I learned to discipline myself from a great man.
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1945, Chongqing.
This “net-red” city, which stunned after 70 years, must not have thought that it was more red in September of this year than half a century later.
Because a world-renowned negotiation is taking place here.
The main leader of the two parties, the United States, conducted a series of marathon talks.
Marathon’s going to run 42 kilometers.
And Chongqing has been talking for 42 days.
When Chiang Kai-shek sent a telegram to Mao to invite him to the Chongqing talks, he did not expect Mao to come.
The idea was that if he didn’t show up, he would turn the table and shout to everyone, “Look, Mao’s bad faith in peace talks, he wouldn’t dare come to Chongqing, and I couldn’t help it!”
By the way, Mao really came.
The news alone has boiled the country.
Mao Zedong’s “Hongmen’s Dinner” was the one who took many factors into account and prepared for the worst.
According to Chiang Kai-shek, Mao came mainly because of fate.
And he wrote in his diaries: “The Mao Zedongo is to be sworn in, even though Wed was created, and God has given it.”
This is both a face-to-face encounter after more than a decade of fighting between two old rivals and a major event that is of national concern to the future of the two parties and ultimately to history.
In more than 40 days of what will be called the Chongqing Negotiations, there will be too many guns and arrows.
There have been countless incidents of rhetoric, confrontation, and even even during the Chongqing negotiations, the story of Shaowon Chun Shek, created around Mao Zedong.
But all of these stories, none of them are very insensitive details that shock me.
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According to statistics, during the Chongqing negotiations, there were approximately 10 direct talks between Mao and Chiang Kai-shek.
At the negotiating table, there was a heated debate and struggle between the two sides over such important principles as the Government and the army.
In addition to the negotiations, Mao attends parties, attends public events, meets with representatives of the various factions and occasionally talks with ulterior journalists.
The stress, the stress, can be imagined.
Surprisingly, while Mao needs to do his best every day, during the Chongqing period, he was like he quit smoking, never using cigarettes to awaken his mind and think about war.
In several meetings with Chiang Kai-shek, none of them were smoked!
It is particularly worth noting that I did not discover that detail.
The real first person to notice this detail is Chiang Kai-shek.
After the Chongqing negotiations, Chiang Kai-shek ‘ s close friend Chen Bray asked him about Mao ‘ s assessment.
Chiang Kai-shek remembered for a while, and he was touched to say:
“This person, Mao Zedong, cannot be despised. He’s a smoker, he’s got a sticky, he’s got a long, he’s said to smoke 50 cigarettes a day. But he knows I don’t smoke, and I never smoked a cigarette during my meeting. His determination and spirit must not be underestimated!”
From this evaluation, we can draw at least two conclusions:
First, while Chiang Kai-shek did not initially look at Mao Zedong and the Red Army, he was too eager to call them “communists”, but for many years he had respected his opponents and given them an impartial and objective assessment. This heart deserves our recognition.
Second, Mao Zedong was able to stop after decades of old tobacco addiction, which was an amazing power of will and self-control! Such self-regulation is more than worth studying.
Of course, in addition to Mao Zedong, Chiang Kai-shek had, objectively speaking, a bitter and self-regulatory experience when he was young.
And the kingdom of the great kingdom, which they worship, is a man of self-discipline.
The Emperor has also often cited a famous phrase to inspire himself:
The law is sufficient, the measure is sufficient, and the first is sufficient.
Mao Zedong has such a self-regulating ability. It’s really not natural.
On January 28, 1921, in a letter addressed to Peng Juan, he revealed: “The brother has one of his greatest shortcomings and he is ashamed to reveal it to others, i.e. he is weak. My brother is strong, but I know that I am weak!
But only 20 years later, his willpower and self-regulation shocked Chiang Kai-shek.
This willpower and self-regulating ability has been maintained until his later years.
In February 1972, Mao had a historic meeting with Nixon and Kissinger. The whole process of the meeting was conducted in a sense of humor and ease.
In substance, however, it is not usually a joke, and Mao has been following his strong principles and will throughout the meeting. He managed the whole conversation unwittingly and in a mediocre manner.
To that end, Kissinger feels that, apart from De Gaulle, no one has ever met such a high degree of concentration and undisguised willpower as Mao Zedong. He became the center of the whole room.
In fact, Mao’s power of will and self-regulation is due to the fact that, at a young age, he realized the weakness of his will and the importance of will to life and the results of hard work.
This bitter experience deserves to be learned by everyone who wants to discipline himself and to enhance their lives.
I synthesized a great deal of history and, after in-depth analysis, divided the process into four levels. Share it with you.
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First level: learning to practice self-discipline, starting with small sections.
As long ago as Hunan’s first teacher went to school, Mao consciously went to the place where the noise was raging to practice quiet and to study in silence.
Once, he took the books to the most popular South entrance in Changsha City, where he was left to go. His voice was loud, and he was only focused on reading.
And one of his classmates asked him, “How do you get to this place to read? Can you read it when people come to this place?”
Mao said, “It’s the chaos that brought me here to see it. I have to exercise myself. I’m sorry.
“What kind of work is this? I’m sorry.
Mao Zedong replied, “Is our country not a mess? I’m going to exercise not to be a mess, and I’m going to concentrate on one thing in the chaos, and I’m going to walk towards my goal!”
It’s a very small thing to keep reading in the city.
But it’s a good way to improve heartness.
Because, in the first place, a man who’s a big deal is a man who’s got to take care of his own business.
It’s never everyday to think about discipline: it’s not important now, and I’ll do it again when it’s big.
Because what is really going to be a big deal is your full commitment and your energy and time to discipline you.
Don’t come up and design your own ambitious self-regulatory change plan.
Starting with a small target, a habit of self-regulation being an instinct without significant psychological burden.
Many people have become more depraved because the tone is too high and they find themselves unable to do it.
The key to self-discipline is whether it is possible to be self-cautious in the private, when there is no one, and at a fine level.
Small, continuous changes in this matter are more effective than a half-day outlet.
This is also why many people have increased their self-discipline, starting with regular room-keeping, daily exercise, and morning readings.
Because it’s easier to hold on, and the effect is clear.
A little self-discipline every day, a little self-regulation.
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Second level: Learning to help strengthen self-regulation in various ways
Mao Zedong dropped out of school for some time in 1912.
Mau Zedong, who was living in the village hall and went to the library in Hunan Province every day to study, set up a strict self-study programme for himself, opened the library in the morning and bought only two rice cakes for lunch at noon, until the library closed.
In 1936, Mao spoke to Snow about the experience and said, “Go to the library in Hunan Province every day. I’m very serious and I’m very persistent. I’ve spent six months like this, and I think it’s very valuable to me. I’m sorry.
On the road to discipline, it is important to learn to set goals and plans.
I’m tired of trying to discipline myself without purpose.
Even a small goal of reading 10 pages every night can bring a sense of accomplishment to your self-regulating journey.
And this sense of accomplishment will help you to strengthen your self-discipline.
In addition to this, Mao was keen on physical exercise when he went to school in Changsha, when it came to rain, he took off his shirt and let it rain, called it a rain bath; in the middle of the sun, he took a sunbath; when the spring wind came, he took a bath; on the day of the frost, he took a nap; even in November, he was swimming in cold water.
No matter spring, summer, fall, winter, no interruption.
This deliberate exercise of physical exercise is, in fact, a way for him to exercise his self-discipline.
Because behind every exercise like “self-abuse” or “punishment” he needs to fight psychologically with his own self-interested, lazy consciousness.
Mao Zedong was an unremitting struggle against the indefatigable nature and the sense of pleasure in his mind, which fostered courage and perseverance as one of the means of realizing his philosophy of life.
He had criticized laziness in his book notes, saying, “Labbowness is the abyss of evil.” I’m sorry.
On the other hand, in this way, the body is accustomed to self-discipline.
The state of the body affects the willpower, the ability to control emotions, the ability to think, the ability to judge, etc.
Once you can’t keep up, you can’t keep up.
That is the truth of the fact that after successive nights, human will is so weak that it is easy to act impulsively.
Long-term self-regulation requires not only willpower, habits, but also the use of all internal and external conditions and forces.
Including the power of the body.
After the long march, Snow first met Mao Zedong in Yanan and gave him an assessment:
He’s overheavy, tired.
Mao worked 13 or 4 hours a day, often at 2 or 3 p.m.
In addition to a strong sense of self-discipline, he was able to maintain such a high-intensity working state.
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Third level: learn to control desires and emotions, and avoid temptation
Mr. Yang Changji, a mentor of Mao Zedong, has taught students that “the strong will, for their own sake, restrains their lusts and, for the Dhui, resists the oppression of power. There’s nothing left to do when there’s an invincible will. I’m sorry.
Mao Zedong was deeply affected and became a lifelong practitioner of this concept.
When a teacher went to school, he said, “Don’t talk, don’t talk, don’t talk about money, don’t talk about family matters, don’t talk about men and women.”
Money and desire are related, household chores are related to emotions, and men and women are related to temptation.
If you want to be really disciplined, you have to go through that.
This is one of the most difficult times, in which many people are able to exercise self-regulation on minor matters and to draw up and strictly complete their plans, but in these three cases it is difficult to be self-preservation.
Mao Zedong used to have so much money that many people didn’t know.
As I wrote in “From childhood to age, he was the most misleading person in history ” , it was written that when he was a senior official in the Nationalist Party, he earned hundreds of silver dollars a month, more than ten times the average worker ‘ s monthly salary.
Instead of focusing on such high incomes, he was concerned about the problems of the three farmers every day and went to the countryside for research.
Soviets once had a national bank, and most of the money in it was the booty of Mao Zedong after he took over the state.
There’s millions in the ocean, five in the gold, three in the jewellery and two in the paper.
In the custody of his brother, Mao Zemin, and in a mountain.
The location of the cache may not have been known by very few, to say the least, and it is quite possible for him and his brother to turn a part of this huge sum into private property.
However, before the march began, he selflessly distributed the money to the troops and played a significant role in the break-out.
And he himself, from the beginning of his high school, was often broke and worried.
I read a file that says he spent $160 on his first class, which is not a small cost, but he used most of it to buy books.
He also participated in the Revolutionary Army, which was paid $7 per month, and was used mainly to buy newspapers and books.
Indeed, most people fail not because of lack of capacity, but because of lack of capacity to control their own desires.
Once swallowed up by desire, there is a risk that it will be quick and quick, and that it will end up in error and loss.
Those who are able to look down on life’s desires are those who truly can do it.
For in his firm action there is no other but the ideal.
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Fourth level: Learning to break through and achieve higher levels of self-regulation
The experience of Mao during Chongqing was mentioned earlier.
In fact, however, after his departure from Chongqing, he quickly recovered his habit of smoking, which was only reduced in late life.
From this point of view, it seems that he is not “highly disciplined”.
It seems to me that the small sections are the basis of self-regulation, but it is only a low-level self-discipline, and Mao’s self-discipline is higher.
It is a great self-discipline that truly understands what it wants, what it needs to do, and has a strong internal drive.
I read a lot of articles on self-regulation, the first one is: don’t sleep late.
Is it self-discipline to insist on early sleep?
Of course.
But is it true that you’re not sleeping late?
Not necessarily.
Mao Zedong has been used to working in the middle of the night and sleeping during the day, and has often stayed up all night to write articles.
But can you say he’s undisciplined?
Self-regulation comes from small sections, but when you enter a higher level of self-regulation, and when you build it, you can ignore it.
Many scientific personnel, often unpaved, mustached, are able to work in their own fields, maintain high levels of input and produce amazing results.
It’s because they use all their will to do more important things.
You can sleep early when you’re okay. But when you have more important things to do in order to achieve a larger goal, it becomes self-discipline to keep sleeping late every day.
Instead of doing nothing, it took late hours to brush microblogging, shivering, brushing the circle of friends and watching all kinds of boring art.
And Kant said: Freedom is not free, but self-dominant.
Real freedom comes from one drop at a time. But when you can do what you want, you don’t need to be in control.
Just like Da Vinci drew eggs every day when he practiced basics.
Does he need to paint eggs every day when he can draw Mona Lisa?
Self-discipline is a continuous process of refinement and refinement.
All the foundations, every level, are so that one day you don’t have to concentrate on yourself.
Rather, self-regulation becomes a habit, a way of life, a part of the body.
It even became an ability to influence others, as Mao successfully brought his self-discipline to the Red Army.
I have also read an impressive detail in history.
On the eve of the second siege, the Red side had a total of approximately 30,000 troops.
The army was ambushed in mountainous areas near Eastern Côte d ‘ Ivoire for more than 20 days, waiting for the arrival of the enemy, but there was no escape or leak.
Such ambushes can only be fought by the Red Army, whose leaders have long rooted the seeds of self-discipline in their hearts.
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Finally, to say the least, all self-discipline is not about pain.
It’s about delay.
Those who are truly in pain are those who do not want to advance, those who are anxious about the status quo and who do not have the will and determination to change themselves.
Wang Xiao Bo said, “All the suffering of a human being is an anger at his incompetence.
This feeling of impotence is the most painful.
The first step in self-regulation is difficult, but a truly regular life, rather than being out of control, is actually a wonderful state of physical and mental freedom to control one ‘ s own life.
Negative moods such as impatience, anxiety, depression and decay rarely interfere with your heart.
Life and time have become orderly and your future predictable and manageable.
You’ll enjoy a state of self-confidence and joy.
Mao said in his speech, “The joy of the human body is the joy of the human body, “but the joy of the holy man’s body is the joy of the earth and the joy of the spirit.”
In this sense, self-restraint is actually helping to develop a calm, monolithic mindset, one in which people are contented, trapped, unsettled and unsettled.
Be able to be informed by discipline, and to be made by discipline. There is less impatience, more impatience, less inversion and more insulence.
We’re doing a big thing, we’re going to make a big decision, and if we can do it eventually, we’ll probably go through one of these stages:
Entertainment in bitterness, and pleasure in bitterness, and it does not rejoice in bitterness, and it does not rejoice in peace.
And further, it’s probably Zen’s position: what is bitter? What is joy? Where the heart is, it’s joy.
And when you are determined to begin to discipline yourself, after the hard work of the landless, the stars of the moon.
Seeing the sunrise is the real beauty.
What is enjoyed is a sense of satisfaction and achievement at the highest level.
Some of the experience has come from pain.
These pains taught us.
Let us not be angry with these pains.
On the contrary, we would like to thank those sufferings.
Because it makes us think.
Think, try to avoid that pain.
Indeed, we avoided that pain.
Right? – Mao Zedong file number: YX11Yz Nod7n
I don’t know.
Keep your eyes on the road.
