Heaven forbid
If you analyze the lives of geniuses and prodigies, you can see that what they have in common is that they show adult self-control when they are young children.
This person became famous when he was 4 years old.
He is the prodigy of the Three Kingdoms period--- Kong Rong.
The "Three Character Classic" says that "melting four years old can make pears", and he had self-control at the age of 4 and gave up the big pear to his brother.
This kind of self-control may be described as "tough".
First of all, he can be himself
As the 20th grandson of the famous Confucius, education from an early age is certainly indispensable. When other children cry when they don't get what they want to eat, he can already suppress his mouth and say no to his desires!
Because most children can't do it, the "let pear" thing made him famous overnight.
However, during the Three Kingdoms period, a person commented that he said, "Kong Wenju (rong) has too much gold and lack of wood."
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Yao Xin's "Shi Wei": "Kong Wenju (Rong) has too much gold, lacks woodiness, has a back to the yin and yang, and is independent of the male."
From the perspective of Kong Rong's life, this summary is still in place, but it is not easy for ordinary people to understand. So, let's talk about what "too much gold" means here.
"Gold", you can imagine hard metal, it is very hard, you can't move it!
But gold, although it is metal, it can bend straight and have great toughness, so it has become a precious metal and is relatively scarce.
People are the same, after all, there are not many people who can flex and stretch, and 2% to 8% are more. These people are rare.
What about the "golden" personality?
Success is decisiveness; failure is toughness.
And what if the "golden nature" is just right? This person can play a special role in certain fields and positions.
Second, be tough on superior leaders
Since Dong Zhuo entered the circle, with an iron fist and strong soldiers, he has become a real ruler. Dong Zhuo has no culture, but he knows how to win over well-known people and lay a good foundation for himself. At this time, he put his caring eyes on Kong Rong and gave him promotions and salary increases one after another.
Speaking of the right way, Dong Zhuo has the grace of knowing Kong Rong.
However, Kong Rong did not buy it, and from time to time he and Dong Zhuo were in opposition. Therefore, Dong Zhuo wanted to get this thorn head to the most difficult Beihai country to chew, and he was not bothered to see it!
At this point, Kong Rong was upset, this is the most rampant place of the Yellow Turban Army, don't say the performance, there will be a disaster at any time!
However, surprisingly, Kong Rong actually did a good job!
Hard to break in, or break out of the hall of fame
As soon as Kong Rong arrived in beihai, he carried out a series of changes; he gathered ordinary people to practice the militia, and let the readers and intellectuals serve as teachers to "teach martial arts." He also wrote a letter to form a strategic alliance between the states and counties.
He was a weak scholar, and he even personally confronted Zhang Rao's Yellow Turban Army of 200,000 people, which can be described as a small witch and a big witch, and the end was a fiasco. Then, he retreated to Zhuxu County.
Undeterred, he gathered more than 40,000 people who had been seduced by the Yellow Turbans; divided the organization (to set up a city) and the training (to build a school). Recommend people with moral integrity and talent, and introduce various incentives.
From the above point of view, Kong Rong has management talent and outstanding performance.
Therefore, people gave him a nickname called "Kong Beihai".
You see, Kong Rong's character is decisive; suitable for appointment in a chaotic, complex, unstable social environment, or the need for change, or drastic organizational divisions, etc. These are quite able to play his character characteristics.
Book of the Later Han Dynasty, Vol. 70, Zheng Kongxun Liechuan 60: Rong to the county, to gather the soldiers and the people, to raise troops to talk about martial arts, to chi qi fei han, to lead the prefecture and county. The thief Zhang Rao and 200,000 other people returned from Jizhou, fought back, and were defeated by Rao, but they scattered their troops to protect Zhuxu County.
"Hard" bias for subordinates
In the appointment of subordinates, he reused Prince Fa and Liu Kongci.
Although these two people have no talent, they are leveraged, which can cater to Kong Rong's characteristics, so they are accepted as confidants. It is worthy of being clustered with things. ("Partial material" has a preference in the selection and employment of personnel.) )
On the contrary, Zuo Chengzu and Liu Yixun, who were talented and prestigious, only gave them a fictitious position, at most as a consultant.
At that time, Kong Rong was defeated in battle, and the situation was urgent.
Zuo Chengzu advised him to "entrust himself to strengthen the country", but Kong Rong did not listen to it, but instead killed him with a knife! Colleague Liu Yixun was stunned and thought, how can this boss follow! It is better to leave your job and run for your life!
Too hard; too rigid to fold
Liu Shao said: "Strength is not refined, then strength." There will be a kind of "strength" in gold, but there is not necessarily strength, because the strength of the force is too large, but it is stubborn and brute force.
Is there anything wrong with that?
Yes! It is "superior quality is not refined", beyond the quality of the physique, it will not be pure.
What happens if it's impure?
"Then it will not succeed" The final goal and purpose are often not achieved!
"Character History, Nine Signs": "If the quality is not refined, then its things will not succeed..., and if it is not refined, it will be forced." ”
(To be continued)
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