On the road of struggle, sometimes you work a few steps less than others, but the results are far different. Just a few steps, what is missing is persistence and determination not to give up until the goal is achieved.

There is a "horseshoe nail story" that may be inspiring to everyone.

It means that in the winter of 1945, a pair of political enemies, Charles III of the English royal family and Earl Henry of the Langcaster family, who had been fighting for the scepter of the British king for 30 years, started the final battle------ Battle of Bosworth.

King Richard III was ready to fight to the death. On the morning of the battle, Richard sent a groom to prepare his favorite horse.

"Hurry up and shoe it," the groom said to the blacksmith.

"You have to wait," the blacksmith replied.

"I did it a few days ago. All the horses in the king's army have been shod, and now there are no more horseshoes. I have to find a piece of iron to make them fresh."

"I can't wait any longer," the groom cried impatiently. < /p>

"The king's enemies are advancing. We must meet the enemy soldiers on the battlefield. Use whatever you have on hand."

The blacksmith began to immerse himself in work. He put an iron Smash the strips flat, shape them, and simply make four horseshoes, then fix them on the horseshoes and start driving nails. When he nailed the fourth horseshoe, he found that there were no nails left.

"I need a nail," he said.

"It's going to take some time to hammer it out."

"I told you I couldn't wait. ," the groom said eagerly,

"I heard the bugle, can you do it?"

"The horseshoe has been nailed, but there is one nail missing. , maybe this horseshoe is not as strong as the other three."

"Can it be hung?" the groom asked.

"It should be possible," replied the blacksmith,

"But I'm not sure."

"Well, that's it," cried the groom,

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"Hurry up, or the king will blame us both."

The two armies clashed, and King Richard was in the army's formation. He charged into the battle and spurred the army on. Soldiers confront the enemy. "Charge, charge!" he shouted, leading his troops to charge towards the enemy's position. From a distance, Richard saw several of his soldiers retreating on the other side of the battlefield. He rushed towards the gap with his horse and whip, calling on the soldiers to go forward and fight with all their strength. Before he got halfway, a horseshoe fell off, the horse fell to the ground, and Richard was also thrown to the ground. Before the king could seize the reins again, the frightened horse jumped up and ran away. Richard looked around. His soldiers turned and retreated, and Henry's army surrounded them. He waved his sword in the air.

"Horse!" he shouted,

Soon Henry's soldiers captured Richard and the battle was over. Since then, people have circulated such a story:

An iron nail was missing and a horseshoe fell out.

A horseshoe fell off and a war horse was lost.

Lost a horse and lost a battle.

A battle was lost and a country was lost.

There are many other cases like this where the success falls short or the success is half achieved after a hundred miles.

As I write this, I suddenly think of the “1.01 and 0.99 rules” that have been circulating on the Internet recently, and I am very thoughtful about it. Please look at the diagram:

It can be seen that just a little extra effort every day will accumulate into huge power after 365 days. On the contrary, if you are lazy a little bit every day, you will lose a lot in 365 days!

The three numbers 1.01, 1, and 0.99 are not much different from each other, which is 0.01 respectively. If you enlarge these three numbers to one year For each day in , that is, their respective powers of 365, the numbers are 37.8, 1, and 0.03 respectively; it turns out that the one with 0.01 more is 37.4 times the original, and the one with 0.01 less is 1/33. The difference in multiples between the two is 1260 times. If we take "1" as our daily normal state, a little more inertia every day is "0.99", and a little more effort every day is "1.01", then the results will have a huge multiplication change after one year, and the effect of a little more effort every day is Every day is 1260 times more inert.

As long as you do a little more than others every day, you will surpass others by a long way. Sometimes, it's a geometrically large amount.

Here, let me share with you a little story:

Legend has it that King Sherhan of India planned to reward the inventor of chess, Prime Minister Sisa Ban Dayil. The wise minister said to the king: "Your Majesty, please give me one grain of wheat in the first square of this chessboard, two grains in the second square, and four grains in the third square." Grains, and so on, the wheat in each small square is twice as much as the previous small square, until 64 squares are filled." The king thought that he would not spend a lot, and he was secretly happy and agreed.

The work of counting wheat grains has begun. Put 1 grain in the first grid, 2 grains in the second grid, and 4 grains in the third grid. With the rapid increase of the required wheat grains, , the king realized that even if he took all the food in India, he could not fulfill his promise to Dayir.

It turns out that the total number of wheat grains required:

1+2+2 2+2 3+2 4+……+2 63=2^64-1

=18446744073709551615.

This is an astronomical figure. Not to mention King Sherhan of India, it would have taken two thousand years for the whole earth to produce so much wheat. Obviously, he was at a loss.

What I want to say is that effort is not a scalar quantity, but a vector, with both magnitude and direction. First of all, we have to clarify the direction. If we really want to use a function to express it, we must make sure that our function is increasing. This is the strategy. As for whether it is an increasing linear function or an exponential function, and what its slope is, it depends on the individual. Only by working in the right direction can we get rid of people whose efforts are smaller than ours. If we work in the wrong direction or go in the opposite direction, it will be useless even if we are exhausted.

Enlightenment: In life, the small difference of 0.01 cannot be underestimated. Tiny diligence will lead to extraordinary achievements as long as you persist. Tiny inertia will lead to huge failure over time; the difference between people The initial difference is often just 0.01. The key is to see how we make good use of this 0.01. Whether we are diligent or lazy, it determines the success or failure of our lives. There are more than 30,000 days in life from birth to death. Every day is like climbing a mountain. As long as we go Walking up, even a small step every day, will create new heights in life.