A really smart person never takes shortcuts or risks.
When you encounter problems, you only know how to drill hard, bit by bit, brick by brick, and build your own tall building.
Stupid people always try to find a shortcut when they are in trouble, and try to skip this step, just like building a building, where important links are loose and the slightest sign of trouble collapses.
Stupid people are looking for shortcuts.
Everyone wants to be smart, not stupid, so they want to take shortcuts. But I finally found that the shortcut I wanted to take was not as smooth as I thought, but turned into a detour.
When a new employee who graduated from Peking University first joined Huawei, he wrote a 10,000-word "Wan Yan Shu" to Chairman Ren, mainly talking about the company's business strategy.
The new employee thought that his unique insights could impress the leaders, but Ren replied:
"If this person is mentally ill, it is recommended to send him to hospital for treatment. If he is not ill, it is recommended to dismiss him. " As a result, the new employee was fired.
A newly graduated college student, even unfamiliar with business, dares to write thousands of words when he first enters the company, and he is still in the strategic direction. He really wants to prove himself, take shortcuts, cut corners and be reused.
Imagine that if Ren took his advice and attached great importance to him, then the people behind him didn't have to do anything, just write a "million-word book" to Ren.
Some people, who are good at all kinds of calculations, can always bypass all kinds of rules and achieve some small achievements easily, but such fools often find it difficult to achieve great achievements.
The Book of the New Tang Dynasty recorded such a story.
In the Tang Dynasty, there was a man named Lu Zangyong who was admitted to Jinshi, but he didn't get an official position. So he used his crooked brain to try to attract the attention of the emperor by living in seclusion.
The emperor is in Chang 'an, and he lives in nearby Zhong Nanshan. When the emperor moved the capital to Luoyang, he followed him to Songshan for seclusion.
Lu Zang used this trick really well. Empress Wu Zetian heard that there was a reclusive scholar in this dynasty, so she quickly ordered him to come out of the mountain and sealed him a post of left gleaning.
Although Zuo Shiyi is just a mediocre person, he is a bright-eyed, studious and enterprising official. Because he works beside the son of heaven, it is easy to get promoted. Sure enough, Lu Zang became an assistant minister in a few years.
Lu Zang wanted to be an official, but he exposed his personality defects.
When I was an assistant minister in the official department, I had no choice but to betray my conscience in the face of all kinds of dignitaries. In the history books, he was accused of being "clumsy, devoted to powerful people and extravagant."
Later, Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty exiled Toy Boy, who used to be Princess Taiping, to a remote place in Guangdong, where he didn't even have the guarantee for his last night.
Poor people must have hateful places, and hateful people must also have pitiful places.
There are no shortcuts in this world, and there are many lazy people, so there are shortcuts. At the same time, these shortcuts have become pits.
Smart people are trying.
Qian Mu, a master of Chinese studies, once said: "People who have made great achievements through the ages have no other unique skills. They are all capable people who are willing to work hard. "
Mr. Qian Mu is clever and witty, and has the reputation of "child prodigy".
However, he never relied on his own cleverness. Instead, he kept reading notes for decades, meticulously checked materials, read and wrote for no less than ten hours every day, and studied hard.
Mr Sun Guodong, a historian, said, "Mr Qian's research, lectures, education and writings have never stopped for eighty years.
This perseverance is unprecedented. The academic achievements of this scale are also great, and Zhu is the only one after him. "
If a person is both smart and willing to work hard, if he is not successful, God will not agree.
Qian Zhongshu, Mr. Qian Mu's "little fellow villager" and "dry nephew", is also extremely clever and has a very high talent, which few people can match, but he never plays tricks in his studies, and is willing to use stupid kung fu and work hard.
After entering Tsinghua University, his goal is to "sweep the Tsinghua Library". In addition to attending classes every day, I just soak in the library, copy notes, sort out the past and enjoy myself.
It's not just talented people who work hard. If an ordinary person is willing to work hard and does not take shortcuts, he can still achieve solid success. Zeng Guofan is such an example.
Zeng Guofan is really not a "smart" person. My friend Zuo said that Zeng Guofan was "short of talents", "short of talents" and "short of talents". "Every time a military plane suffers, it is dull."
His student Li Hongzhang said that he was "slow in Confucianism" and did things too slowly. However, Zeng Guofan said: "The world is the most awkward and can win the ingenuity of the world."
Because the Taiping Army was good at field operations and deployed troops on a large scale and at a high speed, the Qing court sent troops to encircle and encircle many times, which was unfavorable.
However, the resourceful Taiping Army met Zeng Guofan and was helpless. Because Zeng Guofan only likes to "fight hard."
The so-called hard-wall covert warfare means that every time the Xiang army attacks a city, it is not eager to fight with the Taiping Army, but to build walls and dig trenches. The wall should be built one foot thick and eight feet high to prevent gunfire.
The ditch should be dug one foot deep, and then a flower hedge should be buried outside the ditch. The hedge should be five feet and buried two feet underground. Moreover, two or three floors should be set up to prevent cavalry attacks.
The next day, after a certain distance, we repaired the wall and dug a trench.
Like a pestering python, it trapped the city with a trench.
It was in this way that the entangled Taiping Army had no countermeasures and was finally defeated.
Zeng Guofan's cleverness is based on such clumsiness. Stupidity is "smart" to the extreme, and "clumsy" is "smart" to the extreme.
The clumsiest person in the world can win the cleverest person in the world.