Confident, unwilling to be mediocre

Confident, unwilling to be mediocre <br /> There is such an experiment: a long-distance runner participates in a five-person team competition. The coach told him before the game. As far as I know, the other four people are not as strong as you.
So the athlete easily ran the first place. Later, the coach asked him to participate in a group of ten people. The coach showed him the results of other people. He found that others did not perform as well as himself. He easily ran the first place.
Later, the athlete participated in a group competition of twenty people. The coach said that if you defeat one of them, you can win. As a result, he follows the athlete that the coach said, and at the end of the sprint. And made the first place.
Later, I changed a place. Before the game, the coach did not pass the other players. In the five-person team, he barely took the first place. Later, in the ten-group match, he slipped. In the second place, in the 20-player game, he only took the fifth place. The actual situation is. The other participating athletes in each group were exactly the same as the first time.
Yes, we tend to be like this in life. We lack the right, the ability of the opponent to estimate, and often arrange a lower position for ourselves, just like the students at school: when the country is small, they are the classmates. Those who feel that the first place is not their own; after they have been promoted to the middle school, there are more people, and it is not bad to think that they can take the top ten. So once they get to the top ten, they will be complacent; after high school, the goal will be even better. Low, even if the test is slightly different, it will comfort yourself: the master is so much, it is already very good. In this way, he will step by step from excellence to mediocrity.
A famous entrepreneur once said that a good talent, his self-confidence, is enduring. If we were originally a piece of gold, we would end up becoming a grain of sand because of the lack of eternal self-confidence. We were originally excellent. However, it is our lack of self-confidence, which has pulled us down from the excellent high level step by step and has been pulled to a mediocre position. Since the mediocrity, it is a disaster in life and a tragedy in life. Only, more often, we ourselves, directed the disaster and tragedy.
No one is omnipotent, so it is inevitable to ask for help. In fact, many times, asking people is really better than asking others, others can do it, maybe you can do it.
When Qi Baishi, a master of Chinese painting, was thirty-two years old, he was still an unknown country painter. That year, his hometown came with a literati who was known as a famous engraver, and he asked for a lot of people to engrave him. Paintings need to be printed, but Qi Baishi is a carpenter's birth, not engraved, and the seals used for painting are usually engraved. So, he took a side of the Shoushan stone to ask the person to engrave the seal, and the man did not look at it, just put it aside and said that he would take it in a few days.
After a few days, Qi Baishi went to pick it up. The man returned the stone chapter and said: "Grinding and grinding, and then taking it!" Qi Baishi sees the smooth stone, the heart is very depressed, but since people say so, they have to be patiently polished for a long time and then sent. Who knows that the person does not even look at it, and still leaves it aside. After a few more days to ask, still returning the stone, the attitude is proud to let Qi Baishi go back and grind. Qi Baishi was angry and took back the stone. He was determined to study and engrave himself, and he would not be subject to it in the future. Qi Baishi said that he would do it without a knife. He found a pedicure knife and started to work, and even carved it into a seal.
The next day, Qi Baishi took the seal printed by himself with a pedicure knife and showed it to others. He did not expect to win a praise. Since then, he has been asking the Fangjia for engraving methods, and using the carving techniques to slowly learn the engraving. With this unwilling and mediocre spirit, Qi Baishi eventually became an art master who composed poetry, books, paintings and imprints.
Imagine, if the person at that time happily engraved the seal to Qi Baishi, would there be a self-contained Qi Baishi engraving art? It seems that even if it is a master, the potential depends on motivation, but the key is that you don't be mediocre.
There is another story. It is rumored that one day, Dongpo Gushi once chanted the statue of Guan Shi Yin Da Shi, and made an embarrassment to his old friend Fo Yin Zen Master: "He is a Guanyin, why should he still read his own scripture?"
Fo Yin smiled and said: "Seeking people is better than asking for help."
Not only Zhirui has solved the problem of Dongpo, but also made the world more endless and benefited a lot.
Everything we go to ask for Guanyin, but I don’t know that Guanyin’s hand-held rosary is also asking for itself. If you don't work hard, others will work harder, and it will not help you. It will only make you more lazy and more dependent. Others are excellent, mediocre or yourself.
It is better to beg for others, because there is no savior in this world, and everything depends on oneself. Turn other people's resistance into help, turn other people's help into motivation, and your own future to grasp, to be brilliant. As long as there is a sunshine in the heart, full of self-confidence, and unwilling to be mediocre, we ourselves are also Guanyin.