If you want to walk, you must bend and stretch your legs to move forward. You must bend down to reach for something. To eat, you have to bend over and put your hand in your mouth. Labor work is accomplished through the combination of countless flexion and extension movements. This is the relationship between survival and flexion and extension.
Fishing by the stream in Legend of Deification met King Wen, which laid the foundation of the Zhou Dynasty for 800 years. Zhuge Liang lived in Longzhong, and later helped Liu Bei establish Shu; Han Xin endured humiliation and became a famous star in Xinghan; Sima Qian accepted the punishment of corruption and finally completed the spread of Historical Records through the ages ... These are successful examples of celebrities' "bending" and "stretching" in history.
Tao Yuanming refused to resign because he was bent over five buckets of rice. Although he left many poems for later generations, his talent of governing the country and reassuring the people lost the opportunity to display it. Zheng Banqiao is also an honest official. He adopts forbearance strategy, outsmarts corrupt officials and does many good things for the people. This is the reflection left by "flexion" and "extension" to future generations.
In life, it is generally believed that flexion and extension represent advance and retreat, "flexion" represents frustration, and "extension" represents complacency, which is only superficial understanding. In fact, the "flexion" and "extension" in life are far from simple. "Once"? Ban Gu said, "Flexion and extension are impermanent, but they vary from time to time." In other words, "flexion" and "extension" in life should conform to the changes of the times and environment, and should not be confused blindly. You need to be flexible. That's what men do.
For example, high flyers of two famous universities went to work in a special economic zone in the south. A is arranged to do statistics and process reports every day, and the knowledge learned is useless. Feeling too wronged, I jumped to another unit. As a result, he jumped more than a dozen times and was not reused ten years later. B was also a statistician when he joined the company. He worked with peace of mind and became the deputy general manager of this company ten years later. Similarly, high above the flying man, gave up "bending" and "stretching", and achieved nothing. And b means "bend" and "stretch", and it worked. It should be noted that ambitious people can be seen everywhere nowadays. If the employer doesn't "bend" to test your ability and moral character first, how can it dare to reuse you and let you "stretch" from the beginning? Therefore, as a gentleman, you need to be flexible first.
Everyone must open themselves up and integrate into the cultural life of the enterprise. For the survival and development of enterprises, we must have a mind that can go up and down. Only those who can bend and stretch can achieve great things.
Life is complicated, so are "flexion" and "extension". If you are criticized by the leader at work, you may wish to "bend down" first, calm down to find out the gaps and deficiencies, correct them in time, and then try to "stretch". Never blindly impulse, contradict the leader or resign in a hurry, so as not to make a big mistake. In case of conflict with friends and colleagues, you might as well "bow your head" and make concessions first, and then make up after the conflict is resolved. Lin Xiangru's "bow" to Lian Po is a good example.
According to legend, Lian Po, the general of Zhao, always looked down on Lin Xiangru, the retainer, and often humiliated Lin Xiangru in different ways, but Lin Xiangru was modest and forbearing from the overall situation. Later, when Lian Po learned the reason why Lin Xiangru forbeared, he was moved and ashamed, and admired Lin Xiangru's noble personality. Historical records? Biography of Lian Po and Biography of Lin Xiangru have wonderful descriptions of the ending of the story: "Lian Po was humbled when he heard about it. Because the guest came to Lin Xiangru's door to apologize, he said,' I didn't know the general was so generous!' "A pawn is happy, and a pawn is a friend. The story of "offering a humble apology", also known as "making peace", has been passed down as a beautiful talk so far.
"A gentleman can bend and stretch." I hope everyone can be kind to the setbacks and stretches in life and reach the other side of success smoothly.