Jane Year 14: On Diligence Can Make Up for Poverty.

In the Song Dynasty, Huang Tingjian wrote in Lame Wen: "Cut long and continue short; Both cranes are worried; Be diligent and make up; Smart. " The "diligence can make up for it" here later evolved into today's "diligence can make up for it", which means "diligence can make up for it".

There are countless examples of hard work making up for mistakes. Kuang Heng stole the light from the wall in the Western Han Dynasty, Sun Jingtou, a master of Confucianism in the Han Dynasty, Su Qin's stabbing stocks in the Warring States Period, Sun Kang's firefly reflecting snow in the Jin Dynasty and so on. Even the famous poet Bai Juyi has stories that diligence can make up for mistakes.

In 825 AD, Tang Jingzong transferred Bai Juyi, the secretariat of Hangzhou, to Suzhou, the largest state in the southeast of the Tang Dynasty, where things were very complicated. After Bai Juyi took office, he declined all banquets and concentrated on handling government affairs. He quickly became familiar with the local situation, rectified the bureaucracy and won the praise of the people. He thinks that he is born clumsy and can only make up for it by diligence.

Mei Lanfang, a famous China opera performer, once said, "I am a clumsy artist, and I don't have enough talent, so I must study hard." When Mei Lanfang was learning drama from a teacher, the master said that he had a pair of dead fish eyes and was dull and dull, which was not the material for learning drama at all and refused to accept him. However, Mei Lanfang did not flinch, but aroused his determination to study drama. He began to feed pigeons and raise goldfish to exercise his eyes. Finally, his eyes became like clear autumn water, sparkling and affectionate.

The same is true of the famous musician Beethoven. As a musician, he was deaf, but he paid ten million times more energy than others. Fall and get up again; If you fail, start all over again. He was so diligent and persistent that he finally became a world-famous great musician.

Besides, there are many famous sayings about diligence. The great inventor Edison also said that "genius is 99% sweat and 1% inspiration".

All of the above seems to be enough to prove that "diligence" can really "make up". But I think that diligence alone is not enough, and not all "clumsiness" can make up for it.

To give a simple example, a joke that everyone is familiar with, the rich man asked his husband to teach his son to read. After the rich man drove Mr. Wang away, he asked his son to write a letter to a friend named Wan. With the word "Wan", he asked his clever son to draw a cross road from morning till night. Can draw for such a long time, can't say that the rich man's son is not diligent, but does diligence make up for his "clumsiness"? Obviously, no!

For another example, the story of the ugly duckling is familiar to everyone. If the "ugly duckling" is really a duck, can it become a white swan? No matter how hard it tries to fly, I'm afraid it can't fly, right? It can become a white swan because it is a swan egg and the swan itself.

Some people may ask, then why do the characters in the above-mentioned examples make efforts to "make up for their mistakes"? My answer is that they add "correct thinking" to "diligence", and they are all "cygnets".

Therefore, we should use our brains to do things, "think twice before you act", and don't blindly believe that "diligence can make up for the shortcomings".