Taizong of the Tang Dynasty has a famous saying: You can know the gains and losses by looking at people as a guide. This can be associated with Confucius's words in Chapter 12 of the Analects: Choose the good ones and follow them, and change the bad ones.
Choose the good ones and follow them, and change the bad ones. This is a learning method, which means choosing other people's strengths to learn from, and correcting their shortcomings (if I have them). From "The Analects of Confucius".
Confucius proposed that you should hear more, see more, and study hard about what you don’t know, and opposed the practice of creating things out of thin air when you don’t understand anything. This is what he requires of himself, and he also requires his students to do the same.
The sentence "Choose the good and follow them" shows Confucius's spirit of self-cultivation, humility and eagerness to learn. It includes two aspects: on the one hand, choose those who are good and follow them, and learn from others when you see them. This is the spirit of being open-minded and eager to learn.
On the other hand, correcting those who are not good, taking warnings when seeing others' bad behavior, and reflecting on oneself are the spirit of conscious cultivation. In this way, no matter whether the people you work with are good or bad, you can become your teacher.
The meaning of learning:
1. Understand yourself. Knowledge is endless and learning has no end. As you learn more, you will realize how ignorant you were before. I don’t know a lot of knowledge, or I haven’t even heard of it.
2. Improve yourself. In the development of modern society, grades are not the only way out, but learning is what we pursue throughout our lives.
3. Broaden your horizons. Read thousands of books and travel thousands of miles. Learning can add interest to our ordinary life. Even if we cannot travel thousands of miles, we can read thousands of books.
4. Satisfy the desire for knowledge. Everyone has the right to pursue knowledge and the right to choose whether to study. Some people learn about themselves through learning. Some people improve themselves through learning. Some people broaden their horizons through learning.
5. Create more possibilities. The road to learning is difficult, but fulfilling.