Behind the difference is the incomparably lonely diligence

In 1902, the 27-year-old poet Rilke was hired to be an assistant to the 62-year-old painter and sculptor Rodin, and in the speculation of the fledgling poet, rodin must have lived a very romantic, crazy, and different life. However, the Rodin he saw was an old man who had been buried in the studio alone all day, and Rilke asked him: "How can you find an element that is enough to express everything about yourself?" Rodin was silent for a moment, then said with the utmost seriousness: "It should work, just work." Be patient. ”

What makes some people different? I think Rodin told the real secret, and that was work and patience,

Among the Chinese economists I am familiar with, Zhang Wuchang is probably the most talented, he almost won the Nobel Prize in economics in his 40s, and he is also a very diligent person, in the early years in order to write "Tenant Farmer Theory", he sorted out more than a dozen boxes of original archives one by one, this job is probably what many doctors disdain to do, to this day, he is already an old man of nearly 80 years old, but he also writes two columns of more than 1500 words a week.

Among the contemporary Western scholars I know, Neil Ferguson in the United Kingdom is recognized as "a prodigy whose research spans the three worlds of history, economics and political science, and was hired as a researcher at Oxford University at the age of less than 30, and was named "one hundred people who influenced the world" by Time magazine at the age of 40." But his diligence is very comparable, in order to write the book "Rothschilds", he and his assistants have read tens of thousands of family letters and tons of original materials in the Roche family over the past hundred years.

Behind the difference is often something inadequate with the hardships of outsiders as they simply do one thing. Only for the meaning itself. The so-called success is only a result, it may come naturally, it may never come.

Things that are different are often boring, repetitive and patient in the manufacturing process.

Among the Ming and Qing lacquerware that has been handed down to this day, the one with rhinoceros skin markings is the most expensive, and it is almost difficult to find a tool. For a long time, people did not even know which geniuses it was made by, and later, Wang Shixiang finally revealed the secret in his book, and its production process was like this: the craftsman made the rhinoceros skin first with the toner paint ash to pile up one by one or one by one, that is the "bottom": on the bottom and then brush different colors of paint, brushed to a certain thickness, that is " medium" and "surface": dried and then polished flat, smooth surface then appeared fine and multi-layered color paint markings

When I read this secret, suddenly waner.

Every unique good thing is actually premised on an incomparably lonely diligence, either blood, sweat, or a lot of beautiful youth.