I saw a question on Zhihu: What is Liu Bang's greatest talent?
Some people say that Liu Bang knows people and makes good use of them, some people say that Liu Bang is witty and fickle, and some people think that Liu Bang is generous and informal. As the first person in history to turn over from the bottom to become the founder of the Han Empire, Liu Bang undoubtedly has many advantages and talents that ordinary people do not have.
But no matter how good and how powerful Liu Bang is, he is not a perfect man or a god man. In the process of starting a business, he will also have a time when he can't make up his mind, there will be times when he makes mistakes, and there will also be times when he loses the battle.
However, Liu Bang has a seemingly inconspicuous, but very important advantage, which makes up for his deficiencies. This advantage is to be good at listening to and adopting the opinions and suggestions of others.
Mao Zedong often said that if you listen to people's advice, you should eat enough.
Being good at listening to advice is a very important thing. The counselor Pu Tong once expressed such a sentiment: "Those who listen to the husband, the things are also waiting; the planners, the opportunities of things, the people who have heard the calculation of losses and can be safe for a long time, are rare." ”
It means that listening to opinions can know the trend of things, and being good at planning is the key to the success of things. There are very few who fail to listen to the right opinions and plan at the same time that mistakes occur but can achieve long-term peace and stability.
The ancients said that the wise man will have a thousand worries and will have one loss; the fool will have a thousand worries and one gain. Even the smartest people must be good at listening to the advice of others, in order to brainstorm and fill in the gaps.
At this point, Liu Bang did a very good job, he was able to listen to the opinions and suggestions of others, and finally defeated Xiang Yu with a weak victory over the strong.
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To be good at listening to persuasion, we must first listen to it and be willing to listen. A lot of people think, how hard it is, think I can do it, in fact, a lot of people can't do it.
After Xiang Yu led the army into Xianyang, someone gave him a suggestion: "There are mountains and rivers in the Guanzhong region that block the four sides, and the land is fertile, and it can be built here to dominate." ”
Xiang Yu was bent on returning to his hometown, but instead of heeding this advice, the lobbyists said, "People say that the Chu people are like Mu monkeys wearing people's hats, and this is true." When Xiang Yu heard about it, he cooked the man to death.
After Liu Bang initially pacified the world, he planned to set the capital in Luoyang for a long time. At this time, there was a Qi man named Lou Jing, who was about to go to the border of Longxi Shu, passing through Luoyang, and heard that Liu Bang wanted to set the capital in Luoyang, so he suggested to Liu Bang to build a capital in Guanzhong. Liu Bang listened to his advice and drove west to Guanzhong Jiandu on the same day.
After that, Liu Bang summoned Lou Jing into the palace, and not only gave Lou Jing the surname of Liu, but also granted him the official position of Langzhong.
It was also persuaded by others to set the capital in Guanzhong, and Liu Bang listened, laying the foundation of the Han Dynasty for two hundred years. Xiang Yu did not listen, and the final outcome was that Wujiang killed himself.
Good medicine is good for the sick, and advice is good for the ear. The truth of this sentence is simple, but very few people really understand and can practice it.
Because the weakness of human nature is that it likes to listen to good words, to listen to pleasant words, to listen to flattering words. Opinions given by others are often hard to hear, very harsh, and uncomfortable to listen to.
In the 000s, CCTV had a program called "Win in China". In one episode of the show, a young man said: "There is a HC network here, although I often use HC search, but I am not optimistic about the future of HC network." In the future, only Alibaba can do the best in that industry. ”
Guo Fansheng, the president of HC.com, who was present at the time, was very unhappy to retort after listening: "I have been so successful, you don't trust me, why do you let them trust you, I have been so successful, you think I am not good, why let them trust you a person who is less successful than me." ”
However, we have all seen the end of the back, just as this young man predicted, Alibaba did the best, as for HC360, not many people remember it.
Therefore, to listen to the opinions of others, it is necessary to overcome the weaknesses of human nature, be generous, and have the courage to listen to those ugly words.
In the summer of 1941, a sudden rainstorm fell in Yan'an, the wind was fierce, the lightning flashed and thundered, and a lightning bolt killed a county magistrate. Some people say, why didn't Lei Gong beat Mao Zedong to death?
Hearing the insults he said, Mao Zedong not only did not get angry, but said: "Is cursing people also a way to give opinions?" "After investigation, it was found that the public grain was collected too much, and the people could not stand it before complaining."
After careful study, the government of the border region lowered the amount of public grain collected and reduced the burden on the people, and the government of the border region was sincerely supported by the broad masses of the people.
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However, being willing to listen to other people's opinions is only the first step, the key is to understand, not all opinions and suggestions are reasonable, don't forget, some people have some bad ideas.
If you blindly listen to the opinions of others, the mistakes will also be absorbed, but it will play a bad role. The key to Liu Bang's good at listening to persuasion is that he can always listen to the right opinions, which is his unique talent.
Zhang Liang once got the "Taigong Art of War" from an old man, and when he met Liu Bang, he often told him about the art of war in the book and gave him advice, and Liu Bang understood it as soon as he heard it. Zhang Liang told others to listen, and others often did not understand. Zhang Liang sighed that Liu Bang's understanding was probably granted by heaven.
Liu Bang did not read many books, but he was very perceptive, and the ideas given to him by others often knew immediately whether they worked or not, and whether they could do it.
But sometimes, he also has times when he goes wrong. Once, Liu Bang was trapped by Xiang Yu in Xingyang, and Xiang Yu cut off Liu Bang's grain route. Liu Bang was in a state of no grain and grass inside and no reinforcements outside, and his heart was very anxious.
Li Shiqi gave Liu Bang an idea. He said that Liu Bang should learn from the practice of Shang Tang or King Wu of Zhou and divide the princes of the world. He asked Liu Bang to carve the seal and sent people out to find the descendants of the original princes of the Six Kingdoms, give them the seal, and divide them. Let them raise an army to attack Xiang Yu. In this way, the siege of Xingyang can be lifted.
Liu Bang, who was in a hurry to go to the hospital, felt that it was reasonable, and quickly asked people to engrave the seal and prepare to send people out of the city to find the descendants of the Six Kingdoms. After Zhang Liang returned, he heard about this matter and hurriedly persuaded Liu Bang not to do it and the reasoning behind it.
Liu Bang suddenly woke up, quickly destroyed the seal and summoned Li Shiqi to scold him.
Let's look at how a person without talent does it, this person is the protagonist of the idiom Yu Gong. During the Spring and Autumn Period, The Duke of Jin wanted to attack the State of Yu, but there was a Yu State in the middle, and the Xun Xi under the Duke of Xian came up with an idea, using the horses produced by the North Qu and the Bi produced by the thorns to borrow the way from the Yu Kingdom.
Xian Gong had no bottom in his heart, and felt that Yu Guo had the wonder of a palace, and he would definitely not lend us the way. Xun Xi gave Xiangong an analysis, saying that Gong Zhiqi was a man who understood in his heart, but he was cowardly and a few years older than Yu Jun. Knowing in his heart, the words were short, and cowardice could not desperately obstruct him, and yu jun was not a few years older than Yu Jun, and Yu Jun did not respect him.
Coupled with the fact that cherishing beloved things is before the eyes and ears, and the calamity is after a country, this must be taken into account by people of moderate intelligence and above. The subject expected Yu Jun to be a person with less than moderate intelligence.
And the facts were also as expected, although Yu Guoyou had such a clear person as Gong Zhiqi, advising Yu Gong not to borrow the road and tell him the truth of cold lips and teeth, Yu Gong still did not listen, and finally the country was destroyed.
The plan to destroy the false way is not clever, in the final analysis, it is still the grasp of human nature, and Yu Gong's lack of intelligence has achieved this plan. Therefore, someone is around to make suggestions, and if they don't understand it, they are blind.
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Willing to listen to advice and understand, the most important thing is to get it done and to take action. Why? In fact, many suggestions, opinions, and reasons are very simple and very easy to understand. But we may not be able to do it after we understand it.
To take a very simple example, many people around us are clamoring to lose weight, and then someone tells him that the secret of weight loss is very simple, just six words: shut your mouth and open your legs. But after a period of time, often not a little weight has been lost. Why, because you can't do it, you can't help but eat when you see delicious food, you can't get up in bed in the morning, and the morning running plan you make is often just a plan.
After Liu Bang's uprising, he fought all the way into Xianyang and saw the magnificent Qin King's Palace, which contained countless treasures and beautiful women, where Liu Bang from the countryside had seen this kind of scene, and thought to himself, after fighting such a long battle, you can't enjoy it well. He immediately decided to stay at the Qin Palace.
Zhang Liang and Fan Duo hurriedly persuaded Liu Bang that he could not stay. In the end, Liu Bang could really bear it, gave up the idea of enjoyment, and returned to the military hegemony. Liu Bang, who can do this, is really not an ordinary person.
At this point, the negative example is Han Xin. When he had a chance to stand on three feet with Liu Bang and Xiang Yu, the strategist Pu Tong persuaded him several times to break away from Liu Bang and establish himself as king. In the end, Han Xin still did not choose to betray Liu Bang, and was finally killed by Lü Hou.