There have been so many smart people since ancient times that some of them are amazingly clever. For example, in the "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", Zhang Song, who had the ability not to forget, was so angry that Cao Cao burned his own military book. There was also Yang Xiu, Cao Cao only wrote the three words "a box of crisps" on the box, and he could guess what it meant.
In the face of such a smart person, in addition to admiration, I am afraid that it is more difficult to understand: they are all so smart, why is Zhang Song or Yang Xiu, but they all died so tragically?
Some people say that this is called "smart is mistaken by smart", they are not really smart! But for those who like to ask questions, they will ask: What is smart but mistaken by smart, and what is really smart?
In fact, on this issue, it is better to think and analyze it backwards, perhaps more convincingly. So-called: really smart people often have two abnormal characteristics, the author admits: I don't have, but I hope you can have!
First, there is always something wrong with you
When the Chu and Han dynasties fought, after Liu Bang was the first to invade Xianyang, he enjoyed his life like other generals under him. For example, Lai can't get up on the dragon bed. The appearance of coveting enjoyment is as unbearable as it is.
Liu Bang's appearance of not showing up made Fan Duo anxious and rushed to Liu Bang to give advice. Instead of waking up, Liu Bang became furious and blasted Fan Out. This incident alarmed Zhang Liang, so Zhang Liang came, and it was no different from what Fan Duo said. But Liu Bang immediately sobered up and said: You are right. So soon came the famous "Three Chapters of the Law of The Covenant" and so on.
Now the author asks, is Liu Bang really confused, or is he pretending to be confused? Obviously pretending to be confused. Because most of the people who followed Liu Bang were "mud-legged people", when they first entered this magnificent Xianyang Palace, you want these people not to enjoy it, is it possible? If you and I are the same, we will all scold the mother! Therefore, Liu Bang's indulgence is nothing more than to conform to it, not to mention that he himself also wants to enjoy it.
Fan Duo was a relative of Liu Bang, and Zhang Liang was Liu Bang's right and left arm. So the two dissuade, who is better to listen to? Naturally listen to Zhang Liang! Then Liu Bang borrowed the power to become the "Three Chapters of the Law of Covenant". Nowadays, most generals enjoy it, and when they do ideological work and restrain their behavior, the natural resistance is much smaller - because they get the benefits!
This is where Liu Bang's cleverness lies, he always has something wrong with you to catch. For example, when people came to him, he washed his feet, as if he did not respect them. But what is the end result? As he handled "Enjoy in Xianyang", it was perfect.
So, that's the first anomaly of really smart people: there's always something wrong with you. On the contrary, reject the state of perfection that people universally seek!
The advantage of this is that in addition to showing the "weak posture" of needing help, so that the helper has a sense of accomplishment and meets their psychological needs. Another important feature is that it is very confusing. Deliberately magnifying small problems and attracting attention to the past, he took the opportunity to either sneak through Chen Cang, or borrow power, or make up for his weaknesses at key points.
Second, laugh when you should cry, and cry when you should laugh
When Cao Cao was in the stalemate stage of the Battle of Guandu, he obviously lost the "bottom pants", but instead he licked his face and talked to Xu You: My military food is enough to eat for half a year!
After being pierced, he held out three more fingers and said: Three months!
Xu You was leaving, so he took the hand of the other and said: Tell you, don't say it, it will be enough for three days.
As a result, Xu You said: You should pull less calves, and the food will run out
It was also Cao Cao, who, after the fiasco at Chibi, wrote to Sun Quan: I Cao Cao was not defeated by Zhou Yu at all. Because it was my own warship that I burned, I took the initiative to carry out a strategic retreat. As a result, he let Zhou Yu pick up the leak and see him bragging about it, so that everyone in the world knew about Zhou Gongjian.
The subtext is: Brother Sun Quan, I am very worried that you are being deceived, be careful of your situation.
But when Cao Cao returned to Xu Capital, he cried guo jia again.
Writing to Sun Quan was Cao Cao provoking the relationship between Sun Quan and Zhou Yu. Back in XuDu, this began to seriously sum up the lessons of failure, and concluded that Guo Jiaruo was there, how could I Cao Cao lose so miserably? The subtext is that I myself have swelled up and failed to follow advice.
This is the second characteristic of a truly intelligent person: the more tenacious he is in the face of adversity, the more he tries to mobilize all factors to fight. But his mouth and face were "everything OK" or "don't worry." Only because truly intelligent people understand that weakness in difficult situations will often die more tragically!
Therefore, smart people do the opposite: laugh when they should cry, and cry when they should laugh. In short, just for one, never let others figure out their own cards! It should be noted that as long as the hole card is valid, it proves that it can continue to fight, and hope is still there!