Facing difficulties is advocated by traditional Chinese culture.
From childhood to adulthood, whether it is teachers, parents, or your partner or friends, when you encounter something, they will encourage you to face difficulties.
But as I got older, I began to think less so, and I began to understand that only people who know how to retreat are truly smart people.
For the whole society, the development of society needs thousands of people who face difficulties, which is like raising Gu, only if there are enough cannon fodder, can one or two successful people be competed.
Only then can society develop faster.
If young people have no vigor, they are all smoothed out, and they are all lying flat, then the whole society will talk about development?
The country says that development is the last word, but they don't tell you that facing difficulties not only means that you can climb to the peak of a thousand meters, but also that you may fall into the abyss.
At any time, in everything, there are opportunities and risks coexisting, which is the eternal truth.
It is I who realize this, so sometimes I can't help but want to talk to the young people around me, especially those who are capable and ambitious.
Talk about when you should rise to the challenge, when you should be smoothed out, and retreat in the face of difficulties.
When the external environment is good, that is, when the time, place, and people are favorable, we must seize the opportunity to give full play to our talents.
To be an official, to do business, to do academics, to have a heart for heaven and earth, to establish a life for the people, and to study for the ambition of going to the saints and continuing to study.
Contrarily. When the external environment is not good, we must be cautious in our words and deeds, choose to smooth the edges and corners to become smooth, and more often only retreat from the difficulties in order to leave a useful body.
At this time, I still want to make an earth-shattering career.
At least he will suffer from depression because he does not meet his talents, and at worst, he will fall into the abyss and fall to pieces.
It is great wisdom to retreat in the face of difficulties and to retain the useful body first.
Because only by retaining a useful body first, when the environment becomes better, can you have the capital to realize your life ambitions.
The ancients summed up this idea with an idiom, that is, to protect one's self with wisdom.
Yes. Wisdom and self-preservation are Confucian ideas.
Whenever I talk about the idea of self-preservation, there will definitely be a lot of people who will pick it up and sneer at it and scold Confucianism.
But do these scolding people really understand Confucianism?
Some people can't tell the difference at all, and the retreat in the face of difficulties is due to the wisdom of choosing to retreat, or because of fear and cowardice.
There is a fundamental difference between the two, and the way to distinguish between the two is degree.
Confucianism's retreat is a wise roundabout tactic, and the ultimate goal is to rule the country and level the world with one family, and to the extent that there is no way to retreat, it can no longer retreat.
Degree is one's own heart, the conscience that upholds the truth, and one cannot do anything that goes against one's own heart.
Wise to protect yourself. It is not only the body that is protected, but also the heart that is protected.
For example, I saw an old lady on the street who fell down and couldn't get up, which was very pitiful. Are you smoothed out of the edges and corners and retreated, or did you rise to the challenge?
This is a matter of asking yourself about your own heart.
Confucianism, who advocates the protection of self-preservation, must be supported when encountering this situation, what he protects is his own heart, and if he does not help, then his heart will not be able to pass.
This is a thing that cannot be retreated, and if you don't help it, it's because of fear and cowardice that you choose to retreat.
The same principle applies to everything we do, as long as our original intention remains the same, our conscience to uphold the truth remains unchanged, the edges and corners are smoothed out, and we retreat in the face of difficulties, there is nothing wrong with it.