He hit a home run without even realizing it──Three things I saw at Xie Wenxian’s new class launch conference

*▲ From Ordinary to Extraordinary: The launch site of Xie Wenxian’s new course “Influence Action Course”, the main visual is “Seven Action Decision Points for Accumulating Influence”. *

2,596 games, 14,365 hours, 150,700 visitors.

This is not an operational briefing of a listed company, this is a person’s career record - the numbers of Brother Xian (Tse Wen-hsien) during his career as a corporate lecturer for more than 20 years. As the saying goes, “step by step,” he left a record of every event.

This afternoon, at Brother Xian’s “From Ordinary to Extraordinary: Xie Wenxian’s Influence Action Lessons” new course launch conference, I sat in the audience and looked at the six words “From Ordinary to Extraordinary” on the main visual slide. The first thought in my mind was not “so awesome”, but -

“How did he hold on?”

As someone who also stands on the podium and devotes himself to writing, I know very well what is behind these numbers? For example, a three-hour speech may take eight hours to prepare in advance; an eight-hour corporate training may take forty hours to polish in advance. Multiply this ratio by 2,596 games and 14,365 hours, and it is undoubtedly the density of living life as a spreadsheet.

But what Brother Xian said on stage was very different from what I imagined.

The first thing: Discipline is Brother Xian’s most humble talent

“I have no talent. I just keep moving. Even if I fall, I have to get up and keep moving forward.”

This sentence sounds like an understatement, but it is the most powerful sentence Brother Xian said today.

The record that has not been broken for more than 20 years and the game schedule that every stroke is still retained cannot be explained by talent. Talent makes a person start fast, but discipline makes a person run for twenty years.

I myself have been telling students and readers in the past few years: “Continuing to do one right thing is much more important than doing many right things in a short period of time.” In the afternoon, I heard Brother Xian explain this truth personally, and I suddenly realized that I have said this sentence so many times, but the person who has really lived it into more than 20,000 records sat on the stage.

Discipline is not for others to see, discipline is for yourself to see. What Brother Xian left behind with his more than 20,000 records is not a report card for fans to see, but evidence for himself that “I have pushed one step further.”

The second thing: The scene in “Magic Ball” was heavier than I thought.

Next, Brother Xian quoted a passage on stage that I am very familiar with:

“He hit a home run and didn’t even realize it.” He hit a home run and didn’t even know it.

This quote comes from the movie “Moneyball”. Billy. Billy Beane discovered a player named Jeremy in the minor leagues. Jeremy hit a home run, but he tripped while running the bases and was afraid of being hit. He had to return to first base - completely unaware that he had actually hit a home run. Peter said that to Billy, and Billy fell silent. Because he saw himself in Jeremy - someone who had spent his whole life afraid of failure and therefore could not see the possibility of his own success.

As a baseball fan, this scene has always been a sore point in my heart.

How often do we fall into the same thinking patterns in our lives and careers? We take risks, but shrink back when we first taste success; or even if we succeed, we fail to grasp the moment, but are immersed in self-denial or frustration, and ultimately miss the celebration and the next opportunity.

As a lecturer and writer, I have seen this happen too often - a student writes a truly touching article, but his first reaction is “It must be just luck”; a speaker completes a wonderful speech, and the first thing he says when he comes off the stage is “I just didn’t speak a certain paragraph well.”

The only thing holding you back is yourself. It’s time to realize your full potential.

Brother Xian didn’t say this so straightforwardly on stage, but when I looked at the more than 20,000 records he had accumulated over the past twenty years, I think he understood this a long time ago - you must first be willing to admit that you hit a home run before you can run back to home plate.

The third thing: Two teachers achieve a willful high quality

The first half of today’s launch event was hosted by Brother Fu (Wang Yongfu).

Brother Fu briefly walked us through F Academy’s evolution over the past three years — 《The Art of Teaching》 started with a three-camera, three-angle setup; the next work 《The Art of Presentation》 stepped up to four cameras and four angles; and the most recent 《The Art of Work and Life》 course pulled the entire crew out of the studio to capture real work-and-life scenes on location.

He said something to the effect of this: “We will not take the road of a large platform, but what I can do is to achieve a very high quality in everything. The boss is willful. I am a creator and I am responsible for everything myself, so I can invest very carefully.”

“Willful high quality” - These five words, I think, are the best advertising slogans of F College, and they are also the real reason why the two teachers have been at the forefront for more than ten years.

And the new course presentation in the afternoon itself was an extension of these five words. Brother Xian was so polite that he talked about other people’s help throughout the whole process - thanking Brother Fu, thanking the filming team, and thanking the students who were willing to take his class. An event that was supposed to be his own main show was turned into a “I thank you all” tribute.

The two teachers were on the same stage, there was no polite greeting, it was a true mutual achievement.

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On the way home, I kept thinking about Brother Xian’s words, “I have no talent.”

I don’t believe it. I believe he has talent - but his talent is not eloquence, expression, or stage charm. His talent is “the ability to get up every morning and do the same thing again for twenty years without getting bored.”

This kind of talent is more precious than any sudden fame.

If you are also someone who wants to do something for a long time - whether it is writing, teaching, creating, or starting a business - Brother Xian’s “From Ordinary to Extraordinary: Xie Wenxian’s Influence Action Course” theme “Seven Action Decision Points for Accumulating Influence”, I think it is a course well worth following and signing up for in recent years.

It’s not because of how fancy his teachings are, but because — he himself has lived out the four characters of “accumulate slowly, release powerfully”.

For me, the biggest gain today was not any of the seven decision points. After returning home, I opened my notepad and began to re-evaluate every speech I had given and every article I had written in the past few years.

The best gift this conference will give me is not a new method or a new perspective, but a reminder:

True influence never happens overnight, but day after day.

The next time you think you might have just hit a home run—

Please run back to home plate bravely.

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📚 Extended reading/Registration link: “From Ordinary to Extraordinary: Xie Wenxian’s Influential Action Lesson”

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