It means: You cannot blindly listen to orders from superiors without flexibility, and you cannot blindly believe in book dogma. You must proceed from reality and study and deal with problems realistically.

From Chen Yun’s famous saying: Don’t only focus on the superior, not only on books, only on reality, exchange, compare and repeat. This was a banner Chen Yun had prepared in advance and sent to Li Zemin, Secretary of the Zhejiang Provincial Party Committee, when he was talking to the leaders of the Party, Government and Military of Zhejiang Province on January 24, 1990. The fifteen-word motto was written on the banner.

Merely means following orders, accepting a dead principle and not thinking about flexibility. Chen Yun believes that you must be flexible when doing things, do not adhere to dogma and superior instructions, have your own ideas, and solve problems based on the actual situation. At the same time, you must listen to opinions with an open mind and find your own shortcomings through repeated comparisons.

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For these fifteen words, Chen Yun gave a vivid explanation with an analogy:

For example, look at this tea cup, you see There are flowers here and there are no flowers. He sees flowers there and no flowers. Each of them sees one side, which is one-sided. If we exchange opinions with each other, then we will get a comprehensive and realistic view of the tea cup. learn.

We have made many mistakes in the past. The most important reason is that we have a one-sided view of the problem and regard the one-sided reality as the comprehensive reality.

As a leading cadre, always pay attention to exchanging opinions with others, especially listening to negative opinions. There are only advantages and no disadvantages. To compare is to compare up and down, left and right.

During the Anti-Japanese War, Chairman Mao used this method in "On Protracted War". He made a comparative study of several basic characteristics such as the contradictory strengths and weaknesses, progress and regression, and more support and less help between the enemy and ourselves, and refuted the theory of national subjugation that "resistance will lead to destruction" and the rapid development of Taierzhuang after the victory of the First World War. Victory theory.

Chairman Mao said that both the theory of national subjugation and the theory of quick victory are subjective and one-sided ways of looking at problems, and the Anti-Japanese War can only be a protracted war. The development of history proves that this conclusion is completely correct.