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On "Useful" and "Useless"

Which of these materials do you think is useful for the topic of our composition? Please outline it.

First of all, celebrity quotes:

1, everyone knows the useful use, but they don't know the useless use. The useless use is for the great use. -Zhuangzi

2. Being useful means a kind of slavery. Useless means that you only exist for yourself, and uselessness is the real freedom. Because it is useless, it can be used for personal use. -Zhang

Things that taste good in the world, including poetry, wine, philosophy and love, are often useless. Singing useless poems, drinking useless wine and reading useless books sound useless, and finally become useless people, but live a very interesting life. -Zhou's leisure.

4. Reading some useless books, doing some useless things and spending some useless time are all in order to keep an opportunity to surpass yourself beyond all the known. Some great changes in life began from this moment. -Liang Wendao's "Music"

Second, the typical case:

1, Haizi is nothing, he is only obsessed with the beauty of "spring blossoms facing the sea", so he is pure and contains no impurities; Nalan is useless. He only looks for the mood when he first met the Iraqis, but everyone can sing water words. How many people know Nalan's mind? Li Yu is useless and his eyes are heavy. After the Southern Tang Dynasty, the country declined, but his writing is as beautiful as running water. It's useless, these useless people, what they present to us is useful.

2. Oak became a sacred tree because it was useless, and lived happily for centuries; Catalpa bungeana has become a ghost by the sword because of its usefulness, and it has been ruthlessly cut down year after year. This is the misfortune brought by usefulness and the luck brought by uselessness.

3. The knowledge in primary and secondary school textbooks is useless, but it helps us to expand our thinking and broaden our horizons; Mathematics is useless, but it stimulates the potential of the brain and makes people flexible; Confucius is useless, regardless of grain, but he is a Confucian master we admire; Zhuangzi is useless and inactive, but he is also happy. His views are still difficult to understand. From this point of view, useless people can be useful. All useless things are for accumulation and thin hair.

4. Van Gogh devoted all his passion to art, but only sold one painting; Balzac wrote day and night and ended up in poverty; Michelangelo has been carving and painting all his life, but he has only got countless pains ... However, it is their "useless" works that have opened one door after another and made a great splash in the history of human civilization.

Qian Xuesen has been engaged in scientific research all his life, but he is still grateful for the education he received in China since childhood. This "useless thing" has made his national integrity and perseverance; Einstein devoted his life to theoretical physics, but he still benefited from the violin he learned as a child. This "useless thing" has made his extraordinary creativity. Picasso devoted his life to the art palace, but he was still grateful for teaching himself physics knowledge. This "useless thing" has made his bizarre and exquisite painting art. No matter whether you are in busy study or intense work, you should spare some time, listen to famous lectures, learn practical technology, cultivate a hobby, participate in some practical activities, and then skillfully apply it to your own career to turn "useless" into "useful" and enrich yourself.

6. Jobs was obsessed with calligraphy when he was young, so he went to Reed University because Reed had the best calligraphy education in America. "I was obsessed with calligraphy at that time just because I liked it. I never thought about its practical application in life. I didn't expect to enter the IT industry ten years later and actually use what I learned in calligraphy courses. Ten years later, when I designed the first Apple computer, I applied' calligraphy' to font design. " As a result, with the world's first computer that can realize font typesetting, many people fell in love with Apple.

7. Edison made 1200 experiments in order to find an efficient filament material when developing incandescent bulbs, but no satisfactory results were obtained. An ignorant person quipped, "You have failed 1200 times." "No," Edison retorted, "I proved that 1,200 materials are not suitable for filament, which is a great achievement." Great scientists use "useless" materials as irrefutable evidence to continue their experimental exploration.

The Debate between Useless and Useful

Xiao Ai was opposed by her mother because she participated in the school drama group, rehearsed and wrote the script. Her mother thinks it will be more practical to brush the questions. The contradiction between mother and Xiao Ai seems to be a conflict between study and hobbies, but it is actually a dialectical dispute between usefulness and uselessness.

What is useless and what is useful? In the eyes of pragmatists, the so-called usefulness means being able to achieve a certain purpose; The so-called uselessness is an activity that cannot produce benefits in the short term. However, the world we live in is colorful and ever-changing. How can we simply and rudely divide it into useful and useless categories?

Lao Tzu believes that everyone knows the useful use, but everyone doesn't know the useless use. Useless, very useful. Laozi advocates inaction, and his views may be a little negative, but the relationship between usefulness and uselessness is definitely not a matter of old age and death, but you have me and I have you.

First of all, useless can be useful. Liang Wendao's article "Le Ji" said: Reading some useless books, doing some useless things and spending some useless time are all in order to keep an opportunity to surpass oneself in addition to what is known. Some great changes in life began from this moment. Useless things are often useful things that can pass through the gas station smoothly. Qian Xuesen has been engaged in scientific research all his life, but he is still grateful for the education he received in China since childhood. This "useless thing" has made his national integrity and perseverance. Einstein devoted his life to theoretical physics, but he still benefited from the violin he learned as a child. This "useless thing" has made his extraordinary creativity. Picasso devoted his life to the art palace, but he was still grateful for teaching himself physics knowledge. This "useless thing" has made his bizarre and exquisite painting art, and those useless things often become the characteristics that enter your blood and bones, which are revealed between your gestures and become your unique noble mark. No matter in busy study or intense work, we should spare some time to cultivate a hobby, take part in some practical activities, and then skillfully apply it to our own career, turn "useless" into "useful" and enrich ourselves.

Secondly, it is because of uselessness that our life becomes interesting. Things with flavor in the world, including poetry, wine, philosophy and love, are often useless. Singing useless poems, drinking useless wine and reading useless books sound useless, and finally become useless people, but live a very interesting life. Today, the books you read, the piano you practiced, the paintings you drew, the yoga you learned and the dances you danced can't bring you benefits, increase your score in the exam and help you further study, but he has become your longest companion in your life. When you are most lonely and helpless, only those useless books will accompany you and become your spiritual comfort without complaint: he can be your most loyal listener and your innermost listener. The rolling world of mortals often leaves our hearts with nowhere to put. Playing the piano, painting with ink, improvising a few lines, or dancing in the music, our tired and impetuous hearts seem to be ironed, so we give up our troubles, start again after a short pause and start again. These hobbies that can't bring you visible benefits at first will often become stops and spiritual habitats on your life path.

In addition, useless things can often be used for personal use, so they are more "practical". What is defined as useful actually does not exist for ourselves. More often, we read the prescribed useful books, brush the topics that we think are useful, and walk on the useful road planned by our parents. We turn our own thoughts into a highway where others' thoughts gallop, but we don't leave a thin track for our own thoughts. We live the life that others imagine for us, but we don't leave even a little space for ourselves. Sometimes, usefulness means a kind of slavery, and uselessness is the real freedom, because uselessness only exists for itself.

People are often utilitarian and short-sighted. They have been thinking about what they will get at the same time, and even before they start, they have weighed the pros and cons on the balance. More often, love can't be calculated in units of measurement. The process of giving and burning because of love is a kind of gain in itself. The world is not an either-or relationship. In the final analysis, usefulness and uselessness are not a contradiction. More often, the two complement each other.

Sa Beining, a famous mouth of CCTV, liked singing and hosting in high school. It is these useless extracurricular hobbies that made him get an early admission notice when he was interviewed for admission at Peking University. 20 18 Yuan Meng, the science champion of Jiangsu college entrance examination, turned out to be a taekwondo hooligan. It is said that during his high school years, apart from his excellent academic performance, he would also practice Taekwondo in his spare time to release his pressure, and finally he was admitted to Tsinghua as a champion.

Let's go back to Xiao Ai and her club activities, look back at her useless actions and write a script, which is creation; Rehearse and exercise the ability of cooperation and communication; Repeated performance is a deep understanding of the text. These in themselves are much more useful than brushing questions. More importantly, perhaps because of this textbook drama performance, Xiao Ai discovered her potential and stepped onto the stage one day in the future.

May Xiao Ai be more wonderful in useless love. ?