If you do something for a hobby, if you know that you have no talent for it, don't force it. You can continue to do it for your interest, but don't force it, because you know that if you don't have the opportunity, don't force it. It is very important for people to have self-awareness and be able to have self-awareness. I'm pretty good at this. I see a lot of things that I know I can’t possibly achieve on my own, so I won’t put in the effort. If you are interested, you can study it, because you know that it is impossible to achieve any great achievements. When I was young, I played table tennis and won the championship in school. Later, in an institution in Hong Kong, I saw a young man. I was 13 at the time, about ten or eleven years old. He was about two or three years younger than me. He couldn't play at all, so I taught him how to play table tennis. ball. After I taught him three or two times, I knew that my talent was not enough. It was obvious. He couldn't beat me at that time, but I could see that he was a genius in table tennis. Later, I only taught him for two or three months, and I completely lost to him. I knew that I would never be able to do anything great in table tennis. It was okay to play and have fun, but if I wanted to achieve something in table tennis, I knew I was not worth considering, because You can see that some people are much better than you in table tennis. You only need to play with him for two or three hours to know. It is obvious that his talent is much higher than yours. The name of this young man That’s Rong Guotuan (applause, uproar). There are some things that I know I am good at. It’s not that I’m not interested, but that I don’t like the feeling. For example, playing Chinese chess. I think if I continue to play chess, I should be able to play very well. . The problem is that chess is a game. If you play chess with a real master, you will not be able to sleep all night after playing the game, because I will keep thinking about that game in my mind. You will know it if you have played chess. If you really put in the effort to play a game of chess, you will remember every move you make. If you play chess with ordinary people, you won't feel satisfied if you win; if you play chess with a master, you play chess with all your heart, for me, I can't sleep, because this situation exists for me. I gave up playing chess. There are some things that I have no interest in, but I can do them very well on my own. When I was studying in the United States, I could play bridge very well, but I had no interest in it because I thought playing bridge was quite simple and I didn’t have much interest in it, so I didn’t continue learning. You first have to ask yourself whether you are interested in something, and then ask yourself whether you have talent for it. If you are interested but have no talent, then don't force it and develop in other areas of interest; but if you are interested but have no talent, don't force it, so you must have an objective measure of yourself. I think everyone can always find a few things that they are capable of as long as they try more. Everyone can find them and everyone will have them. When something like this is something you feel interested in and have talent for, if you want to learn anything, you really have to go into it, and you have to really concentrate on going into it. You must concentrate on it and don’t just learn a superficial knowledge. , must be invested. How to invest, that depends on effort. For example, ten years ago I decided to start learning calligraphy. It took me two or three months to fully devote myself to calligraphy. Just like when I studied economics, I devoted myself entirely to the field of economics when I was in my third year as an undergraduate. How to enter its field? In other words, how can one break into a house? This is really the current situation. If you don’t go in and invest, there is not much hope. It's no use memorizing the book by heart, you must devote yourself to it. I have a friend who is not in good health and is a foreigner. He has a broken waist and has problems. When he plays tennis, he hits the net as soon as he tees off. Anyone who sees it will think that this is everyone's style, and everyone will say how he plays like this. His golf skills are not very good, and he cannot win most of the games he participates in. But as soon as he tees it up you know he's a good player. It's called getting into the game, and he does that. At that time, I asked him, I said your tennis is really good, why are you so good? He said: "I grew up in California, USA, and some of the friends who played tennis with me around me, those who played tennis with me when I was young All my friends who play tennis have become American professional golfers." This is called entering the house.
Just like I haven't played chess for a long time, I haven't played chess in decades. Of course, I can't play against many people. Suppose you find a Chinese champion to play chess with me. As long as I move the pieces a few times, any outsider will see that my chess skills are a success, because I have worked hard at it when I was young. At that time, there was a chess player with me who later represented Hong Kong chess. I have been playing chess with him since I was a child. I was only a teenager at that time, and he was younger than me. He was sent by God, and I played chess with him every day. Invisibly, I had almost entered the family. Once you have invested a little bit, it will be different as long as you have invested. Once you have invested, it is really different. Just like my friend who plays tennis, although he doesn't play well and loses the game, as long as he plays two hands, you will know that he was once good. You must understand this very important issue I am talking about. Just like the first time I argued with Friedman about economic issues, it was the first time I met him. When he started to ask me, I just answered him a few words, and he knew that I had entered the market. He knew that I had invested in it. As soon as he heard what I said, he knew that I had put a lot of effort into price theory. Because he could see that the economics I understood was not the economics that I did well in the exam, but that I had really studied it, so my answers were completely different. So if you want to learn something, you must go in. This is very important. Maybe on the surface your results are very good, but that doesn't mean you've really put in the effort. If you have really entered, you may not really be a master-level figure, and you may not even be able to reach the junior master level, but if you have ever entered, the feeling will be different. This is a very simple matter. Before I left, when I was about to leave Hong Kong in 1957, Hou Rong Guotuan had not yet returned to China. He said: "Zhang Wuchang, I have been friends with you for so many years, and I don't have the money to give you gifts." Here you go, you come to where I play, and I just need to teach you how to tee off. I came up with this teeing method. "Because before Rong Guotuan, no one knew how to tee off. I thought to myself. What's the use of learning table tennis when you're already going to study abroad? Nothing useful. But the kindness was hard to come by, so I went to him. He taught me a backhand tee shot, a tee shot with two spins. He explained the truth, but when he teed off, I knew he was in trouble. , completely different. Later, my table tennis skills were nothing, but when I arrived in Canada, I won the Canadian table tennis championship (laughter, applause), not because I knew how to play table tennis, but because Rong Guotuan taught me The one-handed kickoff method. (Applause) So I say to you young people who are studying behind you, if you want to learn something and feel that you are interested in it, consider that you have (?) talent for learning, and you must enter that discipline. If you can't go to school for a day, it's useless to study more, and it's useless no matter how good your grades are. In some ways, the feeling of entering a home is difficult to describe. It's like if you are in love with a certain person, you can't live without seeing him for a day, or even for a minute (laughter, the lady laughed without saying anything), because you are thinking about your sweetheart all day long. Just like when I study calligraphy, I think about calligraphy when I eat, and I also think about calligraphy when I sleep. When I walk on the road, my hand is waving around (laughter), and I am also writing calligraphy. My calligraphy teacher is Teacher Zhou Huijun in Shanghai. She is a woman. She is a female teacher with physical defects and difficulty walking. Have you heard of it? Zhou Huijun, President of Shanghai Calligraphy Association. Teacher Zhou said, she said: "Professor Zhang, it's really strange." She said that if you look at the movements of my writing hands, if you don't look at my handwriting, my writing is not good. If you only look at the movements of my hands, it will be 100 points (laughs) Voice). She said, how about you come to our Shanghai TV station to perform (laughter), then how can I perform? Do you only watch the performance of my hands but not my words? So the movement of the hand is 100 points, why is the movement of my hand 100 points? Because when I was learning calligraphy, I kept writing and writing while walking on the street. My hands kept moving back and forth until I reached 100 points. (Laughter) When you enter, when you enter the room, you must listen to me. This is very important. Don't think that if you study well and you study well, you have entered the room. But if you really have something, You will feel it yourself when you are recruited. You will know it. The feeling is different. You will feel as if you are a little alone, a little lonely. When you enter, you can communicate with the masters, and you will know that you have entered.
There is a proud feeling that comes from loneliness. Achievement may not be possible, and it may take a long time, but once you enter, you will enter. In terms of economics, I am () (like "Bailiao"). Of course, I chose to study advanced economic theory. My grades were very good and I could be said to be the best in the class. But at that time, I I haven't entered the room yet, I can't get in, I really can't get in. Later, I realized that I was really just scratching the surface at that time. I knew I was in when I was in the second year of the doctoral class, because the teachers you meet are different, and your own feelings are different. You can find many mistakes in any textbook you pick up, for example In terms of photography, I sat alone in Canada and picked up a camera. At that time, I began to know that I was entering the photography industry. The problem is that in a certain attainment, if you have entered before, in another attainment, if you can enter or enter the hall, it will be very easy, because the method is roughly the same, so, I learn calligraphy. There is no need to fumble around. Once you get in, you will know that you can get in quickly. For example, I only started writing articles in Chinese in 1983. I had never written articles in Chinese before. I started writing articles in Chinese to make people laugh, and then suddenly I entered the world of Chinese writing. Once I entered, all the styles Everything has changed.