An American psychologist did an experiment on college students to study the influence of taking notes in class on learning. The results show that while attending classes, the academic performance of writing abstracts by yourself is the best; Read the abstract when listening to the class, and the academic performance without hands-on is second; Listening to lectures without taking notes or reading abstracts is the worst. This experiment is reminiscent of the relationship between clumsiness and Excellence.
"Stupidity" is a means and method of "nailing a nail, riveting a nail", and "precision" is an outstanding achievement and superb state. In real life, there are always some people who only dream of making a splash in one step, but often ignore the dialectical relationship between "clumsiness" and "Excellence". They either have ideas but don't act, or they don't have the perseverance to act, or they are keen on opportunism and disdain to spend "clumsy" efforts step by step.
There is no good thing in the world. To recite poems, the premise is to "read 300 Tang poems"; If you want to acquire some real martial arts, you must follow the rule of "starting in three years" and lay a solid foundation. In order to learn and practice martial arts, every occupation I want to do is the same. If I want to achieve Excellence, I must first be clumsy: I must have an open mind and patience, be naive and stupid, have difficulties and contradictions, and be stupid and stubborn.
Looking at those outstanding figures from ancient times to the present, all have "clumsy" performance and "clumsy" momentum. It took 18 years for Sima Qian to write Historical Records, an immortal work in Han Dynasty, through the "stupid" efforts of expounding, repeatedly visiting, collecting and sorting out. A Dream of Red Mansions, known as the pinnacle of China's classical novels, is the product of Cao Xueqin's "ten years of reading, five additions and deletions" and "every word is like blood, and ten years of hard work is extraordinary". All these examples show that achievement requires "clumsy" efforts, and Excellence begins with clumsiness.
It is undeniable that times are changing rapidly and opportunities are fleeting. We need to innovate and change, beyond the corner. It's not that everything can only be "stupid" but not "smart". But we must understand that "ingenuity" depends on accumulation and solid foundation, not wishful thinking.