Master Zeng Guofan once said:
All the talented people in the world and in the past and in the world are defeated by a proud word; the mediocre people in the world and in the past and the present are all defeated by a lazy word. Hundreds of ills, all born from laziness. Abstain from pride and laziness, and the way of protecting the family is also. Zeng Guofan trained troops in the army, requiring the non-commissioned officers to get up early every day to train their troops, no matter whether it was windy or rainy, no matter whether it was rain or rain, no matter whether it was rain or snow, drought or flood, smelling chickens dancing, training the army, and training began before dawn.
"The way of training troops must be carried out day and night by officials, but it can be gradually more familiar. If the chicken incubates the eggs, such as the furnace alchemy, it should not be slightly separated. ”
Not only that, Zeng Guofan also wrote a diary every day, constantly reflecting on his correct practices and wrong views on how to behave in the world, and insisted on reading more than ten pages of history books every day, writing for more than half an hour. Therefore, after entering the career path, Zeng Guofan, a ten-rank official in a row, became the first literati of the Qing Dynasty to be enfeoffed as the Marquis of Wu. He was more diligent in writing family letters, writing more than two hundred family letters in one year, and teaching his own ideas and concepts to his family.
The world is a mortal, and you and I are all mediocre. All his life, man has been struggling with himself all his life.
The so-called biggest enemy is actually themselves, and it is true that most people have a mediocre life, only because they have not defeated the lazy self. Human temperament is difficult to change, only reading can be changed!
Reading and learning words has been a chore since ancient times, and those who have succeeded, in addition to the rough tea and light rice in daily life, spend most of their time reading and learning words. Wang Xizhi's calligraphy only reached its peak in his later years, and the reason why he was able to have such a deep attainment was the result of hard work, not genius. There is a small pool next to Wang Xi's house, he often washes brushes and bricks in this pool, and later the water in the small pool turns black, and people call this small pool "ink pool". Later generations did not catch up with Wang Xizhi's calligraphers because there were no more people as hardworking as him.
The ancients ten years of cold window hard reading, once known to the world, it can be seen how inspirational diligence is, ten years of hard reading, no one cares, but can adhere to the original intention, from one end, and finally fly up the branch to become a phoenix, and finally complete their grand ambitions. Diligence can make up for clumsiness, heaven rewards diligence, diligence to cure laziness, whether it is their own cultivation, or for people, can be like a fish in the water, a diligent world is not difficult.