I believe that modern people should not view busyness as a sign of capability or competence. When I first became a principal, busyness often meant incompetence: I handled many tasks but exhausted myself. Now, I manage a large volume of affairs, have even opened branch schools, and still have the energy to engage in conversations, which indicates that I have gained more leisure time. In innovation and work, understanding 'efficiency' is crucial. An excellent person should always think about how to optimize production efficiency. The formula for efficiency is: (Output minus Input) divided by Time. If we invest significant time and money but produce very little, our efficiency is low. We cannot just look at the output after a large time investment; we must also account for the time cost. True efficiency is reflected when (Output minus Input) is divided by Time. As I mentioned earlier, busyness appears to be a marker of success but is not. I may have undertaken ten or even twenty times the workload of others, yet still have time to sleep in or chat with people. Calculating by the standard of a ten-time worker, I am far busier than most, but I seek to explore how to achieve higher output with less input and less time. There are always ways to do this. We should not use busyness as the benchmark for success, but rather leisure. Only when one can leisurely hold a fishing rod and go fishing while generating millions or hundreds of millions in value annually is that true competence. My goal is to be able to hold a fishing rod and go fishing one day, while my principals and managers can manage the school autonomously.
If we have a clear goal, we will find ways to achieve double results with half the effort as we progress; without a goal, methods are often hard to find. Striving towards a clear goal through cultivation ensures that your capabilities, experience, knowledge, and professional accumulation continuously rise, thereby ensuring sustained double results with half the effort and amplifying this effect. It is only when you constantly change your major, direction, or interests that you will find it takes twice the effort for half the result. When your heart is directed and willing, solutions naturally emerge. There is a good technique: regardless of whether we have found the method, we must maintain an open mind, turning the desire to achieve something into an obsession or a desperate need, implanting it deep in our brains to let the subconscious pursue it in the background. Once a good method is discovered in an instant that answers our questions and strengthens our commitment to it to the point of living, dying, or going mad for it, we can then leave it to the brain's background processing. While sleeping, the brain assists in solving the problem unconsciously. Using only one-tenth or even one-hundredth of the effort, yet achieving results, is a technique of how the brain works. To achieve miraculous success, one must reach a level of dedication where others do not understand, even perceiving them as crazy. You will find that the brain is helping, and so is 'God.' Mr. Kazuo Inamori of Japan, who founded two Fortune 500 companies, mentioned a trick to achieve good results: miraculous methods are achieved with double results and half the effort. When you constantly strive, trying all possible methods, and continue experimenting until you reach the moment where 'God reaches out to help,' at that point, it is not just double results with half the effort, but can achieve a thousand or a hundred times the effect.
