Genius is 1% inspiration and 99% sweat, but that 1% inspiration is the most important, even more important than that 99% sweat. -Edison
It turned out that the previous propaganda of this sentence was a misunderstanding, and life was full of many chicken soups that praised 99% efforts. It is always said that talent is important, and hard work cannot be ignored. For example, our great leader Grandpa Mao once said: Nothing is difficult in the world, as long as you are willing to climb. Too many famous sayings and aphorisms praising hard work, after ignoring the irreplaceable nature of talent, are untenable and shaky.
There is such a book, The Alien, in which Gladwell pointed out the law of 1, hours. "The genius in people's eyes is remarkable, not because of its superior talent, but because of its continuous efforts. 1, hours of tempering is a necessary condition for anyone to change from ordinary to world-class master. " He called this the "1,-hour law", which is simply a powerful endorsement of the theory that effort is greater than talent.
But if you think about it carefully, you still can't stand the scrutiny. 1. Can the bottom workers who work for 1, hours become professional construction engineers? 2. Can a grass-roots teacher who works for 1, hours become an excellent educator? 3. Can an ordinary medical worker who works for 1, hours become a famous medical expert? Life is more than 1 hours. Why are you still ordinary? Efforts are just tangible wings of talent, telling you the way to success.
Now we can give an example to see why 1% talent is more important than 99% sweat. It is also clear from the leader Chairman Mao Zedong that Chairman Mao modestly believes that his success is due to his efforts. Is this really the case? Before the founding of New China, we had another great revolutionary, Dr. Sun Yat-sen. On every major festival, the huge portrait of Dr. Sun Yat-sen was always placed in Tiananmen Square, facing the huge portrait of Chairman Mao Zedong in the middle of Tiananmen Gate. The whole scene showed that Dr. Sun Yat-sen was also of equal historical significance to the revolution. Then why did Chairman Mao's revolution succeed? Mr. Sun didn't see the success of the revolution in his lifetime, so he said: The classic quotation that comrades still need to work hard has inspired generations of revolutionary pioneers.
The teacher who was reading Modern History of China at school said interestingly that all the revolutionary struggles in which Mr. Sun participated failed, but Mr. Sun's persistent and indomitable revolutionary spirit is still worth learning and praising. In contrast to Chairman Mao's revolutionary history, although the fifth anti-encirclement campaign failed, the Red Army was forced to make the Long March. Under the spirit of the Long March, China's revolutionary ancestors turned the tide and successfully liberated China to establish a new China. Mao Zedong and Sun Yat-sen are both great men in revolutionary history, but their results are quite different, for various reasons. What is worthy of recognition is President Mao Zedong's excellent military guidance ability, and nothing can deny President Mao Zedong's military talent.
hans christian andersen, a Danish fairy tale writer in the 19th century, is known as "the sun of children's literature in the world". The representative works of Andersen, the father of fairy tales, include The Firm Tin Soldier, The Daughter of the Sea, Thumbelina, The Little Match Girl, The Ugly Duckling and The Emperor's New Clothes. Because storytelling also requires talent, at school, we always said to the teacher: teacher, I can't write argumentative papers, I can only write narratives. This sentence is wrong. China people are the worst at telling stories, while China people are the best at reasoning. It is difficult to tell a story without paying attention. My baby is just nine months old, and he can read many picture books. I bought many picture books for him, but I didn't pay attention to whether they were domestic or foreign. When I bought them, I saw that both domestic and foreign story books had obvious characteristics: foreigners told stories and China people were reasonable.
Albert Einstein, a world-famous great scientist, is told his story: Einstein was born in a Jewish family in Ulm, Germany. He was not lively when he was a child, and he could not speak until he was nine years old. Everything he said was very difficult and he had to think carefully. When he grew up, Einstein began to study, taught himself Euclid geometry, found himself crazy about mathematics, and began to teach himself advanced mathematics and calculus.
The legendary life of Einstein, a great scientist, is closely related to his talent. It is always mentioned whether talent is too metaphysical, so why not change talent into interest or hobby? EmmanuelleCharpentier, a French female scientist who won the 22 Nobel Prize in chemistry, gave her acceptance speech: Curiosity, Quest for knowledge and understanding have always been a strong drive in my life. Curiosity, thirst for knowledge and understanding have always been a powerful driving force in my life. ? Therefore, talent is a million times, ten million times, and hundreds of millions of times of efforts can't reach the height.
There is no doubt that Jack Ma, a glib talker, Jackie Chan, and Jobs, an innovative thinker, are all talented players. Everyone has a talent to be good at discovering and using. I know an Yidi. One of his classmates has a hobby of fitness. It took him two years to become a tough guy from a weak scholar and interview a fitness instructor. Since then, he has a bright future and stepped onto the peak of his life. Yidi wanted to learn, but he couldn't hold on, but gave up and turned his head. Now he has become a real estate agent.
There are other stories that can be quoted. After three months' probation, two new employees who are the same at the beginning of the company will stay, and some will leave. After six months, those who stay will be promoted to team leader ahead of other employees. Why can some people sit in charge for six months? Some people leave the company in six months? Some people parachuted into high-level leaders? Some people work hard. An ordinary employee? Everything should be a gift: because of talent, there must be something extraordinary about having talent.
22.11.12