This mentality is neither new nor understandable. But how to understand and guide the social mentality from the perspective of positive energy is the correct approach. Lu Su in the Three Kingdoms period is a good example.
Entrepreneurial period: Donate half of the annual income to Zhou Yu without hesitation.
Lu Su was a famous figure in the Three Kingdoms period. But in everyone's impression, he seems to be an accessory of Zhuge Liang and Zhou Yu. In the Romance of the Three Kingdoms, he is often sandwiched between Zhuge Liang and Zhou Yu, a peacemaker and a loser, who is not worthy of the word "hero". However, people who have really read history books disagree with this statement. In fact, this Lu Su is really a great hero. In today's words, he is a "rich and willful" hero. Otherwise, Zhou Yu would not have written to recommend him as his successor after his death.
According to the Records of the Three Kingdoms, Lu Su had no father since childhood and lived alone with his grandmother. "Money at home" means that he is "rich". How is his "willfulness" manifested? According to historical records, his "willfulness" is not manifested in putting a luxury car aside and covering it with dust, nor in giving a liar a lot of money to see how much money he can cheat and test his patience in being cheated. Although Lu Su did not treat money as money, nor did he spend it on extravagance and waste, he spent it on welfare and poverty alleviation.
At that time, at the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, the Yellow turban insurrectionary uprising and warlords scuffled, and the rich people often hid their property for fear of loss. On the other hand, Lu Su was headstrong and didn't manage industry at all, distributing goods and selling real estate, thus "helping the poor and needy". On the one hand, he helps the poor; On the other hand, he is used to socializing, getting to know great elite heroes and preparing for his career. Everyone likes such "wealth and willfulness". At that time, they praised him for "winning the favor of the whole town".
Of course, the above can only be said to be generous, and it cannot be completely linked to "wealth and willfulness." This is another example.
At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, at the beginning of the heroic undertaking, Sun Ce took a fancy to Jiangdong, the hometown of Sun Jia. He hit it off with Zhou Yu and appointed Zhou Yu to raise money for him and sponsor him. One day, Zhou Yu, then the head of the Bird's Nest, took his entrepreneurial team to Lu Su's home in Linhuai East District and said that he would sponsor it. Since it is a sponsorship, not a hard indicator, it depends on the temper and measurement of Lujia.
Then, the wayward scene appeared.
There are two big granaries in Lu Su's yard. Lu Su's house is two meters. How much is one meter? Three thousand. Welcome to visit. How popular is it? Lu Su was from the Eastern Han Dynasty. Of course, he used the weights and measures of the Han Dynasty. Year: "Ten battles will win." 3,000 barrels of welcome equals 30,000 barrels. That year, Lu Su's family overcharged 35 barrels, but there were two 3,000 barrels and one 6,000 barrels, about 60,000 barrels. In the farming era, agricultural income was often the main income, so Lu Su's income in that year was about 60,000 Mi Dou.
Lu Su was drinking with Zhou Yu at that time. As soon as he heard that he wanted to sponsor, he pointed to the granary and said, "I'll give you my rice." He donated 30,000 tons of rice without hesitation, which is equivalent to half of his annual income. Not on purpose. What is willfulness?
What's more, Lu Su is a high-quality "rich and willful" person, because the object of giving money is not a liar, not a person living in luxury, but Zhou Lang who died after joking. "Being rich and willful" depends on the object and quality.
Zhou Yu was deeply moved by Lu Su's "wealth and willfulness" and said emotionally, "Our brothers made a deal." When Yuan Shu heard about this, he also felt that Lu Su was a man, so he was appointed as the magistrate of Huailin Dongcheng.
Critical period: Persuading Sun Quan to resist Cao Jun will lead to willful life.
Battle of Red Cliffs is a famous war throughout the ages, so it is unnecessary to introduce the specific process. In this war, Lu Su played two important roles: first, he actively contacted Liu Bei, formed a Sun-Liu alliance, and organized the work to resist US aggression and aid Korea; The second is to persuade Sun Quan to give up the illusion of surrender and fight Cao Cao.
Among the main warring factions, their words played a decisive role in Sun Quan's fighting attitude: first, Zhuge Liang persuaded Sun Quan to resist from a strategic height, thinking that Cao Jun was a spent force, unfamiliar with terrain and waterways, and could not stand a long toss; Secondly, Zhou Yu calculated a subtraction for Sun Quan and reduced Cao Cao's troops from 800,000 to156,000. He is a tired teacher, which relieved Sun Quan of his worries about strength comparison. The third is Lu Su. However, Lu Su is a clever man. It is impossible to persuade Sun Quan not to repeat what Zhuge Liang and Zhou Yu said. One of the important contents is whether to live willfully.
Such words are hard to say in public, so Lu Su compared his life after surrendering to Cao Cao to Sun Quan sitting in an empty toilet. He said that after Lu Su surrendered to Cao Cao, I could still live willfully. I can go back to my hometown, drive a broken ox cart every day, take a few followers, walk around, drink and play cards, and then be free; You can do it step by step. Maybe you can get along with officials, such as satrap. "When the official is tired, you can't lose the county." But once you surrender to Cao Cao, Sun Quan will definitely be led by Cao Cao and transferred to Luoyang to live. There may still be money, but you can't be willful.
Lu Su's words cannot be easily let go. He touched Sun Quan's heart from the perspective of personal life, and the core is whether he can live willfully. This talk about waywardness can be said to be one of the important theoretical foundations for eliminating capitulationists. Therefore, Sun Quan said with emotion that Lu Su's "Grand Plan and Loneliness", that is to say, Lu Su broadened Sun Quan's strategic thinking from a wayward perspective and went deep into Sun Quan's heart.
Therefore, when lobbying the boss to take new measures, we should not only start from the business indicators, but also start from the comfort and willfulness of the mind. From this perspective, willfulness is also an important market indicator.
Revelation: Being rich and willful also pays attention to positive energy and negative energy.
The Wei and Jin Dynasties, in the history of China's writing, was also an era when frankness was advocated. For example, Ji Kang is a rich and willful aristocrat. Zhong will go to see him. He can strike the iron with his bare hands. He will not talk to the clock for a long time, and he will make a stubborn and arrogant clock feel terrible; Sima Yi hired him, and his boss wrote a letter to his recommender and old friend Dan Tao, saying that he was untidy, lazy, free and impatient.
Ruan Ji is also a noble and willful person. When his mother died, he was playing Weiqi with someone else, and his opponent advised him to stop the game, but he had to end it. After returning home, Ruan Ji drank two barrels of wine in one breath and cried and vomited blood.
The ancients provided us with many high-quality models of "rich and willful". Of course there are some inferior models. For example, Shi Chong is richer than others. He hit people's ass with coral in 3354, and then lost many similar products. There were many "rich and willful" nobles in the Jin Dynasty, but they were completely abandoned by the long river of history.
Recently, people envy "being rich and willful", which is an understandable pursuit of wealth and spiritual comfort. But from what angle to pursue and understand it, whether it promotes physical and mental health or causes physical and mental anxiety, is a question worth thinking about.