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Faith is not bornZhang Baotong 2018.11.9

A long time ago, the temple was inhabited by a rich monk and a poor monk. Rich monks live very comfortably, while poor monks live in great poverty. One day, the poor monk said to the rich monk, "I want to go to India to learn the scriptures." When the rich monk heard this, he laughed and said, "India is very far away and the journey is difficult, and I have wanted to go to India for many years, but I have not been able to make it because of the lack of travel expenses." But you have nothing, and you are empty-handed, how can you go to India?" However, a year later, the poor monk came back from India and brought back some Buddhist scriptures and gave them to the rich monk. The rich monk was ashamed of this.

This story illustrates that "where there's a will, there's a way", conveying a sense of ambition and the power of faith. Each of us will have many aspirations and aspirations in life, and whether these aspirations and aspirations can be achieved often depends on whether we have enough faith. Confidence is the courage and determination to persevere, and it is the basis for turning aspirations into reality. There is a saying in the book of Hebrews that says, "Faith is the substance of what is hoped for, the evidence of things not seen." Arguably, this is the most brilliant definition of the word faith throughout history.

With self-confidence, we can strive for self-improvement and make people strive for their own aspirations or ideals. Only self-confidence can make people maintain the confidence to win in a difficult cause. Beishan Yugong relied on confidence to dig up the two mountains; Xiang Yu broke the kettle and turned defeat into victory, relying on confidence; the Wright brothers relied on confidence to let the glider fly into the sky; and Lu Yaohan's painstaking writing of "The Ordinary World" also relied on confidence. Confidence is the foundation for us to create achievements, achieve brilliance, and realize the dreams we dream, and it is the spiritual strength that we have changed from mediocrity to greatness, from small to strong. On the contrary, if a person lacks self-confidence and does not even believe in himself, then how can he make a difference, create something, and achieve something?

However, self-confidence is not something that comes with it. It has a direct relationship with our perception of the environment and things. A few years ago, I suffered from severe viral conjunctivitis and keratitis, and my eyes were red and swollen and afraid of light, and I could hardly see bright light. I went to some of the most famous hospitals in Xi'an, such as the Fourth Military Medical University and the Fourth Hospital, for treatment, but after watching for a month, the eye disease was not only not cured, but became more and more serious, I think this eye disease may not be cured, the eye is about to lose sight, the mood is very pessimistic and depressed, and I did not go to work for more than 20 days. Later, I went to the railway hospital to see a doctor, and a doctor told me that the ophthalmology department of Xi'an Fanxiang No. 1 Hospital was good and asked me to go there to see him. I went to Fan Lane Hospital, and I wanted to hang up an expert number, but the expert number had already been hung up. So, I hung up a regular number. When I tested my visual acuity, one eye was 0.6 and the other was 0.8, whereas before the disease, my vision was 1.5. It made me feel a lot more gloomy. When I entered the consultation room, a middle-aged female doctor surnamed Zhao examined me and said that I had viral keratitis, which was more serious. I asked her if I would be blind. She said disappreciatively, no, just hit the needle and it will be fine. When I heard this, I immediately burst into tears. Because she let me know that my eyes will not be blind anymore, I immediately have the courage and confidence to overcome my eye disease. Later, the nurse gave me prednisolone cc and interferon, and after two weeks, the eye disease was completely cured. Although I had two or three more episodes of eye disease later, I was never pessimistic again.

In addition, in that year, the Railway Education Commission suddenly transferred me to the Party Office to be in charge of news reporting, because the news reports of the education system have been in a zero state in the assessment of the railway branch, and I have been criticized by the branch. I'm an English major, and although I've posted some essays, I don't know anything about news reporting. The director of the party office called me and immediately put in front of me some materials on the deeds of people and the news assessment methods of the sub-bureau. But I haven't decided whether to transfer or not, because if I do, my English major will be abolished, so I can't make up my mind about it at all. However, after reading the news assessment method of the sub-bureau, I felt that I could not come here, because the sub-bureau requires the education system to publish more than 30 articles in provincial and municipal newspapers every quarter, as well as one article in major national newspapers. It made me feel too stressed and scared that I wouldn't be able to do it. So, I said I was going to go back and discuss it with my family. My wife thinks that I have no advantage as a teacher, so she has to let me come to the education committee, and the education committee is treated better than the school. So, I turned around, thinking that there were zero records in the past anyway, and as long as I completed one or two articles, it would be a breakthrough. I started contributing to newspapers. In just a week, three or four articles were published in the newspaper. That's when I realized that it was much easier to write journalism than prose. As the manuscripts continued to be published in the newspapers of the provinces, cities and road bureaus, by the end of the year, I had fulfilled the tasks assigned by the sub-bureau by three times.

There's no secret to building self-confidence, it's a skill and habit that everyone can develop. For example, working in a government agency, writing materials and writing information is a skill that many people must have. However, how many people stay up all day long and rack their brains in order to write materials and information. However, after three or two months or more than half a year, they have also overcome this hurdle. Therefore, to build self-confidence, you must first have a clear understanding of the work and difficulties you face, keep working hard, and not be afraid of failure, because failure is the mother of success. Once you have a breakthrough and progress, you will also have confidence, and you will get closer and closer to success. If we are faced with a grand goal and task, we can divide this grand goal and task into small goals and tasks. Every time we achieve a small goal, we will win a small self-confidence, and when we achieve a big goal, we will win a big self-confidence, driven by the power of large and small self-confidence, the overall goal is not far away.

However, we must not be blindly confident and conceited. If we can't do something, don't force it. It's like we can't jump that high, we can't run that fast, or we can't get into that university. Because that's what we can't do even if we die. I remember that a comrade in the workshop was transferred to work in an organ through an acquaintance, and when he entered the organ, he had to write materials. However, he couldn't write the material, so he scratched his ears and cheeks all day long, meditated, and even stayed up late, but he got a serious illness and still didn't write the material. Later, he had to take the initiative to leave the agency and return to the original workshop. Blind self-confidence and conceit will not only fail to lose one's promise, but sometimes cause heavy losses, such as Ma Tan's loss of the street pavilion and Guan Yu's walk to the wheat city, which are typical examples of overconfidence and conceit.

Self-confidence is a kind of sunshine, a kind of warmth, but also a kind of calling, to the dark people to light, to the depressed people to encourage, to the cowardly and inferior people to give motivation. Let us give full play to our unique advantages and talents in the long life full of self-confidence, continue to move towards success, and create our brilliant life.

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