I didn't understand the word "slow" until I was not confused.

I suddenly recall a sentence that the former company boss said for my parting practice: When you understand that "things are slow, things are round", you will almost practice at home. What he said was casual, and I didn't care. I nodded and said yes, full of ambition and high spirits. Time flies, I am not confused when I am ready to read people!

Nowadays, the times are changing rapidly, and the fast pace drives people to race against time and keep running forward. It seems that if you slack off for a moment, your own fame or overnight wealth will change hands. Looking back, apart from being exhausted, stressed and at a loss, it seems that there are only a few pieces of silver left.

isn't the speed and efficiency we are striving for right?

Confucius warned us here that striving for quick success and instant benefit will not achieve the goal.

therefore, we need to dialectically examine the fast and slow. The words and deeds between speed and speed have provided us with effective and valuable experience: things are slow and round, people are slow and safe, and words are late and expensive.

there is a theoretical basis for things to be done slowly. The book Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman, winner of the Nobel Prize in Economics, deeply studies and expounds the thinking modes of the two systems of human speed and speed. Among them, fast thinking relies on intuition to make unconscious thinking, while slow thinking is conscious thinking under people's active control. Because the fast thinking system runs fast and consumes little brain power, the innate inertia of the brain often chooses this mode that is easy to lead to prejudice and mistakes, while ignoring the slow thinking that can be actively controlled and consciously. This award-winning research theory makes us understand: in the face of important things, it is best to go beyond easy and quick thinking but easy to make mistakes, calm down, and let us enter controlled and conscious slow thinking, and often get satisfactory results.

This fable of encouraging young plants shows that you can't eat hot tofu if you are in a hurry. The operation of things has its inherent objective laws, which are independent of human will. Recognizing the thinking mode of the brain, following the objective development law of things, making a decision before moving, will certainly make a correct judgment on things. Therefore, it is the embodiment of cognition that "things are slow and round".

"If things are slow, things will be round" comes from Yu Wanchun's Dangkou Zhi in the Qing Dynasty: "It seems that this matter is wide and round, and it is difficult to achieve results." It means not to rush things, but to slow down and think calmly in order to get a happy ending.

The chapter is selected from Biography of Zhao Yu in Ming Dynasty. When Zhao Yugang arrived in Songjiang Prefecture, he was worried about the folk custom of liking litigation there. Every time he meets a litigant, he always exhorts him: "Come tomorrow", so everyone laughs at him, and there is a ballad of "Songjiang satrap comes tomorrow". After waiting for a night, the anger of the litigants gradually subsided, or they were discouraged by others, and most of them stopped the lawsuit. Zhao Yu's tenure is not only remarkable in political achievements, but also famous for his harmony with the people. The story tells us that at the beginning of something, it is often difficult for people to understand the whole picture of things in a short time, and there is not enough time to think about it. Only by controlling their emotions, sorting out the cause and effect of things, and then dealing with things, the problem will be solved.

Kangxi reigned for sixty-one years. He was diligent in government affairs all his life, and his economy developed rapidly. Therefore, the Qing Dynasty became the most vast, populous and economically developed country in the world at that time. In 1674, Wu Sangui and Geng Jingzhong rebelled one after another, but Kangxi was uncharacteristically fortunate to be surrounded by Nanyuan. It was his calmness that gave confidence to his ministers and generals, thus successfully surviving the crisis. Therefore, when encountering major events, you should not be impetuous. You should calm down and think twice before you act, with a broad-minded attitude of being calm and calm.

In 1356 AD, Zhu Yuanzhang, the founder of the Ming Dynasty, wiped out the water army of the Yuan Dynasty, and then occupied Jiqing (now Nanjing). At this time, Zhang Shicheng, Chen Youliang and Fang Guozhen, who were entrenched in Zhejiang, Sichuan and Huguang, became kings one after another. Knowing that his strength was not strong enough, Zhu Yuanzhang wisely made the choice of "building a high wall, accumulating grain and slowly becoming kings" under the situation of being surrounded by powerful enemies, and finally unified the whole country. Isn't this a good embodiment of "people are slow and safe"?

Besides, at present, everything is speed first. Don't you see that in order to "race against time", the tragic scene of frequent traffic accidents and family destruction and death is really chilling. If you want to be safe, you must be slow, and you must be safe for a long time.

"The deep water makes the flow slow, and the late words make people expensive" comes from the Book of Rites written by Dai Sheng in the Western Han Dynasty. Literally, the deeper the water, the slower the flow, and the slower the cultured people speak. Steady people always speak slowly and thoughtfully, which not only avoids the disaster from coming out of their mouths, but also gives people the feeling of being calm and broad-minded.

Wang Langya, known as "the first hope of China", began in the Spring and Autumn Period and has been enduring for thousands of years. There are a lot of talented people, more than 9 people are prime ministers, and the famous calligrapher Wang Xizhi is also famous. Wang Langya's six-character family rule, "Speak slowly and be kind", should be the only magic weapon to create a noble family.

in a word, an emergency will hurt, but a delay will make things better. Remember to practice the golden saying that "things are slow and round, people are slow and safe, and words are late and expensive", which will surely benefit endlessly.