Who is Professor Jin Yinan?
Professor Jin Yinan was born in 1952. He used to be the director of the Institute of Strategic Studies of the National Defense University of the Chinese People's Liberation Army, the doctoral supervisor of strategic studies, and the rank of Major General. After graduating from junior high school, he worked as a worker in the factory for two years. Worked at the grassroots level after enlisting 1 1 year. At the age of 36, he studied foreign languages; at the age of 4 1, he studied computers; at the age of 46, he was awarded the title of deputy senior middle school; at the age of 47, he took to the podium. He is a national model teacher and a representative of the British model congress of the whole army …
How did he grow from a junior high school student to a university professor? How did you achieve these achievements today?
In the mile mile, I watched the video of Professor Jin Yinan's speech at the graduation ceremony of 20 19 of National Defense University-"Our Time, Our Struggle". I seem to have found the answer. Professor Jin Yinan shared his views and opinions on reading, studying, working and being a man in three parts:
First of all, be a willing heart
Why do you want to do it?
Because life changes too fast, because the world changes too fast, because knowledge is out of date too fast, and because of the heart, we can keep learning, accumulating and catching up.
The greatest charm of life lies in the unknowability, which becomes a struggle space for a person to change his own destiny.
We often say that when we use books, we hate less. The point is that we don't have the heart. If we can't bear to sit in the spacious and bright classroom, we may not learn anything. If we have the heart to sleep, it is also a learning world.
Professor Jin has been in the grass-roots army 12 years, and his conditions are not better than others. The reason why he reads more books and takes more notes than others is to make use of others' time of watching TV, chatting and playing cards. There are all kinds of inequalities in society, but only time is equal to everyone. The different use of this equal resource has opened the gap between people.
Learning and self-study are not only to accumulate knowledge, but also to accumulate spirit and temper character. Spiritual accumulation and knowledge accumulation complement each other in this process. Professor Jin Yinan said that he never felt that work and study brought him pain, on the contrary, he felt happy.
Professor Jin said that he never felt disgusted and regretted any work he had done. Being a worker is called a "born good lathe worker", being a wireless pilot in the army is called a "born good pilot", being a librarian in the National Defense University is called a "born good librarian", and being a teacher on the podium is called a "born good teacher".
Professor Jin said that there is nothing natural, and the reason is simple. You don't go to work to generate inspiration, but to generate inspiration at work. In the same way, people are not inspired to learn, but are inspired by learning. Only when you really feel it can you finally feel it. If a person loves life, he must love his work, and if he loves his motherland, he must do a good job.
Learning without utility is the most solid learning.
Second, do difficult things.
Professor Jin Yinan's life creed is "If you do difficult things, you will get what you want".
Professor Jin Yinan said that dullness can produce great inertia. Overcoming dullness, dullness is a blunt knife to obliterate ideals, dare to push yourself into a desperate situation and create waves for life. Psychologist Herbert Otto said: Ordinary people only use 4% of their abilities in their lifetime, that is, 96% of their abilities are not brought into play, so Professor Jin Yinan talked about trying to stimulate their potential.
He constantly challenges himself and stays away from his comfort zone. In 2006, I participated in the Sino-US joint military exercise and wanted to experience the feeling of warships crossing the Pacific Ocean. At that time, he encountered a huge storm that had never happened in decades. He said that this is a special experience that he will never feel when sitting in an office. People should not only read books with words, but also books without words, that is, knowing and doing are one.
Third, establish a big pattern.
Professor Jin Yinan said that if we only take learning knowledge as a stepping stone, it is not unnecessary for promotion, because there are requirements and thresholds for finding a job and working, and it must be done, but if the purpose of learning is only this, the pattern will be too small.
During the period of 1997, Professor Jin Yinan studied at the National Defense University and visited the West Point Military Academy. He saw the models of 597.9 and 537.7 highlands in Shangganling at the Memorial Hall of West Point Military Academy. He wrote in his diary: Every night when I look out the window at the flashing Potomac River, I can't help but think of the soldiers who are running with fried noodles and snowflakes on the frozen Korean battlefield. Those heroes who froze to death in the cold of MINUS 40 degrees on the bank of Changjin Lake won today's status for us latecomers with amazing sacrifices. We should be proud, and we should also be ashamed. We must never eat up this capital.
Our predecessors have created today's status for us and are respected internationally. We are standing on the shoulders of our predecessors, and their shoulders are hard. Can we work as hard as our predecessors? Don't let our descendants step on our shoulders and say that this generation's shoulders are soft. It is necessary for us to learn and make progress today.
This is a great era of great changes in a hundred years! We are fortunate to be witnesses and participants in the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation. We fight for this era. As strugglers, it should be our responsibility.
With this pattern, we will never be proud or confused. It's not how much we have gained and how much social reputation we have, but that we have maintained our true colors. If we want to be a person, we will never forget our roots, that is, don't forget your initiative. My ideal at that time is also my ideal now. Where do we come from and where are we going? We should live to understand, to understand this question, and to ask again and again.
Finally, Professor Jin Yinan ended his speech with a sentence from his new book "Heart wins": I defeated my opponent twice, the first time was in my heart.
The above is the main content of Professor Jin's speech. After reading it, I was deeply touched. We are so lucky to be born here, so we do everything with gratitude, and we fall in love with everything we do. What's more, what we are doing now is what we are willing to do, and there is no utilitarian heart. If you have the ability, you must try to do more altruistic things. I also hope to influence others with your own firefly light and influence your life with your life. When the motherland needs it, do your part for the country!