We say that adversity is more conducive to people's growth for three reasons. First, we believe that adversity increases people's ideas and knowledge. When we find ourselves going the wrong way, we will know how to go the wrong way better, so our life knowledge and various experiences will be richer. Edison spent 20 years and did more than 50 thousand experiments before he was able to successfully invent this simple battery, so someone asked him, hey, how do you know that the final result must be successful? Edison told him that success is not the only achievement. The reason why I have achieved more than 50 thousand is because I have learned more than 50 thousand experience. Second, we believe that adversity broadens people's horizons and patterns. When we find this road more difficult than we thought, we will have higher expectations and be more prepared next time. If a person expects him to finish a problem in three minutes, but it takes him eight minutes, he will be ready in eight minutes next time. Thirdly, we believe that adversity helps to stimulate our potential. We have risks and challenges on the road, and we will inspire this ability that we have never imagined ourselves. Psychologically, if a teacher challenges a child's higher-than-expected ability in the process of learning, the development result will be better.
Marxist philosophy tells us that prosperity and adversity are external causes, and external causes can only play a role through internal causes. Therefore, here we emphasize that today's topic is applicable to an independent individual with a sense of success. Moreover, adversity and prosperity are relative and can be transformed into each other.
Then, the other debater will definitely ask. Don't you trade success for prosperity? We don't deny that prosperity can sometimes bring success, but compared with adversity, adversity is more conducive to success under the same conditions. It is embodied in the following three aspects.
First, people can accumulate a lot of experience in adversity. People work harder in adversity than in prosperity. Adversity urges people to seriously sum up their experiences and lessons and seek ways to get rid of adversity and become successful. Therefore, the process of thinking, summing up, exploring and creating in adversity is the process of increasing people's intelligence and accumulating experience.
Second, people's life will not be smooth sailing, and it is inevitable that they will encounter setbacks and difficulties of all sizes. Being in adversity can stimulate people's enterprising spirit. Comrade Guo Moruo once said that a hard environment will generally sink people. But in front of people with strong perseverance and enterprise, it can play the opposite role. The harder the environment, the more energetic and hard you can work. This is the so-called "difficulties and hardships, jade is successful."
Third, being in adversity can also sharpen people's will. Adversity can make talents, just as high temperature can make hard diamonds. It turns cowardice into courage, and it turns the heart into perseverance. "Since ancient times, great talents have suffered a lot, and there have never been many great men." In the history of China and foreign countries, it is rare for someone to have a smooth sailing and make great achievements. The truly outstanding people are mostly those who have gone through hardships and tempered their strong will in adversity. Mencius said: "Heaven will be of great use to the National People's Congress. We must first suffer from its mind, its bones and muscles, and starve its body and skin. Only by doing whatever we want can we be patient and get what we can't do."
So we firmly believe that adversity is conducive to success.
People are always in a certain social environment and natural environment. When we are in such an environment, whether we are struggling to survive or achieving our career, we all say that such an environment is adversity. We believe that adversity contributes to success. This view applies to independent individuals with a sense of talent.
Prosperity is better than adversity under the same conditions. People are lazy, and when there is no adversity, this laziness will increase. Therefore, people always exert their potential when the conditions are more difficult, and the greater the possibility of success. It is true that adversity is conducive to success.
Monk thinks that God should set adversity for talents to gain their abilities. Shakespeare said in England that nothing can temper a person's character like bad luck. Liang Qichao also said that suffering is the best school to temper personality.
Rousseau of France said: "It is impossible to make the whole life comfortable and happy." Adversity always exists. Therefore, human beings should have an attitude towards adversity, and we young people should dare to face the storm, face adversity directly, be brave in becoming talents, acquire a good quality through adversity, and be the mainstay in adversity.
Chairman Mao said, "Where it is difficult to go, it is difficult to settle down." When the country needs the people, we rush to adversity and improve our comprehensive quality through adversity. Frustration is conducive to personal success. It is often said that you can't learn to grow until you have suffered setbacks. Only after experiencing setbacks can you continue to be strong, build your own personality and become a calm, calm and intelligent person. Love and career need to be honed.
Frustration is objectively conducive to the sober self-evaluation of successful people and the enhancement of knowledge reserves. Knowledge comes from direct or indirect practice. Frustration in practice can eliminate the bad feelings of complacency, make us realize our lack of knowledge reserves and experience, and urge us to continuously expand our knowledge capacity and improve our level of understanding.
Setbacks can stimulate people's potential. Hegel tells us that successful experience is often not as good as the lessons of failure to promote human progress. It is precisely because of setbacks and challenges that we will get rid of inertia, constantly spur ourselves, stimulate our potential ability and give play to our "talent." Superior conditions often can't temper people's will to resist setbacks, but hard environment can temper people's perseverance and fighting spirit.