Author: An Zhiting Lan

Bai Yansong once said, "It's not glorious to beat a dog, but it's unfortunate to be bitten by a dog."

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A person will become humble and low-key after reaching a certain position. Just like the sea, it looks calm on the surface, but in fact it can accommodate hundreds of rivers. When people reach a certain age, their knowledge will also increase. Facing the complexity of society, they will begin to keep a trace of awe and calmness, and know how to hide themselves and be a low-key person.

Guiguzi once said that if one remembers these words when encountering setbacks, he will achieve something in the future.

first: the impermanence of the world is expensive, and nothing is always a teacher.

This sentence means that there is nothing in the world that will remain noble forever, and there will be no fixed pattern. It is better to live hard by yourself if you want to achieve certain development by relying on noble people. Don't be afraid of failure either. The moment of failure will lead to the collapse of your mind. It is better to calm your mind, which is better than anything else.

second: the environment is fate, and every opportunity is luck.

It means that fate has given you a birth environment, which you can't change. Luck gives you opportunities, but even if you have luck, you must be prepared to succeed, otherwise everything will be in the water.

third: if you want more, you will lose your mind; if you lose your mind, you will lose your will; if you lose your will, you will fail to think.

It means that people should not have too many desires, otherwise they don't know what to do. Once you are at a loss, your heart will decline, you don't know where to go, and it is difficult to achieve great things. This is mainly to remind those who want too much that it is better to concentrate.

Charles Munger's warning: Never wrestle with a pig. You will both get dirty with mud, but the pig will enjoy it.

There was such a cartoon.

A man was angered by the pig, jumped into the mud angrily and fought with the pig.

As a result, people failed to get justice, and they had to struggle to clean their bodies with mud after returning home.

The pig, on the other hand, happily continued to roll around in the mud.

As Bai Yansong said, "It is not glorious to beat a dog, but it is unlucky to be bitten by a dog."

the best way to meet bad people in life is to avoid them.

3) everyone will meet bad people, but the outcome depends on ourselves.

There is a question in Zhihu: How can we win by quarreling with unreasonable and low-quality people?

There is a highly praised answer: Never argue with a rotten person.

because he will bring your IQ to the same level as him, and then beat you with rich experience.

I am deeply impressed. Because you are entangled with unreasonable people, no matter what the outcome, you are a loser.

people will always meet some rotten people or things in their life. At this time, the most important thing is not to compete with them or change each other, but to know how to stop losses in time. As Nietzsche said, "If you stare into the abyss, the abyss will stare at you." Because rotten people have a characteristic, that is, they all want you to pay attention to them, so fighting with rotten people itself falls into his trap and falls into a vicious circle, which makes you out of control step by step and makes things worse.

the consequence of competing with bad people is that you will gradually become a bad person in the eyes of others. A few years ago, Mu Heigang did evil, and my Weibo was often attacked. Whenever I saw a malicious comment from Weibo, I was furious. From the beginning, I earnestly explained it to the later tit-for-tat, and I fought the enemy day and night. Suddenly, I seemed to understand something, and my attention was attracted by them. I was full of ugly faces and exhausted.

a truly wise person can tell bad things from good things. It's better to spend your energy on something really valuable than to spend meaningless money on something bad. The merciful Lord said, "I have indeed sent a messenger to every nation, saying,' Worship the Lord and stay away from Satan.' But some of them were guided by the Lord, and some should have gone astray.

there are two old sayings.

the first sentence is: a scholar meets a soldier, so it's unreasonable to say.

the second sentence is: well frogs can't talk about the sea, and summer insects can't talk about ice.

Many times, some people can't reason with them. Because you will find that even if you work hard, you may not be able to make it clear.

because people's levels are there, everyone's level of knowledge is also different.

As the saying goes, never quarrel with a madman, because in the end, no one will blame the madman, but others will regard you as a madman.

after all, a normal person, who will argue with a madman at leisure?

if a dog bites you, will you bite back?

Mencius said: a gentleman does not stand under a dangerous wall.

if you keep cats and fish together, it's not the cat's fault, but your fault.

because you know that cats eat fish by nature, but you don't take precautions.

Similarly, if you know clearly that this person is a rotten person, you still have to associate. If something goes wrong, it's also your fault.

if you lend money to someone who doesn't keep his word, you should be prepared to chase it hard;

If you do business in partnership with selfish people, you should be prepared to be sold.

when you fall in love with someone who likes the new and hates the old, you should be prepared to be dumped.