For example, Wang Yangming's famous saying "knowing and doing are one", our understanding is to emphasize "doing", because we know a lot of truth, but we can't do it. If we say that a person is "one of knowing and doing", it means that the other person is a reliable person.
In fact, the real meaning of "unity of knowledge and action" is that "knowledge" and "action" are the same thing. If a person knows, he can do it. If he doesn't, it's because he really doesn't know.
A lot of reasons are like this. We have to hear a truth many times, experience something and prove it with other similar truths. Only after several times can we truly understand a common truth deeply, and then it will be much easier to "act". From this perspective alone, Wang Yangming's original intention of "unity of knowledge and action" is reasonable.
For example, we laughed at the teacher's saying that "success once is very important". We won't feel anything at first, but if we use some other stories to confirm and think, we can understand it more deeply.
If a person has not succeeded, he will not know the taste of success, and the taste of success will give people great motivation.
In teacher Wan Weigang's column, I read: "Failure is not the mother of success, but success is the mother of success." The success rate of entrepreneurs who fail to start a business again is lower than that of entrepreneurs who succeed in starting a business again, and the success rate of doctors who fail in surgery is lower than that of doctors who succeed in surgery.
Teacher Wu Jun said that Harvard's ability to recruit undergraduates, in addition to grades, is very important-to do one thing to the extreme.
"Success once" is precisely because things have been done to the extreme within a certain range. Why is it so important to do one thing to the extreme?
It is difficult to do things to the extreme. This process needs to overcome many difficulties. If a person can achieve the ultimate, he will have the ability to overcome difficulties, have the psychological quality to overcome difficulties, find ways to overcome difficulties, face different difficulties, but the ways to overcome difficulties are the same.
Let's consider the benefits of doing things to the extreme from the perspective of common sense. For example, the Olympic champion will be remembered, and the runner-up will be ignored and forgotten. Those who sing the best songs will be recognized by the whole world, and others will be unknown. A little more grounded, it is best for the unit to do PPT, or it is best to give a speech. The benefits you can get are not only doing PPT or hosting company meetings, but also getting things done at a premium. Leaders will think that you are good in other aspects, and give you more opportunities, and your growth will be faster.
On the other hand, from the point of view of competition, the competition is fierce now, some people who reach the passing line will not get much, and the big part of the reward will be pocketed by the best person, and the value of reward and creation is not equal. Those who reach the extreme will get a reward premium.
So how do you become a person who can achieve the ultimate?
There are many conditions, but the "spirit of death" is indispensable. Rote memorization takes time, energy and attention, and there must be a kind of persistence in never letting go until you reach your goal.
Stories always work wonders for reasoning. Let's listen to three short stories of Turing, the father of computers, and explain what is called "the spirit of death".
Turing is a scientist and a world-class long-distance runner. He defeated Richards, the silver medalist in the same year's Olympic Games, in an international track and field competition. Without long-term energy training, it is impossible to reach this level.
During World War II, Turing thought about this problem for a long time while eating and sleeping, and finally found a small loophole in the German password design and successfully cracked the password. Without this spirit, it is impossible to find such a small flaw.
One summer vacation, when he went back to school to study, the railway workers went on strike and there were no trains to take. In order to get to school, Turing set out one day earlier, rode 100 km to school, stayed in the hotel for one night on the way, and arrived at the classroom on time the next day. If he is a normal person, he will call to explain the situation and wait for the train to pass before going to school.
If a person wants to achieve something, he needs to make a lot of efforts and make ordinary efforts, and he can only get ordinary results. If he wants the final result, he needs to make a final effort.
Through the above words, we will find that many truths need to be "ruminated" constantly. Only in this way can we plant a beautiful truth in our minds, cultivate it with our own experience, and let it thrive. In the end, the beautiful truth will blend into our blood and truly become our instinctive cognition and truly "know".