Inspirational story: Do things to the extreme Inspirational story: Do things to the extreme 1
If a company wants to become a leader in the market, it must first have a leader's mentality. That is to believe that you can do it much better than anyone else. In this mentality, by doing everything to the best, you can eventually become a leader.
Whenever a department at Baidu reports on project progress and says, "How much better is our product than the previous version...", Robin Li always has to ask. , "Is your product better than all competing products on the market, and obviously better?" Robin Li's implication is whether you have done things to the extreme.
"Lightning Plan" is an example of Baidu doing things to the extreme. At the end of 20xx, China's Internet was experiencing the pain of a bubble bursting. Baidu, then just a search engine services provider, also faced financial difficulties as customers delayed payments. Robin Li thought for a long time, and before the firecrackers went out during the 20xx Spring Festival, he personally took charge and launched the "Lightning Plan". He told the engineers in his usual calm tone, "Our team must comprehensively improve technical indicators in a short period of time, especially In some key Chinese search indicators, we must surpass the number one competitor in the market.”
At that time, Baidu was dozens of times smaller than the number one competitor in the market, and Baidu’s product technology team at that time only had 15 people. How easy is it for an individual to make a product that 800 of his competitors can make? Engineers can only work day and night to develop programs and practice ascetic practices.
In the most difficult moment, Robin Li encouraged everyone, "We must build the best Chinese search engine in order to survive and live better than anyone else. You hate me now, but in the future You will definitely love me."
It was this lightning operation with only 15 people that took 9 months to seize the highest point of user experience and establish Baidu as the leader in the Chinese search field. Since then, Baidu's market share has been rising steadily, and its road has become wider and wider.
In 20xx, Baidu already had 7,000 employees and occupied 76% of the market share. At a strategic communication meeting, Robin Li once again reiterated to all Baidu people through an online live broadcast: "We must have a leader's mentality in doing things, be best of the best, do everything to the extreme, and do it better than others - ——Not a little better, but a lot better."
In his heart, this extreme is never-ending. Inspirational story: Doing things to the extreme 2
At noon, I accompanied my colleague to make bracelets. When I entered the mall, I saw a row of jewelry processing shops. I asked my colleague which one to go to, and she said of course she should go to Aqun’s house.
I don’t know since when, as long as people around me have jewelry processing or weaving work, they can only feel relieved if they turn to Aqun.
Other jewelry processing shops closed down after a short period of time. Only "Aqun Handicraft" has been open for fifteen years and has an endless supply of customers.
When she arrived at Aqun’s shop, she was stringing jade beads with her head down. I smiled and said: "Sister Aqun, you are very famous in our city J now!"
Aqun smiled sheepishly and said: "No way, I am just a 'craftsman' !”
“Now when we talk about processing jewelry, the first thing that comes to mind is you.”
“That’s because I persist in everything I do.” Aqun said calmly while stringing beads.
Aqun initially rented a table and chairs at the entrance of a shopping mall. From the beginning, no one paid attention to it, but later, customers asked for Aqun by name. She has been doing this for five years.
Five years later, the business slowly became prosperous. Now the customers are all repeat customers, and the repeat customers bring new customers, and the new customers become repeat customers, and bring new customers. This virtuous cycle continues to expand, and the whole company Marketing by word of mouth.
When we came, it was lunch time. The clerk asked her what to eat. She said: "I am not interested in eating now. I want to study how to weave the customer's jade first." Exquisite."
I said: "Sister, you have been doing it for fifteen years, just rely on experience."
But Aqun said: "Jewelry processing seems to be quite simple. , but it requires a lot of attention, such as color matching, material matching, matching with the wearer's temperament, etc. Experience is one aspect. I like to make things that exceed customers' expectations and do what I think is the best, whether it is diamonds, It’s jade, it’s wood, it’s stone.”
After listening to these words, I finally understood why other stores were closing down one after another, but “Aqun Handicraft” not only opened up as a long-standing store in J City, Three branches have also been opened.
Yes, Aqun has persisted for 15 years, but many people have persisted in the same position for more than 15 years. Why are they still doing nothing?
Yes, Aqun worked hard to perfect his craft, but how many people work crazy hard for a while and then disappear?
Aqun’s success is because she has been able to persist in pursuing perfection for 15 years. She has been able to withstand the loneliness of being ignored, and has found her own value and happiness in the process of pursuing perfection.
Of course some people will have doubts, is Aqun considered a success? Compared with Aqun Ma, can she be considered successful?
Chinese society has always had a common problem. The standard of success is too one-sided: in school, it depends on grades, and in society, it depends on fame and fortune.
I agree with Kai-Fu Lee’s statement: Success is “being the best version of yourself.” Aqun's ability to persist in doing things to the extreme means he is being his "best self."
In this way, she is successful.
A few days ago, the program "Face to Face" invited Dong Qing as a guest. The noble atmosphere of her gorgeous clothes has faded away, and she looks particularly intellectual and elegant in a light blue shirt.
Answer host Wang Ning’s questions sincerely, just like the sister next door talking to you. Behind every answer, you can see her life belief in pursuing growth.
The sentence that impressed me the most was Dong Qing’s saying: “I like to do what I can do to the best!”
This is an act of perfecting day by day. A strict self-discipline mentality.
I think this is the most fundamental reason why she was able to rise from obscurity to become the "No. 1 Sister of CCTV" that is popular across the country.
Her ease on the stage and her coolness with a smile on the wind and clouds are actually the result of accumulation over time, stemming from her persistence in perfecting her part every day, which is why she is as dazzling as she is today. Rong.
She once said in a program on Beijing Radio that every time she finished hosting a program, she would step away from the enviable stage and calm down to think carefully about what she did not do enough in hosting this time. Okay, what is not expressed clearly enough, and what are the shortcomings, so that the next hosting can be better than the last time.
With such an attitude, no matter what she does, she will succeed.
She first showed her prominence at the National Young Singers Competition hosted by CCTV in 20xx. She conquered all the contestants and the audience with her elegant and approachable intellectual style, and even amazed the leaders of CCTV. .
In 20xx, Dong Qing, dressed in a red sleeveless dress, walked onto the stage of the Spring Festival Gala and became the focus of attention of Chinese people around the world. She deservedly became the "leading actress of CCTV" after Ni Ping and Zhou Tao. .
The "Chinese Poetry Conference" and "The Reader" she hosted in 20xx were screen-breaking, unexpected but reasonable.
"A large part of their success is due to Dong Qing. You have to admit this!" Director Lang Kun said.
Dong Qing is like a tree, its branches are luxuriant because every corner of its roots is fertile.
As we all know, actress Sun Li did not come from a major. People around her have gone through 4 years of professional study in schools such as Shanghai Opera, Nortel, and China Theater, but her acting skills have been in a series of movies. accumulated in the play.
Sun Li has always told herself that she can only do better than others by spending more time and energy than others, so she cherishes every role she plays.
In order to film "Jade Guanyin", she prepared to go to Yunnan for half a year to experience life and learn shooting and taekwondo.
In order to perform "The Legend of Miyue" well, she asked her friends to invite a history teacher from Fudan University to give her a "personally customized" course about that era.
As Zhang Yi, the actor who worked together with "Hot Mom" ??said, Sun Li is like rice wine, soft in the mouth and with great stamina. This petite and fragile woman always has that energy in her heart.
I think the "energy" expressed by Zhang Yi is her persistence in doing what she can do to the extreme.
Director Zheng Xiaolong said: "Sun Li is acting with her life. She integrates her life into the character."
She was in "The Legend of Zhen Huan" and "The Legend of Mi Yue" The explosion of acting skills is not accidental, it is due to her down-to-earth performance of every role to her perfection.
Some people want to write beautiful and in-depth articles, persist for several months, and give up without seeing any results. But they don’t know how many books and how much literature those mature writers have read and learned. Theory, how many keyboards have been broken.
Some people want to lose weight and go to the gym enthusiastically for a few months. However, the weight does not decrease as much as they expected, so they give up and continue to envy other people's vest lines and small waists, not knowing that others have already lost weight. Keep up the fitness routine for several years.
Xunzi said in "Encouraging Learning": If you don't accumulate steps, you can't reach a thousand miles; if you don't accumulate small streams, you can't build a river.
When you see other people’s success, it seems like overnight, but you don’t know that it is a qualitative change that has been accumulated for a certain period of time and the opportunity comes.
Just like moso bamboo, in the first five years of its life, its growth is almost invisible, but as soon as five years pass, it grows rapidly like magic.
Moso bamboo grows rapidly and completely depends on its root system. It seemed to have no change in the first five years, but in fact it was used to take root deeply, and finally created its own miracle.
So the most important thing to do now is to quietly accumulate your own energy. No matter what the result is, first do what you can to the best. This process of careful accumulation will eventually determine your success. The future will help you bloom at a certain moment. Inspirational story: Do things to the extreme 3
She was born in a small county in the northeast. Although her family was not rich when she was young, her parents loved her very much. In addition, she had a pair of big smiling eyes, which made her particularly special. Likeable. Because she was smart and studious, she was admitted to a normal school at the age of 15. She loved to talk and laugh and was very popular in school. Everyone often got together to talk about dreams and the future.
One day during the lunch break, she and her friends were talking about life in the dormitory. At this time, the head teacher came in. Seeing that they were very excited about the conversation, he asked her: "You said it very well. What is the meaning of life?" "What are your plans?"
This is a normal school, and most of them will become teachers after graduation. "I like being a teacher because I can be with children," she said. "I also want to be a writer and write beautiful stories. I can also be a singer. I think I can sing well, so I can't miss the opportunity. In addition, I want to be a teacher." , I am good at debating and quick in thinking, and I must be an outstanding person to be a lawyer. Also, I want to be a TV host, and I will be famous..."
The head teacher asked: "What do you want most? What to do?”
“Become a film and television star, I think I am also suitable for acting.”
The class teacher listened carefully and said with a smile: "Let me tell you a story! There was a retired teacher in a certain country who accidentally discovered the composition text of a junior high school class that he had corrected 20 years ago. It is written under the same title "My Ideal".
32 students, each of them has different ideals. Some want to be scientists, some want to be lawyers, some want to be artists, some want to be doctors... He suddenly had a whim and wanted to know the ideals of these people 20 years later. Realized or not. So he published a newspaper to find his students at that time and sent these compositions according to their addresses. The student who received the essay quickly wrote back to him, but he was disappointed with the result. In the busyness of life, the fierce competition, and the difficulty of survival, they all forgot their original ideals and finally chose other careers. There was only one composition book and he could not find the address. This student's ideal is to become the Prime Minister of the country. One day, he received a letter from the State Council, written by this student. He said that he is the current prime minister. He said that in the past 20 years, he had never forgotten his ideal and finally realized it. "
The head teacher's words shocked her, and she couldn't help but fall into deep thought. The head teacher took a bottle, put a lot of sand into it, and then planned to put another stone in it, but it couldn't be put in. . She suddenly realized and said: "I understand that if you don't seize the time to realize your ideal, the trivial things in life will be like sand, filling your life, and the stones that symbolize your ideal will no longer be able to fit in." This bottle is time. If you don’t cherish time, then no matter how great your ambitions are, no matter how lofty your ideals are, they won’t be realized. "
The head teacher smiled and said: "Life is short, and it is too unrealistic for a person to try to cover everything. Remember, you can't set too many goals in life. If a person can do one thing extremely well in his life, that is the greatest success! "
She suddenly understood.
So, she set her life goal to be a film and television star. Even after she graduated from the normal school and became a teacher, she resolutely resigned, concentrated on studying, and worked hard to take the exam. She attended the Acting Department of the Shanghai Theater Academy and embarked on the path of acting, because she knew that life was complicated and only by working hard towards her dreams could she succeed.
She is Li Bingbing, who is in the limelight nowadays. A positive film and television actress. In recent years, she has starred in "Butterfly Flying", "Yun Shui Yao", "The King of Kung Fu", etc., and has achieved great success, especially with her outstanding performance in "Yun Shui Yao". She has won the China Film Award for Best Actress and the Hundred Flowers Award for Best Actress, becoming one of the most popular female stars in the country today. In 20xx, she won the Golden Horse Award for Best Actress for the movie "The Wind"; in 20xx, she won the Best Actress Award for her role in the film. With her outstanding performance in the film, she became the most popular heroine in the 4th Asian Film Awards.
Yes, you can’t have too many goals in life. Doing one thing to the extreme is success. .;