Bacon, a famous British philosopher, said: "The miracle beyond nature always appears in the conquest of adversity." Byron, a famous romantic poet in the same country as him, also thinks: "Adversity is a channel to truth." Indeed, the practice of many outstanding figures at all times and all over the world has proved that adversity is conducive to the success of life.
Sima Qian, an ancient China writer, has such an incisive exposition in Bao Ren An Shu: "Wang Wen was arrested and performed Zhouyi; Zhong You wrote Spring and Autumn Annals; Qu Yuan's exile is an ode to Li Sao. Zuo Qiu is blind and has "Mandarin"; The satiety and revision of Sun Tzu's Art of War: not Shu, but Lu Lan; Han Fei was imprisoned in Qin and wrote 300 poems, probably because the sages were angry. "
In addition, we can also list many typical examples of success in adversity. For example,/kloc-Andersen, a Danish writer in the 0/9th century, used a coffin as a bed when he was a child. Cao Xueqin, the author of China's classic A Dream of Red Mansions, said: "The winter choked me, and the snowy night surrounded me with a broken carpet." . The famous Spanish writer Cervantes' novel Don Giojudo was written on a broken table. Darwin, the founder of evolution, Gorky, a Russian writer, and others all had extremely hard lives.
There is no doubt that adversity can make talents. However, adversity has both advantages and disadvantages for the discovery of talents and the exertion of their abilities. Not all adversity can make talents, and not all people can become talents in adversity. Suffering in adversity has honed people's will and created a group of great men and heroes, so many people advocate adversity. However, adversity is not a sufficient condition to cultivate positive personality. Some people are in adversity and hardship, have no motivation to change the status quo, and do not see any opportunities and hopes to change and get out of the difficult environment, so they accept their fate. It can be seen that adversity has great magic to destroy people's body and mind and disintegrate people's will. It has caused people different degrees of life tragedy, rather than bringing positive results.
People's ability to bear pressure in adversity is not infinite, but limited. When environmental pressure begins to crush you, or when you lose all your personal freedom and all your future and hope, there are very few people who don't "collapse", and even fewer people can make a difference or even make a big difference under such circumstances. This is the greatness of such people and one of the reasons why there are not many great people. Because different environments have different effects on people, the parties concerned pay different prices. To stand up and walk out in adversity is like sailing against the current. It is much more difficult and laborious than going downstream, and it takes several times, hundreds or even thousands of times of effort and sweat. If the will is slightly reduced and the strength is slightly insufficient, it may be "repelled" by the turbulent waves, leading to elimination. Life is alive, to be honest, no one wants to live in adversity, even in adversity, we should try to get rid of it and change it. The benefits of adversity to success and achievement are highly praised by some people who have experienced it, because in the journey of life, adversity is often more than prosperity, which is a kind of experience for young people who are not deeply involved in the world, so that they can be prepared mentally and psychologically before encountering adversity.
Compared with adversity, prosperity, such as superior position, abundant wealth and comfortable life, is what people yearn for and pursue. Once owned, or partially owned, it is a good thing for individuals, not a bad thing. Can also make people. Goethe, the great German writer, has a rich material life and a stable life. Although he was not tempered by adversity, he wrote a series of masterpieces handed down from generation to generation. Chekhov, a Russian critical realist writer, lived a stable and well-off life all his life, and achieved fruitful results in both novels and plays. In contemporary society, countless writers and scientists have made prosperous achievements, such as female writers Bing Xin and Zhang Ailing. Scientists such as Yang Zhenning and I.M. Pei have made remarkable achievements in superior living environment and stable social environment.
However, history and practical experience also tell us that prosperity may weaken the motivation of progress and lose the goal of progress. Especially after going from adversity to prosperity, due to the temptation of various material pleasures, the satisfaction of various wishes and the reduction of environmental pressure, people's inertia will gradually rise, which will easily make people covet comfort, be content with the status quo and not strive for progress. Throughout the ages, some children who pray and prodigal children are mostly "darlings" of prosperity. The corrupt children of the Eight Banners in the Qing Dynasty are the most typical examples. They "only know fresh clothes and delicious food, waste money, learn from each other, and have no regrets." Zeng Guofan warned his relatives' children many times in his letter: "It is difficult to be frugal in places where officials are officials, and it is also difficult to be frugal." "When the situation is too stable, it is difficult to expect its growth."
From this perspective, prosperity also has many factors that are not conducive to life. Success, wealth and comfort have always been the life goals pursued by most people, and once some people get them, they will be happy, relaxed, hate work and even sit in empty seats. Once it declines, prosperity becomes adversity, and adversity becomes prosperity. Therefore, once a person succeeds in his career and steps into prosperity, he must quickly seek new pressures, new stimuli and new goals, have a sense of urgency in times of peace, have an enterprising spirit and have the self-control to guard against arrogance and rashness. Bacon said: "The virtue needed by luck is temperance, while the virtue needed by adversity is perseverance. The latter is more valuable than the former. The Covenant of the sun in the Bible inspires people to win happiness through prosperity, while the New Testament inspires people to win happiness through adversity. "
At all times, many successful people in life have withstood the test of adversity and prosperity. No matter where they are, no matter how the environment changes, they can win without arrogance and lose with grace, and always adhere to the unswerving and persevering pursuit of life.
Faraday, a famous British scientist, has made a series of important discoveries in his life after many times of adversity. In his later years, he gained lofty status and wealth, and the country alone awarded 97 honorary titles. Many people also suggested that he should be the president of the Royal Society, and Queen Victoria should also give him a title. But he refused, still willing to be a civilian and work tirelessly as in the past until the end of his life.
Many facts have proved that people who can overcome adversity may not be able to walk through prosperity; Those who can walk through prosperity may not be able to overcome adversity. Prosperity and adversity are external conditions. Whether a person can succeed in life depends on himself and has nothing to do with success or failure. This is just as Li Bai said in the poem "Send friends to Shu": "You don't have to ask a gentleman if you rise and fall."