There is a law called the Duck Law.
When ducks swim, people see them swimming leisurely on the surface of the lake, seemingly without any effort. However, once you dive underwater, you'll find that the duck's feet are constantly paddling, never stopping for a moment.
Hu Ling is like that; on the surface, she seems to be in complete control, and she handles things with great ease.
But behind the scenes, the effort she put in was something that most people couldn't bear.
There are not many shortcuts to success, not even for geniuses. Working tirelessly and planning meticulously for what they do is likely a normal part of their lives.
Chen Zhe didn't understand these principles before. Every time he got together with some colleagues, he would listen to their complaints. One of the guys would get drunk and say, "If I were rich and had a better background than them, I would definitely be more powerful!"
Most people would agree, believing that the suffering was caused by social injustice.
Chen Zhe used to think the same way, believing that some people are born at the finish line, which is extremely unfair.
Now his thinking has changed; standing in Rome is easy, but staying in Rome is difficult.
The top of the pyramid is only a small part; without the ability, one cannot stand firm.
He met many successful women, such as Chen Si and Luo Guifang...
They all have their flaws to some extent, but they have one thing in common: they are incredibly focused on their professions. Chen Si may seem like a love-struck person who would do many irrational things for love, but when it comes to business, her vision is so far-sighted and her interpersonal skills are so thoughtful.
The first thing a person needs to understand as they mature is that people are imperfect; there are no perfect people in the world. If you only see a person's shortcomings and don't pay attention to their strengths, then you'll probably only spend your life gossiping about others from behind the scenes.
To go further in life, you must see the strengths of others. For example, Wu Yuanyuan may have a bad personality, but that only applies to her colleagues. When she faces clients, she is a completely different person. So Chen Zhe cannot condemn her outright. Instead, he should find ways to make use of her strengths.
Hao Li's abilities are not very strong; one could say she's rather mediocre. However, Hu Ling kept her here as the deputy manager, so she must have seen Hao Li's strengths. After spending some time together, Chen Zhe gradually discovered them as well.
Hao Li is the kind of person who is a very good second-in-command. She is not particularly capable, but she is obedient enough and can carry out the orders she gives well. Moreover, she can actively regulate her emotions. Unlike other managers who are swift and decisive, she is like a friendly neighbor, using her emotional intelligence to communicate with employees and play the human touch card.
A manager who knows how to appeal to people's emotions is also an advantage, because people's emotions can't always be high. Employees will always have low points. When they are low, they need a manager like Hao Li to tell them, "Don't rush, take your time."
Hao Li is relatively relaxed, but being too relaxed is also not good. If she is too relaxed, the overall performance and the company will be very mediocre and will decline.
To change this, there needs to be a good leader to develop a plan, and at the same time, a competitor to remind her from time to time.
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At 6:00 a.m., Chen Zhe finished his studies and work.
He rubbed his eyes, stretched, quickly washed up, and went downstairs to eat some rice noodle rolls.
This area is a nightlife district, and there are hardly any people out as early as Chen Zhe. The streets are clean, with only sanitation workers chatting while cleaning up trash.
Chen Zhe sets his own sleep schedule in several time slots, with the period from breakfast to noon being the longest, about three hours.
He would take another nap before lunch in the afternoon, sometimes just ten minutes. When a person enters deep sleep, it doesn't take much time to recover their energy.
He wasn't used to it before, and at first he almost wore himself out.
He later adjusted his lifestyle through health preservation and other scientific methods, and now he has gotten used to this routine.
Right now, he only has one thing on his mind: to surpass Hu Ling and take back the dignity and freedom he lost from her.
He doesn't consider himself a genius. Many of the decisions he's made during this period have been based on hundreds or thousands of calculations. Sometimes he's even precise about the weather, people's psychological state, potential accidents, and interpersonal relationships.
To give a simple example.
Every morning when he goes out for breakfast, he encounters the same sanitation worker who arrives at the breakfast shop at 6:30 every day to collect the garbage.
She was late only once in a week.
The only time she was late was when she encountered a traffic jam while crossing the street. The traffic jam was caused by a tricycle that did not follow traffic rules and crashed into the vehicle in front.
Then the contents of the tricycle spilled all over the ground, and she and a few colleagues cleaned it up.
Chen Zhe had thought countless times about "killing" this sanitation worker.
Of course, this wasn't a real intention to kill her, since the two didn't have any real grudges; it was just a rehearsal of his calculations.
If we can't kill her, we'll use her habit to make that guest upstairs at the breakfast shop who likes to throw dirty water suffer a loss.
Once, when Chen Zhe came here for breakfast, he was splashed with dirty water by a guest who liked to throw dirty water. The guest was also very rude and swore at him.
Chen Zhe remembered it from then on.
Every time he came to eat breakfast, he would throw a few dozen yuan into the garbage dump. Sure enough, the sanitation worker picked it up but didn't say anything, and just put it in his pocket with a smile.
For a week, the time he deposited the money changed from 6:30 at the beginning to 7:00 later.
Sure enough, the sanitation worker waited until 7 o'clock. She broke her routine, thinking that she could find money by coming here every day, just like Chen Zhe would feed fish regularly.
At 7:00, the customer upstairs at the breakfast shop threw dirty water right on time, and sure enough, it splashed onto the sanitation worker.
The sanitation worker immediately started arguing with him, and the rude customer upstairs started arguing back. The sanitation worker got angrier and angrier and called her son.
Her son was a local thug, and he beat up the uncivilized guest.
Chen Zhe chose her because he had seen a sanitation worker get into a conflict with someone before and call his son over to beat the other person up.
So all of this was planned. He had tried many small things like this, some successfully and some unsuccessfully. It was all a matter of probability. He just needed to calculate the probability more precisely.
He almost made this a habit, which is why his plan gradually improved.
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