Forget the past and open up the future

A philosopher once said: "Success and failure only represent the past. Only by forgetting the past can we enter a new world." I deeply understand this. Agree.

I still remember that when I first started learning chess, I often lost to my opponents in games, but I was not discouraged and said to myself: "It doesn't matter if I lose this time. I just need to learn from the lessons of failure and work hard in the future." That’ll be fine.” Use this to encourage yourself to forget the pain of failure and face the next challenge with an optimistic attitude. Because of this, I achieved success again and again in subsequent competitions.

In fact, throughout history, many great men have experienced many failures. It is precisely because they put all these failures behind that they can get back on their feet and succeed. The great musician Beethoven was deaf in both ears. When he realized that his deafness could no longer be cured, he wrote the touching "Heiligenstadt Testament" and planned to commit suicide. Just imagine, if he really failed to recover, how could he create such a stunning work as "Symphony of Destiny"? Everyone should be familiar with Edison, right? In his later years, this great inventor suffered a fire that destroyed his life's work - his laboratory. And when his eldest son frantically searched for his father in the fire, he found him sitting on a chair watching the fire scene, with the raging fire reflecting his pale hair. But when he saw his eldest son, he shouted: "Hey, Charles, find your mother quickly, she will never see such a scene in her life." When the old Edison's life's efforts were burned down , instead of being discouraged and complaining, he forgot the past, regrouped, and launched his phonograph only a week later. If he is always addicted to the past, deeply troubled by "loss" and does not look forward, how can he invent more than a thousand things and become a well-deserved king of inventions?

Whether it is the successful experience of great people or our personal experience, we all tell everyone a truth: failure is inevitable, but everything will eventually pass. As long as you forget the past and make unremitting efforts, success will wave to you. .

It is inevitable to be depressed when you fail, and you are naturally happy when you succeed, but what happens after you are happy? Practice has proved that any success will inevitably become a thing of the past. If a person is always addicted to the success of the past and is complacent and self-righteous about it, failure will often be waiting for him. Do you know the idiom story "Jiang Yan's talent is exhausted"? Jiang Yan was a famous talented scholar in the Southern and Northern Dynasties. When he was young, he was known as the "talented scholar Jiang Lang" because of his wonderful articles and poems. When Jiang Yan was overwhelmed by the praises around him, he was intoxicated and lost himself. He no longer studied hard in the cold window, no longer heard the chickens dancing, and indulged in the sounds and colors. As a result, he could no longer write beautiful articles. All that is left are empty words and exhausted ideas.

Therefore, in the face of success, what we need is to "make further progress", what we need is to "keep moving forward courageously", but what we need even more is to forget the success of the past, Only in this way can we break out a new path and create a new world. I once heard of such an example: a Chinese-American named Elaine Chao became the first Chinese to serve in the U.S. cabinet in January 2001. She once served as vice president of the U.S. Central Bank, so she was very successful, right? However, she resolutely gave up her vocational job, took the civil service examination, started from the grassroots level, kept making progress, and finally succeeded in ascending to the position of Minister of Labor. It can be seen that learning to give up and start from scratch is the prerequisite for achieving new achievements in her career.

Today, I have gone through 12 spring and autumn years. Whether from my personal experience or from historical celebrities, I have deeply realized that in a person's life, he will experience many things. Many things have successes and failures, but regardless of success or failure, it will become a thing of the past. Only by forgetting the past and starting from scratch can we open up the future and create a new world.