1, the story behind "I can correct my mistakes" In order to enrich the sentence "Anyone who has made a mistake can correct it, and it is not good. Let's take a look at the story behind it.
According to records, in the Spring and Autumn Period, although Jin Linggong had a high position, he did not deserve virtue. He is short-tempered and cruel, and likes to kill innocent people. In addition to his bad temper, as a monarch, he favored courtiers, lived in luxury, exacted taxes and squeezed the people, and even made them miserable.
Under Jin Linggong's ruthless rule, dangers gradually emerged and the situation was quite turbulent. In order to avoid a coup, two ministers and historical records of Duke Jinling risked their lives to protest, hoping that Duke Jinling would control his temper and understand his mistakes.
At that time, in order to remonstrate with Jin Linggong, Shiji said a very classic sentence, that is, "Who is at fault? It would be great if it could be changed. " But Jin Linggong wouldn't listen. More importantly, he not only refused to listen, but also sent someone to assassinate Zhao Dun.
Jin Linggong's attitude of not admitting his mistake aroused people's strong dissatisfaction, and his cruelty also broke people's hearts.
Therefore, people United and began to resist his tyranny. Finally, Jin Linggong died by the sword of Zhao Chuan.
In the story, Jin Linggong has a prominent position and received a good education since childhood. Compared with ordinary people, he is considered a "favored son of heaven". At the same time, people's temperament is impatient and gentle. He obviously belongs to the former, and his personality characteristics cannot be called good or evil. However, he didn't realize that grumpy greed was a bad habit that needed to be corrected. Instead, he ran amok, went his own way, made mistakes again and again, and finally dug his own grave and set himself on the road of "evil" forever.
If Jin Linggong can correct his mistakes and take the responsibility behind his noble status, maybe his ending will be different.
2. Why is it "great kindness" to know your mistakes? There is "great wisdom" in the logic of our ancestors. For a long time, we have been trying to avoid mistakes and hope everything goes well. Here, we are very shy about "mistakes". At the same time, we prefer others to "make no mistakes" rather than perfection.
However, this sentence is definitely not an excuse for people to indulge their mistakes, but an objective fact. We all stumbled and grew up in repeated experiments.
Making a mistake means that we have laid a trap called "regret" for ourselves. If you go all the way, go your own way, and ignore the "pit" you dug for yourself along the way, it is only a matter of time before you "fall into the pit".
Sometimes, because we lack life experience, it is difficult for us to find our own mistakes. Through the experience or inspiration of others, we can find and correct it in time. When we find and correct them, it is "growth". The so-called maturity, in Yan Xiaoer's view, is the superposition of this "growth". This is also the logic of "correcting mistakes and doing good deeds is no big deal", which contains the great wisdom of "overcoming your short-sightedness and looking to the future".
At the same time, the reason why the ancestors said that "if you know your mistakes, you can change them, and if you don't change them, you will have them" is because they know that "knowing your mistakes and not changing them means giving up self-salvation".
As the saying goes, they often know that it is wrong to do so, but they still act willfully. In this case, they not only bring trouble to others, but also bury themselves in the danger of death. When danger comes, it is not so important to correct mistakes, because there is no chance. Or let me put it this way, I'm actually wasting my chance to atone.
3. Enlightenment: Fault tolerance requires brains, and correcting mistakes is wisdom. Because each of us understands that people are not sages, to err is human. Therefore, we know how to put ourselves in others' shoes, and we can forgive the recklessness of "newcomers" and the unintentional mistakes of others. After all, no one can know whether it is oneself who makes a mistake next time. Your own tolerance and kindness can infect people around you.
Of course, Yan Xiaoer's "tolerance" here is not connivance. Our "fault tolerance" is principled, and it is tolerance for those who "can correct their mistakes and deserve to be tolerated". We should bear in mind that there is no "tolerance" for some fundamental mistakes that transcend people, but blind tolerance for mistakes is actually a kind of killing, and "Xiong Haizi" is the product of this unprincipled fault tolerance.
At the same time, we should understand that "correcting mistakes" is not an admission that we can't do it, let alone a shameful act, but a wise experience. After all, what is a better life experience than going deep into the bone marrow after making mistakes and getting further development?
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