2000년부터 발표된 그의 주옥같은 글들. 독자들이 자발적으로 만든 제본서는 물론, 전자책과 앱까지 나왔던 《세이노의 가르침》이 드디어 전국 서점에서 독자들을 마주한다. 여러 판본을 모으고 저자의 확인을 거쳐 최근 생각을 추가로 수록하였다. 정식 출간본에만 추가로 수록된 글들은 목차와 본문에 별도 표시하였다.
"People who experienced poverty early on do not feel ashamed to ‘go back’ to a poor standard of living at any time because it was their starting point. Even if something goes wrong and they fail and lose everything they have, they know how to ‘go back’ to zero and start over. That is why countless rich people succeed in making a comeback even after failing in business or investment or losing all their money in a flood or fire. However, most people who grew up in middle-class or higher families do not try to go to zero when such difficulties arise. For those who have no experience starting from point zero, going to point zero is not seen as ‘going back’ but as an unknown and anxious fear that must be pioneered. And that's why they can't escape failure, and they're so afraid of failure that they don't achieve much."
"When I lie down in bed, I fall asleep within 5 to 10 minutes, even though I drink about 15 cups of espresso coffee a day. This is because there were almost no problems that could not be solved."
"Don't despair on that wrong road, quickly turn on your blinker and change the road. Take my word for it. There, a new life rushes at you frighteningly fast."
Andrew Matthews says this in “Do as you like.” “I have never met anyone who says that even though they wake up early in the morning, exercise, study, socialize, and do their best, nothing good happens in their life.” I'm a night owl, so I sleep late and don't wake up at dawn, but I believe what he says. Don’t sigh because you have a lot of worries. Worries eat away at your soul. Accurately identify the core of the problem, find a solution, and implement it. If you don't see a solution, ignore it. Whether you worry or not, the result is the same. So, just think about it for 10 minutes.
this idea occurred to me after overhearing that college students majoring in English would become gurus if they studied for 2 hours a day for 4 years. ‘2 hours a day for 4 years? 2 years if you do 4 hours a day? 8 hours is 1 year? 16 hours is 6 months? They say it takes less than 6 months in 18 hours... Let's go crazy.'
Whether in Korea or Japan, the education method is centered on memorization. Memorization is a very wrong educational system that treats only those with excellent memorization skills as excellent elites and puts those with outstanding creativity and application skills into an inferiority complex, but those who win in that system often think of themselves as great elites
When 1,084 high school seniors were asked how many teachers they admire, 46.5% said 1 to 2 teachers, 34.7% said 3 to 4 teachers, and 8.1% said they had 3 to 4 teachers. There is a statistic that 5 to 6 people and 7.6% answered no. What this means is that my daughters in middle school and high school have less than a 10% chance of meeting a respectable teacher.
Your school may have gone away with winners and losers. Life hasn’t. In some schools, they’ll give you as many times as you want to get the right answer. Failing grades have been abolished and class valedictorians scrapped, least anyone’s feelings be hurt. Effort is as important as results. This, of course, bears not the slightest resemblance to anything in real life.
Therefore, if you want to change your introverted personality, try changing your clothes. It's also good to purposely wear gangly clothes on holidays. It wouldn't be a bad idea to draw something like a snake or skull on your arm using something like an Indian henna tattoo. Don't see your old friends for a while, even if it's been a year or two. This is because your friends will not approve of the change, pointing out that you are behaving differently (and remember, friends and family are always there to hold you back). Therefore, make new friends who recognize your new personality as your original personality.
I also thought that way in my 20s. And in fact, at the age of 39, I felt like I had accumulated enough money to live on for the rest of my life, so I attempted to retire, but I soon got back to work. Why did they do that? This is because I haven't found anything attractive enough to replace the fun of working. Think back to your school days. Everyone enjoys studying subjects they are good at, but gets really bored with subjects they are not good at. If you're good at something, you're bound to have fun, but if you're not good at something, it's fun and nothing. In other words, there is a proportional relationship between whether you enjoy something and whether you are good at it or not. Being good at something is possible because you know a lot about it, and doing it well also makes it fun.
What I am trying to say is that the earlier you start self-development, the better. Those who do it first in their 20s have an advantage over those who do it in their 30s, and those who do it first in their 30s have an advantage over those who do it in their 40s. Moreover, people who continue to work hard in their 20s and 30s will receive more recognition from this society than anyone else.
In my experience, employees in their 20s and early 30s are more likely to change if you teach them properly and put in some effort themselves. About 50% of people in their mid-30s to mid-40s show potential, but the remaining 50% just pretend. In my case, I don't have any expectations for people after their mid-40s to change, and especially for people in their mid-50s or later, I just leave them as they are because I'm a little wary of them.
Leadership, integrity, intelligence. we cannot choose whether or not we have intelligence and leadership, but integrity is not something we are born with, but something we choose and learn as we live. Buffett says: We all hate people who are dishonest, stingy, unkind, or selfish. However, these aspects are all qualities chosen by those people and not innate
I guarantee that if you spend your time only having fun, your life itself will sooner or later become boring.
"I am a lucky person who can dare to say that I have lived my life while taking such hot breaths, falling and bleeding countless times."
Don’t trust the classics too much (I’m not saying you should ignore the old things)if you're trying to learn about stocks, it's a good idea to read books that are easy to understand with comics first. Stay away from books that only talk about difficult things or have a lot of theoretical content. In most cases, these are books in which the author boasts about his knowledge by parroting what he learned in the past without having any experience in doing it himself.let’s say you are very interested in trade. Most people think that in such cases, they should learn trade studies. So, you learn everything starting from the history, concepts, classifications, and significance of trade, but if you have no intention of becoming a scholar, it is best to completely ignore knowledge or theories that are not practical. The knowledge hunters need is not about the history, meaning, or types of hunting. Isn’t it about animal ecology and how to shoot a gun well?There is no perfect book in this world. There are bound to be missing parts. The missing part is often mentioned in books written by other authors. But don't read college textbooks or anything like that unless you need credit for it. Most of the textbook-like books are expensive and have titles such as ‘So-and-so theory’ or ‘So-and-so theory’. The people who wrote it are usually people who have never been anywhere near the real economy.I read most books very quickly. This is because many of the parts are already known or practiced because they have been read in other books. You can boldly skip any parts where the author tells stories to increase the number of manuscript pages or explains the same content repeatedly. I've never learned speed reading, but if you're a very slow reader, it might be a good idea to learn it.Just focus on understanding. Isn’t it like taking an exam? Even if he is a doctor, the knowledge he has memorized is much less than half of a CD-ROM. He doesn't have to worry about not being able to memorize anything. If a problem arises in practice, all you have to do is find the necessary part in the book and apply it. Information means knowing where the content you want is located.Unless you plan to sell your books as used, read them dirty. Line out the important parts and doodle anything that comes to mind as you read. That way, you can easily find it later when you need it. It is helpful to use different colored post-its or colored paper. Humans are creatures of forgetfulness, so often just skim the underlined parts. The key points are summarized again. Organizing notes separately means, “I’m working hard.” It may give you a happy feeling, but in my experience, it doesn't help at all.Unless it's a textbook, you have to finish any book within 2-3 days to get the full context. For example, if you want to study about auctions, you need to read at least five books in a short period of time to understand what auctions are. During that 2-3 day period, sleep less and put everything aside. Don't even go out. Just focus on those books. Are you saying you're going to do it little by little over the course of 6 months because you don't have time? This is the most foolish reading method. After 6 months you will still be an amateur.Rather than setting a separate reading time, it is better to get into the habit of opening a book whenever you have time. Therefore, instead of sitting idly on the bus or subway or tapping away at your phone or engrossed in playing games, always carry a book with you. If you don't have a book, you might as well just sleep. If you go to the dressing room at a French or Italian fashion show, you can see models reading books even during the short time they wait for their turn. our country? Well, that's fine. Put a few books in the bathroom and flip through them if you can. If you rummage for 5 minutes a day, it amounts to 30 hours in a year.Many people don't even know how to answer the phone. You already know? You will change your mind once you read about how to answer the phone within an organization. I receive a lot of emails, but only a few are polite. How can someone who can't write a letter properly write a document properly? Continue to read books that will verify whether you are doing the right thing, and relearn the basics that you mistakenly think you already know. In any university library, the vast majority of the top 10 book rentals are fantasy novels or martial arts novels, and unless you dream of becoming a famous writer writing such books or are a game story writer, these books are of little help in living in the world. . When interviewing employees, they vaguely ask about such books and eliminate anyone who has a lot of reading experience in that field. This is because it is obvious that they have neglected the things they really need to do Book reviews include reviews by children (including college students), reviews by adults, reviews by experts, reviews by reporters, and reviews by experienced people. There have been many times when I couldn't help but laugh when I saw college students and ordinary people who had no direct experience with management arguing about certain management books in the review section of an online bookstore. Reporters' book reviews that you get through newspapers mainly show their true value in humanities books. Only rich people can accurately evaluate the value of books about money, and only managers and businessmen can accurately evaluate the value of books about management and business. Because they are the only ones experiencing it. But, unfortunately, remember that rich people, managers, and businessmen keep quiet because they are too busy with their own work, it's annoying, or they don't feel the need. Even for myself, I have never once posted a book review on the Internet because I was too lazy to do so. you see a book you want to read, buy it first, even if you don't have time to read it right away. In Korea, a book becomes a bestseller even if it sells only a few hundred thousand copies. However, due to the extreme lack of reading, many good books are disappearing without even selling 3,000 copies of the first edition. Now, let's say you acquire and read one of the 3,000 copies of a book that is about to disappear. Do you know what that means? This means that you have become one of the 3,000 people out of the 47 million people in Korea, and you are differentiated from the remaining 46.97 million people. Remember that differentiation is the weapon that gives you the best first-mover advantage in the economic game. Read poetry and novels. Only then will your insight into life deepen. Isn’t life something that can be lived with money alone?
True human love goes one step beyond the dominance of genetic instincts obsessed with physical conditions. That love can be maintained only when you feel attracted to the inner world of the other person's personality, personality, hobbies, habits, intelligence, abilities, values, etc. Even if it starts off with physical attraction, if there is no inner support, it quickly becomes a bubble that will disappear. Therefore, if we talk about the order of love, it must begin with the exchange of reason, which must be connected to emotion, then emotion to emotion, and that emotion to instinct. The research team revealed that it was confirmed that heart-pounding love disappears after 18 to 30 months. “The feeling of love is a chemical reaction of the brain,” and “After about two years when a man and a woman meet, antibodies develop in the cerebrum, and love chemicals are no longer produced.”Professor Robert Pryor of the University of Michigan also makes a similar claim, saying that serotonin, which is secreted when falling in love, makes people blind by preventing them from recognizing the other person's flaws, but that the validity period is about two years. This means that once sexual curiosity is satisfied, chemicals are no longer secreted as they were at first, and the passionate feelings toward one's lover are actually the result of chemicals secreted by genes.Love, which is dominated by instinct, is first affected by physical conditions such as appearance due to its primitive nature. It means falling in love at first sight or feeling attracted to someone because of a good first impression. However, love is not something that can be maintained with just that first button. A love so dominated by instinct can never last long due to its primitive nature. Elizabeth Taylor, the eternal queen of the silver screen who is almost 70 years old, is famous for her eight marriages and 17 romantic relationships. She used to say “now I have finally found my true love” after each of her marriages, but all that love was shattered. Why did that happen? Could it be because they believed that an encounter dominated by instinct was true love?The reason why more than one out of three newlyweds in many countries divorce is because they misunderstood instinctive emotions as true love and ended up getting married.The excitement of a fateful meeting is not love, but merely a primitive feeling that appears without your knowledge due to the secretion of chemicals by your instinctive DNA.
If you are in a relationship where you indulge in skinship or sex every time you meet, stop it right away.
I know what it is like to have your mind set on becoming rich, only to have that determination shattered? It's loneliness. Loneliness is a rite of passage that anyone who has achieved any goal must have experienced countless times. Therefore, now make solitude and loneliness your friend.
Surprisingly, the biggest obstacle to living a lonely life is your friends. Since your friends know about your old life, they ask, “Why are you acting so different from yourself?” While holding my ankle. To become rich, you must overcome loneliness. Friends don't give you a chance to become rich. Rather, they only take away the time to become rich by laughing and chatting and building so-called affection. Therefore, do not meet each other for just a few years and try to be alone. If you miss your friends, send them an email. My writing skills also improve.
Live so that the object you spit on now does not become your future self.
Winners have many enemies, losers have many friends. When I was running a business, I had no friends in the same industry. I have never once considered everyone working in the same industry as my ally, much less tried to be friends, and have never tried to unite. To me, everyone was an enemy.Because of that, people in the same industry disliked me very much, but I am confident that I never committed any slander or cowardly actions.
S called after hearing the news. “I will kill you someday,” he said. I responded like this. “Don’t you remember that I snatched a business deal from the president you worked for?” (And a few years later, I was attacked by the owner of Company J and faced great difficulties. This is the world of business. It’s a game where you eat and get eaten.) You have many friends in the industry? No enemies? Don't boast about it. It may mean that everyone thinks little of you, or it may mean that you are an easy person who is not worthy of competition. If I say that an employee is “a good person,” it means that he or she is terrible at his or her job.
The advantage of good looks is that you can stand at the starting line ahead of others. Of course, what ultimately gets you going is skill. If you only believe in your appearance and neglect the development of your abilities, your life will never be long. Are you not confident about your appearance at all? Don't be discouraged, but double your skills.
You have many friends in the industry? No enemies? Don't boast about it. It may mean that everyone thinks little of you, or it may mean that you are an easy person who is not worthy of competition. If I say that an employee is “a good person,” it means that he or she is terrible at his or her job.So, I tried to make everyone cooperate and become one as Homo sapiens, at least within the organization. That's why I don't like employees who try to dominate their colleagues rather than cooperate with them. Because it breaks teamwork.It is not that there was no personal conflict. If we follow Thomas Hobbes's ‘war of all against all’ and consider everyone but ourselves as enemies, humanity will soon be destroyed. They say it's survival of the fittest, but isn't the reason humans have survived because we've lived a cooperative life and been considerate of the weak since primitive times? Even sociobiologists acknowledge that, as far as humanity is concerned, the significance of the fittest is “the result of successful reproductive activity, including consideration for the weak.”Anyone who has been involved in a fight,Since my mid-20s, I have never visited a friend for any business purpose. When I meet a friend, I want to turn off the calculator in my brain. I want my friends to turn off their calculators when they see me. This is because I believe that only then can friendship become pure.If it is something that must be handled with courage and a sense of duty,Of course, you will have enemies, but if you don't have enemies,What you have done is insignificant.That's why I never recommend partnering with friends. What is important between partners is not a trust relationship, but a balance of abilities and an accurate calculation based on abilities. Especially in a field in which you know nothing, partnering with a friend to do the work for money is a shortcut to destroying friendship. It is said that 55% of communication effectiveness relies on gestures, facial expressions, and gaze, 38% on tone of voice, and only 7% on content of presentation.
1. Never stop learning. Be the best in what you are doing. 2. Do it yourself (to learn and to save money), including studying tax law, car repair, and investment (stocks and real estate) 3. Take on the challenge. 4. A crisis is an opportunity for growth 5.
평균 이상만 하자고 생각하며 버티면서 살아왔다. 스스로를 끝까지 몰아붙여 한계를 뛰어넘는 경험도 한번쯤은 해봐야할텐데. (해봐야 할까? 솔직히 잘 모르겠다.) 네 문제는 살면서 진정한 노력을 안 해봤다는 거야, 2년 전 과외 선생님의 말의 저주처럼 남았다. 내 안에 그럴 수 있을 불꽃이 있을까? 결핍이 부족한가. 열망이 없다. 체념하는 법을 너무 이르게 알아버린 것일지도. 지겹다. 가끔은 아주 지긋지긋하다.
저자처럼 온 힘을 다해 살아보고 싶다가도, 문득 너무 힘이 들고. 살아가는 게 그렇지 뭐. 속아 사는 것이고, 시간 때우기일텐데. 앞으로 살아갈 날이 너무 많다. 그래도 살아가야지.