Inspirational Story: Know Yourself Correctly

It may not be difficult for a person to know others, but it is difficult to know himself correctly. The difficulty in knowing yourself is that you are in a position of being fascinated by the authorities. As the saying goes, "I don't know the true face of Lushan Mountain, but toward which corner of the mountain." Revealed the same truth.

For example, I don't know when I got a little gray on my face. If I don't look in the mirror or find out with other people's eyes, of course I don't know. If you show your face everywhere because you can't find it, you will definitely make a joke and become the laughing stock of others because of making a fool of yourself. Just like the emperor who made a fool of himself in his new clothes, he became the talk of people after dinner.

Of course, the example of the emperor in "The Emperor's New Clothes" needs a little explanation, because the naked emperor doesn't have a mirror and other people's eyes, but has a mirror and other people's eyes, just like he doesn't have a mirror, because the emperor has been addicted to other people's false flattery and flattery, even with a mirror and other people's eyes, isn't he also confused and persuaded by good words? And the exposure of this lie depends on the child who dares to tell the truth?

Therefore, for this confused emperor, in order to truly know himself, besides a bronze mirror, there should be people around him who dare to tell the truth. It's like Zou Ji satirizing Zou Ji in the Book of History of the King of Qi. When he saw the beauty of Xu Gong in the north of the city with his own eyes and found that he was really not as beautiful as Xu Gong in the north of the city, he immediately understood the real reason why wives and concubines talked about being more beautiful than Xu Gong in the north of the city. At the same time, Zou Ji, in order not to deceive his own monarch, brought this truth he had learned to the court to remonstrate with Qi Weiwang. Qi Weiwang is a wise king, but also understand this truth, so he ordered his ministers to remonstrate and give first-class rewards to those subjects who dared to stab themselves in the face. And what is the final result? "Yan, Zhao, Han and Wei are all in the same direction."

Of course, it is not enough for a bad king to have a mirror and subjects who dare to tell the truth. Stupid emperors need a clear head, don't like flattery, or can hear the truth from flattery. Therefore, it is necessary to say a word here: "Those who know others are wise, and those who know themselves are clear." Just like the story of the fox and the crow in Aesop's Fables, don't be a crow with its head off-he lost a mouthful of fat after listening to the fox's flattery.

However, in history and life, there are so many lives like crows, because we can't know ourselves correctly, which leads to a tragic ending! Zhao Kuo in the Warring States Period is an example. That's an armchair strategist, boasting. As a result, 400,000 Zhao troops were completely annihilated, and even they themselves died in the disorderly arrows. What a tragic scene in history! During the Three Kingdoms period, Ma Su was not Zhao Kuo. In vain, because he read so many books about Sun Tzu's Art of War, he ignored other people's opinions. When disaster came, he could only be buried under the bridge. How pathetic this is!

Listening to compliments and taking "Shunqi pills" is a common problem of human beings, but we should also be good at listening to those criticisms. Because those vital words are conducive to our own progress and progress, just like white blood cells in the blood, it is because of them that we have a healthy body. If you get carried away, get carried away and become narcissistic because of a little achievement, then in the near future, you may soon be thrown into the garbage truck of history.

Mo Yan won people's attention after winning the World Nobel Prize in Literature, and set a glorious banner for us before success. He should keep a low profile and know himself correctly. When someone asked him whether he would emigrate overseas after obtaining Nobel Prize in Literature, Mo Yan replied bluntly: "Why should I leave this country? I don't even want to leave Gaomi. I just want to stay in Gaomi, because this place gave birth to me and raised me. I am familiar with this place. " Mo Yan is so low-key and so wise because of his correct understanding of himself. What an amazing thing it is!

Therefore, only when we know ourselves correctly can we make full use of our strengths and avoid our weaknesses in our life and work, and fully and effectively play our personal role in our posts, thus effectively avoiding unnecessary losses and mistakes to the country and individuals.