1. Ancient texts or poems describing lack of motivation to do things
Yi Qiu is one of the best players in the country.
Let Qiu teach two people to play. One of them concentrates his mind, but only listens to Yi Qiu; another person listens to it, but only thinks that there is a swan approaching, and wants to help him with his bow and shoot it.
Although I have learned from them, it is not like this. Why does he know Fu Ruo? Said: Not so.
(Selected from "Mencius Gaozi") 2. Translation: Yi Qiu is the best chess master in the country. He once taught two apprentices how to play chess.
One of the apprentices concentrated on doing what Yi Qiu taught him; the other one (although he seemed to be listening) was always thinking about how to draw a bow and arrow when a swan was about to fly over. It shoots down. Although the two studied with Yi Qiu together, he was far inferior to them.
Is this because he is not as smart as others? Of course not! The second one is lack of motivation.