Born in sorrow and died in happiness, it is selected from Mencius' Gao Zi Xia, which is a well-argued, eloquent and powerful reasoning prose. Firstly, the author lists six examples of people who were tempered by poverty and setbacks and finally took on great responsibilities, which proves that hardship can motivate people to work hard and achieve new achievements.
Excerpt: Therefore, the day will drop to a great post, and people must first suffer their minds, their bones and muscles, starve their bodies, empty their bodies, and do things in disorder. Therefore, their persistence has benefited them a lot.
Therefore, if God wants to put the heavy responsibility on this man, he must first worry about his heart, tire his bones and muscles, starve his stomach, make him poor, turn what he has done upside down, and use it to shock his heart, temper his temperament and increase his abilities that he does not have.
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At the beginning of the article, the author lists six examples of the rise of ancient sages in the midst of difficulties and worries, in order to prove the famous assertion that "if a Sri Lankan is going to be a great man, he must first suffer from his mind, work hard on his bones and muscles, starve his body and empty his body, so he must endure and benefit from incompetence".
This reasoning process logically belongs to inductive reasoning, that is, a conclusion with general significance is summarized from the previous six special cases; Through the following conclusions, the reasons for the success of the first six characters are explained: the hard environment, on the one hand, gives people hardship, hunger, poverty, fatigue and anxiety, which is often unsatisfactory, but on the other hand, it is these difficulties that strengthen and motivate people's will and make them grow their intelligence in the process of constantly overcoming difficulties and seeking survival.