Zeng Guofan: Your adversity quotient determines the height of your life.

A world in a flower, a person's life. Although everyone has his own unique life, no one's life is unimpeded. We all have sunny Wan Li or stormy moments.

Especially at the moment of thunder and lightning and heavy rain, such adversity is the most painful.

But some people say that adversity is not terrible, and it is more important to have a good adversity quotient to face adversity, because it determines the direction and height of a person's life.

What is adversity quotient?

Adversity quotient is your resistance to adversity and your ability to get rid of it.

Zeng Guofan told us with his own life: your adversity quotient determines the height of your life.

0 1 adversity: the more frustrated, the braver the imperial examination road.

Before Zeng Guofan, there were no scholars and officials in the Zeng family. Until grandpa's generation, he was determined to be a learned man for future generations.

Zeng Guofan's father is a celebrity in the imperial examination circle and has not been on the list for many times. Fourteen-year-old Zeng Guofan was pointed at the first time he followed his father to catch the exam.

Perhaps Zeng Guofan himself did not think that this was just the beginning, and it was far from over. Since then, he and his father have been discredited several times in Sun Shan, and Zeng Guofan has been ridiculed more and more.

The biggest blow to him was that in the year when his father was promoted in high school, he was "condemned by the elevator" on the grounds that the arts and sciences were not smooth. What is this concept?

Every time, the imperial examiners will select several negative examples for everyone to take as a warning. The fluency of arts and sciences is divided into six levels, and the fluency of arts and sciences is six levels, the worst level.

The criticism of this listing has turned Zeng Guofan from a joke in the whole town into a laughing stock in the whole province.

Most people will define themselves at this time and say that they are incompetent and unsuitable for studying, thus giving up this road. But Zeng Guofan is not. He shut himself in his study, learned from his mistakes, reflected on himself and found out the reasons for his failure.

This year, Zeng Guofan went to bed late and got up early, and insisted on writing articles every day. Make an outline before writing an article, so that the article will have a sense of the overall situation and overall momentum.

A few years later, in the imperial examination, Zeng Guofan was a scholar, and later Juren was also admitted. At this moment, Zeng Guofan changed from a laughing stock to a person who wanted to please everyone.

So when you are in adversity in life, don't give up, believe in yourself and try to be strong. After the phoenix nirvana, you will surely usher in a better life.

02 Adversity: My career was hit hard.

After the establishment of Xiang Army and the Taiping Army suffered heavy losses, Zeng Guofan gained fame and fortune. However, fate always likes to see jokes. Although Zeng Guofan has won many wars, he has no real power and integrity, which has offended many interest groups. After making bad friends with the emperor, he was relieved of military power in Jiangxi and went home to support the elderly.

Zeng Guofan once again fell into underestimation and was surrounded by the officialdom of the past. Now the great hero of the past was humiliated and demoted in Jiangxi, and he became a useless pawn in the hands of the emperor.

This gap and frustration made him miserable and depressed.

After a period of decadence, Zeng Guofan began to reflect on himself. What's the problem?

Who can get along comfortably with such a person who insists on his own opinions too much, speaks directly without leaving room, and is outspoken in the face of the emperor?

"The world is the softest and the strongest." "Big softness is not soft, just not just." Being too tough is the performance of the weak, so we should combine rigidity with softness.

Failure and frustration are not terrible, decadence and cowardice are terrible. Zeng Guofan was not defeated, but reflected on the problem and found the reason.

A few years later, the god of fate visited him again. Emperor Xianfeng invited him out of the mountain again to appease the Taiping Army.

This time, Zeng Guofan changed, treating people with peace and humility, and accepting talents from all over the world. The enemies established in officialdom gradually turned into ordinary colleagues and friends. Understand other people's difficulties and face them together.

"I'm going to Jiangxi again, and everyone is looking forward to it." He became Zeng Guofan, who was respected by everyone and had fame and fortune in hand.

General Patton, a famous American war fighter, once said: The measure of a person's success is not the height at which he reached the peak, but his resilience at the bottom.

Look at Zeng Guofan's ups and downs of life, not everyone can bear it. Excellent and successful people have amazing high adversity quotient, they are not afraid of failure and denial, but also of frustration and courage!

Adversity quotient determines the height of a person's life.

Even if you are a talented person with high IQ and EQ, can you stand the test and get stronger and stronger when you encounter adversity?

EQ and IQ are the cornerstones, but adversity quotient determines a person's life pattern and height.

The higher a person's adversity quotient, the greater the chance of success! So don't be afraid to fall, stand up and start over! In the adult world, there are no easy words. Each of us has our own difficulties. Life is so cruel. Who hasn't cried at night?

But if you are not knocked down by the hardships of life, even if you are injured, you will still stand up with tenacious perseverance. This is the courage of a gentleman!