Have you recently watched "The Brother Who Cut through the Thorns"? After the program was broadcast, the charm of the brothers was "thunder and thunder could not cover their ears and the bells were jingling", which soon made netizens unable to extricate themselves!
The secret of these treasure brothers is so good that the secret is two words: self-discipline!
The most "outrageous" self-discipline is Lin Zhixuan, 55: he must sleep for 12 hours a day. Only drink hot water, do not eat spicy, do not eat hemp, do not drink alcohol. At 5 o'clock, the sky was not yet light, and he was already singing, singing through, which could be called an artificial wake-up alarm clock.
Those who are self-disciplined often can't bear to disappoint even God.
Kayla Mak, an 18-year-old Chinese-American ballet girl, is also a self-disciplined "outrageous" person: "trying to get close to perfection", the time is accurate to the minute, and was admitted to the dance department of the Juilliard School in the United States, which has a lower acceptance rate than Harvard.
01 She began practicing ballet at the age of four, and love made her more disciplined
"Little Ancestor, if you don't study well, your parents will go crazy!" Neighbors have a couple of students, both graduated from Tsinghua and Peking University, but they are girls who can't read the 6th grade: going to school is like the execution ground, writing homework grinds and rubs, pouts when frightened, sheds tears when they hit, and stops writing when they cry.
It's about to be a little bit up, and I'm sneaking around playing games. After being discovered by the old father, he angrily dropped 3 mobile phones, and the child's mother cried tears and tried to persuade bitterly, all with little effect.
Including this father, if you know Kayla's self-discipline in learning, you will definitely exclaim "someone else's child".
Many people are curious: Kayla is so good at dancing and academics, her parents must have broken their hearts, right?
The answer is: NO!
Kayla has mixed Chinese, Japanese and Cuban ancestry, and her mother is also a dancer.
"Look, our little swan is going to take off, awesome!" At the age of 4, little Kayla put on her dancing shoes and took her first ballet lesson in the melody of Swan Lake.
Maybe it is inheriting the dance genes of her mother, or it may be that she has witnessed it since she was a child, and her mother has practiced it over and over again for a dance move. Kayla's love for dancing has gradually developed from her initial love to her love. She trained professionally at the Westchester School of Dance in New York, where she specialized in modern ballet.
Flat shoulders, thin waist, long legs, flexibility and muscularity: Kayla is extremely talented. What is even more shocking than talent, however, is her high degree of self-discipline driven by love.
As a professional dancer with a lot of practice, Kayla changes her shoes every two weeks. Every shoe change requires patience and meticulous running-in. She flying needles and threads, sewing elastic bands and ribbons on the new ballet shoes, and her movements are sophisticated, with good craftsmanship at the level of "grandmother";
"In order not to let the new dancing shoes abuse my feet, I must first 'abuse it' a few times!" Kayla stood on her shoe and stomped hard. Holding it in my hand again, bending and pressing hard, I also lifted the shoes up, and "snapped" on the floor and slammed them hard: "Don't underestimate these, you can make the new dancing shoes softer and more close to the feet, and in order to jump and land on the ground, you can be softer and minimize the interference with the audience!" Kayla said.
After "abusing" the shoes, she turned on the "pampering mode": take the brush and the liquid foundation, apply the liquid foundation evenly around the shoes to match her skin tone; apply rosin or bark glue on the sole: "This will prevent the floor from slipping"...
Kayla was busy, as if she were the shoe's confidant and companion.
Because most of the performances are broadcast on TV, in order to allow the audience to fully appreciate the beauty of the dance across the screen, the dancers must have greater strength and intensity when training and performing, which is undoubtedly a very big challenge to Kayla's body, especially the Achilles tendon.
For Kayla, the "tiger oil" used to relax the Achilles tendon and relieve muscle fatigue is the best companion and comrade-in-arms. Due to frequent applications, she has a lingering smell of tiger oil.
Bystanders said that the taste of tiger oil was "weird and bad", and she playfully laughed: "I think it smells good, it smells like cinnamon, this is my signature taste, exclusive perfume!" ”
Kayla is the master of her own time at a very young age, and she arranges the time of 24 hours a day properly, and at what point she completes the corresponding things. Getting up and going to bed depends on self-awareness, and the school's culture class schedules its own time. Even if you take the subway in New York in the middle of the night, your parents are 100 at ease.
Her academic performance was amazing. Of the bunch of courses, AP psychology is the hardest bone to gnaw: "For me, it's super hard, and it takes twice as much time than any other homework!" But for this homework, she still got a high score of 92.
"Almost every hour or even every minute is too busy to stop, and in my words, I will cry too much to stop." And you enjoy it! ”
"I don't know how you did it?!"
In the face of inquiries from classmates and friends, Kayla's answer is usually three sentences: if you come, you will be safe, the boat will be naturally straight to the bridge, just do it (just do it)...
02 16 years old bloomed in the dance "World Cup", and self-discipline made her strive to be close to perfection
Since the age of 5, Kaylar has won the Awards and won heavyweight awards such as "National Mini Female Outstanding Dancer" and "Best Young Dancer of the Year" in the United States.
Despite numerous awards, Kayla continues to challenge herself to break through more possibilities: "The hardest part of dancing is that you can never be perfect. All you need to do is strive to get closer to perfection! ”
Despite her busy studies and great pressure, she could not give up her love for ballet and could not stop her desire for "near perfection".
She signed up for the 2019 World Dance Championships (WOD). WOD is equivalent to the World Cup in football, the Grammy in music and the Oscar in film, and the weight and influence can be imagined.
Before the competition, she had to maintain high-intensity dance practice, but also take into account the heavy academic work, and carry out the double line.
Teen Vogue, a top fashion publication featuring Gen Z, uses video to document Kayla's time management in the week before the competition.
At 6:15 a.m., amid the urging of 4 alarm clocks, Kayla's long and busy day began. Sleepy-eyed, in order to get herself rid of the sleepy worm as soon as possible, she did stretching and splitting while brushing her teeth.
Quickly finished eating milk cereal, and put her tights into her bag with her hands and feet, which were her "battle clothes".
"Dear Kayla, don't practice. Come and relax! "The morning classes were so full that it was almost breathless. During the precious lunch break, the students gathered together to laugh and chat, but Kayla came to the corridor to do stretching and splitting: "For me, stretching and splitting is the best relaxation!" ”
After the day's classes were all over, it took only 10 minutes or so to get on the train that was on the "Dingdang Dangdang" before Kayla fed herself with a cheese pizza, which was her lunch.
It took an hour to get to the dance studio. Good precious 60 minutes, dozing off to recuperate? Or look out the window? Thinking too much, Kayla pulled out her textbook and wrote her homework until the train came into the station.
Upon arrival at the dance studio, there is a 5-hour high-intensity ballet training followed by an additional hour of training for the World Dance Competition.
Finally, Kayla was out of class. She whirlwinds on the subway and catches trains.
It was already 10 o'clock in the evening, and Kayla, who was hungry and tired, took out her book, but her eyelids were fighting. The little girl "luxuriously" rested for 20 minutes and insisted on writing her homework.
Around 23:00, Kayla finally pushed open the door.
But she still couldn't stop: squeeze out 15 minutes to finish the late dinner. Then move to the desk and race against time: complete and submit the paper in 25 minutes.
"Stepping on the point" to complete the last task of the long day, the little girl fell on the bed with joy: "This is the most wonderful moment!" ”
The next day, the four alarm clocks still rang at 6:15. Kayla continues the race against time, switching between ballet dancers and high school juniors.
Kayla, 16, bloomed at the World Dance Competition (WOD): scoring more than 90 points in every appearance, especially the amazing 95.3 points in the last dance.
After the final dance, Kayla jumped off the stage. The applause and cheers did not stop, and she had already pounced on the desk: "The game is over, I am going to start writing my homework!" ”
03 Self-discipline is itself a very advanced talent
Chinese freestyle skier Gu Ailing has the same self-discipline and more glittering footprint as Kayla:
Exposure to skiing at the age of 3;
Discovered by a professional ski instructor at the age of 7;
At the age of 9, he won the National Junior Ski Championship.
At the age of 14, the number of gold medals in skiing has reached 50;
At the age of 15, he was in the top three of the FIS FIS Annual Standings.
Shining titles such as "World Champion" and "Genius Girl" are the most common prefixes of her name, and her extreme self-discipline and hard work are often covered by a dazzling aura.
When Ailing first started learning to ski, she went to the ski training ground from Monday to Friday. After an 8-hour drive back and forth, the car became her mobile desk.
Cars are speeding. She put the book on her knee, wrote homework, reviewed her homework, and became accustomed to the bumps and shakes that appeared from time to time. When tired, lie on the window for a while, blow the wind, look at the scenery, and soon return to dry mode.
In addition to completing her studies and ski training, she runs for 40 minutes a day, even in the heat of Dubai and the freezing cold of Moscow.
Do I rest in the rain and snow? Run indoors for 40 minutes!
Since joining the Chinese nationality on June 6, 2019, Gu Ailing has fully prepared for the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics. Not only did she complete her high school courses ahead of schedule with an "all A", but she also scored more than 99.8% of the sat (equivalent to the American college entrance examination) and became a student at Stanford University.
Heaven is fair, and the time given to everyone is 24 hours a day. Gu Ailing's training time is not more than others, the key is a high degree of self-discipline and concentration driven by love, so that she can "squeeze" every minute and every second: "I will make full use of every minute on the snow field, I enjoy every second of training!" Ailing said.
Actor Peng Yuyan is also a "cruel person". Director Jiang Wen commented on Peng Yuyan: "This is not an ordinary person, his self-discipline and hard work make him very powerful!" ”
Peng Yuyan learned a new skill by acting in a play, and performing a play allowed himself to achieve an upgrade and shift. In "Tumble Bar Ashin", in order to play an excellent gymnast, he trained for more than 10 hours a day, and his hands were opened several times. Adult male body fat rates normally range from 15% to 18%, male athletes 7% to 15%, Peng Yuyan's total body fat content is only a staggering 3%, muscle lines are clear, beautiful like marble sculptures.
In order to be closer to the character in "Once Upon a Time in the Tropics" in terms of image, he lost weight "wildly", nibbled on bell peppers when hungry, and lost 32 pounds in 40 days. The moment you bend down and bow your head, the spines behind you are raised one by one. After the family saw the stills of his PO, they couldn't help but exclaim and cry.
"Do you want to take a small sip?" The director put a glass of water in front of Peng Yuyan. He hadn't drunk much water in 3 days, and his throat was on fire. Including the director, no one asked him not to drink water for 3 days, which was his self-inflicted suffering, only to truly present haggard and confused eyes.
"Drink after shooting, no hurry, no thirst!" Peng Yuyan gritted his teeth to complete the day's scene.
In Lin Chaoxian's "Guild Wars", Peng Yuyan trained and dieted for three months. Show muay thai, Brazilian jiu-jitsu, locking skills to have a look...
In order to play the role in "Mekong Operation", he participated in the Royal Thai Security Training, paid the price of flesh, multiple bruises, joint swelling and pain, and mastered new skills in shooting, fighting and Thai.
Peng Yuyan often said: "I am a person without talent, and I can only fight with 'life'!" ”
Isn't Peng Yuyan talented?
In fact, no matter whether you are gifted or mediocre, with love and high self-discipline, with "life" to fight, to become your own "time management master", is this not the most advanced talent?
People with this talent will definitely be rewarded by heaven!