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You can lose to others, but you can't lose to yourself

You can lose to others, but you can't lose to yourself

By 起飞Published 2 years ago 5 min read
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You can lose to others, but you can't lose to yourself

In the journey to success in life, there are bound to be thorns and difficulties. When you walk on this journey, whether you will encounter difficulties and cower whether you will encounter setbacks and self-destruction success begins with self-confidence, this truth is known to everyone, but not everyone can do. Ask: When a difficult task in front of you, you can be confident to bravely go forward when after many setbacks, you can still achieve their ultimate goal of unshaken confidence when people around you despise you, that you are a waste, incompetent generation, you can still believe that I was born to be useful?

Shakespeare once said: If we compare ourselves to dirt, then we will really become something for others to trample on. Very often, we can't believe in ourselves, always think that others are much better than us, and that something is right only if it is affirmed by others. We envy the talents, luck and achievements of others, while we maximize the waste of ourselves.

One cannot have everything go well, it is good to leave footprints along the way and to find the way to come. After this incident, Pan thought about it and believed that it is much more important for people to win themselves than to win others.

In many cases, the biggest obstacle on one's way to success is precisely oneself. Therefore, you should try to learn to remove the thorns on the way. Selfishness, greed for comfort, arrogance and rudeness are obstacles that prevent you from moving forward; cowardice, doubt and fear are your own worst enemies. Therefore, you should always be alert to the weaknesses in yourself, with the courage to conquer yourself, you will conquer all difficulties. If you do not fight and lose, then you are completely caught in the swamp of failure. At this point, you lose to not others, but yourself.

The most powerful enemy in life is yourself, the greatest challenge is to challenge yourself, self-confidence can be self-improvement. Only self-confidence, in order to do know the difficulties, in order to have the abyss is not frightened, not afraid of the heroic nature of the danger. It is hard to believe that a person who is not even sure of himself can be recognized by others. Only by really believing in himself can he gain the trust of others and create a miracle in his career.

At the moment when Seiji Ozawa danced his magic and dynamic hands, the soul of music already stood in front of us.

In 1994, when the famous conductor Seiji Ozawa returned to his birthplace in Shenyang, he decided to conduct the Liaoning Symphony Orchestra to perform Dvorak's Ninth Symphony. On the first day, after rehearsing the Allegro of the fourth movement, Ozawa's face suddenly sank, frowning tightly and murmuring to himself, how could this be so how could such an orchestra go to the performance Suddenly, after he heaved his baton on the score rack, he said, from tomorrow onwards, we will conduct individual performance passing training. This is the same as saying that everyone needs to start from the basic training. This is by no means what a master conductor does.

At this point, local officials waiting in the rehearsal hall wanted to talk to him about arranging an audience and a banquet, which Ozawa declined. He said, "I came here for one purpose only, to give the people of Shenyang a satisfactory symphony. I don't want to meet anyone who is not related to the concert. After that, he trained for six hours a day. By the afternoon of the third day, Ozawa was too fatigued. He first squatted on the floor to conduct, and later, simply knelt on the floor to conduct, sweat on his face splashed on the score and the floor, he corrected the first violinist again and again, but still had difficulty passing.

Looking at the master's sweat-soaked hair and tired face, the first violinist was so upset that he started to weep and sob, and then cried out loud. Maestro, I'm sorry, you can choose someone else, I can't.

Everyone in the audience thought the maestro would be angry, but he said calmly, "You can do it, just a little bit. Please do it again. When she finished, the maestro nodded and said, "Thank you, can you do it again?

The master took the towel with a big breath and smiled and said: You can all, there is no reason for anyone to be discouraged. The Japanese composer Toru Takemitsu, who lived in Ozawa's apartment for a while and witnessed the master's diligence, said: Every morning at four o'clock, the light was on in Ozawa's house and he began to read the master score. I really didn't expect that he was so diligent.

It turned out that Ozawa had developed the habit of morning reading since his youth, and he has continued it until today. I am one of the earliest people in the world to wake up, and by the time the sun rises, I've often read at least two hours of the score or book. Ozawa says.

It doesn't matter what kind of person others think you are, what matters is whether you are sure of yourself; how others defeat you is not the point, the point is whether you lose to yourself before others defeat you! The only way to overcome all the weaknesses in your soul is to always believe in yourself, and always be invincible.

We live in such a fiercely competitive society, fighting with the sky, fighting with people, everyone wants to get victory and get ahead. However, after how many times of failure, we really understand that the powerful enemy that eventually makes us hurt, deeply hidden in our own hearts, the only person who can really defeat you in this world, is yourself. People's biggest enemy is themselves, play their greatest potential, win yourself, will naturally win others, so victory over yourself is more important than victory over others. Defeat yourself, you will defeat everything!

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