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The ancients have long said that "if you are poor, you will think about change" and "if you are exhausted, you will know how to return." Change is almost an instinctive reaction of nature, but in human society, almost all social reforms will encounter resistance.
Of course, from a social perspective, social reform will inevitably affect the vested interests of some people, and they will naturally try their best to obstruct the process of reform, but any society must first put the interests of the majority in the first place, otherwise social unrest will occur; Personally, if a person can't know himself objectively, or turn a blind eye to his own problems, or refuse to change. The main factors that hinder your change are ideas and inertia. It should be said that learning knowledge is to change themselves. Many people have knowledge but refuse to change themselves.
In today's rapidly changing times, refusing reform means refusing progress. Therefore, at the beginning of leading China's social reform, Deng Xiaoping called on everyone to "emancipate their minds" and Hu Jintao emphasized "keeping pace with the times" in order to break everyone's stubborn and conservative ideas and remove obstacles on the road of reform. Young students should "save themselves in three provinces", constantly renew themselves consciously, and live in our great era with brand-new ideas and mental outlook.
Xunzi said in "Cultivation": "Although the Tao is close, it cannot be close; Although things are small, they are not impossible. " According to this sentence, the enterprising person said: "Although the road is far, the line will come;" Although things are difficult, they must be done. "If we want to change ourselves and society, let's stay ahead of the times and realize our dreams.