1. People need more strength, perseverance and confidence in adversity than in good times. "When people are in trouble, like vanilla, the fragrance becomes stronger when it is squeezed." Therefore, people who come out of adversity , can achieve a better career.
Mencius said: When Heaven is about to entrust a great responsibility to this person, he must first strain his mind and will, strain his muscles and bones, starve his body and skin, deplete his body, and mess up his actions, so his mind and forbearance are tempted. Gain what it cannot. Since ancient times, most of the great men at home and abroad have struggled through adversity with an indomitable spirit, unwavering determination, and an invincible will.
2. Zola was very poor when he was young. In order to resist hunger, he caught sparrows and roasted them. In order to write, he gave his few clothes to the pawn shop, but he wrote a sensational novel. "The Lugon Magar Family". Iacocca is a superstar in the American automobile industry, but he was fired by his jealous boss in 1978 and was driven to a small room in a warehouse. He also called it a small room for Iacocca before he had a new job. 's office. In the face of great shame and humiliation, Iacocca did not give up. He later served as president of Chrysler Automobile Company, which was on the verge of bankruptcy, and earned US$2.4 billion in profits for the company, which was more than the total profits of the company in the previous 60 years. If Zola was born into a rich family, he might not be famous; if Iacocca had not been fired by his boss, he might just be a successful car salesman at best. So Balzac said: Suffering is the teacher of life.
3. Beethoven, the great composer, was unable to go to college due to poverty. He contracted typhoid fever and smallpox at the age of seventeen. Unfortunately, he lost his hearing at the age of twenty-six and suffered repeated setbacks in love. In this case, Beethoven vowed to "hold the throat of life." In his tenacious struggle with fate and in his music creation career, his fire of life burned more and more vigorously. Adversity not only did not scare him, but instead became a magnetic field for him to gain strong vitality.
4. Horace Greeley: When he came to New York, he was just a penniless printer, but later became the influential "New Yorker" weekly and Founder of the New York Forum daily newspaper.
5. William Corbett: Originally a farmer's child, he became self-taught and later became an important British politician.
6. Elihu Burritt: This Connecticut native is known as the "learned blacksmith." He used his spare time to start a self-study plan, and finally became a linguist, writer and mathematician. One of his diaries often looks like this: "Tuesday, June 19, 60 lines of Hebrew, 30 lines of Danish, 10 lines of Bohemian, 9 lines of Polish, 15 star names, 10 hours of blacksmithing." ”
7. Michael Faraday: Can be called the greatest experimental physicist. When he was a child, he lived in a stable in London and made a living by renting newspapers. While working as an apprentice for a bookbinder, he learned about electricity from the Encyclopedia Britannica and started doing his own laboratory. Sir Humphrey Davy, a scientist, took Faraday on as his assistant, giving him access to some of the greatest scientific minds of the time.
8. Frederick Douglass: He was both a slave and an abolitionist. "He was born poorer than alone, because even his own body did not belong to him." Plantation The regulations prohibited slaves from learning to read and write, but he learned to read letters from scraps of paper and medicine bottle labels. Later, a friend bought his freedom.
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First of all, what is adversity? Adversity is the resistance that people encounter in the process of becoming successful, and it also includes difficult and miserable situations, that is, dilemmas and desperate situations. The process of a person becoming a talent is itself a difficult journey of constantly overcoming numerous difficulties and going through untold hardships. Just as only by going through ninety-nine and eighty-one difficulties can we retrieve the true scriptures, only by going through the baptism of wind and rain can we stand among the real talents.
Adversity produces talents based on the following points
First, adversity exists objectively.
We insist that adversity produces talents, not because we like to live in those difficulties, but because this is an objective fact! Real prosperity only exists in the ideal "utopian" ideal country. The emergence of human beings began when apes overcame adversity and walked out of the forest to explore continuously. They were the earliest talents, and the history of human development itself is a magnificent epic of struggle against the adversity of nature!
Second, materialist dialectics tells us: the fundamental cause of the development of things is not external to things, but lies in the contradictions within things. It not only provides the source and motivation for the movement of things, but also determines the direction and direction of the development of things. process. We admit that good times can provide the material conditions needed for talent development, but compared with these external factors, adversity can provide the motivation for talents to become talents and guide the development direction and process of talents. Only when you are in trouble can you have the motivation and determination to break out of it. Only in adversity will people develop the motivation and direction to make progress, thereby promoting career success.
Third, talents are rare resources in society. Talents at home and abroad in ancient and modern times have two very important characteristics: 1. tenacious vitality, 2. good self-improvement ability. The growth process of talents is an unrepeatable struggle process of overcoming all obstacles and overcoming many difficulties. Only adversity can eliminate various weaknesses in a person's own existence, so as to continuously improve one's own congenital deficiencies and weak willpower, thereby stimulating one's own potential and achieve self-perfection and transcendence! A male lion raised in a zoo will never become the overlord of the grassland! The flowers cultivated in the greenhouse can never withstand the baptism of wind and rain!
Fourth, human nature is to take refuge in things easy. In good times, people are easy to be proud and complacent. Compared with adversity, good times are more breeding grounds for arrogance and extravagance. Mencius said, "Be born in sorrow and die in peace and happiness." Historically, those relatives of the emperor and the descendants of princes, generals and ministers who were in good times had excellent family education and good material conditions. How many of them left their names in history? On the contrary, those people with lofty ideals who cut through walls to steal light, danced after hearing chickens, braided beams, and stabbed their buttocks in the face of adversity eventually became the pillars of the country.
Fifth, different adversities produce different talents, and times create heroes. Talents are very different, and it is precisely because of the differences in the adversity in which they find themselves. Faced with the adversity of the disintegration of the country, the ancestors of the Tang Dynasty and Song Dynasty were born; facing the shackles of slavery, heroes like Lincoln and Martin Luther King were born; facing the need to build the motherland, the era of Deng Jiaxian and Qian Xuesen was born Role model!
Adversity produces talents, which is one of our beliefs. If we believe that good times produce talents, then how can we have the courage to face the difficulties and hardships on the long road of life alone, and how can we be able to survive in adversity? How can we continue to stick to our ideals so that we don’t abandon our beliefs, blame others, and degenerate. If we believe that good times bring out talents, aren’t all those inspirational quotes that still ring in our ears just a bunch of empty talk? !
Idealistic people may believe that good times bring out talents, but "if a lion is not hungry, it will not hunt." "Shang Zhongyong" is a story we are already familiar with, the aura of a child prodigy But it makes "Zhongyong" fall into mediocrity. Are there many examples of being submerged in such good times? Look at those sages who lacked food and clothing! Confucius was unsuccessful in his life, but he cultivated "seventy-two sages" and founded the Confucian school, which was highly respected by future generations; Sima Qian completed his historical masterpiece in prison; Zhuge Liang "worked hard in Nanyang" in his early years, but later assisted Liu Bei to form a three-legged alliance The pattern has become famous throughout the ages; Du Fu lived a wandering life, but left behind precious poems, which made future generations sigh that "Li Du's articles are as bright as ever"! ...Although Chinese history has lost a few politicians, it has such outstanding thinkers, historians, military strategists and poets!
King Wen was imprisoned and performed the Book of Changes, Confucius was forced to write the Spring and Autumn Period, Qu Yuan was exiled and Naifu Li Sao was exiled, Zuoqiu was blind and had Mandarin, Sun Tzu's Bijiao Art of War was revamped, Bu Wei moved to Shu and was passed down by Lu Lan, Han Fei was imprisoned Qin said that it was difficult and lonely, and he wrote three hundred poems.
The great leader Mao Zedong, at a critical moment for the survival of the country and the nation, traveled to various places to study and accept new ideas. Later, he founded Mao Zedong Thought amidst the setbacks of the revolution. He overcame all difficulties and led the Chinese people to achieve national success. Independence and national liberation have made great contributions!
In the modern history of China, the pillars of the country who rose up in adversity wrote glorious chapters and left us with precious spiritual wealth in facing and overcoming adversity.
Abroad, Balzac, Beethoven, Edison, Lincoln, Marie Curie...many names that we are familiar with are all giants of the times who grew up and forged in adversity. !
Looking back at our own surroundings, even today when we have superior material conditions, how many of the proud students on our university campus really work hard to study and forget to eat and sleep, and how many students are addicted to What about online games, falling in love and staying up all night? From this, I miss our high school days, those years of hard work, even though we were malnourished and sleep deprived, we were immersed in learning and enjoyed it.
As we vigorously develop education and generally improve education levels, how many rice experts like Yuan Longping have been produced in our society? How many mathematicians like Hua Luogeng, how many geologists like Li Siguang, and how many meteorologists like Zhu Kezhen have been produced? Compared with these talents who grew up in adversity, where are the talents produced by today's superior conditions? Even at Tsinghua University, the top educational institution in my country, about 80% of its graduates every year choose to go abroad and never come back. I want to ask, are these the "talents" we have cultivated in good times? This makes us miss Qian Xuesen who resolutely returned to China in the face of adversity. Deng Jiaxian developed "two bombs and one satellite" on the basis of poverty and poverty in his motherland. He was criticized during the Cultural Revolution and sat in a bullpen, and later became Qian Wei, the founder of Shanghai University. long. It is such talents who have built the edifice of science and technology in our motherland, and it is such talents who have stood up the backbone of China!
We do have more talents today than before, but even today many of our successful people and many successful entrepreneurs also feel the same way with the lyrics of "On the Road": That day, I had no choice but to Going on the road, for the survival of self-esteem and self-proof, the bitterness of the road has melted into my eyes, and the dilemma of the soul has turned into my determination! !
We admit that the modernization process of the motherland has paved the way for their success, but as a successful case, their own determination and self-efforts in the face of difficulties are what make them successful. The key is that as two aspects of a contradiction, this is the main contradiction of things!
We cannot be blinded by the appearance of things. We admit that the United States has many talents, but the United States is not in paradise. There are also difficulties there, just like Edison went through countless hardships before he invented the electric light. Growing up in the United States also requires individual hard work and struggle. This is precisely because different adversities create different talents. Our Chinese civilization was decades or even hundreds of years ahead of other countries. That does not mean that there were no difficulties in our previous dynasties. In the prosperous Tang Dynasty, the growth environment was such that "the wine and meat smelled stinky, and the roads were frozen to death." Wei Qing, a famous general who created Du Fu's reputation as a poet, was born in the Tang Dynasty, but he was only a horseman. Just because the entire country has a lot of wealth doesn't mean that success is easy to come by without any effort!
Einstein, the winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics, was just a clerk in the patent office at first. He did not have a superior environment to study physics. He was ostracized and hunted by the Nazis throughout his life and was displaced. However, it was precisely because he insisted on loving Even though almost no one paid attention to his own career when the theory of relativity was published and he was excluded by many physicists, he still devoted himself to his research and finally became a giant and dean of physics. Marie Curie, winner of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry, was impoverished despite hardships. During her research on discovering radium, her experimental conditions and equipment were extremely crude.
Misfortune is the stepping stone for genius; the baptismal water for believers; the priceless treasure for the capable; the bottomless abyss for the weak. Balzac’s wise words are still shocking to us today. Damn! !
Talent is the product of survival of the fittest and the survival of the fittest. If a person fails to recover in the face of difficulties and setbacks, it can only mean that he does not have the qualities to become a talent in the first place; the fleeting "Zhong Yong" Typical figures, let alone talents, are at most the objects of regret or criticism after dinner; as well as many mediocre living beings, if they do not have the will to work hard and the ability to transcend themselves, they are not talents, and there is no need to pity themselves or blame others. people.
Mencius said: "When heaven is about to entrust a great responsibility to a person, he must first strain his mind, strain his muscles and bones, starve his body and skin, deplete his body, and disturb his actions, so he is tempted to be willful. "Throughout the ages, many people with lofty ideals have persevered and continued to strive for self-improvement when they were in adversity or even desperate situations, all because they firmly believed that "heaven will entrust them with great responsibilities"! Even ordinary people like us, if we can get one or two of these wise sayings, we can use them throughout our lives!
The story of "Meng Meng's mother moved three times" is admirable, but it is only the external cause of Mencius's journey to becoming a talent, and the internal cause of Mencius's own arduous struggle throughout his life, overcoming all difficulties, and persisting in the study of Confucianism. In comparison, which one is more important? We can't blind our eyes to Mount Tai. Since ancient times, loving mothers often have prodigal sons. How many kind mothers have nurtured prodigal sons who are fully dependent on them! !
Mao Zedong’s family was well off when he was a child. Do we think that we should ultimately attribute Chairman Mao’s great achievements in his life to the food he could eat and the warm clothes he could wear when he was a child, and let him fight against the sky and the earth? Are the self-choices and difficult journeys of fighting against others wiped out one by one?
There have been many comments directed at the top students who were admitted to the "China Youth University of Science and Technology". Many of these people who were once shrouded in halo and hailed as child prodigies soon lost their glory and became. The contemporary "Zhongyong". Maybe everything happened so naturally that it gave them a devastating blow. I hope they will not be like Zhong Yong or Liu Houzhu in ancient times.
In good times, we rarely see the pillars of the times who are hard-working and simple, but we often see degenerate young people who are arrogant and arrogant! Many children today have nothing to do but food and clothing at home. Everything has been arranged. As a result, no ability has been exercised. It only encourages their bad habits and makes it difficult for them to stand on their own feet. Getting along with others can even go astray. The better the conditions parents create for their children, the more everything is ready, and the easier it is to have a happy life, the more they stifle their children's desire to strive!
The fact that we praise adversity to bring forth talents does not mean that we are willing to endure unnecessary suffering, but that we hope that we will have more courage and strength when facing difficulties. We hope that this troubled country of ours will have more courage and strength. , in the face of various adversities such as SARS, snowstorms, earthquakes, etc., we can stand up our backs bravely and firmly, allowing us to face these difficulties and even desperate situations calmly and persistently. Let adversity temper our minds and precipitate our impetuosity and luxury. In the belief that the edge of a sword comes from sharpening and the fragrance of plum blossoms comes from the bitter cold, let us achieve self-perfection and even transcendence, so that we can walk on the road of life. further. The night gave me black eyes, but I am destined to use them to find light! ! !
Because the deeper the roots, the luxuriant the leaves; because the more hardship we have, the more our will will be strong! !