This couplet was written by Comrade Zhou Enlai when he was studying in Tianjin Nankai School. He warned himself that people should take choice as their friends and pay attention to practice when reading. It reflects his great personality and excellent work style, that is to say, if you want to achieve great things, you have to work with honest people, and you have to get rid of the shackles of your predecessors and find another way.
Making friends with brave people tells the purpose and principle of making friends. Zhou Enlai wisely put forward the idea of choosing "courageous people" as friends, that is, choosing like-minded people in their studies and revolutionary career, being bosom friends, encouraging each other and complementing each other, so as to benefit the cause.
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The enlightenment of "treating others with courage and reading from a place without words";
Reading without Words is even more thought-provoking. It tells us that everything should proceed from reality, and so should reading. In reading, we should learn to combine efforts, improve our combined intelligence, empirical intelligence and practical intelligence through practice, and comprehensively enhance our ability to understand and transform the world.
Make more friends who are better than yourself in some ways. Don't be jealous of other people's talents, but learn to appreciate them. If you can appreciate, improve and support each other, your circle of friends will become a very powerful group, which will be of great benefit to your life. "Make friends with courageous people" can be regarded as an important principle of making friends.