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  "Give me a copy of Yangcheng Evening News." Zhang Ying said while taking out her money.

  "Sorry, Yangcheng Evening News is sold out today," said the newsstand owner. "How about buying a copy of Top Newspaper instead? It's quite popular today."

  " 'Pinnacle Newspaper'? I've never heard of it," Zhang Ying said with a skeptical tone. "Boss, you're not recommending unsold newspapers to me, are you?"

  "How is it possible? My newspaper stand has been here for ten years and I've never cheated anyone. If you don't believe me, go ask around, what's my reputation like in this neighborhood?" The owner of the newspaper stand, Old Zhang, was so anxious that his face turned red with ear tips.

  "Whatever, okay, I was wrong," Zhang Ying apologized.

  "But this 'Dianfeng Newspaper' I really haven't heard of it, and I'm a person who likes to read newspapers. I know all the big and small newspapers in Yangcheng, is it a newspaper from another city?"

  "It's not a newspaper from another city, it's Yangcheng Evening News. It's normal that you young people don't know, this newspaper just started and this is only the second issue." Old Zhang, the owner of the newsstand said.

  "Newly opened and it can be sold so well?" Zhang Ying wondered.

  The rise of each newspaper has its own timing, unless it's finding a particularly popular current affairs commentator to attract attention or opening up a section to pull in one or two top authors for serialization. Zhang Ying is very interested in what kind of situation the "Peak Newspaper" is in, which sold extremely well on its second day after opening.

  "Do you know Su Xichen?" Old Zhang asked.

  "Sū Shì Chén certainly knew that our Yang City's pride, known as the most talented in Huaxia, how could he not have heard of it? The "Hong Huang Xi You" which he was in charge of writing the script is very good-looking, but the ending is too disappointing. However, what's most important is that his "Fu Er Mo Si Tan An Ji" (Sherlock Holmes Detective Collection) is super wonderful! I even bought a few copies of the published book to treasure. In fact, Zhang Ying buys Yang City Daily just because of Su Shi Chen's "Fu Er Mo Si Tan An Ji", although it has stopped serialization now, but Zhang Ying still has the habit of buying one every day, sometimes habits become natural."

  Zhang Ying suddenly had an idea and excitedly said, "Could it be that Su Xianchen jumped into the pit? The 'Sherlock Holmes Detective Stories' was serialized on top of the 'Peak Newspaper'?"

  But Zhang Ying suddenly thought of something and shook her head to deny what she had just said. "No, no, I remember that 'The Collection of Sherlock Holmes' has signed an exclusive publishing agreement with Yangcheng Evening News. As long as Yangcheng Evening News does not give up its serialization rights to 'The Collection of Sherlock Holmes', the latest content of 'The Collection of Sherlock Holmes' cannot be published in other newspapers."

  "The Sherlock Holmes stories have boosted the sales of the Yangcheng Evening News, if the editor-in-chief is not stupid, it's impossible to give up publishing them. In short, it means that The Sherlock Holmes stories cannot be published in the Peak Magazine," Zhang Ying said with a change in tone, "This is exactly what you call cheating."

  "I don't know what you mean by 'priority publication rights', but when did I say that the latest content of 'Sherlock Holmes' was serialized in 'Peak Magazine'?" Old Zhang retorted.

  "You just... " Zhang Ying himself was stunned, as if it really wasn't, Old Zhang had only mentioned a name, and the following pile was his own inference.

  "What were you doing with Su Xianchen this morning?" Zhang Ying complained.

  "Of course, he has to be mentioned. Su Rui Chen wrote an article in the Peak Newspaper and it's said to be quite classic, that's why sales are so good." Old Zhang said.

  "Wrote an article? What article?" Because Ai Wu and Wuzhang Ying like to read "Sherlock Holmes", they are naturally interested in the article written by Su Rixing.

  "I don't know, I haven't read it myself. I used to read newspapers every day, but now I'm tired of them. However, I heard that Su Rui Chen's article serialized in 'Peak Newspaper' today is sharp like a knife."

  "An article sharp as a knife?" Old Zhang's words successfully piqued Zhang Ying's interest, and he pulled out some money. "Get me a copy of the Peak Newspaper."

  Zhang Ying took over the newspaper and found that the main page of "Dianfeng Newspaper" was serializing Su Shicen's article, titled "Cultivating Self-Confidence".

  "Cultivate confidence? Can confidence be cultivated?" Zhang Ying carefully said, "Value creates faith, faith creates enthusiasm, and enthusiasm conquers the world!"

  "Value generates confidence, but how is one's own value realized?" Zhang Ying unconsciously thought of such a question when she saw the first sentence.

  ——

  First of all, before I explain how to cultivate self-confidence, let's talk about human weaknesses.

  One: likes to blame and complain about others

  This is a common weakness that most people have. When we encounter mistakes, our first reaction is not how to correct the mistake, but how to shift the responsibility and push the blame onto others.

  Zhang Ying was stunned, indeed it was like that, just like yesterday, he unintentionally photocopied the wrong thing, and when his boss asked him who did it, he subtly shifted the blame to his colleague. It was really just as Su Ruo Chen said, when making a mistake, the first thought is not how to correct it, but how to shirk responsibility.

  The second: Don't like praising others

  It seems that our Chinese culture upholds the doctrine of the mean, and apart from being low-key ourselves, we also don't particularly like to praise others.

  But people are weird in this way: they don't like praising others, but they love it when others praise them.

  Let me take myself as an example. If a teacher praises me with one sentence, "Su Shicen, you did a great job on your homework today." I might be happy for the whole day, but for the teacher, it's just a simple thing to say casually.

  Have you ever thought that if we all just think about hearing others' praise, and you don't praise others, then they won't praise you either. So can you still hear the praise?

  "If we all just want to hear others' praise, but you don't praise others and he doesn't praise you, can you still hear the praise? It's really like that!" After reading about the second shortcoming of human nature, Zhang Ying was stunned, as if it were true. Praise is just a simple sentence, so why don't people like to say it?

  After reading this passage, Zhang Ying was already prepared to change and become a person who likes to praise others.

  Third: fond of blind imitation

  I once heard a joke that one day, a group of oil tycoons were having a meeting in heaven, but one of them arrived late and had no seat. He shouted: "Oil has been discovered in hell!" As a result, all the tycoons who were seated at the meeting rushed to hell, leaving only him alone in heaven. "Have they all gone down? Has oil really been found in hell?" Thinking this, he also hurriedly ran to hell.

  This story fully demonstrates blind conformity, which is actually a mentality in the West known as "herd mentality", where people unknowingly align their behavior with that of the majority.

  This shortcoming is something that we all have to some extent, regardless of whether this behavior is good or bad. In the end, it's just imitation - you imitate others' dressing style, you imitate others' hairstyle, and in the end, do you still have your own taste?

  Zhang's face turned red when he saw this, he had just followed the trend and bought the hottest new phone yesterday, only to find that it wasn't very useful after buying it. The reason he bought it was simply because his colleagues at the company all had one.

  This is indeed being affected by the trend and blindly following the crowd, so accurate!

  Fourth: dare not admit one's own mistakes

  This phenomenon is even more serious in China. It's probably because we Chinese people attach great importance to our own face. For the sake of our face, even if we're wrong, we don't want to admit it. This is what's called "dying to save face". As a common saying goes: "Dying for face, suffering for life". In fact, I think this kind of refusal to admit mistakes has nothing to do with saving face at all, and is completely meaningless.

  I've always thought that face is something given by others, just like a name, which is usually called more often by others. Similarly, face is given to you by others and can only be reflected when others respect you.

  Someone once jokingly asked a friend of mine what the most expensive "word" in Chinese is.

  He replied that it was a character from the ancient Spring and Autumn Period's "Lüshi Chunqiu", which is worth a thousand gold. This character is indeed very valuable, but this answer is incorrect. I told him that the most expensive "character" is actually the three words "I was wrong".

  Some people are willing to lose everything, go bankrupt and reach the end of their rope, but they just won't say these three words. Thinking about it is really ridiculous. What's the big deal if they say these three words? Will someone die?

  Zhang Ying didn't dare to read on, he felt that this article was like it was talking about him, pointing out all the shortcomings on his body one by one. This feeling was like stripping off all his clothes and letting everyone watch, a very unpleasant feeling, even making him feel indignant and humiliated!!

  Don't want to watch, but somehow feel compelled to continue watching.

  Saying no to others

  This shortcoming is a bit strange, at least I couldn't understand it because I am a straightforward person. If someone makes an unreasonable or impossible request to me, I will refuse without hesitation.

  But there are people who aren't like that. I once heard an example of someone who was extremely friendly and would agree to any condition others proposed to him. One day, someone said "I don't have money today, can I eat a meal at your place?" He replied "okay". Then another person said "I don't have money, can you lend me some?" He also replied "okay". Finally, someone asked "I'm getting married but don't have a house, can you lend me yours?" His reply was still "okay", and that night he ended up sleeping on the streets alone, having lent all his money to others and going hungry himself.

  Being friendly to others is a very good quality, but being too friendly is a disease. Americans call this "caretaker personality disorder". So if you don't want to become the protagonist of the story I just told, then you must learn to say no and try to change, try saying "I think" and "I want" more often.

  Of course, if a girl is in front of a boy, don't repeat these two words.

  "Must say no, must say no!" Zhang Ying has a bit of the same problem as that person in the story. Once, a colleague borrowed money from him and he agreed, then ate instant noodles for a month. At the time, he didn't know what was wrong with himself, it's just that he couldn't say no, originally he also had a bit of this caretaker personality disorder.

  If it wasn't for this report, Zhang Ying believed that he would absolutely have no idea, this article gave him a very deep feeling!!

  The following are still one by one shortcomings, and the pen is still sharp.

  Indeed! After reading this article, Zhang Ying found that Lao Zhang's words were true. This article is too sharp, like a sharp knife inserted directly into the human heart, dissecting the shortcomings of human nature with precision.

  The human weaknesses mentioned at the beginning of this article, Zhang Ying has more or less half of them. I really didn't know that I had so many shortcomings until I read this article, and it turns out that I am really that bad.

  Human weaknesses are indeed shortcomings that everyone may have!

  "What a sharp article! I really can't believe it was written by a 15-year-old student." Zhang Ying took a deep breath after reading the listed shortcomings.

  Also, if there wasn't such sharp writing skills, how could one write the magnificent "Sherlock Holmes" series? Let's continue reading below. Okay, we've talked about the shortcomings, now let's get back to the topic of this article - how to cultivate confidence.

  If the first half of the article is a sharp knife, then the second half is a sugar that teaches people how to cultivate self-confidence... (Please search for 5du5, updated faster and better!)