2 Lide, make contributions, and make a statement.
As an important event in life, keeping a diary should be written in a letter. The role of a diary is to grasp the details and change yourself through every detail. Reflect on your behavior one by one, and even reflect on every thought in your mind. Take out these diaries every once in a while and show them to my friends for their comments. This is bound to be stimulated and forced. Everyone's willpower is limited, and there are blind spots in their own supervision, so it is not easy to be thorough. But people have self-esteem, so it is often the most effective to supervise themselves through friends and teachers. Just like a bamboo with bad genes, it may grow crooked with its own growth, but if it is planted in a bamboo forest, it will be straight with them for the sake of sunshine.
A person's life is like a fruit ripening process. You can't be anxious or slack. People's efforts, God's cultivation, will make a tree grow taller quietly, and also make a person mature slowly: don't forget not to help, and watch the flat land grow taller in thousands of feet.
Twelve rules and courses: get up early, sit quietly, study hard, talk seriously, five guarantees, talk about one thing after tea in each diary, write several articles and poems every month, have a fixed task, practice calligraphy eight times, and Kuya doesn't go out.
6 Zeng Guofan's style of doing things is: never play tricks, be down-to-earth, do not engage in any crooked ways, and do not take shortcuts.
A brave man had his teeth knocked out by others. Don't spit it out for others to see, but swallow it into your stomach to continue fighting.
Zeng Guofan has outstanding experimental spirit and open attitude. He is always willing to experience everything personally, be brave in trying, be diligent in trying, pay attention to his body, mind, mouth and eyes, and especially emphasize modesty and observe things.
The reasons why Xiang won are: strict discipline, hard work, courage and fearlessness, and western weapons. The important principle of using troops is to win the first battle with the enemy first.
10 Many times, you don't need any super genius ideas to do things. You just need to sum up what mistakes others have made, and then you may succeed. .
1 1 Zeng Guofan's characteristics of doing things, although he does not like big achievements, small things must be checked. Failure is a valuable asset in a person's life. Every failure should be thoroughly understood so as not to pay the price in vain.
12 Zeng Guofan realized that people who act too rigidly seem to be strong on the surface, but in fact they are weak. The real strong people in this land, the men who seem weak and resigned, and the hypocrisy, numbness, tactfulness and deception he despised before are all necessary means to survive in this land. Only when necessary, smooth and soft, can we successfully pass the difficult barrier, and only when all rivers run into the sea can we mobilize all forces to reach the other side of victory.
13 do things calmly, think more about other people's psychology, and think from other people's perspective; Praise others more, praise the advantages of others; Do things from beginning to end, the more careful you are; Treat people and things longer and with more respect.
1 Xiang army: organizational principle, personnel principle and operational principle.
There is nothing special about Zeng Guofan's life's work, except doing it solidly and resolutely.
By luring the enemy deeper, the weak army can attack the enemy from behind and win the strong enemy. When two people fight, the Lord is waiting for the other side to attack, and the guest is taking the initiative to attack. Therefore, the war must be the Lord, not the guest, and we must be good at changing the guest.
At all times and all over the world, soldiers with great talent and overall situation can always grasp the problem from a strategic height, see the key points through temporary chaos, see the essence through the interweaving of interests, and firmly grasp the relationship between long-term and immediate, overall and local.
There is a basic principle in strategy, that is, to create people, not people, is to force each other to act according to their own strategic arrangements, and to force each other to act according to our steps, not according to each other's strategic arrangements. To put it bluntly, it is to take the initiative of strategy in your own hands.
He Guiqing and Zeng Guofan are two kinds of people. He Guiqing is a famous agile talent. He can talk about it. He is a good-looking man, and he is especially good at making relationships with all parties. He is regarded as a talented person. Zeng Guofan was ugly, inarticulate and clumsy. Who will Emperor Xianfeng believe? But it turns out that before the chaos in the world, it is useless to build a clear path, sneak in and take advantage of it. What really works is Zeng Guofan's clumsiness, solidity and starting from the roots.
Zeng Guofan experienced many setbacks, long-term turmoil and self-restraint when he reached middle age. Often when things start, he has seen the end.
In ancient times, great wars and great undertakings only accounted for 3/ 10, and providence lived forever for 7/ 10.
9 Zeng Guofan's interpersonal communication is much more successful than that of Left. Zeng Guofan has made friends all his life, and his intimate friends are quite outstanding figures. After he was suitable, Zeng Guofan never spoke ill of Zuo Jia in public, nor did he talk about the pros and cons with Zuo Jia in private. It's really that rivers and lakes forget each other. After Zuo and Zeng Guofan fell out, every time they talked about it, they would curse Zeng Guofan. In the face of the constant attack of the Left, Zeng Guofan took the following countermeasures. First of all, he asked his relatives, friends and family not to fight back against the Left, so as not to add fuel to the fire. On the contrary, he encouraged them to get on well with the Left as much as possible. Second, ignoring the left's attack and not giving an answer, that is, not scolding or listening, the result is also "invincible", but it saves trouble and effort.
10 Zeng Guofan likes to listen to good things and can also listen to bad things. Things can be decisive and domineering, but they are all rational. How to deal with people, from the big picture to the small details, is worth learning. On the surface, it looks generous, but in fact, it is extremely meticulous and sounds irrelevant on the surface. In fact, it is extremely meticulous in handling affairs. He once said that he only knew my depth and didn't understand my shallowness. He also said that the reason why the ancients couldn't do things was because they could only lift weights as easily as possible. Why can they quietly change world events? This is just a piece of cake.
1 1 Honest officials can only be public enemies in officialdom, and they can't get the cooperation of others. Harry's cleanliness, like water, will inevitably reflect the impurity of others. So Harry was ostracized by officialdom all his life, unable to mobilize all possible forces to achieve some major events that really benefit the national economy and people's livelihood. Zeng Guofan doesn't want to be an honest official of Harry style. He worked hard and tried his best to achieve the goal of being a foreign king. Zeng Guofan's own experience shows that maverick people are bound to be rejected by the public. Zeng Guofan intentionally took Harry, spotless, but tried to avoid the name of water. His choice is far more complicated and heavy than being an honest official, so he has great power and can achieve great things.
12 Zeng Guofan likes to think deeply and seek to solve problems fundamentally. Learn from foreigners and control them. Knowing yourself will be in an invincible position, and we must actively learn from foreign companies.
13 Zeng Guofan put forward the idea of being ahead of the times, saying that in foreign exchanges, he does not seek face, but seeks the lining, not trivial matters, but big things. People who do great things must see at least three steps.
14 Zeng Guofan's talent practice, the first step is to seek talents, the second step is to observe, and the third step is to cultivate. His educational methods are: one is to take regular exams, and the other is to have heart-to-heart talks.
15 Be a man if you want to be a man.
16 how to deal with contradictions shows that everyone's personality is different. Li Hongzhang had close cooperation with his teacher Zeng Guofan and had many conflicts in his life, but brilliantly, he never fought with Zeng Guofan and knew how to advance and retreat.
17 Zeng Guofan is a man who is good at summing up experience. He fought with his head instead of blood.
18 Zeng Guofan was never a man who escaped difficulties.
19 Zeng Guofan's will focuses on the expectations of future generations. He explained to his sons the most important experience in dealing with people in his life, that is, being a man must be done, not extravagant.
Zeng Guofan is a reflective person, and the strength of his life lies in the word "regret".
2 1 made great contributions, and Zeng Guofan did it. As far as meritorious service is concerned, he started as a scholar, built an army and led wolves, saved the completely destroyed traditional culture of China, and extended the life span of the Qing Dynasty for another 60 years. His contribution is not small. As far as Lide is concerned, he always demands himself by the standards of sages, and his moral cultivation is almost pure. Fifty years later, China's two leaders, Chiang Kai-shek and Mao Zedong, regarded him as their idol. Speaking of Li Yan, as the last great scholar in China, he practiced Neo-Confucianism, became a scholar and made great achievements, leaving a million-word complete works.
The cognitive tradition of seeking truth from facts, seeking truth from facts and self-reflection enables him to learn wisdom and experience from his predecessors, others and himself, and has great margin for dealing with complex things.
Don't talk big, don't be hollow, don't do things that are overhead, and don't talk too high.