Let excellence become a habit

Zhu Tiezhi

①Everyone’s life positioning is different, and their attitude towards life is naturally different. Where do you plan to place yourself in life? Level and realm are practical issues that every serious person has to consider, and they also determine the person’s basic lifestyle. Lu Xun was determined to expose his bad nature in order to attract attention for treatment, so he “browed cold eyebrows to thousands of people.” It means, "Submit yourself to be a coward" and use the time that others use to drink coffee to read and write. Harvard University gathers the best students in the United States and even the world, and their school motto is "the pursuit of excellence." Yes, the eagle is not willing to be inferior. Below, the horse cannot guard the fence. A person with high aspirations must regard the pursuit of excellence as his life goal and as an almost instinctive habit.

②The so-called habit is a normal state. Subliminal consciousness, a kind of automation, a natural state formed after long-term training and experience, a kind of memory that can be reproduced without thinking. Its program seems to have been placed in the brain and muscles, becoming a special memory, which can be reproduced in one fell swoop. Hands, every move, every frown and every smile are all external manifestations and proofs of excellence, which will make people’s eyes brighten, impress and admire them.

③The development of excellent habits is a long process , it can have a clear starting point, but there is certainly no fixed end point. But as long as we continue to pursue it, each stage of achievement will become a new starting point. Even if the individual life ends, those who come after him can still start from where he fell. , trekking towards a higher realm.

④Excellence and diligence are natural allies and twin brothers. Excellent people are all diligent, and even if diligent people are not the best, they are at least relatively good. Excellent. In a sense, diligence itself is synonymous with excellence. All geniuses spend one minute on stage and ten years of hard work off stage. Please do not easily believe in the myth of genius, which seems to be achieved without practice. We have heard of prodigies who perform well, students who effortlessly excel in both taste and learning, but we have never seen them, so we should not take them too seriously. Even if there are special cases like Mozart, there is no possibility for us to learn from them and they cannot be used as examples. Blind copying of role models. The reason is simple, you are you, you are not Mozart. You and I are everywhere, but there is only one Mozart. Philosophical common sense tells us that special cases do not reveal inevitability. Smart people never regard themselves as special cases, smart people only know Work hard.

⑤ Because of the pursuit of excellence, you must have the consciousness of "striving to be first-class" in everything you do. Eating people's salaries and doing their duty is the standard for ordinary people, but in the eyes of excellent people , is the minimum virtue; getting admitted to a prestigious university, getting straight A's, and having a decent job in the future is the ideal state that most people dream of, but in the minds of outstanding people, it is just a starting point to excellence. Because of positioning For excellence, you can't sleep where others can sleep, you can't shirk responsibilities where others can be perfunctory, you can't hide from work where others can turn a blind eye, and you can't tolerate where others can live with peace of mind.

⑥Excellent deeds A kind of quality, of course, is inseparable from the objective environment. But truly outstanding people understand that destiny is only true if it is in their own hands. Mediocre people always attribute the success of others to good environment, good conditions, and popularity. Good people, good luck, and attribute all their failures to external reasons. Excellent people understand that success is inseparable from objective conditions, but they never rely too much on objective conditions. They understand: the environment creates people, and people also create the environment. They When they succeed, they often face the society and all the people who have helped them with gratitude, and attribute the credit for their success to objective conditions. When they fail, they often attribute the reason to their lack of effort. Excellent people always say If you are not good enough, you think you are ignorant; mediocre people always use various opportunities to express themselves and whitewash themselves. In the eyes of truly excellent people, there is nothing more stupid in the world.

⑦Excellence is A kind of yeast, when used in life, it will produce a strange effect. To paraphrase a poet: Excellence is the passport of outstanding people, mediocrity is the epitaph of mediocrity.