Do we deny that Liu Bang can't fight the Han Dynasty for 800 years just because he is a curator? Just because he doesn't sweep the house doesn't mean he won't sweep the house. )
Do we deny Einstein's scientific achievements just because he has no common sense and independence in life? (Those who achieve great things are informal)
It is also easy to refute the example that a journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step: perhaps Confucius' statement of "cultivating oneself, governing the country and leveling the world" has been misinterpreted by most of our teenagers. In fact, self-cultivation is not only a business, but also a behavior. Why do you want to test it by sweeping the house? If we don't clean the house, we can clean the world.
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If Jiang Taigong bent the hook, maybe he would have got rid of the situation of not having enough to eat, maybe he would have become a good street fishmonger, earning a certain income every day, and his life would have passed, so why did Qi become prosperous and powerful later? If Marx is satisfied with his duties, follows in his father's footsteps and becomes a lawyer, with his talent, wisdom and curiosity, he may become a famous barrister in European legal circles. Then why did he have the Producers' Party Manifesto that shocked the capitalist world later, and why did he become the great father of socialism?
Mr. Lu Xun once said: "A huge building is always stone after stone. Why don't we do it? " I often do odds and ends, that's why. Therefore, the phrase "whoever achieves great things starts with small things" has become the established truth. In fact, this truth is not summed up when people sum up the experience of their predecessors in today's society. On the contrary, it was regarded as truth by our ancestors thousands of years ago.
Let's tell a short story to prove it: In the Eastern Han Dynasty, there was a young man named Chen Fan who lived alone in a room, and his yard was filthy. Qin Xue, his father's friend, criticized, "Why don't you clean up for the guests?" He replied, "When a man is a man, he should clean up the world and settle down?" Qin Xue immediately asked tit for tat: "If you don't sweep a house, how can you sweep the world?" . It can be seen that this truth has been deeply rooted in the thoughts of our ancestors as early as the Han Dynasty.
If we don't delve into it, this truth can and should be used as the struggle criterion for our future generations. However, after careful consideration, we find that this is illogical.
Chen Fan is ambitious, smart and studious, and will eventually achieve great things, winning this tone for himself. Being in politics for decades has left an excellent reputation for the officials, which can be regarded as a major event, so he should be a typical counterexample. So I think, if you don't sweep a house, you may not be able to sweep the world.
From Qin Xue's point of view (let's generalize and think that this truth is what he said), if a person wants to achieve great things, he should first start from such a small thing as "sweeping the house". However, if a good man is ambitious, how can he be trapped in one room and one hospital? A person only pays attention to trivial matters around him and spends a lot of time on trivial matters, but he can't achieve his lofty ideals and achieve anything. On the contrary, if you have the ambition to achieve great things and work hard for them, even if you don't do such a small thing as "cleaning the house", what is the harm? Therefore, it is not necessarily wrong for Fan Chen to aim at "sweeping the world" instead of "sweeping a house".
Let's go back to the two assumptions I made at the beginning.
If the hypothesis is true, with Jiang Ziya's rich knowledge and diligence, he will work at sunrise and rest at sunset. I believe that before long, he will become a fishing tycoon with dozens of seafood farms from a street fishmonger who barely has enough food and clothing. However, once the hypothesis comes true, the grand history of the Chinese nation for 5,000 years will be greatly reduced. Without Jiang Shang's help to destroy the Shang and Zhou Dynasties, without the hegemony of the five tyrants in the Spring and Autumn Period, and without Qi Huangong's emperor, there would be no far-reaching Qilu culture!
If Marx is content with his duty, he is a dutiful son who follows in his father's footsteps, as people in China often say. He listens to his parents' arrangements and never disobeys them. With his talent, he must be the darling of European legal circles. However, once it is assumed that the history of the whole human world will be greatly reduced, there will be no * * * manifesto of the production party, no socialism, no * * productism, no Paris Commune, and no wave of workers to promote historical development. So today's world is not shrouded in white terror controlled by capitalists!
In contrast, the difference between the author's hypothesis and the real achievements of the two predecessors can be seen.
Throughout history, Jiang Shang and Marx were not the only great men who chose to "sweep the world". Many famous people may become great businessmen, and many of them are informal people. As far as I know, there was a famous person named Wang Meng in ancient China who said that it was even more careless for Ji Kang to chat with his friends. In modern times, there were Chen Jingrun, Wen Yiduo and Yu Dafu. Even our great leader Chairman Mao often asks others to light his cigarette at work. Abroad, there are great writers lev tolstoy and American President Roosevelt. Their achievements can be called "sweeping the world", but they pay attention to the details of life. Even untidiness does not hinder their great achievements. On the contrary, when we talk about these characters and these details, we feel that they are more lovely, and the distance between heart and heart is much closer, and some deified characters often stay at a respectful distance.
They have done amazing things in their respective fields, but their lives are so sloppy. Can't they sweep the world without sweeping their own homes? Imagine that if great ancestors such as Wang Meng, Ji Kang or Yu Dafu and Wen Yiduo spent all their energy on their huts every day, making flowers, raising birds and walking dogs, leading a leisurely life of canopies, fish tanks, pomegranate trees, fat dogs and fat girls, and keeping their own small world in an orderly way, the interest of life would be there, while China would.
It doesn't seem contradictory that a capable and ambitious person will never "sweep the hut" and give up "sweeping the world".
It is true that the author does not completely deny "sweeping the hut", but we should not be troubled by some trivial matters. It would be a pity if we waste precious time on trifles. On the contrary, we should set great ambitions to realize our cause and strive for it with all our strength, so that we can achieve great cause. To make greater contributions to society and people, the so-called "a gentleman does something but doesn't do it", in this sense, even if a house is not swept. Sweeping the world is not necessarily impossible!