A great artist once said to his imitators: "He who learns from me lives, and he who is like me dies." "This is the word of the wise. Learning, inevitably to imitate, imitation may be an indispensable stage of learning, but if you stop at imitation, it becomes blind obedience.
People with outstanding achievements are good at drawing the essence of imitation, and never imitate bluntly, because they know clearly that imitation is only used to expand their thinking and enhance their discernment.
Many elites stand out because they imitate and innovate. They will find the most core advantages from the excellent people and learn from them, so that the better the people around them, the better they are. However, they will never just imitate the external behavior of good people.
Henry Ford came from a humble background, with limited learning and no backing, but in just 10 years, he overcame these shortcomings and became the richest man in the United States and even the world in 25 years, which everyone knows. But have you ever delved into the mystery of his success? From Ford's personal development, since his close friendship with Edison, his personal development has begun to advance by leaps and bounds, and his most remarkable era began with the acquaintance of Froston, Burlaus and Burbank, all of whom were intelligent superhumans. Ford, on the other hand, brought together their ingenuity, intellectual experience, and spiritual power to integrate them with their own brain power. Therefore, he is not blindly imitating, otherwise why is he the only one who has become the king of cars?
Clever and effective imitation is integrated by the brain, and people who do not understand this way and blindly imitate will be embarrassed.
When Stick was about to graduate, his uncle told him a story.
There is a child from a poor family. One day, he walked into a bank, hoping to find a job, but was refused. He sobbed, chewed on a penny of licorice he had stolen from his kind aunt, and without a word jumped down the marble steps of the bank, bending down to pick up something from the ground. The banker thought he was going to throw a stone at him, so he hid behind the door, only to see the boy putting the picked up in his pocket.
"Come here, kid!" The banker cried, "What are you picking up?" "Another needle!" The child answered. "Are you a good boy?" Have you ever been to school? The banker asked again. yes. The child replied. So the banker wrote "St, Peter" with a gold pen and asked the child what it meant. "Ham Peter." The child did not go to school, so he mistaken the abbreviation "St" for "Salt".
Instead of blaming the child, the banker made him his partner, gave him half of the profits and married his daughter to him. Later, he had everything a banker had.
Steak thought the story was very enlightening to him. So, every day for weeks, he went to the door of a bank to look for a pin, and he hoped that the banker would call him in and ask, "Are you a good boy?" Then ask "St. John" what he means, and he will answer "John Salty," and then the banker asks him to be a partner and marry his daughter to himself.
Finally, one day, a banker asked Steak, "Kid, what are you picking up?" ”
"Pins." Steak said modestly and politely.
"Let me see." The banker took the pin.
Steak was so excited that he took off his hat and prepared to follow the banker into the bank, become his partner, and marry his daughter again. But things didn't go as he thought, and the banker said, "These pins belong to the bank, get out of here, and if I see you wandering around here again, I'll let the dog bite you!" ”
Sdic walked away, and the pin was confiscated by the stingy old man.
Everyone has their own characteristics, and what others can do well, you may not be able to do. Smart people explore the deeper reasons why others are doing well, rather than just imitating to "pick up a pin."
When you throw yourself into the raging blind rapids, you lose your personality. Blind imitation will only make you lose your true self and become a marionette controlled by blind rapids. Therefore, you must choose to be your own and not blindly follow or over-imitate others, so that you will be faster to success!