As far as success is concerned, regardless of prosperity or adversity, it is an external cause, and it depends on internal factors. This can explain why "since ancient times, heroes have been poor, playboy children are few and warriors are many", because people in prosperity are easily confused, often greedy for enjoyment, do not know how to make progress, and do not know what suffering is. And how can a person without ambition and enterprise become a useful person? People in adversity are different. They went through hardships and struggled against fate and difficulties again and again. In order to get out of adversity, most of them set lofty aspirations and firm goals. People will not look up without pressure, and will not forge ahead without motivation. Once both are combined, it will exert amazing potential. This is exactly what rich people generally don't have.
Of course, since the environment is an external cause, it is not that people in prosperity can't become talents, let alone people in adversity can't become talents. There is no necessary connection between them. If people in prosperity can set their minds on their ambitions and don't work hard at ease, why worry that they won't become talents? On the contrary, if people in adversity can't stand suffering, they will be depressed and even swallowed up.
Throughout the ages, many celebrities have succeeded in adversity. Like Sima Qian, he was jailed because of the Li Ling case and suffered great humiliation, but he finally survived the hardships and wrote a brilliant masterpiece Historical Records. Another example is Zhang, a modern China native. He experienced a great transformation from a swimmer to a paraplegia, but he didn't recover from it. Instead, he turned it into motivation, studied hard and accomplished many things that healthy people could not do. And Zhang Haidi and Li Zhengdao ... There are countless celebrities who have succeeded in adversity. The students in Beijing Hongzhi class all grew up in difficulties and learned to overcome them with courage, wisdom and strength. They are like grass in the wild, which has been ravaged by wind and rain but does not lodging, but how can the vitality of those "flowers" in the greenhouse be compared with them?
"Heaven is about to drop to a great post, and people must first suffer from their minds, their bones and muscles, their bodies, and their bodies, so they can't bear it." It seems that you can't reach the other side of victory without wind and waves; Without experiencing wind and rain, you can't see the rainbow; You can't achieve great things without suffering. So, young man, if you are in prosperity, please step out of the "greenhouse" and take the courage to meet the difficult challenges; If you are in adversity, don't be discouraged, and overcome the difficulties bravely. As they say, "Suffering is a school." And learning well still depends on yourself.
And Sima Qian's legs for historical records.
Sun Tzu's leg bending became the art of war.
Mao Zedong went to Peking University to teach, but was assigned to work in a library in Peking University. As a result, he met Li Dazhao, the pioneer of * * * at that time.
Su Wu has a good time herding sheep.
Yue Fei's resistance to the imperial edict led to the scene of Fengbo Pavilion.
The young people who were decentralized in the sixties and seventies are all talents now.
Mao Zedong, a great man who once dominated China's political arena and led the working people in China to overthrow the three mountains and bury the exploitation system, walked more than 20 miles to borrow books from relatives and friends when he was a child because he had no money to buy books. Go out to herd cattle during the day and study hard under the dim soybean oil lamp at night. It is this spirit of pursuing knowledge and perseverance that has given him lofty ideals and ambitions and made him an outstanding people's leader in China. Gorky, a famous writer, has experienced the bitterness of the world since he was a child. Although he was tired of work, he refused to give up reading for a moment. He often plagiarized other people's works at the urging of his boss and eventually became a famous writer. Edison, a great American inventor, couldn't afford books and experimental equipment at home when he was a child, so he collected bottles and cans everywhere. Once, he did an experiment on the train and accidentally caused an explosion. The conductor slapped him in the face and he was deaf. The hardships of life and physical defects did not discourage him. He studied harder and eventually became a world-famous scientist.
Unfavorable environment/conditions/circumstances
In the early Qing Dynasty, only120,000 children of the Qing Dynasty fought against more than 3 million troops of the Ming Dynasty, which was an adversity. But they succeeded in defeating the Ming army, including Li Zicheng, who once represented the people's will. In fact, youth grew up in adversity. In the words of the Book of Changes, it is said that "Heaven is strong and gentlemen are constantly striving for self-improvement". Once the Qing dynasty won the world, it immediately entered the prosperous age, became famous and lost its original position. Let's take a look at the revolutionary history of China led by China's * * * production party. The China Revolution led by China's * * * production party also emerged and grew up in historical adversity. Their adversity can be described as hardship, such as many hard days during the Long March and the Anti-Japanese War, which are unimaginable to people today. However, the great and wise China * * production party led the people of China, and after 28 years of fighting, the new China was established; History is like this, so are people. So adversity is more conducive to people's growth. China has a long history, from generation to generation, and most of them grew up in adversity.
What deserves people's joy is that China * * * party member, with Comrade Hu Jintao as the general secretary, has truly realized the "Theory of Three Represents" with the party's purpose of being prepared for danger in times of peace, taking history as a mirror, loving the people and the people, being pragmatic and diligent, and serving the people wholeheartedly, which has profoundly influenced all China * * party member and truly achieved "Theory of Three Represents".
Former US President Bill Clinton and former British Prime Minister Heath both come from single-parent families, but this does not mean that single-parent families or domestic violence are conducive to growth.
As far as talent growth is concerned, it can be divided into prosperity and adversity. Prosperity provides all kinds of convenient conditions and is conducive to the growth of talents, but adversity is often a situation that talents often encounter and must face correctly. Many thinkers in ancient China thought that "it is difficult to go to the sky", and the Wei school even said: "If you go against it, you will live, and if you go with it, you will die; Reverse is sacred, and shun is crazy; The vegetation is not frost and snow, and the cause is not solid; If people are not worried, they are not wise. " He thinks that only adversity can make success, which is very one-sided. However, it is an indisputable fact that the phenomenon of success in adversity embodies some regularity in righteousness.
First, the analysis of the reasons for the bad growth of talents
(a) the specific historical conditions and social and political system.
Times can create heroes, but also stifle and hinder the progress and emergence of some talents, resulting in the adversity of talent growth. The insufficient demand for military talents in the peaceful and prosperous times is not conducive to the display of people's military talents, and it is a social "adversity" for the growth of military talents; In the era of social revolution, armed struggle or world disintegration, people with military talents came into being to show their ambitions. However, in this era, talents with scientific and technological talent and literary expertise are often faced with the unfavorable situation that there is no way to serve the country by studying. It can be seen that the "status quo" also has a negative side to the growth of specific talents.
Judging from the five social forms experienced by human beings, feudal system and theocracy are the most unfavorable to the growth of talents, and they are also the most destructive to talents. In medieval Europe, the military personnel system was centered on feudal family status, and the status of officers was the hereditary privilege of a few nobles, which blocked the channels for a large number of civilians and their children to become officers and display and give play to their military talents. After Sui and Tang Dynasties, the imperial examination system in China was actually a trap that restricted people from giving full play to their talents. Because of life, the broad masses of workers lost the opportunity to study, and it was impossible for them to take part in the imperial examination and leave their jobs. In the Ming and Qing Dynasties, eight-part essay was used to select scholars, and candidates could only draw a gourd ladle to speak for the ancients, but could not have independent thoughts. The imperial examination system has become a shackle that binds people to become talents. I want to know how many talents are buried in this institutional adversity.
(2) Backward ideas and old habits.
Some old ideas and habits in the history of our country have caused all kinds of adversity, which still fetters the growth and progress of talents. The first is about the habitual adversity of seniority. Whether a highly respected and talented person can enter his position depends on his qualifications. "Fools and sages are all qualified", and promotion must be "ranked according to qualifications, one term after another". The junior should obey the arrangement, endure hardships for many years, and even be buried in the soil for a long time. The second is the interpersonal adversity of jealous talents. In an environment full of jealousy, it is difficult for talents to stand out. Even if you have achievements, you will not feel a sense of accomplishment, but you will feel "heart-warming". Some people don't allow talents to stand out, and even some leaders lack due tolerance. They would rather let talented people be abandoned in vain than let them "show their faces", resulting in potential talents being "stuck by dragons and lying with tigers" Third, close and conservative social, cultural and psychological adversity. China's traditional culture regards conservative and introverted psychological character as the virtue of self-esteem. Philosophy of life such as "It is better to hide than to be smart" and "Don't teach others to swim" are out of the need of so-called "self-esteem". For example, young talents have suggestions and ideas about their work, academic research and opinions, and even have doubts about some authoritative conclusions, but they don't show traces, because once they make jokes, they will be humiliated, despised and lose their "self-esteem." As a result, how many insights have been erased and how many creations can be stillborn? Inappropriate emphasis on self-esteem is tantamount to creating mental shackles and psychological adversity for yourself.
(3) The development of talents is unbalanced.
In the long-distance race, people who rush ahead often bear greater wind resistance or headwind. In the same way, the development and progress of talents, once someone becomes famous or even a public figure, the society and people around him pay more attention to it, expect more from it and demand more harshly, which invisibly forms a kind of pressure, which can also be called a kind of "prosperity".
Another is the adversity caused by Matthew effect: because of the different progress of talent growth, outstanding talents who are ahead are easily recognized by organizations and society and won honors and rewards; Those unknown potential talents are difficult to be recognized, and are often trapped in the "Matthew effect" and adversity. "Matthew effect" often promotes the development of outstanding talents at the expense of the development of potential talents, thus depriving the development opportunities and possibilities of potential talents. Through this "deprivation" mechanism, "Matthew effect" plays an artificial obstacle to the growth of potential talents, not only suppressing talents, but also burying talents.