First of all, aim high and start from one step.
There are many inspirational aphorisms in the traditional culture of China. For example, Confucius said: "The three armed forces can win the handsome, but ordinary men can't win the ambition" [3]; Mozi said: "If you are not strong, you are not wise" [4]; Cao Cao said: "An old horse crouches tiger, aiming at a thousand miles;" In the year of the martyrs' tomb, I was full of great courage "[5]; Zhuge Liang said, "aim high" [6]. The "ambition" here has double meanings: first, the yearning for future goals; The second is the tenacious will to achieve the goal of struggle. Ambition is ideal and belief; Determined, is to establish ideals and beliefs.
Aim high.
Youth is an important period for ideal formation and a key stage for ambition. Ambition is the flame of youth and the driving force of life; Ambition is like the sun. Only when it is big can it have inexhaustible heat energy. Like a lighthouse, only its height can illuminate the forward voyage. Where there is a will, there is a way; Only those who are ambitious can have a brilliant career in life. To be ambitious means to broaden your horizons, not to be satisfied with the status quo, not to succumb to the difficulties and setbacks in one place at a time, and not to care about the amount and gains and losses of personal interests. A large number of facts tell people that those who have made great achievements in their careers and made outstanding contributions to mankind have set lofty aspirations in their youth and made unremitting efforts for them. Premier Zhou made the ambition of "studying for the rise of China" in middle school. Li Siguang, Qian Xuesen, Deng Jiaxian and other older intellectuals were determined to serve the motherland with their intelligence when they were young. It is an important topic that affects the future and destiny of college students.
Determined to do great things
Dr. Sun Yat-sen, the forerunner of China's democratic revolution, once inspired young people to be determined to do great things instead of being a big official. The reason is that young people are expected to take the fate of the country and the nation as their own responsibility, rather than taking personal prosperity as their life ideal. Today, to do great things is to devote yourself to the great cause of Socialism with Chinese characteristics. No matter what specific and ordinary work you do, it is worth doing as long as it is related to this great cause and serves the motherland and the people. This is a great thing. College students in the new era should link their personal destiny with the destiny of the country and the people, cherish the motherland, serve the people and strive for the interests of the motherland and the people, truly be proud of serving the people, be ashamed of deviating from the people, and realize their personal ideals in the process of striving for social ideals.
Personal ideals are meaningful only if they are combined with the future of the country and the destiny of the nation, and personal yearning and pursuit are consistent with the needs of society and the interests of the people. If a person ignores the call of his own times, divorced from the needs of the prosperity and development of his own country and nation, equates his personal ideal with personal struggle, is self-centered, unconstrained and unconstrained, and is independent, then not only is his life value orientation wrong, but this pursuit is often difficult to achieve because it is divorced from the needs of the country, nation and era.
Emphasizing that personal ideals should meet the needs of society is not to exclude and obliterate personal ideals, but to straighten out the relationship between personal ideals and social ideals. Social ideal is the condensation and sublimation of personal ideal, which represents and reflects people's common aspirations and fundamental interests. In the final analysis, it depends on the joint efforts of all members of society and is embodied in the life practice of each member of society to realize his personal ideal. When there are contradictions and conflicts between social ideals and personal ideals, ambitious people can make the greatest self-sacrifice and make personal ideals subordinate to the same ideal of the whole society.
The design and pursuit of college students' future life cannot be divorced from the social reality of contemporary China. Building socialism with China characteristics is the greatest reality in contemporary China and the common social ideal of all the people in China. This social ideal is extremely inclusive and value-oriented. Can guide everyone to form their own life, career and moral ideals and beliefs according to their own characteristics and needs. It is a misunderstanding of the relationship between social ideal and personal ideal to think that social ideal has nothing to do with personal ideal, or even that social ideal suppresses personal ideal. It is a correct choice for college students to consciously integrate personal ideals into social ideals and realize personal ideals through struggle for social ideals.
Make up your mind to practice.
The long journey needs to go step by step, and the realization of lofty ideals needs to struggle bit by bit. The road to the ideal is far away, but the starting point is at your feet, in all ordinary posts, in solid study and work. The ancients said: the wood that is held is born at the end; The nine-story platform starts from the foundation soil; A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step. To realize lofty ideals, we should start from me, from now on, and from ordinary work. Hua Zeng, a famous mathematician, told young students earnestly that being down-to-earth and step by step is not contradictory to being ambitious and striving for the top. If you don't lay a solid foundation, you won't be able to attack the blade and climb the peak. Sometimes it seems to be climbing on the surface, but the actual foundation is empty. Hua believes that ambition can only be built on a down-to-earth basis, otherwise it is not called ambition. "Ambition needs to be realized step by step, step by step, step by step, so as not to let it fail." [⑦]
Greatness comes from the ordinary. Society needs outstanding people and thousands of ordinary workers in Qian Qian. The prosperity of the motherland and the nation requires every member of society to do his best and strive for his own ambition. Everything we do well is to contribute to the cause of building Socialism with Chinese characteristics and pave the way for the grand goal of national rejuvenation. As long as they contribute to the country and the nation, no matter they are outstanding figures or ordinary workers, they are great. Yesterday has passed, and tomorrow has not come yet. Today is the most realistic and important thing to grasp. Work at sunrise and dream at sunset. It is better to practice and struggle in one's prime than to regret not realizing one's ideal in one's old age. Everyone likes German electrical appliances and cars. This is because German products are famous for their high quality and pursuit of Excellence. First-class products should have first-class scientists and inventors, as well as first-class technological processes and first-class skilled workers. It is the world-class skilled workers that make Germany the best world-renowned enterprise, while China is far behind in this respect. Recently, the United States, Europe, Japan and other countries have repeatedly raised questions about the safety and quality of products made in China. Apart from trade protection and other reasons, this is closely related to the failure to continuously improve China products.
The book "details determine success or failure" expounds a simple truth. For most of us, we often do some ordinary little things all our lives, but being able to do every little thing well is a great achievement in itself.
I always feel that the present era is steaming everywhere, and one school is thriving; But after careful observation, I feel that many people are impetuous, and many things are just tasted. This is indeed what the whole society should pay attention to, and it is also what contemporary enterprises should focus on.
There are too few people who can do great things. Most people can only do some specific things, trivial things, monotonous things, perhaps too dull or trivial, but this is an indispensable foundation for work, life and great achievements.
During my ten years of marketing and management in enterprises, I have witnessed how many enterprises were all-powerful in three to five years and closed down in March and May, such as Zhu San, Asia, Longfei and Giant, which are well-known to Chinese people; I have also seen those outstanding enterprises in China, represented by Lenovo and Haier, which are newly emerging in the economic reform and opening up; I have also thoroughly studied those world-renowned enterprises and century-old stores that can stand the test of the times, such as McDonald's, KFC, Wal-Mart, Toyota Motor Corporation and Mercedes-Benz. To explore the mystery of enterprise success or failure. From this, we can draw a conclusion: although the failure of enterprises has strategic decision-making reasons, I think the more important reason is that the details are not done enough. Moreover, as far as the basis of decision-making is concerned, decision-making mistakes are also due to the lack of details. Almost all successful enterprises, without exception, are horizontal and vertical, with clear pronunciation and mellow voice. As Fred Turner, president of McDonald's, said, "Our success shows that the management of our competitors failed to insist on participating in lower-level work, and they lacked deep attention to details."
China is never short of strategists, but an executor of Excellence. There is no shortage of various management systems. What is lacking is the implementation of rules and regulations to the letter.
Laozi once said: "The difficulties in the world will be easy; The world's major events must be done in detail, "which brilliantly points out that if you want to achieve something, you must start from simple things and start from nuances." "I long for greatness and pursue greatness, but greatness has disappeared; Be willing to be plain, do every detail carefully, and greatness comes unexpectedly. This is the charm of detail. A person's value is not measured by quantity, but by his depth. The same characteristics of successful people are that they can do small things and grasp some details in life. This book is intended to remind business colleagues that the era of refined management has arrived. If you do a great job, you must pay attention to the details.
Because of my work, I often come to Beijing and deeply feel the infinite expectations brought by the Olympic atmosphere and the grand planning of CBD and Zhongguancun. But the traffic jam and monotonous architectural style here can't help but make people feel a little sorry. I sincerely hope that the relevant personnel in the decision-making and planning departments, as well as the designers and builders of these blueprints, can pay attention to every detail so that this regret will not increase.
A few days ago, China launched the first manned spaceship, which was a complete success and the people of China rejoiced. I watched the report of empty warehouse returning to the ground in front of TV, and I can see a few details. For example, the report on the gap between the actual landing point and the theoretical landing point of Taikongcang was 4.8 kilometers at first, and the reporter at the scene said 1 1 kilometer, and later Bai Yan Song said it was 48 kilometers; For example, when Yang Liwei left the warehouse, several voices were guiding him. Some say "go out slowly", some say "go out independently", and some say "come out first". Isn't there a site commander designated in the scheme design?
I didn't understand the word "serious" until I was almost confused, and I felt a sense of accomplishment for my subtle efforts. Before, there was a section in the book "Self-marketing of Marketers" entitled "Doing Small Things Fine", and I always felt that I was still unfinished; Now I can't stand encouragement, so I have to take it seriously and discuss it. For the sake of seriousness, I named it "details determine success or failure"
The author was born in Beijing in June 2003.
Second, realize the long-term, arduous and arduous nature of realizing the ideal.
It is not easy to turn an ideal into reality overnight, and waves and bumps are often encountered. In real life, people fully imagine the beauty of the ideal, but often underestimate the difficulty of realizing it. It is human nature to long for an early realization of the ideal and hope to achieve it smoothly. However, if we imagine the realization of the ideal too easily and are unprepared for the difficulties on the road ahead, it will affect the realization of the ideal and even lead people to lose confidence in the ideal in the face of difficulties. Therefore, in the process of establishing and realizing the ideal, we should fully realize the long-term, arduous and arduous nature of the ideal realization.
The realization of the ideal is a process. Generally speaking, the smaller the ideal goal, the lower the need. The higher the ideal, the longer it will take to realize it. People's estimation of the time needed to realize the ideal is often less, but in fact, the realization of the ideal is often longer than expected in advance, especially the higher ideal. When people eagerly look forward to its arrival, it always comes late. The long-term realization of the ideal is a test of people's patience and confidence, and we must make full preparations for it.
Throughout the history of human social development, it is not easy to realize any social and political ideal, and it is bound to encounter all kinds of difficulties and twists and turns, full of twists and turns. In class society, the progressive class will inevitably be brutally suppressed by the reactionary class in the process of realizing social and political ideals. Therefore, to realize our ideals and create the future, we must have unshakable confidence and perseverance and overcome all kinds of difficulties and obstacles. In the process of realizing the ideal, those who encounter some difficulties, twists and turns or failures and are depressed, pessimistic or even shake their ideals and beliefs will eventually be unable to turn their ideals into reality, nor will they realize the great happiness of realizing beautiful ideals.
Slave society replaces primitive society, feudal society replaces slave society, capitalism replaces feudal society and socialism replaces capitalism, which is an irreversible trend in the historical development of human society. However, the Pentium of the long river of history is bound to lurk unpredictable eddies and counter-currents, and it is bound to experience countless twists and turns. The historical process of the socialist movement fully proves that the road to realizing social ideals is long and arduous. It has been 70 years since the Producers' Party Manifesto was published in 1848 and the first socialist country was established in 19 17. How many difficult attempts, how many painful failures, but the ideals and practices of socialism and productism have not been stifled, but have become stronger in the long-term arduous exploration. The first world war gave birth to the first socialist country in human history; After World War II, many socialist countries sprang up like mushrooms after rain. In the late 1980s and early 1990s, with the drastic changes in Eastern Europe and the disintegration of the Soviet Union, the world socialist movement suffered a major setback. The forces of "peaceful evolution" in the west even proposed to hold a ceremony for the complete end of the capitalist movement in the Red Square in Moscow, the former Soviet Union. At that time, most westerners thought that the socialist games would end in the 20th century. However, socialism did not enter the history museum at the end of the 20th century as predicted by some people with ulterior motives in the west. The people of China unswervingly follow their own path, and Socialism with Chinese characteristics's successful practice shows a bright future for the socialist movement. It can be seen that the road to the realization of ideals is arduous and tortuous, and the realization of lofty ideals requires unremitting efforts from generation to generation. However, ideals based on scientific theories, after arduous and tortuous tempering, will radiate more dazzling light of truth.
Correctly treat prosperity and adversity in the process of ideal realization. Those who persist in pursuing will always experience different life situations such as prosperity and adversity, and feel the joys, sorrows and happiness in adversity. Advancing in good times, such as sailing against the current, favorable factors such as weather, geographical location and human harmony, make it easier for people to approach and achieve their goals. However, the relaxed atmosphere and superior conditions in prosperity are easy to breed arrogance, complacency and self-sufficiency, and will decline. Struggle in adversity is like sailing against the current, which requires greater efforts and hardships to succeed. However, adversity only increases the difficulty of people's progress towards their ideals and goals, rather than eliminating the possibility of realizing their ideals. Things often have two sides. If you strive for your ideal goal in adversity, you may get something that is hard to get in prosperity. The harsh environment of adversity can temper the will, cultivate the character, enrich the experience of overcoming difficulties and enrich the life experience of challengers. As long as we have the belief of winning and a scientific attitude, adversity will not knock people down and crush them, but will make people's potential come out from the generation to the maximum extent and create unexpected miracles. Sima Qian, a famous historian in ancient China, suffered greatly from castration. However, he is bitter but not sad, and he is lonely but not down. He regards the sages who have made achievements in adversity as his teachers. He said: "Wang Wen was arrested and performed Zhouyi; Zhong You wrote Spring and Autumn Annals; Qu Yuan's exile is a tribute to Li Sao. Zuo Qiu is blind and has "Mandarin"; The foot of Sun Tzu's Art of War has been revised; It's not Shu, but Lu Lan. Han Fei was imprisoned in Qin, and there were 300 articles, such as Difficult to Talk, Lonely Anger and Poem, which were probably written by sages when they were angry. " [8] Inspired by this, he finally left an immortal historical masterpiece-Historical Records for future generations with tenacious perseverance in adversity.
Reach the climax, fast forward with the wind. This is the knowledge in prosperity, and it is a way to grasp opportunities and constantly enrich and improve yourself. Struggle at the bottom of the valley and forge ahead through hardships is the understanding of being in adversity and the action of turning pressure into motivation. There is no eternal prosperity or eternal adversity in the pursuit of ideals. Therefore, when you are in prosperity, don't get carried away, because prosperity may only be temporary, and you must be prepared for adversity. Don't be pessimistic and disappointed when you are in adversity. As long as you have the courage to overcome adversity, prosperity is ahead. Whether in prosperity or adversity, it has a dual role in life. The key is how to understand and grasp them. As long as you make good use of good times, face adversity bravely and overcome adversity, your lofty ideal will surely come true.
The realization of the ideal needs dedication. The realization of the ideal needs hard work. Only those who are brave in dedication and are not afraid of hardship can reach the other side of success. Contemporary college students should establish the spirit of dedicating themselves to the social ideals of the country and the nation, constantly temper their will and perseverance, and further strengthen their ideals and beliefs in the process of pursuing their ideals.
During the revolutionary war years, people with lofty ideals experienced many hardships and bloodshed, inspiring them to make unremitting efforts without fear of sacrifice. This is the spirit of dedication to their ideals. Li Dazhao once pointed out, "People who are old at traveling will advance happily when they reach a flat place, and will be more interesting when they reach a rugged realm. They feel that if they work hard in this fantasy realm, they will feel an adventurous beauty. " "Building a country in a difficult national movement is also the most interesting thing in life." [9] Dedication to the sublime is the highest realm of life and the most fundamental condition for realizing the ideal.
Third, turn the ideal into reality in practice.
The flower of the ideal is brilliant and the fruit of the ideal is sweet, but to make the ideal blossom and bear fruit, it must be watered with hard sweat. Contemporary college students shoulder the historical responsibility of building Socialism with Chinese characteristics. They should base their ideals on down-to-earth struggle, persist in "being proud of hard work and ashamed of extravagance and waste", and consciously cultivate the quality of hard work.
A correct understanding of the relationship between ideal and reality is the ideological basis for realizing ideal. In the process of establishing and pursuing ideals, people often feel the contradiction between ideals and reality. For active and sensitive young college students, it is also easy to be confused by the contradiction between ideal and reality. This requires a correct understanding and grasp of the relationship between ideal and reality.
There is a cognitive bias that denies reality with ideals. When it is found that the reality does not conform to the ideal, it is disappointed with the reality and even takes a completely negative attitude towards the social reality. There is also a cognitive bias, that is, denying ideals with reality. When we find the contradiction between ideal and reality, we think it is very difficult and slim to realize ideal. We think it's better to be "practical", not to be "idealists", not to be angry, not to fight, or even to echo some negative or even ugly phenomena in reality. Some people are mired in money worship, hedonism and extreme individualism. The problem of "four shortages" in Shenzhen should also arouse our serious consideration. Shenzhen used to be a small fishing village with a population of only a few thousand. In the practice of reform and opening-up, many aborigines in the SAR became rich overnight and lived an unimaginable rich life. However, simple material wealth has gradually caused some young people to breed many bad habits: not studying, not working, not making progress, and becoming a veritable "second ancestor", which is very worthy of our Shenzhen college students' thinking.
The reason for these misunderstandings is that the contradiction between ideal and reality cannot be viewed dialectically in the way of thinking. Ideal and reality are opposites. Ideal is regulated and restricted by reality, so we can't fantasize about the future without reality. The contradiction and conflict between ideal and reality belongs to the contradiction between "should be" and "reality". If ideal and reality are completely equal, then the existence of ideal is meaningless. Ideal and reality are unified. The tree of ideals is deeply rooted in the fertile soil of reality, and ideals are developed on the basis of understanding reality. Reality is the foundation of ideal, and ideal is the reality of the future. On the one hand, ideal is a reflection of reality, which contains ideal factors and breeds ideal development. Under certain conditions, reality must be transformed into ideal. On the other hand, ideal also contains reality, which contains both factors to be developed and conditions for transforming ideal into reality; Under certain conditions, ideals can be transformed into future reality. Talk about ideals without reality, and ideals will become dreams.
A firm belief is the will condition to realize the ideal. To pursue lofty ideals, it is not enough to have good wishes. Pursuing the ideal goal requires perseverance. Without persistence in ideals, it is impossible to realize grand ideals. Self-confidence and perseverance come from the persistent pursuit of ideals and are also a powerful spiritual force to realize them.
In life practice, it is not enough for young people to yearn for beautiful ideals. They must also have a correct understanding of the law of social development and firmly believe in the realization of scientific ideals. Only by making sure that your understanding of things and their development laws is correct can you truly have lofty ideals and form firm beliefs, and you can also make sure that the ideals you yearn for and pursue can be realized, put into action, devote yourself wholeheartedly, and finally succeed. Contemporary college students should study Marxist theory, especially the latest achievements of Marxism in China, which reflects the law of social development in contemporary China, so as to have a deeper understanding of today's world and contemporary China, grasp the law of social development, and strengthen scientific and lofty ideals and beliefs.
Being brave in practice and striving hard is the fundamental way to realize the ideal. Only through practice can an ideal become a reality. No matter how good the ideal is, if it is not put into action, it will have no practical significance. People who have achieved profound knowledge, outstanding talents, shining wisdom and immortal achievements in history have all come from hard struggle. Hard work is a necessary condition for great achievements. When we say hard work, we don't mean to take it for nothing, but to realize our established ideals, not afraid of hardship, endure great labor and do whatever it takes. On the road to the ideal, in the process of realizing the ideal, without perseverance and the spirit of hard struggle, the ideal will not automatically become a reality.
Hard work, its main purpose lies in struggle, and its value lies in career and dedication. Efforts are by no means a temporary expedient. In the past, the Communist Party of China (CPC) led the people to carry forward the spirit of hard struggle and made great achievements in revolution, construction and reform. Now, we still need to work hard to build a well-off society in an all-round way and basically realize socialist modernization by the middle of this century. The view that "hard work belongs to the older generation, but not to the contemporary youth" is wrong in theory and harmful in practice. Hard work has always been a powerful spiritual force that inspires us to work together to achieve national prosperity and national rejuvenation.
We should constantly give the spirit of hard struggle a new era connotation. With the improvement of material living conditions and the change of social concept, the form of hard struggle will also change. In today's China, hard work does not exclude moderate consumption and enjoyment, which is consistent with people's pursuit of a happy life. The essential requirement of inheriting the spirit of hard struggle is to carry forward the spirit of hard struggle, not to imitate the past lifestyle. The spirit of hard work will never go out of fashion. Contemporary college students should be "proud of hard work and ashamed of being extravagant and extravagant" and implement it in their daily study, life and work. In life, we advocate hard work and plain living, thrift, and resist and oppose extravagant thoughts and life styles; In learning, study hard, be not afraid of difficulties, study ideas and professional knowledge tirelessly, and constantly improve the level of ideological morality and professional knowledge; In the work, work hard, not afraid of difficulties, avoid difficulties, and strive to complete various tasks. Practicing the spirit of hard struggle is the fundamental way for contemporary college students to realize their ideals.