Confucius used the above passage to emphasize the importance of ambition to a person. Yes, people who don't yearn often yearn for it. The kind of person who can easily or often change his ambition is actually a person who has no ambition and can't achieve great things. Nine times out of ten, Confucius's "determination to learn" did not change his ambition for decades, and eventually became the table of a thousand teachers.
Guan Yunchang killed Hua Xiong with warm wine and beheaded the enemy.
This is "the three armed forces can win the handsome."
Yan Yan would rather die than surrender, and her face remained the same. "But there are beheaded generals and no generals."
This is "a man can't win his ambition."
Handsome can be taken away, but not taken away, and will be killed without humiliation. This is because, although there are many people in the army, if the people are not in harmony, its commander-in-chief may still be arrested, and once the commander-in-chief is arrested, the whole army will lose its leader and collapse completely. Although there is only one person, as long as he is honest and firm, no one can change him. This heroic deed of preferring death to surrender is epic and countless in history. On the contrary, if a person has no integrity and firm ambition, he is likely to succumb to temptation or high pressure at a critical moment and become a despised traitor.
Therefore, the establishment and persistence of ambition is very important, which is one of the basic contents of Confucian self-cultivation.
Although the three armies are numerous, but the hearts of the people are different, they will be taken away; Although a man is small, he sticks to his will and cannot be taken away. "Every man can't win his ambition" shows that Confucius attaches great importance to "ambition" and even compares it with handsome men in the three armed forces.
"ambition" is a person's ambition and ambition. For a person, that is the specific goal of his life's efforts. If you can set a definite goal rationally, you can cultivate noble personality and firm perseverance. If you work hard towards this unshakable goal without threats and inducements, you can "stick to it" until you succeed.
The ancients said, "Where there is a will, there is a way" ("Were Han Shu? 6? 1 biography of Geng Yan). Between determination and success, unremitting efforts are needed. Without practical efforts, no matter how ambitious, it will be a castle in the air.