Time: 2006-1210:14:14 Source: Hebei Daily.

Zhu Xiping of Sun Yat-sen University became the focus of attention because he solved Poincare conjecture. In the face of public praise, Zhu Xiping told reporters that I have regarded failure as the norm and success as an accident. This sentence is thought-provoking.

It is human instinct and nature to pursue happiness and avoid pain. There is a sharp contrast between the joy after success and the bitterness after failure. No wonder people are eager for success and don't want to fail. People give praise, flowers and applause to the winners, pay attention to and envy their bright smiles and dazzling light, but often ignore the hardships and bumps along the way.

The free and open market economy has opened the door for people to pursue success. Twenty years ago, even 10 years ago, people dared not even think about it. There are many ways to succeed now, and the chances of success are great. People's desire for success is ignited, and with the help of some media, some people find success as simple as that. At the same time, people's hearts began to be restless. Market economy is like a spring breeze wrinkling a pool of spring water, causing ripples, and like a torrent injected into a calm water surface, swirling and splashing.

In this impetuous age as long as opportunity, people have forgotten the famous saying that "failure is the mother of success". Therefore, when we are surprised to hear a lonely scholar say such a thing, we are even more grateful.

Taking failure as the norm has two meanings. The first layer means that failure is a normal state. If you can succeed casually, the winner will not be so interesting and enviable. Indeed, even if there are too many flowers and applause, even if there are too many opportunities, you can't hide the chance of success. Throughout the ages, looking around, whether it is a macro view of the group or a micro view of the individual, success is a minority.

The second meaning of taking failure as the normal state is to correctly understand success or failure. Because failure is the norm, taking failure as the norm and taking failure as a normal thing will avoid impetuousness and complaints. Since failure is the norm, well, if you fail, start over. I often see those dream catchers who, in the face of failure, shake their heads, start all over again with a roar, and then embark on the road of chasing dreams. What everyone sees is their handsome and heroic appearance, which actually reflects their grasp of the essence of objective things.

Analyzing every successful person and successful case, we will find that the contradiction between success and failure always goes hand in hand. In a sense, failure is a part of success, and any kind of success must include failure.

Taking failure as the normal state is not to comfort ourselves, not to escape the hardships on the road to success, but to enable us to look at success and failure more rationally.

It is true that a mature and civilized society should open up more channels for individual success and provide multi-dimensional rather than single success criteria. Only in this way can social individuals do their best, do their best and get their place, and the society can be more harmonious. If the standard of success is single and the ways of success are few, it will inevitably lead to the waste of social intellectual resources and a large number of extreme behaviors, and even become the source of social instability.

As a dialectical materialist, on the one hand, we should emphasize the importance of the environment, on the other hand, we should emphasize people's subjective initiative and self-transcendence. When the surrounding environment is not satisfactory, only by constantly adjusting ourselves and adjusting our mentality can we realize ourselves and enjoy ourselves in self-transcendence. Take failure as the norm and success as an accident, so as not to lose yourself in the face of success or failure. No matter when, where and under what circumstances, we can keep a normal mind, be calm and pragmatic, and do everything we should do well. Success is almost failure.