Confucius said: "Recite 300 Poems and teach them to be political, not to achieve;" Make it everywhere, not just right; Although a lot, what do you think? "

This chapter is the Analects of Confucius: Luz.

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13.5 Confucius said: "recite the poem three hundred times and give it political power, not two; Make it all-round, not all-round; Although there are many, is it also xi Thought ⑤? "

To annotate ...

1 Grant: Here you are.

2 can't reach: I can't do it well.

3 Ambassador: Ambassador.

4 can not be specific: can not improvise, independent processing. Ancient envoys had to improvise and handle foreign affairs independently when encountering problems.

⑤ Use: Use.

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Confucius said, "I read 300 pieces of the Book of Songs and gave them to him to handle government affairs, but he didn't understand them;" Sending him to other countries can't handle diplomacy independently. What's the use of reading more? "

interpret

Only by applying what you have learned can you be truly talented.

In this chapter, Confucius put forward the view that people should gain political power on the basis of hard work and practice. If it can't be completed, let it "make it in all directions" to exercise and let knowledge be tested by practice; If there is no obvious promotion, then he is really a dead scholar. For this kind of person, Kong gave a merciless denial, "although there are many, I also think". In today's words, how many books do you read and what's the use?

On the surface, Confucius is criticizing nerds who can only read dead books, but his deeper meaning is to tell us that how to learn is the most effective and useful, that is, to apply what we have learned to practice, so that knowledge can guide practice and practice can test knowledge. Only in this way can we be considered as people who can learn.

It is certainly a good thing to study well and be knowledgeable. However, book knowledge is always a "dwarf in action" without practical operation and practice test, and it is impossible to do things well.

Not only an individual, but also an enterprise and an organization. A few years ago, there was a famous case in the business world, that is, McKinsey transformed into Wangfujing Department Store. In order to compete with Carrefour, Wal-Mart and other global heavyweight rivals, Beijing Wangfujing Department Store asked McKinsey, a famous American consulting company, to help it design a "department store chain management plan" at a cost of 5 million yuan. McKinsey demonstrated the feasibility of "department store chain" through "complex data and models", and a few months later, McKinsey's plan was introduced. At the same time, McKinsey suggested that Wangfujing Department Store introduce "international advanced management experience and system" to attract foreign managers to work in Wangfujing, and together with Andersen, introduce American JDA software system into Wangfujing. McKinsey used the experience of American market to do all this, completely ignoring the objective reality of China market at that time. In the 1990s, China's retail industry was still very backward, which was far behind foreign countries in concept, technology, logistics, capital monitoring, cost control and management level. Mckinsey didn't pay attention to the "weakness" of China enterprises, copied the experience of the United States, ended in failure, and Wangfujing Department Store also lost a good development opportunity.

Whether you are a leader or just an ordinary person, you can't do without learning, and in the process of learning, you should always remind yourself whether the knowledge you have learned has really been applied. Only in this way can we avoid the tragedies listed above and become real talents who have applied what they have learned!