The original text is like this: when you get out of the forest, you will bear it when you see rickets, but you are reluctant. Zhong Ni said, "What a coincidence! Is there evil? " He said, "I have an idea. In May and June, tired pills don't fall, and losers bargain; If you are tired of three, you will lose eleven; It's a pity to be tired. I am in the same place, if I am trapped; I grabbed my arm like a branch. Although the world is big, there are many things, but only the wings know; I don't object, I don't pat the wings of everything, why not! " Confucius pointed to his disciples and said, "No matter what your ambition is, it is condensed in God, and those who stoop are called it!" "

When Confucius went to Chu, he passed through a forest and saw an old man with a hunchback, holding a long bamboo pole in his hand and inserting cicadas. The old man is very skilled. As long as he wants to stick to cicadas, no one can escape, just like picking up cicadas. Confucius said in surprise, "You are so skilled that there must be a way!" "The hunchback old man said," I do have a method. "When cicadas stick in May and June in summer, if you can put two balls on the top of the bamboo pole to prevent them from falling, cicadas rarely escape when they stick; If you don't drop three cicadas, only one cicada can escape from ten cicadas. Sticking cicadas is as easy as picking things up with your hands if you don't drop five dollars. Look at me standing here, as steady as a rock; I raised my arm, motionless as a dead branch; Although the world around me is boundless, everything in the world is colorful, and I only have cicada wings in my eyes. Nothing outside can distract my attention, nor can it affect my attention to cicada wings. How can I not stick to cicadas? " Hearing this, Confucius turned to his disciples and said, "If you concentrate on your skills, you can practice to perfection. This is what the hunchback old man said! "

Zhuangzi tells us through this story that if one can eliminate all external interference, concentrate and study hard, one can master an excellent skill.

After reading this story, I also remembered the well-known story of "Oil Man", which was told by Ouyang Xiu, a university expert in the Song Dynasty. According to this story, Chen Yaozi is good at archery. At that time, no one in the world could compare with him, and he boasted about it. Once, when he was shooting an arrow in his garden, an old man selling oil put down the burden he was carrying, stood aside and looked at him casually for a long time. The old man saw that Chen Yaozi could shoot eight or nine of the ten arrows, but he nodded slightly in agreement. Chen Yaozi asked, "Can you shoot arrows, too? Isn't my archery also very good? " The old man said, "There is no other mystery, but familiarity." Chen Yaozi said angrily, "How dare you despise my archery!" The old man said, "I can understand this truth from my experience in pouring oil." So the old man put a gourd on the ground, covered its mouth with copper coins, and slowly poured oil into the gourd with a spoon. Oil was injected from the hole of the copper coin, but the copper coin was not wet. The old man said, "I have no other secrets about this skill, but I am familiar with it." Seeing this, Chen Yaozi had to send the old man away with a smile.

Two old people, one conscientious and the other "I have nothing but my hands", all illustrate a truth: if you do simple things repeatedly, you are an expert; Do it with your heart, and you will win. Therefore, the effort is not to surpass others, but to give yourself an account. Good things are never easy to get. Success depends not on rhetoric, but on down-to-earth concentration and efforts!

I remember a big coffee said that young people should make unremitting efforts and don't think they are smart. If they do this today and do that tomorrow, their youth may be ruined and their ability will be limited. They firmly believe that success is possible by doing only one thing.

Will this enlighten us why we should take part in day class activities and why we should pay attention to choosing a fixed writing direction?

Does it also inspire our lives?