Self-confidence and heroism are the keys to success

In his book "Wish You Had More Vision in Your Character," Pyrux says, "A successful character must first overcome the two weaknesses of short-sightedness and blindness, because they are both formed by a lack of self-confidence." "Nothing will be smooth sailing, and there will always be setbacks. This requires you to overcome the short-term vision of focusing on immediate interests in the most difficult times, have a long-term vision, and set a good position for yourself. This is a must-have to ensure a successful character.

If a person lacks self-confidence in his own abilities, even if there is an element of modesty, he will not be able to achieve a truly successful character, let alone true happiness. Because sound self-confidence is often the key to success. Dreams are the privilege and nature of human beings, and successful people will spread the wings of their dreams, set goals to fly to the attractive future, and pursue a successful character in life. People always have a disdainful and disdainful view of dreams, but in reality, everyone, from childhood to old age, can not get rid of the entanglement of dreams. It should be said that this is a good character.

Each of us has once had the magnificent dream of soaring in the sky and swimming freely. Interestingly, these great dreams often shrink or even shatter in the words of "don't be stupid" and "impossible" from relatives and friends around them. Among them, this disillusionment is also directly related to the weakness of your character, that is, you have given up your vision because of others, and you may start to be short-sighted and greedy for small profits.

How can you achieve a successful personality that is not short-sighted but confident? Imagine the answer to your question, imagine that you are climbing over the mountain in your heart, imagine that you are crossing the finish line. On the surface, these assumptions may seem unrealistic, but they often increase your stamina and make you persevere and continue to move towards your ideals.

The character of a successful person should be like this: don't let our dreams be extinguished by a few cold words from others. Resting on your laurels will only deprive you of the energy to achieve more. As long as you see far enough, you will definitely be able to really fly.

Therefore, you should incorporate your own opinions into your personality and be confident that you can make a difference in the future, so that you can give up small favors. Otherwise, you won't be able to achieve great things, it's all because of your character weaknesses that restrict you!

On the surface, a person's success seems to be indispensable to the help of everyone, the help of heroes, as well as the situation of power and position. This is of course "hardware", but more importantly, the "software" of the successful person itself must also be excellent. Zeng Guofan used "the real dragon must have clouds, and the real tiger must have the wind" to vividly illustrate the impact of people's character and true skills on success. In ancient times, "the world is flat" is a sign of a person's greatest achievement; In modern times, the "big tycoon" has become the most successful proof.

Self-confidence and heroism are the keys to success. In Zeng Guofan's life, he often showed his self-confidence and heroism.

At the age of 21, Zeng Guofan changed his name to "Disheng" when he was studying at Lianbin Academy in Xiangxiang, which means to cleanse old habits and take on a new look. Since his youth, he has been "determined to be famous and proud". Determined to "not be a sage, but a beast", to do a vigorous career for the glory of the ancestors and to serve the court. This ambition cannot but be reflected in his poems, for example, in which he wrote: "The mighty rivers and seas are overturned, and the struggle is not over." In ancient times, there were celebrities and fortunes, who did not go to Chang'an. He was full of ambition and confidence: "Mo Yanshu will be filthy all his life, in case the pheasant egg becomes a dragon." "He was admitted to Xiucai at the age of 23, and at the age of 24, he was admitted to the Hunan Township Examination, and then went to Beijing to take the examination far away from his hometown. But he failed in both examinations, and he was not discouraged, but strengthened his belief that "I am born to be useful".

Zeng Guofan's enterprising spirit in the career of fame and fame is beyond the reach of ordinary people, and his success is based on self-esteem, self-confidence, and self-improvement. He also firmly believes that "if it is a true dragon, there must be clouds, and if it is a real tiger, there must be wind".

He wrote in a poem of hard work: At the beginning of the indiscriminate use of a spring, the dragon flowed out of the abyss.

From ancient times, sincerity can break stones, and Xuntian is not greedy for money.

Rotten Confucianism worships and is called poetry, and Shangce Tun cultivates in the inkstone.

The vast sea finally got ashore, who said that Jingwei hated it? This poem also fully reflects his self-confidence and heroism, and seeing this, it seems that we should not feel surprised by Zeng Guofan's later great deeds.

Of course, ambition, self-confidence and heroism cannot be truly wild, he also needs to practice it with that down-to-earth, indomitable spirit and drive. Therefore, Zeng Guofan said: "Do it with an open mind, and you are almost the same!" ”

Whether a person can manage himself well or not has two points: one is whether he has a strong will, and the other is whether he has the action of abandoning himself. A person who can't manage himself well can't achieve great things no matter what, let alone acquire a successful character. Zeng Guofan may not have acquired a successful character at this time, but he will definitely be able to acquire a successful character at that time. Because he can manage himself well, and he does not mess around.

Take a long-term view and plot the world's affairs

Faith in life is one of the personalities of many people, this kind of person often attributes success to luck, and indeed life is full of opportunities, and successful people can recognize it and grasp it firmly. Therefore, if you can challenge fate in your character, it proves that you are strong!

We believe that life is full of opportunities, but we often don't know how to grasp them. Many of the achievements we owe to luck have nothing to do with luck at all, but to be decisive at the moment, to dare to act, to see what no one has seen, and to persevere.

Success doesn't just come from hard work, in fact, there are three other important factors:

The first is to change your personality, the second is to understand the rules of success, and the third is to grasp the opportunity.

Since China's defeat in the Opium War, people of insight have realized that China needs to be thoroughly reformed in all aspects, otherwise it will be difficult to survive. However, the deeply closed and stubborn society, the arrogant scholars, and the corrupt and incompetent Qing government all formed an insurmountable barrier on the road to progress, making it seem impossible to move an inch forward in any reform action.

In the last years of Daoguang, Wei Yuan first put forward the slogan of "mastering the skills of the master to control the country" in the preface of the "Atlas of the Sea Kingdom" compiled by Wei Yuan, which did not receive a major response at that time.

In the last years of Xianfeng, Feng Guifen wrote a book, which further put forward a specific and systematic plan for imitating Western law and eliminating many of the accumulated shortcomings of China's political tradition. After the book was printed, Feng Guifen specially sent one to Zeng Guofan, the governor of Liangjiang at that time. Zeng Guofan recommended this book as a "theory of Confucianism", but believed that most of the ideas in the book were difficult to implement.

The reason why Zeng Guofan has this view may be based on his understanding of the actual environment at the time, and believes that it is impossible to carry out such a major reform under such a social and political background. However, in terms of basic attitude, he has sensed China's accumulated shortcomings, and it is indeed necessary to cheer up his plans. However, because he received a traditional imperial examination education, the environment he experienced was limited to the borders of the country. The teachers and friends who can influence him are far below him, so that he cannot form a clear, correct, and unswerving plan in the steps and direction of reform, and even shows his understanding of the overall situation from time to time, which is inevitably biased. Fortunately, Zeng Guofan was still able to gradually correct himself with the accumulation of experience, so he still made considerable contributions to promoting the modernization of China in the late Qing Dynasty.

For example, in the 11th year of Xianfeng (1861), Prince Yi of Qinggong and others requested the purchase of guns and guns from foreign steamers with foreign medicine tax to attack and suppress the Taiping army, in order to put down civil strife as soon as possible. There was a decree ordering Zeng Guofan, Guanwen, Hu Linyi (the official is the governor of Huguang, and Hu is the governor of Hubei) and others to make proper preparations in advance and implement them in the first order.

Zeng Guofan replied in July of that year, but he thought that steamships were of little use against the Taiping army. He said: "The reason why steamship guns are valued is only because the Chinese people are shocked by their rarity, so that the foreigners can show off." However, this matter was initiated by the ruling center, and it was necessary to be approved by the emperor, and Zeng Guofan did not dare to deny it, so he had to approve the purchase. In the same compromise, he believed that as long as we bought a number of Western naval guns, recruited a group of clever and ingenious local craftsmen, and imitated them, within a year or two, we would be able to share the benefits of naval artillery with the foreigners. Later facts proved that the pacification of the Taiping army was greatly aided by Western naval artillery (at least this was the case with Li Hongzhang's Huai army), and the work of imitating Western naval artillery was not as easy as his imitation of Guangdong warships in Hengzhou. Zeng Guofan's material is obviously not thorough.

However, Zeng Guofan is gradually changing. In the first year, he did not think that the purchase of ship guns was a priority, but the next year, he began to test the construction of China's first steamship in Anqing. On one occasion, he told his aides: "China should stress self-improvement and its basic priorities, the first is to reform politics, and the second is to seek talent." At present, the most urgent task of his subordinates is to learn the technology of making ship cannons from the West. Once we learned how to make naval cannons, then we also had the strengths of foreigners. Whether we are at peace with foreigners or against each other, we can rely on it. Otherwise, there is no reason for us to talk to foreigners. Whether you hate them or thank them, you will end up in nothing. Zeng Guofan's remarks were generally insightful, but he regarded the strengths of foreigners as only "strong ships and guns", which was still the general secular view at that time.

In July of the first year of Tongzhi (1862), with the strong support of Zeng Guofan, the curtain customers Hua Yufang and Xu Shou actually built a steamship engine. Zeng Guofan was greatly satisfied with the results of the test. His excitement was fully revealed in his diary: "The ingenuity and ingenuity of foreigners have been learned by us Chinese in the end." From then on, foreigners had nothing to boast about to China. However, the truth is not as simple as he expected. There's still a long way to go from a slightly rudimentary engine to a full-fledged ship that can move on the water. Later, although Hua Yufang and others worked hard and painstakingly to manage, they were unable to piece together a complete and usable ship. He realized that he had seen things too easily.

Just when the shipbuilding work had been tried and failed again and again, and they were so anxious, Hua Yufang and the others suddenly remembered a person - Rong Hong, a Cantonese who he met in Shanghai a few years ago. Rong Hong is the first international student in modern China, graduated from Yale University in the United States, not only proficient in English, has a wealth of Western knowledge, but also has a fiery patriotic heart, eager to use what he has learned to serve the motherland.

Therefore, Hua Yufang and others made a proposal to Zeng Guofan, asking Luo Zhirong Hong to come, believing that he would preside over the establishment of a machine factory, which would be of great help to the implementation of shipbuilding and artifact work. Zeng Guofan was extremely happy to hear this, and immediately asked Zhang Shigui and Li Shanlan, who were the first acquaintances with Rong Hong, to write a letter to invite Rong Hong to Anqing. Rong Hong came to Anqing and met Zeng Guofan twice, Zeng Guofan thought that this young man was capable and reliable, and immediately assigned him to the United States to purchase "machines for making machines", and planned to set up a general machine factory in the future, from which various arms and equipment manufacturing branches would be derived. Zeng Guofan gave Rong Hong the title of Wupin military merit and delivered 68,000 taels of silver for the purchase of machinery. It shows Zeng Guofan's trust and deep expectations for Rong Hong.

After Rong Hong went to the United States, Anqing's shipbuilding test work continued as usual. In December of the second year of Tongzhi, the first steamship in the history of Chinese shipbuilding was finally assembled. It has been a full year and five months since the engine was made last year. The size of this ship is very small, the hull is only about 2 zhang 89 feet (more than 9 meters) long, and the speed is only 256 miles per hour.

After Zeng Guofan personally boarded the ship for a test run, he once again ignited a spark of hope, believing that from now on China could have a real self-built steamer. He named the "model-like" small steamer the "Yellow Bird", meaning that China would henceforth "soar into the sky" and would no longer have to crouch at the feet of the great powers.

He planned to take the ship's model, enlarge it, and build it on a large scale. However, it turned out that there were still many insurmountable technical difficulties in creating a truly modern steamship that could stand alongside foreign ships. At that time, China really did not have enough financial resources to finance trial and error; In terms of time, far water can't save near fire. Therefore, the Anqing Shipyard did not implement the plan to expand manufacturing, and even the "Yellow Bird" that had been built did not know what to do. Undoubtedly, the shipbuilding proved to be a failure.

This series of failures did not discourage Zeng's will to try to cheer up. On the contrary, from the experience of failure, he saw more clearly the importance of China's manufacture of ship munitions. Only when China itself has this capability can it get rid of foreign coercion and achieve a state of self-reliance and self-reliance. Therefore, on the one hand, he hoped that Rong Hong would purchase machinery and return to China as soon as possible, and on the other hand, he was also looking for other opportunities to obtain the ability to produce steamship munitions.

In the fourth year of Tongzhi (1865), a new opportunity came, Li Hongzhang (then governor of Jiangsu) purchased a British iron factory in Shanghai, which was mainly equipped with shipbuilding machines, and also machines for manufacturing various munitions and guns.

For learning Western shipbuilding tools, Li Hongzhang's enthusiasm is still above his teacher Zeng Guofan. After acquiring this iron factory, it was immediately named "Jiangnan Machinery Manufacturing Bureau", and the two munitions bureaus that had been established were merged into it, expanding the scope and scale of manufacturing. Zeng Guofan was very happy to receive the report and expressed his full support. Soon, Rong Hong purchased more than 100 kinds of machines from the United States and shipped them all to Shanghai, and Zeng Guofan handed over all the machines to the "Jiangnan Manufacturing Bureau" for use. Although some of the factories were shipbuilding machines, due to financial and technical constraints, they could only be engaged in the manufacture of guns and munitions at first, but the results were very good, and the products were on a par with those of the West.

In April of the sixth year of Tongzhi (1867), Zeng Guofan allocated about 200,000 taels of foreign tax to the Jiangxi Customs in the quasi-annual year, which was used exclusively for shipbuilding. On the one hand, foreign engineers and craftsmen were hired to guide the manufacturing skills of Chinese workers, and on the other hand, the members of the bureau were instructed to discuss and study day and night, compile books, and seek improvement in manufacturing technology. In July of the seventh year of Tongzhi (1868), the first bureau-built steamship was completed, costing 80,000 taels of silver, carrying more than 300 tons, and the speed of 70 miles per hour against the water (19 nautical miles weak) and 120 miles per hour (31 nautical miles strong). This is the first truly modern steamer successfully built by the Chinese themselves.

Zeng Guofan personally boarded the ship and tried the voyage in the Yangtze River, and was very satisfied, and named it "Tianji". So he reported to the Qing court about the shipbuilding and sea trials. The Qing court was very excited, and sent an edict to praise Zeng Guofan. This ship is a paddle wheel that exposes the turbine to the surface, and from the second onwards, the dark wheel has been transformed. The engines, furnaces, hulls and all the equipment on board were made entirely by Chinese employees according to the drawings, and the foreign craftsmen were only in the position of consultants. Until the Republic of China era, this shipyard still played an important role in the construction and maintenance of ships for the Chinese Navy.

Don't dare to take big risks

The vast majority of people in the world fail to succeed because of their withdrawn character. Here, we want to make a point: if a person believes that he is capable of doing something, he must not leave himself a way out. Otherwise, there will always be a second-best element in your personality, which will have fatal consequences for you.

"Lack of self-confidence" has always been a big problem that plagues people's personalities, and one of the questions in a survey of students who majored in psychology at a university was the most troublesome for individuals, and the results showed that 75% of people lacked self-confidence.

How do you deal with the withdrawn personality that is formed due to lack of self-confidence? People who live a life of intimidation, deep insecurity, feelings of incompetence, and even doubts about their own abilities can be found almost everywhere. People with this type of personality are deeply skeptical about their ability to take responsibility, and they also doubt that they will be able to take advantage of favorable opportunities. They always think that things can't go smoothly, and they stay in a state of uneasiness. In addition, they don't believe they can have what they want. As a result, they tend to retreat and settle for the next best, satisfying themselves with a little achievement. In fact, there are thousands of people in the world who have been defeated by such forces and are crawling along the road of life with a sense of unease. Strictly speaking, the vast majority of them do not have to suffer such setbacks.

In a word, the withdrawn character can only stop you from moving forward, because it will give you a small harbor of satisfaction when you need it most. Of course, this is a misunderstanding of your character!

In times of peace, people dare not do things or not, mainly reflected in whether they have the courage to take risks and the ability to resist risks, in other words, whether they dare to take big risks, often this dare does not directly threaten the lives of their families. In the era of war, the dare was different, and he was directly faced with the choice of life and death. Zeng Guofan is a person who dares to act at a critical moment.

Zeng Guofan's bravery and stubbornness were fully demonstrated when he was trapped in Qimen. In 1860, Zeng Guofan was stationed in Qimen. At that time, there were ten rooms and nine empty rooms in the north and south of Anhui, from Jinling to Huizhou for more than 800 miles, and there was no Taiping army everywhere, and there was not a day without a battle. When Huizhou had just fallen, Hugh and Qi were shocked. Some people persuaded Zeng Guofan to move the military camp to another place, he said: "I first entered the army, and when I encountered danger, I retreated, what will happen in the future?" I'm one step away from here, and there's no place to die. "How brave and stubborn! When the enemy arrived, they besieged on all sides. He wrote his will, hung his saber on the tent, and calmly arranged to meet the enemy, without changing his usual attitude. After defending for more than 20 days, Bao Chao's army was recruited for a big battle and drove the enemy army out of the ridge. His aides once concluded: With the arrogant "enemy army" that has been jointly killed together for more than ten years, Zeng Guofan's leadership for four years has been wiped out in turn, all because of the stubbornness and lack of cowardice at the beginning of Qimen, which can make the enemy frightened and boost morale.

Zeng Guofan dared to "swear to death" in a difficult situation. What others are not afraid of, he is afraid; What others are afraid of, but he is not afraid, this is often a kind of wisdom and courage.

A person's successful personality is a process of wrestling with all kinds of dangerous events, and he is afraid that he will be powerless to fight. And Zeng Guofan dared to challenge himself and compete with his opponents in a dangerous situation, so he had the basic qualities to obtain a successful character.

Enrich your brain with curiosity

"People make things happen", this is a common saying, but also a truth. In one thing and one cause, people are the most fundamental factor. What kind of attitude you use to give, there will be corresponding achievements to reward you. If you pay diligently, the reward for you will also be rich. Therefore, in a sense, it is not an exaggeration to say that "success is done in diligence". Therefore, it is necessary for every young person to develop the habit of diligence.

Some people compare life to a journey because of the difficulties and twists and turns of life, people on the journey, his purpose is not only to enjoy the mountains and rivers, he shoulders the mission of life, he wants to move forward, keep walking, until the end of life, appreciate the meaning of life, and complete the journey of life without regrets. The food for the journey is diligence. Without it, it is impossible for a person to go far on the road of life, and even if he can go far, he will do nothing, walk a long way, and still be empty-handed. Only by being diligent can we take the road of life and obtain the glory of our career. Whether you do something or what you don't do, hard work can make you do it in life. Sages are not born, they are all made by hard work.

Success in the world will not be easy to achieve without diligence, and if there is diligence, success will not be too difficult.

The word "diligence" becomes a big thing, and the word "lazy" mistakes life. Zeng Guofan has always worked the word "diligence", admonishing himself not to be lazy, so he has the tendency to gain a successful character. On the contrary, how many people are so inert that they can surpass others? Whoever is lazy is a wretched!

Learning is an indispensable knowledge in life. Zeng Guofan's education is recognized by the world. If Zeng Guofan had hid in his study to study Cheng Zhu's science, he would have become a master of science. But the stormy Qing Dynasty was not something that could be saved by science. Zeng Guofan is like a person, his life has changed several times, and each "change" has adapted to the requirements of the times. From science to "classics" and then to "Westernization" is such a process. There is no way to learn from waste, and there is no way to become a talent with no knowledge.

Zeng Guofan's success in life can be said to be the success of reading. He was well educated, and through studying, he embarked on the road of eunuchs, made many good friends, comprehended the art of marching and fighting, and established and practiced the lofty ambition of serving the country and enlightening the world.

When Zeng Guofan served as the Beijing Division, it was a time when China's internal strife and external troubles were pressing. Zeng Guofan's concern was that there was "Yingyi" outside, the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom inside, and the Yellow River breach in the disaster. Therefore, his reading focuses more on the study of the application of the world, especially the study of the earth. In his spare time, Zeng Guofan studied the practical problems in detail through a large number of selective reading of ancient historical books for military and political plans and various general affairs. Therefore, once he is in power, he will be able to apply the knowledge he has gained from his usual reading. Later, the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom was very popular, and Zeng Guofan was born with a book and put it into use, and finally was able to suppress Hong and Yang, and most people were surprised. As long as we know how he lived as a Beijing official for more than 10 years, how he interacted with and taught each other between celebrities and celebrities in Beijing for more than 10 years, how he persevered and assiduously studied books that were useful to the world during his more than 10 years of Beijing education, how he prepared to deal with incidents, how he cared about current affairs, and how he humbly studied, we can know that Zeng Guofan's success was by no means a fluke.

During his time as an official, he concentrated on reading the "General Dictionary" and "Zizhi Tongjian" according to the work characteristics of the various ministries he was in charge of, and thus gained insight into the pros and cons of the Qing Dynasty's political situation, officialdom customs, mountain and river situation, people's livelihood and suffering, and good military equipment. When Zeng Guofan was promoted from a cabinet scholar to the right attendant of the Ministry of Rites and the left attendant of the Military Department, he read through the documents of the Daoguang and above dynasties of the Qing Dynasty, and witnessed the critical situation and the political style was declining. It embodies his ambition to understand the world.

In the years when the war was raging and the affairs were entangled, Zeng Guofan also liked to study Wang Chuanshan's works. Under the influence of his earnest study and all-out efforts to publish Chuanshan's writings, many important figures in the Hunan Army actively participated in the serious study of Chuanshan's writings, forming a strong atmosphere of advocating the study of Chuanshan and studying Chuanshan's books from top to bottom. Later, Wang Fuzhi's name spread more and more widely, and his influence became greater and greater, which had a great relationship with Zeng Guofan's advocacy of "Wang Xue".

Under the example of Zeng Guofan's reading example, the generals of the Hunan army took the "sage lineage" and "Confucian Taoism" of Confucius, Meng, Zhou, Zhang, Cheng, Zhu, and Chuanshan as their own ideological beliefs, and read the "Chuanshan Testament" (especially the historical theory in it) as "a golden mirror for thousands of autumns, and a bag of beads". Before the publication of the "Funyama Testament", Zeng Guofan repeatedly read a large number of Chuanshan's works that he could find, especially for the historical works such as "Reading through the Jian" and "The Song Treatise", and he was familiar with many experiences, which were recorded in his diary. Under his recommendation and advocacy, some generals of the Hunan Army also began to study Chuanshan's works long before the Zeng brothers published the "Chuanshan Testament", and after the "Chuanshan Testament" was engraved, it became a climax. Of course, these generals did not only study Chuanshan's works, but also, like Zeng Guofan, extensively searched and learned from the treasure house of traditional Chinese culture in order to seek ways to govern the country and use troops to serve their military and political practice. As Guo Songtao said: "Since the rise of the army, Hunan people have been appointed as generals and generals, facing each other shoulder to shoulder. For a while, Wu Jian was strong, and he knew a lot about reading. Wherever the army goes, hear the sound of strings and songs. A large number of generals of the Hunan army mostly joined the army from "a scholar" and "cloth cloth and cold soldier", from clerks, staff members or middle- and lower-level officers, to become senior generals who commanded the army and fought alone, and many of them became feudal officials such as governors and governors, and some even became scholars, military ministers, and scholars of the central government of the Qing Dynasty. They praised and promoted Chuanshan in unison, and obviously benefited a lot from the "Chuanshan Testament". During the Guangxu period, Hubei Xuezheng Kong Xianglin said: "Chuanshan's historical theory, with the knowledge of the ancient and modern, refers to the rise and fall of the Chen dynasties, and the chaos is based on the salty and the same time, the Zhongxing generals, the Confucian students of Banxiang Province, and the testament of their right-hand men are many. The overthrow of Gev's Zhiming Society, the former by the abolition of armaments, and then by the military strategy of the unskilled, so the military strategy in the past dynasties is very detailed. The Hunan people obeyed his book, and Dominic General was able to flatten the difficulty. This fully explains why the generals of the Hunan Army represented by Zeng Guofan so seriously studied, englished, advocated, and carried forward the historical secrets of the "Chuanshan Testament" in the midst of the war.

Through the study of Chuanshan's writings, Zeng Guofan's academic viewpoint of "applying it to the world" was perfected, and his military achievements were also flourishing. The Hunan army, represented by Zeng Guofan, had an extremely far-reaching impact on China's modern and modern times. All kinds of figures who have been active on the stage of modern Chinese history, whether positive or negative, have all been influenced by Zeng Guofan to varying degrees, and all of them have read and studied Chuanshan scholarship as seriously as Zeng Guofan did. Many of them had a warm admiration for Zeng Guofan in their enthusiastic youth.

Zeng Guofan is particularly valuable in reading and studying, and what is particularly valuable is that he regards it as a lifelong thing and accompanies him for life.

In 1871, Zeng Guofan's health deteriorated, and it can be said that he was getting worse day by day. As a person with a deep cultivation in science, he wrote a few proverbs on January 17, warning and spurring himself not to relax in his studies. These words are: "The fowl is still alive, and the silence is respectful; Survive in death, live in bliss. He believes that "diseases and incidents in the twilight of life are inevitable for everyone", and the most important thing in reading is perseverance, and taste the joy of reading. Therefore, on February 17, he himself felt very ill, and he was slightly healed by sleeping more, and occasionally found that his right kidney was swollen and as large as a chicken egg during the night, which was indeed a dangerous sign, but he ignored it and continued to study at night. Riddled with diseases, this is already a problem that is difficult to get rid of, "the former is the eye, the heart is more and more; When I was close to a hernia, the more painful it became, so I didn't dare to use my heart at all, and I became a waste." But medicine is not as good as reading, he can't do without books, and he will be a waste person if he leaves books.

In the autumn and winter of this year, Zeng Guofan's condition became more serious, "the foot is swollen more and more, the socks that he usually wears can no longer enter, and he is fat and hard, and it seems to have been swollen above his knees." About writing essays and reading life books, they are too careful, it is harmful to the blood, and the qi cannot be transported, so as for this, in the future, you should not write essays, do not read life books." In this diary, we can see both his physical condition and his dedication to writing and reading. Although he stipulated that he should not write and read the life book in the future, he could not do things according to the regulations. Because soon, Yangzhou Ruan's family sent "Xu Zhousheng Collection", which is a new book that he has never read, and it is difficult to put down after getting it, and he must read it from beginning to end, and he is engrossed in the process of reading. Later, Hunan Wang Yunyun's recent books "Zhou Yiyan Said", "Supplementary Notes on the Great Biography of Shangshu", "Yu Gong Notes", "Gu Liang Shenyi", "Zhuangzi Seven Notes", "Xiangqilou Anthology", although he could not read them one by one after receiving them, but each book was read several times more seriously. After that, he violated the original intention of not reading the original stipulation of not reading the book of life, and continued to insist on reading "Juyi Jinzhen", Wang Qi's "Wang Xiajiu Anthology" sent by his father, "The Chronicle of Rites and Disciplines" compiled by Zhu Bin, "Daoyun Compilation" sent by Li Yuxian, "New Treatise" written by the Japanese, "Chinese and Foreign Ancient Chronology" by Shanghai, "Hunan Yangqiu" sent by Tang Yiqu, "Wang Shaohe's Poems" sent by Wang Xiaxuan, "Zhejiang Poems" sent by Tao Huangcun, and Liu Xingen's "Guliang Dayishu" and a number of other life books.

On March 2, 1872, Zeng Guofan's old and sick body was like a candle in the wind. On this day, he was "sick with liver wind, and his right foot was numb, and he was cured for a long time." On March 5, Su Tingkui, the former governor of the river, passed through Jinling, and Zeng Guofan went out of the city to greet him, and read the "Ercheng Quanshu" before leaving. His health was so poor that he still insisted on reading "Ercheng Quanshu" every day. But he sighed in his diary one after another: "In recent years, I have been writing poems, but I also feel that my heart is in a trance and I can't do it independently. Therefore, dizziness, eye diseases, liver wind and other symptoms are caused by heart, liver and blood deficiency. You can't go to the morning dew first, and you can go to the end quickly; I can't lift my spirits and do my duty. Living in the world, how terrifying! "The rest of the spirit has been scattered for a long time, and all the pieces that should be completed have not been completed for a long time, and the pieces that should be packed have not been inspected for a long time, such as a mountain full of fallen leaves, and there is no home." He knew that he would run out of oil and die soon, so he seized the time of his life to do what he loved most - reading. The book he reads every day is "Ercheng Quanshu", hoping to draw a complete end to the exploration and cultivation of science.

△ Decryption of Zeng's Character (1)

The dilemma is that Zeng Guofan, who can't crush the strong, has been seeking strength all his life, and he has always burst out with strong character qualities, which shows that he is a person who dares to challenge himself and always hopes to turn his body into a steel plate. Such a person must be a strong man. We can draw such a conclusion from Zeng Guofan: A person with a fearful personality can only be defeated by difficulties, and this truth does not need to be explained. People have perseverance and everything can be done, and people have no perseverance and everything will collapse, and the whole secret of successful character is only 8 words: perseverance and perseverance.

In adversity, we must cultivate the nerves that are not afraid of difficulties and overcome difficulties, and a strong will can only be cultivated in difficult situations.

Dilemmas can test a person's qualities. If a person dares to face difficulties head-on and actively seek solutions to problems, then sooner or later, he will always succeed. If a person is frightened by difficulties, discouraged, and does nothing, then he will not come out of the shadow of failure even if the difficult situation is eliminated.

Successful people are not afraid of adversity. In the face of long-term difficulties, they either worked silently or waved their flags. With an invertible nerve and a fearless blood, they cheered up their spirits and worked hard in an attempt to break through the cage of predicament as soon as possible.

The great two-time Nobel Prize-winning scientist Marie Curie once said, "None of our lives are easy, but what does it matter?" We must have perseverance and, above all, self-confidence! We must believe that our gifts are meant to be used to do something, and that it must be done, no matter what the cost. ”

Yes, Marie Curie's success, apart from her genius, lies in her perseverance.

Without this, it would be unimaginable to extract 0.12 grams of radium chloride from tons of waste slag!

At the 1994 Summer World Aquatics Games, American wonder Jenny Thompson won two gold medals with a serious arm injury.

The news came out, and it was indeed impressive. Thompson, who broke his left arm at the end of May, underwent surgery in early June, with more than 100 stitches and his arm held in place with seven nails and titanium plates. She returned to swimming training 10 days after surgery. Two years ago, she broke the 59-year-old world record in the 100-meter freestyle.

She said one of her goals this season is to break the world record. In the end, although she did not break the world record she set herself, she won two gold medals after all, and she used all her strength!

Her results are not so much a victory of speed, but a victory of will and perseverance!

A strong character can help you get through difficult times, and a tough nerve can put you through the trials. The road to success is never smooth, stand up in setbacks, rebuild in the ruins, as long as the heart does not die, the will is not extinguished, you are a tough guy who stands up to the sky.

A strong character is the characteristic of all people who have achieved great things. They may lack good qualities, they may have various weaknesses and flaws, but they have a resilient character. This is an indispensable nurture for all those who have achieved great things. Hardship is not enough to discourage them, and hardship is not enough to discourage them.

△ Decryption of Zeng's Character of Seeking Strength (2)

As long as you are full of self-confidence in your heart, you can become a strong man Zeng Guofan is a person full of self-confidence, he is confident that he will always become a real dragon and a real tiger one day, so he always strives towards this goal. This is admirable. Countless facts show that the reason why the vast majority of people in the world cannot succeed is because of their withdrawn character. Here, we want to make a point: if a person believes that he is capable of doing something, he must not leave himself a way out. Otherwise, there will always be a second-best factor in your personality, which will be fatal to you.

"Lack of self-confidence" has always been a big problem that plagues people's personalities, and one of the questions in a survey of students who majored in psychology at a university was the most troublesome for individuals, and the results showed that 75% of people lacked self-confidence.

How do you deal with the withdrawn personality that is formed due to lack of self-confidence? People who live a life of intimidation, deep insecurity, feelings of incompetence, and even doubts about their own abilities can be found almost everywhere. People with this type of personality are deeply skeptical about their ability to take responsibility, and they also doubt that they will be able to take advantage of favorable opportunities. They always think that things can't go smoothly, and they stay in a state of uneasiness. In addition, they don't believe they can have what they want. As a result, they tend to retreat and settle for the next best, satisfying themselves with a little achievement. In fact, there are thousands of people in the world who have been defeated by such forces and are crawling along the road of life with a sense of unease. Strictly speaking, the vast majority of them do not have to suffer such setbacks.

Napoleon Hill, the world's greatest master of successful personality analysis, tells this story:

On a freezing morning, a good friend came to me at a restaurant in a Midwestern town. Since I will be giving a lecture about 35 kilometres from the place, I have asked him to accompany me. I got into his car and drove on the slippery road towards my destination, and he was driving faster than me. So I suggested to him: "There is still plenty of time, you can drive slowly, you don't have to rush!" ”

"You don't have to worry about my driving skills." He replied, and continued, "In the past, I used to feel uneasy, but now I have completely overcome it. In the past, I was afraid of everything – I was afraid of driving on the road, I was afraid of flying, and I was even in fear before my family was out and I didn't come home. ”

In addition, whenever I go out, I always feel as if something is about to happen, and I feel extremely uneasy. Being surrounded by this feeling overshadows life. In fact, I have a very serious inferiority complex and lack of self-confidence, which is also reflected in my work, so the work always does not go well. Now, though, I've figured out a way to banish this uneasiness from my heart once and for all. Now, no matter what I face, I can control and arrange it independently. What is the 'magic plan'? He pointed to the two clips attached to the dashboard, then reached into his chest pocket and pulled out a stack of small cards. He quickly picked one of them and clamped it in place. The card reads: 'As long as you have confidence in your heart, there is nothing you can't do.' Then he pulled the card apart, balanced the steering wheel with one hand, and with the other hand skillfully placed the card into the stack, and pulled out the other card, and held it in the same way with a clip. The card reads: 'With the help of heaven, who can resist us?' ’”

"I travel a lot of places to sell," he says. He then said to me, "I visit clients all day and drive everywhere a lot. People often unconsciously think about various things when driving, and if the thoughts are negative, the actions and performance of the day will naturally appear negative. In the past, even though I drove my car to visit customers, my mind was filled with anxiety and a sense of failure. And that's why my sales performance has deteriorated. But now my situation has changed dramatically. Ever since I started using these cards while driving and trying to memorize the words on them, the thoughts in my head have changed dramatically. The feelings of unease, frustration and character that used to plague me are gone, replaced by a character of faith and courage. This approach has changed me and helped me perform at work. He added, "In the past, I could say that I was reluctant to work on customer visits and sales, so it was impossible to make a difference. This is the biggest weakness of my personality and of course prevents me from succeeding. ”

In a word, the withdrawn character can only stop you from moving forward, because it will give you a small harbor of satisfaction when you need it most. Of course, this is a misunderstanding of your character. If you want to be strong, you have to be confident in yourself!