Material: Liu Yuxi, a poet in the Tang Dynasty, is a veritable "contented person". Even though he was demoted, he was still happy every day. The local official bullied him but was demoted, giving him only a very humble hut, and he also wrote the famous "Humble Room Inscription". It was because he was satisfied with his life that he was able to write one famous poem after another in poverty.
During the Three Kingdoms period, Zhou Yu was a very prestigious counselor of the State of Wu. He also made a lot of contributions to the State of Wu, and his intelligence was higher than that of ordinary people. However, because he was dissatisfied and jealous of Zhuge Liang's talent, he felt that Zhuge Liang was smarter than himself and opposed Zhuge Liang everywhere, so that he was smarter many times in the end.
Before he died, he said, "Why was I born?" He was so greedy before he died that he ended up like this. If he is a contented man, then it may not be Shu that will dominate the country for a long time, so this tells us that those who know how to be contented will die.
Bill, Chairman of Microsoft Corporation, USA. Gates studied at the prestigious Harvard University. However, people who enter this world-famous school generally don't want to drop out of school automatically after being admitted, but Bill Gates did. He hoped that two people would drop out of school together and study a project that few people studied at that time.
But they refused because they didn't want to drop out of school because of a successful project, but Bill Gates succeeded, so this tells us when we should be satisfied and when we shouldn't be satisfied. In Mencius' famous saying "Fish is not what I want", which we recently learned, he said that some people accepted the gift of "Wan Zhong". What's good for me?
This tells us to be content, and to be content with wages and money. Satisfaction is the foundation of our life! Therefore, we should remember that only by learning to be content can we have a bright heart, have less troubles and learn to be content, so as to better understand the hardships, hardships and happiness of life; Only when everyone knows how to be contented can our big social family be harmonious, calm and sincere.