If you equate belief in God’s will with feudal superstition, then you are totally wrong... (non-text part)
Back to the starting point of the entrepreneurial journey , one of the most profound realizations that I have thought about is: there is a magical force behind every step of life, but we were not aware of it due to our cognitive limitations at the time. And when we look back and summarize afterwards, we will be surprised to find that so many irrelevant external factors coincidentally encountered our own subjective consciousness at the time, making a major decision, whether right or wrong, so logical. So much so that we simply can’t resist. I think this is what we usually call "God's will" or "fate's arrangement".
We are all a generation educated with scientific concepts, and we will not lightly talk about strange forces and chaos. However, the objective experience along the way tells me that destiny must have its underlying laws. Only by grasping this underlying law can we be qualified to say such heroic words as "fighting against fate." This is actually the scientific outlook on life: I believe that destiny has its own internal laws, but this law cannot be broken and reorganized.
If I were to embark on the road of entrepreneurship, a large part of the driving force (at least half) was because of love, many people might laugh out loud. But it is indeed the case. I also mentioned in the last article that some of the underlying reasons for starting a business are actually very naive and absurd, so that it is always difficult to talk about this issue with others.
Briefly describe what happened.
Not long after I entered college, I fell in love with a girlfriend, who was my first love. We spent four years of college together. I think everyone’s first love should be impressive. After all, it adds an incomparable trace of wonderful experience to the blank area of ????the brain. After graduating from university, she was admitted to Ningbo University as a graduate student, and I went to Shenzhen to work. The days when we were not together at first really confirmed the saying "distance creates beauty". We talked on the phone every day like glue. Later, with the differences in their respective life circles, differences in values ??began to arise. Once such a situation emerged, the subsequent consequences were self-evident. The 5-year relationship still lost to time and space.
Looking back now, I was indeed too young and immature at the time, but these were all "afterthoughts" after the cognitive boundaries were expanded. At that time, I was really sad. I was hurt so deeply that my life after falling out of love became dark. I clearly realized that this state could not last long, so I had to take the initiative to break this emotional spell. The most direct way I thought of was to escape from the spatial level first. I want to leave Shenzhen first and change to a new environment. Maybe there will be new opportunities to quickly distract my attention, and then I can "successfully" escape from the painful prison.
Then, the first "irrelevant" factor miraculously appeared. One of my supervisors was poached by a colleague in Shanghai to be an airborne leader. He needed a direct team to develop with him in that company, so he found me. I saw that Shanghai was so close to Ningbo, so I followed my supervisor to Shanghai by accident. I originally wanted to take the opportunity to escape from the magic circle of emotions, but the result was completely opposite. Because the closer you are, the more you think about it, and the deeper you sink. So much so that "darkness" cannot describe my state of mind at that time. I was on the verge of collapse. What then? I still have to save myself! So, continue to "escape", and find a way to "escape" that can attract my attention more. So, I thought of starting a business - this way of working towards death should be enough to divert most of my attention, so that I can completely forget about her.
To be honest, it would be pure nonsense to say that I had any profound insights into entrepreneurship at that time. I didn’t even have a relatively clear entrepreneurial ID in my mind. When others start a business, they first choose a project, but when I start a business, I first choose a location.
Then, the second "irrelevant" factor miraculously appeared. When I started taking stock of where I could go, I discovered a "feng shui treasure" - Hangzhou.
Because I have several close buddies from high school in Hangzhou. How can I not find a place where I have close friends and influence when I am away from home? But I actually know that the more convincing reason is that Hangzhou is one step closer to Ningbo... Now that the place has been selected, we can start planning projects.
Then, the third "irrelevant" factor miraculously appeared. At that time, my brother had opened an online store for more than two years. Although the business situation was not very good, he had always been full of confidence in this new thing. Under his influence, I had the opportunity to study e-commerce, which was completely unrelated to my major. Then, the base camp I chose was in Hangzhou. Hangzhou is the capital of e-commerce. What else could be better? Which e-commerce business is more suitable? Moreover, this is a project with almost the lowest threshold for starting a business.
As a result, the base camp and direction of entrepreneurship were "magically" finalized in Hangzhou and e-commerce, which continues to this day.
After reading the above journey, maybe many people will think the same as me now: childish, absurd, ridiculous...
Wait a minute, don’t laugh at anyone easily. A person's past experiences, including one's own. The past is called "the past" not only because of the temporal sequence, but more importantly because of its irreversible state at the cognitive level. If the current cognitive state can be brought back to the past, I believe many people will do what Jack Ma, Ma Huateng, and Liu Qiangdong have done. The problem is that at that time, no one really knew that things would be like this!
Therefore, I need a perspective without self-discrimination to review my past mental journey in order to better find out the underlying evolution rules. Otherwise, a thing that makes people laugh is simply not possible. value of research.
Looking back on the entire process of the birth of the idea of ??starting a business, it seems that at every step there is a "magical" force pushing me one step closer to the final situation. Compared with this "magical" power, those obvious and natural reasons are actually insignificant. So where does this "magical" power come from becomes the key to the problem.
On the surface, the reason for every action I take is to escape the emotional whirlpool of broken love. But if you look at the transfer trajectory at the spatial level, in fact, the real deep-seated reason is because there is a person in my heart. Extremely stubborn obsession - I want to get back together with my girlfriend! And I have never admitted this with my mouth, not even in my "heart", but it is truly rooted somewhere deep in my heart. In psychological terms, this place is called subconscious!
It was only recently that through study and self-awareness, I realized the mechanism by which the subconscious mind affects people’s destiny. In fact, at every stage of the evolution of my entrepreneurial idea, the "irrelevant" external factors that appeared did not come to me "invariably" as I said at the beginning. They have always existed. ! Since they have always existed, why did I feel at that time that these conditions were "tailor-made" for me? This is what the subconscious mind does.
The so-called subconscious is the part of our brain in the conscious layer that is not subject to subjective control. For example, when we are in a noisy bar, all sounds can be received by our ears equally, but we do not pay attention to what the people around us are saying. At this time, if someone in the crowd calls our name, no matter how noisy the surroundings are, we can still hear the voice clearly. This is how the subconscious mind works - it causes our attention to automatically tend to where the subconscious mind is concerned. In the same way, it seems that when I make every choice, those external factors appear "suddenly", but in fact, it is entirely because they are exactly in the direction of my subconscious attention, so my brain will automatically Filter out all other external factors that are inconsistent with this direction, and persist in choosing the option driven by your subconscious mind.
Then, review the entire mental process, and the action decisions brought about by the conscious and subconscious minds are as follows:
So, now I dare to draw a very firm conclusion: Everyone’s life The trajectory is driven by the subconscious mind, which is the source of the so-called "divine will". It is nothing more than the thinking mechanism of our brains, not some supernatural force. Since it is the result of brain thinking, we can change our destiny by modifying the brain. And now I have started the huge project of transforming my brain!