We might as well define "successful people", that is, those who have made contributions in history or pushed history forward. If these two points are considered successful, we look at the successful people in history. They seem to have one thing in common, that is, perseverance.

We might as well give a definition of "successful people", that is, those who have made contributions in history or pushed history forward. If you can succeed in doing these two points, we look at the successful people in history. They seem to have one thing in common, that is, perseverance.

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The principle is not complicated, but not many people can really do it. Many people are not without goals, and some even set goals quite large, but when they encounter things like "years and years", they gradually become lazy. There are very few people who can do a simple thing for decades. Zeng Guofan can give us many useful inspirations in this regard, and he can persevere in doing things. For example, he wrote a diary every day. He started writing every day since he was 29 and continued until the day before his death. He persisted for more than 30 years. The number of words he wrote a diary in his life was about 1.5 million words. He really insisted on doing this for the rest of his life. If you can persist in a small thing for a lifetime, even a small thing can be achieved to the extreme.

Zeng Guofan's "Diary"

The key is that Zeng Guofan's writing diary is not simply writing "record accounts", he reflects on himself every day by writing diaries. He wrote a diary for his whole life, just to reflect on himself every day, alert himself, and constantly fight against his shortcomings. The key point is that he persisted in this matter for a lifetime, which is very difficult. Reflecting on the fact that we do things, we are "fishing for three days and drying the net for two days". Very few can persevere. It is even more valuable to be able to persevere in one thing for the rest of our lives.

There are many rules for success, but the simplest and most effective method is this perseverance method. A British writer named Gladwell, he wrote a book called "Alien", in which he proposed a law, which is the famous ",000-hour law ". The "law" means that if you want to be an expert in a certain field, you must devote at least "10,000 hours" to this field. If you work 8 hours a day and 5 days a week, it only takes 5 years to become a "top" expert in a certain field.

The "law" mentioned by Gladwell was not imagined by himself, but a scientific theory derived based on a large number of investigations and research. He has conducted surveys and statistics on musicians and hockey players. He has tracked and studied the learning violin . An excellent violin performer spent at least 10,000 hours practicing violin. This "10,000-hour law" shows that success in any field is almost unrelated to talent, mainly the number of practices and the accumulation of "quantity" in terms of proficiency.

practice violin

This theory is verified from many successful people. You see Zeng Guofan’s diary. He has written a diary for more than 30 years. The amount of time he spends writing diaries every day is about 1 hour, which is about 10,000 hours. Therefore, Zeng Guofan’s writing skills are "first-class", and his Neo-Confucianism skills of "rescue and self-cultivation" can also be "first-class". Let’s put aside his political stance in maintaining the corrupt rule of the Qing Dynasty, just talking about his writing level and his own Neo-Confucian attainments in "cultivation", it is impossible to reach the level of a "saint" without these 10,000 hours.

and computer genius Bill Gates started to come into contact with the world's earliest computer terminal at the age of 13 and began to learn programming. By the age of 20, he had devoted 7 years to programming. has been calculated in hours, and has exceeded 10,000 hours. It is precisely because of the accumulation of these 10,000 hours that Bill has become a world-class computer genius. In fact, there is no "genius". The flowers of success and victory are all watered by these 10,000 hours of "sweat".

Bill-Gates

"10,000 Hours Law" is actually a persistence and perseverance. It requires a bit of a strong will to be able to do these things. network big V "Jiubian" turned out to be an programmer , an Internet company. His direct experience is that to be a "top" programmer, you must first hit more than 100,000 codes. Without the accumulation of more than 100,000 codes as "quantity", it is impossible to achieve the "quality" changes in the "top" programmer. If you want to become a "top" programmer, don't think of other "fareways" or shortcuts. You can finish these 100,000 codes first. There is also a direct feeling when typing these 100,000 codes. It is that it is super slow at the beginning. This long process cannot be "endured" without a strong will. As long as you "endured" through this long and boring process, it will slowly speed up later, and finally you will reach the state of "like fish in water".

"code" written by programmers

He is also a big V on the Internet. He usually writes his feelings into words and puts them on the Internet. At the beginning of , he had very few "fans" and "growing fans" was very slow. He wrote as long as he had time. When the number of words reached 1 million, his "fans" had a "big improvement" process. Now he is a super big V with "fans" of 2.6 million. At the beginning, the slow growth process is very difficult to "endure", but only after "endure" through that process, there will be a "qualitative" flyby later.

The 100,000 codes are struck and 1 million words are written out, you will find that this is surprisingly similar to the "10,000-hour law". This also shows that 10,000 hours in the "10,000 Hours Law" is the accumulation of the "quantity" in "from quantitative change to qualitative change", and almost all successful people are no exception.

Master of Painting Leonardo da Vinci When I first learned to draw, I started by drawing eggs. His teacher was an outstanding master of painting in Florence in the 15th century Renaissance Andrei Velocchio . He asked Da Vinci to practice drawing eggs. After drawing for a while, Da Vinci became impatient. He told his teacher, "What's the best thing to draw in painting eggs? I've already drawn enough. You should teach me the real art of painting." Velocio told Leonardo da Vinci that you should not think drawing eggs is a simple matter. Different angles and different lights will make the eggs drawn completely different. If you draw an egg to the "extreme" you will naturally draw. Leonardo da Vinci understood the truth, and painted eggs day after day, year after year. In this way, he drew eggs for 6 years, and it was more than 10,000 hours per hour. It was in this most boring and boring simple repetition that Leonardo da Vinci finally reached the highest level of painting art.

da Vinci draws eggs

In the first simple repetition process, if you do not have a strong will to "force" yourself to settle down and accumulate "quantity", only by "enduring" through the most boring and boring simple repetition stage can you reach a wonderful state that ordinary people cannot experience.

The famous historian of the Western Han Dynasty Sima Qian took 18 years to write "Records of the Grand Historian" and it was completed in prison. Because he said a few fair words for Li Ling, he was sent to prison by Emperor Wu of Han and was also humiliated by castration. If he had no strong will, not to say that he could finish the "Records of the Grand Historian", ordinary people would have died of unjustly long ago. of the Northern Song Dynasty took 19 years to write " zizhi Tongjian " and was well aware of Dadan's compilation and copying, which exhausted Sima Guang's lifelong efforts. Less than two years after the book "Zizhi Tongjian" was written, Sima Guang passed away. In his manuscripts for writing "Zizhi Tongjian", he used standard "regular script" without any sloppyness. This rigorous and meticulous spirit has reached the "extreme". A "Zizhi Tongjian" has 294 volumes, more than 3 million words. It is impossible to write these words with this " regular script " without a strong will.

Sima Qian writes "Records of the Grand Historian"

Perseverance, and perseverance requires reading to increase "knowledge". "Seeing" refers to what a person sees, and what he can see must be "true insights" gained through practice; "Knowing" means learning, reading historical figures and events to understand the successful experiences and lessons of failures of his predecessors. A person's "knowledge" determines his cognitive level, and the cognitive level determines a person's life height. There are two ways for a person to grow his "information". One is to have a personal experience through practice; the other is to learn from historical experiences and lessons, learn and learn from the "case library" in history, and know how to succeed, and how to do it will fail.

Understanding these principles is just the beginning, the key is whether it can be truly done. Wang Yangming’s “unity of knowledge and action” means that only by truly knowing can one do it. Anything that cannot be done does not really understand the truth. Truly understand the principles, put them into practice, persevere, and persevere. This is the simplest and most effective rule of success.