There are too many successful studies around us now, and people in our period are too keen on the past successful studies, which leads to a deformed judgment standard. Only success will make others respect you, only success will make you have status, and only success will make your life successful. When we all want to succeed, most people don't succeed. There is an old saying in China, "Nine times out of ten things go wrong in life". It can also be seen from this sentence that most people are unsuccessful. If you don't succeed, you will be depressed, depressed, weak and lose confidence. Such a standard is unacceptable.
From birth, man is a one-way street leading to death. Even if you win the whole world, you can't win the result of death. What should you do in the face of such a great failure as death?
Success is good, but failure doesn't matter. What matters is what we can get in the process. A person who has never experienced failure or frustration is like a pure glass ball. A little wear and tear will lose its true colors that are dazzling in the eyes of others. The higher you stand, the heavier you fall. If we have experienced setbacks and failures, the pain will be greatly alleviated when we fall again.
It is a failure for a person to have an unsuccessful life. However, if a person has not experienced setbacks and failures, he is likely to die on the road to success.
Do something useless
After happiness, we should be at leisure. Bai used such words as the title in the second part of the book, which shows Bai's attitude towards this matter.
I'm doing something useless now. Read some leisure books, take time to write down your own ideas, share them with you, and do crowdfunding planning. The matter itself is useless, and I get nothing. But I'm happy to do it. I'm happy to do it. Although useless, it has become an indispensable thing in my future life.
Useless, literally, is useless, can't get anything. We are busy with our own useful and even very useful things every day, year after year, day after day. Especially the younger generation, always shouting, if you don't work hard, you will be really old. This kind of self-motivation is good, but we should also give ourselves some time to do some useless things instead of being captured by a useful utilitarian heart. For example, reading, traveling, volunteering and talking to myself. How many people can give themselves some time to do useless things now. Of course, uselessness here refers to things that have no utility and no purpose. Not to kill time and entertain yourself with useless things. China will never make a Russian dual-screen mobile phone, because we China people have no reading habits in Vienna. We can't learn from the French way of holiday, because we will think it is a waste of time. We don't need to imitate others, we just need to be ourselves and give ourselves some time to do something useless.
Give yourself some time! We need to tap our creativity and water our inner anxiety by doing something useless in such a time. Useless is useful.