Perseverance The ancients said, "If you don't sweep a house, why sweep the world?" A late British bishop did the opposite-he dreamed of changing the world when he was young, found himself powerless to change the world and decided to change his country when he was young, and reluctantly wanted to change his closest family in middle age. However, he failed in the end. Fortunately, the bishop was old and finally understood: "I should change myself first." I think many people's life experiences are similar to this bishop's: goals from childhood to adulthood, self-confidence from childhood, and nothing in life. This is very sad, because if a person has no practical ideal, he can't realize his ideal, he loses the opportunity to affirm himself, and he will gradually lose confidence and despair. What despair is it? It is a person who gave up when he knew he had a chance. Therefore, one should first set a goal of "jumping and reaching", and then climb to a higher goal after reaching this goal. Just like practicing long-distance running. Even if you run 25,000 miles a day, you can't double your speed in one day. Only by practicing every day and running one more day every day can it be effective in a month or two. As the saying goes, "You can't get fat in one bite"! Mencius said: "I am old, and people are old; Young and frivolous, and young people. " Xunzi said: "You can't jump ten steps; This is a great contribution to the success of Ma Xu. Perseverance, stone can be carved, perseverance, rotten wood can not be carved. " Zhang Xiaoxiang said: "Be determined, not sharp, and success will not last long." These words of the sages also vividly revealed to us a truth: "Only by setting an easy-to-achieve goal first and then making unremitting efforts for it can we finally succeed." I thought of Emperor Jing of Han Dynasty, who was eager to weaken the influence of the vassal states and led to the "Seven Kingdoms Rebellion". Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty gradually weakened the power of the princes through "favor", finally solved the problem of the kingdom and consolidated the centralization of feudal absolutism. Margaret Thatcher, when she was a little girl, her father didn't tell her that "you must change this country or this world in the future", but only warned her to "strive for the first place in everything". Little Thatcher achieved "everything comes first", and the country she governed will occupy the commanding heights in the world pattern in the future. Sweep a house, sweep the world! Having a small dream first does not mean that there is no ambition; Take care of yourself first, then you can take care of others with confidence. Sometimes the goal of life is like a post station. There can't be only one distant post station in the journey of life. If so, I'm afraid people have lost confidence before they arrive. And if there is a stop on the way, let's sit down and have a rest occasionally when we are tired, have a cup of tea, and then go to the next goal of life lightly. Your life journey will surely go faster and more steadily. Why not? Let's work hard for our ideal of "sweeping the world"! Be a persistent digger. Perhaps, we can compare life to a piece of land and compare ourselves to the "digger" of life. To be a successful well driller, you must have a realistic spirit and perseverance. Just like the well digger in the picture, it is hard for us to imagine that he can dig a "well"! Aristotle, an outstanding thinker in ancient Greece, said, "It is foolish for those who will never succeed to try." Here's the thing. Know how big the world is, how many things to do, and how difficult it is to succeed in everything. Without perseverance, it is impossible to achieve anything. There is a famous fifth axiom in mathematics, which attracts many people to prove it. But they don't have enough perseverance, so they always fail. On the contrary, if people can hold the belief that persistence is victory, the situation will change. At that time, while many people lamented that the fifth axiom could not be demonstrated, two determined German scientists conquered it in one fell swoop. Thus, the success of the cause depends on whether there is an indomitable spirit of struggle; Success in digging wells depends on perseverance! Hua is a famous mathematician in China. He was born in poverty, had no diploma and tutor, and was located in a remote place, but he succeeded. What does he rely on? It is the spirit of perseverance! He can lie in bed for three months and turn over books to testify. And some of us, when we see painters, want to learn painting; Seeing a musician's demeanor and wanting to learn music ... is the achilles heel of some people's failure. They don't want to work hard at anything. "Perseverance, rotten wood can't be carved." Xunzi warned us about this more than two thousand years ago. Perhaps, some people will say, "I don't want to change my mind, but it is difficult for us to achieve anything in our work." Ordinary work, on the surface, seems to be an excuse for "perseverance". But what kind of greatness is not different? Shi Chuanxiang is a dung digger. It seems that he will never achieve anything in his life, but he is diligent and practical and praised by the people. Isn't this an achievement? He dug the most beautiful well in life! We young people will soon go out into the society. Everyone's position is different. Some jobs are "ordinary" and some jobs are "extraordinary". However, we should all remember that whether we can achieve anything depends on our perseverance. Thinking that the door to success is always open to you depends only on your own perseverance. May each of us be a persistent digger in life!