Does that make sense? Throughout history, people who have succeeded in adversity abound. If you don't believe me, please see Sima Qian, a famous literary historian, saying in Baoren An Shu: King Gavin was arrested and played Zhouyi; Zhong You wrote Spring and Autumn Annals; Qu Yuan's exile is an ode to Li Sao. Zuo Qiu is blind and has "Mandarin"; The ruler of the revised version of Sun Tzu's Art of War; It's not Shu, but Lu Lan. Han Fei imprisoned Qin, which was "difficult" and lonely and angry; There are 300 poems, mostly written for the anger of sages. Sima Qian himself is also a typical example in adversity.
This strange phenomenon often exists in life. Hands and feet are not as good as deaf and blind, and body is not as good as disabled. Contemporary Paul Zhang Haidi was paraplegic due to illness, but she fought against her fate with amazing perseverance. She learned acupuncture and became a famous doctor. She taught herself a foreign language and translated and published the seaside clinic. She also passed the postgraduate exam and got a master's degree. Helen Keller of the United States is blind and deaf, and it is difficult to speak, but she graduated from college with honors. Moreover, she became a famous writer and educator who was proficient in English, French, German, Latin and Greek. She devoted her life to the education of disabled children in the world and was regarded as one of the outstanding figures in the19th century. How many normal people can get a master's degree and become educators?
Why does adversity make people successful? The so-called adversity is an unfavorable environment or a difficult environment. It stands to reason that "adversity" can only bring difficulties and obstacles to success, and it is even more difficult to succeed in adversity. However, adversity, on the one hand, gives people hardship, hunger, fatigue and anxiety, which is often unsatisfactory. On the other hand, it is precisely because of these difficulties that people's will has been strengthened, thus increasing their intelligence and wisdom in the process of constantly overcoming the difficulties of survival and eventually becoming talents.
Heroes have suffered a lot since ancient times and have never been too handsome. Are you sure to succeed in adversity? No, success in adversity is conditional. First of all, be angry in adversity. Wang Wen was detained, Confucius and Qu Yuan were exiled, blinded, exiled, Han Fei was imprisoned, and his grandson was tortured, so that their works were passed down to the next generation. If they don't rise up in adversity, the Six Classics and the philosophers may not be their monographs. The second is to face up to adversity and turn adversity into success. Because adversity is sometimes independent of human will. Natural and man-made disasters may change people's fate at any time. You can't be trapped by adversity in adversity. Belinsky once said, "Adversity is the best university". For angry people, "adversity" is a stone to sharpen their will and a hormone to increase their talents. The third is to have perseverance. Zhang Haidi, Helen and Keller all fought against fate with amazing perseverance and succeeded. Adversity can make people grow, but adversity and growth cannot be equated. For those who are weak-willed, those who give up on themselves in adversity and are willing to sink, adversity can only be their grave.
"Adversity produces talents" is an illusion. Objectively speaking, prosperity can cultivate talents more than adversity. It is said that "adversity produces talents" because the talents produced by adversity are so touching. People think these examples are more convincing in order to educate their children and future generations. Never think that adversity will produce talents, so create adversity and let children become talents.
As far as talent growth is concerned, it can be divided into prosperity and adversity. Prosperity provides all kinds of convenient conditions and is conducive to the growth of talents, but adversity is often a situation that talents often encounter and must face correctly. Many thinkers in ancient China thought that "it is difficult to go to the sky", and the Wei school even said: "If you go against it, you will live, and if you go with it, you will die; Reverse is sacred, and shun is crazy; The vegetation is not frost and snow, and the cause is not solid; If people are not worried, they are not wise. " He thinks that only adversity can make success, which is very one-sided. However, it is an indisputable fact that the phenomenon of success in adversity embodies some regularity in righteousness.
Life is not all complacency, but also setbacks, prosperity and adversity. Looking at many books in ancient and modern times, there are certainly many successful people in prosperity, but there seem to be more successful people in adversity, and there are many examples. Marx was poor all his life, but he founded a great Marxist theory, which pointed out the direction and road for human liberation. Goethe published Young Werther, which caused a sensation in the world literary world after his lovelorn love. After Sima Qian went to prison, he endured humiliation and gave up his love, leaving a great historical work "Historical Records" for future generations. Cao Xueqin wrote a masterpiece Dream of Red Mansions in the predicament that "the whole family often eats porridge". Sun Yat-sen's revolutionary life, after many failures, finally won the great victory of the Revolution of 1911 and became a great democratic revolutionary.
"There is no beautiful tree on the top of the mountain, which hurts the sun more; There is no beautiful grass under the big tree, and it hurts more in the shade. " It can be seen that an excessively superior environment will make people fail, and adversity is the most powerful springboard to success in the eyes of many people. On the top of the mountain, there is plenty of sunshine, which should be the favorite growth environment for many trees. But as long as you climb to the top of the mountain, you will find that when you look around, there are basically bare rocks, and there are almost no flowers and trees halfway up the mountain. Sunlight is important to trees, but don't forget that water is equally important to trees. The top of the mountain is sunny, but after a few days of sunbathing, water is also scarce. How should a tree grow with only sunshine and no water? Plants are so, so are people. A superior living environment will cultivate people's inertia. When people reach for food through clothes, they are enjoying life and killing their fighting spirit. When comfort no longer exists, can you "compete" with others? Therefore, if people have been in adversity, they will naturally want to work hard to create success. To succeed, you must create your own conditions. It is precisely because of the hardships of the past that those who succeed after experiencing hardships will cherish everything in front of them more. Such success is lasting. Such people will not relax themselves because of the change of environment, but will always strive to innovate.
Therefore, the present hardship is the foundation of future happiness and success, and adversity will certainly become a talent.