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A few days ago, a "work photo" of Professor Peng Kaiping of Tsinghua University went viral on the Internet.
In the photo, the professor is wearing a purple shirt and a dark blue blazer on the upper body and red shorts on the lower body, sitting at the computer desk with a smile on his face for a meeting.
Professor Peng's photo caused netizens to shout: too real.
It turned out that Professor Peng Kaiping's photo was taken by his students during the home isolation period.
Because there was an inadvertent partial overlap with the trajectory of a patient diagnosed with COVID-19, Professor Peng was required to stay at home for two weeks.
Although in the eyes of netizens, Professor Peng's work suit is quite joyful, but in fact, it is Professor Peng's special collocation.
Professor Peng publicly explained:
"Because I had to wear a suit for international conferences, purple was the representative color of Tsinghua University, and I was wearing a purple shirt because it was a conference at Tsinghua University.
The red pants are not home shorts, they are suit shorts, and they are also very formal.
Because this year is my own year, I wore red suit shorts. ”
If you think professor Peng takes it so seriously only during the home meeting, you are wrong.
Despite staying at home, Professor Peng did not delay his work. To name a few of Professor Peng's work during quarantine, take a look:
He presided over an international conference attended by 410,000 people; wrote nearly 50,000 words of manuscripts; gave three online lectures; and held an untold number of online meetings.
Were you surprised? After watching Professor Peng's isolated life, I understood what true self-discipline is.
Think about the days of home isolation last year, are you as conscientious or just lying flat?
Bai Yansong once said: "Whether you admit it or not, the more successful people are, the more self-disciplined they are." ”
Look closely at the people around you, you will really find that behind every powerful person, there is no force of self-discipline.
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Olympic champion Sun Yingsha, in the days of returning to China to quarantine, she did not relax because of the end of the game.
Even in a one-person room, Sun Yingsha did not miss any training opportunities.
As can be seen from the video of her quarantine diary, the drinking water and doorknobs in the house can be used as props for her training.
There is a full-time reader in Taiwan, Tang Nuo, who resigned from the publishing house and became a freelance writer.
Despite having his way 24 hours a day, he still arrives at a nearby café at 9 a.m. every day like an office worker.
He would pick a quiet location and start the day reading and writing until he had completed his goal and then he would go home and cook.
Because of his insistence on reading, he can insist on writing nearly 10,000 quality words every day.
Last month, in front of the provincial library in Zhengzhou, Henan Province, there was a long queue waiting for the library to open, and some even began to queue up from 4 or 5 a.m.
Most of the students in this long line are students preparing for graduate school.
One of the female students said in an interview: "Getting up two hours early is nothing, and insisting on reading is the only way out." ”
The writer Gladwell said in The Outlier:
"The genius in people's eyes is extraordinary, not because of superhuman talent, but because of continuous effort.
10,000 hours of tempering is a necessary condition for anyone to go from ordinary to world-class master. ”
Those who are very strong, in addition to talent, are more of continuous self-discipline.
In those moments when you squandered, or moments when you weren't paying attention, they used continuous self-discipline to pull away from you step by step.
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Take a look at the last two hot searches about "Diving Queen".
Guo Jingjing, 40, previously shared a video on her personal social platform. In the video, she shares her fitness routine.
I saw her leaning back against the sports equipment, holding the horizontal bar with both hands, and using the strength of her arms and abdomen to straighten her legs upwards.
Such an action can feel the difficulty just by looking at it, but Guo Jingjing did more than a dozen in one breath, and each action was accurate and in place.
After watching the video, I finally understood why she was still praised for many years and her previous figure was no different.
Another hot search is about Fu Mingxia, who is also the "Diving Queen".
The 43-year-old Fu Mingxia's photo of the famous woman in the same frame made her low-key and attracted people's attention.
From the exposed photos, it can be seen that Fu Mingxia, who has been retired for many years, has long lost the graceful posture on the field that year.
Some netizens compared the old photos, and Fu Mingxia's figure has gradually become rounded over the years.
In fact, from Fu Mingxia's life after retiring from the army, we can see the clues. After retiring from the military, Fu Mingxia was often photographed attending various parties and circling various public occasions.
Fu Mingxia, who neglected body management because of indiscipline, slowly became out of control.
After watching the comparison of the second generation of "diving queens", I can't help but sigh: there is really a difference between self-discipline and non-self-discipline.
In fact, the loss of control caused by indiscipline is not only the body, many times, but the whole life.
There is a topic on Zhihu: What kind of experience is an undisciplined life?
A passage said by netizen @Zephyrus resonated with everyone:
"Because of involuntary,
The plan made was never completed;
Time management has also always been scum;
Even if you rely on small cleverness to temporarily hold the Buddha's feet or be crushed by Deadline;
Even if there is a lot of academic pressure, you will still be tempted to eat, drink and have fun;
In the end, the results you get every time are always worse because of the vicious circle. ”
Have these words pierced into your heart?
There is a saying in "The Road Few People Walk":
"The so-called self-discipline is an important principle to solve the pain of life with a proactive attitude."
If you are caught in the confusion and pain of life, then self-discipline will be a good medicine to save you.
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2 tips to help you become a self-disciplined adult and start a different life.
(1) Start with 1 thing you don't like but should do
In order to restrain his words and deeds, Xu Pu, a scholar of the Ming Dynasty, placed two bottles on the desk, containing black beans and soybeans.
When he did a good deed, or uttered a kind word, he threw a soybean into the bottle.
On the contrary, if words and deeds are wrong, throw a black bean.
In the beginning, there were more black beans and fewer soybeans, and he constantly introspected himself and encouraged himself.
Gradually, the number of soybeans and black beans was almost the same; after a while, more and more soybeans were in the bottle, and there were fewer and fewer black beans.
Because of the continuous restraint and motivation, Xu Pu's thinking became more mature, his personality became more sound, and eventually, he became a generation of famous courtiers.
The more useful things are, most of them are uncomfortable to do. But once you do this thing that you don't like but should do well, you will get a qualitative change and have the courage and confidence to overcome the next problem in life.
Developing self-discipline is not easy. Only by making up your mind to overcome the weaknesses of human nature can you take the first step.
(2) Set up a follow-up system
Too many people know it, but it is difficult to do it, and the key to this is the lack of follow-up systems.
Without a follow-up system, a person lacks support in the goals of the mission.
John Wooden is America's most legendary college basketball coach, and he led the UCLA basketball team to 10 championships in 12 years at basketball tournaments organized by the National College Athletic Association.
To study his coaching secrets, the two psychologists observed his training sessions and wrote down every instruction he gave to his players.
Statistics show that of the 2326 instructions recorded, 6.9% are praise, 6.6% are dissatisfied, and 75% of the instructions are pure information, that is, what actions to do and how to do it.
The most common way to coach Wooden is to demonstrate the right action, perform the wrong action again, and demonstrate the correct action again.
It can be seen that good coaches never give any passionate speeches, or even lecture, but only give students specific and immediate feedback.
Students recognize mistakes in order to improve and perfect them in a targeted manner.
This is a well-thought-out follow-up plan.
Generally speaking, the follow-up system as a system often has two roles, in addition to itself, but also a learning partner, coach or supervisor.
Therefore, finding a partner to learn from, asking for advice from a partner, discussing with a partner, and having a partner supervise together can make your "follow-up system" more effective.
Psychologist Clark once said:
"The early stage of self-discipline is excitement, the middle stage is pain, and the later stage is enjoyment.
When you start to enjoy self-discipline, you will find that life is less frustrated and confused. ”
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