Ang Lee's inspirational story of sticking to his ideals in loneliness and hardship.

He was 26 when he went to the American Film Academy, and his father strongly opposed him. His father told him that new york has tens of thousands of people competing for several roles on Broadway every year, and the road to film is blocked. He went without hesitation. The once shy man crossed the ocean and went to America. So what's the result?

After graduation, he had no job for six years. As a man, his only job is to cook at home and take care of the children. For a time, his parents-in-law saw him doing nothing all day, so they gently told his daughter, that is, his wife, that they were going to fund his son-in-law to open a restaurant. He knows that he can't drag on like this, but he doesn't want to start his own business with the support of others. So, he decided to go to the community college to take a computer course, learn from scratch, and try to find a stable job. He went to the community college behind his wife's back. One afternoon, his wife suddenly discovered his computer course. As a result, she conveniently tore up the curriculum and said to him, "You must stick to your ideals."

Because of this sentence, because he has such a sensible and intelligent wife, he didn't study computer.

Six years later, when he broke into people's field of vision with his first independent film, what people saw was not a fledgling teenager, but a calm and independent view of the collision between Chinese and Western cultures in Pushing Hands. This man is Ang Lee, a China native who won the Oscar for Best Director.

Human life is limited, but the splendor of life is infinite. Everyone wants to be the next Ang Lee, but how many people can stand loneliness and wait for six years or even longer? Six years of loneliness is enough to smooth a person's fighting spirit. Even if we have the same talent as Ang Lee, there are a few people who have the same patience as Ang Lee and can wait until success comes. Since ancient times, the number one enemy of persistence is temptation, that is, I can't stand loneliness. There is a saying: "I can resist anything except temptation." Because we can't stand loneliness and temptation, we often lose our ambition, deviate from our direction and never board a successful ship. If a person wants to succeed, he must go through a hard process. Anyone who wants to succeed easily in spring flowers and autumn moon is in vain. This lonely process is the process of accumulating strength and struggling to absorb nutrition before flowering. If you can't stand loneliness, success will never come to you. In Dan's favorite phrase, champions always run before applause? .

Running in front of applause is running in endless loneliness. This is what it means to be a champion. We see that many people are carried away by fame and fortune and often forget the true meaning of life; People who can be indifferent to fame and fortune can understand the mystery of life and realize many truths in indifference. Zhuangzi is such an example. Chu asked him to be an official, but he refused to go. He would rather stay in his heart and quietly "communicate with the spirit of heaven and earth alone." This is the great realm of life. Keep your loneliness and your heart, and give your life a wider world.

Fabers, a French entomologist, described the whole process of cicada from birth to death in his masterpiece Insects. Cicada's life span is only 30 days, and their larvae have to wait in the soil for four years for this short flight of more than 30 days. In the long and painful waiting for four years, we must withstand the attacks of various natural disasters and the invasion of natural enemies, and we must preserve them before we can turn into cicadas.

This is the law of nature. If you want to succeed in life, you need to be able to withstand loneliness first. Loneliness can promote a person's growth, and loneliness is another realm of success.

There is a joke that a man wants to hang a picture, and then he finds a hammer and a nail. It turns out that this nail won't hang, so we have to get a Xiao Mu wedge. Then he looked for wood, an axe and a saw. Round after round, until he packed everything, he had forgotten what his original purpose was. Looking at a lot of tools, he has long forgotten the existence of this painting.

This seems to be a wonderful metaphor for life. Lebanese poet Ji Bolun said, "We have gone so far that we forget why we started." Many people yearn for glory, chase the noise and pursue the glory behind the prosperity, and as a result, they lose themselves in the constant pursuit.

We forget our persistence and our choices, but we remember that we are busy and we remember that we are tired of walking around the world. Like people who forget to draw, we forget our original intention. If Ang Lee didn't get a job studying computer, should he also study as a chef? If the chef doesn't find a suitable job after graduation, why not study carpentry again? Then this life may be wasted in the end.

Fortunately, Ang Lee didn't. He kept his ideal in loneliness and hardship, and also kept his career for his future.