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Getting up early is the basic quality for growth
I like to be on the road and will always be on the road. This is the normal state of my life. Therefore, I am running all the time, running towards my dreams, towards poetry and the distance.
In the morning, I will continue to share with you what Confucius said about the relationship between learning and thinking. I have been talking about this topic for four days. The reason why I keep talking about it is that I want to explain it deeply and thoroughly, and tell the things behind it. Classics are living, not dead, so we must apply them to our lives.
In the relationship between learning and thinking, I discovered a pattern. What's the rule? Some people are prone to success and some are prone to failure. So, who are the people who fail? A self-righteous person. Therefore, those who think they are smart can easily fail.
For example, there are many details in life. If you observe carefully, you will find that people who make mistakes always make mistakes. Why? Because he is always smart. A person who breaks a cup easily will always place the cup in a place where it is easy to break, so the cup will be easily broken. Therefore, people who always make mistakes will not be successful in their lives.
The important difference between people who are less blessed and those who are rich is that those who are less blessed tend to be smarter, while those who are more blessed are self-aware. Those who are less fortunate often make mistakes when doing things because they are smart and refuse to correct themselves despite repeated admonitions. Those with good fortune know their own shortcomings and act as if they are walking on thin ice or facing a formidable enemy. They will correct their mistakes in time. In this way, they will gradually form a good habit and rarely make mistakes. Therefore, being stupid is not scary. What is scary is being stupid, brave and diligent, and being smart.
So, if you don’t understand the nature of external objects, but want to control and restrict them, you will definitely fail. Those who do not understand the laws of the external world but want to win the world will surely fail. Therefore, whatever we do, we must study its nature. What is sex? its characteristics.
For example, swimmers must understand water properties. In the past, when I was learning to swim, my swimming teacher said, don't rush to swim first. Soak in the water first, close your eyes, hold your breath, and try it with one breath. You should familiarize yourself with the water properties first.
For example, when I was practicing calligraphy, I spent many days in seclusion. I spent the entire day scribbling in random directions, not knowing what was going on, east, west, north, south. My son Chen Yixin saw me and asked me what I was doing. I said, I am mastering the nature of pen, paper and ink. Just like this, after a few days, the pen and ink became a tame cow. Pointing east will lead to east, pointing west will lead to west, and every bit of emotion can be entered into the ink.
Therefore, only when we understand sex can we grasp the characteristics of things. For example, the Internet has the nature of a network. My understanding of Pinduoduo comes from my constant study of it and understanding of its characteristics. In the past, I rarely studied the Internet because I didn’t understand it and wasn’t interested. So why should I learn about Pinduoduo? Because it has helped many farmers and solved their problem of selling agricultural products. So, to understand anything, we must first understand its nature. To raise animals, you need to understand the nature of animals, to be an official, you need to understand the nature of officialdom, to engage in business, you need to understand the nature of business, to communicate with the world, you need to understand the nature of the world, and to make friends, you need to understand the nature of friends. Those who do not understand the nature of foreign objects but want to control them will surely fail.
"Sun Tzu's Art of War" says: "Know your enemy and yourself, and you can fight a hundred battles without danger."
So, what are the characteristics of successful people? Trying your best means devoting all your body and mind to learning and thinking. For example, a lion uses all his strength when fighting an elephant, and a lion will use all his strength when chasing a bunny, so this is a characteristic of lions.
Similarly, successful people will concentrate on everything they do. Like Tolstoy, when he was making a boot, he was as serious as when he wrote "Peace and War". When Xue Mo was doing the live broadcast, I was as serious as writing "Desert Festival" for half an hour. I prepared lessons every day and taught them very seriously. In Huawei's approach to success, this is called the "pressure principle", which is the "secret of success".
Success is a trait, and failure is also a trait. Therefore, people who make mistakes will make mistakes again, because making mistakes is also a trait. For example, Ma Su is like this. Ma Su is a consultant talent. He is good at making suggestions and is very knowledgeable, but he has no practical ability.
Therefore, in the Battle of Jieting, he failed. He made only one mistake and was beheaded by Zhuge Liang. Why? Because this represents his essence, Ma Su doesn't understand himself or the war, he just talks about it on paper.
I have a very good friend who has done a lot of applause-worthy things, but once, just to show off his skills, he scratched someone else's car. After a scratch, he was in a bad mood. Just because of such an act of showing off, people thought he was very frivolous and left a very bad impression on everyone. Many people had another view of him. Therefore, after we have succeeded countless times, we must avoid failure at this time. Once we fail, it is difficult to recover.
So, how to save it? The secret lies in constant treatment, constant cleansing, and constant vigilance. Our ancestors called it cultivating the mind. Don't show off or show off about things you don't understand, are unfamiliar with, or are unsure about in life. Just be the best version of yourself. This is the remedy. Shenxiu said: "The body is a bodhi tree, and the mind is like a mirror. Always brush it diligently to prevent dust." Therefore, when treating, you must always observe your own mind. Once you have the thought of showing off, block it immediately. Do what you are sure of. Confucius said that knowing something means knowing it, and not knowing means knowing it. This is knowing. Knowing is knowing, not knowing is not knowing, this is true knowledge.
Therefore, whenever we do anything, we should not look at the world’s applause, don’t look around, try our best, and be ourselves, then we may succeed.
——Written on the road in the early morning of May 23, 2021
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