Doing your best is not enough

In a famous church in Seattle, USA, there is a respected pastor, Dale Taylor. One day, he told the students of a class in the church school the following story.

That winter, the hunter took the hound to hunt. The hunter hit a rabbit's hind leg with a shot, the injured rabbit desperately escaped, and the hound was chasing after him. But after a while, the rabbit ran farther and farther. The hound dog knows that he can't catch up, so he has to go back to the hunter. The hunter said with anger: "You are useless, even an injured rabbit can't catch it!"

The hound dog listened very dissatisfiably and said: "I have tried my best!"

Besides, the rabbit managed to escape home with a gunshot wound. The brothers came around and asked it in surprise: "The hound dog is very fierce, and you have hurt again. How did you get rid of it?"

The rabbit said: "It is doing its best, I am doing my best! It didn't catch up with me, and at most it was awkward, and if I didn't run as hard as I could, I would be dead!"

After telling the story, Pastor Taylor promised to the class that if he could recite all the contents of Chapters 5 through 7 of the Bible Matthew, he would invite anyone to Seattle. Needle" Takata Restaurant participates in a free dinner party.

There are tens of thousands of words in the fifth chapter to the seventh chapter of the Bible Matthew, and there is no rhyme. It is undoubtedly quite difficult to memorize the full text. Although attending a free dinner is a dream that many students dream of, almost everyone can taste it and it is discouraged.

A few days later, an 11-year-old boy in the class stood in front of the priest Taylor and walked back and forth from the beginning to the end. He did not miss a word, and did not make a mistake, and at the end, it became a sensation. Recitation.

Pastor Taylor is more aware than others, that is, among adult believers, those who can recite these pages are rare, let alone a child. While admiring the boy's amazing memory, Pastor Taylor asked with curiosity: "Why can you carry such a long text?"

The boy replied without hesitation: "I do my best."

Sixteen years later, the boy became the owner of a world-renowned software company. He is Bill Gates.

The story told by Pastor Taylor and the success of Bill Gates are very revealing to people: everyone has great potential. As psychologists have pointed out, the potential of the average person has only been developed around 2-8. The great scientists like Einstein have only developed about 12 or so. If a person develops the potential of 50, he can recite 400 textbooks, complete courses in more than a dozen universities, and master 20 languages ​​in different countries. That is to say, we still have 90 potentials still in a state of sleep. Whoever wants to excel and miracle is not enough to do his best, and he must do his best.