A is the most hardworking intern I have ever taught, but apart from hard work, I can't think of any other commendatory words for the time being. She came early and left late every day. She remembered in her notebook that she never complained about anything. However, she didn't take out anything that surprised me. Instead, I had to gradually narrow down her scope of work because she poked a big basket several times. Whenever she encountered a problem, her response was always: I didn't think it was like this.
B is her middle-aged version. She was in her thirties. She became a group leader by changing jobs frequently. Almost all her colleagues complained about her poor specialty. Even so, the boss still hesitated to let her become a full-time employee: after all, she worked so hard
Chinese people have always respected hard work, so there are such allusions as hanging a beam to stab the stock, chiseling a wall to borrow light, and showing off the snow, as well as such golden sentences as "there is a path for the book mountain, diligence makes up for the clumsy", "clumsy birds fly first" and "love to fight will win". It seems that as long as you work hard, you will be able to succeed. Even if it is not successful, others must also have a respect. After all, they have tried their best, which is beyond reproach.
So there is a group of people who work hard. They sleep the least when they go to school and go to work the last. They can never finish the work on their desk. They are always diligent and hardworking, but their grades are no more average. You will find that the so-called effort is just inefficient. It takes an hour to complete what others can do in five minutes. It artificially lengthens your life. In short, it is not distracted.
Such efforts are nothing more than tactical diligence to cover up strategic laziness. They are neither willing to use their brains and make good plans before "efforts", nor willing to make a summary and learn lessons after "efforts" fail. They have spirit of the Sisyphus, are not afraid of the failure, and do not have a strong desire for success. They must smash their heads against south wall to prove that they are really working hard.
Effort is certainly a good thing, but many people are insulting the word with their own practical actions. Some universal values are easy to teach children bad. In our traditional education, too many people are taught to sell coolies and too few are taught to use their brains. Pusongling said that the painstaking people should bear the burden of heaven. They can swallow Wu for 3000 Vietnamese. But if Gou Jian only relies on hard work, what else can Xi Shi do?
In this world, most people are lazy, but some people show in action, some people show in thinking. The first is visible laziness, but the second has become hard work in people's eyes.
In contrast, I think the first kind of people have a better chance of success. Sometimes a person is lazy in action. If he doesn't want to starve to death, he will at least use his brain in advance to find the best shortcut for himself. It is the second kind of people. They have worked hard all their lives, and the last label is just hard.
Did Edison work hard enough? It took thousands of experiments to invent the light bulb. However, I dare say that if he tried the same material every time, he would be more than 10000 times diligent and 100 million times useless. Then he succeeded. They said he was a genius.
Edison also had a golden saying that genius is 1% inspiration and 99% perspiration. This sentence has been regarded as a classic by countless people, but it is said that this sentence actually has the second half of the sentence that was deleted for political reasons: but the 1% talent is the most important, even more important than the 99% sweat.
Do you think the Muse will patronize a lazy person at will? Only when a person works very hard and is good at thinking and summarizing in his efforts can he burst out inspiration frequently. Those winners who do things effortlessly in your eyes, they work a thousand times, tenthousand times harder than you.
For most people, what you think you are doing is hard work. In fact, it is just physical strength. Why do people give the crown of "diligence" to bees instead of dung beetles? It is not that the latter pays less physical strength, but that the crystallization of the former is honey.
If you can't create value, your efforts are worthless.