You will get something if you do something difficult.

Last Saturday night, at the anti-entropy community reading sharing meeting, immortal group friend Xu Ma shared the theme of "Love". He mentioned the name Jin Yinan many times, his extraordinary life experience and his attitude of "loving everything" aroused my curiosity. What kind of person can an excellent Xu Ma admire? I started looking for answers at once.

who is professor Jin Yinan?

Professor Jin Yinan was born in 1952. He used to be the director of the Institute of Strategic Studies of the National Defense University of the Chinese People's Liberation Army, the doctoral supervisor of strategic studies, and the rank of Major General. After graduating from junior high school, he worked as a factory worker for two years. After enlisting, he worked at the grass-roots level for 11 years. At the age of 36, he studied foreign languages, at the age of 41, and at the age of 46, he was awarded the title of associate senior high school. At the age of 47, he took the podium. He was a national model teacher and a representative of the British model congress of the whole army ...

How did he grow from a junior high school student to a university professor? How did you achieve these achievements today?

In bilibili, I watched the video of Professor Jin Yinan's speech at the graduation ceremony of National Defense University in 219-"Our Times, Our Struggle". I seem to have found the answer. Professor Jin Yinan shared his views and opinions on the pattern of reading, studying, working and being a man in three parts:

1. Be a conscientious person

Why be a conscientious person?

Because life is changing too fast, because the world is changing too fast, because knowledge is outdated too fast, and because you have the heart, you can keep learning, accumulating and catching up.

The greatest charm of life lies in the unknowability, which becomes a struggle space for a person to change his own destiny.

We often say that when books are used, we hate less. The key is that we don't have the heart. If we don't have the heart to sit in a spacious and bright classroom, we may not be able to learn. If we have the heart to sleep, it is also a world of learning.

Professor Jin has been in the grass-roots army for 12 years, and he has no better conditions than others. The reason why he has read more books and made more notes than others is that he has used the time of watching TV, chatting and playing cards. There are all kinds of inequalities in society, but only time is equal to everyone. The different use of this equal resource has opened the gap between people.

Learning and self-study not only accumulate knowledge, but also accumulate spirit and temper character. Spiritual accumulation and knowledge accumulation complement each other in this process. Professor Jin Yinan said that he never felt that his work and study brought him suffering, on the contrary, he felt pleasure.

Professor Jin said that he never hated and regretted any work he had done. Being a worker was called a "born good lathe worker", being a wireless pilot in the army was called a "born good pilot", being a librarian in the National Defense University was called a "born good librarian", and being a teacher on the platform was called a "born good teacher".

Professor Jin said that there is nothing natural, and the reason is simple: you don't go to work to get inspiration, but to get inspiration at work. In the same way, people don't learn because they are inspired, but they are inspired by learning. Only when you really feel it, can you finally realize it. If a person loves life, he should love his work, and if he loves his motherland, he should do a good job.

learning without utility is the most solid learning.

Second, do difficult things

"Doing difficult things will pay off" is Professor Jin Yinan's life creed.

Professor Jin Yinan said that being dull will produce great inertia. To overcome being dull, being dull is a blunt knife to obliterate ideals, dare to push yourself into a corner, and create waves for life. Psychologist Herbert Otto said: Ordinary people only use 4% of their abilities in their lifetime, that is to say, 96% of their abilities have not been brought into play, so Professor Jin Yinan talked about trying to stimulate their potential.

He constantly challenged himself to stay away from the comfort zone. In 26, he participated in the Sino-US joint military exercise and wanted to experience the feeling of crossing the Pacific Ocean by warship. At that time, he encountered a huge storm that he had never seen in decades. He said that this was a special experience that he would never feel when sitting in an office. People should not only read books with words, but also read books without words, that is, the integration of knowledge and practice.

Third, set up a big pattern

Professor Jin Yinan said that if we only take learning knowledge as a stepping stone, it is not unnecessary for promotion, because there are requirements and thresholds for job hunting and work, we must do so, but if the purpose of learning is only this, then the pattern is too small.

In 1997, Professor Jin Yinan studied at the National Defense University and visited the West Point Military Academy. He saw the models of 597.9 highland and 537.7 highland in Shangganling in the memorial hall of the West Point Military Academy. He wrote in his diary: Every night when I look out the window at the Potomac River with flashing lights, I can't help but think of the soldiers who are rushing with fried noodles and snow in the frozen Korean battlefield. The heroes who froze to death by the bank of Changjin Lake in the cold of MINUS 4 degrees, they won today's status for us latecomers with amazing sacrifices. We should be proud, we should also be ashamed, and we must never eat up this old capital.

Our predecessors have created today's status for us and are respected internationally. We stand on the shoulders of our predecessors, and their shoulders are hard. Can we be as hard as our predecessors? Don't let our descendants step on our shoulders and say that this generation's shoulders are very soft, and it is necessary for us to learn and make progress today.

This is a century-old changing era! We are lucky to be witnesses and participants in the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation. We have fought for this era. As strugglers, it should be our responsibility.

With this pattern, we will never be proud or confused. It's not how many things we have gained or how much social reputation we have, but that we have kept our true colors. If we want to be a man, it is Do not forget your initiative mind, and my ideal then is also my ideal now. Where do we come from and where are we going? We have to live to understand, to understand this problem, to ask again and again.

Finally, Professor Jin Yinan ended his speech with a sentence from his new book "Heart wins": I defeated my opponent twice, and the first time was in my heart.

The above is the main content of Professor Jin's speech. After reading it, I was deeply touched. We are so lucky to be born here, so we do whatever we do with gratitude, and we fall in love with everything we do, not to mention what we are doing now, which is what we are willing to do, without utilitarian heart. If you have the ability, you must try your best to do more altruistic things. I also hope to influence others with your own firefly light, and influence your life with your life. When the motherland needs it, do your bit for the country!