People love the clever and despise the foolish. However, sometimes, cleverness is not necessarily a good thing, and clumsiness is not necessarily a bad thing, so Lao Tzu said in the Tao Te Ching: "Great straightness is like bending, great ingenuity is clumsy, and great argument is like ne". Therefore, the ancients advocated: hiding ingenuity is clumsy. In calligraphy, it is proposed that it is better to be ugly than flattering, and rather clumsy than clever. Zheng Banqiao has a poem that is very well written: for forty years, he has painted bamboo branches, and he has been thinking about it during the day and at night. Redundant and thin, painting to raw is cooked.
Dong Qichang's good friend in the Ming Dynasty is called Chen Jiru, Chen Jiru told a story, saying that we do calligraphy, he talks about inkstone, ink and pen, inkstone for many years, many years to change one, ink, a year to change, and the pen, more than ten days to change one, why?He said that the pen is the sharpest, the ink is second, and the inkstone is the most blunt, and he talks about the knowledge of bluntness, bluntness, it is a kind of life knowledge, and blunt is clumsy. Sharp is talking about being a man, and excessive sharpness is sharp, not a way of life. There is a calligrapher Lin Sanzhi, seal carver Deng Sanmu, Lin Sanzhi means scattered wood, scattered wood is useless wood, useless wood and the wood of the sky is clumsy, clumsy is a way of existence. Therefore, we Chinese regard clumsiness as a way of being. Therefore, it is clumsy to hide it, and it is clear to use obscurity. Pure in turbidity, with bending as extension, this is also the way of health preservation summarized by the Chinese.
Writing is the highest level of Chinese calligraphy, not only about people getting old, but also calligraphy.
There is no doubt that the realm of the old realm is the realm of life. We know that this old state is the hardest. The old realm of painting is the highest state of painting, the most difficult to achieve, and the most difficult technique of painting. Yuan Mei of the Qing Dynasty said, "My garden, every tree is old." The old realm is a lofty realm pursued by Chinese art, a lofty realm."
People hate being old, and when people are old, they know that they are not far from this world, but Chinese art likes to be old, why, the old world represents a kind of blandness, and the old world is clumsy.
Lao Tzu's aesthetic view is that what is truly dexterous and beautiful should be unadorned. Lao Tzu analyzed the dialectical relationship between ingenuity and clumsiness with the philosophical idea of "doing nothing and doing nothing". He believes that true ingenuity does not lie in violating the laws of nature to show off one's cleverness, but in conforming to the laws of nature everywhere, and in this conformity, one's own goals are naturally realized. Although Lao Tzu's "great ingenuity and clumsiness" is not intended to be aesthetic, but to illustrate the truth of "doing nothing without doing nothing", it precisely speaks of the characteristics of all highly successful artistic creations. Any outstanding work of art is a high degree of unity between purpose and law.
There is a story about a computer doctor who studied in the United States, and after graduation, he looked for a job in the United States, only to hit a wall one after another, and many companies turned him away. In desperation, the doctor decided to try a different approach.
He put away all his degree certificates and went to apply for a job in a minimum capacity. Soon he was hired by a computer company as a junior program entryer. This is a job that no one with a little education wants to do, but this doctor is conscientious and meticulous. It didn't take long for his boss to discover his talentHe was able to see the errors in the program, which was by no means comparable to the average entry officer. At this time, he showed his bachelor's certificate, and the boss changed him to a job that matched the undergraduate graduate.
After a while, the boss found that he was comfortable at work and could make a lot of valuable suggestions, which was better than the average college student. Only then did he show his master's status, and the boss promoted him again.
Later, the boss found that the breadth and depth of his expertise was very accessible, so he talked to him again. That's when he produced his doctorate certificate and explained why he did it. At this time, the boss suddenly realized that he did not hesitate to reuse him, because he understood his knowledge, ability and professionalism.
Unlike this doctor, many young people now show off all their titles and hole cards when they first enter the society, boasting about themselves, and as a result, others are disgusted and difficult to cooperate with others, or they attract high expectations and disappoint people, and it is difficult to turn over if they make a slight mistake. The doctor started small, and when he thought about it, he was very smart.
Lao Tzu believes that clumsiness is the origin of human life, people come to heaven and earth, people come to this heaven and earth, just like birds perching on withered branches, all those things that are given by civilization externally are not what we have from the source, and people's short and fragile life is like a reed that can be broken apart;It is as ephemeral as a candle in the wind, extinguished as soon as it is blown. People come and go without worry, which is the most basic foothold of Lao Tzu's clumsy philosophy. Lao Tzu returns to the baby, to the beginning, to the world where the weak are stronger than the strong, that is, to return to the original state of human beings. Lao Tzu believes that clumsiness is a way of existence, and clumsiness can bring a kind of voice to life.
Sam's cleverness is worth learning from contemporary entrepreneurs, but when the sun of Sam's career is rising rapidly, something happened that is very different from Sam's personality: the 56-year-old Sam officially retired at the end of 1974!
In fact, Sam has already encountered the usual embarrassment of the owner of a fast-growing company, where the entrepreneurial veteran occupies a position but does not play a role, and the young and new management is increasingly invincible because of his own skills. Sam has a management philosophy that emphasizes that every manager should be as mobile and competitive as possible. At the same time, the company is gathering a group of high-minded young people who are increasingly taking advantage of the technology and system complexity required by Walmart's rapid expansion. And many of the jobs of the new faction were given by the 40-year-old leader, Ron Meyer. The two leading figures do not buy each other, and they are incompatible. Both groups have qualities that Sam likes, but neither is Sam's ideal ally. The old and new factions fought each other, creating tremendous pressure, and finally forced Ron Meyer to find Sam for a showdown: he could not take charge of the overall situation and resigned.
In the complicated situation, Sam weighed again and again and chose to take a back seat. At the end of 1974, Sam became chairman of the executive committee, Ron Meyer became chairman and president of the company, and Ferrold Allen became general manager. Sam moved out of his office and sat at the end of the "management seat." Ron Meyer moved into Sam's office.
Sam's retirement further publicizes the already two camps. So much so that everyone in the company made it clear which side they were on. The company's veteran, Ferrold Allen, although he was a leader of the faction, was lazy in the confrontation with the new talents, and experienced the most depressed period at Wal-Mart. Sam watched the confrontation arise, not to eliminate the confrontation at the first time, but to listen to the voices of the various factions, and comfortingly promised, "I will make the final decision". However, he was slow to adjudicate, and he was waiting.
Sam saw the right moment, and on a Saturday in June 1976, 30 months after relinquishing his chairmanship, he finally called Ron and announced his intention to return to the role of chairman and president, with Ron as vice chairman and treasurer. Young Ron didn't have the slightest premonition. He's also obsessed with Sam's affirmation of his work. I always thought that Sam's "I will make the final decision" would remove the power of Ferrold's faction and give him a chance to fully display his talents. Unexpectedly, the revolution did not succeed and his position was not guaranteed. Ron's group of young men resigned angrily.
Ron's downfall, and Ferrold's group didn't get a chance. Sam Walton had an ambush. Jack Shoemaker has been appointed Executive Vice President of Operations, Personnel and Merchandising. In addition, Sam hired long-established David Glass from outside to be in charge of finance and distribution. The new management team was quickly formed. Those veterans who were fed up with endless exchanges and wanted to live some stable life had to be forced to resign. This is indeed a "great exodus", and it is estimated that a third of the senior management has left.
Sam sees the exodus as one of the greatest opportunities in Walmart's history. The crisis helped Sam realize his plan to completely change the company. This is a historic problem that any fast-growing company like Walmart must solve in order to move forward. The new team is very united and everyone is working together in the face of difficult situations. Wal-Mart quickly regained its former vitality.
Lao Tzu and Zhuangzi philosophy is to talk about the cultivation of good nature, good is to talk about the meaning of good nature, and the cultivation of good nature to talk about a meaning, that is, people are good at raising their own lives, Zhuangzi thinks: the kind of emphasis on the mind, knowledge, hue, desire, all external pursuits are not the way of health, nor is it the way of cultivation. Zhuangzi tells a story: Emperor Wu once fought a big victory on Zhou Yujiang, went to the south, encountered a monkey mountain, the soldiers went to the monkey mountain to see the monkey, the monkey heard the wind and fled, there is a monkey is particularly clever and does not run. When a soldier saw it, he shot it with a bow, and the monkey reached out and grabbed the arrow. Later, Emperor Wu said, "You should call all the generals who are good at archery and shoot monkeys from all directions, but the monkeys are shot to death." What is the truth that Zhuangzi told you?Why did it die. Will the other monkeys live?It likes to be its own trick too much, and this monkey shows its skill too much and takes life.
Therefore, a person needs to be quiet and clumsy, clumsy is a way of life, and the same is true of being a man, which shows that a person is clever, and clumsiness does not show that a person is stupid, but a form and method of doing things, and perhaps there is great wisdom hidden in it.