A person's ability must be high and low, and the value of self-knowledge lies in being able to correctly recognize and evaluate oneself, see one's own strengths and weaknesses, such a person can have a foothold in the crowd, and can be respected by everyone. Confucius had a student named Qi Diaokai, and once Confucius asked him to become an official, but Qi Diaokai replied: "I still don't have confidence in being an official." Confucius was very pleased.

What was Confucius happy about? It is because the lacquer carving is open and can know oneself and have self-knowledge. The so-called "self-knowledge" refers to the degree to which a person understands and thoroughly understands his or her own abilities. "People are valuable and self-aware", how rare is the word "expensive". Only those who truly understand themselves can overcome themselves and control themselves.

We often use the idiom "out of sight" as a metaphor for the difficulty of self-knowledge. It means that a person's eyes can see astronomy, geography, society, and life, but they only turn a blind eye to the eyelashes on their eyelids, which shows how valuable the quality of self-knowledge is.

The so-called "there are people outside the world, there is a sky outside the sky", each of us should correctly understand ourselves, so that we can develop our strengths and avoid weaknesses, so as not to be blind and arrogant, we can only give full play to our own talents, in order to be able to make continuous progress on our own. There was an ant whose strength was much greater than that of his companion, and who could carry two grains of wheat without much effort, and was a strong man. Not only that, but its courage is also unparalleled, this ant can bite insects many times larger than it like a vice, and sometimes dares to fight a spider single-handedly.

Therefore, in the ant family, it has a high prestige and fame, and the topics that the ants talk about are almost inseparable from it, and this ant is also very satisfied with himself.

Later, a little ant said to him, "You are so capable in our family, you should go out and make a difference, such as go to the city to show your skills, and you may get more praise." ”

Then the ant was moved by the little ant, and one day he climbed into a hay cart and was taken to the city by the driver. However, when they got there, the ants with their hearts full of blood touched their noses with ashes.

It turned out that it had thought that its companions would come from all over to watch its performance, but who knew that its companions simply ignored it and didn't even notice its existence.

So the ant found another large leaf, and skillfully somersaulted and jumped nimbly on the leaf, but the companions seemed to be busy with their own business, and no one paid attention to it.

It couldn't help complaining, "The ants in the city must be very confused, otherwise why would I behave so well and not have my companions give me the attention I deserve?" If you go to our ant family in the countryside, you will know that I am famous there. Although this is only a parable, it is very apt to illustrate a truth: man must be self-aware. I believe that this ant will definitely become smarter after experiencing this.

There are really a lot of people like this ant around us, who think they know everything in the world, but they don't know that they are just a poor frog at the bottom of the well. Only those who are self-aware can recognize their own weaknesses and limitations, and will not lose their way.

If a person's evaluation of themselves is too low, it is inevitable that there will be an inferiority complex, but if it is too high, it is easy to be arrogant, and the best way to solve this problem is to have self-knowledge. Only by accurately understanding ourselves can we seek truth from facts, properly perceive ourselves, improve ourselves, and know ourselves well, so that we can do things with confidence and achieve twice the result with half the effort.

If each of us has self-knowledge, then we will be able to do things with a purpose, so as not to pay blindly, and there will not be such a big gap between the rich and the poor.

People with self-knowledge will gradually move towards success in the process of continuous self-knowledge.