Zeng Guofan took practicing calligraphy as an example and explained to his son, "In the future, I will learn 100 Chinese characters every day, one day with original paper and two days with oiled paper." You copy Liu Gongquan from now on, one day, two days. How many copies do you practice every day? One hundred a day.
Moreover, he told his son that "it is better to write on the copybook", which is slower. When you write "Copying copybooks is suitable for getting sick", you should hurry up. "After a few months, the more clumsy the hand, the uglier the handwriting, and the lower the interest, the so-called sleepy." Practice 100 times a day. After several months, my hands became more and more clumsy, my handwriting became more and more ugly, and my interest became lower and lower. At this time, you will face the bottleneck of difficulties and have a low tide.
At this time, Zeng Guofan continued to say to his son: "Don't stop when you are sleepy. After this level, you can make less progress. " Don't give up at this time, don't stop because of it, continue to face it, continue to copy it, and after this stage, you can improve your skills.
This is very important. When we learn a skill, we will quickly master some basic skills at the beginning. The understanding and mastery of skills will quickly increase to 60%, but if you continue to study, you will find that the speed of progress is obviously slow down, and even you will not feel progress and promotion. Many people "quit" or give up, naturally they will not be applied in their work and life, and their understanding of skills is getting less and less.
Zeng Guofan said: "Don't stop when you are sleepy. After this level, you can make less progress. " Later, "if you get into trouble again, you will get up again, and you will have a prosperous and progressive day." It's not that it's good for you to pass a level, but you will find that it needs to go through a continuous cycle. If you go any further, you are likely to encounter difficulties. If you keep going, keep going, keep going, keep going, one day you will feel that you are no longer "arrogant", but your eyes are higher and your hands are much higher.
Zeng Guofan said: "If you don't learn Chinese characters, everything will be extremely difficult and difficult. What makes sense is a hero. " Not just practicing Chinese characters. Everything is similar to practicing calligraphy. You will encounter special difficulties. When you are particularly uncomfortable, you will bravely tide over the difficulties step by step and make continuous progress until you are thriving. You are a hero and a cow.