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The forest of success or failure in the world is different from ancient times to modern times, regardless of the consequences. How to achieve it? Why did you lose? He said: "Perseverance succeeds, and perseverance fails." Covering the life course, generally speaking, adversity ranking 167, prosperity ranking 134. The favorable and unfavorable conditions often alternate with each other and multiply. No matter the size of the matter, there will be several times or even ten times the resistance.
Although its resistance is large or small, it has not escaped when necessary. People with weak willpower start saying I want this, I want this. It means that everything in the world is easy, easy. And suddenly taste how, and resistance to sudden, self-effacing loss. Secondly, the weak, taking advantage of the moment's gift, passed this first level and retreated when they encountered setbacks again. If you are stronger, you will retreat after three or four setbacks. If you are a little stronger, you will shrink back when you encounter five or six setbacks. The bigger you are, the more setbacks you encounter, and the harder it is not to back down. People who are not strong are not good in the end.
On the full-text translation of Perseverance;
The success or failure of all kinds of things in the world, ancient and modern, Chinese and foreign, is so many situations and different roads. Why did they succeed and why did they fail? Perseverance will succeed, but the opposite will fail. In the course of life, adversity accounts for 67/10, and prosperity accounts for 34/10. Adversity and adversity often appear at intervals and alternately. No matter how big or small things are, there must be resistance several times or even a dozen times.
Although their resistance is large or small, it is inevitable in short. Those who are weak-willed must say "I want what I want, I want what I want" at the beginning. What they mean is that things in the world are easy. When they were about to try, resistance suddenly came and they gave up in frustration. Those who are slightly weak-willed, in a moment of passion, have passed this first level, and have retreated after two setbacks; If the will is slightly stronger, it will retreat after three or four setbacks; No matter how determined a person is, he will shrink back after five or six setbacks; The bigger that kind of thing, the more setbacks the people who do it will encounter. It is not easy for him not to back down. He is not the strongest-willed man, so he can't do it well.