Enemy with pride
Author/Shandong Liu Guiyou
Topic introduction
"Humility makes people progress, pride makes people fall behind." After a person achieves great success, he often becomes more confident, but sometimes success also has "side effects", making people become arrogant and unable to be calm and calm. Look at things objectively and even make wrong decisions, ultimately leading to failure. Therefore, we must always remind ourselves to maintain a humble attitude and remember that pride is the biggest enemy on the road to growth.
Classic examples
Zhuang Jia relies on favor and is arrogant to cause trouble
During the Spring and Autumn Period, the vassal states fought endlessly. One year, the state of Qi suffered consecutive defeats. Qi Jinggong was very anxious and wanted to find an effective general to reverse the situation.
Based on the recommendation of Zhengqing Yan Ying, Qi Jinggong decided to appoint Tian Ranju as a general and lead his troops to the front line to fight back against the enemy. Tian Ruoju was originally just a junior official. After he thanked Jinggong, he sincerely requested: "Your Majesty, I am in a humble position. Now you directly promote me from among the soldiers to the position of general. I am worried that the soldiers will not listen to me. All officials Don't believe me, because I am weak and have little power. Please send a distinguished minister to be my supervisor to boost morale."
Qi Jinggong immediately sent his favorite minister. Zhuang Jia. Tian Ruoju and Zhuang Jia agreed to meet outside the military gate at noon the next day and set off.
The next day, Tian Juju led his army to the military gate very early, lined up his troops, and waited for Zhuang Jia. But in the evening, Zhuang Jia came to the military gate in a big way. Tian Ranju angrily asked, "Mr. Zhuang, why did you come so late?" Zhuang Jia was always arrogant and arrogant because he was favored by Duke Jing. He didn't take Tian Juanju seriously, so he said arrogantly: "We are having a farewell party with friends and relatives. I drank a few too many drinks." Cup..." Tian Ranju said: "Now the enemy is invading, the king is restless and unable to eat, the soldiers died in the border battle, the lives of the people are in danger, but you violated the military law for the banquet..." Zhuang Jia said nonchalantly: "You Don't be too arrogant. You've only been a general for a few days and you're teaching me a lesson." Tian Ruoju didn't show any signs of weakness and shouted sternly: "What is the crime for violating military law?" It was too late to say that, but then, Tian Ruanju just gave the order, Zhuang Jia's head was chopped off.
The former Giant Group went bankrupt due to pride and arrogance
Shi Yuzhu, chairman of Giant Group, became famous for selling Hanka and was arrested. Set up as a model for intellectuals to create wealth and receive strong support from local and central leaders at all levels. After his success, Shi Yuzhu became extremely arrogant and complacent. Entering real estate, he vowed to build "the tallest building in China", entering the pharmaceutical and health care industry, launching more than 100 products at once, and wanted to replace Li Ka-shing and become the richest Chinese in the world. As a result, due to blind expansion, the capital chain was cut off. However, Shi Yuzhu never correctly understood his mistakes and persisted in vain in the wrong direction - trying to build the Giant Building through financing and loans to save the original computers, In the three major industries of medicine and real estate, the harder they worked, the deeper they fell. In the end, they were completely wiped out and still owed a debt of 300 million yuan. Later, Shi Yuzhu faced up to his failure and started all over again. In just three years, he created a miracle of annual sales of 1 billion yuan of melatonin, far exceeding the glory of the past.
Edison was proud of his failure in his later years
The great inventor Edison made more than 1,000 changes in people's production and lifestyle in his life His invention was known as the "King of Inventions". But in his later years, due to his growing pride, he made big mistakes in the areas where he was most satisfied. He stubbornly opposed AC transmission and insisted on DC transmission, which resulted in a disastrous failure. The original company named after him had to be changed to "General Electric Company", and the Westinghouse Company that implemented AC transmission still exists today. It is true that "a hero grows late, and pride leads to his own mistakes."
The first fruit of cobalt exploration
Keep your carriage fully loaded
Li Na
The fields in autumn are endless as far as the eye can see. The breeze blows the golden rice fields, and the rice waves surge into the sky. When you are in the rice fields, it is not difficult to find that the fuller the ears of rice, the lower their heads hang, while those with few and shriveled grains always hold their heads high and proud.
Isn’t life like this? A knowledgeable person is always humble and low-key, while a short-sighted person is proud and arrogant.
Ji Xianlin, from his gentle smile, we can see his humility. He has learned both Chinese and Western knowledge, has a broad vision, and has profound attainments in many aspects. However, he is so ordinary that it is almost impossible to distinguish him from the people around him, and he is even regarded as a "boilermaker" by the students. He once resigned from the title of "Academic Master" and refused the reputation of "National Treasure". He is so low-key, so steady.
Einstein once said: "If a large circle represents the knowledge I have learned, then the blank space outside the circle means ignorance to me. (Topic composition) And the larger the circle, the longer the circumference, and the greater the contact surface with the outside world. "Yes, the emptyer the carriage, the louder the noise, and those "carriages" filled with knowledge always run in obscurity on the road to success. On the road. Therefore, on the road of life, you must keep your carriage fully loaded. Don't talk eloquently and talk as if there is no one around. That will only expose your ignorance.
There is a story about a young man who believed that he could speak a few words in English and showed off to everyone. When an ordinary old lady talked to him in English, he could only say "YES" and "NO". It turns out that shallowness cannot be concealed by superficial eloquence.
"Live until you are old, learn until you are old" "My life has a limit, but my knowledge has no limit." Only by realizing this can we discover our own shortcomings and constantly enrich ourselves. .
Act in a low-key manner and be humble. You should enrich your heart with rich knowledge and vanilla-like character, live out your own style in humility, and climb to the top of success in a low-key manner.
Comments
The opening chapter "sets the scene based on the text", using the "fullness" and "dryness" of the rice ears, cleverly Leading to the center of "Erudent people are always humble and low-key, while people with short knowledge are proud and conceited", the transition is natural. The article contains both detailed examples of Ji Xianlin's low-key behavior and brief examples of Einstein's humility. It is supported by typical examples and quotations from famous people. The arguments are substantial and the content is rich, which effectively illustrates the point of view.
The Fruit of Cobalt Exploration 2
It is impossible to be proud and complacent
Song Tiantian
As the saying goes: "There are people outside the world, and there is heaven outside the world." It is a good thing to perform well in a certain field or scope, but if you are complacent and complacent, then once If you meet an opponent stronger than yourself, you will definitely fail miserably.
Therefore, only when a person clearly understands himself can he transcend himself.
In his more than 20 years of football career, football king Pele has participated in 1,364 games, scored 1,282 goals, and created a player's best score in a single game. A record of 8 goals scored. His extraordinary skills not only fascinated thousands of spectators, but also made his opponents on the court applaud.
But he was not complacent. When his personal goal record reached 1,000, someone asked him: "Which ball do you think you play best?" He said meaningfully Say: "Next one.
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His answer may seem humorous, but it is actually full of wisdom: On the road to success, if you have achieved your short-term goals, you should not be complacent, but regard it as your next success. Only by having a zero mentality at all times can you climb new heights and achieve greater victory.
However, many people become complacent and complacent after they have achieved a little bit. There is nothing wrong with self-confidence if you don’t want to make progress and sit on your own "half bottle of water". However, if you let your impetuous mentality and pride spread along with your confidence, it will become a stumbling block on the way forward: your desire for knowledge will decrease and your motivation for learning will decrease. Once, when Confucius took his students to visit the temple of Duke Huan of Lu, he saw a vessel placed at an angle.
Confucius asked the temple guard: "What kind of vessel is this? ”
The temple guard told him: “This is a vessel, placed on the right side of the seat, like a ‘motto’ to warn oneself. "
Confucius said: "I heard that this kind of vessel will tilt when it is filled with no water or little water; Upright; if filled with too much water or full, it will fall over.
Confucius turned around and said to the students: "Pour water into it and try it!"
The students slowly Fill the vessel with water, and sure enough, when the water is moderate, the vessel is straight. After a while, when the water was full, it poured out and the water inside came out. After a while, the water ran out, and it was leaning there again as before.
At this time, Confucius sighed and said: "Alas! How can there be anything in the world that is too full to overturn!"
This story uses the phenomenon of a teapot overturning when filled with water to illustrate that pride and complacency will transform into its opposite - emptiness. It tells people to be modest and prudent. Anyone who is proud and complacent will fail. of.
Enlightenment
If you want to achieve greater achievements and master more skills, you must first imagine yourself as "empty" Cup", only by forgetting the glory of the past can we make room to accept new things.
Demonstration of masterpieces
Will you still be proud?
Liu Xiaoyan
The famous poet Lu Li once said: "Think of yourself as clay. If you always think of yourself as a pearl, you will always feel the pain of being buried."
Looking down on yourself is a positive outlook on life and the attitude that successful people should have.
If you are proud of your achievements and always look at life with an upward attitude, then you can only see the sky that can never be seen. On the contrary, if you often look at life with a downward attitude, you will see your own shortcomings, evaluate yourself correctly and objectively, and then you can face your shortcomings and make up for them.
Looking down on yourself does not mean cowardice, it is a humble attitude towards life. If you are arrogant and arrogant, your friends will naturally distance themselves from you. Only by seeing yourself correctly can you win the trust and respect of more people.
When Washington, the first president of the United States, went to visit a senior, he hit his head on the door frame when he entered and was very annoyed. The senior was very happy on the contrary, and said with a smile: "Today you have learned something more. Don't always raise your head as a person. You must learn to lower your head and face yourself, so as to reduce the chance of hitting a wall."
No person, or even a nation, can be proud at all. The Qing government was satisfied with its vast territory and abundant resources, and refused to accept Western culture. It closed itself off and eventually declined and was invaded by Western powers.
From this point of view, proud people will only be overtaken by others if they stand still and stop moving forward. Only those who underestimate themselves can face their shortcomings, be proactive, and ultimately succeed.
Pride is poison, it will only make people weak and fall on the way forward; pride is an abyss, it will make people fall into the abyss accidentally and be unable to climb up; pride is turbulent The waves will capsize the arrogant ship.
Comments
The article begins with Lu Li’s words to hint at the argument, and then starts with "looking down on yourself is also a positive outlook on life" and " "Looking down on oneself does not mean cowardice" was discussed from two perspectives. The examples are typical and the language is concise, which effectively illustrates the point of view. The neat parallelism at the end not only makes the reasoning vivid and vivid, but also makes the article more powerful. The use of famous quotes with profound meanings is also just right, adding a lot of color to the article.