How to understand doing things by halves?

What happens if a person gives up halfway in the process of doing things? Naturally, it is failure. People who give up easily and give up halfway will not succeed, and failure is his unchangeable fate.

Once upon a time, there was a young man who left his beautiful and virtuous wife and went abroad to study alone. However, the boredom of his studies and life makes it difficult for him to calm down. He often misses his gentle and beautiful wife at home and leads a comfortable and comfortable life involuntarily.

More than a year passed, and finally, he couldn't hold back his desire, packed his bags, and hurried home regardless of the teacher's retention.

The wife who was weaving at home was surprised to find that her husband had come back from far away, but she also noticed the big bag on him. She didn't say much, just put down her work and prepared something to eat for her beloved husband. After a good rest, the tired young man found his wife sitting on the loom crying silently. The young man was puzzled. He didn't know what had happened, so he asked carefully.

The wife stopped crying and didn't answer his question. She just asked softly, "Didn't you say you would study for three years?"

"homesick."

"Are you going home for a few days?"

Without thinking, the young man said, "Never leave again."

The wife stopped talking, took out a pair of scissors and cut a piece of cloth on the loom. This cloth suddenly became two pieces.

"You ..." The young man couldn't stop it, but shouted. Indeed, the pattern of this cloth is very beautiful and will be finished soon. If the scissors go down, it will become a waste cloth immediately.

The wife looked at the young man and said, "You think it's a pity, don't you? I feel sorry for myself. I've been working hard day and night for several days, and it's almost finished. Now it's just a rag. "

Then his wife took the cloth off the loom and threw it aside.

"Then why did you cut it?"

Young people think it is really puzzling.

"I'm not sorry about this cloth, I'm just sorry about my husband. After cutting a piece of cloth that is about to be finished, nothing can be used. What about the students? If you can persist until you come back, you will become a useful person. If you give up halfway for temporary comfort and enjoyment, it will be as useless as this cloth that is about to be completed. "

Young people don't know what to say.

"A gentleman should travel around the world and make contributions. In two years, your classmates will succeed in their studies and become the pillars of the country. But what about you? Still just an ordinary person, doing nothing, that's why I feel sad! "

Then the young man's wife began to cry again.

The young man was ashamed. He bowed deeply to his wife, picked up the unopened bag and walked out of the house.

The young man is very lucky because he has a good wife, and this wife taught him a very important truth, that is, never do anything by halves.

Coincidentally, Nobel, a famous Swedish scientist and inventor and the founder of the most influential award in the world today, is also a man who never gives up halfway after going through difficulties.

Nobel was born in Stockholm, Sweden. He is familiar with Russian, Swedish, English, French and other languages. Due to the influence of his family, he had a strong interest in scientific inventions since he was a child.

In an accidental experience, he came into contact with nitroglycerin. He subconsciously realized the power of this kind of thing and started a great research-inventing explosives.

In order to find nitroglycerin, Nobel experienced many failures. People around him laughed at his stubbornness. Even his father and brother didn't support him, thinking that Nobel's research would not succeed. Because other scientists have done similar experiments before him, but they all ended in failure. However, Nobel didn't give up, but looked for the reason of failure more carefully. After many experiments, he finally found that nitroglycerin could be detonated with a small amount of gunpowder.

Next, he began to study more reliable detonation methods. After many failures, he finally succeeded in inventing the detonator, not only nitroglycerin, but also any gunpowder, which can make it explode without mistakes. This plays an inestimable role in explosion technology, at the cost of blowing up his laboratory. However, in the following days, Nobel faced great pressure: in the later research, in order to improve explosives and detonators, Nobel's factory exploded many times, not only injured himself many times, but also many people who participated in the experiment were killed, even his younger brother died in the explosion. Not only that, but also the explosives transported outside have frequent accidents: first, a box containing nitroglycerin explosives exploded in new york, which not only blew up a big pit in the middle of the road, but also destroyed nearby buildings; Soon, an explosive magazine in Sydney, Australia also exploded; Almost at the same time, a ship loaded with nitroglycerin exploded in Panama Port ... Accidents occurred one after another, mostly causing casualties and property losses. At that time, Nobel and his explosives became the target of public criticism and met with strong opposition.

Every time something goes wrong, Nobel is inevitably accused by everyone: "People who do such dangerous things are simply crazy!" "Why did you invent this terrible thing!" "This is a guy without humanity. He even killed his brother. " Nobel was hated and opposed by almost everyone.

However, Nobel did not flinch. Faced with great pressure, he rose to the challenge. After persistent experiments, he finally invented an explosive with great power, light weight, convenient handling, safety, reliability and stable performance. The birth of this explosion completely dispelled people's doubts about Nobel, and people praised him as a "young inventor who did not bow to any difficulties and hardships". Later, Nobel also invented colloidal explosives and smokeless explosives that are not afraid of any collision and crushing, will not explode when approaching the fire source, and can even be used underwater.

1895, Nobel, who devoted his life to scientific invention, made a will. He used all his property as a fund and interest as a bonus to those who made the most outstanding contribution to mankind. This award is the world-famous Nobel Prize.

Nothing in the world is difficult for one who sets his mind to it. As long as you don't give up halfway, you can stick to it and you will succeed in the end.

If you compare life to a sports competition, it is more like a marathon without knowing the end, rather than a 100-meter sprint. Try your best for a temporary lead, you may not be able to laugh at the end, and you may even be eliminated because of poor physical strength. The same is true of doing things. If you are too eager for quick success and instant benefit, you will not get things done well, but will only make things worse.

There is a story like this: a frog is very clever and becomes good friends with two swans. One year the weather was so dry that a large number of animals had to move to other places.

Swan and frog also decided to find another place with water to live. However, swans can fly, and frogs will be exhausted if they jump on the road like this.

Swan didn't want to leave his good friend behind, but it was difficult to think of a solution. Or frogs are smarter. It found a rope, let two swans bite a head and bite themselves in the middle, so that no matter where the swans fly, they can take the frog with them.

This is really a good idea. All the animals cheered loudly when they saw this scene, praising it as a wonderful idea. Hearing the praises of many animals, the frog was very proud. However, to his dismay, almost all animals thought it was the swan's idea, not counting. The animals also decided to give the swan a medal, calling it the cleverest animal.

The frog couldn't stand it any longer. He opened his mouth and shouted, "This was my idea. The cleverest animal should be me. " As soon as his voice fell, he fell from the sky.

The medal was not won, and the frog fell to his death. This is a typical quick success, only for immediate interests, regardless of the consequences, and will only bring harm and regret to yourself in the end.

In modern life, with the accelerated pace of life, many people, like frogs, are eager to pursue short-term effects regardless of long-term effects, but they don't know that some things can't be rushed. If they are too eager for quick success, they can only screw up the good things.

In the book "Mencius' Theory of Sun and Ugliness", there is a story about a farmer in the State of Song who farmed for a living and worked in the fields every day. When the sun is shining, he will go to the field to weed in the hot sun, and when it rains on cloudy days, he will go to the field to transplant rice seedlings. The wind and the sun made him feel very hard. However, what bothers the Song people even more is that although he works hard every day, he doesn't dare to be lazy at all, but the seedlings in the field slowly show no signs of growth and are still so short.

This made him very angry. Every time he rests in the field, he is always trying to make the seedlings grow quickly.

On this day, the tired Song people sat in the field to have a rest. Looking at the seedlings more than a foot high, they couldn't help worrying again. Why didn't they grow taller? He grabbed a grass beside him with his hand and pulled it hard. A piece of grass has been pulled out, but some of it still grows in the soil.

Looking at the grass, although it has been pulled by half, it is still there. Song Guoren's eyes lit up, and he finally thought of a good way, so he quickly got up from the ground and began to get busy.

It was not until it was completely dark that the Song people hurried home. When his wife saw him, she was very confused. Before, when she came back from the field, Song people didn't even bother to talk, so they fell asleep after a meal. Unlike today, I laughed as if an ingot had fallen from the sky, so I asked him curiously what happened. Song people proudly said, "I made the crops in the field grow so much today." With that, he gestured with his hand. The wife is still at a loss. Seeing this situation becoming more and more proud, the Song people told their wives that he had raised all the seedlings in the field today. ...

This is a story of pulling out the seedlings to encourage them. Everything should be done step by step, and we should not be eager for quick success, let alone quick success, otherwise it will only draw water with a sieve.

Someone once said, in the sowing season, give a bag of seeds to the hungry. One kind of people, regardless of the willy-nilly, directly grind seeds into flour and then make steamed bread and send it into their stomachs. Such people are eager for quick success and instant benefit, only considering the immediate future, and have no long-term plans, just like farmers in Song State, and they will only starve to death as a result; Another kind of people will take out some seeds and plant them in the ground first, and then consider eating. They will not ignore the present, but also consider the future development.

Everyone wants to succeed, and everyone wants to do things well, just because some people can't resist the temptation of immediate interests, like frogs and farmers in the Song Dynasty. As we all know, quick success and instant benefit is like running a marathon in the form of a 100-meter race. Of course, you can be far ahead after you start, but after the initial stage, your energy is exhausted and you can only sigh behind others.