41.? The Twelve Daily Lessons from the Biography of Zeng Guofan (3)

? People who have read Zeng Guofan should know his daily lesson twelve items, Zeng Guofan's achievements in this life can not be separated from his daily lesson twelve items.

Zeng Guofan's career path is not smooth sailing, even several times before he was able to get into the Hanlin Academy, thus getting the traditional social knocking brick, breaking the Zeng family hundreds of years of "cold" history.

After entering the capital, Zeng Guofan did not immediately set down "for the sages," the lofty words, but there was a period of hanging out at the table, only because of a book, "Zhu Zi Complete Works" book had the good fortune to get to know the science master, Mr. Tang Jian, according to Mr. Tang's instructions for their own establishment of the goal of life. During the period and Mr. Tang Jian introduced acquaintance with another master of science, is because of the method of guidance of Mr. Wang Ren, so that Zeng Guofan daily diligence to self-restraint is to keep a diary every day, the diary content is to reflect on their own faults and shortcomings, not only to reflect on the words and actions, and even move the mind to reflect on the idea, such habits have been adhered to until his death.

? At that time, the heart began to be filled with the great ambition of a gentleman. He believed that high aspirations are vital for individuals. But his own cultivation and the ultimate spirit of the inner sage and the outer king, there is still a big gap, so "not as a sage, or as a beast; do not ask the harvest, but ask the plow" as a motto.

Willing to be a sage, therefore, Zeng Guofan developed a rigorous cultivation program, said "day class 12". That is:

This is the famous Zeng Guofan twelve cultivation, but also his daily must do twelve homework, so called "day class twelve". This kind of cultivation kung fu, Zeng Guofan adhere to very well. For example, he quit smoking, was addicted to cigarettes, actually gave up. For example, keep a diary, he insisted on decades. Read history, also insisted on decades.

? In fact, read books about Zeng Guofan know that Zeng Guofan is not how smart, and not a genius teenager, teenage Zeng Guofan even more than ordinary people seem a little clumsy, and it is precisely because of this twelve, day after day to adhere to, with this tenacity and perseverance, Zeng Guofan created his own success in life, and became an important historical figure in China's modern history, known as the late Qing dynasty "the first minister", and became a masterpiece of traditional Chinese culture.

? Whether it is getting up early, or reading not two, or daily writing, in fact, is to develop the habit of self-discipline, self-discipline, achievement of life height.

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