Biography of Zeng Guofan
What are you afraid of when you encounter failure in life?
Zeng Guofan grew up in failure, and it was because of his experience that he became a generation of saints! To sum up, it is to keep trying and making mistakes, absorbing successful experiences, and updating one's abilities.
Nowadays, there is a fever for public examinations, and Zeng Guofan has taken the imperial examination seven times. Being ridiculed? Lose face! Before success, everyone has some bitterness.
Failure is not terrible, it is valuable to sum up lessons from failure, understand the reasons for your failure very well, and come up with specific ways to solve it in action, solve it, and you will not be far from success!
The reason for the failure of Zeng Guofan's several scientific expeditions:
Poor memory. Zeng Guofan memorized "The Story of Yueyang Tower" when he was a child, and the thief on the roof beam listened to him read it over and over again, and the content had been memorized, but Zeng Guofan had not yet memorized the content.
Poor writing. In ancient times, writing articles tested candidates' writing skills. Zeng Guofan's essay in a certain exam was used as a negative textbook after being graded, because the reason did not make sense. The way the article is written needs to pay attention to many details, such as the use of words, quoting examples from the ancients, making sentences and other small details, of course, typos and sentences do not make sense, and the fatal mistake of word misuse Zeng Guofan also made it. In addition to grasping the small details, we must also pay attention to the overall situation of the whole article, what should the article specifically express? Did you have a thought in mind before writing the article? Obviously, Zeng Guofan has committed all these mistakes.
Quality of teaching. His father, Zeng Linshu, was in charge of Zeng Guofan's studies. Zeng Linshu took the exam many times before he was admitted to Xiucai. The father's failure to educate the son affects him all the time. The stupid rote memorization method used by father and son was used by many people in ancient times, and it is often used by modern people. When you encounter something you don't understand, you should skip it, and you can't hold on to it, and then think about it or ask people who understand. Zeng Guofan also made the mistake of dead buttons.
Perseverance and perseverance. I believe that many people do a thing for three minutes, short-sighted, without long-term persistence, and give up halfway. Three days of fishing, two days of drying nets. Learning is a long-term process. Poor basic skills are doomed to ineffective work.
The effort is in the wrong direction. Zeng Guofan's failure in the exam was due to his insufficient preparation for how to answer the content of the exam, his efforts did not go down to the right place, and he blindly endured hardships and studied blindly. In other words, Zeng Guofan didn't understand the way of thinking of the questioner, and he didn't understand the scoring criteria of the article. It was these that doomed him to failure again and again.
Stubborn personality, hard headed, irrational, and inflexible. Try again if you don't work once, and keep trying the same way you failed last time. The result is definitely a failure. The important reason for the failure last time is that I still haven't figured it out, and I still don't understand it. To keep trying is to keep failing. There are primary (big) and secondary (small) reasons that affect the success or failure of things. Find the reason. Just as the doctor finds the right medicine and prescribes the right medicine, he doesn't know how the disease came about, how can he be optimistic. There is only blind trying, and it all depends on luck, that is, people let fate carry the pot of failure.