Life should be stubborn

Life should be stubborn

As for the word stubbornness, but not less. All achievements and writings must have these two words in it, otherwise the softness can not become a thing. Mencius called it rigor and Confucius called it chastity, both made from the word stubbornness. My brothers all hold the mother's virtue mostly, and their benefits are also stubborn. If you can remove your anger and desire to nourish your body, and keep your stubbornness to encourage your will, you will be able to advance day by day. Zeng Guofan

Translation: As for the word stubbornness, it is indispensable. One must have these two words throughout one's achievements, career and writings, otherwise one will not be able to do anything if one is weak and depressed. Mencius's "rigidity" and Confucius's "chastity" are both derived from the word "stubbornness". We brothers have inherited more of our mother's virtues, the benefit of which is also stubbornness. If you remove anger and desire and make your body strong, and keep your stubbornness to motivate your ambition, then you can keep making progress.

What motivation is, to put it bluntly, is a process of constant perseverance and striving. This process, both difficult and painful, helpless, depressed only to maintain the spirit of not giving up until the purpose, can really break through, across this hurdle, life is wide.

Those we drank countless times the chicken soup, very reasonable, but really go to change their own few people, so most of us seem to those chicken soup useless, empty, boring, in fact, the real lack of vitality of life is probably ourselves.

The same chicken soup, why did Zeng Guofan drink it can be effective it the world has the will of more people, why achieve the great ambition of the few to establish the will is not easy, inspiration is more difficult! What we need is a spirit that allows us to face long years of boring, tedious, monotonous, lonely mediocre life, so that we can cross the thorny years of hardship. This spirit is stubbornness.

Stubbornness, not to blindly go forward, but to identify what things, focus on doing, to do the best, this is the way to survive, the way to success. Without the support of stubbornness, it is very difficult to go to the end.

It was with this compulsive stubbornness that Zeng Guofan changed a lot of bad habits in himself. By changing one bad habit, a good habit will be formed.

As he wrote in his family letter: Yu since the first day of October since the determination of the new, although lazy as before, but the daily regular writing diary, read the history of ten pages a day, every diary tea occasionally talk about a day, these three things have never been interrupted. It was also during this period that he wrote down twelve daily lessons, and kept this habit for many years.

He also changed the habit of sleeping. In December of the 22nd year of Daoguang, he slept for 13 days out of 30 days, for which he denounced himself as a straightforward immature person who slept and got up and did nothing, shameful!

He was a man of inertia, and Zeng Guofan was no exception. In order to achieve his ambition, he constantly struggled with the lazy self deep inside him, constantly admonishing and warning himself to be diligent and not to sleep and be lazy. It was his stubbornness, which was different from that of ordinary people, that urged him to keep moving forward and keep doing his best.

In peacetime, he wanted to be a famous, virtuous and learned minister; in troubled times, he wanted to counter civil strife and become a national fence. In particular, a protracted war with the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, failure to rise, then failure, then rise again, repeatedly do not know how many times to experience, he was never beaten, but the stronger the fight this stubbornness let people in addition to admiration or admiration.

He had many goals in his life, no matter how big or small, he did his best to achieve them. He was determined to become a scholar, a scientist, a great official, to clarify the world, to suppress the Guangdong bandits, to remove the shame, and to do foreign affairs.

It is never a matter of luck, opportunity or talent, but a kind of persistence, a determination that must be achieved, and a stubbornness that does not admit defeat.

This kind of stubbornness, throughout Zeng Guofan's cultivation of the body, family, ruling the country and leveling the world in every aspect, some people say that Zeng Guofan's life, if summed up in two words, is stubborn. Stubbornness made him overcome the mediocre self inside and become a generation of masters of cultivation; stubbornness made him clear his own ambition, and a road to the end, and gained great success; stubbornness made him complete his goals one by one and achieve the great success of life.

It is not a bad thing to let ourselves be a little more stubborn, because we just need to be responsible for ourselves and do well for ourselves!