(a) Adversity is full of thorns, but it also contains opportunities for success.
Adversity does have many disadvantages to the growth of talents, but as bacon said, "miracles often appear in bad luck." Adversity often contains a great opportunity to create miracles and succeed.
The ancients said that it never rains but it pours. A wise man with keen vision and innovative consciousness can always break away from convention, see opportunities in crisis and find countermeasures to turn crisis into safety and turn defeat into victory. 179 1 In late autumn, the French army invaded the Netherlands, and the Netherlands dug a canal as a retreat. Just as he hesitated, Napoleon learned that spiders in trees spit out many webs. Based on his knowledge and experience, he judged that there would be a cold wave coming soon, so he gave the order to stop retreating and prepare for the attack. Soon, the wind was cold and the river froze overnight. The French army crossed the Val River and captured the Dutch fortress Utrecht in one fell swoop, avoiding a fall short. This is a successful example of Napoleon finding opportunities in adversity. It is especially dark before dawn, and it is especially difficult before success. In the process of talent growth, as long as we persist in the crisis and survive the most difficult period, it may be followed by the patronage of opportunities and the emergence of miracles.
(2) Adversity has suppressed talents, but it has also stimulated a strong driving force for the growth of talents.
Adversity creates difficulties for the growth of talents, forms pressure and depression, and frustrates the growth of talents. However, as "Caigen Tan" said: "In adversity, the whole body is full of needles to belittle the medicinal stone, and the stone festival does not know it; When you are prosperous, you sell spears and bones without knowing it. " If you are in prosperity for a long time, it is easy to appear arrogant, extravagant and lazy. However, in adversity, people are short of resources, depressed, eager for success, and have a strong motivation to succeed, so they can often achieve great success that is difficult to achieve in prosperity. That's the truth. There are too many children in rich families to be abrasive. People born in poverty are always in distress. Adversity makes people have no choice. Adversity gives people great pressure, and pressure can stimulate strong motivation. Of course, this dynamic role mainly depends on the positive attitude towards life adopted by the successful people.
(3) Adversity has honed talents and their excellent personality.
The injured part of a tree often becomes the hardest. The same is true of the growth of talents. After experiencing the pain and suffering of adversity, they can hone their excellent personalities. Young people who are determined to become talents, if they can go through a period of adversity and be in the "low valley" of life, will be able to cope with and bear whatever accidents and hardships they encounter in the future.
When you are young, suffering sharpens your temperament, which can restrain turbidity and promote great cause. Former South African President nelson mandela was arrested and imprisoned for opposing apartheid when he was young. The white ruler kept him on a desolate island for 27 years, and the three guards always made excuses to bully him. 199 1 year, Mandela was released from prison and elected President of South Africa. Three guards who guarded him in prison were also invited to attend his inauguration ceremony, and Mandela also paid a respectful tribute to them. Such a broad mind made all the politicians and distinguished guests at the meeting awe. Later, Mandela explained that he was impatient and grumpy when he was young. It was the tragic experience of the long prison years that gave him time to think. He learned to control his emotions and how to deal with his pain. Suffering made him awake, let him overcome the weakness of personality and achieved his final glory.
Fu Lei once said: "It is frivolous to be detached without being tempered by disasters." This sentence is very profound. An important value of adversity is to make people learn to control their own personality, publicize their own personality appropriately, instead of becoming slaves of personality, and eliminate bad tendencies in personality, so as to become useful talents who develop harmoniously and blend with society.
(d) Adversity is unfortunate, but it also makes talents sublimate and compensate.
The "compensation function" in physiology holds that if one organ of human body is diseased or incomplete, the functions of other organs will be strengthened accordingly to make up for the deficiency. For example, the ears of the blind are particularly sensitive, and the sense of touch of hands and feet is particularly excellent. He can even distinguish a person's face from an image by sound and touch.
The principle of compensation also applies to people in adversity. Stephen Hawking was paralyzed in his twenties and later could not even speak, but he founded the Big Bang theory. Shi Tiesheng suffered from severe kidney disease, but in the end he became a great writer. Yang Xiaokai suffered ten years' imprisonment, but he also became a famous economist at home and abroad. Beveridge said: "People's best work is often done in adversity. Mental stress, even physical pain, may become a spiritual stimulant. " People sum up this phenomenon as: success due to misfortune and mediocrity due to happiness.
Third, the realistic enlightenment of the successful phenomenon of adversity
(1) Cultivating young talents in adversity.
In the early stage of talent growth, juvenile success may not be a good thing. Fang Zhongyong, a prodigy in the Song Dynasty, was able to write poems at the age of five, which is a legend. But at the age of 12, he became "indifferent to everyone" because of the rich environment. Sometimes, a good environment is not conducive to the growth of talents. "Since ancient times, great talents have suffered a lot, and there have never been many great men." Zhang, the prime minister of the Ming Dynasty, was very clever from an early age. At the age of 65,438+03, he took the provincial examination, which shocked the examiner. However, Gu Yulin, then governor of Huguang, suggested that Zhang be the last one to appear. He explained: "Juzheng is young and studious. I think he is a talented person. If we develop him too early, it will easily make him complacent and ruin his ambition. If you let him fall behind, although it is three years late, it will make him more awake when he sees his own shortcomings and urge him to work hard. " The governor's vision is really convincing. Later, Zhang really became an outstanding politician in ZTE and Ming Dynasty. He persisted in innovating politics in a sinister environment and had a tenacious spirit of not giving up until he reached his goal, which was related to the adversity when he was young.
Cultivating young talents in adversity is not to deliberately create "adversity", but to let young people exercise in a difficult environment, which is actually to create more opportunities and conditions for young people to exercise and grow.
(B) to improve the adversity quotient of talents in adversity.
Also facing adversity, some people have crossed the past and made great achievements; Some people, even some highly intelligent people, are trapped and eliminated. The reason is that they lack the ability to cope with adversity and solve practical problems. In other words, their adversity quotient AQ is relatively low.
Adversity quotient AQ (adversity quotient) refers to the way people react when facing adversity, that is, the ability to turn adversity into advantage. If adversity is inevitable and the crisis is irreversible, then facing reality is the only correct choice. When people just fall into adversity, there will be a series of anger and panic in their hearts, which are normal emotional reactions. However, people with low AQ can easily fall into it, complain repeatedly and feel aggrieved, but forget to seek solutions. People with high AQ will calm down in a short time, assess the situation, rationally analyze and judge, and get out of adversity. This is the ability to cope with adversity. Adversity quotient is respected because it embodies a positive value orientation.
Adversity (AQ), like emotional intelligence (IQ), is not innate, and anyone can improve their AQ by learning. Dr Paul Stoz, the inventor of AQ, believes that the ability to cope with adversity can be divided into four related factors-control, attribution, extension and endurance. Control is the ability to recognize oneself and change the situation; Attribution refers to the ability to bear the consequences; Extension is to evaluate the severity of the problem and its impact on work and life; Patience is to realize that problems may exist for a long time and need to persist for a period of time. To cultivate adversity quotient, we should mainly improve our ability to cope with adversity in these aspects.
(C) pay attention to the success strategy in adversity
One is to turn adversity into adversity in waiting and patience. Be patient in adversity, be calm, and sit on the bench when you are wronged. At this time, there is no chance, so we need to observe calmly and hide our strength. If we misjudge the situation in adversity and rush for success, it may lead to even greater disasters and disasters. In the face of adversity, as long as you are calm and enterprising, it is possible to turn disadvantages into advantages and become great talents when the time is ripe.
The second is to overcome adversity with optimism. This mentality comes from the happiness generated by the obsession and pursuit of the cause, which can not be plundered and suppressed by any adversity. Because adversity already exists, there is no need to change the reality in a hurry, but we can transcend the reality in spirit and continue to seek the greatest happiness in our persistence in our cause. Only in this way can the day when adversity is eliminated be the time of success.
The third is to accumulate strength and stand by and break through. In the face of adversity, we should also pay attention to tenacious and flexible anti-burying strategies, and be prepared for long-term and arduous strength accumulation and breaking through obstacles. When the conditions are basically met, we should break through the shackles of adversity and make a difference. For example, when you have really achieved breakthrough and innovative achievements, but you are suppressed and blocked by adversity, you must have the courage to "break through" and stage a bold fight-or jump out of the circle to win the support of outside authorities, or strive for effective "organizational protection", or move away.
(d) Organizational intervention in man-made disasters
Adversity can make people grow, but not necessarily. Adversity itself can't give people any achievements. Under normal circumstances, it often destroys, strangles and destroys talents.
As far as the organization is concerned, it is absolutely impossible to put talents in adversity or get stuck in difficulties in the name of success in adversity. We should not take "success in adversity" as a dogma and engage in blind "worship of adversity". After all, success in adversity is depressing, which is not conducive to the healthy development of natural cognitive system and physical and mental temperament. Any organization and leader should carry out necessary administrative intervention and ideological education on all kinds of man-made adversity in talent growth, and eliminate the unfavorable factors that cause adversity. Through sound institutional arrangements, harmonious internal environment and appropriate material treatment, we will provide talents with more benign space for social role maturity and all-round development of morality, intelligence and physique, and let talents stay away from the torture and destruction of adversity. This is also the objective requirement of social harmony, democracy, progress and development.