One of Wang Yangming's most insightful words is: "When people are eating today, even though they have something to do in front of them, their minds are always busy and restless. This is just because their minds are used to being busy, so they can't stop themselves." - - "Traditional Records".
The general idea of ??this passage is that when someone is eating, even if he has nothing to do, his heart is still busy, just because his heart is used to being busy and can't contain it. Many people like to set goals for themselves, for example: I must learn something new this year, then resign and change my career. As a result, after a few months, I feel that I am not qualified for this industry, and I want to learn other things, and I can’t learn for long. I can't hold on anymore. In this way, you have not done your own job well, and you have not learned new skills.
Mi Fu, the great calligrapher of the Song Dynasty, said that if you want to write well, you must study calligraphy wholeheartedly and not be distracted by other interests. Great achievers throughout the ages, except for a very small number of extremely talented people, all focused on one field and devoted 100% of their energy to it. The reason is simple. Everyone's energy is limited. Only by investing energy in specific things can you do your best.
Nowadays, people often say "I am very busy". Looking at the people around me, it is indeed the case. It seems that everyone is busy. In fact, if you think about it carefully, there are not many things that are really worth busying with. Most of the time we are busying in vain. Therefore, success does not depend on how many things you do, but on whether you can do one thing to the extreme. Even if it is an inconspicuous little thing, doing it to the extreme is success.