Sometimes success means making fewer mistakes.

The story of the tortoise and rabbit race tells us several things:

1) Need to know where the end point is;

2) As long as you keep running, no matter how slow, you can always run to the finish line;

3) To win the game, we should not only try to run to the finish line, but also hope that others will make mistakes;

4) Usually we can't predict whether the other party will make mistakes, so what we can do is to make fewer mistakes ourselves, and it is best not to make mistakes;

Life is a long run, much longer than several marathons. We admire those who insist on running to the finish line knowing that it is impossible to win the championship, so we will cheer for every runner who has finished the marathon, no matter what his final ranking is. Not many people in the world have tried to run a marathon. As long as you try, you can get rid of many people. If you can finish running, you may squeeze into 10% or even 1% people. In real life, we don't want to achieve 1%, as long as we can achieve 25%, it is already very good.

To reach 25%, like a turtle, find the right target, make fewer mistakes and stick to it. We can calculate the probability. 80% people know what is right, 50% people have the ability to minimize mistakes, and 50% people keep doing it, which will produce results. How many people can succeed in the end? 80% x 50% x 50% = 20%。 In real life, this probability is much lower than this level, or it is too easy to succeed.

It is not difficult to find the right target. We know that there are too many right things to do, such as reading more books, learning English, learning investment, exercising and so on. Or look at those successful people and do what they are doing. Be more realistic and just do the job at hand.

It's not that hard to stick to it. Li Xiaolai gave the method of persistence, giving one thing multiple meanings. Before doing something, take some time to think about the significance and benefits of doing it, even if it is measured by the most vulgar money, it can make us stick to it easily.

The hardest thing is to make fewer mistakes. Making fewer mistakes is a technical problem, which requires us to take every step carefully on the way forward. This can't be done before going on the road (such as finding the right goal), and it can't be solved by thinking (such as persistence). Reducing mistakes requires us to take every step with the defensive mentality of NBA. On the way forward, as long as we make sure we don't make mistakes, we don't care whether the people around us are more talented, luckier and richer than me. We will make steady progress and make fewer mistakes, and success will wave to us.

On the road of life, we compare the relative speed with the people around us. When many people are practicing skills, fighting for physical strength and endurance, what we have to do is to make fewer mistakes and naturally be better than many people around us.

Ma Hua Teng once said: As long as you bury your head in your own camp, people will naturally be distracted and fall behind.