Listening to others can always bring us
many brilliant thoughts through which we can observe our world from different
angles. Below I will introduce two stories that have left me thinking a lot.
The first motto is “If you fail to plan,
then you are planning to fail.” I got this from the chief trainer of our
service program. To prove its validity, he taught us a game. It’s like checkers
and Tower of Hanoi that we have to move three boys and three girls to their
opposite side. The first person who tried this game didn’t think too much
before making his move, and undoubtedly he failed. The next person had gained experience
from the first one and planned before he went to the stage, so solve the
problem easily. Some people may hold the opinion that if we plan everything
well, we may lack the ability to deal with things emergency. I think when
people think like this, they might have some misunderstandings. When people
face some problems that are out of anticipation, confidence is the crucial
factor whether he will fail or succeed. But the confidence couldn’t be built
without foundation. People have confidence because they have enough successful
experiences in the situation within anticipation. And planning is of significance
in these normal situations.
The second one was from my classmate.
When I first talk to him, I think he is a very pessimistic person because he
always finds that life is so boring. And I often wondered why he hadn’t killed
himself? But after deeper understanding, I gradually realized that in contrast
to my old opinion, he is a fairly optimistic person. Once when we had lunch
together, we were discussing about the worm in our meal for my roommates had once
told me that he had found a dead worm in our meal. And when I asked for his
suggestion, he told me a story. When he was young, he can eat food that
provided by his own family because they owned some land. So he often
encountered some worms in the meal because some worms were not easy to be
washed off. At that time, his father would tell him “Think it in a nice way.
This dish used to be only vegetables. But now, with worms, it contains some
meat and more protein.” So consider your experience in a positive way, our
world will be splendid and brave that you have never imagined.
Talk to more people and mark their
sayings. Through which you can view our life in different eyes. It’s like being
hit by an apple from the tree; you can discover the new idea which you think
never exists.
It is good to listen to different though from different people. However, I think it is more important to learn to think and choose what is more suitable for us~
ReplyDeleteI agree with the second one that we should be optimistic to everything that we may meet during our life, but I think a planned life is very boring and just like in the 1970th in china,everything was planned, and then china failed.
ReplyDeleteIt's right to emphazise the improtance of both listening and talking more to different people. We cannot live without any one above. And what I am pondering is the ratio of how much to say and how much to listen. We need both.
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