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The "Hangzhou Daily" article "Genius Son" report, I saw it for the first time.
Here's a sad story:
When Jin Xiaoyu was six years old, he was shot in the left eye by a child's toy gun, causing blindness.
Although his grades have always been excellent, he stopped attending school in high school and suffered from manic depression, also known as bipolar disorder, and patients would alternate episodes of depression and mania.
At the time of the onset, Jin Xiaoyu smashed almost everything that could be smashed in the house.
But God, while closing a door, opened a window for him.
By chance, he began translating foreign language books for publishers, translating 22 books in ten years, including English, Japanese and German.
Moreover, the reader response of each book has been very good.
Jin Xiaoyu, who became disabled and fell ill, became a genius.
02
After reading the report, some people may attribute Xiaoyu's genius to illness.
Because the report mentioned that Father Jin had read a book called "Manic Depression and Many Talents", which was written by a psychiatrist in the United States, which listed 25 historical celebrities: Beethoven, Van Gogh, Newton, Hemingway... They have typical manifestations of bipolar disorder throughout their lives, and have endured pain beyond ordinary people. They are all talented artists with great imaginations.
Some netizens have also made a cellular explanation for this in the message.
But I believe that Xiaoyu's genius comes more from extraordinary efforts.
Jin Xiaoyu's father introduced that Jin Xiaoyu mainly does two things with the computer: self-taught foreign languages and watching acoustic movies.
Watching foreign language movies, Jin Xiaoyu first looks at the subtitles with Chinese, and after reading it, makes a note to block the subtitles and then looks at it. Watch a movie N times until you fully understand it.
For so many years, Jin Xiaoyu has read all the foreign language novels in the Zhejiang Library...
To tell the truth, with this investment and accumulation of learning foreign languages, anyone will have a lot of achievements.
03
These days, I have written several articles related to Qian Zhongshu and inquired about many materials.
As a scholar of Both China and the West, Qian Zhongshu certainly has good innate conditions, but his acquired efforts are also amazing.
In "The Two of Us", Yang Dai has described the story of Qian Zhongshu's reading several times.
During his study abroad in Oxford, Qian Zhongshu devoted all his vacation time to reading. University libraries, city libraries, bookstores, where there are books, he reads.
In a year in France, Qian Zhong's calligraphy began to be read by the poet Wei Rong in the fifteenth century, and through the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, the family read the future. The same goes for Devon. He reads Chinese and English every day, French, German, and later Italian every other day...
Qian Zhongshu's Tsinghua classmate once introduced his reading situation: he read Chinese books in a week and English books in a week. Every Saturday he sorted out the books he had read, took notes, and then took a bunch of books to the library to return them, and then he came back with a bunch of them.
Another Tsinghua classmate of Qian Zhongshu recalled that during the trip, Qian Zhongshu actually held an English dictionary and could not release the volume. It is said that reading dictionaries has become a habit of Qian Zhongshu and is deeply enjoyed.
Qian Zhongshu's erudition comes from these accumulations day after day.
04
Fat people eat it one bite at a time, and geniuses also boil out day by day.
No one can become a genius overnight.
Even if you have good genes, even if you have other opportunities, you need to make corresponding efforts.
And as long as you put in enough effort, even if you can't become a genius, you will definitely surpass those ordinary people who don't work hard.
That famous "ten thousand hour rule" may not be suitable for all fields, but for things like learning a foreign language, it certainly works.
Don't believe it, you let any English "scum" try Jin Xiaoyu's method, watch English dramas every day, don't listen to them, don't give up, and read the English novels in the library to try again.
Becoming a master translator may also depend on literary talent, but becoming a master of exams allows you to get high scores on the exam room, and there is no problem at all.
05
Seeing the news of Jin Xiaoyu, I deliberately preached to my son again.
I asked him if he had finished reading the English novels he had bought, and my son replied, "No."
"If you were given a year and enough financial support, would you be able to do it if IELTS brushed less than 8 points on the devil's bayonet?" I asked another extreme question.
"Of course you can, but in fact, most people can't do a lot of things, they're just lazy." The son was very honest.
In fact, it is not the disease that makes Jin Xiaoyu a genius, but these external factors make him more focused on learning foreign languages.
Many people who are healthier than him face too many temptations, too little self-control, and of course lower achievements.
Jin Xiaoyu can become a "genius", one is inseparable from the love of his parents. Even if his parents are surrounded by disciples, even if they are physically and mentally exhausted, they have been carefully accompanying him and caring for him for 50 years, so that he can do what he likes during the break between illnesses.
Second, it is inseparable from Jin Xiaoyu's own hard work. His brilliance does not come from the wonderful changes in the cells of the brain, but from the accumulation of knowledge.
And the love of parents and the efforts of children are not the magic weapons for everyone's success!
From this point of view, the story of the "genius son" is also a model for each of our families.
I hope that Jin Xiaoyu can recover, and I hope that more people can draw nourishment from his story.
Pearl Language (ID: tsliuchanghai), from the dual perspective of teachers and parents to see education, to answer the educational confusion of adolescents and parents.