Laozi has a long-standing proverb in Tao Te Ching: "Everything begins with simplicity and evolves into complexity"; It is said that simplicity is a philosophy, and the most valuable truth is actually the simplest truth; But we often complicate it and stubbornly believe that there is another quick way to achieve our goal. As everyone knows, everyone who has made outstanding achievements is practicing the simple truth that "complex things are simply done, simple things are repeated, and repeated things are done with heart".

For example, although everyone knows the truth of "fighting for an extraordinary future", few people can achieve the unity of knowledge and action.

For a while, I was unemployed, and I interviewed dozens of companies back and forth, but none of them were willing to hire me. At the same time, my friend who resigned has gone to work, and I began to complain about the picky employers. I began to complain about the injustice of this society. I feel terrible. Not only can't I find a suitable job, but my life is a mess.

I can't find the meaning of life. I even raised this encounter to an insoluble level. I'm trapped by the status quo. I regard the stumbling block on my growth path as an insurmountable gap. I felt desperate and even began to give up on myself.

Don't I understand the truth that "we can't choose who and what we will meet, but at least we can adjust our mentality"? I know, I'm sure everyone knows, but it's difficult to combine knowledge with practice.

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Until one day I read a book called "Living the Meaning of Life" by frankl, a Jewish psychologist. During World War II, their whole family was put into a Nazi concentration camp full of despair. Parents, wives and brothers all died in prison, and only he and his sister survived. But it was in this miserable prison that he not only survived, but also helped many people find the meaning of life. At the same time, he also published thousands of bestsellers. He is a man who knows the unity of knowledge and action. He knows that although prison limits a person's freedom of life, it can never control a person's heart and yearning for freedom.

Before his death, Sima Qian's father entrusted him to complete the 2600-year historical record from the Yellow Emperor to the Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, but when he devoted all his energy to the book Historical Records, he encountered the biggest setback in his life.

This is because not long ago, he defended a general, but accidentally offended Emperor Wu of Han Dynasty. In a rage, Emperor Wu put Sima Qian in prison and tortured him. In prison, although my body was ravaged and my soul was insulted, my heart was still sincere, and I always took historical records as my responsibility and forgot the pain and humiliation. After 18 years, he finally finished a brilliant masterpiece of 520,000 words at the age of 60. This unprecedented work exhausted his life's hard work, and he wrote it with his life.

The famous aphorism, "Therefore, if God is going to be a great power to Sri Lankan people, he must first suffer from his mind, bones and muscles, and starve his body and skin", which has been remembered since he went to school, but few people can really put it into work and life. As soon as many people encounter difficulties, they begin to make excuses and completely forget the wisdom left by their ancestors and sages. Wouldn't it be very successful if we could apply these familiar truths to practical work? As Li Xiaolai said in The Road to Wealth and Freedom, the simpler the truth, the more eternal it will be.

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There is a classic line in the movie "I will never see you again": "I know so much, but I still can't get along." None of us like failure, but "failure is the mother of success" is undoubtedly the wisest truth. Only by always believing in the objectivity of this truth can I succeed. Just like Edison, he kept experimenting and failing, but he always believed that he could find a way to invent the electric light, so after 99 failures.

Always believe in simple truth. In the face of unpredictable times, we should be like Zhuangzi, externalized rather than internalized. Even if there are many changes in the world, we should accept and adapt, stick to the goal we want to achieve, and truly practice every simple truth to the extreme in our work and life.

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Some people always complain that although they have read a lot of books, bought a lot of courses and done a lot of homework, they have never made progress, so they blame the poor courses and complain about the limitations of the environment. However, I spend little time on these things. When we were young, the teacher always taught us to review our lessons in time and use our brains to understand the knowledge points in the course. Only in this way can we internalize other people's things into our own wisdom.

But in fact, few people can do it in time. In most people's minds, they think they have studied after learning the course. This is only superficial learning. The real way to learn is to share what you have learned with others in your own way. This is their own.

It's not that difficult to achieve your goals in life. It is nothing more than the ultimate practice of "simple things to do, simple things to repeat, and repeated things to do with heart". Every simple truth, down-to-earth practice, will eventually achieve something.