There are two things in the world that will never change. One is the time that everyone has, and the other is the faith hidden deep in people's hearts.

Some people may laugh it off, thinking that it is a very "empty" thing, and that only people at the level of great men can have faith.

In fact, it is not the case. Belief does not have to be specific to a person or a religion. In fact, a reasonable word and profound words can also form beliefs. So can the things you love and the dreams you strive for. Belief.

Faith is a beacon, guiding you on the way home when you are confused; faith is a breeze, giving you inner joy when you feel helpless in life; faith is a fine wine, giving you another direction when you are proud of life. A kind of pleasure.

In short, faith is an indispensable spiritual force for people, and a successful person will have his own faith.

For example, Cao Dewang, the king of glass in my country, also has his own beliefs. He admires Zeng Guopan very much, and he also wrote about the twelve poems he wrote about "respecting laziness, righteousness, and lust, knowing that the male should guard the female" Words are regarded as the rules of life. It has been hanging in his office for fifty years now, and he admires the truth contained in this word very much. He believes that he understands the truth and makes his life smooth.

Zeng Guofan, a famous official of a generation

Some people say that Zeng Guofan is the master of Chinese traditional culture. If Confucius is the founder and Zhu Xi is the promoter, then Zeng Guofan is the pinnacle.

Zeng Guofan was born in an ordinary farming and studying family in 1811. Compared with other companions who did farm work at home, he was very smart since he was a child, so his family sent him to a private school to study and understand. It was also here. This laid the foundation for his later career in politics.

At the age of 28, he passed the Jinshi examination and became the military minister Mu Zhang Amensheng. Because he was humble and courteous, and had a prosperous official career, he successively served as a cabinet scholar, etiquette, military, engineering, punishment, and official minister, which provided great strength for the rule of the Qing government.

Later, the Taiping Rebellion broke out in the Qing Dynasty. As the main suppressive official, Zeng Guofan personally formed the Hunan Army, which turned the tide of the Qing government's political rule and delayed the Qing government's demise.

Later, some people believed that Zeng Guofan was not worthy of being one of the four famous officials of the late Qing Dynasty because of this incident. However, the author believes that from Zeng Guofan's standpoint, his movement to annihilate the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom was right both emotionally and rationally.

Zeng Guofan advocated industry to save the country at that time. He founded China’s first ship, the first military engineering school, printed the first batch of Western books, and arranged the first batch of students studying in the United States. It can be said that he was the leader of our country. A pioneer in modern Chinese history. However, in addition to his own efforts to modernize the country, some of Zeng Guofan's own thoughts are worth learning from future generations.

For example, everything he advocates must be diligent and frugal, and he must be humble and courteous in everything he does and not be arrogant and complacent. For example, his respect for justice over desire, knowing the male and guarding the female, are worth pondering.

The Twelve-Character Proverb

This sentence by Zeng Guofan comes from the "Tao Te Ching". The original text is to know the male and guard the female, and it will be the stream of the world. Zeng Guofan's words were when he visited Zuo Zongtang. Because he admired Zuo Zongtang's calligraphy, he asked him to write a couplet for him. It was also his life motto that inspired him.

The meaning of these two sentences is that everyone has slack time, and it is impossible to be mentally tense all the time. When such slackness occurs, people should use their usual diligent and diligent approach To overcome your laziness. When facing your own selfish desires that are greater than what the external environment can provide, you must use benevolence and righteousness to overcome it.

Knowing the male and guarding the female in the next six words means knowing that everything has its two sides, and only the harmony of yin and yang is the most perfect state. Don't ignore one side of things just because you know the other side. In fact, now that I think about it, it is quite dialectical materialism.

Zeng Guofan’s twelve-character motto was not only very effective for him, but also benefited the glass king Cao Dewang a lot.

Charity King Cao Dewang

Cao Dewang is a famous entrepreneur and philanthropist in my country. He is called the Glass King, but the author prefers to call him the Charity King. This rich man who has donated a total of 12 billion in property has achieved such achievements precisely because he understood the truth of Zeng Guofan's twelve-character motto.

From the time he was born in poverty to the time he dropped out of school at an early age, Cao Dewang's childhood was full of bitterness and hardship. It wasn't until he started a small business with his father that he started to make some progress. It was also during this time that he heard Zeng Guofan's words and understood the truth behind them.

When he started to contract the glass factory that was about to close down, many relatives and friends were actually very unfavorable about it. Everyone tried to persuade him not to invest in this project to avoid wasting his money later. situation. However, Cao Dewang saw the huge business opportunities behind the glass, and successfully earned his first pot of gold from this time, and started the title of Glass King later.

Later, the glass industry gradually prospered. Facing more and more competitors and less and less profits, Cao Dewang did not forget his original intention, insisted on his own heart, and invested money in glass production and research and development. In terms of technology, it can improve its reputation among the people and achieve small profits but quick turnover. It is obvious that Cao Dewang has also done it. He always kept the principles of the Twelve-Word Proverb in mind and strictly followed the above requirements in everything he did, and finally achieved what he has achieved today.

No wonder when he was interviewed, faced with the words that had been hanging in his office for 50 years, he expressed the view that it was these words that made him go smoothly.

Summary:

Faith is very beneficial to everyone. If a person does not have his own faith, then he is really no different from a "salted fish".

Just like Cao Dewang believes, a correct belief can guide lost passers-by back to the right path, and can also guide confused people who are about to make choices to make correct decisions.

For everyone who has a dream, faith is a catalyst that accelerates the success of the dream. With faith, there is a giant ship to protect success, and you are not afraid of wind and rain or difficulties.

In fact, many modern successful entrepreneurs have their own beliefs. We may only see their bright side now, but not the moment when they faced difficulties and strengthened their beliefs.

In fact, not only entrepreneurs, but also workers, individual industrial and commercial households, people's police, nurses, etc., people of different types of work in society have their own beliefs. For example, for workers, their belief may be to make their families’ lives more prosperous; for individual industrial and commercial households, their belief may be to gain more wealth through their own efforts; for the people’s police, their belief may be to fight on the front line of protecting the home and country for the sake of people’s safety; nurses Our belief is to work hard for the health of the people.

These people must have encountered various difficulties when fighting for their beliefs, but they overcame them one by one because they strengthened their beliefs. Therefore, after understanding the role of faith, I hope that everyone can find a faith of their own and fight for it.