The first sentence is: Excellence is a habit.
This sentence was said by Aristotle, an ancient Greek philosopher. If Excellence is a habit, then laziness is also a habit. When a person is born, everything except temper is acquired, which is the result of family influence and education. Therefore, everything we say and do is a habit formed over time. Some of us have developed good habits, while others have developed bad habits. By the age of 20, we have become conscious and begin to understand what kind of habits will benefit us for life. Therefore, from now on, we should turn Excellence into a habit, and let our excellent behavior become a habit and become our second nature. Let us habitually think creatively, habitually do things seriously, habitually be friendly to others, and habitually appreciate nature. Many of my habits were gradually formed in the ten years of operating "New Oriental", including my attitude towards teachers and employees and my views on many things. If you form good habits, you will look good in people's eyes. For example, let's learn to smile today, keep our sadness to ourselves and bring happiness to others. Whether it is a sincere smile or a professional smile, as long as you smile, it will be beautiful and leave a good impression. In western society, when you go to many places, people are smiling. Although I know it is professional, I can still feel that these smiling people are very kind. If everyone in our "New Oriental" employees keeps a straight face, everyone will feel suffocated. Maybe no matter how much money we give you, you may not be able to work in New Oriental unless you are a sadist who likes to suffer indignities.
The second sentence is: life is a process.
Although the result of the career is important, the process of doing things is more important, because we live in the process of every day, and every day is unhappy, which means that the whole life is unhappy. So although we pay attention to the result of our career, because we will be happier with good results, the process enriches our lives.
The final result of a person's life must be death, so we can't say that our life is meaningless. Happiness is the desire of life itself. Man is the only animal that can laugh, but he is not the only animal that knows how to be happy. All animals have a happy nature, which can be seen from the happy running and frolicking of many small animals. Human survival often must have a higher goal than maintaining survival, because in addition to material life, human beings must also be satisfied with spiritual life, so human beings must work harder than animals. In terms of materials, I hope that the salary of 2,000 yuan a month this year will become 3,000 yuan a month through my own efforts next year. After all, the quality of life brought by 2000 yuan and 3000 yuan is different. But beyond that, we must make our spiritual life a complete victory.
Zeng Guofan once said: "Only pay attention to cultivation, regardless of harvest". He didn't mean we didn't want to harvest. Zeng Guofan's meaning is simple. When seeds are sown in the ground, they will grow naturally, and finally, they will be harvested. However, it is very important to water and fertilize crops in the process of maintaining crop growth. Because only in this way will the seeds grow strong and the harvest will be better. In addition, you work at sunrise and rest at sunset every day, which is the best experience of your life. Facing the sun, you go to the beautiful land and watch the sun set. You go home with a hoe. Isn't this a wonderful feeling? Almost reached Tao Yuanming's realm of "picking chrysanthemums under the east fence and seeing Nanshan leisurely"
So everyone must seek to enrich every day. There is almost no eternity in the world. College students fall in love and swear every day that I will love you for life. This is actually untrue, just expressing a wish. But we are still talking, because at least at that moment, our expression is true feelings. Pursuing eternal love is a lifelong dream of human beings, because people are always enriched in love. However, this is not the case in real life. Statistics show that 90 of the 65,438+000 college couples who are in love will eventually break up, and half of them will eventually get married. Do you think love can last forever? So the truest statement is: "Today, at this moment, I really love you." Maybe tomorrow you will be lovelorn. After lovelorn, we will experience the pain of lovelorn. Then let's experience it. This experience is also a process of enriching your life.
The third sentence is: the shortest distance between two points is not necessarily a straight line
Especially in the relationship between people and the process of doing things, it is difficult for us to do things well directly. Sometimes you need to wait, sometimes you need cooperation, and sometimes you need skills. Maybe the plane can fly directly between two o'clock, but even if the plane flies, if there is a big airflow in front, it can only fly around that big airflow. We will encounter many difficulties and obstacles in doing things. Sometimes we don't have to be formal or demanding. We can choose to bypass difficulties and obstacles. Maybe this will be smoother. Think about it, when we talk to others, we should decide which sentence is better. Especially in China, a complicated society, you should learn how to understand others and make them think that you are mature, so that you can do things well.
The fourth sentence is: only those who know how to stop can know how to speed up.
The higher the quality of the car, the faster it will drive. For example, cars like Mercedes-Benz and BMW, their high quality is not only reflected in the engine system, but also in the brake system. If you drive these cars, you dare to drive at a high speed, because you know, as long as you step on the brakes, the car can stop steadily, without overturning or running off the road. But when we drive Li Xia's car, we won't drive as fast as Mercedes-Benz, because we know that if we let it run too fast, it will be difficult to brake, and maybe it will hit the railing or roll over. Therefore, people who are not sure to stop are people who can't run fast.
When I ski, the biggest experience is that I can't stop. When I first started to learn skiing, I didn't hire a coach. It is easy to watch others ski. Isn't it just sliding from the top of the mountain to the bottom of the mountain? So I put on my skis and slipped down. As a result, I slipped from the top of the mountain to the bottom of the mountain, and actually rolled down the mountain and fell a lot. I found that I didn't know how to stop or keep my balance at all. Finally, I repeatedly observed how others stopped and skated, and then I learned little by little and practiced how to stop on snow and slopes over and over again. After practicing for a week, I finally learned to stop, slide and stop on any slope. At this time, I found that I could ski, and I dared to rush from the top of the mountain to the foot of the mountain. Because I know that if I want to stop, I can stop as soon as I turn around. As long as you can stop, you won't hit trees, stones or people, and you won't be killed. Therefore, only those who know how to stop can know how to move forward at high speed.
The last sentence is: giving up is a kind of wisdom, and shortcomings are a kind of favor.
Once I saw this sentence in a book, I didn't understand it at first, but in my life and work, I finally began to understand its meaning. In life, the stupidest thing we do is to cling too much to our own things and cling to them and refuse to give up. As a result, if you cling to it, others will not share his things with you. It is a clear theory that you can't get anything without giving up. I'm here to tell you about sharing theory. When you have six apples, don't eat them all, because you eat all six apples, you only get six apples, and you only get one taste, that is, the taste of apples. If you take out five of the six apples for others to eat, it seems that you have lost five apples, but in fact you have gained the friendship and goodwill of the other five people. You can get more later. When others have other fruits, they will definitely share them with you. You will get an orange from this person and a pear from that person. In the end, you may get six different fruits, six different flavors, six different colors and six people's friendship. People must learn to exchange what you have for something more important and richer for you. Learn to communicate and share between people, which is a hundred times more than eating six apples by yourself. This is because you gave up five apples, so let's think about it. Is giving up a kind of wisdom?
What do you mean that the shortcoming is a favor? As we said at the beginning, if we are perfect, we have no room for development. He was born with everything. What's the point of this man living? The greatest pleasure of being a man lies in getting what we want through struggle. Therefore, shortcomings mean that we can further improve, and shortcomings mean that we can make further efforts. I watched a TV play in America, which was about a rich man who left an inexhaustible legacy to his descendants. As a result, all his descendants became addicts, committed suicide, went to prison or were mentally ill. Why is this happening? Because the rich man left a lot of money to his descendants, they could inherit a large fortune without labor. If you inherit a large fortune, you can buy almost anything. Everyone knows that the role of money is to buy everything you need in the material world, but the only thing you can't buy is your inner enrichment, the friendship of others and your sincere love. Because these can't be bought, the richer you are, the more empty your heart will be, and you will try your best to fill your emptiness with money. In the end, I can only change to taking drugs and let myself enter an illusory world. So as I said, when a person wants nothing, his living space is deprived. If we wake up every morning and feel that we are missing something today, that we need to be more perfect, and that we still have something to pursue, how happy it would be!