Kazuo Inamori: More Important Than Ability Is The Correct Way Of Thinking

One person's Mode of thinking It will have a huge impact on life. Ability and effort are important, but more important is to have the right way of thinking. The reason why Inamori's business philosophy inspires people is that he extends his business philosophy to the philosophy of being human. What the operator pursues is not only the success of his career, but also the happiness of his life.

Life · career = thinking mode × effort × ability

　　 kazuo inamori Japan is one of the four largest enterprises in the world. Ji Xianlin, a famous academic scholar, commented on Inamori as follows: according to my observation in the past 70 or 80 years, it is rare for both entrepreneurs and philosophers to hold one or two terms, starting with Mr. Inamori.

Behind Inamori's success lies his own philosophy of Inamori The result of life and career = mode of thinking (personality · idea) × effort (enthusiasm) × ability 。

The key to this equation is that it multiplies.

For example, a person's intelligence and ability can get 90 points, but the person is not willing to work hard because of his talent. His enthusiasm is only 30 points, and the product of the two is only 2700 points. On the contrary, the other talent is mediocre, only 60 points, but he has self-knowledge, makes up for his lack of diligence, and devotes himself to his work with full enthusiasm of 90 points. The product is 5400 points, which is exactly double that of the talented and inactive person.

There are three factors in Kazuo Inamori's life equation, among which "mode of thinking" is the most important and plays a decisive role. Because it can be positive or negative, the value range is - 100 to + 100; and the other two factors "enthusiasm" and "ability" range from 0 to 100.

Therefore, in the "equation of life and career", ability and effort are important, but the most important thing is to have the right way of thinking as a person.

The so-called correct way of thinking is to think about "as a person, what is right".

What is the right thinking?

Mr. Inamori once had an interview with Yang Peiting, President of China foreign management magazine. President Yang asked Mr. Inamori: "what do you think is the fundamental benefit of your success in this life?"

Mr. Inamori said: "if you want to answer in one sentence, as a person, the most important thing is that the dream depicted in his heart must be realized in the correct way of thinking in life. This is the most fundamental reason for my success in my life. "

So, what is the right way of thinking?

There are usually two criteria for people to judge a thing: one is to take gain and loss as the standard, which is good for one's own, and wrong for one's disadvantage. The second is to take good and evil as the standard. Even if it is bad for yourself, it is still considered to be right because it is good. Even if it is beneficial to yourself, it is still considered wrong because it is evil.

According to the principle, people should choose the second way of judgment, that is, to judge the right and wrong of a thing with the standard of good and evil. But in real life, people often choose the first way of judgment because of their own interests. Of course, if we choose good and evil as the standard, we will lose a lot. If we choose to judge in a way that is beneficial to us, we will get more.

In this case, why did Mr. Inamori choose good and evil as the standard. Mr. Inamori likes a little story about heaven and hell. In this little story, he found that altruism can bring people more happiness.

Heaven or hell is just a matter of different ways of thinking

One day, a little monk asked the elder: where is the hell?

The elder replied: there is a big pot with a diameter of one meter. The pot is steaming with delicious noodles, but the chopsticks for eating noodles are also one meter long. Let's imagine what happens. Everyone was hungry. They took the long chopsticks to eat noodles, but the chopsticks were too long to hold the noodles, but they could not be imported. However, everyone wanted to be the first to eat, and they all scrambled like crazy, so they started to quarrel. As a result, noodles were scattered all over the ground, and no one could eat them. This is hell.

The little monk then asked: where is heaven?

The elder replied: Heaven is also the pot, chopsticks and noodles, but the people there picked up the noodles with chopsticks and said to the person opposite the pot, "the noodles are delicious. Please try them first." Thank you very much. Thank you very much So he picked up the noodles and sent them to each other's mouth. So all the people enjoyed the delicious noodles.

Only thinking about ourselves or thinking about each other first determines whether our life is in heaven or in hell. It can be seen that altruistic thought and behavior not only make everyone obtain material satisfaction, but also obtain spiritual satisfaction together. Heaven and hell, all conditions are the same, the difference is the mentality of people.

If you cherish others, you can go further

Mr. Inamori believes that the correct way of thinking is to have altruistic heart. If a person is selfish and only thinks about himself, then he will lose the opportunity to enter heaven, and of course he will lose many chances of success.

No matter when and where, only by thinking about others can we go further and gain more. Altruism is an important thought in Mr. Inamori's philosophy. As a businessman, it is very rare to think for others and society all the time. In the process of Mr. Inamori running the company, altruism has always influenced him.

Of course, it seems very difficult to be altruistic for many new career friends. But from the beginning, we should firmly take a correct path and choose the right way of thinking. Just like Mr. Inamori, we should strengthen our faith, so that we can have our own place in the workplace.