Gu Ailing won the championship again! On December 9, in the final of the Freestyle Skiing Halfpipe World Cup, she finished with 94With a score of 25 points, he won the first championship of the season. As soon as the news came out, the Chinese people were all proud and applauded. Gu Ailing, a proper "other people's child". At the age of 15, she won the world championship in women's freestyle skiing; At the age of 17, he was admitted to Stanford with a near-perfect SAT score; At the age of 18, he won 6 gold medals in 36 days as a Chinese national. 
Someone said: "Gu Ailing is a genius girl, and it is much easier than ordinary people to achieve such results." But she retorted"Genius is only a very small part, it's more about hard work, balance and self-discipline. ”Yes, it is always easy for people to see the glamour and applause in front of the stage. In fact, there are no "genius skills" that can be easily unlocked, but they are all unknown efforts behind it. Looking back at her path as a heroine, I realized that those who are really powerful have to go through these three levels. 
It is said that Gu Ailing is a genius girl, but as everyone knows, she can have today, but it is far from being summed up by the word talent. After a competition, a reporter once asked her: "Some people say that you are a genius, you won the Olympic championship, and then you entered Stanford." But we also know that you have injuries, what do you think the relationship between genius and hard work looks like? She replied"I don't know if I'm a genius or not, but I think genius is a very, very, very small part, or even unimportant. ”Ten days before this World Cup match, Gu Ailing accidentally fell from a high altitude during training, her body smashed the edges and corners of the field, and her shoulder was severely hit. At one point, she was in so much pain that she couldn't get up, and the doctor advised her to have surgery immediately. But in order to participate in the competition, Gu Ailing still chose to postpone the operation. During the competition, every time she moved her shoulder, it hurt like a pinprick in a pin, but she still endured the pain and made perfect movements. And these are just a microcosm of her years of training. As Kazuo Inamori said:"Innate ability only determines a starting point, and hard work determines your ceiling. ”
I once saw a story on Zhihu: The blogger grew up in a small county town and took the college entrance examination to a junior college. She found that her peers were either playing games or skipping classes, and she always felt that this was not the college life she wanted. Until one day, she went to Beijing to play, and when she came to Beijing for the first time, she had the idea of staying. After returning to school, she soaked in the library every day, and did not come back until the lights went out at night. At the beginning, when the people around her saw her working so hard, they all laughed at her for being delusional. Later, with this mentality of "stupid birds fly first", she was admitted to Beijing Normal University, master's and doctoral degrees all the way, and settled in Beijing. She has been walking this road for 10 years. There are often people who complain about God because they have no talent, complain about God's injustice, think that they have worked hard, and there may not be results, so they lie down peacefully. As everyone knows, for the vast majority of ordinary people, moving forward step by step is the only chance to turn around. As the saying goes:"Time is the best answer, if you focus on gains and losses, efforts may not be immediate, if you look at growth, efforts will definitely live up to expectations. ”Maybe hard work can't bring you dazzling achievements, can't let you stand on the peak, but every time you try, you are beckoning to that better self. We may not be able to see what the future holds, nor can we leap forward and leap forward, but the only choice we have is to follow the path under our feet and grope our way forward. After all, talent is just a stepping stone, and hard work is the fixed star. Without the talent of hard work, it is worthless. 
When people reach a certain age, they agree more and more with the sentence:A person's life is a process of returning from imbalance to balance. In life, we often encounter such a situation: when we first enter the workplace, we are often anxious because of unsatisfactory work, and after a long time, we will find that everything is unconsciously mastered; Usually busy with work, it is inevitable to ignore the family, and then plan and arrange all the way, and slowly become a "superman" who is not wrong. So,Sometimes, life is an art of balance. Before Dong Yuhui became famous, there was a very unbalanced stage. At that time, it coincided with the transformation of New Oriental, and all the teachers became anchors. But Dong Yuhui couldn't pull his throat like other anchors and shout at the audience in the live broadcast room to buy goods. His live broadcast room is often deserted with only a few people. Once, there were finally a lot of people in the live broadcast room, and before he was happy, when he looked at the comment area, he was all scolded for his ugly appearance. This caused Dong Yuhui to want to give up the job for a while. 
During the day, he recited the live broadcast like the walking dead, and at night, he was so anxious that he couldn't sleep, and ran around Zhongguancun by himself. Perhaps he himself realized that this state was too bad, so he began to constantly adjust his state in an attempt to get everything back on track. Until, Dong Yuhui chose to broadcast live by teaching, and it didn't take long for his live broadcast room to explode on the whole network. Later, someone asked him if he was lonely during those difficult years. But he was very indifferent: "There was only starry light all the way." ”You see, a person always has to survive a period of imbalance and then slowly return to balance. How can we not? Walking on thin ice every day, for fear that one will be fired accidentally, only by gritting his teeth and constantly improving his competitiveness can he get rid of the unemployment crisis; After the death of a loved one, it is normal to fall into grief, but you must always face the pain of parting, shoulder the burden of the family, and continue to live your own life. True maturity is learning to find balance and reconcile with oneself at every stage of life. 
Albert Einstein once said, "Life is like riding a bicycle, if you want to keep balance, you have to work hard." "But there are moments in life when you want to rest, so don't condemn yourself when you're out of balance. Losing your balance does not mean that you lack willpower or self-discipline, but that your life is changing. The only thing we have to do is to be aware of the change, follow the change, and regain our balance. The greater the tribulation that life gives us, the more difficult it is to rebuild our balance, and the stronger our balance ability and higher rank will be after rebuilding. 
Maugham once said, "Every razor has its own philosophy." Writer Haruki Murakami particularly likes this quote because he has his own philosophy of a knife. That razor is running. Since the age of 33, he has been running 10 kilometers every day, a Xi habit he has been doing for more than 30 years. In fact, for normal people, running ten kilometers is like half a life, but for Murakami, a lot of dopamine is secreted during running, which provides inspiration for his writing. This kind of self-disciplined life is a kind of indulgence. 
As Clark said:"The premise of self-discipline is excitement, pain in the middle stage, and enjoyment in the later stage. ”The reason why many people feel that they can't overcome the laziness of getting up early, the craving of eating less, and the bitterness of self-discipline is because they have not yet tasted the sweetness of self-discipline. My friend Muzi used to be a veritable hedonist. Usually she has work, but she has to put it off until the last minute to finish it; Every day after work, she lies on the bed and swipes her mobile phone; On weekends, I slept all morning, and in the afternoon, I either watched dramas or went shopping with friends. She thought it would be good to live like this, until the company pre-laid off employees, and her name was on the list. Only then did she panic and make up her mind to change herself. She began to have a regular routine, getting up early every day to run, and lying down early at night to sleep; After work, I no longer use my mobile phone, but listen to lectures and Xi, and constantly enrich myself; Every day, she reviews her work and sets goals for the next day. In just three years, she read 100 books, took 3 certificates, and was successfully promoted and raised. Perhaps, in the eyes of others, Muzi just got up early every day and did more things. But she really felt the benefits of self-discipline: she didn't have to stay up late, and she no longer had to worry about not completing her work goals. A well-organized and self-disciplined life has allowed her to live the life she wants faster. In fact, the pleasures that used to be were just low-level pleasures, secreting dopamine; And the growth after self-discipline is the high-level happiness, and all the endorphins are secreted.
As Professor Luo Xiang said: "The happiness of downward indulgence is not happiness, but the happiness of working upward, walking upward, and making you feel the dignity of humanity is the real happiness." "If you sink in the happiness brought by dopamine, then the final reward for you will only be the pain of life. If you cultivate in the pain caused by endorphins, then what will reward you in the end will definitely be the sweetness that life gives. Self-discipline is tormenting, but after enduring the initial pain, you can usher in the later enjoyment.
Yu Minhong once said: "A person's truly excellent characteristics come from the strong desire of the heart, as well as the pursuit of life and fiery enthusiasm." And it is this, unwittingly, that determines the fate of many people. Life is like a boat on water, and everyone has to go through countless storms. In the face of wind and waves, some people will resign themselves to their fate and be swept by the waves at the bottom of the sea. And the really strong people have the courage to break the game and dare to overturn the original chess game of fate. Instead of being pushed by fate, it is better to wake up yourself and grasp the level of life. In this unrestricted life, see yourself, see heaven and earth.