This is a personal biography showing the power of Chinese style. No matter from the perspective of national traditional culture or personal spiritual growth, it has great positive value. On the one hand, it proves the powerful significance of traditional culture, on the other hand, it provides readers with powerful spiritual strength.
Second, excerpts from golden sentences
1. A gentleman does not take shortcuts and does not seek fame. Save money and make progress. A gentleman may succeed later than others, but once he succeeds, he is a great success.
2. A person's life is like a fruit ripening process: no anxiety, no slack. People's efforts, God's cultivation, will make a tree grow taller quietly, and will also make a person mature slowly: "Don't forget to help, look at the ground and grow taller in thousands of feet."
3. A person depends on his friends if he wants to get knowledge, information and outside help. So the number and quality of friends determine how broad a person's vision can be.
4. Officials regard the scope of their power as a dog looking at the bones in his bowl, a widow looking at her only son, or a beautiful woman guarding her sensitive area, and never allow others to touch it. They can allow themselves to do nothing and occupy the toilet, but they will never allow others to make a difference here.
An excellent strategist should be an excellent strategist first. The so-called strategy is based on the macro and long-term, sorting out all kinds of complex elements in order of priority and order, and then coming up with the most effective action plan.
6. People who act too rigidly look strong on the surface, but they are actually weak. The real strong people in this land are those who appear weak and give in. The so-called "the world is the softest and the strongest", "Jianghai can be the king of all the valleys, and use its goodness to make it better". The so-called "big softness is not soft, it is just." The hidden rules of China society cannot be swept away at once. The hypocrisy, numbness, tactfulness and deception that he despised before are necessary means to survive in this land. Only when necessary, smooth and soft, can we successfully pass the difficult barrier. Only by embracing everything can we mobilize all our strength and reach the other side of victory.
Third, thinking: How did Zeng Guofan face the defeat of the imperial examination and the humiliation of Changsha? Inferiority and anxiety, depression and hardship? Jinggang lost first, Jiujiang was defeated? Xianfeng seven years (1857) crisis?
(1) How did Zeng Guofan face the setback of the imperial examination and the humiliation of Changsha?
A: In the face of setbacks in the imperial examinations.
Still a clumsy philosophy of life: Zeng Guofan was clumsy, so he failed several imperial examinations, but the more clumsy he was, the harder he worked. Zeng Guofan has a natural stubbornness and will never give up until he succeeds. This stubbornness supported his efforts again and again until he surpassed ordinary people. Sum up experience and practice deliberately: in the face of the failure of the imperial examination, sum up experience, find problems and then practice and solve problems deliberately.
Facing the humiliation of Changsha
"Heroes bite their teeth and swallow blood" and swallow humiliation into their stomachs to continue fighting; Do not dispute the length of a day, go to the secluded Hengyang, practice hard for a year, and save face with victory.
A: Zeng Guofan often reads books. Reading can reduce his anxiety and inferiority because he can't solve problems and has little knowledge. If he has a question, he can find the answer in the book. The book has its own golden house, and reading can also make him calm and peaceful. Zeng Guofan often sits still, writes a diary to reflect and expresses his inner anguish, which are all reflected in Zeng Guofan's Twelve Catches. In the face of difficulties, Zeng Guofan has a firm belief in his heart. The ultimate philosophy of Neo-Confucianism always stresses "reason" and seeks "reason" from the problems of things, thus solving problems. In addition, Zeng Guofan's "clumsy" philosophy of life, always reflecting on everything, loving to talk with friends, and stubborn personality all helped Zeng Guofan overcome difficulties. In the end, these are all related. People have experienced more things, precipitated more things and things, and become more confident and peaceful.
③ The first defeat of Beijing and Hong Kong? Xianfeng seven years (1857) crisis?
A: After each defeat, I was deeply introspective and self-correcting: the first time Jinggang was defeated, the old ones were replaced by the new ones, and the Xiang army that fled at the cold feet was eliminated. On the one hand, it quickly recruited troops; Re-formulate the rules, once an army commander dies, unless there is a popular successor general in this department, the whole army will be demobilized and recruited separately.
Xianfeng seven-year crisis: In Xianfeng seven years, Zeng Guofan was relieved of military power and kept the system in his hometown. Zeng Guofan lived in seclusion in his hometown for two years, read the works of Laozi and Zhuangzi, and often reflected on himself and wrote down his self-encouragement: There are several solutions: being relieved of military power is of course a great disaster in life. However, disaster is the foundation of happiness, and we can't give up on ourselves in the disaster, but we should die and be born later.
Point out four shortcomings of being a man: extreme, good reputation, that is, paying too much attention to getting a good reputation; Like to openly criticize and talk about other people's sins; Do things from beginning to end; Too slow to treat people.
So how to do it? Also four: do things calmly, think more about other people's psychology, and think from other people's perspective; Praise others more, praise the advantages of others; Do things from beginning to end, the more careful you are; Treat people and things with more sincerity and respect.
Complete "reborn".
Self-reflection: Zeng Guofan has great perseverance in overcoming difficulties and solving problems, and often tries to deal with them. Although God's will is not wise, we must always seek and stick to the principle of fishing when everything is exhausted. However, he is easy to retreat from difficulties, lacking the spirit and perseverance of hard work, lacking perseverance, and especially lacking reflection, so he often repeats a question. I should learn from Zeng Guofan's advantages and spiritual strength and fully absorb them. What I should do most is to use methods repeatedly in practice to temper his spiritual strength.
Fourth, inspiration and harvest.
The more bitter wisdom is, the brighter it is: Zeng Guofan has experienced hardships and setbacks all his life and worked hard all his life. He experienced the pain of seven imperial examinations, the humiliation of Changsha, the difficulty of establishing the Xiang army and the difficulty of protecting the Qing Dynasty. Zeng Guofan was miserable, deeply introspected and practiced his internal skills, and finally he was thoroughly remoulded. He is a scholar, a deputy minister, a university student, a governor of Liangjiang and a governor of Lu Zhi, and his official positions are all the same. At the same time, he is also a philosopher, writer and scholar. At the same time, Zeng Guofan achieved extraordinary heights with ordinary people's background, mediocre qualifications and clumsy IQ, telling us that ordinary people can learn things through hard work and hard practice, be successful, be smart and unreliable, and "still clumsy" can only rely on their feet.
Zeng Guofan gave us inspiration from his own experience and practice. We should be persistent in everything, learn to reflect, sum up experience ... and give us strong spiritual strength.
We admire Zeng Guofan and follow his example.
Attachment: Mind mapping