Life lies in training
 

In the United States, there is such a young man: he is a college student. Every school week or holiday, he has to go to work in the factory opened by his father. He used his working salary to repay the tuition and living expenses advanced by his parents. In the factory, like other workers, he lined up to clock in and out, and settled his salary at the end of the month based on the quality score assessed by the workshop and the completion of the work. On one occasion, he was two minutes late because the bus was late, and half of his bonus for that month was deducted.

When he finally graduated from college and thought he could take over his father's company, his father not only didn't let him take over the company, but was more harsh on him. He didn't understand that his father was the chairman of a company. His family was not short of money and often donated money to the welfare home, but even if he was reluctant to give him another penny, he had to ask his father for living expenses regularly. He was finally forced out of the house by his father. He felt that he must not be his father's own son. Otherwise, how could he treat him like this. He thought that he had nothing to do with his father anyway. He might as well go out and find another way to live.

He wanted to go to the bank to borrow money to do business, but his father resolutely refused to guarantee him. Without a guarantor, he could not borrow a penny from the bank. So he had to work for others. However, due to the complex interpersonal relationship, he was finally squeezed out of the company. After he lost his job, he opened a small shop with a little money accumulated from his work. The business of the small shop was good. He opened a small company again, and the small company gradually became a big company.

But to his great sorrow, the company closed down because of poor management. He thought about jumping off a building, but he was unwilling to die like this. He seriously thought about his past, why his father was so cruel to himself, and why he suffered repeated disastrous failures in working and business. He summarized his failure lessons, but he was not discouraged and determined to clench his teeth and straighten out his chest and start over again. Just as he braced himself for another job, his father found him, hugged him with open arms and decided to let him take over his company. He was very puzzled about his father's decision. He said, "I have nothing or even failure now. Why do you want me to take over your company?" The father said: "No, boy, although you still have no money as you did a few years ago, you have a valuable experience. This experience is a hard training for you, but it is indeed valuable. If I handed over the company to you a few years ago, it would be difficult for you to manage the company well, or you might lose the company sooner or later, and eventually lose everything. But now that you have this experience, you will cherish it and manage the company well , it will continue to grow. Child, no matter what you do, you can't do well without some training. "

Sure enough, he lived up to his father's expectations and developed a small company into a large company that attracted global attention. He is the president of Berkshire and Warren Buffett with the title of "American stock god". His assets are second only to Bill Gates.

Influenced by his father, Warren Buffett was frugal and cautious all his life. His suit is old, his car is old, and even his house is old. He now has assets of more than 35 billion US dollars. He is a real super rich with a debt ratio of almost zero.

From Warren Buffett's story, we can see how important it is for a person to go through suffering and training. It's not that you can't succeed without suffering and training, but suffering and training at least make people accumulate experience and enhance perseverance, so that people know better how to cherish their career and life, and how to be a man and deal with the world.