We all learned the story of Mr. Dong Guo and the wolf in primary school. Mr. Dong Guo in the story is a good man with a bodhisattva heart. When he saw an escaped wolf, he couldn't help crying. His kindness helped the wolf avoid the hunter. But his kindness almost killed him here: after the hunter left, the wolf insisted on eating him. Kindness is undoubtedly a person's moral strength, but this strength did not bring him luck this time, but brought him disaster. Thanks to the timely arrival of the farmer, our kind-hearted people survived. It seems that if you use your strengths in the wrong place, you may hurt yourself
Zhuge Liang was a household name during the Three Kingdoms period. In order to accomplish the great task entrusted by Liu Bei, he "worked hard until he died". His diligence and prudence are one of his great advantages, but this advantage is sometimes overdone: "hands-on." I asked all the questions, but I died at the age of 54 because of too much trouble. If his strength is not overused, he should do it himself, and his subordinates don't have to bow their heads. Maybe he can live a few more years, and Shu will not perish so soon.
As the saying goes, "the wood in the forest is beautiful in the forest, and the wind will destroy it." "Xiu" is the advantage of that tree, but "Xiu" is likely to bring "wind" intrusion to that tree. As the saying goes, "most people who drown will know how to drown." Being able to swim is a person's strength, but this strength also provides more opportunities for being submerged. Another idiom says, "He who plays with fire will burn himself." People who play with fire must know the nature of fire, which can be said to be one of his strengths, but the final result is likely to be that they are attacked by fire.
From this perspective, strength is really a double-edged sword. When one side of the sword points at the enemy and the other side points at yourself. Therefore, students should never think that they have certain strength, so they can show off everywhere. When using our own strengths, we must use the same sword: learn to use the sharp edge facing the enemy, and be careful to use the sharp edge facing ourselves.
Comments: This article is an argumentative paper with novel viewpoints. Usually, people only see the advantages of advantages and ignore the advantages and disadvantages. The author's article changed this view. The article puts forward the central argument in the title, and then gives examples of Mr. Dong Guo and Zhuge Liang tripping over their own strengths respectively, and makes strong examples. In order to make up for the weakness of the argument, the author quoted proverbs in the penultimate paragraph to demonstrate. In the end, the author points out that strengths are a double-edged sword again, warning everyone to use strengths correctly. With clear center, rigorous structure and strong persuasiveness, the article is a very successful exam composition.
Cats compete with rabbits.
The cat and the rabbit are classmates, but neither of them is convinced.
The cat said to the rabbit, "What's so great about you? You look like a big mouse and are afraid of everything. " I don't think you dare compete with me. "
The rabbit said to the cat, "What's so great about you? You think you look like a tiger and talk big. What can you do besides scaring mice? " Run a race with me, will you? "
The monkey monitor took the initiative to be the referee: "What do you say?"
The cat said, "Let's climb!" "Say that finish, ceng ceng climbed a big tree rabbit twice. Do you dare to compete with me? "
The rabbit said, "Let's run!" "Say that finish, even kicked four feet at it and soon ran out of sight. In a blink of an eye, the rabbit ran back and said, "cat, dare you compete with me?" "
The cat and the rabbit were arguing endlessly when Teacher Goat came up and asked, "What's the matter?" The monkey quickly introduced the cat and rabbit to the goat teacher.
Teacher goat smiled: "I have a question." Whoever finishes before the bell rings wins. How come? "
"good!" The cat and the rabbit asked in unison.
"I left the textbook to the eagle principal. Whoever gets it back first will be the winner. "
After hearing this, both the cat and the rabbit ran to the headmaster's house. The rabbit kicked four feet and soon left the cat behind. After a while, the rabbit ran to the place where President Eagle lived. However, President Eagle's house is in a big tree, but rabbits can't climb it. It took a lot of effort to jump on the tree scar one meter from the ground.
After a while, the cat came. The cat saw the rabbit climb the tree clumsily and smiled, "Haha, you can't climb it." Then he climbed the tree. The rabbit quickly kicked the cat with its hind legs, and the cat couldn't get up. The cat tried several times but failed. It's almost time for class. The cat and the rabbit decided to negotiate. The cat said, "Rabbit, no one can get this book." Why don't you let me climb the tree and take the book away, and then you can give it to the teacher. The rabbit agreed.
Rabbits let cats climb trees. The cat quickly got the book and gave it to the rabbit. The rabbit ran back to the classroom quickly and handed the textbook to Teacher Goat. Everyone cheered: "The rabbit won!" The rabbit lowered its head and said, "The book was taken down from the tree by the cat and returned to me."
The bell rang and the cat ran into the classroom. Teacher goat stepped onto the platform and said, "cats and rabbits have their own strengths." In the race, the rabbit will undoubtedly win, but if you climb a tree in the race, the cat will win. Being good at running is the strength of rabbits, and being good at climbing is the strength of cats. They cooperated with each other and made up for each other's shortcomings with their own strengths, so they completed the task well. Therefore, it is wrong to show off your own advantages and not see the advantages of others. You got it? "
"I see!" Cats and rabbits answer the loudest.
Comments: The advantage of writing with fairy tales is that you don't need to prepare a lot of materials and recite too many famous sayings and aphorisms. You just need an interesting story to illustrate a problem. In this composition, the cat and the rabbit learned through the competition not to compare their own strengths with others' shortcomings, and told everyone that they should learn to make their strengths complement each other in life in order to deal with problems better.
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Moderator: (happily) Hello everyone. Let me ask you a few questions first: Do you know who is the tallest man in the world? Yao Ming? Don't! Do you know who is the most beautiful person in the world? Stone? Don't! Do you know who is the smartest person in the world? Two generations of love? Wrong. Who are they? They are three new idols, A, B and C, who just graduated from the "Strength" school.
Today, we are honored to invite the three of them to give us a talk. Next, let's welcome the tallest man, Mr. A-(applause, then the audience takes out their notebooks from their bags)
Mr. A: (Walking slowly onto the stage, footsteps almost drowned out applause) Hello everyone. I went to travel during the May Day holiday this year. I was the first to get on the bus. When the bus approached me, no other passengers could get on it. The driver let me sit in all the seats. I was very angry. When I got off the bus, I used a little effort to make the door of that car bigger 10 cm. Unexpectedly, the driver reported to the police that I had damaged his car, and all my hot money was gone. (The host hurriedly asked him to step down)
Moderator: Insert an advertisement. Advantage schools specialize in cultivating your advantages. Please call 1234567 if you are interested in registering. Ok, let's welcome the most beautiful Miss B-
Miss B: (wearing a veil and walking lightly on the stage) Everyone must want to know why I wear a veil, so I'll tell you. I also went to travel on May Day this year. When I took to the street, everyone in the street followed me. As soon as I stopped, the street was blocked. Give a warning that I am blocking traffic. I was sentenced to wear a veil when I went out. A breeze blows a corner of the veil, and someone in the front row immediately looks amazed. Miss b hurried downstairs. )
Moderator: Strength schools take it as their responsibility to cultivate the world's top strength through advertising. Please welcome the smartest Mr. C-
Mr. C: (very depressed) I was going to travel on May 1 ST. As soon as I went to the travel agency, I knew that the tourist area the team was going to was full, so I advised the travel agency to cancel the action. Unexpectedly, they gave me a fat beating. When I came by bus today, I thought the report would be successful. As soon as I said this idea ... (The host quickly stepped forward and covered his mouth. )
Moderator: Hello everyone. The three speeches just now were very enlightening. As an advertisement, now you can enjoy a 20% discount when you register in an advantageous school. I hope you can register in time.
Audience: (in unison) What a fart to participate in!
(In less than 2 minutes, the venue was empty. No, there is another person, and that is the host standing there. )
Comments: The article allows three top-notch people to expose their personal experiences of suffering because of their strength, which denies the world's understanding of the "strength-only theory". The ending of the matter is unexpected and reasonable, and the plot setting is very attractive. This paper has at least the following three advantages for everyone to learn: 1. This paper adopts the form of recording the report, which is novel. 2. The author uses extreme thinking mode and exaggerated examples to explain the truth, which is humorous and easy to accept. 3. The detailed description of the characters' actions in brackets adds a lot of color to the article.
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[train of thought analysis]
Everyone has his own strengths and weaknesses.
Be good at giving play to your strengths.
Only by fostering strengths and avoiding weaknesses can we realize the value of life.
[Problem solving process]
Everything in the world has its own strengths. Birds soar in the sky because they have wings; Fish swim in rivers and oceans because they have good water. They rely on their own specialties to become a member of all things and occupy a place in the eternal competition for survival. If you give up your strengths, you can only become a victim of survival competition.
The secret of life is to be good at managing your own strengths. Listen to this story: a young man was very depressed after failing the college entrance examination, so he idled around all day and became an annoying gangster. One day, the young man happened to listen to a report entitled "Experts point out the road to success" in the auditorium of a university. The old professor who gave the report said, "Everyone has his own strengths. If you want to achieve great things, you have to make good use of your strengths. " The young people were deeply inspired after hearing this. After the meeting, he found the old professor and asked in dismay, "You said everyone has his own strengths, but I have nothing!" " After learning something about young people at random, the old professor said kindly, "aren't you ready to take advantage of your advantages now?" This young man is very stupid. The old professor went on to say, "Fighting is actually a kind of strength, just depending on what you do with it. If you use it to fight evil forces and punish criminals, then you will realize your own life value and even make a career with it! " Under the guidance of the old professor, the young people finally realized something. So, in the recruitment season that year, the young man joined the army. In the army, he showed outstanding performance and won many awards for bravely confronting gangsters. After demobilization, the government gave him a good job, and he worked harder and finally succeeded in his career.
This is a typical example of "slippery" young people using their "strengths" to succeed. From this, we can easily find out how wise it is to make good use of our strengths. As the saying goes, "women are afraid of marrying the wrong person, and men are afraid of entering the wrong line." In the coordinate system of life, it is very unwise for a person to stand in the wrong position and make a living with his shortcomings instead of his strengths, and he may fall into permanent humility and depression. Therefore, it is very important to remain interested in a skill. Even if it is not elegant, it may be a great asset for you to change your destiny. The same is true when choosing a job. You don't need to consider whether this career can make you famous, but choose the career that can best develop your character and strengths. This is because managing your strengths can add value to your life, and managing your weaknesses will devalue your life. Franklin once said, "If a baby is misplaced, it will become waste." This is also a fact.
Be good at discovering the strengths of others.
The rainbow and stone bridge in fable are in sharp contrast with Mei Xue in ancient poetry. Mei and Xue only look at their own strengths, not at each other's strengths, and even blindly admire themselves and think they are superior. Rainbow or bridge, plum blossom or snow, which is better?
The correct answer should be: "each has his own strengths." As the saying goes, "the feet are shorter, the inches are longer", and so are people. Therefore, we should realize that we should be good at discovering the strengths of others.
In real life, there are many humble people like Rainbow and Bridge who are good at discovering each other's strengths, and there are also many people like Mei and Xue who only see their own strongmen.
Confucius, the founder of ancient Confucianism in China, is knowledgeable and respected as "the sage of Confucius" by the world. He has many advantages, but he is not pretentious. Instead, try to find out the strengths of others and ask for advice from others with an open mind. He has always believed that "three people must have my teacher." And if all gentlemen, like those mentioned by Han Yuwen, always emphasize that they are not worse than those with similar years and roads, then "sages and sages, fools and fools", so people should look at each other's strengths. Only those who realize their own shortcomings can learn from others with an open mind and make continuous progress.
There are also some people in today's society who lack the spirit of rainbow stone bridge. They blindly emphasize their own advantages like Mei and Xue, and even try their best to find out where others are not as good as themselves, and then happily boast: "Hum, I am much better than you!" " This kind of behavior is very undesirable. Of course, it is not enough to see your own shortcomings, which will lead to inferiority, which is not conducive to improvement. Between people, only by learning from each other's strengths can we make the "short" longer and the "long" longer, and constantly develop and improve.
Because of our superior living conditions, lack of practical experience and immature thoughts, we teenagers are more likely to make the mistake of only seeing other people's shortcomings, narcissism and self-appreciation, thus covering up our own shortcomings, generating complacency, and even having a feeling that "the whole world is drunk and I wake up alone", so we are naturally ashamed or disdainful to ask others for advice, which is very unfavorable to our healthy growth.
I hope we don't want narcissistic Mei Xue, but become humble rainbows and bridges!
Say "long" and "short"
In life, there are inevitably "long" and "short". As the old saying goes, gold is not enough, and no one is perfect.
It is not terrible to have shortcomings, but to protect them. There is a story in Jiang Yingke's novel that a northerner, who had never seen Ling before, later went to the south to be an official. Once ling was on the dining table, and he even put his shell in his mouth. He was told to peel off the shell when eating water chestnut.
The man said, "I know that eating with a shell is heat-clearing." Ask him again: "Is there such a thing in the north?" "yes! There are mountains in front and mountains behind. " Ironically, this man knew his shortcomings, but he didn't face them squarely and defended them to such an extent. In fact, there are many people in life.
What if there is something missing?
Learn from each other's strengths. In 1960s, the fledgling Japanese automobile industry sent people to visit a large European automobile company. Japanese visitors learn from the strengths of others, go back and study hard, and produce new cars two years later.
Export to the European market. Since then, Japan's automobile industry has flourished and eventually led the world. This is the victory of taking advantage of others.
From this perspective, both individuals in a small sense and countries in a big sense should stand on their own feet. To develop, we must start from not protecting shortcomings, actively expose shortcomings, and turn short into long.
If you say that you will encounter some failures because of one of your shortcomings, you will certainly not refute this sentence. But if you say that your advantages will also bring you disaster, you will definitely disagree. In fact, strength really does not just bring you luck.
We all learned the story of Mr. Dong Guo and the wolf in primary school. Mr. Dong Guo in the story is a good man with a bodhisattva heart. When he saw an escaped wolf, he couldn't help crying. His kindness helped the wolf avoid the hunter. But his kindness almost killed him here: after the hunter left, the wolf insisted on eating him. Kindness is undoubtedly a person's moral strength, but this strength did not bring him luck this time, but brought him disaster. Thanks to the timely arrival of the farmer, our kind-hearted people survived. It seems that if you use your strengths in the wrong place, you may hurt yourself
Zhuge Liang was a household name during the Three Kingdoms period. In order to accomplish the great task entrusted by Liu Bei, he "worked hard until he died". His diligence and prudence are one of his great advantages, but this advantage is sometimes overdone: "hands-on." I asked all the questions, but I died at the age of 54 because of too much trouble. If his strength is not overused, he should do it himself, and his subordinates don't have to bow their heads. Maybe he can live a few more years, and Shu will not perish so soon.
As the saying goes, "the wood in the forest is beautiful in the forest, and the wind will destroy it." "Xiu" is the advantage of that tree, but "Xiu" is likely to bring "wind" intrusion to that tree. As the saying goes, "most people who drown will know how to drown." Being able to swim is a person's strength, but this strength also provides more opportunities for being submerged. Another idiom says, "He who plays with fire will burn himself." People who play with fire must know the nature of fire, which can be said to be one of his strengths, but the final result is likely to be that they are attacked by fire.
From this perspective, strength is really a double-edged sword. When one side of the sword points at the enemy and the other side points at yourself. Therefore, students should never think that they have certain strength, so they can show off everywhere. When using one's own strengths, one must use the same sword: learn to use the sword facing the enemy, and at the same time carefully face the sword facing one's own.