The smarter the person, the more he knows how to rest
Text: Zhu Guangqian
For example, if you can walk 100 miles a day, you can walk 100 miles a day, and if you walk an extra day, you can walk 100 miles more, so that you can maintain a speed of 100 miles no matter how long you walk.
Anyone who has traveled a long way knows that this abacus is not very accurate, and if it does not stop for a long time, it will definitely go slower and slower, so that it will not be able to walk at all.
The secret of our walking, "not afraid of slowness, only afraid of standing", is really only a one-sided truth.
It is not good to stand forever, and it is not necessary to go far if you never stand, and if you do not stand, you must be slow, sometimes delaying the opportunity, but occasionally standing and standing is not slow, and walking after standing is the only way to accelerate.
The common problem of our Chinese people is that they are afraid of standing and not afraid of slowness, looking at each other slowly and methodically, saying that they do not do and do not stop, and that they do not make any reputation. And so many things were delayed.
We only talk about work but not efficiency, and in modern society, if we don't talk about efficiency, we will fall behind.
Psychologists have conducted numerous experiments on the issue of efficiency in Western countries, and have concluded that doing the same work at the same time, with rest is much more efficient than without.
For example, a long page of arithmetic addition exercises will take two o'clock to do it over and over again, and if you do it for 50 minutes, then take a 20-minute break, and then do it for another 50 minutes. It can also be done with no loss of time and fewer errors.
Most of the new factories in the West have applied this principle to regulate work and rest time, in fact, work without rest is really a waste of time.
In addition, the waste of energy is even more uneconomical. Compared with Westerners, there is a difference of at least 20 years between the working age of Chinese. We are old and powerless when we are in our fifties and sixties, and they are still in the prime of life at that time, and they are just starting their careers, how big is that!
Rest is not only a build-up for work, but sometimes work has to be brewed and matured in rest.
The great French mathematician Pan Jiayi studied mathematical problems, and he couldn't solve them with great difficulty, and then ran to wander the streets, and the problems that he couldn't solve with great effort were easily solved by inadvertently.
According to psychologists, conscious work has to retreat into the subconscious mind for a while before it can take root. Usually when we put down a piece of work, we seem to be resting on the surface, but in fact the work is still going on subconsciously.
James has a metaphor of "learning to skate in the summer and swimming in the winter".
Ice skating was originally practiced in the previous winter, and there was no ice to skate this summer, so naturally I couldn't think of skating, and it was considered to be resting, but the muscle skills of skating were solidified at this time. It's the same with swimming, and it's the same with all learning.
For example, when we learn to write, we work very hard, and our progress always seems to be very slow, and sometimes the more we write, the worse it gets. But if you stop writing for a while, you suddenly feel that your words have improved.
Progress is followed by pauses, pauses are followed by progress, and so on many times, so that the words are easy to write well.
The need to pause in the practice of calligraphy is also because there is time for the muscles and muscles to solidify in the subconscious. This is true for learning characters, and it is also true for learning other techniques.
Rest is not in vain, and its achievements are often more important than the achievements of work.
Mainland Confucianism such as Cheng Zhu Zhuzi taught people to learn, and they also often tried to avoid urgency, advocating "excellent swimming and swimming". These four words contain wonderful truths, and the work it refers to is the slow simmering after the fierce fire, and the subconscious brewing after intense work.
If you want to "swim well", you must have enough rest. When it comes to learning and governing affairs, the first thing is to be clear, calm and flexible, often do your own master, and be able to afford to let go. Impatience is the easiest thing to make mistakes.
Sometimes when I write or compose, when I am not interested or slightly tired, my hands are not careful, the more I think about it in my heart, and the worse it is written, I still refuse to leave it at this time, and I reluctantly write it down with a bit of angry thoughts, and I tear it off if I write it, and I still have to tear it off and rewrite it, so the more I write, the more irritable I become, and the more irritable I am, the more unseemly I write.
If you immediately throw away when you find that your mind is not strong, take a walk in the countryside, breathe in the fresh air, look at the blue sky and green water, suddenly feel relaxed and happy, and turn back to do things at the desk, you will feel a hundred times more energetic.
What was originally done very hard and could not succeed, but now it is done with the joy of waving his hands and eyes, and it is easily done.
This is not only the case for writing and writing, but if you want to do anything well, you must be full of energy when doing it, and work becomes a pleasure. As soon as you feel tired or irritable, it is best to put it aside and rest for a while to allow your spirit to recover and come back.
People must be interesting in order to be alive. Vitality is the happiness experienced in life, and vitality is the power needed to carry forward life.
Zhuge Wuhou's so-called "tranquility to far" includes the two elements of interest and vitality, tranquility can have rich interest and vitality, and people who do not have enough rest to do the work of swimming and swimming are difficult to be quiet.
There are many people in the world who are too miserable, full of dust, full of distracting thoughts, driven by the needs of the environment all the time, flowing like a machine, unable to be their own master, dull and boring, without any interest in life.
Such people are victims of environmental oppression, and do not have the strength to raise their heads to control or conquer the environment, and it is difficult for them to achieve real great achievements in their careers and studies.
I know many poor peasants, industrious old scholars and civil servants who sit in offices for eight hours a day.
If a country is full of such people, it is difficult for us to imagine a bright world.
The Christian Bible recounts God's creation of the world, and after each piece of work is completed, it adds: "God looks at what he has done, and every single one is good!"
On the seventh day, when God had finished his work, he stopped to rest and blessed the seventh day, because on this day he was able to rest.
This simple text is very intriguing.
Not only do we need time to work, but especially time to look back at what we have done and see that it is good, and when the work is done, we need a day of rest to refresh our tired spirits and appreciate the joy of success.
This day of rest is worthy of being "blessed" and "sanctified".
In the tense life of modern times, we "drive like a flowing water and a horse like a dragon" and roll straight forward, without leaving a little time to do some meditation and aftertaste, so that Huayan Shixiang has slid through the window of a particularly fast train, and we are just a wooden man and a Trojan horse in the play, there is God's example there and we don't learn, wouldn't it be a waste of life!
I love the two sentences that Tao Yuanming said in his self-sacrifice essay in my life: "Diligence and hard work, the heart is always idle", the last sentence is the spirit of Daonisus mentioned by Nietzsche, and the next sentence is the spirit of Apollo.
There is stillness in movement, and self-mastery is always preserved. This is the ultimate state of cultivation.
The problem of modern people is that they are "diligent and hardworking, and their hearts are idle". This disease not only makes life boring, physically and mentally exhausted, and fruitless in doing things, but also makes people's hearts mixed, lacking the atmosphere of rushing and Hongyi, and trapping themselves in the chains of fame and fortune day by day, so that the whole world tends to dry up and darken.
Dante depicts the devil being tortured in hell, often emphasizing the words "without stopping" or "without interruption."
"No stopping" and "no interruption" is a punishment in itself, and those who are willing to suffer this punishment are willing to become hell on earth.
Let us, sons and daughters of God, follow his example and bless us with a time of rest after our work!