What is the difference between "smart" and "wise" at night?

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It is often said that there are many smart people in this world, but very few wise people.

So what's the difference between cleverness and wisdom? Intelligence is a kind of survival ability, and wisdom is a state of survival.

Many people are deaf and blind, and they will learn what to learn, and they are very clever. For example, Wang Xifeng in "Dream of the Red Chamber" is a first-class psychologist in Jia Fu; and Yang Xiu in "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", his IQ is the top.

But in terms of wisdom, they have to cultivate for a while.

Wisdom requires you to understand life and understand human nature, and it requires one's understanding, spirituality, speculative ability and life belief, in short, the realm of existence.

Wise people are shrewd and calculating, and selfish desires are heavy; wise people think of everyone, and helping others is helping themselves.

During the Song Renzong period, the business of the owner of a grain store had been bad, so he found the master who made the scale, asked to make a scale of 15 halves (at that time, a pound was 16 two), and promised to give the master more money after making it.

This matter was heard by the boss's daughter-in-law, and after the boss left, the daughter-in-law said to the master: "My father is old, just the wrong instruction, he asked you to make a scale of 16 halves, after making it I will give you two dollars." Later, the boss took the scale back to the rice shop, and the business became increasingly prosperous. Not only do customers from neighboring rice shops often visit, but customers from afar also continue to visit.

At the end of the year, the owner of the grain store found that the profit had quadrupled, and he proudly said that the secret of his profitability was to make half a second for every pound sold. At this time, after the daughter-in-law got up and said the truth of the matter, the boss suddenly realized and felt extremely ashamed.

Zeng Guofan once said a sentence: "Don't take advantage of anything." I would like people to take advantage of me, but I will not take advantage of others. "Many times, the more a person is willing to suffer losses, the less he will suffer losses. People who like to play smart, after all, can not take advantage of half a point.

Shrewd people tend to favor one over the other and maximize their own interests; while wise people will take into account the interests of both sides and achieve a win-win situation. Smart people value the present and only care about their own interests; wise people foresee the future, and achieving others is actually achieving themselves.

There is a law in the country of Lu: if the Lu people in foreign countries see their compatriots suffering misfortune and becoming slaves, as long as they can redeem these people to help them restore their freedom, they can receive compensation and rewards from the state.

Confucius's student Zigong was a merchant who met many Lu people in the process of trade, so he ransomed people one by one with his own money, but refused the state's compensation. When Confucius found out, he said to him, "You are wrong! Receiving compensation from the state will not harm your character; without receiving compensation, there will be no one in Luguo to redeem his compatriots who have been killed. ”

Zilu rescued a drowning man, and the man thanked him for sending a cow, and Zilu accepted it. Confucius said happily: "The people of Lu will certainly have the courage to save those who have fallen into the water from now on." Sure enough, as Confucius said, the people have followed the zilu, actively reaching out when others need help, and those who are helped know how to reciprocate. For a time, the national style of Lu people has been improved.

Good deeds need to be nourished, and an important way to nourish them is through honor, reward and compensation. Doing good without expecting anything in return is a supreme personal realm, but as a society, a ruler, a beneficiary, you cannot ignore rewards and rewards. Not only that, the ancients even advocated that rewards should be fast, "once there is a small good, it will not end up rewarding", "so that people can quickly benefit from goodness". For in this way people "will be encouraged to run away, day and night only to return to goodness."

On the contrary, if a society always allows "good people to shed blood and tears", then good deeds will hesitate, they will wander, and they will stop.

In contrast, Confucius is truly a great wisdom. True kindness does not mean to get more people's encouragement through personal behavior, but to promote everyone in the whole society to do good deeds, to influence more people to do good, this is the great good.

So what's the difference between smart and wise?

Wise people live very tired, wise people live freely; smart people are shrewd on the surface but are actually confused, wise people are confused on the surface, but in fact they are really wise; smart people consider personal false names, and wise people consider the development of the overall situation.