Advantage is strength, the source of one's self-confidence and the basis of one's choice of life path. You can't have anything but your advantages. Your advantage is the key to your success.
If you never observe and write, but want to be a writer, it will lead to your failure in life. To succeed, you must give full play to your advantages.
On a beautiful green grassland, there is a duck, a fish, an eagle, an owl, a squirrel and a rabbit. They unanimously decided to run a school to make everyone smarter, just like human beings.
With the help of some older animals, they designed a set of courses, believing that they can train omnipotent animals. These courses include:
Running;
Swimming;
Climbing trees;
Jump;
Fly.
On the first day of school, the rabbit carefully combed the fluff on his ears and skipped to the running class.
He is simply the star of the class. It ran up the hill and back as fast as it could, and it felt really great. It happily said to itself, "I can't believe it!" " I can do what I am best at school. "
The teacher said, "Rabbit, you really have a talent for running. Your hind leg muscles are strong, and with more training, you can run faster. "
The rabbit said, "I love learning!" " You can do what you like at school and learn to do better. "
The next class is swimming. As soon as the rabbit smelled the bleach, it said, "Wait! Rabbits don't like swimming. "
The teacher said, "You may not like it now, but in five years, you will know how good it is to learn to swim."
In the tree climbing class, they tilted the trunk 30 degrees so that everyone could climb it more easily. Little rabbit worked so hard that he hurt his leg.
In the jumping class, the rabbit did well. Speaking of flying lessons, it's troublesome. The teacher gave it a psychological test and found that it needed basic flight training.
When receiving basic flight training, rabbits must practice jumping off the edge of a cliff. They told it that you can succeed as long as you work hard.
The next morning. It went to swimming class again. The teacher said, "Today we are going diving."
"Wait a minute, my parents and I discussed swimming lessons yesterday. They never learn to swim, and we rabbits don't like getting wet. I want to quit this course. "
The teacher said, "You can't quit. The time for adding, withdrawing and choosing courses has passed. Now you have only one choice: jump or be brushed off! "
The rabbit had to jump into the water. But it immediately panicked, sank into the water and bubbles surfaced. The teacher saw that it was really drowning and had to pull it up. Other animals have never seen anything more ridiculous than wet rabbits. It looks like a mouse without a long tail, so everyone laughs stagger. The rabbit has never been so humiliated in his life. He just wants to finish class early, and he is really happy after class.
When he goes home, he believes that his parents will understand him and help him. As soon as it entered the door, it said to its parents, "I hate going to school. I just want to be free. "
"Be sure to get the certificate and win glory for the rabbit!" They replied.
Little Nutbrown hare said, "I don't want a certificate."
Parents replied: "Whether you want it or not, you have to get it back."
They had a quarrel, and finally, mom and dad finally put the rabbit to bed. The next morning, when the rabbit went to school, it jumped slowly. Then, it remembered that the headmaster once said that if you have any questions, you can ask the tutor.
As soon as he got to school, he jumped into the chair next to his tutor and said loudly, "I hate school."
The tutor said, "Why?"
So the rabbit told the story again.
The tutor said, "Tutu, I know what you mean. When you say you don't like school, it's actually because you don't like swimming. I don't think my judgment is wrong. Let me tell you what we should do. Your running is very good. You don't need to practice any more. What you need is to practice swimming well. I will arrange for you to take swimming lessons in both classes instead of running lessons. "
The rabbit couldn't help feeling sick on the spot.
When the rabbit left the consulting room, he looked up and saw his old friend, the clever owl. The wise man held his head high and said, "Little rabbit! Life really doesn't have to be like this. We should set up some schools and companies so that people can focus on what they are good at. "
Little rabbit was inspired by this sentence. It hopes to start a career after graduation so that rabbits can concentrate on running, squirrels specialize in climbing trees and fish just swim. When he jumped over the grassland, he said to himself, "What a wonderful place it will be!" "
Rabbits are never alone.
Just look around us and you will know what is going on! Most companies, schools, families and institutions follow an unwritten law:
Let's try our best to give full play to our advantages and ignore our shortcomings.
The design of our entire education system, like a mousetrap, is totally aimed at people's weaknesses, rather than cultivating people's strengths and strengths.
The manager of the company spends most of his time on the person with the worst performance in order to help him reduce his mistakes.
Parents and teachers pay attention to your worst subjects, not your best subjects.
Bankers and credit investigators judge a person's credit completely through bad credit records.
Almost all public officials focus on solving problems rather than helping people stand on their own feet.
Everyone has the idea that as long as you can correct a person's shortcomings, he will become better; As long as you can correct the shortcomings of a company, it will be better. By analogy, as long as all shortcomings can be corrected, everything will be OK. Sadly, this inference is completely wrong. Correcting the shortcomings of a person or a company can only create an ordinary or ordinary person or company.
For example, if you write an article, if all the spelling grammar is correct, should this article get an A? Of course not! Just because you have written a text with zero defects does not mean that it is an excellent article. Many literary masters, such as Hemingway and Faulkner, often make spelling mistakes or grammatical mistakes. Great works can turn people's great thoughts into words. Once ideas are translated into words in a clear and orderly form, the following spelling and sentence-making problems can be handed over to the editor. Only concentrate on giving full play to your advantages. In order to achieve Excellence, it is impossible to perform well by blindly eliminating shortcomings.
If a person is particularly outstanding in one aspect, such as sales, mathematics, interpersonal communication or interior decoration, there will be an interesting reaction that we take these advantages for granted. Let's assume that the advantages will develop naturally, so don't bother. If you really want to make progress, don't waste your time on your strengths, but try to correct your shortcomings, so that you can get full development.
Do you often hear people say, "Mathematics is not a problem for him, but he wants to strengthen history and English." The emphasis is on history and English, not math. However, what is the real development potential? It is this person's advantage, mathematics, not history or English.
Let's give an example about reading.
The Nebraska Board of Education appointed the University of Nebraska to promote a three-year program to study the most effective ways to teach fast reading. This study tested more than 1000 students to understand their reading speed and comprehension ability. The test results are quite amazing. Students with poor reading ability started from 90 words per minute and improved to an average of 150 words per minute. The best students, from 350 words per minute to 2900 words per minute, even the most experienced researchers are surprised by this result, because they think that the students with the worst reading speed should have the greatest percentage of progress.
As a result, the students who read fastest make the greatest progress and benefit the most from training.
There is a "Matthew's Law" in the Bible: "Make the rich richer and the poor poorer." Our own advantages also follow this "Matthew's Law". As long as we can find our own advantages and devote ourselves to cultivating our own advantages, then our advantages will advance by leaps and bounds and we will be invincible. Please remember: a successful life comes from the ultimate display of advantages!
—— Quoted from Yanbian People's Publishing House "Understanding Harvard for a Hundred Years"