At the age of 14, she competed abroad for the first time, the first world championship, she won the highest score in the history of the Olympic diving final, three of which had three perfect points in five moves, and won the 33rd gold of the Tokyo Olympics for the Chinese delegation.
These legendary achievements are said to be the recent popular "diving genius girl" Quan Hongchan on the whole network, and many netizens sighed after watching her diving actions.
In Quan Hongchan,the public's evaluation is more of a "gifted" compliment.
But in fact, Quan Hongchan's success is not just a mouthful of rice that God rewards, after understanding her growth story, we can deeply understand the talent of a child and the complex motivations in her professional development.
Subsidizing the family, the most simple professional motivation of a talented athlete
Like many athletes from the grassroots level, Quan Hongchan's origins are not prominent, and among the villagers, their family's living standards are also at the local level of "middle and lower".
The family relies on growing sugar cane and fruit for a meager income to support a full five children. Of the 5 children, Quan Hong Chan was the middle one. My mother was injured in a car accident a few years ago and was unable to carry heavy work, making the family's situation even more difficult.
Quan Hongchan, who was born in such a growing environment, has a very simple original intention for becoming an athlete, that is, to bring the income of athletes home to subsidize the family.
In the interview, she said plainly that she could not play freely during the holidays like children of the same age, even go to amusement parks, zoos, etc., and rarely ate exquisite food, and the food she missed most was a pack of spicy strips. These are some of the fantasies of a little girl that are not available.
The embarrassment of the family did not become a reason for Quan Hongchan to give up on herself, but became an incentive for her to strictly demand herself and train hard. After winning the gold medal in Tokyo, the most she thought about in her mind was that she still had money to treat her mother's illness, and the little girl was very sensible.
It is precisely by relying on such a firm obsession that she overcomes her inner tension and fear again and again, and proves herself in the face of the impossible.
According to educational psychology, children between the ages of 9 and 13 have established a relatively complete system of understanding, and they can make self-understanding and judgment of their surroundings.
Therefore, even if you are a genius, you have a stable and long-term spiritual support in your heart, which is also indispensable for the unremitting efforts of a genius.
This requires us to pay attention to the children's natural talents, pay attention to their spiritual needs, help them establish a good pursuit and yearning, so as to overcome the various setbacks and challenges that may be encountered on the road to becoming talents.
Bole Soma, talent needs to be discovered in time
There is a legend in ancient times that Bole can recognize a good horse that travels thousands of miles a day.
In fact, this principle is placed on children with outstanding talents, and each child's talent often needs to have an enlightenment teacher or guide to help them get closer to the professional hall faster.
Quan Hongchan was born in Zhanjiang, Guangdong Province in 2007, because the local area is a well-known diving town. When she was 7 years old, Chen Huaming, a senior diving coach at the Municipal Sports School, went to the countryside to find diving talents, and at the Maihe Village Primary School where Quan Hongchan was located at that time, it was even more class-by-class to find good seedlings.
At that time, the test project was to set the long jump, but Quan Hongchan, who was 1 meter 2 tall, jumped out of 1 meter 76, and the explosive force was quite powerful. Chen Huaming's eyes recognized the pearl and fell in love with Quan Hongchan before he introduced her to join the city's sports school training diving.
Four years later, she did not live up to the expectations of the coach and successfully promoted to the provincial team for more professional training.
But in reality, this kind of selection is often accidental, and not every one of us can meet a senior coach by chance.
Therefore, for every parent who hopes that their children can play their strengths and become employed, we need to carry the banner ourselves, act as their children's Bole, and create more space for their children to exert their talents.
The specific approach is actually not as difficult as we think.
First of all, we should respect the ideals and strengths of children, Holland's career interest theory points out that the more consistent personal interests and careers, the greater the motivation, parents can try to use enlightening inquiries, let them begin to think about their future plans for what they want to do, and then adapt to the corresponding resources.
Secondly, do a good job of sharing your work, you can properly communicate with children about the way, content, etc. of your work, and use personal examples to help them establish a good career concept.
By doing these two things well, children can often get a positive career plan at a relatively young age and be enthusiastic about their future. Such qualities can help them achieve better career growth in the future.
Calm your mind, having talent requires more effort
After Quan Hongchan won the gold, many media also paid attention to the fact that she is not a very expressive child, and many people who care about her are kind enough to remind her not to let the children fall behind in the cultural class, and to learn more about the cultural class in addition to the guarantee training. This is related to whether she can have the cultural literacy to meet basic needs in her future life.
Everyone's concern is actually not unfounded, Bai Juyi of the Tang Dynasty once wrote a classic poem "Wounded Zhongyong". The protagonist of the poem, Zhongyong, is a small genius who can write poetry and good writing since childhood, but in the end, because of the show off and arrangement of his parents, he missed the golden period of learning professional skills, and ended up with a tragic end that even ordinary people were inferior.
In an era of diversified competition, talent is more like creating one more choice for children, but this does not mean that children need to give up other basic growth units, accommodate or even desperately invest in the cultivation of talents.
The correct concept of talent cultivation should be to take talent as an additional subject, let parents and children work together, and pay more time and energy to help the talent bloom in addition to completing the basic growth of the task.
As Quan Hongchan's coach said, any athlete who plays is trained hard, they are first conditioned to start special training, and then it depends on how much professional skills individuals can hone in hard training.
Quan Hongchan, known as the "genius", is one of the most hard-working places in the whole team, insisting on jumping 200 to 300 on land and about 120 jumps on water every day, only this high-intensity day-to-day training can make a dark horse truly amaze the world.
The bloom of every genius is bound to be the product of redoubling efforts, and it will certainly experience various ups and downs during the period. For many parents who see their children's strengths, it is even more important to learn to calm their minds and let their children go through every stage of the special profession steadily.
When they are at a low point, be the one who can accompany them and give them a solid backing to rely on;
At their peak, be the sober supporter who encourages them to move forward and avoid pride.
Only in this way can our children carry their brightest wings and continue to flap their wings.