Yu Minhong: Success is "forced"

Yu Minhong: Success is "forced" <br /> Every month to write a volume for the "New Oriental English" magazine, in principle, it should not be difficult, because only one article a month, how not a heavy task. But every time the editorial department asked me for a manuscript, I was panicked because I was so busy that I could never prepare the manuscript in advance. Don't look at a small scroll, if you can't calm down and think for hours, you can't write it. Moreover, even if you calm down, you still have to have inspiration to write it out. People like me who are entangled in secular offices every day, the inspiration is getting exhausted, sometimes sitting for two hours, the head is still blank.
Therefore, every time I write the first sentence, I will secretly "hate" the editorial staff at the desk. I hate that they always "forced" me in the last few days, so that I could have a good mood in a few days. Heavy, not sweet. However, it was in this way that it was “forced” once and for all, the first article of a volume was “forced”, and several years later, several books were published. Although the book is somewhat self-entertaining, it does not expect many people to read it, and often gives it to students free of charge, but every time I see a beautifully booked book in front of my eyes, I still have a sense of accomplishment. As the saying goes, the ugly children will love their parents, and they will always feel happy when they face their own works.
I think of the age of my study. Because the talent is not smart, every time I recite the text, it is “forced” by the teacher. Every time the math problem can't be done, the teacher is left to “force” to finish. Every teacher who has "forced" me, I still remember today, from the hatred of them as a child, to the gratitude of them today. And those teachers who have not "forced" me, especially those teachers who are very indulgent to me, I have a vague memory now, and I feel that such teachers are not worthy of respect. In college, teachers generally do not “force” students to learn, because students have grown up and should learn to discipline themselves. But people are all lazy. In the college days when youth is flying and love is sprouting, how many people will "force" themselves to really sink their hearts to learn?
For many college students nowadays, learning only means that they are forced to work for two weeks before the exam for the passing of the exam. When the exam is over, the textbook is thrown away and everything is fine. As far as I am concerned, I have been somewhat impressed with many teachers in the college age, because these teachers are basically “wide and large” teachers. No matter what the students don’t listen to, the exam papers will be finished at the end of the exam, and the score will be finished. Such teachers are usually kind and often everyone can pass. However, there are two teachers I still remember today and I am grateful. One is our dean of the department, Li Funing, and the other is our teacher of English poetry, Wang Shiren. Teacher Li Funing taught us the fourth volume of "New Concept English", asking us to take a lesson in the first lesson, which often makes us "forced", but it has made us a solid English foundation. Teacher Wang Shiren asked us to recite all the English poems he had taught. We were forced to "really" in the West Wind to recite Shelley's "West Wind", but the beauty of the English language was also realized in the back. The more profound. Now think about it, if all the teachers are so strict with us, we may still grow more in college.
I recently read "I am a mother in the United States". This is a book by Yale University Chinese professor Cai Meier about his childcare experience. Her requirements for the two daughters are very strict, even to the point of cruelty. She did not give her children the opportunity to “do not work hard” from the beginning, and eventually trained the two daughters into outstanding pianists and violinists, performing at Carnegie Hall. As for whether the two daughters will be more successful in the future, we will not comment, but at least it can be said that it is Cai Meier who used the feeling of love to "force" the two daughters to success. I was "forced" by my mother when I was a child. My ancestors planted land. My mother had been chanting since I was a child and wanted me to be a "Mr.", so even though she didn't know a few words, she asked me to do homework and study every day. I didn't qualify for high school, she went to the world to ask for help; when I failed the college entrance exam, she encouraged me to take another test. In the end, I was forced to test for three years by my mother, and finally I was admitted to Peking University. Therefore, without a strict mother, there may not be me today.
China is becoming stronger and stronger, and this power is also being forced out. Thinking about the early Qing Dynasty, the Qing Empire thought it was the most powerful country in the world, and lived the happiest life in the world. In addition to China, there is no world. As a result, the Opium War was fiasco, and the Chinese found that they were the targets of beatings. The people burned the Yuanmingyuan, and the things were robbed. The stolen things have not returned yet. For more than a hundred years, in the humiliation and grief, the Chinese people began to work hard. Today, we finally saw a little dawn and won the dignity of a certain nation and the respect of other countries. Perhaps, we should "thank you" to the countries and robbers who have bullied us, and they have made us soberly aware of the truth that "being lagging behind".
Life has never been smooth, and success has never been at your fingertips. If we feel that we are "forced" to do something, we don't have to feel helpless or annoyed because it may not be a bad thing in the long run. For example, the teacher "forced" the text and was forced by the classmates. Participating in the activity, being forced by the boss to work constantly, being "forced" by the competition to learn every day... Perhaps, appropriate persecution can "force" our inertia, "force" our mediocrity, and take our courage "Forcing" out, "forced" our future, and "forced" our sense of accomplishment and happiness.