People without knowledge always like to talk about the ignorance of others, but people with rich knowledge always discover their own ignorance.

Some time ago, I read an Instagram post about Tom Hiddleston. I only read half of it and decided to become a fan.

Before that, I didn’t know Dou Sen. My only impression of this face was that of Loki, Thor’s younger brother and the villain. When I saw that movie, it was because of the heroine Natalie Portman. .

Looking at Dou Sen’s resume, there are only three things that will make people admire him:

1. Can speak seven languages: English, French, Spanish, Russian, Italian, Latin and Greek.

2. The reason why I gave up Oxford and went to Cambridge was because I had a quarrel with my parents and wanted to stay away from them.

3. During the audition for "Thor", Dou Sen deliberately gained 20 pounds in order to get the role of Thor. After looking in the mirror, he was told that he would play Loki, so he silently lost another 20 pounds.

Every understatement is a height that many people may not be able to reach in their lifetime. After Aamir Khan and Peng Yuyan, another male god has confirmed the old saying: excellence is a habit.

I don’t know if there is such a kind of person around you. Although you have already picked one out of a hundred, you still feel that the base is too small. Although he is already outstanding, he still feels that there are too few cannon fodder. Work hard every day as if you are short of money, and work as hard as if you are in debt. Every time I meet such a person, I can't help but ask: Why?

I have a foreign friend, a native American born in the 1980s, who came to Beijing to work five years ago. He studied at Harvard, Yale, and Cambridge, and has lawyer licenses in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Hong Kong. He speaks in Chinese At the beginning of the year, he just switched jobs to an international law firm and became the youngest partner with an annual salary of one million yuan.

A real winner in life. But the day before yesterday, he actually told me that he was reading the textbooks for the judicial examination recently and said that he planned to study Chinese law.

Several lawyer friends nearby were so angry that they were crying, and their jobs were taken to their doorsteps. But you just can't stop good people from breaking into your territory.

He started learning Chinese not long after he came to China. There is no problem with daily communication, but he still refuses to give up and insists on learning Chinese culture, Chinese history and Chinese folk customs. He often makes me stunned by asking, why is the Forbidden City called the Forbidden City? Why is there no cat in the Chinese zodiac? Why is talking big called bragging and not bragging?

Friends who want to know, please find out for yourself.

What I want to say is that when I am with him, I feel like a fake Chinese. One of his favorite words is that the more you learn, the less you feel you know.

A student of the ancient Greek philosopher Zeno once asked him: "Teacher, you are knowledgeable and know so many things, why do you often doubt your answers?"

Zeno replied: "Human knowledge is like a circle. What is unknown outside the circle is known inside the circle. The more you know, the bigger your circle will be. The greater the circumference of the circle. As a result, you have more room for contact with the unknown. Therefore, although I know more than you, I also don’t know more than you.”

I once listened to a lecture by a senior investor, He talked eloquently about his successful experience for three hours, but ended with this sentence: The longer you invest, the less you dare to invest.

Probably because of this, Buffett only buys stocks in industries and companies he is familiar with, and even opposes stock trading. He once said: "Sometimes I am too cautious, but I would rather be a hundred times more cautious than 1% careless. I did not become the richest man in the world by stock trading."

The better the person, the better. The more you can see your own ignorance. Therefore, hesitation and awe became a natural reaction, but it was this mentality that made them not want to stop exploring. On the contrary, mediocre people often feel invincible with just a little knowledge.

Fu Sheng mentioned in the Cognition Trilogy that people have four cognitive realms: "I don't know that I don't know", "I know that I don't know", "I know that I know" and "I don't know." Know that you know”.

People above 95 are on the first level.

However, self-awareness of ignorance is the biggest difference between outstanding people and mediocre people. How far a person can go depends on how far he knows he has gone.

So, when we ask why the better people work harder, perhaps we should ask another question: why we no longer work hard.

Thinking that you know everything is the beginning of ignorance.

Sometimes, little success is scarier than nothing.

I heard a true story. A small-town girl born in the 1990s, she loved reading and writing since she was a child. She started publishing articles in magazines one after another when she was in high school. Later, she started writing official accounts and publishing books. She soon became famous and made some money. A company invited this girl to join and gave her a generous salary. She resolutely gave up the college entrance examination and defected to her sponsor.

I don’t know what happened to this girl later.

Over the years, society has been debating whether there is any use in going to college. People who say it’s useless can always cite many examples to prove that you can succeed without going to college. From Bill Gates to Steve Jobs, from Einstein to Edison, the university of society seems to be better able to cultivate so-called successful people.

The irony is that those who have succeeded without reading value education more than anyone else. The more knowledgeable people are, the more they can see the gap, and the more they understand the importance of reading.

Huang Shangu, a poet of the Song Dynasty, has a famous saying: "If you don't study for three days, your language will be tasteless and your appearance will be hateful." I particularly agree with Zhou Guoping's interpretation of this passage. If you don't study for three days, you will become You will feel ashamed of yourself, ashamed to speak to others, and feel shameless to see others.

This is what he calls the "hobby of reading." Why can reading become a basic need for some people? Probably because of this feeling of shame.

People often ask me how to become a hardworking person. I would ask them, how do you feel about not working hard?

They usually say they don’t feel it.

I think this is the difference. A truly outstanding person cannot stop because there is a fear of ignorance deep in his heart. They never feel like they have enough knowledge.

Richard St. John once said in "Success is a Continuous Journey" that success is a cycle composed of passion, work, focus, advancement, inspiration, improvement, service and persistence. Achieve goals one after another in circles, not in a straight line from A to B.

However, in life, most people are forty years old and reaping the benefits of thirty years old, and thirty years old are reaping the benefits of twenty years old.

I am not saying that people need to move forward bravely and climb to the top again and again. Rather, it means that people must have a sense of crisis and a humble attitude. There are still many things we don’t know about this world.

Descartes once said that people without knowledge always like to talk about the ignorance of others, but people with rich knowledge always discover their own ignorance.

So, why are better people more diligent?

The answer may be simple, they can see more things worth working for than we can.