Study diligently, think well and practice diligently

Study diligently, think well, and practice diligently

1. Study diligently, think well, and apply what you have learned

Confucius said: "Learning without thinking is in vain; thinking without thinking is wasteful." Learning without thinking will lead to loss of meaning. Merely thinking without learning will lead to mental fatigue and gain nothing.

If you just read without thinking, you will be led by the books and lose your opinion. This is what is meant by the saying that it is better to have no books than to believe in books. And if you just dream without doing real study and research, you will end up building a tower on sand and gain nothing. Learning and thinking complement each other and are indispensable. Only by combining learning and thinking can we learn practical and useful knowledge.

Confucius also said in "The Analects of Confucius: Wei Linggong": "I have not eaten all day long, and have not slept all night, thinking, it is useless, it is not as good as learning."

Zi Xia said: "Education and sincerity, inquiry and careful consideration, benevolence is in it."

The Western philosopher Kant also said: "Perception without sex is blind, and intelligence without sensibility is empty."

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If you memorize by rote without thinking or understanding, you will not be able to learn, apply, and integrate. No matter how good your memory is, your grades will not be very good.

If you are just good at thinking without learning, no matter how strong your logical thinking ability is, you will be limited to fantasy failure due to lack of knowledge accumulation.

Knowledge is useless if you don’t understand it if you don’t understand it, and if you don’t face real-life problems. If you don’t summarize and learn knowledge when facing real problems, the problems cannot be solved. Only by combining learning and thinking can we learn practical and useful knowledge, otherwise there will be little effect.

2. Seek truth and be pragmatic, and conduct reasonable scholarship

Truth is the only true truth that is eternal and unchangeable. Truth is a person’s correct reflection of objective things and their laws. Only practice is the only criterion for testing the truth of knowledge.

1. The "head with cantilevered beams and conical thorns" for show

Sun Jing was from Xindu in the Han Dynasty. It is said that he was eager to learn when he was young, well-read and had a strong memory, and he was addicted to books. I often stay up all night reading and studying at night. Neighbors called him "Mr. Closed House."

Sun Jing is a night owl. He takes notes whenever he reads. He often reads until late at night. As time goes by, he sometimes dozes off. When I woke up, I felt regretful again. One day, when he raised his head and thought hard, his eyes stopped on the beam, and his eyes suddenly lit up. Then he found a rope and tied one end of the rope to the beam, and the lower end was tied to his hair. In this way, whenever he is tired and sleepy and dozes off, as long as he lowers his head, the rope will pull his hair violently, and he will wake up if it hurts and drive away his sleep (which is actually impossible). From then on, he used this method to study hard every night when he was studying.

During the Warring States Period, there was a man named Su Qin who was a famous politician. When he was young, due to his lack of knowledge, he worked in many places but was not taken seriously. After returning home, his family was also very cold towards him and looked down upon him. This stimulated him greatly, so he decided to study hard. He often studied until late at night. When he wanted to sleep, he would take an awl and prick his thigh with the awl as soon as he dozed off. In this way, I suddenly felt pain, woke myself up, and continued reading.

Later, Sun Jing relied on his ability to read and became a great Confucian, but no works or doctrines were handed down. He only knew how to read and became a nerd. This is all caused by bluffing when I was young, not seeking actual results, and having my head hung on the wall for a long time.

Furthermore, Su Qin used the method of alliance to promote the alliance of several countries. It did scare Qin at first, but as time went by, the six countries suffered more losses. Finally, Qin Shihuang unified the world. If Su Qin had designated a country to assist and concentrated his talents, the outcome of the six countries being completely wiped out might not have happened.

Personally, I feel that Su Qin is too ambitious and shows off, including his "conical buttocks" when he was a young student. Everyone knows how much it can help his studies. In essence, he has no big ambitions. He only wants to survive stably and has no intention of making achievements at all. In the end, he was "punished by a broken car" because of his struggle for fame and fortune.

2. Stupid Iron Pestle Grinding Needles

When the poet Li Bai was tired of studying when he was young, he walked all over the street with a cage and a bird. When he came to the river, he met a man who was trying to make a knife on a stone. A woman grinding an iron rod into an embroidery needle. I don’t know if there was ever a story like “Two people drank together, the flowers bloomed, one cup after another. I’m so drunk that I’m going to sleep, please go away, I’ll bring you the piano tomorrow morning.” I didn’t check whether the old woman’s mind was normal, so she was shocked to the point of tears. Then study hard every day and you will eventually achieve something. It also left behind a lot of pressure for future generations: "It takes a lot of effort to grind an iron pestle into a needle."

3. Take it for granted and only sleep for four chapters

The calligrapher Yan Zhenqing is getting older. , the need for sleep decreases, lamenting that one has grown old before his ambitions have been fulfilled, he is filled with righteous indignation and cannot control himself, and writes angrily, "The lights are on at three o'clock and the chicken is on at five o'clock, it is the time for men to study. Black hair does not know how to study hard early, white head regrets that it is late to study." Which one? I don’t know, but in the ancient timekeeping method, 11 o’clock to 1 o’clock in the middle of the night is the third watch, and 3 o’clock to 5 o’clock in the morning is the fifth watch. According to Mr. Yan, he could only rest for 2 hours a night, so we could only "pat him."

4. Diligence can make up for one's weakness in an ideal state

Mr. Hua Luogeng, a mathematician with numerous achievements and achievements, once taught the world with high spirits and sonorous force during his lifetime: "Diligence can make up for one's weakness is a good lesson, and every minute of hard work pays off." Talent." It means that acquired diligence can make up for innate shortcomings and defects. As long as you put in a little hard work, you can learn a little bit of ability. As inspirational words, they do have their purpose. However, Xipixiangzui disagrees. Its scope of application is large but limited, and its cause-and-effect gains and losses are also very different. For example, if a mentally retarded youngster is asked to study hard day and night, he will never succeed. It is not because of lack of diligence, but because of lack of talent, it is because of innate deficiencies. Therefore, there is a saying that rotten wood cannot be carved.

5. Irrational sleep deprivation

The great inventor Edison said plausibly: "People don't need too much sleep when they are alive, because people can sleep forever after they die." "Xiao Hong, the literary god of the 1930s, said confidently: "Why sleep for a long time during your lifetime? You will sleep forever after you die." Those who first heard it were enthusiastic and righteous; those who practiced it were exhausted physically and mentally, and their condition worsened.

3. The work is accomplished by hard work, and the success is achieved by thinking

Han Yu·Jin Xue Jie said: "The work is mastered by diligence, and wasteful by play; the performance is accomplished by thinking, and destroyed by thinking." "Yu Sui." It means that academics are specialized due to hard work and abandoned due to play; virtues are achieved due to independent thinking and corrupted due to following the custom. Throughout the ages, many people who have achieved success in their careers have done so because they are diligent and diligent, and their actions are based on thinking. The sergeant hears the Tao and practices it diligently.

Confucius said: "Isn't it right to learn and practice it over time? Isn't it a joy to have friends come from afar? Isn't it a gentleman if a person doesn't get confused without knowing it?"

Isn’t it also very pleasant to review and practice the knowledge you have learned frequently after studying? Isn’t it nice to have like-minded people coming from far away? If I don’t get angry when others don’t understand me, wouldn’t I also be a morally cultivated person?

It is necessary to organically combine theoretical knowledge with practical application, and achieve the goal of practice making perfect from the shallower to the deeper. You should always ponder what you have learned to truly understand its meaning, methods of use and precautions.

Then apply the theoretical requirements to real life in the practice process, and then learn new knowledge to solve problems encountered in life. In this way, mutual learning is promoted, and theoretical knowledge and practice are gradually deepened. application.

Ding Jungui

July 21, 2020