At first glance, it seems strange.
A person's intelligence is innate, of course, it is necessary to make the best use of it. Why do you still advise people not to run out?
Perhaps the poem "Water Margin" can bring some enlightenment.
Very pretentious, five points,
Leave five for children and grandchildren.
If you use all the points 10,
Children and grandchildren are inferior to people.
"Vivid" means "smart".
In other words, a person is very smart, and five points is enough.
What about the remaining five?
Leave it to your children and grandchildren.
If you are smart and exhausted by yourself, future generations will become stupid because they have no intelligence, even worse than ordinary people.
This is the reason that the author Shi Naian wanted to explain when he wrote this poem in Chapter 35 of Water Margin.
In this chapter, Song Jiang, Hua Rongdao, Qin Ming and others are going to Liangshan. On the way, I met Shi Yong, and his brother Song Qing sent a letter saying that Song Taigong had passed away and asked him to go home for the funeral.
Friends who have seen the outlaws of the marsh know that in fact, Song Taigong did not die.
He was afraid that Sung River would make friends with Jianghu strongmen and fall into the grass together. In addition, the emperor at that time, namely Song Huizong, sealed the crown prince and wanted to grant amnesty to the whole country. So, let Song Qing write a letter and lie that he is dead, so that Song Jiang can come back soon.
Song Jiang didn't dare to lose his temper when he heard it was his father's idea.
Unexpectedly, that night, more than 100 officers and men suddenly came and surrounded Zhuangzi. It is said that someone saw Song Jiang running back and forced Song Tai to take a bus.
Song Jiang saw that he could not hide, so he had to come out and surrender.
Song squire saw, regret, cried and said:
"It's me who suffers!"
Sung river quickly comforted his old father:
"I am lucky to see this lawsuit. If you get out of another state, you must also have a time limit. In the future, I will return to my old job and have to serve my father for a lifetime sooner or later. "
It is these words that tell the reason why Song Jiang still wants to be hugged, although he went to Liangshan in the future.
This is:
If you can be an official, be an official, a glorious ancestor and a descendant of Fuze; If there is no official position, then farm well. It is not a necessity, and it will never be opportunistic or treacherous.
In fact, this is also the principle that we China people have followed for thousands of years.
We call cleverness and cunning cleverness.
In other words, we in China admire wisdom, not cleverness.
To a large extent, we even hate being smart.
Because "cleverness is mistaken by cleverness." It is not a good thing for a person to be too smart. Not only delay yourself, but also leave future trouble for future generations.
So, even if God makes himself smart, always remember:
"Cleverness is inexhaustible."
It's not that it doesn't work. It doesn't hurt to play occasionally when necessary.
But you regard this as a skill, and all you know is to play tricks all day, and that is to bring disaster to yourself.