“As long as you work hard, the ugly duckling will turn into a white swan.” The famous Danish fairy tale king Andersen probably did not expect that his fairy tale would still be in a country far away from his motherland two hundred years later. ——China has become a well-known inspirational story. Parents, teachers and other people from all walks of life will say things like this when educating children and encouraging others.

However, taking "The ugly duckling can turn into a white swan" as an inspirational story is just a metaphor. As humans, can we complete the transformation from ugly duckling to white swan? Several distinctions need to be made.

First, based on talent and qualifications, the ugly duckling is destined to become a white swan.

We are also familiar with the saying: "Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration." This is also a very famous inspirational saying. As everyone knows, half of Edison's sentence was ignored: "It is precisely the one percent inspiration that is the most important." Innate factors are irresistible. Even the ugly duckling in fairy tales is not an ugly duckling at all. It was a swan egg that strayed into the duck's nest. Therefore, it is not surprising that a white swan will take off in the future.

I wonder if Andersen had any expectations for himself when he wrote this story, but he must have. He was born into a poor family, and his father was a shoemaker who passed away long ago. His mother made a living by washing clothes for others, and later remarried, so Andersen had to depend on his grandmother. He was not looked down upon by others, and his young heart suffered great trauma. He eventually became the King of Fairy Tales and fulfilled his dream of turning the ugly duckling into a white swan. Although this is related to his perseverance, persistence, and tenacious fighting spirit, it is undeniable that he has more innate talents. The same was true for Edison. He was kicked out by the teacher as a "stupid boy" after three months in school. And Einstein, everyone knows the story of the third bench. It's not because they are really stupid, it's because the teacher can't see it and mistakenly thinks they are an ugly duckling.

The second is based on acquired hard work and struggle.

The ugly duckling may not necessarily become a white swan.

Talent and qualifications are of course only prerequisites.

It is useless if you don’t work hard the day after tomorrow. Fang Zhongyong is a typical example. Both Feng Youlan and Ji Xianlin believe that talent + opportunity + hard work + success. "Talent" is inherent in nature, and "hard work" can be acquired the day after tomorrow. However, this "opportunity" is hard to come by. Different origins determine the amount of "opportunities".

However, the exaggeration of "successful learning" about "an ugly duckling can also turn into a white swan" has reached its peak and has developed into "a kind of poison"

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Books are everywhere.

On the huge billboards on both sides of the road, there are also smiling so-called "successful people". The men are elegant in suits and leather shoes, and the women are as bright as peach blossoms in heavy makeup. In today's structurally locked society, where barriers to power and wealth are tight, "success," "personal struggle" and "competition" are still deified, causing people to have all kinds of unrealistic fantasies. Parents hope that their sons will succeed and their daughters will succeed. They think that through "personal struggle"

and "competition", if they can memorize the "moonlight in front of the window", they can enter the "elite" class and achieve "success". It’s not hard to see it in the news on TV and on various talent shows.

Scholar Lu Qiyuan said in "The New Wellfield System": "

In the 21st century, China began to form a new wellfield system. With power as the vertical and capital as the horizontal, social resources have been The compulsory division has been completed. Moreover, it has gradually become more rigid and inherited through blood. The second generation of officials and the second generation of rich people in China have begun to fully monopolize social resources, and it is difficult for them to be like those in the 1950s and 1960s. Like the young people of the 1970s, 1980s and 1990s, they achieved success in life through their own efforts.

The ugly duckling and the white swan. According to Gardner's theory of multiple intelligences, different people have different interests, hobbies and specialties. The east is not bright and the west is bright. Here is the ugly duckling, and there may be a white swan. Liu Xiang is a white swan in hurdles, but he is an ugly duckling in basketball; Yao Ming is a hurdler. The ugly duckling is actually the white swan of basketball.

The same goes for Andersen. His ambition was to be an artist, a ballet dancer, and a singer, but his talent was in writing.

It is certainly a good thing to be able to find the direction of your own development, but there is no breakthrough.

Based on the perspective of equality,

The white swan is nothing special. Do you have to be an ugly duckling? You have to have your own dignity and pursue your own happiness. But that’s the problem. Houses are built for the rich and cities are for the rich. Become the master's Ministry of Health. If you are poor, why don't you go to school? It's not the poor who hate the rich, but the rich who hate the poor! In this way, you can still have "dignified labor". "Decent life"?

Leaving aside other factors, looking at Sister Feng and Sister Furong from this aspect alone, this is a sad cry from the bottom of society, not only for themselves, but also for others. "Princes, generals and prime ministers, would you rather have the seed? ”

We have the right to cry out for a better life.