Some people always say, I was born not smart and my family was not good. How can I change this fate? Whether the facts and destiny can change depends entirely on yourself, whether you are truly willing to be ordinary or not?
There are geniuses in the world. The difficulty is that geniuses are not common. Most people are born ordinary, but if they do not have innate intelligence, they can make up for their shortcomings through acquired efforts. Let’s take a look at the deeds of Zeng Guofan , who has an ordinary qualification but has become a leader in a generation.
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Zeng Guofan was born in an ordinary farming and studying family in Baiyangping, Changsha, Hunan. It is said that on the night before his birth, his grandfather had a strange dream at night. He dreamed that a giant python was hanging on the beam of their house. The giant python's eyes shone purple, and he crawled into the inner room with a letter. The old man was so scared that he woke up. Unexpectedly, the next day, his daughter-in-law gave birth to a fat boy.
That's right, this fat boy is Zeng Guofan, but it is said that after Zeng Guofan was born, he had a strange disease. When winter comes, his back will shed like a snake, and he doesn't know whether it is true or not.
Although Zeng Guofan's birth was a bit legendary, judging from the process of his slow growth, there was no legend, but on the contrary, it was a bit clumsy.
In terms of reading, Zeng Guofan is not very talented. He started to learn literacy and study at the age of 5, but his progress in learning is very slow. He often takes several days or even more of the knowledge others can learn in a day, and may not be able to learn it.
There is an anecdote: It is about Zeng Guofan's study in his youth. One night, he was studying in the study as usual. He needed to memorize an article that night, but he read it over and over again, but still couldn't memorize it. However, what he didn't know was that before he entered the study, a thief entered the study, and the thief listened to him reading this article again and again on the beam of the room. After
, the thief saw that Zeng Guofan had not memorized the article for a night and could not bear it anymore, so he jumped off the beam of the room and memorized the article he had heard in front of Zeng Guofan. After memorizing it, he looked at Zeng Guofan with contempt, and then left.
In this way, Zeng Guofan's qualifications are so mediocre that he is not even as good as a thief, but he even stands out among countless talented people with his acquired efforts and his own methods, and successfully becomes a model of "reading to change destiny."
Zeng Guofan's successful reading method is actually: perseverance, endurance, and hard work. In his own words, it is: "If you don't understand a sentence, don't read the next sentence. If you don't understand today, read it tomorrow. If you don't understand this year, read it again next year."
is like this. With this tenacity, he leveraged all the knowledge in the book and ate it. Over time, his talent and knowledge have also increased day by day. He finally passed the exam for scholar when he was 22 years old, and then passed the imperial examination and became the person he wanted to become, and was praised and learned by everyone.
Zeng Guofan's success reminds people of one sentence: In fact, if you want to succeed, you must have tenacity and endurance. Once you set your goals, you must go on unswervingly and persevere. Even if you fail, you will gain something and reward yourself.
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1838, Zeng Guofan entered the Hanlin Academy, and his career began here.
Faced with the prosperous Beijing City , Zeng Guofan was trapped in this prosperity and could not extricate himself. He was addicted to watching operas, drinking, playing chess and chatting all day long, just doing everything except studying.
Once the Hanlin Academy gave him a 40-day holiday. Zeng Guofan set up a "holiday schedule" for himself before the holiday: reading, exercising, and learning skills. As a result, during these 40 days, he went to watch operas and drink again, and did nothing.
Zeng Guofan saw the time he was wasted by himself and suddenly woke up. He immediately realized that was shameful to waste time like this, so he set a lifelong goal for himself: to become a sage.
's plan to achieve this goal is divided into two items: one is reading and the other is writing a diary.
When it comes to reading, Zeng Guofan has indeed insisted on doing it after setting his lifelong practice goals. As long as he is free every day, he will persist in studying, and will never slackew on for ten years.
If reading is to understand the world and enrich your mind, then writing a diary should be the role of Zeng Guofan in understanding himself and correcting his shortcomings.
He persisted in writing a diary until before his death. In 1872, four days before his death, he still reflected in his diary: "My spirit has been loose for a long time. I have never finished the things that should have been finished, but I have never finished them. I have not checked them for a long time. I have been living in the mountains with dead leaves, and I have no home. I have been a member of the rank of the rank of the rank of the rank of more than 30 years, but I have achieved nothing in my studies and have no morals. The old man was sad and I was afraid and ashamed!
It is precisely because of the persistence of these two that Zeng Guofan has been on the road to becoming a famous minister of a generation. In just ten years, he received seven promotions in a row, and he became the second-rank minister of the Ministry of Rites.
However, at that time Qing Dynasty There was no Qingming administration in the early period. People had long been overbearing, and bad customs were prevalent. Zeng Guofan had long been dissatisfied with this, and he was waiting for the opportunity.
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1850, after Emperor Xianfeng ascended the throne, he asked his ministers to open up the road of speech. Zeng Guofan's time came, and he wrote an article "Application for Request for Words" and handed it over.
After reading it, Emperor Xianfeng expressed his agreement and praised him in the court, but there was no further information afterwards. Zeng Guofan was unhappy when he saw this, and submitted it to him. He directly pointed out the shortcomings of Emperor Xianfeng in the memorial and denounced the emperor's words. Don't keep your words, just do superficial work.
The result is not unpredictable. Emperor Xianfeng was furious first, and he was about to punish Zeng Guofan's crime. Fortunately, Zeng Guofan had some popularity in the court, and with the help of others, Emperor Xianfeng was relieved.
Although Zeng Guofan kept his life in the letter this time, he could not tolerate Emperor Xianfeng. He was kicked out of the court. Although Zeng Guofan felt bitter, he did not regret it.
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1852, Zeng Guofan's mother passed away. He rushed back to his hometown in Hunan to observe mourning. This year, the Taiping Army left Guangxi and entered Hunan, and all parts of the way fell. Half of Jiangnan was about to fall into the hands of the Taiping Army In the 1980s, the court encouraged everyone to recruit soldiers and resist the Taiping Army.
Zeng Guofan, who was concerned about the world, so he recruited soldiers with Hunan Governor Zhang Liangji , and used peasants as soldiers, and chose relatives, fellow townsmen, teachers and students as officers to form an army that could not be dragged down or defeated, which was later famous for the world.
but unexpectedly, this army was not as powerful as expected at the beginning. It was defeated by the Taiping Army in the first battle. After Zeng Guofan was defeated, he felt that he had no face to see others, so he jumped to himself, but was rescued by his aide Zhang Shoulin . After
, Zeng Guofan's Hunan Army can be said to have been defeated repeatedly. He had to dive more than once and he broke himself. He fought with people almost every time, but it was precisely because of this defeat that Zeng Guofan kept summing up his experience and gained experience in these failures, and finally defeated the Taiping Army and won the victory.
His Hunan Army also grew and became stronger step by step in failure.
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1856, Zeng Guofan's father passed away. He went home to keep mourning without saying hello to Emperor Xianfeng. Emperor Xianfeng was very dissatisfied with this. He said to Zeng Guofan: "You are unorganized and undisciplined. Go back to the battlefield."
Unexpectedly, Zeng Guofan also took the opportunity to propose this time, "You can ask me to go back, but I want to be the real governor, so that I can uniformly dispatch resources." Emperor Xianfeng smiled and said, "Then don't come back."
needs to be explained here. Because Zeng Guofan had scolded him in the memorial before, Emperor Xianfeng had never had a good impression of Zeng Guofan and had never liked him.In addition, the regular army of the court won several victories at this time, Emperor Xianfeng once thought that their court army was also very powerful and could not rely on Zeng Guofan's Hunan Army to take advantage of the situation.
Zeng Guofan was depressed for a while after being removed from military power. After two years of careful research and speculation, he calmed down and realized a truth: "People think they are the best, and others are fools. In fact, once this idea comes out, people are already the biggest fool." As the saying goes, a good man has three helpers, no matter how powerful a person is, he needs someone to cooperate to exert greater strength. When Zeng Guofan realized his own "pride and uprightness", he began to consciously change his style of behavior.
1858, Zeng Guofan returned to the military camp. Before that, he wrote a letter to the local local officials. The content of the letter was that Zeng Guofan asked everyone for help with a modest attitude. Therefore, under this modest attitude, his subsequent work went much smoother.
Not only that, Zeng Guofan also learned to adapt. He no longer refused gifts from others. In 1861, Hunan Army general Bao Chao gave Zeng Guofan some spoils, including many valuable things. After Zeng Guofan opened it and read the article, he took a flower hat from these spoils and said happily: "This thing is interesting. I want this, you can take the others back."
If a person has always been so unique, the road he walked will definitely be difficult and will be rejected by others. It is particularly rare for Zeng Guofan to bow to reality like this and stick to his inner conscience. It is precisely because of this that he was praised by everyone to the highest level and ended up with a good end.
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Looking at Zeng Guofan's life, there was no legend, such as young genius, bravery and good at fighting, and victory in every battle, all of which were not destined to be with him. He relied on his tenacity and clumsy spirit throughout his life, and he worked so hard to achieve his achievements and glory. He used his actions to tell us: "If you do not have innate intelligence, rely on acquired efforts to make up for your shortcomings, then ordinary people will achieve something under this self-control and self-discipline."
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