An example of complacency leading to failure

An example of complacency leading to failure

1, Napoleon's Waterloo fiasco

1815 in June18, the French army with Napoleon as commander in chief and the European allied forces with the Duke of Wellington as commander in chief launched a thrilling decisive battle in the town of Waterloo, about 20 kilometers south of Brussels, Belgium. This decisive battle lasted about 12 hours and ended in the defeat of the powerful French emperor Napoleon. Since then, Napoleon has never recovered.

2. Guan Gong defeated Maicheng.

The defeat of Maicheng is the story of Guan Yu, a general of Shu Han, who was stopped by a general of Wu State and beheaded in Linzhou when he defeated Maicheng in the 24th year of Jian 'an in Han Dynasty. Later, he used the metaphor of "failure in Maicheng" to describe that people who can succeed in everything sometimes fail. Maicheng is located in Lianghe Township, dangyang city City, Hubei Province, more than 20 kilometers away from Pingyang Town.

3. Tortoise and Rabbit Race

The rabbit boasted about his speed to the animals. "I have never failed," he said. "When I run, no one is faster than me." The tortoise said quietly, "I want to compete with you." "This is a joke. I can race with you while playing. " Said the rabbit.

The race started, and the rabbit was gone in a blink of an eye, but he felt that he was running very fast, so he took the race lightly and fell asleep on the side of the road. The tortoise walks slowly, but keeps walking. When the rabbit woke up, he saw that the tortoise was near the finish line. The rabbit lost the game.

Moral: Pride goes before a fall; Only by perseverance can we achieve our goal.

4. Li Zicheng finally failed because of pride.

Li Zicheng, a native of Mizhi County, Shaanxi Province, formerly known as Hongji, was the leader of the peasant uprising in the late Ming Dynasty. When he proclaimed himself emperor, he regarded Li as Mao.

1644, Li Zicheng's insurgents occupied Peking and overthrew the Zhu Ming dynasty which had ruled for 276 years. After Li Zicheng entered Beijing, his military discipline was strict, and he basically maintained the true colors of the peasant army. However, in the process of victory, he became proud.

Not only did he not have a clear understanding of the complicated and changeable situation in the northeast border, but he also did not think of how to deal with the Qing army. He didn't take necessary precautions to deal with the increasing corruption of his subordinates and soldiers. Military commanders are busy "chasing soldiers to help pay salaries", civil servants are busy climbing poles in exams, and soldiers are addicted to victory, thinking that the battle is over and they can rest easy.

Li Zicheng himself is "not greedy for money, lustful and aboveboard", but he "makes the mistake of being proud when he wins", which is worth learning from history.

5, careless loss of Jingzhou

Lost Jingzhou, that is, the famous Guan Yu lost three counties in Jingzhou during the Three Kingdoms period.

After Battle of Red Cliffs, the seven counties in Jingzhou were divided by Liu Bei, Cao Cao and Sun Quan, and Liu Bei entered Shu, leaving Guan Yu to guard the five counties in Jingzhou, of which the south county was borrowed by Liu Bei from Soochow. After Liu Bei got Shuchuan, he returned Changsha and Guiyang counties to Sun Quan.

Later, Guan Yu sent troops to attack Cao Cao's Xiangfan area, and Sun Quan sent Monroe to attack the fall of three counties in Jingzhou, 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.

Examples of conceit and failure of modern celebrities

1, Xiang Yu

Xiang Yu created the mythical achievements of Julu and Pengcheng, but Gaixia lost the support of his officials and people because of his headstrong and cruel temperament, and finally lost in the "Chu-Han dispute", which is the reason for his conceit.

2. Guan Yu

Warm wine chop Hua Xiong, chop Yan Liang, warm domain; After five passes, six generals will be killed; After the Seventh Army flooded China, it ignored Wu Dong's Monroe and Lu Xun, which led to Jingzhou's fall, Maicheng's defeat, and finally even died at Monroe's hand because of conceit.

3. Masu

Ma Su disobeyed Zhuge Liang's command and dispatch, and his military actions were chaotic. He gave up the water source and stationed up the mountain instead of setting up a city at the foot of the mountain. Zhang _ cut off Ma Su's access to water, attacked and defeated Ma Su, and the Shu army broke up. Zhuge Liang went forward without a stronghold, so he captured more than 1000 households in Xi County and returned to Hanzhong. Put Ma Su in jail and kill him. Because of his conceit, Ma Su violated Zhuge Liang's command and dispatch, which led to a long-lasting regret.

Overcoming method

1, accept criticism

This is the best way to eradicate conceit. The fatal weakness of conceited people is their unwillingness to change their attitude and accept other people's views. Accepting criticism is the solution to this problem. Instead of letting conceited people completely obey others, they are required to accept the correct views of others and change their opinionated and self-centered image by accepting criticism from others.

2. Get along with others on an equal footing

A conceited person regards himself as God and unreasonably demands others to obey him in thought and action. Getting along on an equal footing means asking conceited people to communicate with others on an equal footing as ordinary members of society.

3, improve self-awareness

To fully understand yourself, we should not only see our own strengths and weaknesses, but also our own shortcomings and deficiencies. Don't take care of one thing and lose sight of another. It's biased to cling to Mount Tai.

Self-knowledge cannot be evaluated in isolation, but should be investigated in society. Everyone has their own uniqueness in life, which others can't match and others can't. Compared with others, you can't always compare your own advantages with others' shortcomings and treat others as waste.

A negative example of arrogance

Shi Yuzhu is one of the legendary entrepreneurs. He was once an entrepreneurial genius highly praised by many students, and also a failure model that countless entrepreneurs took as a warning.

1992 Shi Yuzhu founded Zhuhai Giant High-tech Group in Zhuhai, Guangdong Province. In the mid-1990s, Shi Yuzhu, one of the "Top Ten Reformers", decided to build his own building in beautiful Zhuhai, but after he shook hands with the Prime Minister again and again, the original 18 floor house was suddenly raised to 70th floor.

Shi Yuzhu was determined to build the tallest building in China, although the money in hand at that time could only drive piles for this building. Liu Chuanzhi, president of Lenovo Group, described Shi Yuzhu at that time as follows: "He was in high spirits and asked us for advice, which was nothing more than a modest attitude. There was no need to talk to him more. Besides, he is impetuous. I think he will make a big mistake sooner or later. "

It is under such worries and predictions that this huge building soon collapsed. Overnight in debt of 250 million.

2. 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. The witty Zhuge Liang saw through it at a glance, but calmly said, "It only takes 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.

3. The story of a prodigy named "Fang Zhongyong" in Jinxi, Jiangxi Province, who was reduced to an ordinary person because his father refused to let him study, and was used as a tool to make money by his father. 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.

4. After Battle of Red Cliffs, the seven counties in Jingzhou were divided by Liu Bei, Cao Cao and Sun Quan, and Liu Bei entered Shu, leaving Guan Yu to guard the five counties in Jingzhou, of which the south county was borrowed from Wu Dong by Liu Bei. After Liu Bei got Shuchuan, he returned Changsha and Guiyang counties to Sun Quan.

Later, Guan Yu sent troops to attack Cao Cao's Xiangfan area, and Sun Quan sent Monroe to attack the fall of three counties in Jingzhou, 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.

5. In the west, the representative of pride is fallen angels 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 continued to resist God, and "pride" would lead to blindness.

An example of failure due to pride

1, Guan Yu lost Jingzhou

Fang Zhongyong is a civilian in Jinxi County, who has been farming for generations. When Zhong Yong was five years old, he had never seen any reading and writing tools, and suddenly he cried for them. My father was surprised by this and borrowed it from his neighbor. He immediately wrote four poems and wrote his own name.

This poem is about caring for parents and uniting people of the same clan, and it is spread to the scholars in the whole town for viewing. From then on, he was assigned to write a poem and finish it immediately. The literary talent and truth of the poem have something to watch. People in the same county were surprised by Zhong Yong, and gradually treated his father with the courtesy of guests. Some people ask for Zhong Yong's poems with money and gifts.

His father coveted this and forced Zhong Yong to visit people in the same county every day instead of studying. I've heard a long time ago. In the era of Ming Dow, I followed my late father back to my hometown and met him at my uncle's house. He is twelve or thirteen years old. Let's write poetry, which is not as good as the previous rumors.

Seven years later, I came back from Yangzhou and went to my uncle's house to ask about Zhong Yong. I replied: "Zhong Yong's special functions have completely disappeared and become an ordinary person." Mr. Wang said: our knowledge and understanding ability are innate. His talent is far higher than that of ordinary talented people. Because he didn't get the education the day after tomorrow, he finally became an ordinary person.

A naturally intelligent person like him will become an ordinary person if he has no acquired education. Therefore, those who are not born smart now are all ordinary people, and I am afraid they will not become ordinary people without receiving the acquired education.

2. During the Warring States Period, Zhao Kuo, the son of Zhao She, a famous soldier of Zhao, read many art books when he was young, and often talked about fighting in front of people, even his father Zhao She couldn't help him. Many people think he is very talented, but his father thinks he talks big and can't take on heavy responsibilities. On one occasion, Qin attacked Zhao. Lian Po, the general of Zhao, adopted the method of building a base and sticking to it.

Later, the prince of Zhao listened to the rumors spread by the State of Qin, thinking that Lian Po was old and frail, so he sent Zhao Kuo instead of Lian Po. When Zhao Kuo went to the front, he copied the dogma in Sun Tzu's Art of War and completely changed Lian Po's plan for a lasting war of resistance.

General Qin was very happy to hear the news, so he first cut off the back road of Zhao's grain transportation, and then surrounded Zhao. When Zhao Ranjun ran out of food, Zhao Kuo tried to break through and was shot dead by Qin Jun. More than 400,000 Zhao troops were wiped out at once.

Napoleon defeated Waterloo because of his pride.

European countries quickly formed the seventh anti-French alliance. Their army has 700,000 people, while France has only 284,000. Napoleon analyzed the situation and thought that the Russian-Austrian Coalition forces only needed a small amount of troops to contain it, and the key target was the Anglo-Prussian Coalition forces in Belgium. On June 6th, he led his troops to Belgium and decided to capture Brussels.

On June 16, Napoleon unexpectedly defeated Pu Jun in the Battle of Lini. However, due to the slow action of the French army, Napoleon originally planned to annihilate Pu Jun, but the battle of Lini only turned into a rout, so Napoleon had to send Marshal grouchy to lead some troops to pursue Pu Jun. On June 18 15, the Battle of Waterloo started. The commander of the British army is Arthur Wellesley Duke of Wellington.

72,000 French soldiers and 68,000 British soldiers fought a decisive battle to change19th century near the town of Waterloo. The main attack direction of the French army was the highland of Mount St. John, but the highland was never captured. In addition, most of the generals who have the ability to command the army in the French army did not participate in this battle, which led to the incompetence of the French army everywhere, including Napoleon's eighth brother Jerome.

After a long battle, Marshal Ney led the cavalry to the highland of Mount St. John, which was no less than the cavalry charge at the Battle of Moscow Battery and Leipzig. Although the cavalry charge has no tactics, it is really sharp. The French cavalry broke through the phalanx and seized a large number of batteries. The British army was killed out of the water and Wellington's face changed greatly. However, British troops struggled to stop the French onslaught.

Although Napoleon's victory was in sight, he saw the Prussian army reinforce here at noon, and the savior Marshal grouchy arrived late. But the French army has gained the upper hand. However, at 7 o'clock in the evening, the Prussian army was suddenly killed under the leadership of the deputy commander Biro. The French army suffered a crushing defeat, and they fled desperately, although Napoleon and Ney tried to turn things around.

But everything is useless. The last phalanx of General Kan Brauner's French army was completely annihilated, Waterloo was full of deserters, Napoleon had to be completely annihilated, and the fiasco of Waterloo completely disintegrated the Hundred Days Dynasty.

4. Pang Juan was shot dead by Sun Bin army because of his pride.

During the Warring States Period in China, the Qi army annihilated the famous ambush in Wei Jun in Maling. In the 26th year of Zhou Xian, Wei Fa-bing attacked North Korea, and South Korea asked Qi for help. Qi promised to help to promote Korea's resistance to Wei. However, since the war, the strength of Wei and South Korea has not been damaged, so it is not appropriate to send troops to form an alliance too early. Until the Korean army was defeated in five wars, the situation was critical. Wei Jun was also very tired, so he sent troops to save him.

In the twenty-seventh year, Tian Ji was the main commander, Tian Ying and Tian were the lieutenant, and Sun Bin was the strategist. The tactics of "encircling Wei to save Zhao" were adopted, and the army led Wei to save Wei Jun. In the second campaign, Sun Bin used Pang Juan's weakness to create illusion, induced him to submit, and always took the initiative. This war is a famous example of ambushing and annihilating the enemy in the history of China War.

In this battle, Pang Juan knew that there was nothing he could do, and the army completely failed, so he had to commit suicide. When he died, he said, "This kid is finally famous!" Wei Jun was conquered by Qi, and Wang Wei was captured and returned to China. Sun Bin became famous all over the world because of this, and the whole world learned his art of war.

Zhuang Kao Zi, the leader of the peasant uprising in the late Ming Dynasty, led the army to capture Beijing and established the Dashun Dynasty. However, Gao Zicheng and his generals were complacent, corrupt and striving for profits, and were soon defeated by Wu Sangui.

6. During the Three Kingdoms period, Cao Cao led a million-strong army to tackle key problems in the south, listened to Pang Tong's words, built a serial ship, and stood on the ship singing songs about wine, full of pride, thinking that there was no problem in winning. As a result, Lian Zhong's plan was defeated by the allied forces of Shu and Wu.

7. Xiang Yu, the overlord of Chu, thinks that he is a noble family and a hero in the world. He thinks that he has pulled mountains and rivers and has millions of soldiers, and he doesn't care about Liu Bang, who was born in Tingchang. But Liu Bangshan made good use of Sean, Han Xin, Xiao He and others, from weak to strong. Liu Hexiang competed with each other. As a result, Xiang Yu suffered a fiasco and committed suicide in Wujiang River.

Extended data

In the west, the representative of pride is fallen angels Lucifer. According to the Bible, Satan first appeared in Milton's Paradise Lost as "the shining morning star, the son of glory".

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 continued to resist God, 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.

References:

History as a Mirror-Baidu Encyclopedia

The arrogant and conceited material of failure.

Napoleon's Waterloo fiasco; The story of the race between the tortoise and the rabbit; The story of Jiang Lang's genius; Zhong Yong was called a child prodigy, but he didn't continue his studies because of his pride, which led to nothing when he grew up. Pang Juan was shot dead by Sun Bin's army because of pride; Li Zicheng finally failed because of pride; Guan Gong defeated Maicheng; Xiang Yu failed because of pride.