As the saying goes: help others to the end, send Buddha to the west. This sentence emphasizes a spirit of good beginning and good end. However, many people only pay attention to the beginning, ignoring the end, leading to a failed ending.
Xiang Yu, the overlord of Chu, worked for three minutes when he was a child. His father asked him to study. After studying for a few days, he just wanted to practice martial arts. He also plausibly said that the world is in chaos, and only martial arts is the magic weapon to compete for the world. His father had to teach him martial arts again. But it is conceivable that he will soon want to learn something else. In this way, Xiang Yu grew up and later failed to compete with Liu Bang for the world. This is mainly due to his anticlimactic attitude. This is the result of his refusal to finish the project properly.
When Tang Xuanzong came to power for the first time, he was ambitious and determined to govern the country well. He also made many outstanding achievements, which made the Tang Dynasty prosperous again. But then he slacked off, drank and had fun with Yang Guifei all day, and ignored state affairs, which led to the Anshi rebellion and the prosperity of the Tang Dynasty became history. It can be said that Tang Xuanzong did a good job at first, otherwise there would be no Kaiyuan Shi Sheng, but later he relaxed, which led to disaster. Paying attention to the beginning and ignoring the end often leads to failure.
There is a mathematician in the west who has been engaged in the calculation of pi all his life. He spent half his life calculating pi to more than 700 decimal places, but later generations found that he miscalculated more than 200 decimal places, which means that his later efforts were all in vain. It's really "one careless move, the whole game is lost." If he had calculated carefully from beginning to end, he might not have left such a big regret.
At the beginning, people can do things with a positive and rigorous attitude, but in the middle, some people will relax. Only those who can overcome their agitation from beginning to end and persist in doing it with the same attitude can succeed. There are many writers in history, such as Song Lian and Fan Zhongyan. They have always held a rigorous attitude towards their own research, humbly asked others for advice, and eventually became great writers of famous people throughout the ages. There are also our space workers, who have been carrying out boring calculations and training for decades, but always treat them enthusiastically, without ignoring any decimal point or any subtle detail, which makes our space industry flourish. So far, there has been no tragedy similar to the American Columbia.
It's important to start, because a good start is half the battle. But the ending is also important. Because if you make a little mistake when things are about to be finished, all your previous efforts will be in vain. So, dear friends, please attach importance to the end as much as the beginning!