wolf road

Chapter 26 Wolf Principle (5)
Curiosity is the source of knowledge, and knowledge is the foundation of all success.To gain knowledge, we must have curiosity.If you are curious, you will want to know what you don't understand, and take the initiative to find the answers, and those answers are knowledge.On the contrary, if you have no curiosity, even if you put all the books with answers in front of you, you will not have the slightest interest in reading them. To you, these books are no different from trash.

The big and small things around us are full of all kinds of knowledge, so we can only learn more knowledge if we are curious about things.Newton was also full of curiosity about things in life. Things that other people take for granted, like apples falling to the ground, are common things for many people, but he got to the bottom of it and finally discovered the law of universal gravitation .

Of course, in addition to knowing the basic theories of various things around us, we must continue to pursue deeper things and get to the bottom of it.If Watt knew why the lid of the kettle would rise and did not pursue, think, or extend further, we would not have steam engines and steam trains today.Therefore, we should not only look at the surface of things, but also look at the essence of things.

How can we find out?Many people have such doubts. In fact, there are many ways, such as reading books, surfing the Internet, watching TV, and asking questions, all of which can satisfy curiosity and acquire knowledge.Who should I ask?Anyone can do it. If you want to pursue knowledge, you must not be ashamed to ask. This is the experience of Confucius.

All in all, curiosity is the first step to success. If you want to be successful, you cannot live without curiosity.Knowledge is like the ocean, endless. Only by being curious about things and constantly asking questions, can one step towards success step by step.

However, curiosity is often what people lack the most.Many professors, although knowledgeable, can only stay where they are because they lack curiosity.They forget that there is no best in this world, only better.

Curiosity is the first step to success, without curiosity, there will be no success.Every big business starts with creation, and creation starts with curiosity.

When we are young, we are full of curiosity about the world, however, as we grow older, we gain new understanding of the world, new perspectives, and knowledge grows.At this time, we may feel that we know everything, know everything, and are too familiar with the surrounding environment, so our curiosity will gradually lose.Maybe we will think this way: this world is just like this, there is nothing new.

You seem to be right in thinking this way. From the surface of the earth, we seem to have nothing worth exploring and studying.But if we can think about why Newton saw an apple falling to the ground, he discovered gravity, while others saw the apple falling and thought it was a common occurrence, you might learn something from it. comprehend.

In fact, as long as we think deeply, observe deeply, and look at everything in the world with curiosity, you will find that you will never fully understand this world, and you will have more discoveries.

The world is all-encompassing, and it can be said that there are no wonders, and there are no strange things.Curiosity is an attitude that people recognize and treat things, and it is also a way for people to explore things that they do not understand, find novelty and interest.

Marie Curie said: Curiosity is the first virtue of a scholar.

Einstein said that he has no other talents, only a strong curiosity; he also has no other talents, but he likes to find out the root of everything.

Edison is known as the King of Invention, he is a famous scientist and inventor in the United States.

In his lifetime, there were 1328 inventions registered in the Patent Office alone.How can a person who has only read books for three months have so many inventions?Let's take a look at Edison's growth process first, maybe we can get some inspiration from it.

In 1847, Edison was born in a businessman's family in Milan, Ohio.When he was very young, Edison showed a strong curiosity. As long as he saw something he didn't understand, he would grab the adult's clothes and ask him non-stop. Even adults can't answer.

One day, he watched the hen hatching eggs, and asked his mother: Why does the hen sit on the egg under the buttocks?Mom said: Oh, that's hatching chicks!In the afternoon, Edison suddenly disappeared. The family members looked around anxiously, and finally found him in the chicken coop.It turned out that he was squatting in the chicken coop with a lot of eggs under his buttocks to hatch the chicks!After the parents saw it, they couldn't laugh or cry, so they had to pull him out to wash his face and clothes.Another time, when he saw birds flying freely in the sky, he thought: If birds can fly, why can't people fly?So, he found a kind of medicinal powder for the little friend to eat, in order to let the little friend fly into the sky.As a result, the little friend almost died, and Edison was severely beaten by his father.

When Eddie was 8 years old, his parents sent him to a rural primary school, thinking that he would be able to go to school in peace and contentment from then on.Unexpectedly, he still loves to ask questions, and often makes the teacher dumbfounded and embarrassed.Once in an arithmetic class, the teacher wrote 2+2=4 on the blackboard. Edison immediately stood up and asked: Teacher, why is 2 plus 2 equal to 4?The teacher couldn't answer this question, so he thought that Edison was a troublemaker, and he specially made trouble with the teacher. In this way, after three months of class, Edison was driven home by the teacher.

Edison's mother was a great mother.She didn't blame her son for being driven back. On the contrary, she thought her child was not stupid, so she decided to educate the child herself.When she found that Edison was very curious and was particularly interested in physics and chemistry, she bought him books about physics and chemistry experiments.According to the book, Edison proudly experimented alone.It can be said that the mother's education is the earliest enlightenment education of Edison's scientific invention.

When Edison grew up, he learned the technology of radio sending and receiving telegrams.He found work as a night operator at the Stradford Railway Branch.According to the regulations, the night shift radio operator must send a signal to the train director once every hour after nine o'clock in the evening, regardless of whether he is busy or not.In order to have a good rest at night so that he would have the energy to delve into inventions and creations during the day, Edison designed a telegraph to automatically send out signals on time.This is the prototype of the telegraph.It didn't take long for him to improve the telegraph. After many repeated tests, a new type of telegraph was born under Edison.

It can be said that every invention of Edison is inseparable from his curiosity.After he invented the telegraph, he began experimenting with the telephone.He found that the diaphragm in the microphone could vibrate correspondingly with the sound of speaking, so he observed it carefully and made detailed records in his notebook.Thus, a talking machine was made.After people heard the news, they all came to watch and called him the greatest inventor.Therefore, curiosity is the first condition for a person to succeed and show wisdom. Without curiosity, it is difficult to imagine a person will be successful.

Many great scientists have the same strong curiosity as Edison, so they have made many great discoveries.

When the great astronomer Copernicus was in middle school, he heard that the shadow of the sun can be used to determine the time. The name of this instrument is a sundial.He was very curious, so he asked his teacher about the principle of the sundial. After returning home, he found some waste materials and quickly made a sundial.He used the sundial he made to study the laws of motion of the sun and the earth.Because of his great interest and curiosity in astronomy, when he grew up, Copernicus proposed the famous heliocentric theory, which overturned the geocentric theory that the sun revolves around the earth. This is a great contribution in the history of world astronomy.

Chemist Lomonosov grew up in a fisherman's family and went fishing with his father when he was very young.He is interested in all natural phenomena that occur in the sea.When he returned home after sailing, Lomonosov always had to ask his father many questions.Why do bright water patterns appear on the sea in the evening in summer?Why do northern lights appear in the winter night sky?Why does the sea rise and fall every day?It is precisely because of this curiosity since childhood that Lomonosov finally made some achievements in the field of chemistry when he grew up.

Goodall, a large animal behaviorist, once said that the stuffy chicken coop is often intertwined with his own childhood memories.As a child, he used to go into a chicken coop for five hours to see how the hens laid their eggs.

Li Siguang, a great geologist in our country, used to rely on some unknown stones in his hometown to have strange reverie when he was a child, and asked himself curiously, why do these lonely boulders appear here?

How did they get here.Later, Li Siguang traveled all over the mountains and rivers of China, made a lot of investigations and researches, and finally concluded that these strange rocks were the floating gravel of glaciers, the relics of Quaternary glaciers, and corrected the mistake of foreign scholars who concluded that there were no Quaternary glaciers in China. theory.

The story of almost every scientist can tell us that their life is full of curiosity about the mysteries of nature, and it is this curiosity that guides them to climb the peak of science step by step.

The curiosity of scientists is the sensitivity and exploration of new things.It is based on a great deal of previous experience and knowledge.Curiosity is the initial motivation for scientists to learn and research, and it is also the most basic creative psychological factor.

Curiosity is not only necessary for famous scientists, for an ordinary person, he cannot do without curiosity if he wants to learn knowledge and achieve something.

Success is inseparable from curiosity, but having curiosity does not mean that you will be able to become a talent.It takes hard work to be successful.Curiosity is like a seed. Without seeds, towering trees cannot grow. People without curiosity cannot invent and create.After the seeds are sown in the black soil, after being watered and cultivated by people, they will gradually break through the soil and grow from seedlings to pillars.

With curiosity, coupled with sweat and hard work, you may become a useful talent to the country and society.Dr. Li Zhengdao, a famous contemporary physicist, said: Curiosity is very important, and science is inseparable from curiosity.The reason is very simple, only curiosity can be good at discovering problems, asking questions, and solving problems.The terrible thing is that you can't ask questions, and you can't take the first step.Because curiosity is so important, many people call it the first virtue of successful people.Curiosity is one of the most valuable assets for a person who is ambitious and eager to succeed.

Casual curiosity changed people's lives unexpectedly.

Chocolate's original source is Central America, where the rainforests are covered with lush wild cacao trees, bearing cocoa beans on the trees. More than 1300 years ago, the Mayan Indians of Yorktan made a beverage called chocolate with roasted cocoa beans.The Aztecs in Mexico defeated the Mayans and learned something about chocolate from them.

In the 16th century, when the Spanish colonists came to America, the Aztecs passed on chocolate knowledge to them. In 1504, out of curiosity, Columbus took some cocoa beans back when he sailed around the world and returned to Europe. The subsequent explorer Don Cortes discovered the commercial value of chocolate and passed the drink to Spain.

The Spaniards improved chocolate, adding sugar to make it sweeter, and by the 17th century the drink became popular among wealthy aristocrats in Europe.As demand continued to increase, the cultivation of cocoa trees developed to Brazil, Trinidad and some other islands in the western Indian Ocean, and later to West Africa and other tropical countries.With the creation of chocolate, this food soon spread all over the world.

Columbus's momentary curiosity accidentally promoted the creation of a worldwide food.

§§§The third section wolf nature is changeable

Wolf's statement:

If I were a sheep, what I want to eat is not only grass, but now there are less and less pastures, what should I do?Then I'll sharpen my teeth and go for raw meat instead of starving to death.In order to survive, I have to learn to adapt to this ever-changing world.

Wolves have a keen sense of smell and broad vision. Wolves can use their sense of smell and vision to find prey by following clues such as footprints. If a wolf finds that the prey is in a favorable situation, it will approach the prey as quietly as possible.Once the prey caught by the wolf escapes, the wolf will chase after it. If there is no way to catch it immediately, it will quickly give up the idea, immediately give up the prey in front of it, and look for other prey, because the wolf would rather choose to wait for a long time And in exchange for long-term victory, I don't want to exchange my life for small profits in front of me.When the wolf is close to the prey quickly, it will bite the prey where the hind legs cannot kick, such as the shoulder, buttocks, neck and so on.The strategies used by wolves to achieve their goals are varied. This is the changeable nature of wolves and the law of their wisdom. It is precisely by virtue of this clever strategy that wolves capture the prey that enters their field of vision time and time again. .

The changeable nature of wolves enables wolves to catch prey again and again. As an enterprise, it can only keep moving forward if it learns to change constantly in a changing market.As the saying goes: Survival of the fittest is the truth.

Keep a low profile, advance and retreat well
The changeability of wolf nature is transformed into doing things, which is actually to keep a low profile.Concealed, that is, when the situation is not favorable to oneself, pretending to be crazy and acting stupid on the surface, giving people the impression of mediocrity, hiding one's talent, covering up the true ambition in one's heart, so as not to arouse the vigilance of opponents or political opponents, wait patiently, and wait patiently when the time is right , and then realize your own ideals, it is a good way to work around.Some people may say that it would be a waste of time.In fact, in the face of rampant evil forces, they only know how to avoid and shrink back but never dare to stand up. Those who do nothing are called cowards; but those who are good at retreating calmly, endure humiliation for a while, secretly accumulate strength, and wait for defeat to turn into victory This is not a cowardice, but bears the burden of humiliation. This is also a trick of concealment, and it is a manifestation of great wisdom and courage.

Taohui, literally understood, means to hide and disguise.In the Spring and Autumn Period, Lao Tzu once had a famous saying: To dampen one’s sharpness, to resolve one’s confusion, to harmonize one’s light, to one’s dust, is to say that it is mysterious.This is the earliest theoretical summary of the art of keeping a low profile.In fierce and complex political struggles, people's true appearance and purpose often need to be covered up with illusions.Ancient Chinese strategists learned early on to use concealed means in the practice of political struggle, covering up and disguising from various angles and aspects such as ambition, talent, fame, emotion, and physiology, so as to achieve their goals.

One of the common methods of keeping a low profile: concealing one's ambitions.

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