Bacon: Essays on Learning
Don't seek enviable wealth, but pursue such a state: acquire wealth justly, use it soberly, give it happily and give it up contentedly.
Bacon: Essays on Wealth
In all great undertakings, people should observe the opportunity like a thousand eyes before they start, and seize the opportunity like a thousand hands when they are going on.
It is extremely important to be good at identifying and timing. In all great undertakings, people should observe the opportunity like a thousand eyes before they start doing things, and seize the opportunity like a thousand hands when they are doing it.
When you feel angry and depressed when you encounter setbacks, telling your close friends once can help you get guidance. Otherwise, this stagnation makes people sick. As the saying goes, people are always willing to keep the greatest flattery to themselves, but the harsh advice from friends can cure this problem. Friends can give advice from two aspects: one is about conduct, and the other is about career.
Pay too much attention to the rules of conduct and formality, so that you miss the opportunity in your career, which is a great loss.
Time is the standard to measure a career.
"On Seeking Knowledge" Seeking knowledge can be used as a pastime, as a decoration, and also to increase one's talents. Learning too slowly will lead to laziness, learning for decoration is self-deception, and completely following the rules of books will turn you into a paranoid nerd.
Knowledge can improve people and nature, and experiments can improve knowledge itself. Human nature is like wild flowers and plants,
Learning is like pruning and transplanting. Practice attempts can test the authenticity of the revised knowledge itself.
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Bacon's Theory of Life has the significance of prose, thesis and essay. It is not only beautifully written but also incisive. With his keen insight, he wrote complex life problems in prose style, which made the originally dull life theory come to life, and it was so vivid and interesting that it really refreshed my spirit.
Inspired by the beautiful and wise words in Bacon's Life, I read it through twice in one breath, but I still feel unfinished, so I really want to recommend it to more friends, which is called \' strange writing * * * appreciation, doubt and analysis. But I can't help but hesitate, because there are also some controversial chapters in Bacon's Life. For example, the way of being a man described in the chapters of "On Hiding from the Dark" and "On Ambition" is actually a typical bourgeois philosophy. "On the Emperor", "On the Noble" and other pages aim to introduce the ruling experience and political skills to the king. However, after all, a small flaw can't cover up a big one. Bacon's Life is widely loved by readers with its beautiful and solemn rhythm and superhuman wisdom. Therefore, I think Bacon's Life is really a good book worth reading.
There are many well-known chapters in Bacon's Life, such as On Reading, On Beauty, etc., but I am most impressed by On Opportunity. In his article, he said,' When danger approaches, it is more advantageous to seize the opportunity to attack it head-on than to hesitate to dodge. Because the result of hesitation is precisely missed the opportunity to overcome it.
Many things in a person's life can't be accurately described by certainty theory, but opportunity is the primary factor of success. As far as life is concerned, the great opportunity in life may come once in more than ten years or decades. Great opportunities are caused by history and society, so if you want to make a difference, you must be good at saving time and measuring the situation, see the general trend of development clearly, and have good insight to perceive where there is a' gold mine'. There is also an opportunity created by society, and people living in the sixties and seventies in our country have no good opportunities to take advantage of. Opportunities often appear suddenly or unconsciously, sometimes even never known, or only when looking back on the past do you realize that the past event was an opportunity, and you are glad to seize it or regret losing it.
People who are good at seizing opportunities should have the following basic qualities: first, they should be ready at any time, and don't cram when opportunities come. We should not only acquire all kinds of wide-ranging knowledge as much as possible, but also exercise strong innovation ability as much as possible. The key to our success is to have the ability to innovate, not just to read. If time has corrupted things, but people have no wisdom to innovate them, then the end will only be destruction' (On Innovation). Some people work very hard and love learning, but they are always at a loss when they encounter new problems, which is the lack of innovation ability. Second, we should start with small things and do everything carefully. The reason is very simple. Opportunities always appear suddenly and unconsciously, and sometimes you never know which one is. Third, once there is an opportunity, go all out and seize it conscientiously. Rong Guotuan, China's first table tennis world champion, said,' How many times can there be in life? ' is a good interpretation. Fourth, we should develop keen insight and be good at finding opportunities in complex situations. Many students did well in school, but later, some achieved a lot, while others achieved nothing. The key is whether we can find opportunities in the face of new complex situations.
Opportunities are rare, but can't we create opportunities? The answer is yes. First of all, seizing opportunities is not passive. Really smart people will create opportunities. Secondly, to create opportunities, we should find jobs and places that suit us and have many opportunities. According to reports, Americans like to change jobs very much, and they generally change jobs four times in their lives. China people, on the other hand, have great inertia and want to stay here all their lives. What are the benefits of changing jobs? You don't fix your life in one stroke. You can change it many times to find the place and position that suits you best and has the greatest opportunity. Thirdly, it is very important to be honest and trustworthy in order to get opportunities that do not belong to you, or not to lose those that belong to you. There are many young people who cheat for short-term interests and behaviors, cheat in exams and tell lies, which is dishonest, and the final result is to harm themselves. A certain place in China used to be a very developed commercial area, but now it is not. The reason is simple, but also a lack of integrity. Fourth, be good at getting along and communicating with others. Communication is very important to a person's success. British writer Bernard Shaw once said,' Two people exchanging ideas is completely different from two people exchanging apples. In exchanging apples, everyone has only one apple in his hand, while in exchanging ideas, everyone has two ideas at the same time'. If everyone understands this truth, learn to get along with others and learn from others, then you have a very good quality to get opportunities. Finally, it is very important to have good psychological quality to create opportunities. Once there is a problem at work, you should adjust yourself quickly and do things that are easy to succeed. The above is my superficial understanding of some chapters of Bacon's Theory of Life, which is inevitably biased due to the limitation of level. I sincerely hope that all parties will correct it.