Dear readers,
Thank you for coming here!
I finished the long Chinese novel at 3:17am today, with ~160 hours of reading time.
It is a really good novel. (I would say it is one of the best I have read, but I have read very limited number of novels. So I will settle with “very good”)
Having no time for a comprehensive review and just by closing my eyes, I could gather that I had gained in below 4 areas.
- Mindset
- People interactions
- Management
- New knowledge
Allow me to briefly elaborate.
Mindset
- Capabilities are the basis and pre-requisite for everything
- Devil exists in the details. People who remain elegant after a long day of hard work says many things.
- There are no fairy tails. People’s behaviors are subject to many constraints and they are shaped by those constraints themselves.
- Taking initiatives always matters. Being lazy and passive ruins the most talent people.
- There is no shortcut.
- Bottom-line is a must, no matter under what circumstances.
- One’s potential can be astonishing if one really really wants to accomplish something, very often with consequences later on.
- Focusing too much on one’s own benefits can override all smartness and diligence and prevent him/her from achieving anything significant.
- For most people, they have not made the mistakes only because they have not been exposed to high enough pressure.
- What is shame? There is no need to look it up in the dictionary. You know it when you experience it.
- Sufferance and endurance is not shame, but a skill.
- There are so many causes and effects through one’s life. The chances of identifying the root cause is low, if possible at all.
- Everyone has their own fate after all.
People interactions
Novels can be more real than biography.
They bring us into the scene of the interactions, including what they say and do and how they think, and break them down for us to see and understand.
So that we know when we are in similar situations.
And we can reflect on ourselves if we have been in similar situations.
Novels are a great way to learn about people.
Management
- Right attitude and solid actions, with a kind heart.
- Never let your team stay idle. That is the start of all distractions.
- Being passive or giving up is almost never a good strategy in competitions. No leverage = no respect/power/benefits.
- Build leverages and do not be afraid to use it, smartly.
New knowledge
We can learn real knowledge and see them being applied in novels. Of course, expect only entry level.
In this one, I have learned in below areas which are new to me:
- Ways to gather capital
- Difficulties to run a factory
- Incredible operations in the area of financing and investing
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