Man is a product of nature. Complying with the nature given by nature and striving for the top is the driving force for all upward progress. There is no need for any great principles. The power of nature is better than all man-made rules.

We must avoid becoming people who walk as fast as they can and go astray. When you find that you need to re-establish your life goals, you must be brave and decisive and pursue them boldly. It’s not too late to fix the problem before it is too late. If we remain stubborn, we may get further and further away from the goal we pursue.

To be aware of current affairs means to be able to recognize the objective situation or the trend of the times, to be able to change with the changes of the objective situation or the trend of the times, to adapt to the current conditions, and to move with the trend. Throughout ancient and modern times, at home and abroad, only those who understand current affairs can become heroes of the times. On the other hand, if we do not understand current affairs, ignore the changes and limitations of objective conditions, go against the odds, and act blindly, the result will only be to hit the stone with an egg, be crushed by the wheel of the times or be left behind, and ultimately achieve nothing.

There is an Arabic proverb that goes like this: A person who is lame but does not get lost is better than a person who walks quickly but goes astray. It means that as long as they don't go astray and choose the right direction, all kinds of people have a chance of success. Otherwise, you may get further and further away from the goals you are pursuing.

In a certain sense, the wise and the benevolent are those who adapt to circumstances and use them to eliminate troubles and help things. However, wise and benevolent people are not born. When we are faced with major changes and are at a loss, it is particularly important to learn how to adapt and master how to adapt.

There is such a story in the ancient Greek fable:

A donkey heard the cicada singing and thought its voice was very pleasant, so he became enthusiastic and wanted to learn how to sing from the cicada. . Under the donkey's pleading, the cicada agreed, but there was one condition, which was to ask the donkey to satisfy its hunger with dew every day like it did. The donkey did as the cicada said, but was so hungry that he fell to the ground and could not get up again.

We have already heard many words such as "Genius lies in persistence", "Persistence is victory", "Success belongs to those who persevere". Admittedly, these are indeed wise words, but these words can easily cause misunderstandings to some simple-minded people, making them think that obsession and persistence are enough. In fact, this idea is one-sided, just like the donkey who insisted on filling his hunger with dew.

The story about the donkey in ancient Greece tells us: Self-design that exceeds one's own objective conditions is blind and ridiculous, and is a trap on the road to self-development. If we want to achieve something, we must realize that due to the limitations of innate conditions, we have our own characteristics in terms of physiology, psychology, personality and interests. You must develop your own interests and career according to your own conditions. If you ignore your own characteristics and rely solely on whims of self-design, you will end up like the donkey in ancient Greece. But if we can timely self-reflect when we go astray, sum up experiences and lessons, and design the direction of our life development according to our own conditions, we will be able to achieve the results we expect.

All wise people are those who are far-sighted, grasp the dynamics of things, make timely countermeasures at any time, and control adverse factors before they happen.

When Goethe was young, he determined to become a world-famous painter. For this reason, he has been addicted to the ever-changing world of colors and cannot extricate himself. He has worked hard for ten years, but the results have been little. When he was 40 years old, Goethe traveled to Italy and saw the real masterpieces of plastic arts. He suddenly realized that he felt that it would be difficult for him to achieve success in painting. Finally, he made a painful decision: to give up painting and turn to literature. After long-term unremitting efforts and exploration, Goethe finally became a great poet. In his later years, when he looked back on his growth process, he once used his own experience to warn those hot-headed young people: Don't blindly believe in interests.

As the saying goes, those who understand current affairs are heroes, and those who adapt to changing circumstances are heroes. There is more than one road to success. "If you move the tree, you will die, but if you move the person, you will live." So why hang yourself on a tree? Grasp the key to success. If the east is not bright, the west will be bright.

Sometimes, things are not as you imagined. On the surface, it seems very simple to be a good person and do things. Who wouldn’t? In fact, this is not the case. For example, your subjective desire is to be a good teacher, but in fact you are not popular among students; you go into business, but you lose money. Put aside these surface phenomena and explore the crux of the problem, and you will find that being a human being and doing things is indeed a difficult knowledge to master.

Throughout the past and present, many people have a certain degree of blindness in their early self-design: Marx once wanted to be a poet, Andersen wanted to be an actor, and Gauss once wanted to be a writer, but later they all gave up on their original intentions. , looking for new development directions and achieving great achievements in new fields. The reason is that they can adjust the direction of their struggle in time, which is what makes them smarter than ordinary people.

So how to identify blind self-design? It is very painful to give up the pursuit, and giving up halfway always makes people feel regretful. But when you pay a huge price and get nothing, don’t you think you should re-understand the value of your pursuit? At this time, value judgment is very useful. When you find that you have paid a high price but what you have done is of no value, you should feel the problem. Goethe realized that more than ten years of labor was worthless before he concluded that there was a mistake in his self-design. Of course, this requires a long process, even a painful and arduous exploration process. Goethe lamented: "It took me almost half my life to discover how difficult it is for myself." This requires a lot of sobriety. Only through joy and suffering can he learn what to pursue and what to avoid.

Applied to real life, that is, if you don’t like your current job, find another job as soon as possible. It will be difficult to achieve anything if you are immersed in a job you hate. In contrast, people who love their work don’t need to make any effort to concentrate at all.