How to design yourself?

Hegel quoted an old saying in German Little Logic: "Everyone is the master of his own destiny."

British Bacon's On Luck quoted an ancient poet: "Man is the designer of his own happiness."

American Maslow's realm of human nature: "The truly free choice-at this time, the inner nature of the selector is the main determinant-is enhanced by getting rid of social pressure, by independent personality instead of relying on personality, by maturity, strength and courage in age instead of weakness and fear, and by truth, knowledge and sober consciousness." China people's self-design thought Laozi: "I want to be different from others." (Chapter 20) Lao Tzu believes that a person must have his own unique personality and not blindly imitate others. In chapter 67, he added: "The whole world calls me a big shot, a big shot and an unworthy person. The husband is incompetent, so he can be great. If it is Xiao, it will be fine for a long time. " I want to be a capitalized person, big, but not like others, so I can be big.

If you just imitate others, learn from others, learn from others, learn from others, learn from others, and watch from others, then this is insignificant.

Therefore, Lao Tzu put forward a distinctive slogan: "unprecedented." (Chapter 64) This is to create a new self-image that no one else has.

Confucius: "Benevolence depends on itself, but on others?" (Yan Yuan) Benevolence is an ideal realm of Confucius about being a man. Benevolence depends on oneself, which means that people should completely decide their own ideals, not others.

Guanzi Situation Solution advocates ambitious goals. "If you are in a family, you will be in a family; If you are willing to stay in a township, you will stand in a township; If you are in a country, you will be in a country; If you want to be in the world, you will stand in the world. Therefore, if the person he wants is small, his position will be small; If what he wants is big, then he will stand big. Therefore, the sky: the villain does not stand. "

Confucius also advocated ambition: "although there are trails, there must be considerable people;" Stay away from the mud, but also a gentleman. "(Zhang Zi) A small skill has its own value, but I am worried that it will hinder the realization of lofty aspirations, so the gentleman does not choose it.

The two articles, Lun Da and Shen Da, in Lu's Spring and Autumn Annals, are devoted to "aiming high", but at the same time, they should not aim too high. "Great craftsmen don't cut, big people don't beans, they don't fight, and soldiers don't fight." Great craftsmen don't have to cut wood by themselves, but have superb designs; Great chefs don't have to cook in the kitchen by themselves, but they have superb recipes. Chasing people doesn't have to participate in hand-to-hand combat in person, but make plans in the air and win the battle thousands of miles away.

For example, Mao Zedong can't shoot, but he can command the army to defeat Chiang Kai-shek's 8 million troops.

Liang Qichao: "The system of Confucius, apart from the son of heaven, is made up of four people, each with a hundred acres, which is salty and independent." Stories designed by great men and celebrities Parents should design their children.

Engels' father hoped that Engels would succeed his father and become a capitalist, but Engels himself chose to be a great thinker.

Xiang Yu, "When I was young, I couldn't study and go; You can't learn the sword. " His uncle "Xiang Liang was furious". Xiang Yu said: "The book is enough to register surnames; Sword, one enemy and a hundred, nothing can be learned. Learn from ten thousand enemies. " Xiang Yu successfully completed his self-selection and became the overlord of Chu.

Mao Zedong's father designed a way for Mao Zedong to make money by doing business, while Mao Zedong chose to go out to study. He rewrote a poem and gave it to his father: "My son is determined to go to the countryside, and he will never return it until he learns to become famous." No need to bury bones, life is everywhere. "Mao Zedong successfully made a self-choice, became an epoch-making great politician, strategist and thinker in China, and became the founding leader of the China people.

Father wanted Balzac to be a lawyer, but Balzac refused and wanted to be a writer. So his parents punished him, gave him a hot old house in Leng Xia in winter, and later cut off his financial resources. However, Balzac persevered and finally lived independently with his writing income and became a great writer. Hugo refused to enter the technical school chosen by his father for him, but succeeded in self-selection and became a great writer.

Arab tycoon Ahmed Osman is the largest contractor in the Middle East. He grew from a poor student with no money to a rich man with more than 200 subsidiaries and 26 banks. He lost his father at the age of 3, and his mother wanted him to become an engineer in the upper class. He said sincerely, "please forgive me, mom, I can't obey your will." He succeeded in self-selection and became one of the richest people in Egypt.

Teachers should design students.

Lu Ban accepted Mount Tai as a disciple and of course designed Mount Tai as a carpenter. On the other hand, Mount Tai likes bamboo. Lu Ban thought Mount Tai could not be built, so he was expelled from school. Later, once Lu Ban passed by a place and found that the bamboo wares on the market were exquisite and practical, so he tried his best to ask someone to introduce him to visit the bamboo master. As soon as we met, we found that the master of bamboo art was actually Mount Tai who was driven away by himself. He sighed and felt ashamed: "I really don't know Mount Tai!"

The boss wants to design his subordinates.

The king of England asked his doctor Harvey to do the most boring job, doing physical examinations for some women who were wrongly accused of being witches. But Harvey insisted on self-choice. He discovered blood circulation and became a great scientist.

Zola wrote a book when she was a clerk in a publishing company, which was considered a bad book by the social security department. So the boss of the company threatened Zola that if he didn't stop writing, he would be fired and his job would be smashed. Zola calmly replied, "Go and make a fortune and continue to publish works written by obedient writers without words!" " "He was not afraid of his fiancee leaving her, starving, and revenge from the police and publishers. He resolutely chose himself and became the founder and famous writer of naturalistic literary works. Since 1979, the people of China have carried out large-scale excitement, boiling, criticism and debate on a slogan for the first time in their own history.

The slogan is: design yourself!

In the traditional culture of China, there is no such language. It was later referred to as "self-design" for short, and became a controversial topic in 65,438+00 years. It has become a common life practice in modern China, and even the China Production Party has put forward the slogan of "China characteristics" for self-design.

An article said: "Looking back on the course of ten years, I think the slogan' self-design' was first debated and criticized ... at least I think this is a key point."

When "design yourself" was first put forward, although it has not taken the form of philosophy and conducted a thorough speculative argument, it has already made China people boil from top to bottom. This is the instinctive * * * sound, the excitement of primitive desire, and the intuitive voice of hundreds of millions of China people who have been suppressed for more than two thousand years. If it is stored for a long time, it will grow quickly. The "Cultural Revolution" developed the "other conclusions" of "all obedience" to the peak, and then it also reached a turning point.

From "obedience" to "self-design", this is an unprecedented turning point and breakthrough in China people's code of conduct, and it is a great rebellion against subordination, attachment and loyalty for two thousand years.