enemy, avoid fighting. Therefore, if the weaker side fights to hold on, it will become a prisoner of the strong enemy.
Look at the empires in history, the Ottomans, the Mongols, the Great Qin, the Great Tang, and the British. The empire is characterized not only by its large population and vast territory, but also by its economy, politics, culture, military, and science and technology, which are ahead of the rest of the world.
Including the current United States can become the world hegemon, it is also related to the strategy of offshore balancing, which is more about breaking the international order formulated by Britain, and at the same time, some of the achievements are also inherited. Today's geopolitical pattern remains in a relatively stable state, and as long as the region does not form a large alliance and a unified country, it is controllable as a world hegemon. But once the regions are united, the international order that the old empires have built will be broken.
At present, the United States is passive in the geopolitical pattern, mainly in other regions, and has formed a large direct or indirect regional cooperation organization. Development should be viewed from a dynamic perspective, and the British Empire also defeated the previous empire before it came to power, and the most important action is to decompose large countries or alliance organizations in order to have enough control.
Whether it is people-to-people or state-to-country development, the purpose is to play circle culture, some are based on the economy, such as the European Union, some are military, such as NATO, and there are more in other fields. The original intention of playing circles is to keep warm in a certain period of time, combine them into powerful forces in the form of a group, and then get the resources they want.
In ** "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", he said: "Speaking of the general trend of the world, it will be together for a long time, and it will be divided for a long time." ”In a chaotic situation, it is inevitable that the forces will be unified and organized, because the reason for the combination is to gather potential energy and strength, and concentrate forces to do great things; After the big things are done, the respective forces think about their own interests, and the greed of human nature determines that there will be injustice or irrationality in the process of distributing the fruits, and separation is inevitable at this time.
Isn't this like the process of people partnering to start a business in reality? At the beginning, everyone will work together to get things done, and at this time, everyone will not care too much about the gains and losses, but when the business is successful and the company has profits, when sharing the fruits, it is often easy for shareholders to make awkward troubles and divide the family?
The development of things is dynamic, but there is a relative time static. Separation and union are the norm, but at a certain time, it is a state of aggregation, and it will also be a state of separation at a certain time, and a certain state cannot be regarded as permanent.
Successful people often stand on the shoulders of giants to succeed.
I believe that the success of the British Empire was to take away the silver standard of the Qing Dynasty and turn it into the gold standard, which formed a unified system of monetary value anchoring for a long time.
And the United States replaced Britain before World War I by using the second industrial revolution to start, go to the ocean, and join and integrate into the British system! Between World War I and World War II, Wilson's Eighteen Articles dug holes for the colonial system together with the world revolution in Soviet Russia, and began to support Germany and Japan and other world system challengers with the dividends of World War I, contributing to World War II. After World War II, they garrisoned Europe, economically suppressed the recovery of Britain and France, supported colonial independence, carved up the British and French heritage with the Soviet Union, and by the sixties, completely replaced the hegemony of Britain!
The United States defeated the military hegemony of Great Britain, and Great Britain declined, why military power is more important than any other aspect, and the military-industrial complex firmly controlled by the Angsa people now guarantees their fundamental interests.
Seeing this, you can make another assumption, if the decline of the United States is also due to the decline of military power? I think it's probably the same, the Russian-Ukrainian war, Ukraine did not win, and in the Palestinian-Israeli conflict in the Middle East, Israel still did not win, these representative military behaviors of the United States cannot be quickly settled or won, does that mean that the military strength of the United States has weakened? Can't maintain global control? The answer is yes.
When it comes to vision, look at the world from a dynamic perspective, this is not the development of things and dynamic, feng shui takes turns, and the world hegemon is constantly changing, but this circle may return to our hands, we are talking about great revival, not rising, revival is to return to its original influence and strength position.
The geopolitical situation is also affected by the size of the horizon, and as an entrepreneur, it is also affected by the size of the horizon.
For example, as an entrepreneur, our vision is to win the local regional market, but other entrepreneurs have their vision and goal to win other regions, and even the global market, there is no doubt that the party with a large vision will definitely have greater strength and volume than the party with a small vision. If you are positioned in the province, the head is the provincial leading enterprise, the domestic positioning is the domestic leading enterprise, and if you are positioned in the world, it is the global leading enterprise. Whether it is a business or something, the vision and goal determine the final strength.
As mentioned earlier, the geopolitical situation, positioning the world, once their goals are completed, they are strong in all fields of economy, politics, culture, science and technology, and military, so whether it is an individual or an enterprise, the strategy and vision of enterprise development should be highly consistent with the country, so as to have better development possibilities.
If you often go against the tune and go against the national strategy, one day the mallet will fall on you out of nowhere. Aren't you going to face a burp situation? Therefore, entrepreneurs must learn to deeply understand the concept of singing on the stage at the top.
As an ordinary professional, it is also necessary to follow the decisions of the management of the enterprise to do things, obediently follow the boss and let you go east, you must not go west, as long as the pace is the same, there is the possibility of moving forward and integrating the team, otherwise sooner or later you will become an outcast.
In Doudou** "Distant Savior" book**Ying** said a nonsense to Rui Xiaodan: "You don't know you, so you are you." If you know you, you're not you. ”
You are looking at yourself from God's point of view, and it is because of this that you can see the whole picture of things, and not be swayed by emotions, and at this time you understand yourself, you have changed, so are you still you? So when you realize that you are you, you are not you, you are just a subject that exists in your consciousness, and when you are not aware of your existence, at this time, your existence is a subject outside of your consciousness, so you are you.
If one can see the essence through the phenomenon. If you recognize the law of development of things and can have God's perspective, then this person has already understood and understood!
Listening to the above words is a bit winding, I prefer to use the fifth chapter of Lao Tzu's "Tao Te Ching" to say: "Heaven and earth are not benevolent, and all things are used as dogs." ”
We are no different from scarecrows to people and things in heaven and earth, so don't take yourself too seriously at any time. If you are an ordinary employee, you don't think of yourself as an ordinary employee, and when you encounter some important things, you can start from the perspective of the leader and show your sense of responsibility, and you may become a leader in the future; If you are a leader, you don't have a shelf, you will go deep into the front line, and you don't think of yourself as a leader at all, then you can agree with the front line and integrate together.
The pattern of people's vision is often limited by the environment and cognition, whether it is sitting in a well and watching the sky or the frog at the bottom of the well, whatever they see is no problem from their point of view, because the position they stand determines it.
For example, some experts and scholars will say some unreasonable things and say some unbelievable things, the core of which is that they do not go deep into the circle of the people they are in and do not understand the truth. Therefore, if you want to have a higher vision, you must stand in a higher place, and standing in a higher place is not only limited to the real sensory world you see, but also a deep understanding of the world after reality.
And to understand the core of the world after reality, it is necessary to describe it truthfully, to clarify the source, and to reflect reality.
The above sentence is mainly to see things as they are, and to implement some measures that they think are feasible according to everything they see, and then to solve some problems in life and work. It's a way to keep your truth, but society is a big dye vat where everyone has it.
It is true that because people belong to different classes and perspectives, people's ideas are often not absolutely unified.
In order to deeply understand the laws of world and social development, it is necessary to understand the three paths. The Tao is the orbit or law of all things, and it can also be said to be the place where things change and move, and only by understanding the Tao can people have a higher vision of the world.
Man is the law of the earth, the earth is the law of the sky, the heaven is the law, and the Tao is the nature. There are three Taoists: the way of heaven, the way of the earth, and the way of humanity.
The way of heaven talks about yin and yang, the four seasons, the most essential laws that all things follow; Authentic, subordinate to the five elements, material, orientation, social situation, living and working environment; Humanity, the way of being a person, the way of doing things, the way of hard work, such as your family, origin, ability, character, pursuit, socialization, etc., can be summed up in two words as human nature.
Whether it is the geopolitical situation mentioned at the beginning, or how to improve the perspective of vision mentioned later, the core is to respect the law, understand the law, understand the law and make use of human nature. And what ultimately stands out behind it is the survival wisdom of the creatures themselves.
The following behaviors of survival wisdom, such as work, socializing, and even war, are used to obtain survival resources. Since the emergence of human beings, fighting has been nothing more than about survival, or waging wars to grab resources and territory, and having resources is to continue this state of development, so there is the theory of development and reproduction.
Of course, low-dimensional creatures only show strong animal attributes, such as never hiding and masking, everything is straightforward; Cushman & Wakefield, on the other hand, often learns to disguise itself and disguise its purpose.
Therefore, people who are often straightforward and straightforward in life will be very passive, because your behavior has already been noticed, and those who learn to disguise and disguise, and hide knives in their smiles, are often better mixed. Therefore, high-level creatures have always suppressed and controlled low-level creatures.
If a person wants to have a good vision and vision, he must first face up to his own class and attributes, always know himself, and then on this basis, look at the people and things around him from a higher position and angle from the perspective of a third party, and everything around him.
Vision determines a person's achievements, and if you want a higher vision, you must understand the way of heaven, the way of the earth, and the way of humanity. The vernacular is: respect the objective laws of heaven and earth, and then use human nature.