2. Simplification: Good medicine tastes bitter, but advice is hard to hear.
3. Reason:
Good medicine tastes bitter and good advice is good for illness, so in Confucius' family training language, there are "good medicine tastes bitter and good advice is good for illness, but bad advice is good for behavior" and "always comfortable and not broad-minded". It can be seen that advice is an unpleasant motto, which can best prove its true value. If people listen to hateful advice and have unfair thoughts in their hearts, they will completely disappoint others' good advice. Therefore, we should reflect on our own shortcomings and strictly correct our evil spirits, so that we can invisibly urge ourselves to embark on the bright road, so that we can never feel unfair after listening to unpleasant words and never feel unfair in adversity, because both unfavorable words and adversity are enough to inspire our fighting spirit. On the other hand, if you like to listen to flattery blindly, you will be elated when people praise you, then your life will be eroded and your enterprising spirit will be weakened invisibly. This kind of person is most likely to indulge in the abyss of narcissism, which is equivalent to drinking poisoned wine and ruining his life. Even if you are alive, you lose the meaning of survival. And since ancient times, there has been a saying that "life is often unsatisfactory." In other words, life often goes through all kinds of disobedience and painful tests, and it takes several difficult struggles to embark on the road of prosperity. If you want to be satisfied from the beginning, it is impossible. Unfortunately, some superficial people leave immediately after listening to unpleasant suggestions and complain to others when things go wrong. In fact, holding this mentality is the artistic conception of a fragile person. If you want to live a valuable life, you must constantly defeat the enemies in your heart and constantly baptize yourself with "unpleasant words." Good medicine tastes bitter and is good for illness, but advice when most unpleasant is good for cultivation.