If you don't know the shortcomings of people, you don't know the strengths of people, you don't know the shortcomings of people, you don't know the shortcomings of people, you can't use people, you can't teach people.
——"Speech at the National Organization Work Conference" and other articles
■Interpretation
Comrade Xi Jinping quoted Wei Yuan's sentence and put forward four aspects of understanding a person's ability: shortcomings, strengths, weaknesses in strengths, and strengths in weaknesses, which also fully illustrates the difficulty of knowing people. "The jade test should be burned for three days, and the material must be judged for seven years." It is irresponsible to simply use a vague evaluation of "good" or "not good" to determine whether a cadre is "up" or "down." The understanding of cadres must not stop at feelings and impressions, but must improve the inspection mechanism and methods, and have an in-depth understanding through multiple channels, at multiple levels, and from multiple aspects.
Comrade Xi Jinping proposed that we should get close to cadres, observe cadres' thinking on major issues, and see their insights; Observe the feelings of cadres for the masses and see their quality and feelings; Observe the attitude of cadres towards fame and fortune, and look at their realm pattern; Observe the process and results of cadres in dealing with complex problems and see their level of ability. It is necessary to go to the grassroots cadres and the masses and understand the cadres in the vernacular, and to understand the cadres in the "big things" and in the "small sections". In this way, we can know people well.
■Original text
If you don't know the shortcomings of people, you don't know the strengths of people, you don't know the shortcomings of people, you don't know the shortcomings of people, you can't use people, you can't teach people. Employing people, take the strengths of people, and make people short; Those who teach people are long in adults and short in people. Only do your best to know your own shortcomings and then you can go to others' shortcomings, but you can collect others' strengths without relying on your own strengths; Otherwise, they only take what they know, but they only take what they are near.
——(Qing) Wei Yuan, "Silent Vision: Chapter VII"
■Definition
Silent Yao is a philosophical work by Wei Yuan, a thinker in the late Qing Dynasty, written in the 15th to 19th years of Daoguang (1835-1839). "Mo" is taken from Wei Yuan's character "Mo Shen", and "觚 (gū)" is a wooden tablet used for writing in ancient times. This book is divided into two parts: "Learning" and "Governance".
When Wei Yuan evaluated the gains and losses of the employment system of the past dynasties and exposed the shortcomings of the Qing government's employment system, he put forward his own idea of talent: "If you don't know the shortcomings of people, you don't know the strengths of people, you don't know the shortcomings of people, and you don't know the shortcomings of people, so you can't use people and you can't teach people." He pointed out that if we do not understand a person's shortcomings and do not understand a person's strengths, we cannot discover the shortcomings of a person's strengths, nor can we discover the strengths of a person's shortcomings, and we cannot rationally use and educate people. To this end, Wei Yuan put forward the correct method of employing and educating people: "Employing people, take the strengths of people, and eliminate the shortcomings of people; Those who teach people are long in adults and short in people. "Pi: the same as "avoid", avoid. It is believed that employing people is to use people's strengths and avoid people's shortcomings; Educating people is what adults are good at, and what others are short of. Wei Yuan's thought on talent is full of dialectics, and it still plays an important enlightening role today.