Governing by doing nothing is used in enterprise management, which requires enterprise managers to jump out of trivial matters and focus on enterprise development strategy and the work of knowing people and employing people. As for the specific research and development, technology, production and sales, we must rely entirely on employees and subordinates to do it. If senior managers really want to make a difference on big issues, rather than on small issues, they must implement the management method of "doing nothing for the monarch and doing something for the minister" in order to achieve the management goal of "making the monarch work hard for the country will prosper, and making the monarch work hard for the country will decline".
Doing nothing is used in the field of education, which requires teachers and parents to respect children's nature, fully trust children's ability and development potential, and let children try, learn, explore, discover and even destroy themselves, even if he will fail and make mistakes, because he will learn a lot from these failures and mistakes. What teachers and parents have to do is to create the necessary conditions for children and do the necessary auxiliary work.
Therefore, those ancient thinkers, their thoughts are aimed at the country and society. Some ideas, whether ancient or modern, are worth learning and doing. If you think it is out of date, it is out of date, so it is to make the best use of it. Well, let's remember that we will discard the bad ones.