"Aim high" comes from Zhuge Liang's Disciples Rules. The original text is as follows:

The husband should aim high, worship sages, abandon lust and stagnate, so that the ambition of ordinary people can be revealed and felt; Endure flexion and extension, remove details, ask questions extensively, except being too stingy. Although I have stayed for a long time, why bother to harm the beauty, why bother to suffer it?

A person should have lofty and lofty aspirations, admire the sages, abstain from lust and give up solidification, so that the sages' aspirations can be obviously preserved in themselves and deeply shocked in their hearts; We should be flexible, abandon triviality, consult people extensively, get rid of suspicion and meanness, so that even if we stay because of setbacks, it will not harm our good interests. Why worry about not achieving our goals?

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Su Qin, a native of Luoyang, learned the strategy of uniting the horizontal, persuaded the king of Qin, and wrote a dozen proposals, all of which were useless. Finally, all his money was used up, and he went home in pain. So that "the wife can't get married, the nephew can't cook, and the parents don't talk." Su Qin sighed: "My wife doesn't take me as a husband, my sister-in-law doesn't take me as an uncle, and my parents don't take me as a son. It's really the sin of the Qin Dynasty!" I can't leave the room, but I can read the whole book. When Su Qin studied Taigong's Yin Fu hard, whenever he was sleepy, he stabbed him with a cone.

This is the origin of the idiom "stabbing stocks". Su Qin's most brilliant time was to persuade the six monarchs to unite, which was a wonderful rhetoric. Later, Qi, Chu, Yan, Zhao, Wei and South Korea joined forces to fight against Qin, and then took the seal of the six countries and became the phase of the six countries.

In the Ming Dynasty, Li Shizhen abandoned his father's desire to read eight-part essay in the imperial examination and devoted himself to the medical book Shennong Materia Medica. He found that many Chinese medicine practitioners did not record it in detail and decided to write a detailed medical book seriously. He studied every Chinese medicine in the book very carefully, and finally finished his masterpiece Compendium of Materia Medica more than 30 years later.