"You are fine now, be content!" "I have tried my best. Doing this is good enough. Be content! " "Come on, I'm doing better than my partner!" "Others are not as good as me, be content!" In real life, we often use such words to comfort others and ourselves. Just be content with the status quo, enjoy the happiness now, and don't be unhappy because you can't get what you want. However, for a person who is not satisfied with the status quo and has been pursuing progress, contentment is a false proposition. Because "contentment" will make life stagnate and make people stop making progress.
1837, Grover? Cleveland was born into a pastor's family in Caldwell, New Jersey. He ranks fifth among nine children. In the next few years, his parents added four more children to the family. Because of the large family, it is difficult to live on his father's income, and Cleveland's childhood is very difficult. Every day after school, Cleveland has heavy housework to do with his brothers and sisters, and he also has odd jobs. He often goes to the store as a clerk to help sell goods, which also makes him have a temper in life. The hard life of childhood has created Cleveland's fortitude, integrity, arrogance, stubbornness and strong independence and sense of responsibility. 16 years old, my father died, and my brothers and sisters have their own families. Cleveland had to drop out of school to help her mother earn money to support her family. His first job was as a literary assistant in a school for the blind in new york under the arrangement of his brother, and he also taught reading, writing, arithmetic and geography. I'm not very tired at work, and I still have some income. For young people who have just left school, it is good to have such a job, but after working for a period of time, Cleveland feels that he can't waste his youth here. A year later, he quit his job, left his hometown and went abroad for development alone.
Soon, he found another job as an editor, with a monthly salary of 10, plus room and board. This job is relatively stable, the salary is reasonable, and he likes it himself. He is determined to be an editor envied by others. This is not bad for a man with only a middle school education, but Cleveland feels that there may be another world in his life. So he spent his spare time studying law in a law firm. He cherishes every minute and is diligent and studious, which makes up for his lack of formal education. After four years of hard study, Cleveland qualified as a lawyer and entered a law firm that is difficult for ordinary people to enter. He worked hard, was proactive and eloquent, and soon became the director of the law firm. At this time, his annual salary is already 600 dollars, and he can get a salary increase of 100 dollars every year. The identity of a lawyer and a good income should be relatively satisfactory for the average person. But Cleveland is not satisfied with the status quo. He thinks he can do more and better. Therefore, he actively participated in social activities, and through the election, Cleveland became the county's deputy prosecutor and sheriff. As an upright, honest and helpful public servant, he quickly gained a good reputation. Since then, he was elected mayor and governor until he became president of the United States twice. He was the first president elected by the Democratic Party after the Civil War and the only president in the United States who left the White House and served again four years later.
Orison, the founder of American successful science, the greatest successful inspirational tutor and the father of successful science? Madden said: "If a young man's situation does not force him to work and make him dissatisfied with life, then he will not work hard any more." Cleveland has been trying to move forward because he was born in poverty and has no degree. No matter what he does, he is conscientious and enterprising. He is smart, studious and diligent in thinking. Many historians call him a symbol of American citizens at that time. It is precisely because Cleveland is not satisfied with the status quo that it keeps working hard and eventually becomes an example for generations to learn.
Dissatisfaction is the foundation of human progress. Only dissatisfaction will motivate us to pursue perfection, only enterprising will prompt us to change the status quo, and only continuous enterprising can complete the lofty mission and create the brilliance of life. Looking back on the 5,000-year history of the world, most successful people started with "dissatisfaction". In their eyes, there is no word "contentment". For them, life is a process of climbing one peak after another and achieving another higher goal. It is dissatisfaction that has created those great elites, and dissatisfaction has become the driving force for human progress.