The Power of Belief
Time：2011-11-28
○Secretary General of Zheng Weining Charitable Foundation
Apple and Steve Jobs are two words that have taken the world by storm lately, and I don't understand why so many people are obsessed with Apple, and I certainly don't understand why people around the world are obsessed with Steve Jobs. on the first day of the simultaneous worldwide release of the Steve Jobs biography on October 24, I ordered a copy of the book online and read it quickly, night and day. The 560,000-word book is a non-Apple fan's attempt to understand the man who has been called a "world-changing genius" and a "hero" of the information age. He was a man of sensitivity and intelligence, a man of change, a man of innovation, a man who made products simple and accessible to the common man, who made expensive and rare electronics part of modern life. At best, he sounds like a technical or business genius, but what really sets him apart is his ability to have a "reality distortion field". This ability allows him to inspire others, turn the "impossible" into "possible", and create one miracle after another. What is the Reality Distortion Field?What is the Reality Distortion Field?
As I understand it, it's an unwavering belief in something that doesn't exist in reality, but which he decides to have. He will even dismiss the real experts and make counterintuitive decisions in areas he knows absolutely nothing about that are unquestionable and dumbfounding. But afterward, his wild and irrational goals actually do work out.
His only authorized autobiographer, Walter Isaacson, wrote in his book, "The so-called 'reality-distorting force field' is a combination of eloquent expression, superior willpower, and distorted reality. , overpowering willpower, and a burning desire to distort facts to achieve a goal, the resulting ability to confuse sight and sound."
And my understanding: the power of belief.
When he expresses it, he has strong beliefs and really believes that everything he expects is true, and that things that didn't exist really existed when he believed they did.
Not only did he have the knack of convincing himself that that miracle was there, but he had the knack of convincing others that it was there, too.
He was a man who believed unwaveringly in himself and unwaveringly in everything he thought existed. He goes with his intuition and denies all dogma and authority; there is no such thing as an insider or an outsider; he is confronted with nothing but his own most original true heart.
It would have been difficult for me to understand this if I had only relied on Walter's words. Luckily, I was surrounded by someone who was not only the same age as Steve Jobs, but also had a lot of similarities: strong beliefs, a sharp mind, great intelligence, and the courage to change and innovate.
He is the big brother of the disabled friend, Zheng.
What's different is that his field of innovation is the employment and value realization of people with disabilities in the new economy, and the docking of public welfare and charity with business, which is why there is China's first "social enterprise". He is also a man with a "reality distortion field". What I discovered is that he really believes that the miracles we can't imagine will come soon, and one by one, the miracles are actually coming as he said they would.
Starting with five people and a computer, he has been inspiring people around him, and one by one, people around him have seen the miracles he describes come true.
In this process, so many disabled young people have accomplished their once unimaginable achievements, and the value of life has been sublimated in these miracles.
This is the power of faith!
If we can have strong faith, what else is impossible?