Seek the story of failure because of pride.

First, the straw boat borrowed an arrow.

The Arrow of Borrowing Grass Boat is the story of Battle of Red Cliffs in China's classic Romance of the Three Kingdoms. Borrowing arrows was deliberately put forward by Zhou Yu (limited to 100 thousand arrows in ten days). The witty Zhuge Liang saw through it at a glance and said calmly that it only took three days. Later, Zhuge Liang used the foggy days and Cao Cao's suspicious character to lure the enemy with several straw boats. Finally, he borrowed 100,000 arrows and made great achievements.

Thus, Zhuge Liang's courage and wisdom were praised by later generations, which produced many interesting idioms and drama performances.

Second, the story of business

The story of a child prodigy named "Fang Zhongyong" in Jinxi, Jiangxi Province, who was reduced to an ordinary person because his father refused to let him study, was used by his father as a tool to make money. Taking Zhong Yong as an example, this paper warns people not to learn new knowledge, never to rely solely on talent, but to pay attention to the education and learning after tomorrow, and emphasizes the importance of education and learning after tomorrow to success.

Third, the carelessness of Jingzhou.

After Battle of Red Cliffs, seven counties in Jingzhou were divided by Liu Bei, Cao Cao and Sun Quan, and Liu Bei entered Sichuan, leaving five counties in Jingzhou occupied by Guan Yu (Nanjun, Changsha, Lingling, Guiyang and Wuling), among which Nanjun was borrowed from Wu Dong by Liu Bei. After Liu Bei got Shuchuan, he returned Changsha and Guiyang counties to Sun Quan (equivalent to returning Nanjun). Later, Guan Yu sent troops to attack Cao Cao's Xiangfan area, and Sun Quan sent Lu Meng to attack the fall of three counties in Jingzhou (Nanjun, Wuling and Lingling), which led to the fall of three counties in Jingzhou. Careless loss of Jingzhou is now a metaphor for failure or loss caused by negligence, which means carelessness, pride and underestimation of the enemy.

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In the west, the representative of pride is fallen angels Lucifer (also known as Satan after the fall of Lucifer). According to the Bible, Satan first appeared as a "glorious morning star, son of glory", probably in Milton's Paradise Lost. Lucifer resisted because of the crime of refusing to surrender. Even though he was thrown into the abyss with his rebellious companions and lost the glory of an angel, because "pride" should be equal to God, he still resisted God endlessly, and "pride" would lead to blindness.

In order to understand the nature of this psychological phenomenon, we might as well take a look at the extreme situation. Mental illness has a symptom called "conceited delusion". The patient firmly believes that he is reincarnated as Superman and reincarnated as Buddha. Obviously penniless, he tells people around him that he has hundreds of millions of property. Through antipsychotic drug treatment, delusions of arrogance can be effectively suppressed, but mental patients without delusions of arrogance often become depressed. There is a simple reason. When facing the reality, mental patients find that their social adaptability has been seriously damaged, and they are often unable to participate in the competition for survival.

After a large-scale systematic study, psychologists have found that normal people actually have a slight arrogance tendency in self-cognition, that is, people who are slightly proud are normal, while people who are completely self-aware will have a melancholy tendency. We often say that optimism refers to this slight arrogance.

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