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Do you want to know why all those great students walk with the wind?

Try to bring a little wind

By Clemmens CroftonPublished 2 years ago 7 min read
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Do you want to know why all those great students walk with the wind?
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Act fast, try to bring some wind with you, and don't let this great time down.

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In junior high school, most of our classmates rode bicycles to school. The quality of the bicycles at that time was not very good, and after riding for a long time, there would be a big or small creaking sound.

Whenever we were on the road, we always noticed that the boys with the best grades in the class were very fast on their bikes, overtaking us from behind with a squeak, and whizzing past us with a gust of wind.

I don't know if I had enough breakfast, but I couldn't seem to get enough energy out of them.

I don't know why I'm riding so fast. The class teacher hadn't even arrived yet. The roadside scenery is so nice in the morning, why the rush?

I found out later that these guys are always competing with each other every day to see who gets to class earlier.

If they arrived even 2 minutes earlier, they could memorize a few more words and do one more maths problem. The gap between us and the school bully didn't open up one day, it opened up one day at a time like this.

They spent their days in class, doing everything in style as if they had firecrackers sitting under their butts.

Amidst the sound of squeaking and creaking bicycles and fiery walks, they left us with increasingly blurred backs.

02

I remember when I was in high school, there was a schoolteacher who walked with the wind.

I often saw her around campus and noticed that she walked at a significantly faster pace than us. Whether it was to go to dinner or back to the dormitory when she walked past us, it felt like a gust of wind was blowing by.

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At that time we always wondered why she was in such a hurry. Every time we couldn't help but look back to see if a boy was chasing her.

Later, when the results of every monthly exam were released, we found her in the top three in her grade, quite solid. It dawned on us that all the time she saved by walking quickly was spent on studying. What a way to not miss a second.

While we were walking slowly, discussing which martial arts novel was selling like hotcakes in the school bookstore, which small restaurant was tastier, and which celebrity had been up to something recently, she was already a few blocks behind us.

A fast pace of action is not only good physical exercise but also a positive mental cue for you to focus, keep your eyes on the goal, and always stay ahead of the curve.

Focus so that you can't even walk without consciously speeding up.

03

When I was at university, there was a school bully who belonged to the category of being both the president and winning national awards.

He liked to carry a small notebook with him every time to keep track of his study schedule and work thinking.

When other students went to the crowded canteen after class, they complained that there were too many people to find a place to sit and that when the chef served the food, he deliberately jiggled in a hurry and gave so little food.

He was different. When class ends at half past eleven, he stays in the classroom and reviews his homework for 30 minutes, going over the highlights of the morning's lesson and taking a careful summary while his memory is still fresh, while saving time for another inefficient review in the evening. Once that's done, we go back to dinner.

By this time there weren't many students on the road and he was walking exceptionally fast. The canteen is no longer crowded, and as he types his meal and chews it slowly, he thinks about the next steps in a student organization.

While he eats, his roommates are usually in their dormitories burping and bragging, surfing the internet, hanging out, and playing games.

By the time he rushes back to the dorm after dinner, everyone is pretty much done talking, just in time for his lunch break. He and his roommates chat briefly, read a book, rest, and then head to class half an hour early to prep for the afternoon's lesson, instead of rushing furiously to class like his roommates who sleep until 10 minutes before class starts, panting all the way and unable to get into their studies for 20 minutes.

He timed it exceptionally well, not a little wasted, not a little panicked.

Some people tried to imitate him, but after a few days of trying, they decided that it felt quite lonely and wouldn't stick. But he didn't think so. Instead of spending time on boring crowded, idle chatter, you should spend it on studying and working, because the time inside the university may seem long, but it's bitterly short.

If you want to study and get better, you can easily find n tons of learning tutorials on the internet. You can also get in touch with a lot of great minds through the internet that you couldn't get in touch with before and take lessons from them.

In today's information age, it's not like the old days when the academic gurus quietly watched over their handbooks and you had no way to peek in. Now, it is easy to know what the secrets and routines of the masters are, but the only difference is that you can't do it, or have the ability to convince yourself to do it.

To go faster and farther, you must walk like the wind like them and seize every available moment.

04

When I was looking for a job, Li, who was in the next class, always liked to go to all kinds of job fairs, big and small, near and far, collect all the information, arrange a schedule, and go when he could. He would go to job fairs and come back with a lot of money.

While other students complain about not being able to wait for an interview, he has already attended many interviews and has been offered by some companies one after another, so he has the capital to say "no" to companies, but he is always looking for the one that suits him best.

Many students wait for their schools to recommend some companies' job offers during the employment season, and then go to drop off their CVs or wait for the schools to hold larger job fairs and then go looking for a job.

Only Xiao Li was the only one who ran around every day, like chicken blood, even walking in the wind.

We treat job hunting as a burden, or even as a task like writing homework in the past, without thinking that it determines the future trajectory of our lives.

It's a bad idea not to work hard at this time of year, waiting for companies to pick and choose from you, thirsting for an interviewer to give you an interview, and leaving your fate to be arranged by others.

Get up early in the morning, make your CV beautiful, be diligent, be sweet, prepare more, try more, and slowly, you will not be nervous about the interview.

Meeting the most suitable companies is a difficult thing to do. You should take the initiative, keep looking, create more opportunities, and go after the companies that strike your fancy the most, just like you would go to the trouble of chasing a girl.

Then, choose from the many companies that are still good in every way and the one that matches your temperament best, so that you will walk with a breeze and a smile on your face when you go to work every day.

05

We often think that we should be Buddhist, that we should be indifferent to many things, that we should just get on with it, and that we should take this attitude of not caring as a good philosophy of life.

But we overlook the fact that the purpose of coming to campus is not to enjoy and squander the beautiful days of our youth.

Walking wobbly at an age when you should be walking fast is a waste of life.

Move quickly, try to bring some wind with you, and don't let this great time down.

How do you feel after listening to the FM?

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Clemmens Crofton

An eye for an eye thought for an obsession.

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